Cooling Down Your Media Unit With Computer Fans
With all the new gear that goes into your media unit or entertainment center, depending if it closes completely, you might want to add some cooling measures so that your gear doesn't overheat. ...
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College Kid Creates His Own Remote Key Fob Door Opener
Oh those college kids...with seemingly oodles of time to create geeky solutions like this DIY key fob door opener (just like the remote fob for your car). Hack-a-Day posted Vassar student Adam's DIY...
Painting with Light and a Roomba Vacuum
Flickr user "reconscious" doesn't consider his Roomba as just a common janitorial buddy. No, inside that little robotic case was the spirit of an artist...an artist whose potential was unleashed wit...
Make This: Wooden Cell Phone & MP3 Dock
We love wooden accessories, especially when it comes to cradles for our favorite pieces of technology — cell phones and mp3 players! The only problem is, our pocketbooks don't always allow u...
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 ...
Ikea Besta Hacked Into Floating Media Center
Why is it that we want our home-sweet-cozy-home to feel like a chic boutique hotel room? We don't have any clue 'Why' but we sure know how to make it happen. Try switching out your media center shelvi...
Turn A Tiny Alcove Into A Functional Workplace
We like IKEA. There is just something about this Swedish affordable furniture that just works. Since we like IKEA, you better believe that we enjoy reading Ikeahacker, with its great hacks on using IK...
IKEA GALANT and Pegboard Desk Modification
Friend and hiking blogger extraordinaire Kolby Kirk of 100hikes.com sent us his IKEA desk hack which utilizes pegboard and zip cords as a way to counter tech clutter by attaching hardware like a USB h...
DIY Project: Make Your Own Floating Computer Desk Using Countertops
We love floating shelves. Why? Well because they seem to float and take up almost no space. What if we told you that you could easily transform an Ikea countertop into a neat little computer workstati...
IKEA Six Arms Ceiling Lamp
This DIY creation made out of an IKEA blanda blank metal bowl, 6 Tertial lamps, some metal cables and "lots of time" resulted in a creepy-cool creation that reminds us of one of those deep sea crabs...
Ikea Hacked PC Desk
When Matt and Beck decided it was time to redecorate their office they hacked their way into a clean and simple space. "When we first moved in we sorta just slammed in whatever furniture we had, boug...
Flickr Find: DIY Built-In Kitchen Computer
Whether they're used for looking up recipes, pulling up cooking show clips on YouTube or just killing time on Twitter while you wait for the water to boil, we're seeing computers in the kitchen poppin...
DIY Project: Repurpose a Coffee Table Into A HDTV Stand
With HDTVs getting thinner and thinner, and even being able to stream your NetFlix movies directly without any extra hardware, you'll need less and less space to showcase them. That being said, we don...
DIY Project: Cheaply Assemble Entertainment Center
Times are tough, but that doesn't mean that you have to spend no money. You just have to spend what money you have at your disposal smartly. This is why we thought that this Ikea hack was really nifty...
How to Make a Glass Desk Mouse Friendly
Ever since Ikea made glass desks really affordable, they have been popping around everywhere. We bet that you know quite a few people who have glass desks. Do they like them much? One thing is for sur...
Look! Interactive LED Ambient Lighting
Whoa, when people mention adding "mood lighting" we don't think they mean a full blown discotheque, laser light show. But that's exactly what Instructables user Hazard created using a customizable LE...
DIY Laptop Stand From a $2.99 Ikea CD Rack
A brilliant little idea from a brilliant little Ikea Hacker: In order to raise his laptop's screen to a better height on his desktop, Erik M. modified and repurposed an Ikea CD rack into a cool indust...
Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots
Every so often, we find ourselves regrettably dropping our dSLRs into jacuzzis, down mountain slopes, or leaving them in the hands of babies - none of which results in a reversible outcome, as you mig...
How To: Give New Life to Vintage Tech
The lovely Weltron 2001 radio pictured above has been in the family since my aunt purchased it back in the early 1970s. Though the 8-track player stopped working sometime in the early 1980s, the rad...
Why Not Shop Outside the Home Office Department?
If you saw my earlier post, you know I was in the market for a most unconventional desk: A round pedestal table. Well, during my search, I quickly realized that my shopping task would take me outside ...
Bryan's DIY Antique Phone Doorbell
Bryan Zimmer emailed us this fantastic retro-themed DIY hack, a most timely submission as we just revisited the noir art deco-science fiction classic Dark City and we think this would have perfectly f...
1940's Rotary Dial Phone Converted Into iPhone Dock
Here's an old tech meets new tech DIY hack converting a genuine 1940's rotary dial phone into an iPhone dock which operates as a speaker system, can be controllede via touch sensitive controls or rem...
Ikea Hack: Zen Laptop Table
If you are like most people, you're working more and more off your laptop. This liberates you from your desk, and makes you find different places to work. The trouble is that you need a nice flat surf...
Lego iMac G4 Junior has a Real LCD Screen
click for more picsYeah, it's always cool to see Lego brick mock-ups of our favorite home office tech and supplies—like a stapler, desk, lamp, phone and computer—but this little guy from B...
The Poor Man's Notebook: Touchscreen, Portable, Powerful and Highly Protected
click for more picsWith components for laptops, desktops and netbooks getting more minute in size and price, the opportunity to integrate a computer into various storage "cases" has expanded into just...
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