As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all the skills listed here. [...]

Love iTunes but hate the iPod? The free iTunes Sync application can connect most non-Apple media players (other than the Microsoft Zune) to iTunes by taking advantage of the devices’s mass-storage modes. The program will work even with music phones that mount as a disk.
Download and install the tool, and then open iTunes. Attach your [...]

iTunes can display song lyrics for music  files, but it doesn’t automatically slurp in that data in the same way as it does album art. To grab lyrics, download the free iTunes Lyrics Importer. Close iTunes first, and then install and launch Lyrics Importer. iTunes will also open.
You can obtain lyrics for specific tunes by [...]

1. Open a new image – transparent background.
Fill the first layer with your choise of color – not to dark…
Now select the Type Tool and use the same color that you used on your backround.
Type the wanted text and click ok.
Ctrl + leftclick your text layer to select the text.
Your image should look similar to [...]

Nintendo’s Wii Remote contains some sophisticated hardware. The accelerometers sense motion on several axes, and the infrared camera sensors see IR light and can interface with a PC in complicated ways. Here are two nongame uses for the device.

PC control: The Wii Remote can be a general PC input device. On your PC, download the [...]

Time-lapse video can create beautiful scenes that condense hours or days into mere seconds. Shadows drift across skyscrapers at sunset, the moon rises and sets, and morning crowds cross a street en masse.
You could speed up video footage for similar results- but don’t accept that subsitute. Camcorder scenes are limited to the length of a [...]

Perhaps you didn’t know that your iPhone or iPod Touch can act as a Wi-Fi remote for many hardware devices and software applications. You simply connect the iPhone through Wi-Fi to the same local network, though in many cases you’ll also have to install a PC utility (provided by the app developer) that listens for [...]