 Have you ever had to leave your car at the airport for a long period of time? Sometimes if you’re leaving the country, you may have to leave it there for weeks! Here are a few tips on how to protect your car when traveling.
- Never leave anything of value in your car. Airport parking lots are like thief magnets. If somebody walks by and sees an iPhone sitting on the seat, they may do a smash and grab where they just smash your window open, take the wanted object, and run. If you must leave something in your car, make sure it’s in the trunk or a locked compartment.
- Try to find a good lot to park it in. Some airports will have their own parking lots with security. However if you don’t want to park it there, or if they just don’t have one, you can probably find paid parking structures around the area. When choosing one of these structures, make sure it has good security and keep your eyes out for glass on the ground. A lot of glass could mean that its a target for Smash and Grabs.
- Remove your starter fuse. If you look in your car’s manual, it should have a diagram on where your fuse box is and which fuse is for the ignition. If you take that fuse out when leaving your car, it will not start- even if it’s hot wired. (Just don’t loose it!)
Keep safety in mind, and have a safe vacation!
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Posted by: java in Other, tags: Food, Health, UPT
 Its a boring day in the summer. There is almost nothing to do, all you want to do is munch on food. Maybe your not bored, your just starving. Well, this isn’t a post for recipes or making meals- ill save those for later. With the help of our members on the forums, we have compiled the ultimate list of Snack ideas- some healthy, and some not-so-healthy.
Here they are:
- Cheese and crackers
- Grapes
- Chips and salsa
- 3 Minute Garlic Bread
- Spoonful of Peanut Butter
- Any Fruit
- Gummies / Fruit Snacks
- Peanut Butter Crackers
- Cup Noodles
- Salsa Butter Sandwich (Salsa, peanut butter, and crunched tortilla chips on toasted bread)
- Ramen Noodles (Raw or cooked)
- Toast (with butter or peanut butter)
- Peanut Butter on Graham Crackers
- Hot Pockets
- DIY Pizza (Pizza bread, Pizza wraps)
- Peanut Butter and Fluff
- Pirates Booty (Snack puffs)
- Cucumbers and Peanut Butter
- Apples and Caramel
- Triscuits
- Ritz Cracker with Salsa & Cheese
- Pringles with American Cheese
- Doritos with Melted, Shredded Cheese
Have any more ideas? Share them in the comments! Visit the original UPT: Snack Ideas thread.
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 This is nothing new but perhaps one of the things majority of people do not know, or at least I didn’t. On the right ear bud cable of the iPhone headphone, there is a small plastic piece, many of you know this is a microphone so you can talk on the phone with your headphones.
But, did you know that is also a button to control the built in iPod? If you push it once it will either pause or play, and if you push it twice it will skip to the next track.
So to sum it up your iPhone’s headphones will:
- Produce sound (Duh!)
- Record sound
- Act as a remote to the iPod
- Answer/End Calls
Enjoy!
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 Wooh! After all that work, we have ourselves an incredibly modded Credit Card! We have no time to waste, so onto Part 2 of the Credit Card Modification!
The Reaction
The goal here, is to take note of the person I hand the card to. I mean, whats the point of performing this mod if no one will accept your card for transactions?
Well- I would first like to say, out of all my uses of the card so far, not one use of it has been rejected (for the record its been ~10 25+ times so far). In general terms, be sure to expect some reactions. One employee I handed my card to for a purchase looked at me and asked me what kind of card it was. I told them “Just swipe it”, and they did; and it worked. There isn’t much to it!
Anything you would like to say about this 2 Part Modification? Tell us in the comments below or on the Forums. We would love to hear from you! If you peform this mod, maybe you want to take some pictures and post them on the Forums too!
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 Most credit cards contain boring designs. They are plain, simplistic designs, made for the hip-granny of 1980. What so special about some out-dated, overused design? Nothing! That’s why were Ninjas and your not! Well, aside from that fact, today your going to learn the secret ninja tradition of Credit Card Modding! This is a two part tutorial, so here is what we will cover!
