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HD DIY – How to Automate HD Movie Downloads to Windows Media Center!

Posted on February 26, 2009 by max

For those of you who want to automate the process of downloading your favorite HD movies/shows to your Windows Media Player, you are in luck as the Engadget HD boys have written up a DIY for it.

We’re going to start with a quick overview of how the process works. First we set our favorite BitTorrent program to automatically download our favorite shows using the magic of RSS. Then we query TheTVDB.com for the metadata for the recording which includes things like the original air time, the description and the genre. Finally we use DVRMSToolBox

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Starbucks Instant Coffee – VIA Ready Brew

Posted on February 21, 2009 by max

As a coffee addict who relies on cheap instant coffee to make his own frappucino every morning, this is great news that Starbucks instant coffee will be available soon as VIA Ready Brew.  No more headaches, I will have to definitely brew some realy frappucinos now.

Starbucks has found a way to offer a truly great cup of coffee that you can prepare by just adding water. Other instant coffees taste flat and lifeless. Starbucks VIA™ Ready Brew is different – it’s full-bodied

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Invisible Picture Holder!

Posted on July 17, 2008 by max

Here’s a great way to fool your guests with the invisible picture holder.  Simply stick it on the back of any photo you wish you display frame-lessly.

The invisible picture holder works by utilizing tiny spiral clamps at both ends to hold your picture, and curves itself into a stand. It can feel like magic to unsuspecting eyes. Get yours today and make your photos even more magical.

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Polaroid PoGo ZINK Wireless Bluetooth Photos!

Posted on May 31, 2008 by max

Out are the days of traditional clunky polaroids and in with the new Polaroid Pogo that can print your photos wirelessly via bluetooth from your cellphones.

I have to agree that this is the most innovative Polaroid as a company has done, revamping themselves into Web2.0.

MINNEAPOLIS (May 29, 2008) – The magic of Polaroid instant pictures will leap into the digital age this July when Polaroid PoGo™ launches at Best Buy stores nationwide. Polaroid PoGo™ – short for Polaroid-on-the-go – is a pocket-sized, inkless digit

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DIY HACK – How to make an NES Game Cartridge Harmonica or ‘HarmoNESica’!

Posted on March 16, 2008 by max

This one deserves our attention due to the fact that the creator is ‘masked’ to protect his online identity. Just kidding, this DIY is about how to make an NES Game Cartridge, (that’s right, I bet you got one of those in your garage somewhere) into a HarmoNESica.

Basically, it’s a Harmonica, but you can make it look cool. These days, people will making anything out of NES controllers, cables, and now…cartridges.

Watch the video if you want to see it in action. (Looks like he made this to promote his

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Interactive LED table

Posted on December 5, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp5STHMym4E

Cool lookin’ Interactive LED table!

I purchased one of the Interactive LED Table kits from Evil Mad Scientist and built a table, it took a week to assemble, and almost two months to make the table part, but it’s pretty awesome. Tons of photos, and a few videos of the building process, and final table on the link above

via MakeZine

Get the kit here

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(Almost) Magic – Amazing Dice Trick Video

Posted on September 27, 2007 by max

Wow check out this “dice” video…amazing…Up until today I had no idea Dice Stacking was even a hobby let alone a sport to some people. Well after watching this video I was pretty impr

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder version 2!

Posted on September 27, 2007 by max

Wow, check out this Jacobs Ladder too!

This is how I used a neon sign transformer to create my own classic sci-fi prop the Jacobs Ladder. A Jacobs Ladder is nothing more than two vertical wires attached to a very high voltage. The wires which form the ladder are close together at the base but diverge as they go up. When switched on an electric arc forms at the base of the wires. The arc heats the air above it and in doing so forms an easier path for the electricity to take. The arc moves upwards co

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder!

Posted on September 27, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool DIY on making your very own Jacobs Ladder. I always goto Fry’s with my friend Eric and find that they have this giant Jacobs Ladder that’d go off as soon as you were about to touch motherboards and whatnot. But this is great that now I know how it’s made.

The basic construction and principle of a Jacobs ladder is that a metal vee is formed from two bits of wire and a high voltage is applied across them. The ele

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Magic Card Trick by Junger Woods (Max)

Posted on September 14, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/820386/simple_card_magic_trick_by_junger_woods/

Yey, I finally got a magic trick down pat. I am starting to gain some 6th sense with cards…maybe I will goto Vegas soon.

Okay, this is totally unrelated with golf, you’d think… But it is totally related!

A good golfer must learn his trick shots just like in card tricks…

via progolferdigest

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