Archive for the Tutorials Category
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Tutorial: How to make a resistor adapter
Posted at 20:36 on October 15th 2009 in Other tech, TutorialsAnother old article that hadn't made the transfer from my old site. This tutorial shows you how to make a resistor adapter for your MP3 player, to cheaply and easily increase sound quality. A resistor adapter is simply a small adapter between an MP3 player and headphones that has a resistor on each of the sound
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Tutorial: How to mod a FiiO E3
Posted at 12:14 on October 4th 2009 in Other tech, TutorialsSomeone emailed me yesterday asking about one of my FrankenFiiO mods. Since I'm here to help (that contact link on the top isn't just a gimmick) I took the thing apart, took some pics and made a schematic on how to mod this awesome little headphone amp.
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Tutorial: How to fix a double-clicking VX Nano
Posted at 15:33 on September 11th 2009 in TutorialsThe Logitech VX Nano is a great mouse, but it has major hardware issues with regards to the left button going bad after a few months and starting double-clicking when you single click. If you're out of warranty, you can still fix this - here's how.
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How to make your own foldable iPod/iPhone stand
Posted at 11:12 on June 19th 2009 in iPhone/iPod touch, TutorialsI was reading an article over at jkOnTheRun showing a foldable iPhone stand. Old news. I made one myself ages ago, and so can you - for free.
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How to add a headphone port to a ThumbTack microphone
Posted at 10:58 on June 11th 2009 in iPhone/iPod touch, TutorialsAs I mentioned in the ThumbTack review the lack of a splitter drags down the usefulness of the mic. The obvious solution to that problem is of course to make one, so I did.
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How to make your own 8 bit music
Posted at 14:08 on May 29th 2009 in TutorialsThe Engadget podcast uses 8 bit music for their intro (different each time) and wanting more I went in search for some on Youtube etc. Eventually I stumbled across an old program that makes it for you, and it works great!
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How To Make a Tiny Interconnect
Posted at 07:58 on May 28th 2009 in TutorialsThis is an article I did at Anything But iPod showing how to make a smal interconnecting cable to go between a MP3 player and a headphone amp.
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Tutorials: How to fix audio jacks
Posted at 22:49 on May 20th 2009 in TutorialsThis is a set of old tutorials on how to fix audio jacks, moved from my other site. It includes videos and info on how to fix broken jacks. How to fix/change audio jacks I've created a few videos to show how to change an audio jack on headphones/cables etc. The first video shows how to splice a cable, and is appl
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Video tutorial: how to make an iPod LOD
Posted at 00:22 on May 15th 2009 in iPhone/iPod touch, TutorialsTutorial I did on how to make a cheap, small iPod LOD (line out dock)
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