Aaron Malin

First thing is you’re going to need to run to your local hardware store and pick up some cheap items to get you started.

You’re going to need a big enough sheet of plexi glass to fit the door panel. (none of these items are very expensive, you’re looking at $30 total) You’ll also need some thumb screws, washers and nuts. many hardware stores have cool thumbscrew caps like chrome skulls and other things to make your work look nicer. A can or two of spray paint and one can of clear coat.

Here comes the difficult part, but not hard if you can remember shop class in 7th grade.
Cut out the door panel on your PC but make sure it isn’t too large so the plexi glass can lay in behind it and still have room to drill the holes.
Cut the plexi glass to the recommended size, but make sure when cutting that you apply carpenters or painters tape to both sides of the plexi glass over and under the lines you’re going to cut to prevent it from cracking.
Drill your holes through the door panel first (I used 8 holes total) and then lay in your glass. Mark the holes with a marker and remove the plexi sheet and drill the holes. (again using the tape on both sides)

Now you’re ready for paint, scuff up the door panel with some fine grit sand paper or a kitchen sponge. Hang the door panel from a piece of wire in your shop or from a tree outside. Coat the door panel from a distance to prevent runs and let dry for 10-15 mins before reapplying paint.
Repaint the door panel at least 3-4 times if you want this to look professional. Apply a thin clear coat finish and let it dry over night. (Don’t leave it outside overnight =p)

In the morning peel off the plastic on the plexi glass and ley it in, place in the thumbscrews and fasten with rubber washers and nuts. (DO NOT over tighten)

YOU’RE DONE, and if it looks anything like mine, it looks pretty cool!
Now you can light up your desktop in style. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or zip me some pics of your own creations.

On my Hompage you’ve already discovered how to enable GMail as an online storage department.

Now we’ll dive into: Importing old mail into your new Gmail account, impersonating an e-mail, and turing Gmail into an MP3 player.

MP3 Player:
Turning Gmail into an MP3 player is pretty simple. First you need to have downloaded the Gmail Drive Shell which I mentioned on the Homepage. Once you’ve set that up, all you have to do is set up a label and filter in your Gmail account. Name the label something simple like MP3 or Music. Then set up the filter by clicking create a filter and where it says “Has the words” enter mp3 and check the box “Has attachment”. Now click next and check the box “Apply the label” and choose whatever label you created. Now you can zip MP3 files to your Gmail account and play them through Gmail by just clicking on your label.

Import old mail:
For those of you whom just created their Gmail account (Amie Malin) you can easily transfer your old account contacts and messages into your Gmail account. To import your contacts just click “Import” on the upper-right corner of the contacts page and select a CSV file from your old mail. Now to import your old messages you will need to download one of two apps depending on your old account. If your old account is an Outlook account download Outport from outport.sourceforge.net, or for others download Mark Lyon’s Gmail Loader from www.marklyon.org/gmail/. Once you’ve downloaded these utilities you can simply follow the GUI and it will take you step by step through the process.

Email Impersonator:
Gmail allows its users to send emails with impersonation which makes them look like they came from another address. Pretty useful if you don’t want spam email being sent to your Gmail account. Start by going to settings and click Accounts and go to “Add another email address”, and then enter which ever e-mail address you’d like to use instead. Gmail will send an email to this account in order to verify it’s authenticity. After that you can choose to make that address your default address and whenever you send emails from Gmail it will look like it came from another source.

This website was created entirely as a view into my world and the things I enjoy. I am a current Computer Science undergraduate student at Stony Brook University in Long Island. Here you can read and learn about what I enjoy and maybe learn a thing or two. There is a photo gallery of many pictures that I have taken spanning from upstate country life to the busy city life. You can view and download my open source programs that I’ve created through my adventurous college journey. I am also working on uploading some of my music I have been working on so you can critique my sweet guitar skills.

If you like my website and would like me to make you one that suits your needs, just send me an email in my contact area.

Here you can see I OverClocked my Quad Core2 Intel chip to an above average frequency. The Gigabyte water cooling system I’m currenty using is alright for now; however, I’ll need an upgraded radiator if I plan to go any higher. For now 3.60Ghz is good enough for me!

P.S. If you’re looking to OC your Q6600 to my specs or similar, make sure you have ordered the G0 stepping processor and not the B3 as it is not as stable at these frequencies.
CPU-Z Q6600 – 3.60Ghz

PC Specs

CPU – Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.40Ghz OC to 3.60Ghz
Motherboard – Biostar Tseries P35 / ICH9
RAM – 2GB Corsair XMS2 dual channel 800Mhz OC to 1000Mhz
Graphics – EVGA nVidia Geforce 8800GTS 320Mb
HDD – WD 200GB SATA, Maxtor 200GB IDE
PSU – OCZ 700W GameXtream SLI
Cooling – Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II Water Cooling LED System
DVDLiteOn Lightscribe dual-layer DVD+-R
case – Raidmax Sagitta Gamind Case
Monitor – Sceptre 24″ HDMI LCD
Keyboard – Logitech G15 Gaming board
Mouse – Razer Copperhead 2000dpi Gaming mouse

* Java
* Eclipse 3.3.0 IDE

My previous CSE project was to implement my own version of the well known board game “Risk”. My job was not only to create the game but also create a creator that allows any one’s plugin to load in and run based on a number of questions asked pertaining to the structure of the game. I had to create the risk game maker and then use it to construct a stable version of the game. Some use of threading is involved to check the structure of the created game and make sure everything is “ok”. Then I had to make the game work, implementing all the features and following all of the rules of Risk. I just finished my second assignment which was basically using ConceptDraw7 Pro to construct 3 different UML diagrams that show how I would go about the design of my game. Skeletal .java files were also created. Now I’m onto the actual hard coding of the game as the next assignment is more or less the finished product minus any arificial intelligence. (which will be added for the final assignment)

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Here is the Game creator at it’s best asking annoying questions in order to construct your game. I enjoy making things easy for you.
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Here I’ve encorporated one of my old paint programs into the Risk Game Creator so that the user has the option to draw up a new map without having to open an exterior program, save it, and load it into the console for further creation of the game. Not exactly a requirement but a design technique thrown in by yours truly.
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Here is my personal plugin I created. (No, I didn’t use my own paintProgram..It’s not very good) It’s made up of 3 continents that houses 3 countries, making it easier for testing. Can you guess the theme?
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Here you can see many hours of my life spent creating a functional and user friendly menu that allows obvious tasks such as: Play the game, Create players, Create bots, naming of players, and quitting the game.
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This is where the game asks for creation of artificial intelligence “Bot” players that never get spawned, lol.
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Here is my game running after loading in the selected plugin and after creating three mischevious players ready to battle their ways to victory! :p Once the players are loaded you have to select each players designated color that shows up under the players name as reference for those who lack a short-term memory. I also added a “new game” option in the file menu. Now for my next task, I must load two images, one for viewing and manipulation by the user, and another to run “behind the scenes” to refer mouse-clicks to a known source. THAT is going to keep me busy. Pictures when finished!