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i like the logo the site has, its nice, simple, and small. doesnt distract from the main content of the page either, which is perfect for me as i like to read a lot on the main page theres a lot of useful information there too. keep up the good work N1K oh, and TAiN, thanks for the link to kubix, i saw it a while back, but i didnt understand what it was. now, today when i have some free time ill be playing around with it.

iv got a 2 AA battery holder in my basement, but its way too big. maybe when i goto active components again ill look around and see if i can find a 4 AA battery holder and get a project box and put it all in one of those with an on/off switch and all that, maybe even a power led 4 aa's would work a lot better, but you would have to get akalines for sure, the rechargeables i have only reach about 1.33 when theyre just fully charged, and thats no load. i dont want this little box to be too heavy either, so thats why i used a 9v, 4 AA's wouldn't fit into an altoids tin i don't think. ill post back if i decide to make a better one later one (which i think i will)

dang >_< oh well, gives the admins of these geater respect from me im quite content with my site as is anyway, i finally got a color scheme i really like. it may be based on the skin of my forum, but thats ok i like it

i have a question, how are you getting the main page to display the recent posts on the forum? iv always wondered about that because of msfn's main page, but i never really brought it up. id like to do a similar thing on my website, but i doubt ill be able to just because i know almost nothing about webdesigning or programming.

thats a dynamic sig though, animated and dynamic are different. dynamic gets information and shows it as text, animated is well.. animated. i hope thats what the guys at msfn mean, if not please correct me hope that helps you out there though ricktendo

I knew about the size, but do not understand why not animated. my guess would be for slower computers, ill be honest my laptop chokes when animated pictures (gifs/swfs) come up.

i saw a 4 aa battery pack at bestbuy the other day, but it was about 70 bucks i want one, but not that bad lol. the next thing im going to be looking into is getting a replacement battery for my nano, the battery thats in it isnt much older than 6 months and its still giving my 12 hour run time, so i think itll be fine for a while yet. i always give it a good rundown every month just to keep it calibrated. i dont care what they say, the lithium batteries do suffer from the memory effect. heck, the batteries (battery X 2, both of my laptop batteries o_O) in my laptop did it. they would charge to 100%, but within 5 minutes they were down to 80%. i killed them dead (to the point that the comp shut off) and charged em, and they have been fine ever since. my iPod has already done it once, a simple recal fixed it

let us know how the progress goes on this. im interested in it, would be a perfect windows cd for older computers.

i use whichever makes the most sense for the scenario. if i have really fowled up my computer ill reimage it to when i had it all nice and neet. if i change hardware, i reinstall then make a new image so windows is totally configured and setup for the new hardware. an "optimization" so to speak.

the only program i know of that will show you the file size after you save it is photoshop. if you want, send me the file, ill make it around 15kb so you can see how it will be, then go from there.

im not 100% sure, but i think that firewire uses a higher voltage, around 12 volts or so. so youd need to use more than 1 battery to acheive the higher voltage. i dont have a firewire port on anything of mine, so im not sure on which pins are to be used, but i could probably find it. edit: heres the pinout for firewire, going by that, your going to need a much higher voltage/more batteries. the end result will be heavier than the usb version. heres a person who has made an iPod firewire charger in the altoids tin as well.

no problem, hope you can get it working

i didnt spend anything, i got it for christmas but i know how much we have put into this computer though. it comes out to just over 900 dollars. the monitor was 300 (19inch LCD samsung) case : 60 bucks ram, mobo, cpu all were about 150 bucks the video card was 150 the speakers were about 40 hdd was around 100 the keyboard mouse combo was about 75 and the desk was 40 its not a bad computer, for what it is and can do, im perfectly happy with it. AMD athlon XP 1800+, 80gb drive, 512mb ram, ati radeon 9200se, 19inch lcd, logitech wireless mouse keyboard, CA speakers, and a few other accessories. the total cost was just under 1000. i wont be upgrading for a long time ill tell you i love this computer

you can save a bmp file in ms-paint right to jpeg or gif or png, although the quality of gif and jpg are questionable, they do work. the best way to do this sort of thing is on your own computer, its the fastest and most reliable, just incase you accidentally close your browser. post back if you need more help. edit : what do you want to change, the file size or the picture size? the file size is how much disk space it uses and picture size is the dimensions of the picture.

