Cheap Wireless Alternative for the Xbox 360 (Or Other )

The Wireless accessory for the Xbox 360 costs somewhere around $100. That's a lot of money (to me anyways). I found a tutorial that shows you how to convert a wireless router into a wireless bridge. Essentially, you'll buy a cheap wireless router and flash it with 3rd party firmware to make it act like a wireless bridge (which cost a good bit more).

I'd suggest sticking with wireless G if you plan on streaming media to your 360 via your PC. If you only plan on gaming, than B might be sufficient enough. Also, it's always a good tip to stick with the same brand as your other wireless router, although I'd guess you'll not run into any problems either way.

Oh, this can be used to connect other devices wirelessly to your network, not just the 360, just in case that wasn't obvious.

Link to article

32 AA Batteries For Only $4-5!

6 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Amazed! - video powered by Metacafe

More Tips on saving money on batteries. I was completely amazed when I saw this! Incredible.

Not as impressive, but still awesome:
8 watch batteries from a 12 volt battery.



12 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Surprised... - video powered by Metacafe

And, there are 6 AAA batteries in a 9 volt battery. No video for that though

I saw these posted on lifehacker, an excellent website. :)

EDIT: just a note of realization that the first video with the AAs could quite possiblt and probably be a joke. a somewhat off sense of humor. :)

Money Saving Tip: Save Money on Printer Ink

Change your setting on your printer so it prints FastDraft and black&white by default. For most of the printing i do, FastDraft is plenty good enough and saves A LOT of ink. Also, unless you tell your printer otherwise, it's probably always using your color ink, even if it's printing black; it just mixes up all of the colors to make black!

Here's how to change those setting:

Start | Control Panel | Printers and Faxes | Right click on your printer and choose Properties | General tab | Printing Preferences | Paper/Quality tab: Choose FastDraft under Print quality | Color tab: Check Print in grayscale - Black print catridge only under Color options

thats it! enjoy!

$200+ Mont Blanc Pen For ~$15

Mont Blancs are the worlds most awesome writing instruments, at a price point that is way out of reach for the average consumer. With this quick and simple tip, you can have the writing power of a Mont Blanc at the fraction of the cost.

All you have to do is buy a G2 and get a Mont Blanc Refill to go in it. The refill has to be cut to fit, but you save hundreds of dollars!

Jump over to Instructables for the details.

Wear Contacts? Here's a Money Saving Tip

World's Biggest Ripoff Exposed! - video powered by Metacafe

It's amazing to see how much they mark stuff up.
The only problem I see with this is keeping the small bottle sterile over the course of refilling it over and over again.