After 4 months from signing a license agreement with O’Reilly Media, reviewing a draft and a 1 month wait for the book to arrive, I finally received my copy of The Best of Instructables Volume I which features my Instructable A Dozen Red Origami Roses. View my original Instructable View the electronic draft (736KB)

tGoogleMap v1.3.1 has been released, with 2 improvements. Fixed a problem with cross domain xml files. As reported by Erik on tGoogleMap support forum. Added improved output for when directly calling tGoogleMap.php Before Google bots would have picked it up as Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home … Now Google will see:…

I have further updated my Top 250 list with a lot of cool features. The main improvement is daily updating of ratings and votes, and the automatic insertion of any new movies that enter the top 250. http://imdbtop250.t.com/ A brief explanation on headings: Rank – the rank of the movie sorted by weighted and then…

Download transcripts from here; Pimsleur Chinese I – A Pronunciation And Character Guide Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese I notes Pimsleur Mandarin words The below is no longer active; The final transcripts for Level 1. Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese 1 Unit 27 transcript by t Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese 1 Unit 28 transcript by t Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese 1…

I recently purchased a 5 Dimension (5D) deck of playing cards from Canada for $5 (plus $5 shipping to Australia). Unlike a normal deck, the 5D deck has an extra suit, the star, plus a numeric 1 card (as opposed to an ace), a princess card and jokers, totalling 80 playing cards. The cards are…

This guide will step through the process required to repair a Motorola RAZR V3 “the phone”, including the flex cable and then replacing the housing. The flex cable can be purchased from eBay for $7 US (including shipping), and the housing can be purchased from eBay for around $16 (including shipping). The flex cable is…

I like the IMDb Top 250 list as it lets me know about movies I would normally never hear about. The problem though, is that a lot of the movies get pushed off the list by newer movies, and unfortunately you may never get to hear about them again. Hence, I present the IMDb Top…

Here’s a quick post on a tested method to unlock a Nokia 6300. Well, not quite unlock a Nokia 6300 but trick the phone into thinking your SIM is of compatible carrier. I purchased the iSIM from eBay for $10 including shipping to Australia. When searching on eBay, search for “unlock 6300” and arrange by…

Lets say you have a neat little Excel 2003 macro, when you run your macro in Excel 2007, Excel runs it in Compatibility Mode, and any benefits (such as the 16384 columns) you were hoping to use are still unavailable. So how can we enable these benefits depending on the Excel version? Simply by including…

Here’s are 5 more transcripts Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese 1 Units 22 transcript by t Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese 1 Units 23 transcript by t Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese 1 Units 24 transcript by t Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese 1 Units 25 transcript by t Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese 1 Units 26 transcript by t I have also created a…