Take Back Control of Your iPhone with Free DIY Repair Kits (Save $20)

iPhones annoyingly are put together with special Apple-devised pentalobe screws instead of standard Phillips screws. If you'd like the ability to open your iPhone instead of sending it to Apple for repairs, get these free iPhone liberation kits from iFixit.

The DIY repair site is offering two free kits to everyone through July 5th. The iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5 kits include a pentalobe driver, Phillips driver, and Phillips screws so you can replace the pentalobe screws with Phillips ones and "liberate your iPhone."

Unfortunately, they've already given away the 1,776 of each set aside for free shipping. But you can still order the two free kits (one for you and one for a friend) and pay for the shipping, which looks to be about $5 for ground shipping. Not bad considering the kits usually cost around $20.

Liberation Week | iFixit

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Velis Auto Brightness Offers Total Control of Your Screen Brightness

Android: We all know that screen brightness has a huge effect on your phone's battery life, but Android's built in auto-brightness setting isn't always accurate, and doesn't offer anything in the way of customization. Velis Auto Brightness on the other hand oozes customizability, and gives you more control than you could ever need over your screen's brightness.

The app's main screen basically consists of a curved graph and two handles. Dragging the handles changes how bright your screen should be based at different levels of ambient light. If you want to save on battery life for example, you could make sure that your screen never jumps to 100% brightness, even in direct sunlight.

Digging deeper, you can create custom profiles for different situations. So for a typical day where you could plug in your phone at your desk, you might allow the screen to be brighter than when you're out on a camping trip. There are literally dozens of other minor settings to dig through if you really want to get technical, but for nothing more than the customizable profiles, this app is a no-brainer for all Android owners.

Velis Auto Brightness (Free) | Google Play via Ghacks

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HTPC Manager Gives You Complete Control Over your HTPC from Anywhere

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Wipe Out a Mistyped Terminal Command with Control + U

OS X (and Linux!): As much as we love the command line, because it can do so much more so much faster in many cases, you can make a mistake pretty easily. If you do, just wipe out everything you typed in an instant with a simple keyboard shortcut: Control+U.

When you press those keys, the entire line goes away. That is if you're at the end of the line, at least. If you move the cursor to the left, it'll only delete what's to the left and retain the text to the right. It's a simple thing, but when you make an error it saves a lot of time. If it didn't exist, you'd have to sit and press the delete key until every individual character disappeared.

6 Mac OS X Terminal Tips | Colmjude

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Multiple Rocket Control Center

As a long time Boy Scout leader I have found Instructables as a invaluable resource. So here is my first attempt at helping the community with my first instrucable. 

This idea was born out of a frustration from last year. I was a Scout Master on a National Youth Leadership Training course and I felt that it took to long to launch multiple 2 liter soda bottle water rockets. So I started to look for launchers that could launch several rockets at once but I did not find what I wanted. After searching the internet I found inspiration from several sources and designed the RPL (Rocket Propulsion Laboratory) a multiple rocket launch control center. Not only can you launch water rockets but paper and solid engine rockets as well. 

I designed it with lots of lights and switches that get the boys intrigued and relay involved. The launcher I use is located here http://www.instructables.com/id/paper-and-pop-bottle-rocket-launcher/ 

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Loader Droid Gives You Full Control Over Your Android Downloads

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