How To: Share Files Between a Mac & PC
Do you happen to be a Mac that lives with a PC? Oh yeah. Interested in sharing files through your network? No problemo. Though it does require a little elbow grease and networking know-how, we've made...
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Try Cable Lacing to Get Loose Cords Wrapped Up
Tried and true in the telecom industry and in naval and aerospace applications, we don't see any reason why you can't try cable lacing to keep your media center or workspace wires under wraps!...
How to Keep Your Number With Google Voice Voicemail
With more and more people switching to a cell-only household, we're starting to find tips and tricks to make our cell phones more efficient than our landlines could have ever been......
Make a Polished and Modern Concrete Desk
It looks like this workspace is still waiting to be all wired up from the photo above, but the potential of this modern poured concrete desktop is obvious—and it's all DIY!...
Find Home-Related iPhone Apps Easier
The iPhone is a handy tool to have. Like a 21st-century swiss army knife, you can customize your iPhone to have every feature you could ever need for any situation. The problem is just finding them......
How to Shorten an Ethernet Cord
This DIY project requires a few special tools, but the good news is that they're cheap and oh-so-worth-it if you're desperate for a just-right length of ethernet cord, Goldilocks....
Common Fixes for Common Appliance Mishaps
Real Simple
This month, Real Simple has a great piece on how to know if you can fix a major appliance that's having issues and when to call in the big guns. The story looks at common ailments of refrigerators, s...
How to Access Your Home Files From Anywhere
It's becoming easier and easier to just store your files in the cloud. By cloud, we mean online. For example, a lot of people are now using Google Docs as an easy way to store their files. This makes ...
DIY Your Own Star Trek Bridge Chair
Think of the Burke 115 chair as the cousin to the more traditional favorite, the Saarinen Tulip Chair. Similar in shape, but sporting a different base and slightly different back, this chair is a pe...
How To: Unclog a Toilet with Dishwasher Detergent
Modern day toilets now feature an unprecedented number of features including automatic seat lowering, odor repellent, and even washer attachments, but one thing you can't get around is the fact that p...
Background Check Tenants Online for Free
It's tough out there for everyone. Plenty of you are diving into the role of amateur landlord and renting out extra rooms and basements on Craigslist. Stay safe and make sure that before you hand over...
Easy Garden Party Lights from Plastic Pails
We love fall down here in the South! After enduring grueling months of the hot southern sun, the cool crisp fall air feels great and makes us want to enjoy our front porches. We'd stay out all night i...
Use a Thermostat to Contol a Space Heater
With DIY projects, it's easy to go from professional MacGyver status to jury rigged disaster. With that in mind, be careful with this one—something about it just screams "Fire hazard!"...
How To: Master iTunes 9 for the Audio Librarian
Even though we have our nitpicks about Apple's well.. Apple TV and Time Machine (we prefer if they combine them and turn it into a media server, you see), there are still some goodies with the latest ...
Use a Paper Clip and Only One Battery to Power a Remote
The remote died? You've only got one spare battery? Top Chef starts in 10 minutes? Well, sometimes you've just got to make do with what you have......
How To: Boost Brain Health With... Loud Music?
Here's a mind hack you might not have heard of. Apparently, similar to the way some people alleviate stress by swearing aloud, listening to some extra loud music may actually have some benefits for yo...
Cable "Gutter" From a $4.99 Ikea Hanger Rack
Moving affords you the opportunity to re-purpose your old stuff (When I downsized to a smaller workspace, my Ikea Mikael desk was cut down to become a coffee table). If you're moving to a warm climate...
Un-Jam a Remote Button Without Opening It
Furiously thumbing away at the remote control to find something—anything!—on television can leave you with a few stuck buttons (Why do we pay for 1000 channels again?). Good news: There's ...
5 Tips for Productivity: Improving the Daily Desk Flow
Have a messy desk? Guilty here. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard? Guilty again. Well, if you're like us, you've still got the packaging material, discs, and a pile of papers cluttering up our desks. It's...
How To: Sync Bookmarks Across Multiple Platforms
Sure, you can use MobileMe, but we all know times are tough and those extra dollars saved could be used for something much more awesome (like buying Maxwell's up and coming AT book!), so we've rounded...
Password Safe: Hidden Inside a Floppy Disk
You shouldn't write your passwords down. They should stay in your head where nobody can get to them (short of the invading aliens, if Hollywood is to be believed). But some of us don't have the memory...
Why Not... Use an Antique Fridge as a Bookshelf?
OK, this trend is officially blowing up! First we see people busting out the screens of vintage TVs for storage and then dissecting the insides of a radio for a safe keeper. Now, a fridge stays (mostl...
How To... Keep your Home Theater Speakers from Looking Loud
Electronic House rounds up the best ways to minimize your speaker footprint, from built-in wall units to fans with speakers designed within. One of our favorite solutions from the roundup is Atlantic...
How To... Turn an Apple Cube into a Terrarium
We've seen a few creative ways to repurpose Apple's G4 Cube into aquariums, tissue boxes, and LCD frame, and even a pendant lamp. Flickr user Ilovecode.dk, turned his Cube into a fish bowl for his Be...
Stealth Tech Tricks: 5 Ways to Hide Your Wireless Router
If you have the luxury of more than one cable or phone line around the house, that means you have options for router camo. Because who likes looking at detracting flashing lights during a movie night,...
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