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October 20, 2006
Songbird 0.2 Released - Cross-platform and open source music player
Windows, Mac, Linux, 30+ languages, 64-bit support, cross-platform and open source music player... dev preview now avail for download, go get it! - "Songbird 0.2 is a preview release to let developers and early birds who can't wait for 1.0 explore Songbird's potential. Check the release notes. Songbird has already attracted some birdwatchers. Ross Karchner at Ross Notes says, "It's like taking iTunes, ripping out the music store, and replacing it with the rest of the internet." We couldn't have said it better ourselves. If you haven't yet, have a look at our Songbird 0.2 screencast to learn what Songbird can do today..." - Link & screencast!
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Oct 20, 2006 03:32 PM
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October 19, 2006
Design tubular structures with Kee Klamp using Sketchup
Chris writes - "We have released a new section of our web site dedicated to designing tubular structures with SketchUp. We invite people to construct with the components we have on the site and those they make themselves and contribute to the project and component library. The initial fittings in the library were created using the CAD drawings for Kee Klamp fittings, but you could easily use them as substitutes for designing PVC structures in SketchUp." - Link.
This is pretty smart - any company that makes "things" you can build with should really consider doing "libraries" for SketchUp - imagine being able to construct anything in 3D and (eventually) "checking out" and getting all the stuff shipped or purchased waiting for you. I think a parts API of some sort from Amazon, DigiKey, Mouser, etc etc and Sketchup could really be interesting - any way, you can build stuff now with using the library from Simplified Building.
Related SketchUping @ MAKE:
- Workbench plans - made with Sketchup - Link.
- Google Sketchup -> Second Life export - Link.
- SketchUp -> Google SketchUp now free... - Link.
- Google SketchUp - now for Mac OS X (free) - Link.
- Sketchup and the web 3.D future - Link.
- Hammock made with Sketchup... - Link.
- SketchUp drawings of midibox-based MIDI controller designs - Link.
- Bookcase - Sketchup to construction - Link.
- Good Night and Good Making - with SketchUp - Link.
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Oct 19, 2006 04:44 PM
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Make your own ringtones
This site has a pretty simple interface for making your own ringtones - as always, Maker beware, I'm not sure if they store/keep your phone # or whatever... check out our related links for other ways to get and make free ringtones too... Link.
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Oct 19, 2006 01:37 AM
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October 17, 2006
USB Snooping in linux
Rad, Quiet Earth has a good how-to on listening in to what's going on over USB, great for reverse engineering weird USB doo-dads... - "This is intended to be a howto to debug usb transactions under linux, or simply to reverse engineer propietary usb stuff. If you need to reverse engineer a windows only usb driver, you can do it easily running vmware under linux. We can snoop the usb traffic from windows using usbmon which is part of the linux kernel since version 2.6.11 (I think). Previous to that you had to use patches." - Link.
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Oct 17, 2006 03:15 PM
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Homeade laptop water cooler
Many of the newer-ish laptops get hot, really hot - here's one solution, an external water-cooler... Bard writes - "Introducing the Waldic (water & air laptop direct input cooler). This device is a dual mode home made laptop cooler. It was made for the purpose of watching movies without being disturbed by the annoying fan. The following pics are mostly self explanatory." [via] - Link.
Related:
- Laptop hacks, mods projects and more @ MAKE - Link.
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Oct 17, 2006 10:37 AM
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October 15, 2006
HOW TO - Scan the 'waves with your TV card
AMXL shows you how to use a SAA7134 based TV card and Debian to tune in to all sorts of waves you can't normally get with your TV... Looks like it will work with many of the TV cards out there too... - "If you have a TV capture card in your computer, you probably already have all the hardware you need to listen in on much more than just TV and radio (only software changes are needed). The hardware will also allow you to hear emergency services, taxi and freight radios, UHF citizen band radio, aircraft transmissions, and more.
In this article, I show you how you can make your Linux distribution (I used Debian Sarge, but other distros should work too, as long as you have a 2.6.x Linux kernel) and SAA7134 based TV card tune into those frequencies you can't get at with a normal radio or TV." [via] - Link.
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Oct 15, 2006 09:23 AM
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October 12, 2006
Portable typewriter laptop...
It's hard to tell what's going on here, it appears to be a typewriter crossed with a laptop + a morse code keypad of sorts, but one thing is for sure, it's awesome and belongs in Brazil. [via] - Link & Japanese page.
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Oct 12, 2006 10:39 AM
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October 10, 2006
Mac OS X Panther on a 25MHz Centris 650
Danamania is attempting to run Mac OS X on an old 25mhz Mac, should only take one week to boot up, nice - "The victi-WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive - JUST big enough to fit my existing PearPC drive image. I admit to cheating when it comes to the OSX install, I plan on using the same Panther drive image as I'd used on my Athlon. I'm only being a little masochistic here, not going completely daft and trying to sit through a 68k OSX install... The waiting while Debian crawls through its own hours-long install is bad enough... According to the developers, PearPC using generic emulation (the only option on a non-x86) runs "about 500 times slower" than the host CPU. Ouch. That makes for a 0.05MHz G3, at the best. That's around 4000 times slower than the Athlon boots, and since that takes roughly 2 and a half minutes - I'm looking at at least 6.99 days. One week to boot!" [via] - Link.
