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• DIY: Get rid of flies with a DIY fly trap

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Annoyances, Diy, Home, Household, How To, Top

  no flies in Los Angeles?) DIY web site Instructables provides a guide for building your very own fly trap on-the-cheap using a variety of materials, from cans, screens, jars, string, and wire. We've already discussed how to build a fruit fly trap with a 2-liter bottle, but this Instructable describes several methods and provides detailed

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• Troubleshooting: DIY gadget repair with FixYa

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Diy, Household, How To, Repair, Troubleshoot, Troubleshooting, Web Publishing

  Web site FixYa aggregates user-submitted instructions for fixing consumer electronics, from your digital camera and laptop to your dishwasher. In essence, FixYa is a glorified forum with a smart focus on finding and organizing solutions for consumer product support. If you have a problem with a product, you can ask for support on FixYa;

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• PCs: How to Buy the Best CPU

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Buyer S Guide, Cpu, Diy, Pcs

  Do it yourselfers have a bit of a hassle keeping up with 64-bit, Dual Core, and all the different price ranges when buying CPUs for their machines. So much so, many people just buy pre-built systems to save time. But if you're still intent on building the fastest and cheapest systems for your money, head over to Computer Shopper's guide to buying

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• VBWeekDay6: The Kitchen After

  Published: April 7, 2007, 1:10 am

  Tags: San Mateo, Diy, Videobloggingweek2007

  direct .mp4, yo!ok ok the kitchen is not fully done, but you get the picture, eh? funny having jay, verdi and i in one house. we just sit on the computers and twitter each other. talk, why talk?

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• VBWeekDay4: The Kitchen During

  Published: April 5, 2007, 1:44 am

  Tags: San Mateo, Diy, Videobloggingweek2007

  direct .mp4 fileto be continued, yet again. i'm still vlogging over at ryanishungry too. check it out! is it only day 4? i'm tired! now i have to go watch some other peoples stuff!

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• Kids: 10 ways to entertain young children for $1 or less (without the TV)

  Published: July 29, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Diy, Feature, Kids, Top, Weekend Project

  Sick of paying hundreds of dollars for toys your kids don't play with? Tired of the latest toy catching your child's attention and having it turn out to be something you consider offensive (Bratz) or impossible to acquire (break dancing Elmo)? Never fear. These classic toys and activities can be created with stuff you probably already have

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• The best and worst back to school bags

  Published: July 29, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Back To School, Backpack, Bag, Diy, Jansport, Kids, Lacoste, Lesportsac, Messenger Bag, Students, Tokidoki

  Filed under: Bags and Purses, Accessories, Whatever Style, Kids and BabiesWith Fall just around the corner, it's time for the kids and the university students to get ready to go back to school. I remember when I was in middle school, buying a new backpack was always an ordeal because I desperately needed something cool and unique but didn't want

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• DIY Fuel: Make Biodiesel Yourself With Home Processing Plant

  Published: July 29, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Diy Fuel, Etruk, Home Biodiesel Processing Plant

  Etruk has devised a method to produce biodiesel within the comfort of your own home, using their Home Biodiesel Processing Plant. The unit utilises biological sources such as vegetable oil to produce the sustainable energy source. The benefits of making biodiesel at home primarily lie in the sustainability of the fuel source and the monetary

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• Crafty gamer builds PS2 Guitar Hero axe from scratch

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Controller, Custom, Diy, Guitar, Guitar Hero, Guitarhero, Hack, Homemade, Mod, Playstation 2, Playstation2, Ps2, Video

  the same. Put simply, this DIY endeavor ranks pretty high up there on the complexity meter, but if you think you've got what it takes, let this be the dare that gets you started. Check out the video of the axe in action after the break.[Via HackNMod, thanks Joe]Continue reading Crafty gamer builds PS2 Guitar Hero axe from scratch Read

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• DIY: Make a portable device charging cradle for any gadget

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Clutter, Diy, Gadgets, How To, Top

  DIY web site Instructables steps through making a slick DIY charging (and syncing) cradle for virtually any type of gadget on the cheap using an ergonomic, foam keyboard wrist support, a sheet of craft foam, and a few other tools you probably already have on hand. This simple idea involves using the wrist support as material for the dock (it's

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• DIY: How to Make an Ugly Guitar Hero Guitar Out of Scratch

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Custom, Custom Made, Diy, Guitar, Guitar Hero, Mods

  The default Guitar Hero controllers are alright, but this guy's made a custom GH guitar himself—out of stuff he had lying around the house. He took the circuit board from a PS1 controller, a strap, miscellaneous household junk, and fashioned a Guitar Hero-esque guitar out of it. We would have recommended that he start with a real guitar and

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• TechTV Alumnus Resurfaces Online!

  Published: March 15, 2007, 4:18 pm

  Tags: General, The Screen Savers, Free Stuff, Nnn, Comics, Diy, Cars, Cartoons, Fashion, Techtv, Video, Podcast

  I guess it was only a matter of time before I, too left the confines of the TV world to join the rest of my TechTV friends back on the internet where we all belong (except for Michaela Pereira, who I watched every morning on my favorite LA morning show). I recently left my position [...]

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• iPhone's first sketchy battery replacement kit appears

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:24 am

  Tags: Apple, Battery, China, Diy, Hong Kong, Hongkong, Iphone, Replacement, Sketchy

  but now you've got a sketchy DIY option instead. Once again, a mysterious Chinese company has stepped in and "created" a "solution" to your problem with its iPhone battery replacement kit. For just $20, which is cheap enough to elicit genuine concern, you get a 1400mAh, 3.7V iPhone battery, some type of screwdriver-like tool, a strange plastic

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• Car modder repurposes Wiimote as accelerometer

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Acceleration, Accelerometer, Bluetooth, Braking, Car, Controller, Diy, Hack, Interface, Jetta, Mod, Speed, Speedometer, Vehicle, Volkswagen, Wiimote

  Filed under: Gaming, Transportation, Wireless Looking to collect a little acceleration / braking data on the cheap? Even if you're just scouting alternative uses for that oh-so-handy Wiimote, a recent project from klee just may suit your fancy. A proud owner of a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta managed to rig up a Wiimote-based tracking system that gathered

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• Bug Labs DIY gadgets to turn consumer electronics on its ear?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Bug Labs, Buglabs, Diy, Open Source, Opensource

  the Bug platform. Will a DIY open source hardware hacker's kit ever be enough to enable Joe Blow to develop the next RAZR or iPod? Probably not to start; effective portable electronics requires a very vertical design process, but if CE development is ever going to be democratized the way software development was over 30 years ago, then clear

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