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Zedomax is a blog based out of a garage an apartment near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA between couple of techy and web-surfer junky friends a bunch of friends and a startup company.
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iMac Hack – How to Convert your old iMac into Something Useful!
For those of you who are about to throw out your old iMacs because you either got a PC or a newer Mac, here’s a great way to turn (disguise) your old iMac into a coffee machine/subwoofer machine. I am sure this just gives you some ideas into ...
Fashion DIY – How to Make DNA Earrings!
Probably one of the most unique gifts you can make for someone else is one of these awesome DNA earrings. Of course, if you made it modeling real DNA that would be just incredible for the person on the receiving end. (Don’t forget, you ca...
Rubik’s Cube DIY – How to Make Rubik’s Cube!
Well, the other day I bought a $1 Rubik’s Cube at a local Chinese gift shop on Clement Street in San Francisco. Within minutes of playing with my new rubik’s cube, it broke into pieces. It was probably the worst Rubik’s Cube eve...
Solar DIY – How to Make a Cheap DIY Solar Water Heater!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Energy is expensive here in Brazil so I decided to save some money by making a Solar Water Heater. In Brazil water is usually heated instantly with 5000 watts o...
Windows Password Hack – How to remove Windows XP Password on your Netbook/Laptop Using a USB Flash drive
Max’s Note – Here’s an awesome free guide to using a free program to remove Windows XP password on your netbook or laptop. Last week when my friend bought a Windows XP installed netbook, he created a complex Windows login passw...
3D Design DIY – How to Get your 3D Design Printed in Real Life! [CES Preview]
Shapeways, a company that lets you print 3D images into real life physical forms. They will be over at CES 2010, so if you are going to be there, make sure to check ‘em out! While you’re in Las Vegas attending CES (January 7-10, 2010), we...
Christmas DIY – How to Make a Floating Christmas Tree!
For those of you looking for ways to make your Christmas Tree “cooler”, you might want to try making this floating Christmas Tree. Actually, the Christmas Tree is hanging from the top but still, this might be a great mod to make more ...
Twitter Hack – How to Make a Twitter-Controlled Christmas Tree!
For those of you looking for a little fun remote automation project for the holidays, here’s one, the Twitter-controlled Christmas Tree! To choose the color of our tree, just send a color to @tweet_tree on Twitter. @tweet_tree red, green, pur...
Auto DIY – How to Turn Your Car into a Snow Car!
Remember I had a blog post about the Subaru Trax Si, perhaps the fastest Snow car in the world? Well it turns out that the company Mattracks actually makes the rubber track-conversion system for 4×4 vehicles, meaning Ken Block’s car is...
Food Hack – How to Make Elderberry Syrup!
If you have some elderberries around, here’s a great way to way make elderberry syrup, which can be great for boosting your immune system with lots of antioxidants. Elderberry syrup, as it turns out, is super easy to make. The only hard part ...
Charger DIY – How to Make a Flower Vase Gadget Charger!
Here’s a guy who turned his flower vase into a USB gadget charger, I think this is a great idea and perhaps will inspire others to make their own custom chargers. By the way, it’s not too awfully hard to make your own custom chargers ...
Camera Hack – How to Make a Panoramic Camera!
F0r those of you old-skool phography hackers, you might want to consider making yourself a DIY panoramic camera for your next project. This isn’t probably the most high tech gadget out there but perhaps could be a fun photography project. A...
Solar DIY – How to Setup Your DIY Solar Panels!
With so many things happening to our world right now including global warming (it’s REAL now…) and our current consumption of earth’s limited resources, it makes complete sense to build yourself DIY solar panels so you can power y...
Droid Hack – How to Add Multi-Touch to Your Droid!
I guess the European Motorola Droid has multi-touch features while the U.S. version don’t, here’s how you can hack the Droid to enable multi-touch on your U.S. version too. Of course, you might risk bricking your Droid completely useles...
Projector DIY – How to Make a Handheld Portable Projector!
For those of you who have a really old portable TV laying around with nothing much to do other than sit around, you might want to consider making one of these DIY handheld portable projectors. This isn’t the world’s top-of-the-line pr...
