How to make your pda's speaker better 'on d cheep'

I just got this awesome little program called mundu radio. It is in its beta phase currently, and for that matter is free. The only problem is that that dinky little un-strategically placed speaker on the back of the pda makes SKY FM FREE sound positively aweful. When you set it down on a table or something, it gets muffled out, because the vibrations from the speaker have to go through the entire pda before getting to you. Here’s a little quick fix that works well for me.

1. Get a shoebox or, preferably, something smaller. I used one of those little ‘dust cover’ boxes that comes with the fourth season of ‘Little house on the prairie’ . It can actually be anything that is pretty small and has a hole on one end. Shoeboxes are good because of availability, but those dust cover thingies work better.

2. Set the dust cover box so that the opening faces out toward you, and put the pda on top with its speaker facing down.

Wow That alone should have helped the quality a lot!

Flip the box and try on the other side if it didn’t.

Thats basically it unless you need more preference.

If nothing nice happened to your sound quality at all, see if you can feel any vibrations around the pda. If you do, move onto step 3. If you don’t, Skip to step four.

3. Slide the pda away from you, but keep the box in the same place, with the opening facing you so that the pda hangs partly off the side of the box.

Doing this makes the quality higher, but the sound softer.

4. Slide the pda toward you.

Doing this makes the quality lower, but the sound louder.

5. Slide the pda to the right or to the left.

This adjusts the balance.

I like to slide the pda to the middle of the box for music, and up, further away from me for speech.

Howto: Make a :very light: Punchbag Ballon

The problem with punchbags is that when you beat the tar out of them, yet you never know when to stop because no matter how hard you sock ‘em, your fist hurts you more than it hurts them; The punchbag never ‘runs out’ or ‘loses’. You can go on for a seamless eternity just hitting that punchbag, ant it might disfigure you, but not itself. Another problem is that they cost as much as they weigh. This howto fixes the ‘disfiguration’ part. It still costs as much as it weighs. (this one is free. )

1. Get one of those long balloons that they bend into monkeys on motorcycles and white tigers and stuff and blow it up 3/4 to the top so a little bit of it is still all floppy.

2. Buy a few of the tires they use on Lego mindstorms or alternately, get one of those RC cars and take off the rubber-ish tire. These serve well for what we are trying to do.

3. Thread the rubber tires onto the floppy part of the balloon.

4. One by one, shove the tires onto the balloon so that it is lined with tires, but not wallpapered; You need to make it so that there is about a 1/3 inch of space between the tires.

5. Take the floppy part and tie it onto something overhead but outside. (e.g. a low branch, the top of the ladder from an over-ground pool)

6. You are done! After you sock it a while, it will eventually pop and all of the tires will fall off. If you can get them off without popping the balloon, two points for you!

Note: The punchbag is for one time use, as there is a high chance that it will pop at the end.

(This is due to the friction between the tires and the balloon. There is lots of friction so the tire rubs off a portion of the skin which makes it pop. The tires fly everywhere, and you have to start again.)

Ideas:

• You could fill the balloon with water as opposed to air on a hot day.
• You could fill the gap between the tires and the outside of the balloon with water to make the punchbag heavy.
• You could take away the gaps between the tires.
• You could blow it up half way.
• You could blow it up all the way.
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc.

How to pop a bubble more than once

Ok. I haven’t posted in a while so here is something small and useless that nobody will notice unless you point it out. Its still cool, though.

1. Blow a bubble, but not so big as it is to the point of bursting.

2. Suck in on an area of the bubble that is not around the wad of gum that you used to seal it with until that area pops.

3. Seal the bubble again in the part you sucked in on.

4. Do it again somewhere else.

5. O_0

6. OMYGOONES!!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT

How to read numbers in binary

 

I have always wondered how to remember the 1 s and Os in binary.

We in the modern world use a base ten system which means that we have ten seperate digits that can be used to make any number at all; 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. However binary only has two digits; 0, and 1. This is because in electronics something can be either on or off. Nothing is ever in between those two states. Also, all computers begin to count by 0. So 0 is 0000.
1 is 0001.
(Note: the zeros in front of the 1 don’t mean anything, just like they wouldn’t when humans count.)
We dont have any more digits to go on! so like our base ten system, we add a zero to the end.
2 is 0010
3 is 0011
We can’t go on anymore, so we add a zero and start again.
4 is 0100
5 is 0101
6 is 0110
7 is 0111
Add a zero.
8 is 1000
9 is 1001
We don’t need to go any further than this, since in our world, we can make any number with the digets 0-9. However, the number 12 isnt just 0001 (one) 0010 (two) because like we usually count, 1+2 does not equal 12.

