If you’re ever away from home and need to get access to your files, your computer needs to be on. If your home computer is on a wireless network, this can cause a bit of a problem. However, Instructables user hymelsr shows off how to build a system to power your computer on with off-the-shelf components. More »
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Build Your Own System to Power On Your Computer Remotely
If you’re tired of the standard doorbell sound, you can mod your wireless doorbell to play any sound you like by utilizing a $12 Radio Shack 9V recording module . More »
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Add a Custom Ringtone to Your Wireless Doorbell
If you read Lifehacker you’re probably familiar with Tim Ferriss , the best-selling author and human guinea pig who will do just about anything to make life more efficient and acheive his goals. In his new book The Four Hour Chef Ferriss shares with corporate weblog Business Insider his key to learning skills as diverse as body hacking, business development, and amassing languages with his four step system: Deconstruct, Selection, Sequencing, and Stakes. More »
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Use Tim Ferriss’ Four-Step Process to Master New Skills
If you have access to a dead computer power supply you can use the case, power switch, wiring, and power port along with a 5v lead acid battery and a landscaping lamp bulb to create a rechargeable lantern. More »
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Hack a Dead PC Power Supply Into a Rechargeable Lantern
Save some time (while wasting time) on Facebook with handy keyboard shortcuts for quickly getting around the social networking site, finding conversations, and composing messages. This Facebook Cheat Sheet offers up all the shortcuts plus a guide to emoticons. More »
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The Facebook Cheat Sheet Shows All the Keyboard Shortcuts to Use Facebook Faster
Do you have one of those universal remotes laying around that you can’t use with all your equipment? Over on the hacking blog Handya, Andy shows off how to hack a light switch so you can control it with the remote you already have sitting around. More »
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Hack a Universal Remote to Control Your Lights
We’d already heard before that in the wake of the Apple Maps iOS 6 fiasco, Google was plotting its own app for iOS to launch before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that the app is in the polishing stages, and that it will soon be submitted for approval to Apple. More »
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Report: Google Maps for iOS Is Imminent
This grainy picture was taken on October 24, 1946, almost 14 months after the end of World War II and almost 11 years before the Sputnik launch. It was taken by American military engineers and scientists, using a Nazi rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. More »
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This Is the First Picture Ever Taken From Space—and It Was Taken From a Nazi Rocket