a resource editor may do the trick. ill take a look in a second, just gotta get my XP cd. yup, thats what youll need. get XN Resource editor and open the autorun exe file from the XP cd, then under Bitmap in the tree on the left, you can edit the individual bmp files. itll take a long time, but it should work. hope that helps.

bravenet allows you to change it in the options panel for your website. which ever hosting company your with, and who ever is supplying the counter should have something like that to modify. check around there, if nothing there, then post back and i can help you a bit more if need be.

if its like tripod, it might be preventing you from playing the file because of a file type restriction or something like that. if you are paying for the web hosting, then its most likely a different reason. i would also try a different format, maybe trying WMV or another video format, although AVI and WMV are all i really know. hope this helps a little bit, if not, then someone that might have another idea will post here quickly, know

i ran my iPod off of it for about 3 or 4 hours, i havent really benchmarked that yet, i dont have a brandnew 9v to try this on lol. the highest voltage i would recommend putting through this regulator would be about 10, although they say 30 is handled, i wouldnt go much higher. i used a piece of double sided tape on the bottom of the protoboard so nothing can short, it was from a cpu fan actually. the rest of the wiring i used heatshrink tubing to make sure nothing will short. so far its worked quite well thank you for the compliment

man, everyone has such nice backgrounds. i really have to get past what i usually have. im tired of having my plain old boring default desktop lol. time for an update

lol yah, i just like buidling stuff like this. i even built a little portable stereo VU meter. ill post that when i get a chance to write up a tutorial for it

thank you

np , bookmarked!

Bill Gates posing as a female online... that gives birth to a whole new realm of spectulation. lmao

kool, i like it lol i just read a thing on the frontpage, limewire creators get sued good job though, hopefully it gets a lot of attention.

USB Battery, How To I made a usb external battery, and I thought it was about time to show it. So, I have written a tutorial on how to make one. First off, I'm just going to say that I dont warrent this project. If you screw it up and blow up a device, its your own fault. Not mine. I cannot be held responsible for what you do. Just gotta protect my butt here First off, your going to need an IC, 9v battery connector, a small protoboard, and some kind of containor. Oh and some wire will be necessary. Materials 1 X LM7805 (+5v voltage regulator) 1 X 1 inch by 1 inch protoboard 1 X Altoids, Colgate, or any other kind of small tin that can fit the entire project into 1 X Female usb adapter plug 1 X 9v connector Construction anywho.. once you have the materials, its time to setup the circuit. Ill explain how the LM7805 works. Theres 3 pins on the IC. The center one is ground, while the 2 outer pins are in and out positive. Input can be from 5 - 30 volts and the output will always be +5v dc If you hold the LM7805 with the letters facing you, the first pin on the left is pin 1. That pin is input, the second pin is common and the 3rd pin is output. Take the positive lead from the 9v battery connector and hook it up to pin 1, then the negative pin goes to the center pin. Its important to know that your going to have 2 wires coming off of the center pin as this is the common lead. Your circuit should look a little like this: Its a crude diagram, but it works. Heres the pinout for the female USB connector. Make sure you hook up the + and - wires to the right pins on the connector, they should't be right next to each other. The pins in use are on either end. Anyway, the next thing to do is solder it all together on a protoboard and manipulate it to go into an altoids or colgate gum tin. Also, you might want to cut a hole in the side so you can plug into it fairly easily. Heres some pictures of my final product. The inside of the tin: The "tin" charging my iPod nano sorry for the crumby quality close up of the iPod, but the camera wouldn't capture the display for some reason If you decide to make one, post some pictures of yours here. I searched on here for anything on how to do this and didnt come back with any results so I decided, why not post it here? I'm sure more people will see it here than on my forums. I'll take it down if need be. -cygnus Edit: Updated to include the pinout for the USB connector.