(You could write it like this:

0 0

0 0

0 1

1 0

But that looks uglier and is less efficient unless you are talking about a binary clock.)

(in case you were wondering, 12 is actually 1100, as you can figure out later.) The rule of ‘tens places’ like 10 apples (The one in ten stands for ten apples, while the zero stands for no other apples.) applys with binary too, only it goes by twos.
so here is a comparison of the Base Ten system and the Binary system
…100000 10000 1000 100 10 1
… 32 16 8 4 2 1
So as another example, to show 18 in binary, write down the binary numberline above, and look for the closest number that is lower than 18.(If a number is higher than 18, put a zero under it.) It is 16. So put a one under the 16, and subtract 16 from 18 to get two:
…512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
0 0 0 0 0 1
Now take two, and keep going from where you left off. Put a zero under the number if it is bigger than two:
…512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Now we have gotten to a two, so we can put a one on it and the difference between 2 and 2 is zero, so you can just put a zero on all of the other numbers! (a.k.a. the remaining one that is dangling off the edge)

So our remaining number is 0000010010, cutting off all of the trailing zeros that don’t mean anything reads 10010. So that is 18.

To be even more efficient, you can use a hex code, which reduces these digits into much less. Raw computers cannot read hex-codes. To convert binary into a hex-code, you take our binary 18 (10010) and bring back some of the trailing zeros so that it equals a number in our binary number line (512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1) in this case, the nearest number is 8. So we add enough zeros so that there are 8 digits. making it 00010010.

Chop it up so that they are ‘nibbles’ of four digits each, and then calculate the binary digits again. Put them together and add an h on the end to represent hex. This will only work with two digit base ten numbers or more.

0001 | 0010 = 1 | 2 = 12h. So 18 is 12 hex.

Also, if you have a number higher than 10 in four binary digits, it would go alphabetically.

10 in hex is A

11 in hex is B

so on.

Notify me with a comment if you don’t get heads or tails of this.

Make Plasma Out of a Grape in a Microwave Without any Dangerous Fumes

O_o

What is plasma, anyway? I don’t know. All I do know about it is that Its the lesser-known fourth state of matter and is usually found in stars. ( 8/ ) Who cares!? its a cool experiment. The effect is sort of like a flame of fire that flies up into a ball coming up out of a cut up grape about 1/16 its size and disappears through the ventilation. Learn how:

1. Take a grape and cut it in half the fat way, but so that a tiny bit of skin is keeping the grape together.

2. Open it up and set it on a paper towel so that the previously unexposed part of the grape is touching. .This will dry the wet part of the grapes.

3. If you do this correctly, both halves of the grape should be hanging onto each other by just a hair, and the whole thing from above should look like a lil’ purple gludious maximums.

4. Turn off the turntable from your microwave.

5. Take the grapes off of the paper towel and put them in the microwave, and set them down just like they were before. DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT leave the paper towel under the grapes when you put them in. The plasma will burn the paper towel, and naturally set flame to your microwave ( Well, whats the problem with that? )

6. OK. Push the add thirty seconds button on your microwave and let the show begin!

Also, you may have seen another experiment going around that shows you how to make plasma with a match and a vase. They say that the gas with an acrid smell in this experiment is the dangerous NO2. The acrid smell in this experiment is just a soggy burnt grape and contains no NO2 whatsoever.

Nobody who has done this experiment has ever harmed their microwave.

Keep Yourself Occupied for a Very Long Time with an Empty Test-tube, a Tic-Tac, and Some Uncooked Rice

There are several instances involving a severe case of boredom which come to mind that include rice, an empty test tube, and a tic-tac. What could be more boring than sitting in an empty room with a two-bit grainy test tube sitting next to a pile of rice and an old tic-tac that has probably been on the floor for ages and is the worst flavor ever invented. What do you do? You are here precisely to find out. This could happen, you know, so you should read on to be prepared. Just in case.

1. Drop the tic-tac into the test tube.

2. Fill the rest of the test tube up with rice so that there is just an enth left empty.

3. Put the cap onto the test tube.

4. Get the tic-tac to make contact with the cap without doing anything to any of the condiments inside, or taking off the lid.

All you can do is shake and turn the test tube.

GAAA!!! I CAN’T DO IT AND I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE!!!! I MADE IT GO UP THREE LAYERS OF RICE ONCE! JUST GIVE ME ANOTHER TWO HOURS OR SO!

Post Things Up On Your Laptop If Someone Else Is Using The Inernet Computer And They Won't Get Off and there arent any wifi hotspots around.

