Из окна «Советы»: выход на Xbox на двух экранах, высокотехнологичные стойки для Хэллоуина и старые флэш-диски в качестве дисков сброса пароля

I discovered a really neat trick with the Xbox 360 a few weeks back. I had some buddies over and we wanted to split the video output between a big TV and a little TV (long story short, so the people in the kitchen area could watch the play and know when their turn was coming up). The secret sauce is to use the component AV out cable but to switch the selector switch to standard def. I don’t know why exactly, but the Xbox pushes the standard def video out over the component cables and the regular composite cable at the same time. Unfortunately, if you have a newer HDMI only Xbox you can’t take advantage of this trick.

I’ve been working on a neat Halloween project I lifted off Instructables… the finished project looks like it would be so complicated to make but in reality it’s just a cheap LCD panel behind an IKEA mirror. I’ve sent a link to the project and to a demo video, you really ought to check it out!

I finally found a reason to justify keeping my super old and super low capacity flash drives in the back of my drawer: using them as password reset disks! A 64MB flash drive is just about useless for darn near anything but password reset files are only 1.5kb in size. I copied the file over and threw the flash drive in my home safe. Future crisis averted!