Tools, DIY, Home, Office

Every other day I have at least one junk fax sitting on my home office fax machine. I really hate that. Seriously, I really hate junk faxes but what can you do besides just turning off the fax?

Luckily someone created the FaxFirewall! The FaxFirewall acts as a spam filter for your faxes. The FaxFirewall has a console that uses Caller ID so you can choose which faxes can get through. The device creates a database using incoming and outgoing calls and also has a timer to screen faxes during specific time periods.

This will work for screening calls and/or screening faxes.

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Now you can pretend that you are a responsible geek by having living plants! You will amaze your guests by showing that you can take care of not only electronics items but actual living plants. Of course, you do need to hide the watering system when people come over to pretend you were able to keep the plants alive all by yourself.

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325 Watts. That’s what the KitchenAid Artisan packs. Along with a 5 quart mixing bowl, you can quickly cream butter, knead dough and whip cream. The Artisan has 10 speeds and comes in 17 designer colors (we featured Tangerine). It comes with a number of attachments including a flat beater, dough hook, and the professional wire whip, and you can purchase a number of attachments from a citrus juicer, and sausage stuffer to an ice cream maker and pasta roller.

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This compact unit harnesses Ultraviolet-C light to kill 99% of airborne germs (including those that cause Influenza-A, colds, Staphylococcus infections, and Strep throat), sanitizing the air in a space up to 200′ sq. Registered with the EPA, this sanitizer uses the same UV technology as many medical centers, effectively ridding the air of germs, viruses, molds, and fungal spores, without producing harmful levels of ozone.

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The Scooba by iRobot is finally here. Don’t you love the idea of having a robot mop your floors? Forget the bucket, the ammonia smell, the dirty water, the dirty mop, the tracked-on footprints. Instead, just press the Scooba “Clean” button as you move on to do better things.With Scooba fully charged, just fill its “clean water” tank with tap water and two ounces of specially formulated cleaning concentrate. Turn it on, press “Clean” and Scooba does all the rest!

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Dangit! I just bought a really cool digital meat thermometer, with preset temperatures for different meats, tons of buttons and features I’m still learning about. (Yep, you guessed it – Thanksgiving.) Anyway, now I want to return it and get this one. Why you ask? This one’s wireless! I can stick the probe into the meat, and walk away with the reader clipped to my belt! It’ll alert me when the meat is done. No more standing around the grill ‘watching paint dry’. The Oregon Scientific Digital Wireless Thermometer has 4 doneness settings, works with different types of meat and wirelessly transmits up to 100ft away.

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This is one huge step closer to food that tastes great but won’t contribute to the fast slide towards death: Flavor Sprays! Just spray the flavor onto whatever you’re eating to add that spray’s flavor to the food. For example, let’s say you want chocolate covered something, without ruining yesterday’s hour at the gym or your latest attempt at dieting, then you could take some rice cakes and spray on the Chocolate Fudge spray or perhaps the Banana Split spray. The flavor sprays contain zero calories, zero fat, zero cholesterol, zero carbohydrates and are FDA-approved. Flavor Sprays are the creation of New York City Chef David Burke.

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If you’re a home improvement geek, you’ll love these dishwashers from GE. The coolest thing about them is that you’re able to fill the dishwasher with a whole bottle of detergent and it figures out how much it should use on each load. Of course, that’s not all. These pupies are ultra quiet, have sensors that determine how much water, and at what temperature it needs to be at to optimally clean the dishes. The top rack has angled sections so that cups don’t end up with pools of water at the end. Another water and energy saving mechanism is the Single Rack Wash, which allows you to fill up and wash only the top rack of dishes. Smart.

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How cool is this (pardon the pun)! This stovetop uses electromagnetic induction to heat only the pots and pans made of steel or iron, and nothing else. So you can ‘accidentally’ place your hands on it with adverse side-effects. Of course, be careful not to touch the hots pots and pans! Although these are more expensive than the average cooktop, it uses less energy and is easier to clean. The Kenmore model features Pan Detection, Pan Size Detection, Hold Warm, Power Boost , cooktop ‘ON’ indicator lights and Cooktop Lockout.

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