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 Posted - November 13 2010 : 08:29:32
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Question: Allie Faye asks, "My CD-ROM drive won’t open when I push the button. What can I do?"
Answer: Great question, Allie Faye. If your CD-ROM drive won't open like it should, you can get around that by straightening a paperclip, then look underneath the door for a small hole. Push the paperclip through the hole and it will eject the tray. Then you can use the drive. Now, this is intended much more as a workaround than the normal way you should use the drive, so if you have to use this trick to open your drive very often, you might consider replacing the drive; they don’t cost too much.
Cool Site: Yummly.com: Well, you mentioned Thanksgiving getting short shrift during this holiday season, and so when I ran across yummly, I thought it'd be a good candidate for this week. Yummly.com is a search engine for recipes, claiming to be "The most powerful way to search for recipes". You can search or browse recipes, you can filter the search results by ingredient, calories, allergy, course, cuisine, and several other parameters. While it may be just the time of the year for this, they even have a tab for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. The Thanksgiving tab has premade searches for things like turkey (328 recipes), including deep fried turkey and a great-looking Crock Pot Turkey and Shrimp Creole dish. You'll also find premade searches for Desserts, for Sides, Appetizers and Soups. It looks pretty awesome.
Cool Gadget: Water-powered alarm clock: This week's gadget is an alarm clock. This one is digital. It has a large LCD screen that shows the time, temperature, and day of the week. What makes this clock cool is that it doesn't need batteries.
Eddie: So what does it run on?
David: Water, plain tap water. Fill it up with water and it'll run for the next several weeks. The clock will keep time for a couple of minutes while you change the water, but it works based on a chemical reaction between the water and metal bars inside the reservoir. Because of this the manufacturer doesn't recommend drinking the water after you drain it out. This clock looks cool because the water reservoir is made of clear plastic with a cap on the back for filling, and that reservoir is wrapped around the sides and top of the clock. This clear reservoir lets you put food coloring in the clock for a festive appearance.
It's All "Geek" To Me: CMYK: This week's term is an acronym: CMYK. It stands for Cyan – Magenta – Yellow – Key Black. This term refers to the printing technology that allows us to print in color. It's not the only method for printing color, but it's the one most of our printers use. All the colors we see when we print are based on combinations of Cyan a sort of blue, Magenta, which is reddish, and Yellow. The page beneath is assumed to be white for the purposes of color combinations, and is therefore used wherever you need to see white in the image. Theoretically, combining all three colors in equal amounts will produce black, and HP's oldest DeskJet color printers did that. But that's not generally done because the composite black thus produced usually comes out more charcoal gray than black. So a pure black ink is used instead. Besides, most printing is black text on white paper and it made better sense to use black ink when it's called for and color inks where they're called for. By the way, it's because of that tendency that you'll find black ink or toner cartridges are larger than the other colors.
Links
Tech Tip Friday's Show Notes RSS Feed:
http://www.daconsult.com/downloads/rss.xml
Yummly:
http://www.yummly.com
Water-powered alarm clock at CraziestGadgets:
http://craziestgadgets.com/2010/11/05/water-powered-digital-alarm-clock/
Water-powered alarm clock at Vat19:
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/digital-water-powered-alarm-clock.cfm
CMYK at TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/cmyk
CMYK at WikiPedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model |
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