Speaker wire is expensive if you buy it at retail, cheap if you just use a spool of electrical cable, but always, always an eyesore. Sure, you can pull it through the drywall, hide it behind some curtains — or you can just go wireless. That’s the option Cue Acoustics will enable with its PS1 bookshelf speakers, shipping this August. They’re a high-end pair, each internally amplified and offering a 5-inch downward-firing woofer, 3.5-inch mid, and .75-inch tweeter, covering all the acoustic hotspots with fanfare. More important, though, is that each speaker can run with only one cable: power. Full details after the break.

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They are thought of as family. Being loved by almost all members of the family, pets are often photographed by them. However, pets may not be supportive in getting their pictures clicked. When you wish to photograph your pet, you should have a lot of patience and photo film before starting the job. Any type of camera can be used for photographing your pet, and this is the best part of the job.

High end cameras are not really that necessary. The latest cameras help in providing pictures with great quality. Enlarged photos need to be sharp so as to prevent pixel spreading and a better look.A 35 mm camera will help you get exactly that. Wait for the pet to come into the focusing area while having the image pre-focused is the best alternative for you. Visit our website pet portrait painting for information on paintings.

A spool of thread thrown on the floor could attract your cat. When you use a spool of thread, focus on it and shoot a lot of pictures when the cat comes and plays with it Pet dogs can cause trouble when it comes to taking picture, but you can distract them with the help of some noise. When a dog is attracted to noise, you may get completely different reactions and you could capture it with your camera. Again, try pre-focusing.

While shooting outdoors, you could make use of balls and bones to get dramatic pictures of your dog in action. Your children and pets could give you some amazing natural pictures while playing with each other.

You can add impact to your pet shots if you remember these tips. Try to click a child and pet’s interactive photo from a low level. On bent knees you will be able to keep the camera on the child’s level. Let the animal fill the frame by going closer to it. Just like people, pets have distinct facial expressions that only a close up can capture. You’ll get a great understanding of paintings when you browse oil painting on canvas.

And when trying to shoot birds in a cage, you need to do a tight close to make the bars disappear. While clicking the fish in an aquarium, the same technique has to be followed. Take lots of good shots. If you wish to get great pet shots, you will need to be patient.

When your pet wants to cooperate with the pictures, do not take much time and take as many shots as possible. Professional photographers suggest taking large number of pictures of your pets to get a number of good pictures possible. To capture more moments of your pet, click more number of pictures. That is particularly true when taking photos of hard-to-click pets.

The 3M CD scratch remover is an amazing product for anyone who has compact discs. I have an extremely large number of burned & unburned compact discs, DVDs, and games for various consoles and through normal use they often get scratched and sometimes skip.

At this point the only options left are either to change the CD or to restore or resurface them. Of the CD scratch removal products available I find that the 3M scratch remover does the job well and costs a small fraction of the price of a new Xbox 360 or PS3 game.

I have used the product many times and it works perfectly to restore the disc to its original operating condition. Movies play like new after using the product and music quality considerably improves also. Burned discs sometimes get scratched on the spool and often corrupt media; I find that this product could be used in a prophylactic manner to make sure appropriate storage of your data.

The 3M scratch remover is an effective product to have if you’re serious about protecting your collection and saving money in the long term, as a CD restoration service will cost almost as much as a new CD and often uses the 3m scratch remover anyway.

Therefore in my opinion it would be better to save money and instead of going through a middleman or paying of pocket for a new CD, DVD or game for your console. It is just good fiscal sense to use the scratch remover instead of the other options.

I cannot recommend this product enough to anyone who owns any sort of disc based media as it goes a long way in keeping your disks in working condition both now and into the days to come, ensuring that your music, movies and back up discs will last to some extent you need them.

By Chris Scott Barr

I like keeping my office looking good, and thus I tend to purchase items that will compliment the ones I already have. One thing I don’t usually put too much thought into is my network cables (or any other cables for that matter). I have a nice spool of blue Cat5e that suits me just fine, and I make new cables as needed. After all, it’s not like anyone should be seeing my cables, so who cares? Well if you’re someone that cares, and has an insatiable need for all things pink, then I think I’ve found something right up your alley.

Cables Unlimited has released a line of cabling that is aimed at pink-loving geeks everywhere. You can choose from networking, HDMI, 3.5mm audio, USB and AC power cables. Each are colored pink and feature a number of crystals embedded in them. I can’t say I know anyone that would go so far as to buy pink cables, but at least those that do can be comforted knowing they are supporting a good cause. 10% of the proceeds go toward the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Cables range in price from $9.99 to $24.99.

[ Cables Unlimited ] VIA [ BoingBoing ]

The common wall socket is, despite what you may think, a very well-engineered piece of work. There’s no way to put plugs in wrong, there are no moving parts, it’s difficult to electrocute yourself, and they put through plenty of juice as well as grounding your device. Ain’t nothing wrong with that, but people seem set on fixing it anyway. The pull-out looked good, but the Node was a disaster waiting to happen.

This “Rambler” modification adds a length of extension cord to a removable wall outlet, but I’m skeptical of its compatibility with existing wiring spaces. That big spool of heavy gauge cord must take up about the space of a pop can. Also, those little clips that hold the plug in look breakable, and the spooling will probably end up uneven and weird after a few ins and outs.

Still, perhaps an industrial application is more suitable. If one doesn’t have to take children, pet rabbits, and thin walls into account, it might be a really handy addition to a workshop.

[via Dvice and Freshome]

Unless your gloves are made of human flesh, in which case oh my god, then you probably have to take them off when you need to make a call or launch an app on your fancy iPhone or myTouch. I tend to use my nose when it’s too cold to take off my gloves, but only when no one’s around. I suppose I could just sew in a couple strands of conductive thread, as described in this little project, but then… oh, wait. There’s no downside at all.

Really, it’s as simple as picking up a spool of conductive thread, sewing a few loops, and tying it off. Do you think you can handle that? Now, conductive thread is pretty coarse, so you shouldn’t try this on your fine kid leather gloves, but any pair of cheap wool or cotton gloves should hold up just fine to a bit of poking.

[via Lifehacker]