Gadget Hacks: Page 338

Make a solar cell from a condom with this video tutorial. Solar energy is plentiful and better for the environment, so why not take an easily accessible commodity (like a condom), and use it to harvest the power of the sun. To replicate this hack at home, you'll need the following materials: 12 iron hairpins, 2 pennies (pressed before 1982), 2 electrical wires, 1 sheet of aluminum, 2 strong magnets, a condom, and mineral water. For more on making your own condom-based solar cell, watch this...

If your cat insists that you do a DIY on how to turn an old mini RC car into a kitty toy that will cause a feline frenzy, check out this video!

Learn how to make the the simplest homopolar motor there is with just a regular battery, a small watch battery, and a formed copper wire. This is really as simple as a homopolar motor gets. Two batteries and some wire... that's it!

Alison and Lloyd, the hosts of My Home 2.0, have created a Twittering Teddy Bear by performing surgery on an animatronic toy bear, adding a text-to-speech implant allowing the bear to speak real-time Twitter updates.

This video video explains the 1.1.4 update and tells you how you can jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch with this new update.

Do it yourself: extend your WIFI signal. This is a quick and easy way to get more range for pennies.

This only works on a Jailbroken phone, and you need to use installer. This is a way to get games on your iPhone or iPod touch.

This can only be done on a phone that has been Jailbroken. This is a video tutorial on how to copy and paste items in Safari for an iPhone or iPod touch.

This video is a very easy guide on how to jailbreak a 1.1.3 or 1.1.4. If you get and error when extracting Ziphone or opening it up download and install this:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

This is a tutorial that shows you how to view and control your computer screen from your iPhone/iPod Touch. But this method is for people who have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch. This works on Edge and Wifi. If you are having problems connecting try going to control panel then security center then turn your firewall off. Also try turning off anything like virus protection.Ultra VNC- http://www.sendspace.com/file/1hof85

This video shows how to make and recieve VOIP calls on iPhone & iPod touch. With this you can see how to make an account on sipgate. This can be done on both iPod touch and iPhone which makes it a very cool application.

This shows how to get a video as a wallpaper on your iPod touch or iPhone. This has no bugs, so feel free to change your background.

Paparazzi are very annoying for the stars but with these sunglasses, paparazzi can't take you in picture .Why ? Because with this sunglasses your face will be invisible to the camera . Disclaimer: CAUTION! . Never use them for illegal act.

Here's a an easy to make, dollar store DIY spy microphone that lets you listen from afar and bring the sounds up close. From Make Magazine Volume 14

How to send SMS text messages from your cell phone -- for free. Just use an IM client.

Plunk! When your mobile device takes a swan dive, act fast with this Tech Triage first-aid guide to cell phone revival.

This shows how to bypass youtubes block on certain characters in video descriptions.. something thats very annoying, especially in How-to/DIU videos that require some codes in the description using nothing more but some simple HTML.

Here is a video tutorial showing how to take movies from your lap top or computer and play them on your HDTV using the internet.

Learn how to block those pesky pop up windows in your browser. This will keep you safe and sane as you block pop ups automatically, never to bother you again.

Learn how to watch television shows on your computer for free.

Count how many steps you take with your iPhone and the Pedometer application.

Use a torrent to download your favorite TV shows to your PC or Mac computer. You can also set up RSS feeds to get the newest episodes.

XAMPP is a free install program you can use to turn your computer into a web server. This video also has a installation guide for XAMPP

A video tutorial on how to simply translate any word using Google Translate Firefox Extension by alt-clicking. A great way to translate from any language to any other language.

From email to online banking, you never want someone poking around in your personal information. Learn what to avoid when creating passwords, and try these tips to keep your passwords safe and secure.

See how to make a 555 timer chip with a pulsing buzzer.

Print what you want, how you want. While browsing, choose the content you want then edit and print exactly what you see on your screen..

This is a video tutorial that explains how to make a wind powered LED out of a pinwheel and an old VCR. Why have just a pinwheel when you can have an LED pinwheel?

This video shows how to make your own webserver to share files or host websites for anyone on the net to access for free, in under 7 minutes using Apache, which is free software.

Learn how to apply for a Google Books Partner Program account, which allows you to submit your content for display on Google Book Search.

See how to hack a two "D" cell Maglite to make it much brighter. This is a cheap but very power light of 700-800+ lumens, brighter than other hacks.

Here is a video tutorial on how to make a USB Drive from a Floppy Disk.

A tutorial on how to download and install tortoise CVS. A very blurry screen but vocal instructions help to guide you through the process.

Basic installation of Drupal on a web server from start to finish with good explanations of Drupal's framework. Tutorial assumes viewer knows basic FTP and database configuration.

A visual tutorial on how to upload a video to www.metacafe.com

A few quick easy steps to stop the junk mail from coming to your home.

This website (www.someecards.com) is full of interesting e-cards that say what you really think instead of sugar coating it. Have fun with this one :-)

Omnisio.com allows you to take videos from YouTube, Google Videos, etc and lets you cut them and splice them together to make a single video from multiple ones.

With a few simple supplies you can create a wifi antenna with 15db gain.

Here, in a silent video (that means no sound), you'll see the steps to creating your own laser from some wire and your old DVD drive from your computer. You can always tear apart a good computer too, but that's just stupid.