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We know, being responsible is just so, hard. Electronics which run the nifty software we cover and love contain some nasty stuff that's not so friendly for the environment when left to rot in a landfill. So what's a gadget oving geek to do? Recycle. Our newest little sister, DIY Life, has a great article on the basics of responsibly recycling your old gear. So, clean out that junk drawer and ...

Want to learn how to choose a video game system or how to take care of a kitten? SuTree can help. The new site from Israel-based E-learning Knowledge Solutions allows users to submit videos that are posted in various places on the internet, including About.com, Grouper, and Metacafe. The result is a collection of how-to videos that you can search or browse from a central location. When you find ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/How_To_Transfer_your_PuTTY_settings_between_computers'; PuTTY is tops on the short list of applications I install first on any Windows machine. Over the years I've used PuTTY, I've installed it on a huge number of computers but I've always had one complaint; There isn't a configuration file I can backup or move to a new machine. Getting all the little ...

Making your own Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS X is nothing new, but making your own Widgets using the Dashcode Developer Beta changes the entire process. Apple has taken the ease of use of Xcode and whittled it down to scale, providing all the tools necessary to quickly and easily develop your own Widgets. In this How To I'll show you how to go about creating a Download Squad RSS widget. Follow ...

Most audio software these days offer either built-in or plugin functionality that will attempt to level the volume of your MP3 files so that you aren't turning the volume up to hear soft songs, then getting blasted by louder ones. So why is it that even after turning that option on, you sometimes notice a significant volume difference between some songs? What's worse is when you're listening to ...

Script.aculo.us is an amazing framework for enriching your website's user experience very easily. Built on top of the very popular prototype javascript framework, scriptaculous makes AJAX cake, and gives everyone the power to have a sexy AJAX-powered website, yes everyone. Scriptaculous is a tiny (140kb) javascript framework that gives you the power of effects, several dynamic data components, and ...

Are you good at writing tutorials? Or maybe you have amassed a collection of tutorials you have written for friends and family? Maybe you're just looking for some inspiration? Enter tutorialicio.us. It's the del.icio.us and digg of the tutorial world. Tutorials are submitted and are voted on by members to rise to the top of tutorial land to be seen on the front page of the site. All of the ...

Does it really have to be so difficult? I seem to remember the CEO of Motorola waxing poetic early in 2004 about "liquid media," that elusive, end-to-end solution where you buy some content, and you almost effortlessly push said content to any device you own. And then we get the gotchas: as long as it's from Motorola, or as long as it's from iTunes, or as long as it Plays for Sure... Who ...