HowTo: Backing Up All Your Photos From Flickr

Are you like me, who uploads almost every photo you take to your Flickr Account? Right now, I’ve uploaded 6,472 photos. What if the hard drive where all your precious pictures are stop working? What would you do, start downloading your pictures from Flickr one by one, no way right?

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Running MAME games on Ubuntu

How many of us, when young spent so much money playing in arcade machines? How much time have you spent on that old arcade house playing that game, just to watch the end of that hard game, or to be in first on the Hall of Fame? Don’t you miss playing Metal Slug, Marvel vs Capcom, The King of Fighters, Dungeons & Dragons, Street Fighter, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and many other games?

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How To Make Your Iphone Battery Last Longer

I’ve owned a Iphone for a while now, it’s an amazing phone, the best I have ever used so far. But when I first started using it, my only concern was that the battery didn’t last as much as I expected. After two days, it was gone, and when I needed it, the phone just didn’t turn ON. I used to let the wireless on almost all the time and downloading many new apps. Now that I have some more experience on how my little gadget works, I will try to share some ideas on how you can optimize your iphone’s battery life and have a better iExperience.
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How To Quickie: Fast way to update your linux box

Updating your linux box is getting each time easier, you can wait until a new update message pops up on your taskbar, or update on your terminal. I usually use the terminal to update my computer, and I will let you know the way I do.

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10 Reasons why you should have a blog

So you are thinking about starting a blog, or your friends have their blogs and you are wondering why should you have one. In this post I will try to show you some good reasons why you should have a blog. For sure there are many more reasons, but they will probably change from person to person. So start reading and get to work, because you still have a lot to learn and it may change your life!

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10 Things To Do Just After Installing Ubuntu 7.10

Ubuntu is a very complete OS, especially the Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), but there are still make tweaks you can do just after installing it that will make Ubuntu shine like never. I will explain here some things I do just after have ubuntu installed. Remember that what I’ve written here are the best things to install for ME, you may consider not making some of them or installing many different things, but if so, please, share your wisdom with us all.

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HowTo: Make Your Own Metronome

Hello there! It’s been a while that I don’t post any electronic HowTo. Since I started electric engineering my life have been quite busy, studying a lot, but some days ago I have made a simple project in which I created a metronome using some simple parts you can find in any electronic shop. And I decided to share with everyone this blog. So if you are interested, so let’s start!

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DIY: Building a USB Fan

Great video showing how to build your own cool USB Fan, so you can get cool all the summer while in front of your computer.

RSS Feeds for those who don’t know RSS Feeds

Many times I face myself explaining to people what a RSS Feed is. Even though, I think most of you already know what’s a RSS Feed is, but for those who don’t, I’ll try to create a very simple yet explicative tutorial showing why you should be using it for a while now. Statistics can’t be ignored, most Internet users still don’t know what it is. So, recommend this post, and help spread RSS.
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HowTo: Play High-Definition Videos

Nowadays HighDef content is getting each time more popular on internet, you can get tons of movie trailers on apple’s trailer website, but till now, the thing you needed was a very fast processor with a lot of ram memory. But your problem is over (always wanted to say this), here’s a guide showing how to play High-Definition Videos on not-so-fast computers, for example a Athlon-XP 2600+ with 768mb of ram (the one I tested). Obs: HowTo for Windows (sorry mac/linux users)

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