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Make A DSLR LCD Hood Out Of Old Hotel Key Cards

The DSLR LCD screen once served as little more than a means to view photos you had already taken in the comfort of indoor lighting. Now you can use it as a live monitor and capture photos and video, but it still doesn’t work too well outside. With some old hotel key cards, however, you can fix that problem.

Productivity

Create New Directories And Subdirectories With One Terminal Command

If you know your terminal basics, you know that mkdir creates directories, but it can do much more. If you add the -p flag, you can create a directory with subdirectories in a single command and save yourself the trouble of quite a bit of extra typing.

Productivity

‘Never Just Remember How To Do Something, Understand How It Works’

When you know how to do something, you have a skill. When you understand how something works, you can alter that knowledge and adapt it for your best uses. This gives you confidence and the ability to grow.

Design

Weekly Wallpaper: Show You Know Your Memes

The internet is full of wonderful memes so why shouldn’t your desktop be too? We searched high and low for wallpapers centered around these internet pop culture phenomena. Join in by setting you desktop to one of these many options.

Entertainment

The Basics Of Music Production: Recording Audio

You can have a lot of fun making music, but getting a good recording and arrangement of your song requires some work and knowledge. Last week we set up a home recording studio. This week we’re going to start recording.

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Twitter Adds Two-Factor Authentication, How To Enable It Now

Twitter has finally added two-factor authentication and you should enable it right now if you can. We probably don’t need to tell you why, but just in case you forgot about social engineering hacks, you want to enable this feature to protect yourself.

Design

The Windowside Workspace

You’ll rarely end up with a poor workspace if you include an organised desk, a good chair, only the tools you need for work and an abundance of natural light. Designers Ryan Meis and Sarah Labieniec created an excellent space on those simple principles.

Productivity

Stop Quicktime And Preview From Auto-Restoring What You Left Open

Mac: Auto-restore works great when you want to pick up where you left off, but how many times do you leave open a photo or video you actually want to see again when you re-open Preview or Quicktime? A couple of terminal commands can disable this annoying — and potentially embarrassing — feature.

Money

Wait To Receive Something You Buy And You’ll Actually Like It More

We live in a culture of immediacy where we think we want everything on demand, but it turns out that we may actually prefer the wait. When we pay for something we won’t get for quite some time, it tends to make us happier, because we forget that it cost us money.

Design

Flickr Offers 1TB Of Free Space For Your Photos

Yahoo!, in an attempt to make its photo-hosting service Flickr relevant again, has decided to offer 1TB of free space to all users. The downside? Everyone who doesn’t pay $US50 per year gets ads.

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