Month: March 2015

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Reboot Your iPhone Without Touching the Home or Power Button

Reboot Your iPhone Without Touching the Home or Power Button

iPhones, like computers, need to be rebooted on occasion. Maybe iMessage is acting up, for example. If your Home and Power button don’t work, though, you can still reboot your Phone by changing certain settings.

OS X Daily explains that changing certain settings will cause the phone to automatically reboot. For example:

  • Changing the Accessibility options to Bold text
  • Resetting Network Settings (note you’ll lose saved passwords)

The Accessibility option is obviously ideal, since it won’t erase your saved passwords—but it’s good to have both options.

How to Restart Your iPhone or iPad without using the Power and Home Button | OS X Daily via iPhone Hacks


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Building A Vintage Photo Booth WiFi

By routinely reading Photo-News and blogs from around the world, I came across homemade photo booths again and again. I saved images and ideas for my own project to be executed “somewhere in the future”. Future was supposed to be 2012, when I moved to Hamburg and a housewarming party was planned. Unfortunately, that did […]

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Windows 93: The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have With an Operating System

Windows 93: The Most Fun You'll Ever Have With an Operating System

A few months ago, a pair of French hackers teased a new project called Windows 93. It was a wonderfully weird web-based operating system, some sort of spoof on Windows 95, packed to the gills with insidery internet jokes. And late last night, the digital artists released the full version. It’s still wonderfully weird, thank God.

The technicolored dream beam that is Windows 93 comes from the wild minds of Jankenpopp and Zombectro. It looks a lot like a more primitive and meme-filled edition of Windows 95—except instead of Solitaire and Internet Explorer, you’ve got Solitude and Cat Explorer.

Windows 93: The Most Fun You'll Ever Have With an Operating System

There’s also a highly improved version of MS Paint called Piskel and a hallucinatory program called Acid Box 93 and a snarky version of Wolfenstein 3D called Castle GAFA 3D. That’s just to name a few.

Could Windows 93 become your full-time operating system? That depends: Do you like drugs? If yes, you might enjoy spending your day navigating the 90s-talgic world of pixelated art. If no, you’ll still enjoy the full-length version of Star Wars, rendered in ASCII. And drugs or no drugs, if you figure out what Virtual Girl does, please let us know in the comments.

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CrunchWeek: Etsy IPO, Tinder’s Age-Based Pricing, Kleiner Perkins On Trial

While we’d argue that every episode of CrunchWeek is special, today is an extra special show, because it’s the last one we’re having at the big white table. That’s right: Our little studio is finally getting an upgrade! For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s video studio will be under construction for a fresh new look. We’ll continue to make CrunchWeek as… Read More


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The Chores Kids Can Do, By Age Group

The Chores Kids Can Do, By Age Group

Even kids as young as two can help around the house. If you’re not sure what kinds of chores to assign your little (or big) kids, this printable chore chart offers age-appropriate suggestions.

Depending on your child, some of these may be very optimistic. (I’m not sure it’s wise to give toddlers the utensils and dishware to set on the table.) But otherwise the chart can be a starting point for discussing with your family how to pitch in.

The printable PDF is linked at the bottom of the post below on the Modest Mom blog.

Our Morning Chore Routine | The Modest Mom Blog


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This is how fighter jet pilots pass snacks in the cockpit while flying

This is how fighter jet pilots pass snacks in the cockpit while flying

No one, not even these fighter pilots, can’t resist a chocolate bar when the munchies strike. This video shows how the pilot in the front passes a Snickers bar to his colleague just by opening his hand and letting it float to the back of the cockpit dragged by the acceleration forces. So cool.

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MySQL Workbench 6.3.1 Beta has been released

The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.3 Beta – the start of the public beta testing phase of MySQL Workbench 6.3
This release contains a number of new and enhanced features which are feature complete but might still containbugs. So use them with care. For the full list of changes in this revision, visithttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html For detailed information about the new features, see What’sNew in MySQL Workbench 6.3http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:http://ift.tt/KKCsvd Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.1 beta now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu14.10 or sources, from: http://ift.tt/KHX9aU Enjoy !
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