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May 26, 2005
Use a Cell Phone LCD on your Computer
Here's a good resource for making an cell phone LCD in to a small display that gets its data from the parallel port. pcd8544-based displays can be found in some monochrome nokia-cellphones. With some technical skills, an independant, small display with background light can be gained out of these phones at hardly any costs. Link.
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May 26, 2005 12:11 AM
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May 25, 2005
Unlocking the GeForce 6800
Some video card hacking...Firingsquad is running a story on how to unlock all 16 pipelines in nVidia's GeForce 6800. By default the card only ships with 12 pixel pipelines enabled, but with a tool and a few mouse clicks, the card can be unlocked to run with all 16 pipes. Performance improvements are seen everywhere, so it's a pretty nice free upgrade. These cards are currently selling for $200 online, so a 16-pipe GeForce 6800 delivers great bang for the buck. [via] Link.
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May 25, 2005 04:25 PM
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Cheap and Portable Word Processors
Ask Slashdot has posed an interesting question looking for a cheap (under $50) word processor for banging out notes on the go. I think my favorite one is the $9 (Ebay) DreamWriter NTS 325. Seems like you can get the data off fairly easily too. Link.
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May 25, 2005 12:40 AM
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May 24, 2005
10 Things to Do With Old PCs
If you've been using PCs for a while, you're bound to have an old one you don't use much, if at all. With 2-GHz computers available for well under $1,000, what good is an old 300-MHz Pentium II system? The answer depends on your willingness to experiment, have fun, learn, and prevent pollution. Here are ten things you can do with that old PC, starting with tasks for relatively "better" old PCs, and working our way down to the real junkers. [via] Link.
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May 24, 2005 09:15 AM
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May 20, 2005
Sony Digital Sign Hacking...
Sony NSP-1 is signage controller that drives a projector or plasma display to display changing signs, videos, etc.. Zorin's blog has a post about how he was able to boot it up using a USB CD-ROM drive and a Knoppix CD to poke around. Might be a future Ebay project once they get cheaper. [via] Link.
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May 20, 2005 01:44 AM
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Real Wireframes
Graphics Demo is a modified Commodore CBM 3032 computer. Its inner life was replaced by a mechanics. A wireframe model of a teapot, soldered out of silvered copper wire, is gimballed inside the monitor cabinet. The model is varnished with green uv-active paint and lighted by four blacklight tubes, which are installed invisible inside the cabinet. The teapot can be rotated in any direction by using the numeric keypad. During the rotation, you can hear the electric motors and feel their vibrations. [via] Link.
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May 20, 2005 01:34 AM
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May 16, 2005
An Embedded View of the Mac mini
IBM has a cool series of articles where they build an embedded application using a Mac Mini. The application itself is the classic photo booth: you pay a bit of money, a flashbulb goes off, and a minute later you've got some pictures of yourself, or perhaps yourselves if you're out with a friend. More recent versions of this booth create more complicated pictures, adding additional features, such as overlays, or possibly adding video to the mix. The test application starts as a a fairly simplistic form of the photo booth application, with room for further development. By the end of this series, you'll be accepting money and printing pictures. Link.
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May 16, 2005 01:22 PM
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May 14, 2005
DIY KITT Car Scanner
Might be neat to add this to an actual car PC...This custom mod gives your computer the personality of KITT, the computerized car from Knight Rider TV fame. It slides into a CD drive bay, and only has a single standard power connector. The project is a light display which imitates the dot in KITT's hood. It looks like the scanning eye of the car's computer that is so smart it has a personality and acts autonomously. Some people have said the computer shows more emotion and personality than the main actor, David Hasselhoff. Link.
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May 14, 2005 12:30 AM
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May 13, 2005
DIY PC "iMac"
Fun photo set of someone who's gutted a monitor to turn it in to a low cost PC version of the iMac. It's actually pretty amazing he managed to fit an entire computer inside the monitor case, although it does appear a lot of things were removed that may have served a useful purpose (like blocking radiation). Link.
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May 13, 2005 01:53 AM
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Linux Based Home Theater PC
ExtremeTech has a good guide on setting up a Linux based home theater PC. The article details many of the ups and downs of setting up a system like this- they got everything working mostly (KnoppMyth distro) CDs, video, TV, guide viewing and show recording, weather and media libraries. In the end they have some good ideas for additions to the current distribution. Link.
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May 13, 2005 01:27 AM
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May 12, 2005
DIY Laptop
Tom's Hardware takes a look at the build-it-yourseld laptop systems. If you like building your own PC, this might appeal to you. It seems like it will always be a little more expensive, but you'll get exactly what you want. The cool part is in the end you get to put it all together yourself, the article also includes a video. Thanks Spyder. Link.
