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Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull

by John P.

I fell in love with the Editor’s Choice Award winning Magnepull, a tool professional installers use for fishing cables through walls, and I wanted to give it a try. Since we figured this tool would make it easy for anyone to run wires – not just professionals – Mark Z. grabbed a camera and filmed me fishing the cable through the wall so you guys could see how easy it is to do.

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How To: Search for ONLY Amazon Prime Items on Amazon.com

January 7, 2010
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I’m an Amazon Prime Member – meaning that I pay about $80 per year to get free 2nd day shipping on all my orders, no matter how big or small… as long as they are Amazon Prime eligible! As a result, I only want to search for items that are Amazon prime, but they don’t [...]

Stop Scraping Snow and Ice and Use A Windshield Cover

December 29, 2009
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Today it’s snowing in Dallas. Rare, but it happens. Even more often we get terrible ice storms. And there is nothing worse than trying to scrape ice off the windows of a car for like half an hour when its freezing outside. So guess what… You don’t have to do that! If you have a [...]

Use A Diver’s Pad in the Shower to Make Notes!

January 2, 2009

I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I’m in the shower it seems like I’m always coming up with good ideas – or at least thinking of things that I need to do. The problem is, I’ll think of five things… but by the time I’m done I can only remember two! [...]

Holy Crap! Your Tires Could Kill You!

August 27, 2008

Wow. This 20/20 report is pretty shocking. Did you know that some of the “brand new” tires you’ve been buying to put on your car may actually be several years old? And did you know that after about 6 years they are no longer safe? Well, it’s time to check the expiration dates (yep, the [...]

Change Your BlackBerry Signal Meter

May 15, 2008

If you’ve got a Blackberry and you’d like a little more specific information about your cellular signal strength than just the 4 little bars, you can actually change them to read the specific DB signal strength you are receiving. On the Home screen, hold ALT and press N, M, L, L. Repeat the above process [...]

45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog

March 29, 2008

Today I’ll be attending WordCamp Dallas, which Charles Stricklin and I jointly organized. We’ve got a whole line up of fantastic speakers including Matt Mullenweg, Jonathan Bailey, Cali Lewis, Liz Strauss, Lorelle VanFossen, Chris Smith, Aaron Brazell, Jacob Santos, and Mark Ghosh. If you’re one of the WordCamp attendees and you happen to be sitting [...]

Top 7 Digital Photo Tips from Frisco Style Magazine

March 27, 2008
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A little while back the editors at Frisco Style magazine asked me to share my Top Digital Photo Tips, and the attached scan shows the article that ran in the magazine. This article was written for absolutely newbies, so if you don’t have a lot of photography experience, this one is for you! These are [...]

Tips on Pumping Gas

December 12, 2007

I don’t normally pass along things that circulate the Inter-Tubes via e-mail, but this is pretty interesting information – if it is all true. I have no idea where it originated, but a family member sent it to me. I’d be curious if anyone could actually vet this info and prove / disprove it’s validity. [...]

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