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PC Hack – How to Turn Your PC into a Fish Tank!

Posted on March 2, 2010 by max
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For those of you who are in tight spaces and you have a small fish tank, you might want to turn your PC into a fish tank.  Not only that, this fish tank hack keeps your PC usable.

I had an old outdated dead PC laying around and seeing how I wasn’t using it for anything I decided to turn it into an aquarium. For a long time now I always wanted to somehow get a real aquarium into a  PC.  It all started when I found a glass block called the ‘Krafty Block’ at a local Hobby Lobby. It was small enough to fit in my dead PC, hollow, and water tight.  And so the

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PC Hack – How to Build a Cheap PC for $131!

Posted on December 30, 2009 by max

With the invent of Intel Atom processors, building a cheap PC is now possible for under $150.  Gizmodo has a great article showing you different ways you can build a PC on the cheap including the above tallying at $131.

Of course, I think the point of building your PC is so you maximize your budget, I would probably not build a PC myself unless I use the best CPU and parts.

Also see the post on building a gaming PC, a lot more fun.

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PC Hack – How to Build a Whiskey Bottle PC!

Posted on November 2, 2009 by max

Need some great ideas for making a custom PC?  How about this Whiskey Bottle PC?

I am sure it’s going to take some thought and time before you can finish this project but these pics should help you and be confident that it can indeed be done.

I love to tinker with hardware etc. so I wanted to make something quite unique for a case. I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle. In November I bought an industrial 3.5″

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Eee PC Hack – How to Add Twitter/Facebook/Etc Status LEDs!

Posted on July 7, 2009 by max

As I’ve mentioned, Eee PC 1000HE is probably the best netbook on the market today, that’s why I have one.   If you got one of these mini beasts, you might want to also know that it’s possible to hack it with status LEDs that can tell you when your friend tweeted you on Twitter or even get notified when someone write on your Facebook wall.

This is an interesting li

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Eee PC Hack – How to Make your Eee PC Boot in just 5 seconds!

Posted on October 7, 2008 by max

Here’s a cool Eee PC Hack that uses a modified Fedora Linux to speed up the boot time of Eee PCs.  I think this shows how great linux operating systems are modification by uses.  I am sure you can do something similar with Windows, but not to the extent this hack does.

How did they do it? Arjan said it starts with the right attitude. “It’s not about booting faster, it’s about booting in 5 seconds.” Instead of saving a second here and there, set a time budget for the whole system, and make each step of the boot finish in

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PC Hack – How to Passively Cool your Computer without PC Fans!

Posted on October 3, 2008 by max

PC fans have always been a major component of PCs in the last decade but there’s a way you can passively cool your computer using no fans at all.  You can follow this cool DIY on how to passively cool your computer without any fans, it could be a great knowledge just in case you need to build a completely, noise-free computer.

I have wanted to build a fully passively cooled computer case since I had my first Athlon Thunderbird 800 MHz. That time the fan noise was amazingly high, and manufacturers didn´t much care about the noise levels, and

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Eee PC Hack – How to install Ubuntu Eee for ASUS Eee PCs!

Posted on September 18, 2008 by max

In case you have bought an ASUS Eee PC with Windows, there’s a special version of Ubuntu, customized just for the Eee PC models.

This allows you to install the Ubuntu on Eee PCs without too much headache as it has already been configured for the factory hardware.

Ubuntu Eee is not only Ubuntu optimized for the Asus Eee PC. It’s an operating system, using the Netbook Remix interface, which favors the best software available instead of o

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Eee PC Hack – How to run Mac OS X on Eee PC!

Posted on September 17, 2008 by max

Eee PC Hack - How to run Mac OS X on Eee PC!

Wow, someone has figured out a way to run Mac OS X on an Eee PC!  Of course, you cannot use your sound, WiFi, LAN, and pretty much anything of necessity but it’s cool simply due to the fact that you are running Mac OS X on a PC.

While many would question why you’d want to go to the trouble of installing OS X when there are many Windows and Linux distributions available out of the box? Maybe you’re looking for a challenge. Installing OS X on non-Apple hardware provides plenty of chances to f

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Eee PC Hack – How to Hack your Internal Devices on an ASUS Eee PC!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by max

Here’s a great wiki site showing you good information on how to hack the ASUS Eee PC including how to add a GPS unit without breaking your arm off.

There are several points on the motherboard where power can be draw, for devices requiring 3.3v or 5v. Ground is universal and allows for short wire runs. A diagram over the points can be found on the research page.

The signal wires thickness is 30 AWG and 24 AWG for the power and ground wires.

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