HowTo: CSS Refresh for Mozilla Firefox

When developing new websites, one of the worse things is that you always have to refresh the whole page to see some minimal changes made on an external .css file. Sometime ago I have found one small peace of script that forces the website to just update the CSS code.
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HowTo: Building your own rounded cable

This is a very simple tutorial explaining how to build your very own rounded cable. They aren’t expensive, but it’s a nice project to do with your simple, flat and ugly IDE cables, making they look better. The reason why I would do that is to increase air circulation inside the case and making it looks better (if you have a window on it). So here goes the tutorial, hope you enjoy. Anything please comment!

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Cooler Lapping Tutorial

Have you ever looked down in the base of your computer cooler? They aren’t always clean and shining. So in this tutorial DIY, I decided to explain how to make them look like a mirror, helping to down your computer temperature. Using some basic material that almost everyone have at home and with some simple steps your cooler will get better then new! Hope you enjoy!

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“Winamp Control” for Linux

Remember my HOW-To about the winamp control?
So, this guy made a program to integrate the same Control with XMMS.
Well done!!!
You can check this here.

HowTo: Using the scanner lamp inside your computer

I had a broken scanner around here, so I decided to do something with it. I decided to install the lamp inside my computer. And its worked!!! So I’ll try to explain what I did to make it work. I believe it’s different for different scanners, but you can try to figure out for your!

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HowTo: Google Videos on your website

After I realised that www.downloadgooglevideos.com got shutdown by google, and all the embedded google videos were not working anymore, I decided to come with a new way to put it on your website. I found one, but it’s not that easy as before, but it’s working. I’ll try to explain here how to do it. If anyone finds a better way to do it, please, let me know!
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HowTo: Blinking LEDs

Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo telling step-by-step how to do it. Hope you enjoy it!

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How-to make a bike charger for your iPod!

This is a very nice project made by the famous geek blogger Mark, from geektechnique.org, he made a manual charger for iPod (can be used to charge mobiles too) using your bike. This is worth looking!!!
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HowTo: Simple Keyboard Painting

This is another stuff I’ve done longtime ago, but now I decided to release as HowTo. I had one old keyboard hanging around, I was thinking how would be to have one black keyboard (even that now its quite easy to just go and buy one.) I didn’t took pictures of all segments, but I’ll try explain them:
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HowTo: External Winamp Control

Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time ago, when Winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in a way I could change the music just by pressing one button, it would make things faster and easier to change songs, specially during games. So I decided to make a external control to it. I found one winamp plugin that shows how to configure a external control using the Serial Port, being able to make 4 or 15 buttons control. I decided to make this, step-by-step, how to do it, hope you enjoy.

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