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Photo Frame DIY – How to Make Most Out of your Digital Photo Frame!

(GiiNii 7″ Wedge Digital Photo Frame Pictured Above)

Here’s some ways that you can make most out of your digital frame:

One of the other uses is as a display for goods or services, for a small business owner a digital photo frame loaded with sample photos, text and even a sound track that explains what the v

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Motion-Sensing Wooden Mouse!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1cvTu_vYck

If you are lazy and you need to surf the web on your LCD TV while in bed, you might want to get one of these really cool wooden motion-sensing mice.

It’s a rare item that pleases both gadget and nature lovers, but the Jupiter Mouse from Actbrise Electronics does just that. This wooden mouse is handmade from Chinese flowering ash in Japan’s rural Gunma prefecture and earns its name from the natural wood grain swirls and click button that resembles the largest planet’s famous spot.

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Intel Core i7 Rave and Reviews!

Well, it’s a miracle that Intel keeps on making faster better chips, this time with the Core i7.

In short, the Intel Core i7 features QuickPath interface instead of the traditional Front Side Bus (FSB), on-processor memory controller for faster CPU-to-memory access, support for

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DIY – How to Make a Wall Clock from Recycled Harddrives!

Remember the DIY Harddisk Clock?  Well, here’s another cool wall clock made from recycled harddrives.(or harddisks)

step 1 Materials and Tools Needed Tools that you will need for this project are: 1. Drill – I would suggest small DREMEL type drill with bench press. 2. Some Drill bits 3. Kit of Screwdrivers, type and ga…

step 2 Disassembling Hard Drives First of all you have to undo screws as shown in picture below, after that you’ll

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DIY Electronic Drum Set

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeI3fNIsOk

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvuKBMccKNs

Check out this guy who made his own eletronic drum set.  The first video explains the electronic drum set parts while the second video shows an awesome demo of the drums itself.

As you will see in the video i decide to use PVC pipes and parts due to that the parts are some how like Lego, but it not so easy, all the mechanic work on this set needed special tools for cut / drill / change diameters inside parts and more, In order to get the same feel with foot pedals i decide to use re

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Photography DIY – How to Use the Light Meter!

The light meter has been one of the most overlooked user features on a digital or SLR camera.  One of our network bloggers Andrew Nealon has some great tips on how to make the best use of your light meter:

As you get ready to take a picture, take a reading on your light meter. Most meters run from -2 to +2, with each mark on the meter representing a “stop” or aperture increment. (Don’t worry about what the aperture is right now, we’ll learn about that later.) By adjusting the camera’s aperture and shutter speed — the thumb wheel on SLR

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Consumer DIY – How to Choose a Digital Photo Frame!

Whether you are buying a keychain digital photo frame or an 8″ digital frame, you really need to know how to choose a digital photo frame.  Our GiiNii blogger David Allen (He’s also blogged on Zedomax before) has a great tips on how to choose your very first digital photo frame:

There is also what the frames purpose will be, is it going to be used to display single images or would you be more creative and run a slideshow with a music track playing in the background, this is the potential of

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Circuit City going Bankrupt Soon?

Circuit City(CC) is really losing ground on retail consumers as they are on the verge of being delisted from the stock market.  I have to agree that I don’t remember the last time I went to Circuit City to buy something, especially since most of products are now cheaper online with some products having no tax.

I did, however, buy my 42″ DL

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Get a Snowball Launcher for This Winter!

Snowball Launcher can launch snowballs up to 50 feet.  Now, it’s really too bad that I live in California where there’s no snow unless I drive to Lake Tahoe.

However, if you happen to live in snowy country, I highly suggest you to get one of these cool snowball launchers for the winter.  Be careful though, snowballs can get pretty darn hard enough to break car windshields, especially if you can launch it 50 feet.

This toy blaster makes and launches softball-sized snowballs up to 50′, allowing rapid, long-range assaults du

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G1 Hack – How to Update your G1 Phone Firmware Manually!

Although T-Mobile is working on a firmware update for the G1 phone, there’s a hack that lets you update to the latest firmware over at MobileCrunch.  There’s a note that this hack isn’t really supported by T-Mobile so if you are going to do it, just make sure to follow directions carefully!

Here’s the directions:

1. Grab the RC29 update from Google

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