Removing candle wax with an iron

If you have ever spilled hot wax on fabric or carpet you may have thought it would be impossible to remove. Well I have a little tip to pass on that helped me out of a jam when I spilled hot wax all over a table cloth. Pre heat an iron on medium heat, then take a damp (not soaked) wash cloth and place it over the area. Once your iron has warmed up begin ironing the wash cloth while it is positioned over the affected area. This will cause the wax to heat up and the moisture will attract the wax to the cloth, and away from the affected area.

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Backup/Edit your cell phone data

The goal of this article is to enlighten you to the concept of backing up/modifying data from your mobile phone (e.g. Contacts, Picture(s), Video(s), etc). Using a free open source tool called bitpim and a data cable you can easily download and edit your mobile phones contents.

If you have ever had the joy of switching cell phones only to find that all your contacts will now have to be added to the new phone by hand then this article is for you. Bitpim allows you to easily update, add and delete contacts from your phone book using your computer. Compare that to using the keypad of your phone to update you 1000 contacts in your new Motorola Razor phone. You can also save your phonebook and anything else you fancy to your hard drive and then upload it to a different phone. This is extremely useful if you have developed a nice list of contacts in outlook and want to quickly transfer them to your mobile phone. Also an additional feature to Bitpim is it’s ability to add calendar events to your phone using a computer.

What you will need

1. Your Mobile Phone
2. A data cable (Can be purchased at most cellular providers retail outlets) or visit http://www.cellularfactory.com
3. Bitpim free for download here

First things first check if your phone is supported by Bitpim you can do so by reading the supported phones list here.

Then you just connect your mobile phone to your computer, launch Bitpim, select your phone from the drop down menu in the software’s interface and browse through the data. I wont go into details explaining how to use Bitpim they have already done the work for me here http://www.bitpim.org .

How to build a magstripe reader from scratch

By: Redbird redbird@2600.com

This article will cover making a simple robust single track magstripe reader from scratch.
The following was inspired by author Redbird in 2600 volume 22:1. This magstripe reader will be designed to plug into your microphone port on any sound card of your choice.

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