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If your switching from a windows small buisness server to an apple server you may notice there is no longer  an email pop connecter like windows small business server has so installing fetchmail on an apple server may be the only way to continue downloading your pop mail from your internet mail server to your [...]

You can have a stainless steel looking backsplash for under $40. For us we just couldn’t spend more on the backsplash than we did the countertop. Stainless steel tiles were too expensive and sheet stainless steel required someone to fabricate it. By using aluminum roof flashing you can fabricate the metal yourself and save [...]

What do you do when you have a giant acrylic rod & some solar panels lying around. You have to find some use for it. You can’t just let them sit there on the shelf. What’s cooler than a 3′ glowing rod in your yard. I created the solar saber for an experiment in [...]

There are places for screened in porches and some of them can look great if done correctly, but unfortunately most modern screens don’t add any value architecturally to your old home. When my house was originally build it had wooden framed windows that could be hooked to the ceiling if you wanted to leave [...]

I have an old wooden garage door going into the basement of my house. In winter the garage gets really cold and so does the bedroom above it. I decided to insulate the door instead of replacing it because first it is a nonstandard door size and second it was cheap enough solution [...]

I was first interested in the ihome alarm clock because of it’s ability to charge the ipod and use it as a radio. After browsing ebay for one I noticed that a lot of the ihomes were being sold “as is” with the ipod function no longer working. So I bought a broken [...]

Who knew it’s so easy to make microwave popcorn on the cob. Put a cob of popping corn into a brown paper bag, fold the bag shut, place it in the microwave for 3 minutes & presto popcorn on the cob. It makes around 3 bowls of popcorn per cob and most of the [...]

If you’re looking forward to a relaxing weekend but still can’t help yourself from building something. Why not design & build a birdhouse. Take some time with a pen a paper and start trying to figure out an original design. New designs don’t come as soon as you start thinking about them. [...]

I looked and looked on the internet for a some what affordable and attractive rocker for the nursery. There is not very much out there. My wife and I first decided on the HEJKA rocking chair at Ikea though it was not meant to be.

We live 3 hours from an Ikea and [...]

I turned an old AM wooden radio into an Ipod dock using a set of old computer speakers I found at the salvation army. First I took out the electrical guts of the dead wood AM radio and saved them in case I ever want to recap and restore the radio or use the [...]