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What to do if your keyboard on the screen. And if there are dozens of screens: At CES, the Russian design Art Lebedev, the company shows upcoming Optimus Aux Optimus popularis keyboard with a mini and a series of six unique keyboard for data input devices on the key to the home screen.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Snap a Length of String With Your Bare Hands
It's always a good idea to keep a good multitool around. If you find yourself without one, though, you can snap even a strong length of string with this trick.As shown in the videos above, you can break even a fairly strong piece of string by creating a loop in the center of your palm, wrapping one end several times around your finger, and yanking hard on the other end. If you want a more detailed look at this trick, check out this video on MetaCafe.Break String Without a Blade | Hackaday
Most Popular Grill: Weber One Touch Kettle Series
If you're planning a cookout this summer, you'll need the right outdoor cooking appliance to get the job done. Last week, we asked you which grills you thought were the best, and then we took a look at the five best grills based on your nominations. Now we're back to highlight the winner. 
Of course, we know there's a difference between grilling, barbecuing, and smoking, but we're using "grill" as the catch-all for backyard cooking appliances. Most of you picked up on that, and when the votes all tallied up, it was the Weber One Touch Kettle Series that took the top spot, with close to 40% of the overall vote. It may be iconic, but those of you who voted for it explained it's so well known for good reason. In second place was the pricey but extremely well loved Big Green Egg, with close to 25% of the votes cast. This kamado-style cooker will set you back a pretty penny, but it's so well loved that regional clubs and groups have sprung up around it, and there are enthusiast forums all over the web dedicated to them. In third place with 23% of the vote was the Weber Genesis Series of professional-grade gas grills. Falling back in fourth are the more portable and budget-friendly Weber Q Series with over 11% of the vote, and bringing up the rear was the affordable Char-Griller Akorn Kooker kamado-style cooker with 2% of the vote.The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it's not because we hate it—it's because it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest, but if you have a favorite, we want to hear about it. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!Photo by Vasile Cotovanu.
Of course, we know there's a difference between grilling, barbecuing, and smoking, but we're using "grill" as the catch-all for backyard cooking appliances. Most of you picked up on that, and when the votes all tallied up, it was the Weber One Touch Kettle Series that took the top spot, with close to 40% of the overall vote. It may be iconic, but those of you who voted for it explained it's so well known for good reason. In second place was the pricey but extremely well loved Big Green Egg, with close to 25% of the votes cast. This kamado-style cooker will set you back a pretty penny, but it's so well loved that regional clubs and groups have sprung up around it, and there are enthusiast forums all over the web dedicated to them. In third place with 23% of the vote was the Weber Genesis Series of professional-grade gas grills. Falling back in fourth are the more portable and budget-friendly Weber Q Series with over 11% of the vote, and bringing up the rear was the affordable Char-Griller Akorn Kooker kamado-style cooker with 2% of the vote.The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it's not because we hate it—it's because it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest, but if you have a favorite, we want to hear about it. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!Photo by Vasile Cotovanu.Monday, October 14, 2013
Soap Wall Tile - Prototyping
This is my tutorial to show you how I made the prototype to my soap-tile concept. To make this tutorial you will need;
a pillow
the 123d catch app
Meshmixer
123d make
Illustrator
lasercutter
cardboard
glue
wax
heatgun
metalbowl
mdf pieces (mine are 4x4 in)
I had an initial shape in mind for my soap tiles, and I chose to catch a pillow. I took 32 pictures with the 123d Catch app from different angles, checked that the catch was complete, and uploaded it from my phone to the community. I then went on the community webpage with my computer, and downloaded my file. Paracord Monster Cobra
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My Summer Project: Install a Budget Makeshift Home Surveillance System
Ever wanted to be just as cool as the government? Ever wanted to spy on your \ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\LED Keyboards\lifehacker\)
own house or watch the newspaper guy throw the paper onto your lawn? Or maybe there's a small chance that you actually have a legitimate need for video surveillance on your property but, like me, are too poor to buy top-of-the-line hardware and software for it. If this sounds like you, then read on!I, too, had the interest of using a surveillance camera in my house. I accomplished this by re-purposing an old webcam I had sitting around, so it would finally get some use. Now, I use that webcam as my HamCam, to spy on my hamster.What I did was, I plugged my webcam in to my desktop and installed a program called iSpy. This allowed me to use my webcam as a motion-sensing surveillance camera. Once I installed that, I went through the settings and made a few tweaks to settings. Specifically, I now have it record video upon detecting motion. I also have it run on a schedule, so it turns off around when I go to bed, and turns on again in the morning when there is light enough to see again.But what about syncing to the cloud, you ask? Fret not; that base is covered too! What I did to achieve this was change the directory my HamCam videos are saved in, so that it's in my Dropbox folder. Now, I can view it on my Dropbox from anywhere I am. Each time motion is detected, I also have it store a snapshot of the photo in my Dropbox for my viewing pleasure.I wasn't finished just yet, though. The finishing touch to this was having the photos and videos auto-import into my phone's gallery for ease of access. I accomplished this by using an app called DropSync, which auto-downloads or uploads photos to/from your Dropbox. The Pro key costs $4.99, but it's worth it to me. I had them save to a folder in my SD card under DCIM called HamCam. Because they're in my DCIM folder, they can also be auto-backed up to my Google+, and I can spam my friends with them! ...but I don't, because I don't have friends. I have a hamster.I should mention that this was done on a Windows PC, and my phone is an Android phone. If there is anyone who's had similar experiences on Linux or OSX, with an iPhone or other type of phone, they might post about it below and what they use (hint hint, guys!).Look at my little Hamlet unknowingly being watched at all times. The NSA would be proud.
