Things you can do with old PC.

   I have an old PC and I don't want to throw it away. I got a lot of memories with. But it was just lying in my room taking up room spce. So I decided to google and find out things I can do with it. Here's what I did with my old PC.

Dismantle and paint.
If you ever own a desktop PC from year 2000's, you would know how bulky the cabinets were. Mine itself is 6 inch wide and around 15inch in height and length. I removed the side panel, and cut a square piece of metal from it and replaced it with acryllic sheet. I used 8 half an inch bolt and nut to fix the acryllic sheet on the side panel. This now exposes the inner hardware of my PC.Further I repainted my cabinet from plain white box to cool blue colour. Also using the output of the excess USB, I put LED lights inside the cabinet. Further i put a switch on exterior so that I can switch on/off the LEDs. It looks awesome when it glows at night.

Installed new OS.
The hardware I had was merely capable of running Windows 7 basic. I replaced my old PC's OS with Lubuntu, which is a light version of Ubuntu, specifically designed for old PC's. To be honest I had problems tweaking graphic drivers for better performance. After going through documentation and the community forum, my problem was solved. The new OS runs smooth without any glitch. Also it takes only 22 seconds for my machine to boot which I guess is quick for my kind of machine.

My retro gaming center.
Look up on eBay, and you might findsome of the old games. I found Need for Speed 4, RC Racing and some other games whose name I don't remember but are very cool to play! Well you can upgrade your RAM and graphic card if you want to. Remember 2005 was the best year in gaming, atleast this is what I believe. Many good games were made and released during this period. You can use use your old PC to enjoy these game, since many new laptops are having compatibility problem.

Download center.
You can use your old PC for download. Slow hardware marginally affects download speed. So its good idea to download torrents on old PC. I downloaded my copy of Lubuntu on old PC itself. Its internet speed that matters.

Data Backup Center.
Alternatively, you can also use the old PC hard drive as place to store your important documents, backup, or music. People with low internet speed and those who are unable to use cloud storage for backup can benefit from old PC. Using third party software and app you can share data among your phone and PC. I'll post in future on how to share data between phone and PC.

Lastly, you can refurbish it and give it away to charity. :)

4 Amazing Scientific advances of 2013.

"Japanese researchers unveil the "smelling screen", a digital display screen capable of emitting pinpointed smells."


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 You watch and listen to programme on TV, but now you can smell it too!
The prototype of this screen was unveiled at IEEE Virtual Reality Conference. The inventers suggests it can enhance advertisements. Though the project is in early stage of development, it will soon be commercially available in near future.

"Phase I clinical trials of SAV001 – the first and only preventative HIV vaccine – have been successfully completed with no adverse effects in all patients. Antibody production was greatly boosted after vaccination."



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 Previously Timothy Ray Brown was reported of cured of HIV after having stem-cells transplant after being diagnosed with leukemia. The HIV cells were dead and cannot replicate. However stem cell transplant is considered risky and performed only on cancer affected people.
Researchers have come a bit closure in tackling HIV with successfull trial of HIV vaccine.Currently 35million people are living with HIV. HIV is spread through shared needles, unsafe blood transfusion, unsafe sex, from infected mother to her child. HIV has been a global issue and has claimed atleast 25 million lives so far. HIV Vaccination will greatly help reduce these figures. Its a boon to mankind.

"British and Canadian researchers create a tablet computer which is as thin as paper and also flexible."


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 Imagine a computer as thin and flexible as a paper. Its yet another reality! Developed by PlasticLogic known as PaperTab, this tablet is flexible, thin, lightweight just like paper. And yes you can tossed it just like a paper. It has several thin sheets of flexible plastic display. Each display can be used for each app  or document. A user can carry as many as hundreds of these display just like a book. It is powered by Intel i5 processor. Now how cool is it? B)

"NEC and Corning Inc. develop a multi-core fiber optic cable that can transfer a record-breaking petabit of data per second."


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 How about sending 500HD movies in just a span of a second? Yes its possible in near future. NEC and Corning Inc, announces that it successfully transmitted 1.050Petabits in a second. This will enable high data transfer capabilities along with cost effectiveness and met the demands of ever growing traffic.