iPhones are
scratch-resistant, but life throws some tough stuff at our phones.
One MacRumors user, owning a phone that looks pretty beat,
demonstrates the full process of restoring his phone with sandpaper
and a new LCD kit.
The poster makes a point of noting that on most phones, you'll only want to use a rougher sandpaper to try and remove 90 percent of the scratches, not get to a completely clean and polished look—with the scratch-resistant coating completely removed—as shown at the full post. For those looking to completely refinish their phone, there's a very informative post on the techniq...
I just got the new iPhone and made
sugru corners to protect the corners and glass I love my new bouncy
iPhone !!!! Step 1: get ready To get started, make sure your hands
and your phone are clean If you don't have any sugru, you can buy
it from www.sugru.c...
iPhone only: Anyone with a smartphone has been there: You're browsing on your computer but want to transfer a bit of info to your phone. You could email it to yourself, or you could try Pastefire, a clever desktop-to-iPhone sharing tool.
Once you've downloaded it to your desktop, head to the Copy Zone, enter in any bit of text along with a username and password (doing this once will create an account for you—the site's a little annoyingly unclear about registration, but this is the process). Then open up Pastefire on your iPhone or iPod touch and enter in the same username/password. Next time you paste something into...
It's tough to completely screw up painting a room—dump the paint on the floor maybe?—but painting a room really well isn't that easy, either. Home blog Re-Nest's guide to painting a room efficiently offers a few expert tips.
Re-Nest's guide to room-painting guide covers everything from making sure to remember to remove all the fixture and switch covers before getting into painting to the importance of edging in the areas your going to paint for nice even color and clean edges. If you've helped paint a room before but never done the cutting in part, it's worth a read:
Cutting In: This is the ...