Top 10 Things You Don’t Want to Forget before You Begin the Build!

Top 10 Things You Don’t Want to Forget before You Begin the Build!

The following article is featured in the ExtremeTech book “Build The Ultimate Custom PC.” This article details simple, yet sometimes forgetable, steps a builder must take before building a custom PC.

There’s no worse time to realize you’ve forgotten something than when you need it in order to be able to proceed with the job. Things seem to be coming together well and you feel you’re on a roll, and then you find you need something small but important, and the job is delayed until you can get it. Not having everything ready can cause big delays. At minimum, it’s a delay until you can take a trip to the local computer store; at most, it’s a wait of a few days while you have to wait for it to be delivered. A wait of a few hours is disruptive enough, but a wait of a few days can really put your PC project off course.

So, be prepared and get everything ready before you start. In this feature, we’re going to look at the top 10 things people forget when building a PC.

Cross-Platform GUI Remote Login Roundup

Big Nerd Ranch Weblog » Cross-Platform GUI Remote Login Roundup

Graphical remote login sessions can be valuable tools for cross-platform server administration. This article is an overview of the best applications for cross-platform GUI remote login in a mixed network of Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix computers.

Twelve Free CSS Navigation Menu Designs

Twelve free CSS navigation menus, ready to use for commercial or private use.

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Scripts to create users and groups from the Terminal

macosxhints – Scripts to create users and groups from the Terminal

Apple Posts Transition Videos – Hints at Intel Release?

In the Introduction to Universal Binaries video, he states that the Transition Resource Center will be your friend for the “next couple of weeks.” Am I reading into this too much? Did he just hint at something?

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Getting the Video out of Your New iPod–for Cheap!

MacDevCenter.com: Getting the Video out of Your New iPod–for Cheap!
by Erica Sadun, author of Modding Mac OS X

So I buy a video iPod, figuring it would be a cool toy. (Gotta get those toys.) It arrives and I’m ready to give it a whirl. I pony up my two bucks, download the pilot episode of Desperate Housewives, insert a standard A/V-to-RCA cable into the earphone jack and try to play it back on my TV.

No Luck. Damned Apple.

I’m here to tell you not to worry. You don’t have to fork out for an outrageously priced “proprietary” Apple video cable. You don’t even have to buy an expensive dock. You can connect your Video iPod directly to a TV, and you can do it with the ordinary camcorder A/V-to-RCA cable you probably already have lying around your house.

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