• Stay away from Focal Price

    15 May | 13
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    • by FozzTexx

    About a month ago I purchased an Android tablet from Focal Price, a store out of China. The tablet was listed on their web site as brand new and in stock yet for some reason it took over a week before they shipped it. When it arrived the tablet was not new, it was definitely used. There were fingerprints on the screen, the USB cable was broken, the power supply was missing, and the serial number didn't even match the package. I tried going through them to get it resolved. They told me that...

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  • Giving away a $25 Google Play gift certficate

    18 Jan | 13
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    • by FozzTexx

    I've got a $25 Google Play gift card that I'm giving away on Twitter! You can use it towards millions of books, songs, movies, apps, and more from the Google Play store. Redeem on the Web or Android devices, no credit card needed. All you need to do to enter is retweet my message and follow me . At 8pm Pacific tonight I'll pick one random winner from all those who have participated. I can either mail the gift card to the winner (and I'll probably include some vinyl...

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  • Gift wrap tags

    10 Dec | 12
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    • by FozzTexx

    I made these gift tags by filling a sheet with "From Chris" in different colors. The colors were picked at random and I staggered and repeated the "From Chris" so that it filled the entire page. I then printed the page on full page label sheets and cut out the lettering. You could cut the letters by hand but I used my vinyl cutter to do it. To keep the letters together as I removed the backing and put them onto the package I used the blue masking tape and didn't...

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  • Shooting stable video

    29 Oct | 12
    • in Misc • 
    • by FozzTexx

    In order to shoot the Halloween greeter video I needed something stable to hold the iPhone. The best way to hold a camera stable is with a tripod, but the iPhone doesn't have a built-in way to mount to a tripod, and neither does my case. I did a few searches to get ideas and saw lots of crazy contraptions using suction cups, 3D-Printed things, piles of stuff picked up from the hardware store, and other crazy things. The biggest thing they had in common was they were designed to work only...

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  • Just call me Al Bundy

    01 Sep | 12
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    • by FozzTexx

    Saturday morning I jumped in the Magnum to go to the grocery store. I started it up and went to put it into reverse and the shifter wouldn't budge. I tried a few things to free it like rocking the car and pulling harder on the shifter but I didn't want to break it. I tried pushing the secret pink release inside the cover, nothing. Fine, I'll just take the Ranger instead. But the battery in the Ranger was dead! "Of course." No problem, I can jump start it with the jump...

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