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March 22, 2008

DIY HACK - How to make your own UPS for your computer and other peripherals during power outage!

The other day, my home had power-outage for like 6 hours. I could go buy a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), or I can make my own UPS using a car battery. Well, I am just hoping this DIY UPS lasts 6 hours so I can keep using my spare laptop, which shouldn’t need that much power anyways to run off the UPS. But if I tried to run my deskto ... More

Posted in Business, Business Ideas, Computer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Energy, Gadgets, Hack by max on the March 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
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June 9, 2007

Bluetooth Stereo Audio Transmitter

Fed up with wired headphones, but your device does not have Bluetooth? You can get Bluetooth headphones that have an adapter but normally that are not normally very good as they are normally made with low capacity components but this transmitter by iBluon offers a good quality audio, plus great battery life from the internal battery. The device ... More

Posted in Audio, Consumer, mp3 by david on the June 9th, 2007 at 8:00 am
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April 7, 2007

DIY HACK - Double the battery life

Check out this howto on doubling your battery life by replacing a linear voltage regulator (the thing that converts DC voltage, e.g. from 12V to 5V) to a switching regulator. Switching regulators are way more efficient than your typical off-the-shelve crappy regulators such as 7805 which get too hot too fast. Get the Dimension Engineering regul ... More

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Energy, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hack, Microcontroller by max on the April 7th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
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March 9, 2007

Samsung Blackjack Unpacking

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is some great stuff…i am jealous…hehe… I need 3G…noW!!! I’ve received my (Cingular) Samsung Blackjack and here’s a video that shows what’s in the box. After a full charge and a few problems with the service activation (A ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Gadgets, cell phones by max on the March 9th, 2007 at 1:56 am
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