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iPod Earphone Hack – How to Make Poor Man’s iPod Speakers!

Although this hack isn’t probably the most effective way to blast sound from your iPod, it can be a great way to get some more sound out of your iPod earphones 2AM in the morning when you can’t even go to BestBuy to buy some cheap, decent iPod speakers.

Of course, I have 2 iPod earphones that just went bad on me, they crap out after about 3 months of use.  I have recently switched to

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YouTube Hack – How to Link Directly to High Quality YouTube Videos!

Here’s a cool little hack for bloggers and alike, how to link directly to high quality YouTube Videos.

Simply add &fmt=18 to the end of your video link, here’s an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK53mzT0sIM&fmt=18 Here’s some more stuff for embedding:

Embedding high quality YouTube videos: The &fmt=18 trick doesn’t work here, but a similar trick does. For each of the URLs in the embeddable code that you get from YouTube, add &ap=%2526fmt%3

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Web Hack – How to Shut Down Your PC Remotely using Outlook!

Here’s a cool vidoe from TinkerNut.com that shows you how you can use Microsoft Outlook to shut down your PC remotely simply by sending your PC an e-mail. Of course, you will need to leave your computer on.

Better yet, simply turn your computer off before you leave your home/office. :p

This video will show you how to shutdown your computer from anywhere using a texting capable cell

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Web Hack – How to Make Your Site Popular!

One of my favorite books is “Click” by Bill Tancer, it’s a book about how millions of people are clicking and why it matters.  Of course, I’ve devised my own plans on how millions of people are clicking and how to make them click 2-3 times more. (I will have a blog post on that too on my Adsense Optimization blog soon.)

Anyways, in the book Click, Bill Tancer goes into details about how people like to search “how to

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Gmail Hack – How to Store and Play MP3 Files on Gmail!

Here’s a no-brainer hack I posted on my Zedomax.Net blog that explains how GMail can be used for MP3 file storage and player:

(Of course, we might start seeing some software hackers take advantage over this and actually stream live MP3 Files to their iPhone/iPod Touch, great idea!)

Even better, you could open a separate GMail account just for your MP3s….wow what would happen if Google actually built this further to ̶

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Ubuntu Linux Hack – How to Install Fresh Copy of Ubuntu without Losing your Current Program Settings!

If you are a hard-core Ubuntu/Linux supporter like me, you will need to learn how to save your programs when you install a fresh copy of Ubuntu.

Here’s how to do it:

Configuration

Keeping your configuration intact is pretty straight forward and obvious. Just backup your /home folder onto an external drive or whatever. Make sure you also grab the hidden files, don’t do my mistake! Applications

Now for the current applications. Basically we just need to make a full list of the installed apps. sudo dpkg –get-selections &

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Robot Hack – How to Build a CNC Robot Router!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quN37YskoaM

Here’s a really cool “robot” that is also a CNC machine to make different shape and sizes of “stuff” for you.

You can read details on how to build this CNC robot router here.

On another note, HackNMod, one of our favorites sites, was featured in a

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NES Hack – How To Make an SNES Alarm Clock!

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

Here’s a really cool NES Hack that involves installing an alarm clock inside the SNES.  Of course, you can even use the joystick to set the time, which gets double-whammy thumbs up.

Our story begins with the gutting of the SNES and the desoldering of the cartridge connector and reset switch from the mainboard. To my great surprise and greater fortune, the cartridge connector’s pins were precisely the same pitch as the through-holes for the display ribbon on the alarm clock, and on top

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Budget Auto DIY Hack – How to Spray Paint Your Rims!

One of my friends is starting a plumbing business in San Francisco.  Well, he happens to be a crazy Z-addict and recently, he spray painted his rims he got off a Mercedes Benz.  The above picture is actually after the Nissan Z has been driven awhile(ignore the dirt, it looks good in real life), but it’s a good thing I took some pictures of the process so you can spray paint your rims. (the right way of course)

1) Anyways, first you will need some rims like below: (Take out any scre

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Re-cap of Laptop/Netbook Hacks!

Well, there’s been a lot of laptop/netbook hacks we’ve been covering over at our brother blog, LaptopPimp, here’s a re-cap of the latest ones you might be interested in:

How to Make your Acer As

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