- The Purpose / Objective
- What You Will Need
- The Steps to Perform the Modification
- The Reaction
Lets start off with…
The Purpose / Objective
- Our goal of doing this is to have totally unique, customized, credit card. Front and back! It might not be the easiest task to accomplish, but were going to do it! Out with those lame designs and in with an awesome one!
What You Will Need
All of the items listed are SPECIFIC. Do not try to cheap-shot by purchasing lower quality items. If you cant find these items mentioned, buy them off the internet. Any substitutions will result in a crappy mod.
- A Credit Card to Mod
- 3M Spray Mount (or Elmer’s Craft Bond)
- X-Acto Knife (or equivalent ULTRA SHARP Razor blade)
- Printworks Premium T-Shirt Transfer Paper **ONLY THIS KIND! Make sure its PREMIUM!
- Color printer (to print your design)
- Adobe Photoshop or GIMP
- Iron
- Knitting Needle (Optional)
- The Credit Card Modification Template (.psd) *Download*
The Steps
Now that you hopefully have everything you need, lets get modding!
- Open up Photoshop (or GIMP) and open the PSD template file you downloaded above.
- Go scavenge the internet, and find a high quality (at minimum 300 dpi) image to use for your credit card design. Paste in your image and make sure its centered; your really going to need to know how to use Photoshop for this mod.
- Now that you’ve got your design ready, print it out once on plain paper (just to make sure it looks right). Once your done with that, print it out on your Premium T-Shirt Transfer Paper. (Be sure your paper is inserted into your Printer tray the proper way! Also be sure when you print, it is printing the image at “Actual Size” and not “Fit to Page”! (Wait ~30 minutes for image to dry!) [View Picture]
- Cut the design out of the paper. (Leave extra on the edges. The more extra, the easier it will be to remove later.) (At this time, you should plug in your iron, and turn it on the LOW setting. Mine was just a little higher than ‘Synthetic’.) [View Picture]
- Spray your card with Spray Mount. Lets see, at about 13,000 ft in elevation, taking into account air pressure, I sprayed in a gentle (left/right; swipe) motion for about 5 seconds. (In English, don’t put TOO much on. Just make sure the card is covered!)
- Carefully peel the back of the Transfer paper off. Then, place the image you just peeled off, onto your card as precisely as possible! Be sure you don’t make any air-bubbles! [View Picture]
- Get your card (without touching the image you just placed on it), and place it on a somewhat hard surface (I used wood. It is recommended NOT to use an Ironing board!) Place a sheet of Ironing paper (I think its more like parchment paper– Its included with the T-Shirt Transfers) on top of your credit card. Take your iron and gently ‘cruise’ it around the card- no more than 30 seconds!
- Almost done… Just wait about 5 minutes for your card to cool off. After that, flip your card over and take your X-Acto knife and carefully slice away the excess. Try not to put much tension on the iron-on.
- Lastly, if your credit card has any kind of embossed letters or numbers, take the knitting needle and carefully push the iron-on paper into the crevices. [View Final Picture]
*Repeat the same process with the back of your card. Be sure to cover the magnetic strip of your card with masking tape, this way, when you spray the card with the Spray Mount, you wont damage your card! [View Picture] After you iron on your design, wait ~5 minutes then take the X-Acto and a ruler and slice away the area near your magnetic strip (then peel away the Masking tape). [View Picture]
Now.. were done with Part 1 of this awesome credit card modification! Part 2 is coming up next!
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Posted by: java in Other, tags: Site Sunday
 The weather is a hard thing for any average human to predict, unless of-course you have some super-natural powers (we wont get into that). DryDay is the ultimate weather planner to help you decide when you should take that vacation to stay, dry! From what I would guess, most people who go on vacation are looking for those clear blue sky days, and not rain.
DryDay also has an 85% long-term weather accuracy, so their predictions are most often right. Unless of course, you just found out about this site, and now are going “Darn, I really hope they are wrong! Im going on vacation nextweek, and all I see is rain!”
After all of this though, don’t panic, or rely completely on this website. I mean, come on, is there ever a day in the summer that thunderstorms aren’t predicted?
DryDay.com - Because Weather.com Can’t Predict This Far!
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