Posts Tagged ‘Tips’

Make a $2 Adjustable Smartphone Car Mount

Sometime it hard to find the right smart phone car mount to fix on your car. This diy smart phone car mount is adjustable and easily completely moveable/removable without harming your car in any way.  It can also be adapted to hold any mobile device that weighs about one pound or less.

Note: Do not attempt to use this mount if it in any way impedes your ability to drive with total concentration on the road or if it’s use would be illegal in your location.

Some of the material you need:

1.  a 1/2″ PVC Tee coupling – make sure that the center opening is threaded.  The other two don’t matter.
2.  a 1/2″ PVC Street Elbow – it should have male threads at one end and female threads at the other.
3.  a 1/2″ PVC Nipple of whatever length will suit your car/height/posture.  This is basically a tube male threaded at both ends.
4. heavy duty plastic coated wire (I had “multipurpose wire” lying around, not marked but seems to be about 14-16 gauge)
5. adhesive backed craft foam – half a sheet or so should do it.

Alternately  – if you already have some kind of holster or other commercial cradle device feel free to use that instead of making your own from wire.  Or heat form thick plastic sheets/carve from wood/any other craft you have skills to utilize.  Fashion an appropriate way to attach it to the nipple tube.  Gravity is your friend.  So is friction.
Example: if you use a belt clip type holster already you may be able to just slip the clip into the nipple tube or put a small wire loop on the end of the nipple that can hold the clip.

My post here is just the summarize of the diy smartphone car mount. For complete guide you can follow the link below.

via instructables

Battery snap turn your 9V battery into flashlight

Looking for small and handy flashlight for yourself or for your kid to play with. You can consider this battery snap flashlight. Simply snap it on a 9V battery the LED light will illuminate. kids will love it and they will be handy for power outages. They are also available in black, white and yellow.

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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

Some iPhone shortcuts to help you

No video, sound only

If you want to just listen to the audio track of a selected video. You can do it by first playing the video as per normal, then pressing the Home button. This will turn off the screen and the video. After that press the Home button once and followed by a Home button double-click. Now you should be listening to the audio with the screen off. This help to save battery also.

Take screen shots

Press and hold the Sleep button while tapping the Home button. The picture will be added to your camera roll.

Cancel the ring!!!

To mute your iPhone ring immediately, press the home or volume button.

Precision zooming

Hold down your thumb on the screen and then swipe your index finger back and forth.

Hold the key

Hold down the “@123″ button and sliding your finger to the required symbol, then releasing it. The qwerty keyboard will reappear.

Press and hold down the “.com” button and you will see options like “.org”, “.edu” & “.edu” appear on the screen.

via digital life