Lol… make sure to check the SD card label before you hook it up to your computer.

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Yey, it looks like iPhone Video Recorder is now available.

My friend just started blogging again, please click here and check out his cool blog if you got time.

Check out the features:

iPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance . With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, or send it out by email as you wish.

Due to the great consumption demand on iPhone CPU for dynamic encoding, it is hard to maintain a high frame rate on the fly encoding. Therefore, we turn to a postponed encoding method. You may record now and encode the recording later. The video data is already on your iPhone’s disc, and you may resume encoding when you are convenient. Besides, we offer a few more encoding methods for customers to choose from. On the fly encoding is also available and the sound is good yet the frame rate will be reduced considerably.

via HackNMod

This post was guest posted by Joe from HackNMod. (Do you have a tech blog and want to guest post? Send an email to zedomax at gmail.com)

With technology rapidly evolving, light emitting diodes are in virtually every single electronic device on the market. They don’t produce any heat, consume less power, and emit brighter light than conventional bulbs. Furthermore, they are incredibly inexpensive and are easy to solder, allowing any inventor to utilize them with ease.

1. New to LEDs? Not a problem, everyone has to start somewhere. Learn how to solder them, then build a few beginner projects. These three projects are great for anyone just getting into electronics and wiring.

2. Using a standard digital camera and a few infrared leds,you can make your own, high quality Night Vision Security camera for about $5.

Apple Store has been officially designated as a place to meet for young people. Wow, I’ve been in the Apple Store like every week and didn’t know this?!?

Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more men than ever are stopping by Apple boutiques. The vibe at the stores is conducive to man meeting too: You can check your email among cuties, take a free workshop on anything from Photoshop to podcasting (a great opportunity to strike up a conversation), or just survey the, ahem, good-looking merchandise.

via Gizmodo

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You know, sometimes people don’t realize the power of the people on the internet.

Above video is where a kid gets an “X” box for Christmas with winter clothes inside it.

I guess Engadget posted this and Microsoft might be sending him a brand new real XBOX with probably more goodies than he can handle.

Great job guys.

We’ve been flooded with email from well-meaning geeks and even Microsoft; just about everyone wants to help us hook up Jonathan. We totally appreciate the sentiment, but we’ve got this covered. We think we’ve gotten in touch with his family (who let us know he never got an Xbox, and the whole thing really was a prank on the poor kid); once we know for sure we have the right people we’ll post again.

On another plus note, I got $5 from Big Pappa and $10 from Mike to get more Soju over at SiteHoppin.com. (Thanks guys, I will be able to afford brew for couple more days!)

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Here’s a video tech review of Nesco Food Dehydrator. I know, I sound a lot like this guy but oh well…

The greatest thing is that I got this Food Dehydrator I’ve always wanted but it looks like it’s not the RonCo Food Dehydrator I saw on TV about 10 years ago. It turns out Nesco is some copycat but it works well.

I searched on the internet and there’s bunch of Food Dehydrators you can get and start making your own Apple chips or beef jerkey.

The point of this story? Get a Food Dehydrator and get your life back on the healthy snack track.

Hey, now we are offering web traffic services on Zedomax.Net. We can bring you about 300 to 500 extra visitors per day. You can see an example of it on Mike’s post on Bloggin-Ads. How much?  Just $200 for a month.  You try it for 1 month and if you don’t get at least extra 10,000 visitors, we will refund your money.

If you need a jump start for your new blog or online e-store, we could probably do it free. But if you want us to do it right so you get residual traffic, paypal us $200 at max [at] zedomax.com and shoot us an email of your website URL.  We will try to keep it low in the beginning, maybe something like $200 per month. That’s about 2 cents per visitor at 300 visitors per day. Not too shabby if you can’t figure out how to get traffic to your site.  We will even add you to blogroll on Zedomax.com as an extra bonus.  (That’s over 6000 pages of SEO links!)

This project deserves an A++ for making something related with beer! As I am gulping a Budweiser 40 down my throat, I find this email in my inbox about HOWTO make a Arduino Beer Thermostat! Cool… Keep up the great work David and thanks for the tip!

I belong to a diverse group of amateurs who have a fascination for brewing our own beer. In addition to the satisfaction of brewing the beer I drink, and the control I have over the process (and the ability to easily avoid crappy mega-swill beer from the big breweries), we homebrewers get to play with a bunch of cool gadgets. Even if you don’t have any interest in cooling beer, this information in this tutorial can be applied to other projects that involve analog sensors, and high-voltage/current devices.

Over the past few months, I’ve started kegging my own beer, at home. This is a pretty simple process, but one of the key ingredients to making consumable draught beer is temperature control. Obviously, beer doesn’t taste quite as good if it’s warm (or too cold, for that matter), but there’s more to it: carbon dioxide is much more soluble in water (or beer) at lower temperatures, so it’s essential that kegs be kept cold, when serving.

Most homebrewers take one of three approaches to cooling their beer: buying a pre-made kegerator, gutting a regular refrigerator to hold kegs with taps on the door, or altering a chest freezer to hold the kegs and mount taps. I chose to take the third approach (a friend was getting rid of a near-perfect sized chest freezer).

Generally, chest freezers have thermostats that work in the “freezer” range. That is, below 0ºC, or below water’s freezing point. Even at the “warmest” temperature, most freezers will still freeze beer. This is no good when it comes to kegerators. Many homebrewers solve this problem with a device referred to as a “Johnson,” “Love,” or “Ranco” controller (depending on the brand of controller). Basically, this device plugs between the AC mains and the chest freezer, and has a temperature probe that is placed in the freezer (the freezer’s internal thermostat is set at “maximum cold”). The temperature probe, depending on the model chosen, will either be a solid/liquid mechanical probe (usually found on the cheaper controllers–this is likely the same type as is found on the freezer’s internal controller), or a thermistor.

One day, a few weeks ago, I had the urge to finally get my chest kegerator cooling my beer. Living in Canada has its benefits, but one of the recurring problems we Canadians face is the difficulty (and delay) in having items shipped from the US (where most of these controllers are made/sold). I wanted to get it working now, not in a week, or more, when a controller would arrive. Additionally, these controllers can run for anywhere from $60-200. I didn’t feel like waiting, and I didn’t feel like paying. So, what’s a resourceful geek supposed to do? Build your own, of course.

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Here’s a cool spy gadget you can get which comes with built-in webcam and MP3 plus the ability to spy on your family. Well…not exactly spying but you can use it security I guess… Preorder one at Amazon.

Nikko and Erector just launched the Spykee Spy Robot, a Johnny-5-esque little fellow that recharges itself and includes a webcam and MP3 player all in a clever little package.

It costs about $299 and let’s you watch your family remotely, ensuring that your domicile will be safe from robo-phobic burglers. It reacts to motion so when someone pops in for a visit the SpyKee can email their picture to you and then burn their face off with huge fiery lasers.

via crunchgear