Gadget Hacks: Page 339

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.

With some simple household materials and about 30-60 minutes of your time, you can make a working antenna for your TV!

See how to build a pulse motor with just one transistor and one diode.

This is a sweet video showing you how to make a sick electric motor! You'll need some wood, a battery, and some PVC pipe, along with a few other things, and you'll be on your way to making that perfect electric motor of yours.

See how to make a cool electric circuit board with a software program and some skills. You can do it too, if you follow along.

Make a great TV antenna for just ten dollars worth of items you can find in your home! This will make a better than average antenna to replace those expensive ones at the store.

Pimp out your favorite pair of slippers to be as useful in the night as they are in the day. This is a fun and cheap little project for making headlight slippers, that way you don't trip and fall down the stairs at night, or stub your toe.

Printers are one of the most popular home and office tools in the world, because they are inexpensive, yet highly versatile, but the ink costs more than the printers in some cases. Well, learn how you can refill those cartridges at home right now for only five dollars.

Learn how you can protect your home in a pretty radical and fun way by transforming two cheap household items into a stealth hi-tech, anti-burglar, security system! Literally to hot for any bad guy to handle!

This will show you how to hack an old two dollar alarm clock and transform it into a cool DVD clock! No, it doesn't play DVD's or CD's, but it still looks cool.

Turn the classic 70's wireless toy into a modern high-tech spy device with the instructions in this how-to video. I never picked up any chicks with it anyway. This is another fantastic video tutorial by KipKay.

Keep your pooch safe and stylin', with a little LED. Fiber Optics. They're not just for humans anymore. When GeekBrief.tv star Cali Lewis, visited the Lair, Techno-Guru Alison made electronic fashion for a podcaster's best friend.

Learn how to make your own cell phone signal enhancing device! You're reception will be awesome with a simple homemade coffee and cookie can antenna.

The new "My Location" (beta) feature on Google Maps for mobile helps you know where you are on the map, even if your phone doesn't have GPS. Just press [0] to move the map to your approximate location. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what's around you, and how to get there.

Watch this video to learn how to use Google docs. You can view and edit your documents offline, without an active internet connection.

This is a laptop disassembly of a Dell Inspirion 7000, for the making of a digital picture frame. Watch this three-part video to make you the coolest kid on the block. See the disassembly in part one, the LCD retainer in part two, and the system board back panel in part three.

This tutorial covers the steps on how to turn a Windows enabled mobile phone into a web cam that you can stream over the internet.

You have a webcam, right? Nowadays, who doesn't? But just because you all have webcams doesn't mean you're using them the same way. And a great way to take full advantage of your peripheral or built-in webcam is by turning it into a security camera. This video will show you how to turn it into a security cam by accessing the video feed remotely over the internet. And it's a really simple solution—you just need to sign up for a USTREAM account, which allows you to stream webcam footage live!

The purpose of this video is to show an e-mail security flaw using telnet that allows hackers to send e-mails using anyone's e-mail address. Thankfully, many major e-mail providers have software that blocks this. My intention is to make people aware of this flaw so that other e-mail providers can protect themselves as well.

This video tutorial is how to do the Chuck Norris Google hack. You don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you.

Watch this video to learn how to add your military signature to msn email.

So, you've found yourself in a hotel room, and for some reason you just have to remove that cable from the wall. However, it is protected by a cable lock. In this instructional video, see how to defeat these using a piece of toilet paper, a pen, and the cable lock itself!

In this video you will learn how to make a high voltage, high frequency power supply in just five minutes, and for less than twenty bucks. All you'll need is a compact fluorescent light (CFL) and a flyback transformer to make that alternative energy source of yours.

This video explains how to speed up Opera to browse the Internet at fast speeds.

This video will teach you how to make successful viral videos. All steps are outlined, such as length, content, sex appeal, title optimization & tags.

Watch this video to learn how to make annotations in your YouTube videos. This adds a level of interactivity to your web videos that was not previously possible.

This is a hack to create a Roomba covered in LEDs that will munch your dust. See how to do this cool mod for the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot.

This tutorial shows you how to install your new Drupal theme template and configure the blocks for your website content.

This tutorial shows you how to create a poll on your Drupal website.

In the season finale of Know How, Tim uses a laser pointer and a wine glass to scan a 3-D image of his mom's head. You have to see it to believe it.

Xeni checks in with the authors of the forthcoming O'Reilly HOWTO book "iPhone Hacks" (David Jurick, Adam and Damien Stolarz) for a demonstration of how to unlock and jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. The authors promise to teach you how to coax more out of these devices: little-known features, performance tweaks, and tips on great web-based apps to install -- video game emulators, IM and VoIP apps, and media players that can handle a wider range of filetypes.

This tutorial shows you how to change the default window title name from osCommerce to whatever your store name is using cPanel X.

This video shows you how to customize the admin panel of your osCommerce site template and change the name of the shop using cPanel X.

Build a device that automatically takes and uploads pictures of your life every 30 seconds on the Internet.

Learn how to build a driver that can be used for Red laser diodes and Blu-ray laser diodes.

How to build a laptop docking system so that you can plug your Samsung YP-P2 Mp3 player directly into your laptop.

The final version of Build a Bulb, an Edison creation.

Tires of those wire two button mouses, or even the wireless clickers? Well, come no further, the soapmouse is here. What in the hell is a soapmouse? Well, just watch and learn, and make one yourself.

Watch this video to receive instruction on how to create an automatic reply in Google Apps and Gmail. This video shows the Danish version of Google Apps, but its the same procedure in the English version, and in Gmail.