Archive for January, 2010

DIY Magnetized Coffee Sleeve Doubles as Third Hand

Finding ways or place to hold your coffee while you search through your bad or need to do something that require both your hand. With this diy, you can just stick your coffee to any lamp post or metallic object. You can easily make your own version of this by snagging reusable coffee sleeves online, or making your own. Attach a couple of strong magnets, and you are ready to use it.

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To defense your iPhone

Here are some basic and advance defense technique you can use it on your iPhone.

Basic defense

Use a password

Go to Settings>General>Passcode Lock to set your password. Remember to enable the “Erase Data” option, this will wipe out all data on your phone after 10 failed passcode attempts.

Install Anti-theft and snoop detection alarm

This software will cost you US$0.99. It worth buying this software as you do not wish to spend another few hundred bucks to buy another iPhone. This app works based on the iPhone accelerometer. Once it is armed, any movement detected by the accelerometer will be interpreted as an attempt to swipe your iPhone. Then an alarm will sound off.

Install Motion Alarm

Price at US$1.99 and is available at crowdedroad.com. This app is similar to the previous software just that it is more sensitive and if set to stealth mode option it allows the app to secretly send its GPS coordinates to a preset e-mail address.

Advance defense

Install MobileMe

Not sure about this pricing but by looking at the features it provide, it definitely going to be expensive. Once the program is install in your iPhone you can go to MobileMe site to assign a passcode remotely or set the phone to pop up a message. It is also able to estimate your handset’s location on Google Maps. If your phone is stolen you can choose to remotely wipe out all data on your iPhone. Moreover the only way to disable MobileMe features is to do a hard reset.

via digital life

Vacuum seal your iPhone

If you are working in an environment that always have to get in contact with water and dislike leaving your iPhone in a locker you can try out this method. This chef used the vacuum packer in the kitchen to seal his phone into a waterproof pouch. Watch the video to see how he do it and he even splash some water on the iPhone.

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$6 Macro Tilt Lens without glue or duct tape

This guy bought a discarded slide projector for $6 at a recycling center. He then turn the projector lens into a tilt macro lens for his dSLR.

Any lens can be adapted as long as the distance from the back of the lens to the focal point (slide, film, or whatever it is projecting from or to…) is more than the distance from the flange (where the lens attaches) to the sensor. Below is the projector the guy got from the recycling center and he is going to use the lens and convert it into a macro lens for his dslr.

Some addition material needed to build this macro lens. You will need a length of hose and a body cap for your dSLR

This is how he get the focus length correct. Something to bear in mind do not put the ruler inside the dslr.

After getting the measurement correctly the next thing is to cut a hole on the lens cap. Use a hole saw and cut the hole slightly larger than the inside diameter of your hose.

This is how it look like after fully assembled and it is now ready to be attach onto the dslr.

Another picture of it being attach to dslr and a macro shot taken with it.

via instructables

The return of Polaroid camera

In order not to let the film format die, Polaroid has confirmed that it will release a new Polaroid instant camera (PIC 1000) later this year. This is really a great news to all who are still looking for the old model Polaroid camera. This new camera is being exhibit in the CES 2010 so it should not be long before it appear in the market. Another good thing is that Polaroid has made the Pic 1000 look similar to its retro counterpart and also come in a range of colors.

via geeksugar