The Great Geek Manual

Resources

10 Things Your iPod Won’t Tell You: Revealed – A word of warning for those who may be considering buying an iPod in the future.

10 Quick Ways to Print Calendars Online – Why are you still paying for desktop calenders? Customize and print off your own design.

18 Essential Skills for a Maker – AntonOlsen recently posted an article on GeekDad enumerating 100 Essential Skills for Geeks. As he was inspired to do so by a list of “Essential Skills for Men”, so I am inspired to make this list of essential skills for Makers.

Computer Hardware Chart – Here’s a rather thorough chart of computer ports and plugs, both old and new.

Game Crafter – This site is the Cafe Press of board games. Design and market your own card game or board game at no cost to yourself. Then, sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in.

Goofram – Goofram is a search engine that combines the results of Google and Wolfram Alpha on the same screen.

Never lose a lock combination again – Combination locks are great because it means that you don’t have to worry about losing the key, but if you don’t remember the lock combo, you are in trouble. The solution to this problem is to write an encrypted version of the combo directly on the lock itself using a sharpie.

Windows 95 on iPhone – The iSoft team has made both Windows 95 and Windows XP work on an iPhone. Why, I don’t know, but here’s a video as proof.

What does you Handwriting Say About You – How you craft letters and words can indicate more than 5,000 different personality traits, according to the science of graphology, also known as handwriting analysis.

Discussion

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