3Feb

Charge your phone using pedal power with the K-TOR Power Box

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Charge your phone using pedal power with the K-TOR Power Box

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K-TOR has added a new portable charging device to its lineup. The new Power Box puts your legs to work toward converting kinetic energy to electricity. Use it enough and you might just get your weekly workout. It is quite simply a pedal-powered generator equipped with a dual-pronged outlet so that you can plug in an AC adapter and charge your device directly from your leg power. The box works for devices rated 20W and below, including low-power netbooks, tablets, smartphones, video devices and portable game systems.

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4Jan

How to Build a Water-Powered Battery for Your Calculator

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How to Build a Water-Powered Battery for Your Calculator

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14-year-old Instructables user Angelo S. Casimiro put up a step-by-step fabrication process that can be completed in as little as 10 minutes and can power a small calculator or a similar low-consumption device.

If you’re just before an exam, but forgot to buy a battery for your calculator, you can always revert to …water! Yes, you’ve read correctly: water can successfully replace the small battery of a calculator which can perform the same complicated math calculations that you couldn’t.

All you need is a carbon or a copper rod that you can take from a used AA battery, a 1x 1 inch aluminum foil, a small cylindrical container, a 2-3 inch wire, multi purpose pliers and a glue gun.

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26Dec

How To Use Anyone’s Face As A Facebook Chat Emoticon

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Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an emoticon. That means you can make one out of your best friend, Chuck Norris, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama or anyone else. This opens up a whole new way to express complex emotions. Here’s how to do it:

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26Dec

Five eco friendly products made from recycled telephone wires

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Five eco friendly products made from recycled telephone wires

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We may have caught a sight of manufacturers going down the line and picking up recycled materials or eco friendly elements to imbue in their technologically advanced solutions. Be it embracing recycled newspapers for devising the USB stick, utilizing paper-to-go cups for uber easy iPod speakers, or settle upon Samsung’s Blue Earth Phone carved using recycled plastic water bottles, the sphere has rendered almost all. However, glimpsing through the products that rely on recycled telephone wires to provide versatility may indeed throw a curve over many. Since the world’s all about ‘going green,’ we have got our hands on some really stunning environmentally friendly products, that won’t only take a twinge of guilt away, but will also make you stand apart from the crowd in a startling way. Have a look:

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21Dec

How Timeline Changes Marketing On Facebook

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We’re all learning about how best to use timelineright now, so it’s probably a good thing that brand pages haven’t migrated to this new layout yet.

While we do know that Facebook is working on upgrading brand pages, no dates have been given for anything new and it’s unknown what the changes will be. Most likely individual users’ experiences with timeline will dictate whether the social network will extend the format to pages.

Meanwhile, timeline profiles have other implications for brands on Facebook.

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20Dec

DIY: How To Build Your Own Pedal-Powered Bike Generator

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How To Build Your Own Pedal-Powered Bike Generator

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If you were a puzzle fan in your childhood or if you simply love building things, you now have the chance to make a most surprising combination: a power-generating exercise bike out of a washing machine. So you get a double effect from a work-out: great legs and power for your house!

A regular routine will get you support for, let’s say, a 50W consumer and a 21” monitor. You basically need a washing machine motor and an old bicycle as basic parts, but also a bridge rectifier, an old UPS and a battery, a 20-gauge wire angle, soldering iron and a cheap multimeter. A soldering and a welding setup will definitely come in handy and don’t forget to bring in an angle grinder with cutoff wheels.

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14Dec

How To Get 41% More Likes On Your Facebook Posts

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How To Get 41 More Likes On Your Facebook Posts

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Even if you’re using the best marketing practices on Facebook, you can still take engagementand virality to the next level.

Best Practices

Let’s assume you’ve adopted some of the best practices of getting good results posting to your Facebook fans:

  • Understand your audience and what they care about;
  • Post content that doesn’t just say “me, me, me;”
  • Use calls to action (“click like if…”, asking questions, or simply saying “tell us in the comments section…”) to get more engagement; and
  • Look at the visibility, likes and comments of individual posts to see what’s working and what’s not.
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30Nov

How to stop Facebook from sharing your location

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Facebook is at it again, releasing yet another feature that I never had the opportunity to politely opt out of: location sharing. When Facebook decided to withdraw efforts from its short-lived check-in service, Places, it quickly implemented a more passive location-sharing feature that doesn’t even have a name. It’s just there. And it’s creepy.

Now, every time you compose a post on a mobile device or desktop computer, you’ll see a light-gray location description in the lower left of the status box.

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19Nov

How to build a solar heater with recycled cans

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Although we have witnessed different yet not so eco friendly mediums to generate heat for the home, adopting the route to building a solar heater out of pop cans may sound even more productive. Utilizing recycled cans for the formation of an efficiently devised solar heater is not only a free source of heat for your place, but also a great way to reuse those scrap and trash materials lying around. Right from complementing the compact size of your house’s window to making it considerable enough to heat an open area, accumulating those frittered away cans may now be creatively employed for a solar heater. However, you need to know that the size of the heater basically determines how much of each component you require. Here, we are providing you with step-by-step instructions on how to build a reliable, large solar heater that’s about 6 to 7 feet tall with recycled cans.

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16Nov

How to build a solar powered camera to broadcast live videos

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How to build a solar powered camera to broadcast live videos

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Have you ever given a thought what the remote surveillance scenario would be like if it is all running with renewable energy? It is indeed everyone’s dream. Many things seriously need the self-powering facility. One of those are camera both the CC and webcam versions. Installing the cameras deep inside forests or in perimeter of big ranches is a tedious task. They need to be powered with dry cell that need to be frequently replaced or they are to be connected via long wiring connections. Therefore, the idea of self-powered camera is seriously taken under consideration. The best way is to connect with solar panels to give continuous electric supply and harnessing uninterrupted wireless data support. Therefore, if you are in need of connecting your webcams wirelessly with its own solar power then you can consider the following steps:

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