Post Tagged with: "Lighting"

Manage Electricity Costs During the Holidays

Manage Electricity Costs During the Holidays

The same holds true with electricity, which are a bit like icebergs: it’s what you DON’T see that can kill you. Most people have no idea exactly how much electricity they use, even when the monthly bill comes.

Intensafire Xbox 360 Controller Mod

Intensafire Xbox 360 Controller Mod

BGRMods was at PAX 09, and was showing off their Intensafire mod. This product is essentially a pre-printed circuit board that is installed into any wireless Xbox 360 controller to give it enhanced fire abilities. Unlike other modding products, the Intensafire was designed to be installed quickly without any soldering. Coy Christmas (yes that’s his real name) [...]

A.C. Ryan Blackfire UV LED Lighted Fan

A.C. Ryan Blackfire UV LED Lighted Fan

If you have a computer, then you have fans. Fans to circulate the air in and out of the case, fans to cool your processor, fans to cool your video card, and even fans to direct air to other fans! Many enthusiasts have a windowed computer case, and use tricked-out fans to complement their other [...]

Inexpensive Studio Lighting

Inexpensive Studio Lighting

Starting out in photography can be an expensive proposition. The cost of a camera, lenses, backgrounds and props can add up to thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars. There are ways to minimize these costs while achieving the goal of high quality images. This article will focus on inexpensive lighting for portrait photographers. As [...]

Madlights LED Case Lighting

Madlights LED Case Lighting

Modifying one’s computer used to be a task for the hard-core user, performing all custimazations by trial and error. Little support was given to the end user, because simply a community did not exist that offered pre-modded products. Fast forward to today, and now there are many modding products, and a user can have a [...]

Koolcase Blue Meany Case

Koolcase Blue Meany Case

I have been seeing more and more cases with acrylic fronts and windows due to the fact that people are tired of the normal beige case and want something cooler. This case looks a lot like both of the Enermax cases that I have reviewed in the past. This case has the same kind of [...]

Sunbeam Dual Colored Cold Cathode

Sunbeam Dual Colored Cold Cathode

I believe that cold cathodes are the best source for case lighting, and we have all seen the standard one-colored ones. For a long time if you wanted to have 2 colors in your case you would have to buy two different cold cathodes and have them both running, but this is not the case [...]

Blue LED

Blue LED

With the exception of a few, most cases come with the standard red, green, or amber colored LEDs for the power and hard drive indicators. Personally I really don’t like stock LEDs on cases because they are usually not very bright and the colors look really bad. Changing your LEDs is an easy thing to [...]

Changing your Case & Drive LEDs

Changing your Case & Drive LEDs

Making your case unique and looking cooler than it is when you buy it is what case modding is all about. Almost all cases, CDROM, DVD, CDRW, floppy drives, etc… come with green, amber, or red LEDs. In some cases these colors that come stock are the colors that you want, however if you want [...]

El Custom Shop Light Tape & Wire

El Custom Shop Light Tape & Wire

Case modification is pretty much mainstream now, everyone is doing it so you should too right? Lighting is one of the more popular aspects of case modding because if it’s dark inside your case you cant see all of the work that you have done. There are many different things which you can use to [...]

TweakMonster Light Strips Rev. 2

TweakMonster Light Strips Rev. 2

If you have a window in your case you know that the next step in your case modding journey is to now add lighting so that the inside of your case will be even cooler looking. There are many different ways in which you can light up the inside of your case, neons, cold cathodes, LEDs, [...]