Earbuds. Fabric Heat Shrink Tubing. CustomCans.co.uk Custom Headphone Blog. Here is a quick guide to cable wrapping, It is the one thing I get asked about all the time and it is really easy to do, especially oh the HD25 straight cables If you need to know how to remove the cable click here 1) You are going to need to cover up the connectors to stop them from snagging the braided wrap 2) You can see here I have taped the lower connector to the cable 3) Chose your color.
You will need some heat shrink tubing to terminate the ends 4) Start to feed the taped up connector into the sleeving. 5) You will have to work the cable along by puckering it up and then grabbing the end through the sleeving. 6) If it starts to fatten up like this then just slide your fingers down the length of the cable and it will tighten up again. 7) When you have the same length of unwrapped cable as the distance from where the two parts of cable join the tip of the black connector it is time to cut the cable wrap 8) Snippy snipp. 9) Work the wrap down the cable until it looks like this. Sleeving Earphone / Earbud Cords with Paracord. Sleeve your earphone/earbuds with lightweight paracord so that they are less likely to come out tangled after removing them from your pocket.
This is a great mod to try if you want to enhance cheap earbuds/earphones or your cord is already broken somewhere (hopefully at the plug end, because it's usually difficult to figure out how to take apart the in-ear units if no one has already documented the procedure). DISCLAIMER Essentially, to proceed with this mod involves re-making the Y-junction where the common cord splits left and right. Having to cut and rejoin wires possibly degrades audio quality¹. It's likely that you'll notice one of the binaural output signals being noticeably weaker, especially as you lower the volume on your audio source, but this condition is common on cheap headsets to start, so this is why I do not recommend you try this on expensive gear and fail to like the results. See the last step of this ible for more notes. Make Your Headphones Tangle-Free with This Friendship-Bracelet Technique. Eight of the best indie iPad magazines - Trvl, Letter to Jane, Hoodgrown, POST. Written by Elisabeth Edvardsen Up until now it has been tricky for small or indie publishers (as we like to call them ) to produce iPad magazines.
However, easy to use content management systems, falling technology costs and the massive success of Apple uber tablet means that a few are tentatively taking the plunge. Some of the new mags come from existing companies who have a significant presence in print and online. These tend to offer slightly more interactive versions of their existing content. There are however others who have designed magazines from the ground up to make the most of the tablet PC platform. Here then are a few iPad magazines that have recently caught our eye. Hoodgrown Magazine What started as a print magazine has been reinvented as the first hip hop magazine to be released via the Apple app store. The mag also has a host of embedded audio content so you can listen to the tracks that are being written about. Trvl Letter to Jane Designcollector MAG Aside mag Technode.