After becoming a fervent user of del.ici.ious, I have been coming across some pretty interesting and cool sites that other people have bookmarked. The following is one of the many things I have come across. The list below is borrowed from a Gizmodo post which you can find in its original entirety at Gizmodo. Things from the list that aren’t checked either mean that I haven’t had any interest in doing it, haven’t gotten around to it, or am simply not admitting to having done them.
1. Install a hard drive in a laptop ![]()
2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes ![]()
3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone ![]()
4. Jailbreak an iPhone ![]()
5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable ![]()
6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers ![]()
7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken) ![]()
8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual ![]()
9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode ![]()
10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor’s Wi-Fi
11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board
12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point
13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat ![]()
15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo ![]()
16. Abstain from buying extended warranties ![]()
17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories ![]()
18. Fix your parents’ computer over the phone without looking at a computer ![]()
19. Enter the Konami code
20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone
21. Type quickly using T9 texting
22. Program a universal remote ![]()
23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel
24. Hide porn from your significant other
25. Avoid DRM on everything
26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it ![]()
27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free ![]()
28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator ![]()
30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry ![]()
31. Hackintosh your PC ![]()
32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet ![]()
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
34. Get around web content filters on public computers ![]()
35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password ![]()
36. Securely erase your data so it can’t be recovered ![]()
37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network ![]()
38. Build a fighting robot ![]()
39. Write your own Firefox plugins
40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS
41. Get something on the front page of Digg
42. Get through to executive customer service ![]()
43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s
44. Rip a DVD to DivX ![]()
45. Build your own computer from parts ![]()
46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one ![]()
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it ![]()
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS
50. Talk about things that aren’t tech related


