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http://lifehacker.com/5469038/bypass-heavy+handed-web-filters-with-your-own-proxy-server If your workplace or school's extra-restrictive internet filter has you pulling your hair out during the occasional browsing break, there's hope!

Bypass Heavy-Handed Web Filters with Your Own Proxy Server

How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone

What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theater? http://lifehacker.com/5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone

How to Tether Your Android Phone - Android - Lifehacker

There are three ways to tether your Android handset and get sweet internet love even where there's no Wi-Fi in sight: the risky-but-free rooting method, the still-geeky-but-not-as-bad free route, and the $30 easy way. Here are the pros and cons of each. Method 1: Tether Android with Apps that Need Root (Free, heavy configuration) http://lifehacker.com/5447347/how-to-tether-your-android-phone
It won't necessarily increase productivity, but if what you're doing isn't that pressing, passively watching a movie while you work can be relaxing. http://lifehacker.com/5549671/set-a-video-as-your-wallpaper-with-vlc

Set a Video as Your Wallpaper with VLC

http://lifehacker.com/5511473/start-to-finish-guide-to-whipping-your-musics-metadata-into-shape

Start to Finish Guide to Whipping Your Music's Metadata into Sha

Most of us have spent years building up our digital music libraries, along with tons of missing, mismatched, and incorrect tags on your music over that time. Here's a step-by-step guide for organizing your entire library, once and for all.

Turn Your XBMC Media Center into a Video Game Console - Xbmc - L

We love XBMC media centers for watching movies and TV, but if you like video games, they can do so much more. http://lifehacker.com/5523672/turn-your-xbmc-media-center-into-a-video-game-console

Creamy Memories

Posted on July 25, 2009 by 200702 Don’t these popsicles look yummy? However, I suggest you’d better not taste them, because they’re actually portable storage devices from Korea. http://www.inewidea.com/2009/07/25/8495.html
http://hacknmod.com/hack/make-a-sd-reader-from-a-floppy-drive/ SD cards are very popular for this purpose, because they only need a few pins (using SPI mode), and can be driven with simple “bit-bashed” SPI serial communications protocol, using free device drivers readily available on the Internet. Until now, the big holdup for using an SD card in many homebrew projects has been the fact that SD sockets are not available at your local store, are not cheap (especially after shipping), and require ordering and waiting for them to arrive.

Make a SD reader from a Floppy Drive

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100 Amazing Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real | Webde

Concept designers are also referred to as “visual futurists” . http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/100-amazing-futuristic-design-concepts-w-wish-were-real/
Obsessable launched in October of 2008 on an early version of our publishing platform. http://www.obsessable.com/feature/ditch-your-cable-box-setting-up-a-laptop-as-a-media-server/

Ditch your cable box: Setting up a laptop as a media server

How To Crank up a Nerf dart blaster to 500 rounds per minute and add a round counter We made a NERF chaingun fire about as fast as a 7.62mm M60 Machine gun .

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Work on Two Computers? Set Up An SSH Server to Make Things Easie

Dual Monitors as A Window to Increased Productivity How to Get What You Want Without Even Asking