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Archive 2007

Half-Life 2 - City Scanner Mod

Projects · Author Говедо · December 21, 2007 · 21264 reads · ★★★★☆ (20 votes)

Ideas. How do you get yours? Mine come mostly uninvited. I'm walking peacefully and all of the sudden – wham! Idea. Very annoying. Sometimes I can cast them away, sometimes I fail to, thus i spend my days and nights giving life to them. Not that i'm to lazy to think, it's just that some of them are wicked. And not…

Design your own remote control

Tutorials · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · November 26, 2007 · 2133 reads

With this guide I'll show you how to make ne design for your remote control, be it for a tv, DVD, stereo, air conditioner or anything else... After long and uneven fight my remote fell victim of gravity. Its Spirit* was healthy, but its body was shattered despite of the care i took for it. A lazy man's choice would be…

Design your own remote control

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a Говедо · November 26, 2007 · 20084 reads · ★★★★★ (10 votes)

With this guide I'll show you how to make ne design for your remote control, be it for a tv, DVD, stereo, air conditioner or anything else... After long and uneven fight my remote fell victim of gravity. Its Spirit* was healthy, but its body was shattered despite of the care i took for it. A lazy man's choice would be…

DIY Waterchill Asetek LCD

Visual Mods · Author Stuyo · November 5, 2007 · 21964 reads · ★★★★☆ (8 votes)

Little more than a year ago Asetek water cooling pumps appeared on the PC market in Bulgaria. As you may have noticed, they have the optinal LCD connector. In this guide I will show how you can make one yourself. The price of such an LCD is 40 Euro, while my solution cost only a foutrth of this price and also can be…

How to make a spiral SATA cable

Visual Mods · Author sineoc · November 3, 2007 · 37549 reads · ★★★★★ (16 votes)

Although SATA cables moved case tidiness light years ahead compared to the IDE ATA cables, there is always room for more improvement. In this "How to" you will see how without any special tools or skills you can take care of all that wiring in your case... This is my answer for the long SATA cable... What you need: 1.…

Laise N99 Dual SIM phone review

Mobile Devices · Author mittko · October 29, 2007 · 14891 reads · ★★★★☆ (19 votes)

Recently on our market are becoming available the so called Dual SIM phones. They offer two SIM card slots working independently, thus giving you a phone capable of using two mobile operators. Very often people ask me if such choice is wise. After i bought the latest Laise model - N99 Dual SIM for about 400 leva…

Sprucing up a flash drive

Visual Mods · Author D_Ave · October 29, 2007 · 13405 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

This is a thing i meant to do for quite awhile now, but was unable because i couldn't find appropriate casing :) As it turns out other people have already thought about this , but it matters not. I've never seen such a mod at any Bulgarian forum or website. Ever try PEZ? I haven't - until yesterday, but once I tasted…

Moding a boar oh how i made use of another election day

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a. Говедо · October 28, 2007 · 11848 reads · ★★★☆☆ (5 votes)

Instead of introduction . Introduction like it's supposed to be. Old jokes are to blame. Do you know this? A pig walks into a men's house and sees a wall-plug* and starts to squeal - Bloody basta*** they had walled in Jimmy! * Well at least our wall-plugs resembe a pig snout. Actially Gruio is ideological brothet of…

Cellphone holder out of CD

Visual Mods · Author DeMoN · September 25, 2007 · 19242 reads · ★★★☆☆ (12 votes)

Hello folks, today I'll show you how to make a cellphone holder out of CD. What you need: CD Scissors Ruler (I used a floppy disk) Candle Put together on a picture it looks like this: (click on the photos for larger ones) We start by drawing the lines by which we will cut: And then we cut: We check our pockets for a…

Facelift for an UPS or "Well it's white"

Visual Mods · Author Данчо Николов a.k.a Говедо · July 17, 2007 · 8027 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

Click! Bzzzzzz! Beep, beep, beeep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeep! Click! -Dog gonit! That dear radiolisteners was an 350VA UPS powering 19" CRT monitor and computer during power failure. And in just a moment you can enjoy the new radio drama series "Death of Mary - Queen of Scots". All that mean only that i need a new one. So i…