So you’re sitting around your living room, using your laptop. It’s chugging along happily, glowing brightly, and you’re enjoying a rousing game of ‘team solitaire’ (Valve’s newest online sensation). But wait! Your teammates are taking a reaaaaly long time to queue up for the next game, and you’re wanting to kill some time with ‘very pissed off avians…. under water!’ (the newest iteration of the mobile time sink that’s been sweeping the interwebs). You pull out your tablet, fire up the game, and start flinging feathered friends forward. You look up, and woah! The game has already started! You scramble for a safe place to put your tablet, spilling your drink all over your cable modem and rendering it slower than a 56k dial-up modem. Sadly, being in the US that’s only a 10% speed decrease. If only you had a tablet stand built into your laptop table, this minor annoyance could have been avoided!
So do what I did, take an old licence plate and bend it into the letter 6. Loop this around the support leg of your stand, cut out a chunk for the power cord, and you’ve got a timely tablet stand to stand the test of table time.
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[...] From Dan Hannan on Tuesday at 02:29 AM: I added a tablet holder to my TV stand with an old license plate! [...]
[...] For me, an open source sound effects library needs to include features that make it stand out or more usable than the competitors. This is difficult in the case of a game sound library as Google has gone to great lengths to make writing simple audio (not real-time or analysis etc, but simple audio) effects and background music trivial. Most implementations will be little more than wrappers around SDK examples and bug fixes for various platforms. That being the case, I think that the inclusion of actual sound effects I’ve created and released under a Creative Commons license will help make this a useful contribution. What that means is even if you’re not interested in the source code or waveform generators etc, you can still download the project and use all of the bleeps and bloops that I create in your own projects, for FREE, forever. So if you’re playing one of my games, and you hear a ting or a hi-hat or a roaring ‘Game Over’; that’s actually me in my kitchen with some pots and pans and spoons and a microphone cooking up some mischief (like 90s west coast rap). Same goes for when you’re jamming on the background music. That’ll be out there too (Part 3 of this article series will cover background music). One will just need to head to the Easy Game Audio project on GitHub to grab the newest set of files. But how to capture these sounds in a clear and clean way, using easily accessible audio editing software (open source, of course!) and the hardware I have around my workbench (well ok, a laptop stand)? [...]
[...] Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the [...]
[...] Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the [...]
[...] Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the [...]
[...] Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the [...]
[...] Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the [...]