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Door Hack – How to Open Sliding Chain Lock with a Rubber Band!

Posted on April 5, 2010 by max

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There’s might be times where you need to open a sliding chain lock.  For those times, you can use a rubber band to open the door, brilliant!

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PDF Hack – How to Open Every PDF File with GoogleDocs!

Posted on March 15, 2010 by max

Recently, I’ve stopped using Adobe reader simply because it’s slow and for GoogleDocs does a great job of letting you view PDF files much quicker than Adobe reader.

So, how do you open every PDF file you find online with GoogleDocs?

So long as the PDF file exists online, you can simply use GoogleDocs viewer and paste in the URL of the PDF you want to view.

Another great way to do this automatically is to get the

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Door Hack – How to Open a Door with Floss and Rubber Cable!

Posted on February 9, 2010 by max

I have seen a ton of great ways to open doors when you lock yourself out but this one involves using your head and some floss.  Not a bad idea if you can access the door top and bottom.  Also read up on how to make a bump key.

now what you want to do is push the cable underneath the door a little ways. and then gently pull on the floss. you’ll want to go slowly so you don’t break the floss. but pull on it till you think the cable is about where the doorknob is and try to hook it o

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Philip Torrone Spotted!

Posted on November 30, 2006 by max
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We caught Philip Torrone from Make on his new video review of open-source products.

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Open-source Hardware for your holidays

Posted on November 24, 2006 by max

Make has some cool open-source hardware for your holidays. What is our take on it? Well, it really looks pretty good! Check it out and you might get an idea for your next cool app, well, we are eating too much turkey and too much Grey Goose to think about it. But we do recommend anything Make recommends, they have some cool stuff that are open-source and you can make your next product using some free code…

Well, the next holiday break will be the Christmas, where we will still

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