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Do It Yourself RSS FeedsCool Collection - Collecting is a great hobby. Cool-Collection.com provides information about collecting a wide variety of items...Feed Source: Wine in laptop - is that really a good idea? -
How often do you think people (maybe you?) spill beverages onto their laptops?
Apparently more often then you think. After the ‘liquid spill’ article last year I’ve been contacted numerous amount of times by people that spilled a bit of wine on their keyboard or that had their cute little three year old pour milk over [ ]... Greylist - freeware Grey list for Exchange v1.3 -
First my apologies to all people who come back here day after day and wonder why there’s no action on Grynx. Well, try working 10 hours a day, studying for your MCSE every evening and then take care of your family as well. I’m simply not allowed into my garage any more
Hopefully this will [ ]... Another hard drive clock -
I made one of these back in December last year (link) and then I saw another interesting version from Rick.
OK, everyone has seen the dude who made an LED POV (persistence of vision) clock out of a hard drive, and we?re all very impressed (no, seriously). But not all of us have those skills. [ ]... Wireless remote control out of a Ding-Dong -
John Schuch did what I’ve been thinking about for quiet some time. To take a existing RF device and turn it into a power (AC) control.
With the addition of one capacitor, one relay, and a small piece of wire we can convert an inexpensive wireless doorbell into a remotely controlled relay useful for a wide [ ]... DIY Microscope Webcam -
Jose Luis Garrido slaughtered an old cdrom reader… and put the lens for the laser in front of his webcam.
What did he get? A DIY microscope webcam - kind of cool actually!
The page is in Spanish so I also give you the option to read it through Google’s translation engine.
Link: DIY Microscope webcam (Spanish)
Link: [ ]... RBG Mood Lamp -
Toon Beerten sent us this wonderful DIY mood lamp.
On this page i will explain how i created my own colour changing lamp with red, green and blue leds that fades between all colours of the rainbow. It really comes out well at night when other light are dimmed. In daylight conditions the colors aren’t [ ]... Greylist - a free grey list for Exchange. -
I know - I know - I know. Programs don’t really fit into Grynx’s profile - but hey - I make’ed something and now I’m sharing it with you. It might not interest you that much if you’re not an Exchange admin or have an Exchange server, but that’s just the way things are.
Greylist is [ ]... Binder clips and cables -
How about making without making??
This is such a thing which actually isn’t a project in itself - but if it will give you a tenth as much help as its given me in the past years then it’s something I just have to share with you.
In short - attach your cables in a smart way [ ]... How to build a versatile and compact 9v LED lamp -
P.O. got so excited by all the responses from the TicTac flashlight project that he sent us another of his creations.
This time it’s a LED lamp created from the scraps of an old 9v battery and three LED’s. No need to use a resistor here as he’s used three 3.5v LED’s which adds up to [ ]... TicTac flashlight -
P.O. sent us this how-to on building a very handy flashlight out of a old TicTac mint box. It consists of a empty TicTac box (duh!), three batteries (that fits perfect), a small switch, a resistor and a bright LED.
It might not take a rocket scientist to figure out how to connect it all, but [ ]... PowerPoint minimalism - If you’ve read this blog at all, you won’t be surprised that I’m not a big fan of PowerPoint. Yes, it is sometimes useful to have slides for your talk, but I hate that since the advent of PowerPoint slides have become almost mandatory.
I was happy to see this post on using images to help [ ]... 99 Things - I spotted this on Walt at Random and thought I’d do it - partly to make up for not finishing SLA’s 23 Things, and partly because I want to post something fun on this last day of work before the winter break.
THE 99 THINGS MEME
Things you?ve already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you [ ]... SLA Leadership Summit map - I usually make a Google map when I’m traveling, but I keep it unlisted so I don’t broadcast my travel plans to the world. For the SLA Leadership Summit in Savannah, I decided to make a public map and allow anyone to contribute to it. (The SLA Georgia Chapter wiki also links to a nice [ ]... Call for Posters: Inspiration and Diversity - SLA around the Globe - This is a call for poster proposals from my SLA division. It’s a great way to get some practice giving a poster presentation in a relaxed setting. The poster could be about research you’re doing, a project your library is working on, or your own ideas.
The Social Science Division, Museum, Arts, & Humanities Division, and [ ]... DIY library tech - Over at Information Wants to be Free, Meredith Farkas makes a case for the benefits of every librarian acquiring some basic tech skills. With a small amount of tech savvy and a “willingness to mess around with it and break it a few times,” she says, libraries of any size and budget can take advantage [ ]... What makes a library a library? - On the latest episode of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Therapy, Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast discuss the future of library buildings. They begin the discussion talking about Goucher College’s new library building, which will include a restaurant, art gallery, and treadmills. They talk about the library as a social place, the academic symbolism [ ]... Libraries have the answers on digital publishing - Researchers have lots of questions about new publishing models, writes Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education. (A subscription is required for access to the article. The article is now available for free.)
Where can researchers find a guide to lead them through this 21st-century obstacle course?
The library, of course.
I’ve always been our local copyright [ ]... What were you doing in 2001? - To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Google has made its 2001 search index available. [via E-Tech]
In 2001, I started my current job, which resulted my my first real web presence, courtesy of a profile page in our staff directory. (I tried to see what my profile looked like in 2001, but it isn’t accessible via the [ ]... SLA 23 Things: Library 2.0 - There’s been so much back-and-forth about Library 2.0 (whatever that is) that I find myself hesitant to write about it. To get myself started, I took a look at the Wikipedia entry for Library 2.0 and tried to apply it to my own library - which, admittedly, is a very specialized library, so my reactions [ ]... Stats and the small library - Adam Holland, writing in Library Journal (The Stat Factor, Aug. 15, 2008), wonders if “there is any alternative that would allow librarians to care a little less about statistics while still providing high-quality services in a fiscally responsible manner?”
I work in a very quantitative field (demography) and make annual reports to a federal funding agency. [ ]... Copyright © 2009, Cool Collection. All Rights Reserved. |