Once a week we round up some great reader tips and share them with everyone, this week we’re looking at outputting your Xbox 360 to two screens, spooky high-tech Halloween props, and recycling old flash drives as password reset disks.

将您的xbox 360输出到两个屏幕

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.

那是一个漂亮的游戏厅把戏，伦。对于那些想尝试但只有HDMI的Xbox360的读者来说，一个便宜的HDMI拆分器可以帮助他们实现他们的双屏幕视觉。

diy鬼镜是一种廉价但高科技的万圣节道具

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!

我们肯定要同意你的评估，它看起来像一个复杂和昂贵的项目，但所有人都说它实际上相当简单。很好的发现！

使用旧的闪存驱动器作为密码重置

Ben writes in with a tip for getting some use out of your old USB drives:

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!

这是一个非常旧的闪存驱动器很好的用途，本。对于那些在家里跟随你的人，你可以查看我们的指南，在WindowsVista/7和Windows8中设置密码重置盘。

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