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Your Comments

Your Comments

And we’re back with our tenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. John Gomm did some hacking and came up with an… er, interesting adaptation of the Most useless machine: I rotated the design so it would open as a normal […]

Run Flash on your iPhone

Regardless of what you may think of either platform, it’s fun to see what others will do to get what they want. In the accompanying video Taimur Asad from Redmond Pie demos an alpha version of Frash running on an iPhone 4. If you want to try this yourself, check out this how-to.

Outlet mount device charging pocket from plastic bottle

Outlet mount device charging pocket from plastic bottle

Last summer, a commenter on my tutorial about how to make one of these from a shampoo bottle said, “instead of drilling a hole in the bottom of the bottle, you could cut off the bottom, flip the bottle upside-down and voila – hole.” Don’t know if there’s any causal link between that tutorial and/or that comment and/or this anonymous photo recently submitted to ThereIFixedIt, but in any case it does look like a better way to skin the cat. [Thanks, JP!]