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IKEA Hack – How to Turn a GORM into a Horizontal Bookshelf Bench!

Here’s a good IKEA hack that shows you how to turn a GORM into a horizontal bookshelf bench.  I think there’s a ton of ways you can make IKEA furniture more useful and rather customized to your house.  I see too often that too many people have the same IKEA furniture where ever I go, another reason I stopped shopping at IKEA or hack it like this to differentiate my home furnishing.

As you probably just guessed, this Instructable will show you how to convert a Gorm shelving unit into a boo

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Food Hack – How to Make Turkey Gravy!

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Thanksgiving holiday is around the corner and you might want to learn how to make turkey gravy so your turkey will have some nice zesty sauce to go along with.  Of course, don’t forget to make some turkey stuffing too!

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Also see these YouTube videos that show you how to make Turkey Gravy!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3Vm37OIz8

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ujw19iS24

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Photography Hack – How to Make a Flash Diffuser with Old Film Canister!

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For those of you who want to need a flash diffuser without spending a lot of money plus ability to add unlimited number of color filters to your DSLR camera, there is a simple photography hack, simply cut out an old film canister and fill it with your favorite colors for filtering!

Want to diffuse the flash and add some color to your photos at the same time? This quick and dirt-cheap trick will get you there. Take pictures in hundreds of different colors using free filters Flash diffuser that holds colored filters, and showing you how to get HUNDREDS of free gel ins

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Photography 101 – How to Take Better Shots in the Dark!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FpG4t1lro

Here’s a good Photography 101 video for those of you newbies to Photography, you will learn the basics of taking better shots in dimmed light or darkness by adjusting your ISO, using better lenses, and lots more.

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LCD Hack – How to Fix Broken Backlights with Lightbulb and Old CRT Monitor Case!

Broken LCD?  You might want to check out if your LCD is really broken of if it’s just its backlight.   If its just a backlight problem, you should try reviving it using a lightbulb and an old CRT monitor case as this DIY shows you how.  I think this could come in very handy for sheezy.

Fix any broken LCD backlight with an ordinary light bulb and a dead CRT monitor. Broken LCD monitors basically come in three categories: 1) Cracked LCD panel, rendering the unit completely w

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X-Men Hack – How to Make a Handheld Flame Thrower!

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video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2oEP3RWppA

Check out this awesome hack that involves a handheld flame thrower.  There’s some schematics and build details here. The X-men-like handheld flame thrower uses hand gestures to control the amount of flame you want.   I think this is way cool that you can build such a dangerous device but just make sure if you are going to build one, you know exactly what you are doing as even small mistakes could possibly burn your hand off. (so have a f

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iPhone Hack ALERT- How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone!

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Here’s a quick alert for iPhone users who have jailbroke their iPhones, you need to secure your iPhone by changing your SSH root password if you haven’t.

Otherwise, it’s very easy for someone to hack your iPhone!

As correctly pointed out by some users in the comments section below, the instruction in Step 2 will change your mobile password only. In order to change root password, type ‘login’ command (without quotes) and then press enter. Now type

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Bike Hack – How to Make Bike Handlebar Brake Lights!

Why do bike manufacturers still have no factory-default brake lights?  Well, that’s probably too much added cost but for those of you who with some hacking skills, you might want to consider “hacking” one of these awesome bike handlebar brake lights into your bike bars.

Group riding would be much safer if bikes had brake lights.  The lack of brake lighting on bicycles has lead to the audio cues of “SLOWING” or “STOPPING” being shouted a

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Firefox DIY – How to Auto Hide the Status Bar!

Did you know you can download the autoHideStatusbar Firefox experimental extension to auto hide the annoying status bar once its done loading a website?

Well, now you do!

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Ubuntu Hack – How to Restore GRUB Boot Loader After Installing Windows!

Here’s a quick one, how to restore GRUB boot loader after installing Windows for those of you Ubuntu users.  I used to know how to do this but keep forgetting, hence the point of this post.

This tutorial will explain how to restore Grub after installing Windows 7/Vista/Xp.If you are using dual boot PC with windows,Ubuntu for some reason you reinstall your windows now you may not see your grub 2 is loading because your windows installation might have been over written MBR (Master boot record).

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