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75How To Install A Deep Fringe TV Antenna, Part One Of Two
Okay, Mom; I know the correct form would be to get the antenna up into the air. Sheesh. Ever notice that? My mother, a former English teacher, left this planet in 2002 at the age of 89. She's been gone nearly seven years, yet whenever I write...
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80Beginner's Guide and Product Review : SiriusXM Satellite Radio
There are other articles on SiriusXM satellite radio out there, both beginner's guides and product reviews. However, most of them appear to be produced by and for those who sell the radios or at least directly link to websites that do. With that in...
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76Product Review : The Canon PowerShot SX230 HS Digital Camera
One thing is clear: My two year old Vivitar ViviCam 8025 is no Canon PowerShot SX230 HS. True, they're both digital cameras, but that's where the similarities end. The Vivitar was purchased in late 2009 from Sears for something like $120. That...
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67How to Use Leverage to Shift Weight Easily and Quickly
Knowing how to lift properly and/or to shift weights you shouldn't be lifting at all means being a student of leverage. As Archimedes put it, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." ...
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69How Not to Upload a Video to the Internet
I decided to record The Ballad of Jose Guerena on my little Panasonic VDR-D300 palmcorder and upload the video to YouTube. The "how not to" part really never crossed my mind, Internet or no Internet. After...
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71How to Clear Heavy Machinery from a Caved-In Shipping Pallet Without Power Equipment
Technology is relative. To a cave man, the stone axe was state of the art. During the nineteenth century, heavy machinery became king. Today, it's the digital age. Tomorrow, like as not, we may well find ourselves back to sharpening the stone axe....
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62Learning Basic Photo Editing for Political Purposes : Phase 2 : Picnik
My first foray into basic photo editing for political purposes involved a little photo capture and editing program called Snagit. However, my advice to one and all regarding that program: Snagit? BAG IT! While I did sucessfully add dialogue...
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71Never Mind Getting Punk'd ; You've Been Spoofed
Ashton Kutcher, simply becaused he thinks telling people they'd been Punk'd is actually amusing, is not my cup of tea. Practical jokers and hidden camera perverts of all denominations do, in fact, rank high on my Wanna Smack 'Em list. Those who...
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71System Restore : One of the Finest Microsoft Upgrades Ever
Long before Windows 7 (with System Restore capacity) came along, Microsoft had come in for its share of insults. For more than two decades now, it's been call the tech, call the tech, curse, curse, curse, replace the computer. Until last October....
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65How to Find the Model Number on a Briggs and Stratton Engine
We moved down here to New Moon Ranch in the spring of twenty-oh-nine The seller bought us a Troy-Bilt gennie that did the job just fine Five thousand watts of super-juice to pump water from the well As well as power the microwave from dawn...
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