How to Make Your iPhone Look Like iOS 7 Right Now
iOS 7 comes with a pretty sleek new look, but you need to be a developer to actually check it out before this fall. Thankfully, you can get the look and feel of iOS 7 really easily with a few jailbreak tweaks and themes. Here's what you'll need.We talked before about getting the best features of iOS 7, but that didn't really cover a lot of the new look. iOS 7 sports a dramatically different look than previous versions. Everything from the homescreen to the Notification Center is completely different looking. We're not going to be able to create an exact replica on iOS 6, but we can get it pretty close. Other than a jailbroken phone, here's what you'll need to do it.
First things first, let's skin the icons and home screen to get the right look. For that, you'll need Winterboard (check out our guide to customizing your iPhone with Winterboard if you need some help with the basics) so you can install themes.The theme we're going to use is the iOS 7 Theme by pw5a29. This includes: app icons, the settings interface, messages, signal bars, the lockscreen, and more. Once it's downloaded, go into Winterboard and enable: iOS 7 StatusBar, Springboard, Siri, Notification Center, Messages UI, Lockscreen, Icons & UI, and Folders. This gets you really close to the look of iOS 7, but we also need to update the font. iOS 7 slightly changed the font throughout the operating system, so, download and install this iOS 7 font. Once it's downloaded, open BytaFont, and select iOS 7. When your phone reboots, you'll have a new system-wide font that better reflects iOS 7.The above gets your home screen looking pretty close to iOS 7. It's not perfect, and once you open any of the stock apps the illusion is broken, but if you're only concerned about the home screen this does the trick.Surprisingly, the Parallax effect where it looks like a 3D effect is on your home screen has been around for a while for jailbroken iPhones. You just need to download and install the DeepEnd tweak from Ryan Petrich's repository in Cydia. Once it's installed, your background moves with your phone's accelerometer.The new version of Notification Center is a pretty pretty big overhaul that nobody's replicated quite yet. That said, you can combine a few tweaks together to make the Notification Center in iOS 6 look like a combination of the Notification Center and Control Center in iOS 7:Download and install NCSettings from Cydia.Enable NCSettings by turning it on in Settings > Notifications.Download and install BlurriedNCBackground from Cydia.Grab the iOS 7 Control Toggles theme for Winterboard. Enable it in both Winterboard (iOS 7 Control Toggles BG) and NC Settings (Settings > NC Settings > Theme > iOS 7 Control Toggles).If you want to add the Control Center-style music controls, you can add in NCMusicGestures. It's not as good looking as the iOS 7 music controls, but it's functionally the same.That's it, now your Notification Center works almost identically to Control Center in iOS 7.If you want to extend the look a little more, you can with a few additional themes and tweaks:It's not a perfect replica, but it's pretty close in appearance if not the function. The best part is you can do all this and retain your jailbreak. So, if you're hesitant to make that upgrade to iOS 7 in the fall, you can get the look of it right now without worrying about the jailbreak down the line.And hey, if Android users want in on the fun, you can do the same thing yourself.
First things first, let's skin the icons and home screen to get the right look. For that, you'll need Winterboard (check out our guide to customizing your iPhone with Winterboard if you need some help with the basics) so you can install themes.The theme we're going to use is the iOS 7 Theme by pw5a29. This includes: app icons, the settings interface, messages, signal bars, the lockscreen, and more. Once it's downloaded, go into Winterboard and enable: iOS 7 StatusBar, Springboard, Siri, Notification Center, Messages UI, Lockscreen, Icons & UI, and Folders. This gets you really close to the look of iOS 7, but we also need to update the font. iOS 7 slightly changed the font throughout the operating system, so, download and install this iOS 7 font. Once it's downloaded, open BytaFont, and select iOS 7. When your phone reboots, you'll have a new system-wide font that better reflects iOS 7.The above gets your home screen looking pretty close to iOS 7. It's not perfect, and once you open any of the stock apps the illusion is broken, but if you're only concerned about the home screen this does the trick.Surprisingly, the Parallax effect where it looks like a 3D effect is on your home screen has been around for a while for jailbroken iPhones. You just need to download and install the DeepEnd tweak from Ryan Petrich's repository in Cydia. Once it's installed, your background moves with your phone's accelerometer.The new version of Notification Center is a pretty pretty big overhaul that nobody's replicated quite yet. That said, you can combine a few tweaks together to make the Notification Center in iOS 6 look like a combination of the Notification Center and Control Center in iOS 7:Download and install NCSettings from Cydia.Enable NCSettings by turning it on in Settings > Notifications.Download and install BlurriedNCBackground from Cydia.Grab the iOS 7 Control Toggles theme for Winterboard. Enable it in both Winterboard (iOS 7 Control Toggles BG) and NC Settings (Settings > NC Settings > Theme > iOS 7 Control Toggles).If you want to add the Control Center-style music controls, you can add in NCMusicGestures. It's not as good looking as the iOS 7 music controls, but it's functionally the same.That's it, now your Notification Center works almost identically to Control Center in iOS 7.If you want to extend the look a little more, you can with a few additional themes and tweaks:It's not a perfect replica, but it's pretty close in appearance if not the function. The best part is you can do all this and retain your jailbreak. So, if you're hesitant to make that upgrade to iOS 7 in the fall, you can get the look of it right now without worrying about the jailbreak down the line.And hey, if Android users want in on the fun, you can do the same thing yourself.
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