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Learn how to make a sign using a large perforated board and about 50 LEDs. Looks awesome when it's complete, great for parties!

It may be intended as a toy, but this gizmo can be hacked for more than just watching a remote-controlled car's video spy cam. This HUD (heads-up display) comes with the Wild Planet Spy Gear Video Car, but it's said that you can purchase the video headset separately. And it's not really a HUD, because you can't see through the video images, but it's close enough to be handy for all sorts of things, like computers, iPods, robots, wireless cameras, and gaming. Who wouldn't like to Call of Duty...

We'll base the project around a digital clock radio and a light gun for gaming; huge selections of both of these are available inexpensively second-hand, with many beautiful and well-designed examples. To enable our FPSI (First Person Shooter Interface), we'll outfit the gun with five tilt sensors, arranged at different angles on a small circuit board. A cable tethers the gun to the clock and carries your tilt and trigger signals to the clock's time and alarm control button contacts.

This is a long form tutorial on exactly how to disassemble the disposable camera to make a shocking taser. Make a tazer or taser using simple things at like a disposable camera and some simple hack sense. This prank is great to pull on an unassuming friend.

How to enable email based subscription for your drupal blogs using feedburner feeds.

n this video you will see how to use content versioning for your site with Drupal.

In this video you will see how to enable payment through a third party gateway using SSL.

In this video you will see how to create a primary menu in Drupal and connect URLs (paths) to it.

In this video you will see how to upload image content types on your Drupal CMS system

In this video you will see how to enable clean file urls in Drupal.

In this video you will see how to select from the various web hosting options to host a domain at GoDaddy.

A hack for your PDA. Use your PDA as a 13" LCD Wall Projector. Use Pocket PC, videoPod,PSP or others! Watch Youtube clips if you have wireless! Step by Step. Make in under 5 mins!

Increase web traffic with these 10 steps in this how to guide. Learn how to generate free targeted website traffic and dominate your niche.

XAMPP servers are a free open source server that makes it cheap and easy for you to test and review your website building as you go. This tutorial covers how to configure your XAMPP server for windows.

This video shows you how to make an Altoids tin can USB charger for your ipod. Be patient, these guys are apparently learning as they go, but you'll eventually get it.

If you are bored and surfing the internet, check out all the strange and hidden features of Google. Here are all the entries to type in google : google bearshare, google gothic, google linux, google l33t, google ewmew, xx-klingon, xx-piglatin, google bsd, google easter egg, google mozilla, google gizoogle.

Now you can make sure your home address is in the right location on Google Maps. If it's not, you can move it to the correct spot. Try it at maps.google.com!!

This video shows how to Deauthenticate (kick off) wireless stations. This video is for educational reasons only.

How to use XAMPP to set up a .com domain name for yourself.

A Look into Internet Marketing including common pitfalls to avoid and how to build a userbase.

Build a computer controller party light that is effected by music.

In this episode we demonstrate how to sniff Voice Over IP (VOIP) conversations, which basically means how to tap an Internet phone.

This hack with a USB fan uses activated charcoal to clean air of harmful smoke. Now you can have a cigarette while using the computer and not worry about smoking up the room.

Hit the lightbulb with a rubber ball and it will magically become brighter. Anybody know how this works?

Open up your mobile phone and solder on a light sensing resistor to make an alarm go off when the phone is in the light. Possible uses?

Use a few simple household items to make a flashlight powered by you computer through the USB port.

Watch this video to learn how to change the LCD screen on a Sony Ericsson W880 / W880i cell phone.

watch this video to learn how to replace the LCD screen on your Sony Ericsson W300 / W300i cell phone.

Watch this video to learn how to change the fascia, or face plate, on your Nokia N95 cell phone with a T5 Screwdriver.

Craft a mobile phone holder for your car by bending and cutting an old CD. It doesn't actually hook up to your car but maybe with a little modding...

Watch this video to learn how to take apart your Nokia N73, to either change the housing or the LCD screen.

Watch this video to learn how to change the lense (the glass/plastic bit on the top screen) on a Motorola V3 series cell phone.

Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The software can be downloaded at http://johnnylee.net

As any informed PopSci reader will know, the iPhone is definitely a game-changing piece of hardware, but it's not without its problems. Chief among those nagging little imperfections, for me, was the recessed headphone hack that rejected any headphones but Apple's trademark gleaming white buds. Apple's 'phones aren't that bad, but my Shure in-ear pair is better for blocking out noise on the subway (and my Grado SR60s are better for listening at home). Thankfully, an easy solution to this...

This video shows you how to use Google Calendar.

This video covers how to use bluetooth with a Samsung YP-P2.

Use a universal cell phone battery charger to boost your batteries on the go, no matter where you are.

Learn how to spot a fake invite on MySpace and report the scam. This happens a lot with music and bands so help them out and report the scams - this video shows you how!

I show you a great way to take your beautiful .avi files and turn them into much smaller files that are great quality as well. And you don't have to buy extra software to do it!

Tired of touch-tone hell? Get human with our cool phone hacks and cheats with the tips from this how-to video. Become a life hacker - we'll show you how to find phone numbers, cheat the computer and hack the call center system with our hacking tools. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to hack a call center telephone system.