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.
Tutorial: How to Fish Wire Through Your Walls Using a Magnepull
October 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
How To: Search for ONLY Amazon Prime Items on Amazon.com
January 7, 2010 By 7 Comments
I’m an Amazon Prime Member
So, here are two ways that I learned of which allow you to find just the Amazon prime items:
- In the search box on Amazon, simply add “amazon.com” to the end of your search. ie – “camera amazon.com”.
- Use the Firefox Greasemonkey extension with the Amazon Prime Search Improved Beta script which removes items that do not have the tag on the search results page when you are signed in as a Prime member. (Didn’t work for me for some reason.)
Hope it helps!
Stop Scraping Snow and Ice and Use A Windshield Cover
December 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
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 vehicle that you can’t park in a garage, like my big ass Nissan Titan pickup truck, you can get a Windshield Cover
If you’d rather not spring for a $10 cover (or these $6 disposable ones – Frosty Fender Disposable Windshield Cover
Use A Diver’s Pad in the Shower to Make Notes!
January 2, 2009 By 14 Comments
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!
Well, I was watching a show with some divers in it when one wrote on a notepad to communicate with another and it hit me! That is how we can make notes in the shower! So, I ordered a large underwater dive slate from Amazon
You can just use a normal pencil and eraser on the pad, which works out very nicely. I would also advise purchasing a small suction cup with a hook on it so that you can attach it to your shower wall and leave it hanging there.
So if you have this same problem, now you’ve got a solution for under $10. Enjoy! Oh, and please let me know how it works out for you if you actually buy one…
Holy Crap! Your Tires Could Kill You!
August 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 tires have dates on them) and take action to make sure your family is safe! Oh, and don’t be going for those “manager specials” either anymore. Just watch the video to learn all about it.
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Change Your BlackBerry Signal Meter
May 15, 2008 By 13 Comments
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 to switch back to the “traditional” signal meter.
I included a photo of my modified screen to show you what it looks like. Just look over in the top right corner of the screen and you’ll see the -83. That currently equates to 3 bars at my house.
By the way, the screen I’m using can be found on my Free Themes and Apps for Blackberry post.
45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog
March 29, 2008 By 79 Comments
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 in the lecture hall reading along as I stand here on stage, well… deja vu! Otherwise, for my normal readers here comes a list of 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog!
Incidentally, the actual video of this lecture is available here. It seems to now have some historical significance because of the introduction of Woopra in the last three minutes.
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Top 7 Digital Photo Tips from Frisco Style Magazine
March 27, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 the 7 most important tips to drastically improve the quality of your images. For ease of use, the following is the text from the article.
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Tips on Pumping Gas
December 12, 2007 By 24 Comments
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.
I don’t know what you guys are paying for gasoline…. but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money’s worth for every gallon.
