Using Windows Mobile Device as Modem for Internet Connection

Windows Mobile PDA phone can be used as a modem which enables us to get mobile internet connection via GPRS, 3G or HSDPA depending on the carrier that we use. In this tutorial I configure my HTC Touch HD as a modem to be able to connect to the internet from my notebook. This tutorial should work with other Windows Mobile based PDA phone.

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Best Blog Box: All in One Web Elements Kit

Best Blog Box submitting their all in one web elements kit to help web designers enhance their web design. It’s released on Creative Common Attribution – Noncommercial – Share Alike so you can use it and modify it but not reselling it or claim exclusive ownership.

The kit comes with elements such as tabs, scroll bars, buttons, menus, forms, paging buttons and more. It is put on one PSD file with organized and labeled layers so you can easily modify and use it. To download the package you can go to: http://bestblogbox.com/freebies/all-in-one-web-elements-kit/

The all in one web elements kit

Search and Replace Inside Multiple Files, Multiple Subdirectories

Doing search and replace for a text in a file is easy, but it will become a tedious task to do if you have multiple files in several subdirectories. You’ll need a small program to do this and I have found one small program that works like charm.

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USB Sticks, How It’s Made

Who doesn’t know USB sticks? A tiny device that we use every day to store our data, mp3, video, etc. and travel with it at ease. Although we all know USB sticks or USD thumb drive, I’m sure that many of us don’t know how USB sticks are manufactured.

Nicole Scott and Sascha Pallenberg from netbooknews.com visited Kingston’s manufacturing plant and made this video on how they make and package USB sticks.

Installing VNC Remote Desktop on Centos VPS

In this tutorial we’ll install Gnome desktop and VNC server on Linux Centos Virtual Private Server (VPS). You need to install Gnome as the desktop for Linux VPS, this way you’ll get Graphical User Interface to manage your VPS or just use it as remote desktop. The VNC server is the remote control software that allows you to connect to the VPS Desktop.

1. Install Gnome Desktop, VNC Server and Xterm.

yum groupinstall gnome-desktop
yum install vnc-server xterm

It will take some time to install the Gnome Desktop as it quite big packages.

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Color Scheme Designer 3

Picking the colors that you will use on your web design sometimes is quite difficult. In this case Color Scheme Designer will help you choose colors that will look nice on the web.

Color Scheme Designer 3

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Logitech’s Darkfield Lasers Enables Mouse Work on Glass

Logitech recently launching two new computer mouse that have the ability to work on a clear glass table. Logitech Darkfield Laser Tracking enable mouse to track movement on almost any surfaces including 4mm thick glass table and high-gloss surfaces.

Darkfield mouse tracking on top of glass table

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ImgBurn the Ultimate Free CD/DVD Burner

ImBurn is a lightweight image burner for CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blue Ray disc. This free application support many format such as: BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

Using ImgBurn you can do these tasks:

• Read – Read a disc to an image file
• Build – Create an image file from files on your computer or network – or you can write the files directly to a disc
• Write – Write an image file to a disc
• Verify – Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct

ImgBurn

You can also use ImgBurn to create Audio CD from multiple audio format file supported via DirectShow / ACM – including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA and WV. Making DVD video, HD DVD video or Blu-Ray video can be done easily.

To download ImgBurn you can go to: http://imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Interview with Co-founders of Envato

Below is the interview video with Collis and Cyan Ta’eed the co-founder of a startup company based in Australia named Envato. Envato is a company that runs several tutorial sites, marketplace and community sites such as Tut+ Network, Envato Marketplace, FreelanceSwitch and many more.

In this interview they told us how they started Envato websites from the beginning until they succeeded, see the videos below:

Microsoft LifeCam Cinema the First Widescreen High Definition Webcam

Microsoft hardware just released news that they will soon launch the first webcam that support widescreen 720p sensor. This HD webcam is targeted for home users and family that more and more using social media such as Facebook and Youtube to share home videos.

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