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Fixing the digitizer on a Samsung Rogue

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 18, 2010
My touch screen on my wife’s Samsung Rogue U960 recently stopped working. There were no cracks or other visible damage, but it didn’t recognize touches on the left third of the screen. Because the phone was designed to be used almost exclusively by touching the screen, this made the phone pretty much useless for anything [...]
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Jumbo Jenga: It is finished!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 21, 2010
After nearly 2 months, my jumbo Jenga set is finished! I would have finished sooner, but it kept snowing and/or being below freezing nearly every weekend for weeks. I rubbed the finished blocks with some mineral oil to protect them stains and splitting, and it had the beneficial side effect of making them look amazing! [...]
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Lock a Deadbolt without a Key

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 3, 2010
I found this fun Instructable today that shows you how to lock a deadbolt without having the key. I can think of a few situations where this could come in handy: You are at a friend’s house and they leave you home alone but forget to give you a key (or they give you the [...]
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Jumbo Jenga

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 1, 2010
My friend Joey Novak recently posted about making some giant Jenga blocks, so I thought I’d give it a shot, too. First, I needed to know what kind of wood to buy. Jenga blocks are 0.57″ x 1″ x 3″ (height x width x length). The easiest wood to get would be either 2×4 (1.5″ [...]
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