No, you can’t browse the web without internet, but you can write a post unless you are a maniac with some kind of a surreal problem that restarts the browser every time a new page loads. But then again, that’s what maniacs do.

Edit: actually, you can skip steps 1-7 and just save your writepage before you have no itnernet.

1. Sneak under the computer, and unplug the Ethernet cable from it. If you don’t know how an Ethernet cable looks, follow this:

1a. Get behind the computer so that you can see all of the wires:

1b. Do you see any lights (e.g. green lights, orange lights)?

1c. Most socket (the ones with holes in them) Ethernet plugs in the computer now have lights on them.

1d. All Ethernet jacks(the end part that actually goes into the computer) look like phone cables, only much wider / fatter.

1e. One end goes into a modem (the little black box that gets kind of warm when you use the internet) and the other end goes into the computer.

NOW can you find the Ethernet cable?

2. Plug it into the laptop. If the person who uses the computer realizes that he / she can’t browse from website to website anymore, tell him / her that it will only be a second.

3. Open up the web browser on your laptop

4. Log into your blog through the Ethernet wired connection you got out of the computer.

5. Open up the ‘write post’ / ‘write page’ or anything else in that catagory.

6. Make sure that you are on the write page (no pun intended) , where you can actually start typing your post.

7. Unplug your internet connection Ethernet cable, and put it back into the computer you took it from.

8. Start writing your post.

9. After you are done, take the Ethernet cable from the computer again and plug it into your laptop.

10. Post up your blog entry, and plug the Ethernet cable back into the computer. You are done!

Note: This post was done almost completely offline. The only thing that was online was the picture. You can also download that specific write page so that you don’t ever have to do steps 1 through 4 again.

Five different ways to check your pulse

Way 1: The boring, regular method

Just slightly push with your finger the part of your arm just below the wrist. Feel around and you will eventually find your pulse. (This never works for me, but it must for everyone else.)

Way 2: A little more ‘pizzaz’

Put your hand on your heart. You can feel vibrations.

Way 3: Lesser known

Locate your neck. ( ) Press the tip of your forefinger into the off-center left side of it. You should feel a pulse.

Way 4: Almost totally unknown

Sit down on a hard wooden chair. Put your arm underneath your leg and push your leg down on it. Hard. You should be able to feel a soft pulse. Kinda’ like the first method.

Way 5: Just discovered recently by me

I think I discovered it, so I don’t even know if it works for anyone else. Take your left ring finger, and scratch the part above where that finger joins the other one. Now squeeze where you scratched, and you *should* feel a relatively strong pulse. This is uncanny. It works better than all of the other methods for me. (:?: )

How to modify a 5$ ripoff fan so that it works better

You may notice that in ‘How to: do a Claymation’ you need a fan. Mom decided to get one of those really cheap ‘Hawaiian Breeze’ fans that they sell at target. It looked like it was ideal for what I was trying to do. Quiet, small, and no big and bulky stand to put it up on. Hawaiian Breeze my foot! When I plugged it in inside the house, it gave no more air, much less cooling, than the wind from a dead fly flapping its wings due to reflex actions (Ok, maybe a little bit more than that, but…) . So here I was with an almost useless $5 fan that didn’t hardly work for what it was made for. I didn’t want mom to think she had wasted a fortune on me, so I hacked it. Now it actually works for what I am doing. It cooled my Claymation marvelously, and you can see the results on Youtube. Coming soon…

Note: This will only work for fans that have metal blades.

Also, please keep your fingers out of the blood circle of the fan after the safety casing is off. They installed it for a reason. I learned that the hard way.

1. Take the safety casing off of your little white elephant fan.

2. Bend (more like twist,) the blades of your fan up towards you.

3. Turn it on. Does the fan work a little better?

4. Turn it off. If it still does not satisfy you, bend it a little more or a little less.

5. Turn it on again. Keep experimenting until you are satisfied.

6. Screw the casing on very tightly again.

Are your $5 still wasted now?

How to turn your subwoofer into a kazoo

This adds a special ‘fuzzy’ effect when in action while people are talking in a movie. It is also prone to add a special ‘STOP THAT’ yelly effect if someone else is trying to embrace the plot. In short, it is a great trick that gets everyones ears to go boink and yours in the corner in just five easy steps.

1. Make sure that you have a subwoofer. It’s a big box and it has the generic ‘windows sound control icon’ speaker on the bottom. They are usually black.

2. Get a screwdriver.

3. Take the metal end of the screwdriver and VERY LIGHTLY have it touch one side of the speaker. The more to the middle, the deeper.

4. Turn on the sound.

5. There is no step five.