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May 12, 2005 12:12 AM
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May 11, 2005
Server Status with Keyboard LEDs
Here's a neat article on how to use keyboard LEDs to monitor the status of a linux server. MartyBug.net writes "I have a number of linux servers at home, and typically want to be able to monitor the status of them remotely. The servers are all located in a walk-in-cupboard in my office, and being able to see the status of some key parameters is very handy. In particular, I want to be able to see the status of my internet firewall, a Smoothwall box, ie, if my internet connection is up, and if traffic is being received and/or transmitted". Link.
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May 11, 2005 01:12 AM
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May 10, 2005
Apple Granted Patent for Tablet Mac
Wow, a Tablet Mac might be hitting the scene soon! Awhile back there were stories (2004) about a tablet Mac and today Mac Observer reports "Apple Computer was granted a patent for an enigmatically titled "Electronic device" Tuesday, May 10th, 2005. Illustrations for the device clearly indicate it to be a tablet-style Macintosh, and patent filings specifically compare it to the "HP Compaq Tablet PC" and several other tablet machines". Of course if you're jonesing for one now, you can always make your own.
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May 10, 2005 05:04 PM
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May 9, 2005
Tales of Rescuing Old Hardware
On the BSD DevCenter Mikhail Zakharov has an article about installing NetBSD on an old Toshiba T2130CS- Intel 486DX4 75MHz notebook. The challenge was, with a lot of old hardware many of us have, is to install without the benefit of using a CD-ROM drive. With only the floppy drive and the LPT/COM ports, it's usually tough to get anything on old machines. Link.
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May 9, 2005 02:59 PM
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Control the Parallel (or Serial) Port with Python
Sean writes "Here's a follow-up to your recent perlParallel post. It's a python module for controlling the parallel port. This module encapsulates the access for the parallel port. It provides backends for Python running on Windows and Linux. They also have a serial port controller here. Link.
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May 9, 2005 02:56 PM
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May 8, 2005
Controlling a Parallel Port with Perl
I was looking for something else, but then found this and figured it might come in handy for something- here's how to control the parallel port with Perl using a module called Device:ParallelPort. Device::ParallelPort is a Perl API that allows low level access to the parallel port of most computers. It does this by using a number of drivers, which can be customized and added to, including Linux (direct and parport), Win32, Script, Dummy, and more. It also contains a number of direct access devices including an example printer and a relay controller card. Link.
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May 8, 2005 06:02 AM
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May 7, 2005
How to Make a Suit Case PC
Clever! I wonder if this would allowed on a plane. This is a tale of my new daily-use computer. It's a full-function pc, running Windows XP Pro, with an amd athlon xp 3200+ cpu, 768 mb of ram, 3 monitor ports, plenty of usb ports, and a built in 10/100 switch. And it's a suitcase. It has a handle. It has two latches. I take it to work with me every day, and take it home every night. All it doesn't have is a CD Drive. Here is its story. Thanks Chris! Link.
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May 7, 2005 01:56 AM
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May 1, 2005
Widget Hacks
Here's how you change the Phone Book Widget on Apple's new Mac OS X Tiger to use Google Maps instead- Hes Nikke on macoshints says..."Mapquest is an aging mapping system and doesn't fit in with the new shinyness in Tiger. Thats why I made the phone book widget use Google Maps instead". Link.
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May 1, 2005 02:20 AM
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April 30, 2005
Mac OS X Tiger follow up
On Friday's MAKE:Audio show we had a quick review of Mac OS X Tiger and now that's we've been banging on it for a few more hours, here are some cheers and jeers. Spotlight search is creepy fast, it's finding everything almost instantly. Dashboard and its Widgets are fun but take up a lot of memory, not sure if it matters though. The RSS screensaver is also fun, here's a video of what it looks like. Only Macs that are 1Ghz G4 and above can do join in multi-video chats, but multi-audio seems to be fine on some sub 1Ghz machines here. Even if you bought QuickTime Pro 6+ you need to repurchase QuickTime 7. Overall a great release, it's living up to all the stellar reviews. Some photos from the Seattle store (4th in line!).
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Apr 30, 2005 01:13 AM
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April 29, 2005
Making Widgets
Mac OS X Tiger is out today, so that means we're going to see a ton of really neat widgets, if you want to get started building here's an overview...Based on Web Kit technologies, Dashboard Widgets are created using a mix of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. This extends the ability to develop Widgets to a very wide audience. If you know how to create a web page, then you know how to create a capable Widget. Link. We'll have some examples once we make a few too.
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Apr 29, 2005 03:04 AM
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