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How to synchronize Facebook's events to Google Calendar

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This is how you can synchronize your Facebook's events such as friend's birthdays and invitations to your Google Calendar. With Facebook events synchronized to Google Calendar, you can keep track of your Facebook events from your Android's Calendar application too. Go to your Facebook events calendar. Click the settings button (Gear Button). Click the "Export" option. A "Export Events and Birthdays" pop-up will appear. Notice the two links in the pop-up; "export your friends birthdays" and "upcoming events". The links start with "webcal://" and these are the links that you can use to create a calendar in Google Calendar that synchronized with your Facebook events calendar. Go to your Google Calendar page. Under the "Others Calendars" section at the bottom left section of the calendar page, click at the triangle button to drop down a list.  Select "Add by URL" option. Paste the "webcal://" links

Wild HM 166 - L7 Camping Stove

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This is a great little gas stove that i got for myself for camping trips and budget travel trips where the place that i stay will not have water boiler in the room. It works with the regular household butane canister that are readily available everywhere in this part of the world (Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia). One canister is enough to cook for a party of 10 ppl for 2 days on a camping trip. Specifications:  Size :135x165x85 mm Weight :365g Gas Consumption :100g/hr Power :6000 BTU Gas :Butane Material :Copper, stainless steel, steel

Beverage can or pop can alcohol stove

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This is my second attempt to make an alcohol stove from 325 milliliter aluminium beverage cans (pop can). My first attempt was a pressurized version . This stove is an easier stove to use compare to the pressurized version. All i need to do is half fill the stove with alcohol and light it up. The initial burn at the center will heat up the stove and boil the alcohol inside the stove. Alcohol vapor will then push itself out through the small holes at the side and it will get light up after a minute. This process is known as priming. Filling the pressurized version of this stove is harder as you need to slowly and carefully fill until it overflows the middle holes so you can light it up to prim. Priming time is also longer compare to this one as the initial burn is not as intense as this. Surprisingly this stove is windproof. I try to blow it off but its hard to blow the flames in the middle to off. References, Sources and Credits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage-can_stove