Guest Post – How to Make a Live Digital Picture Frame!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Max’s Note – Here’s a great way to send live images back and forth using wireless digital photo frames, might be a good idea as a security came...
Wordpress Hacks – Hacking Wordpress 2.9!
Here’s quick two Wordpress hacks in the new Wordpress version 2.9: First hack is hacking the Simple Tags Wordpress plug-in so it works with 2.9. Apparently, the plug-in developers didn’t expect version 2.9. I am sure they will fix ...
Multi-Touch Hack – DIY Puck Device Turns Any Surface into a Multi-Touch Surface!
The next step in multi-touch surfaces? Have no surfaces at all to rely on but rather a device (in this case a puck) a person can hold and turn any surface into a multi-touch surface! That’s exactly what this Puck device does. It’s...
Photography Hack – Camera Field Array takes 4D pictures?
Here’s a rather interesting photography hack that involves putting together an unusually, large array of cameras together to take 4D pictures. Not sure what 4D really means but one thing for sure, you will have a bunch of great angles/multi...
Nook Hack – Nook Hacked as WiFi Internet Browsing Device!
Wow, check this out, someone “hacked” the Barnes & Noble nook device to run internet browser, talk about a “free” 3G device that can surf the web! I hope there’s details on how to accomplish this but from what I ca...
Wordpress DIY – How to Install Nginx to Run Wordpress!
As I promised in my last blog post about Nginx versus Lighttpd, I have written a step-by-step guide for those of you webmasters who want to be able to handle more web traffic by switching your Wordpress blog to Nginx. So far, based on 24 hour testi...
Food Hack – How to Make Tabasco Sauce!
(Photo by Zedomax.com) I’ve learned to love Tabasco hot sauce in my lifetime, I put a good chunk of it on everything I eat including burritos, sandwiches, steaks, you name it. If it’s anything that is solid, you will find me putting a...
Mic DIY – How to Make an Ambisonic Tetrahedral Microphone!
For the most professional-quality stereo/surround sound recording, I guess an ambisonic microphone may be used but costs thousands of dollars. (See Soundfield) Of course, with some hacking and soldering, you can make your own like Dan did here. T...
Photo DIY – How to Recover(Undelete) Photos on your SD Card! [MAC FREEWARE DOWNLOAD]
Exif Untrasher is a free Mac program you can use to recover deleted photos from your digital camera’s SD card (or any other memory card). Did you know that when you delete files from your hard disk or any other storage device the files actual...
Steadicam DIY – How to Make a Steadicam Camera/Camcorder Stabilizer!
Last night I couldn’t go to sleep until 3AM (hence some lack of posts today) but I was researching on how to make a camera stabilizer as I wanted to take some action shots with my new Canon EOS 7D camera. Well, luckily I found like a whole bun...
Google Hack – I am Feeling Lucky New Years Countdown!
Do you want to know how many seconds are left until the next year? Well, simply go to Google’s homepage and hit the “I am Feeling Lucky” button, you will get the New Years Countdown in seconds at the bottom of the screen. Make s...
Bike Hack – How to Make a 2-Person Unicycle!
Seriously, I don’t know how to ride a unicycle let along a 2-person unicycle. But for those of you unicyclers who are already well accomplished, you might want to learn how to make a 2-person unicycle, full instructions here. Now my question,...
LED DIY – How to Make an LED Kimono!
Kimono is the traditional dress for Japanese women. Of course, with the invent of LEDs and technology, the traditional Kimono gets a make-over, that is with 444 LEDs and the author includes schematics for you to follow her design too. The LED KIM...
Nook Hack – How to Root Barnes and Noble E-reader Nook!
Here’s how you can root Barnes and Noble E-reader Nook. It’s based on Android and the OS is stored in the SD card. To root the Nook, you simply have to extract the SD card from Nook then enable the shell. I guess this is rather simple...
Book DIY – How to Build Your Own Book Scanner!
Daniel Reetz has perfected the art of making a DIY book scanner using a regular Canon digital camera, wood, acrylic, and lots of creativity. …over three days, and for about $300, he lashed together two lights, two Canon Powershot A590 cameras...