Related:
Mac mods and more @ MAKE - Link.
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Oct 10, 2006 07:23 AM
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October 9, 2006
Unlocking the full potential of your Mac Pro's SuperDrive
Here's how to mod your Sony DW-D150A SuperDrive drive (actually a NEC 4570) on a Mac Pro so it burns CD-Rs faster, adds DVD-RAM support, AND region-free DVD playing... [via] - Link.
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Oct 9, 2006 12:13 AM
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October 8, 2006
Inside of hard drive (video)
Joshuamarius writes - "Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. " [via] - Link.
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Oct 8, 2006 05:30 AM
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October 6, 2006
HOW TO - Build a web server for 30 euros ($38 USD)
Sylvain writes - "Here's how to use the ENC28J60 chip and a PIC microcontroller to build a tiny web server for 30 euros ($38 USD)." - Link.
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Oct 6, 2006 09:22 AM
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October 5, 2006
Pentium II hard drive enclosure
Remember those huge Pentium II chip enclosures? MAKE Flickr photo pool member Treasonx made a hard drive case for a 20 GB drive out of one... - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 03:17 AM
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October 4, 2006
Powerbook sleeve made from an Ikea towel
A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
And... even more useful now, as a laptop sleeve... - Link.
There's more than one way to sleeve a lappy...:
- Make a laptop sleeve from a pants leg - Link.
- Laptop sleeve from an old sweater... - Link.
- DIY laptop case - Link.
- Make a T-Shirt laptop case - Link.
T-Shirt Laptop Pouch - Reincarnated tee "iShirt" protects your computer and deters thieves. MAKE 06 - Page 27.
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Oct 4, 2006 02:50 PM
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HOW TO - Enable the hidden iPhoto Google Maps geotagging feature
Sweet, here's how to enable geotagging in iPhoto - "By slightly changing the InfoPanel.nib file in the iPhoto 6.0.5 app bundle, you can see how this hidden feature works. Check the step-by-step on how to do this here..." [via] - Link.
Related:
- HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth.... - Link.
- Flickr Geotagging - Link.
- Geotagging Easter Egg on Motorola i860 - Link.
- HOW TO geotagg del.icio.us bookmarks - Link.
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Oct 4, 2006 12:26 PM
Computers, DIY Projects, GPS, Imaging |
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October 3, 2006
Add a LCD to your PC
Here's a step by step guide for mounting a 2x16 character LCD in your computer and interfacing with it... - Link.
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Oct 3, 2006 08:34 AM
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September 30, 2006
Suissa computers
Howard Suissa's company makes the incredible hand crafted PCs out of wood, glass and other non-traditional materials that you'd actually want to display proudly in your living room - "" [via] - Link.
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Sep 30, 2006 01:16 AM
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September 28, 2006
Wooden touchscreen terminal
MAKE Flick photo pool member Barnoid has an update to the homemade wooden touchscreen terminal - "Fitted an external PSU from linitx.com which has solved the heat problems. Added an extra 64MB RAM. Added connectors for USB and audio under the front flap. Tried to fit the insides of a £4 set of speakers, but managed to break the amp I think. The speakers were already glued in place by this time. I'll try again later with a better amp..." [via] - Link.
Previous:
Wooden Touchscreen Terminal - Link.
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Sep 28, 2006 07:11 PM
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Remotely record with the Media Center PC using instant message (and voice)...
Casey is one of my favorite developers, he's always doing amazing projects - like this one, an instant message bot you can talk to which will remotely record TV (Media Center PC), it can also work via voice, so imagine using your mobile device and speaking "record HOW ITS MADE ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL" and when you get home, it's waiting for you, neat. Thanks Chris! - Link.
Related:
Also from Casey, NASA's WorldWind on a Pocket PC - Link.
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Sep 28, 2006 01:58 AM
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September 27, 2006
DIY Living room PC
Pat writes - "I needed a case for my computer with would blend into the living room, where it would be playing MP3's. About this time, a broken CD player came along, and an unholy marriage resulted - The PC in a CD player was born! " - Link.
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Sep 27, 2006 04:49 AM
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September 26, 2006
Bang & Olufsen Mp3 Mac mod
Check out Scott's awesome Mac mod! - "This is my finished MP3 Music Player. It's based on a Wallstreet PowerBook and a Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 4600. This has been a long process, I had planned to get it finished for last year's Great Mac Mod Challenge, so it's a year overdue." - Link.
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Sep 26, 2006 08:07 AM
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