How to connect to access remote desktop connections behind a router

Here’s a handy guide to allowing you to connect to multiple Windows PC’s via Remote Desktop Connection, for each computer you want to remotely connect to you have to configure each computer to listen to different ports to avoid port conflicts by changing the registry key in…

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

Select Port Numbers and make sure Decimal format is selected, then change the number. Now take that number you’ve chosen your computer to listen to and configure your router to port forward to that number. You may need to open up the new port on the PC if it has a firewall enabled.

To test your connection try to connect from outside your network just open up the Remote Desktop Client application then type in your home IP address (if you don’t know this, simply visit somewhere like whatismyip.com from within your home network), then add a double colon and the new port number you setup on your PC).

How to turn panorama photos into planets

I love this tutorial on how to change panoramic photos into miniature planets, tricky as you have to start with the right photo but worth they effort…

Super Mario Galaxy was perhaps one of the best examples of what a good Wii game could be. It was simple to pick up, a solid Mario platformer, and above all, visually beautiful. Perhaps the coolest parts of the game were the small planets from which Mario jump, flew and ran to, giving the game a unique charm and sense of whimsy that was simply a joy to play.

What’s cooler is that you can apply that exact effect to your own photos and panoramas. Perhaps it’s a beautiful landscape, or a modest shot of your front lawn — either way, it’ll take you less then five minutes to turn that regular old photo into a panoramic planet of your own.

via How to Turn Your Panoramas Into Photographic Planets – Tested.

Kitteh Knicker Bandit

Comedy genius…

Oscar has a knack for knickers. This twelve-year-old kitteh has swiped more than 70 items, mostly underwear, from the neighborhood. Thinking that neighbors would report a rash of missing underwear around the neighborhood, Oscar’s owners reported his burglaries to the police. The police are on the case and have taken down his paw-ticulars.

via I Can Has Cheezburger?.

Happy Cheer Up Keanu Day

Too many great photoshop jobs to share.

Today, June 15th, marks the first of what may well become an annual tradition of Cheer Up Keanu Days. What began as a thread on 4chan’s /tv/ board defending Keanu Reeves from all the easy “Whoa” jokes and an epic thread on Reddit anchored around a picture of a forlorn-looking Keanu Reeves sitting on a bench have become that rarest and specialest of things that can happen on the Internet: A genuine celebration of human kindness and decency.

via Geekosystem.

Mac Mini update, may now be the perfect Windows Media Center

Cute, but still very expensive.

Apple has today unveiled a freshly redesigned Mac mini, which benefits from a unibody aluminum exterior and more grunt under the hood. Prices start rolling at $699, where you’ll get a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. A HDMI-out is finally included, as is an SD card reader and what Apple claims is a doubling of graphics performance thanks to an NVIDIA GeForce 320M chip inside.

via Engadget.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do…

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

via tumblr

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