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Cruising estate sales can be a total crapshoot - sometimes you find a goldmine, other times nothing but junk. [John Ownby] recently found a sleek-looking old blender at such a sale and decided to take it home. The chrome plated base and fluted glass immediately caught his eye, but he didn’t buy the blender so he could make mediocre frozen drinks - he wanted a lamp instead. The conversion was … [Read more...]
Even though iTunes and it's song rating system has been around for over a decade now, [Steve] still hasn't gotten around to assigning ratings to his vast library of MP3s. We can't blame him - who wants to pull up iTunes every four minutes and assign a star rating to each song individually? To solve this interface problem, [Steve] set out to design a hardware song rating interface that fell down … [Read more...]
Ever since Hack a Day first emerged on the scene in 2004, the site’s design has been pretty consistent. The black background with its green and white text, while a bit dubious looking at work, is fine by me. For others however, the site’s design is a constant eyesore both figuratively and literally. [James Litton] is one of those readers, and he wrote in to share a tip that helps him read up … [Read more...]
In case you missed them the first time around, Here are out most popular posts from the past week: In first place is a post about a DIY ski lift that [Darrin] built. Why should you let a strenuous hike back up a snowy hill ruin your day when you can ski down the hill and then ski right back up it again? Way to go [Darrin]! You are our kind of lazy! Our second-most popular post is a … [Read more...]
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