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Food Hack – How to Make Maple Syrup/Wine with Maple Trees!

If you are a typical American, you will need to learn to appreciate how real maple syrup is made.  I had a facinating time while reading this DIY on how to make maple syrup/wine from real maple trees.

It’s as simple as draining the maple water from the maple tree then boiling it until you get your nice maple syrup.  Yes, this can be great food-enhancer whenever you are eating pancakes, French toasts, etc…etc…

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Home Improvement DIY – How to Make a Computer Table with Galvanized Pipes!

If you are a plumber or simply have a LOT of extra galvanized pipe parts laying inside your garage, you might want to consider making a cool computer table with those extra parts.  Just remember, the galvanized pipes do have leftover resin and oil so you don’t want to build this for your kids, maybe as an extra table in your lonely garage where you can play poker with friends.

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Election Hack – How to Make an Electo-Meter!

Of course, someone had to come up with this cool election hack on election day, an Electo-meter that tells you which senator becomes the next President of United States.  Make sure to embed your Google Election map today. 🙂

Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. The orb starts off dark, and t

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Home Improvement DIY – How to Make LED Chandelier for lighting up your Kitchen in Low-Energy Style!

In case you haven’t noticed, eco-friendly and green people have been trying to replace traditional energy-robbing halogen bulbs with bunch of low-energy, low-cost LEDs.  Which is a great thing for safety, energy, and also creative DIYs such as this one that shows you how to make LED chandelier for low-energy, high-style kitchen.

I wanted to experiment with a lot of LED;s on AC mains, and this

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Firefox Hits Record Market Share at 20%!

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Yey, my favorite Firefox browser hits record market share of 20%!  Although still far aways from taking over IE, it’s far better than 4-5% couple years ago when Firefox started becoming more and more popular among U.S. users.  (Btw, Asian users still rely on IE mostly, due to the fact that most of their online credit card systems work exclusively with IE’s encryption technology.  I have been one of those users in South Ko

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Politics Hack – How to Embed 2008 Election Map in your Blog!

Yey, time to vote Americans!

Well, today is the day that’s hopefully going to changing the U.S. and the world for the better. If you catch my drift, you can bookmark this page of head over to Google’s Election Map and embed the map in your blog too.

Links you need today:

Google 2008 Election Map

Google News

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RGS says No on Prop 8, so does Zedomax!

I’ve been seeing these weird ProtectMarriage Google ads flooding all of my blogs, really annoying the heck out of me as I’d like to see more “related” ads people would click on, not some biased political campaign ads.  (I had to block their ads, it was simply getting way too annoying to my readers, apart from the fact that it’s already highly biased and discriminate against a type of people in SF.)

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Windows 7 Hack – Windows 7 Installed on a MacBook Pro!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUk9Jd1yRyA

Windows 7 has officially been installed on a MacBook Pro.  As great as it sounds, (the marriage between the two competitors) I think Windows 7 might actually have a chance going against the big Apple this time.

Too bad the multi-touch touchpad can’t be supported on Win 7 but heck, this is pretty good already.

You will have to get caught up on Windows 7 reviews if you haven’t yet.

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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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Home Improvement DIY – How to Make a Window Seat!

For those of you who have kids and you have low-hanging windows that serves no purpose, you can refer to this cool home improvement DIY on how to make window seats for your windows.

I found some canvas baskets to fit the cubbies and added a little ribbon to them.  (I looked pretty much everywhere to find the right size basket for a decent price!)  I bought two big sheets of foam at the craft store to make seat pads, and Jeff helped me cu

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