Monday, November 29, 2004

a few of ya’ll sent this in, and it’s handy enough that it deserves a post!



portable firefox is a fully functional package of firefox optimized for use on a usb key drive. it has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your usb key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Sunday, November 28, 2004

this didn’t take long…here are some starters on hacking the ds’s wifi. i picked up two and will be trying this out once i’m in one spot, somehow i ended up in canada.

Saturday, November 27, 2004

there’s a new tool (for macs) that will export powerpoint, pdfs and keynote slides for use on the ipod photo, $18 or you can use my how-to to do the same. an ipod photo, portable media center or any device that plays photos will do. might be a good way to get the boss to let you expense one of these. in the how-to i pump the images out to a headset display, which is part of a cool project that’ll i’ll post about later.

Friday, November 26, 2004

to heck with a playstation portable, hack version or the real deal, and double heck to the nintendo ds, here’s a portable version of a nintendo 64. not too shabby at all.

Thursday, November 25, 2004

a few readers have sent this in after news of tivo selling out on us—build your own personal video recorder, slackware linux 9.1 mythtv install guide, building a pvr in 3 or so steps for about $200 and zed’s dvd player case mod dvr. post up other diy pvrs in the comments!

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

we’re going to try this out to confirm, but the folks at lik-sang cracked up their nintendo ds and it seems that you can chop off the two nubs on a gameboy sp battery and use them in the ds, which is good because we have a couple super-sp batteries here we’re going to try out. if it works, or if it doesn’t i’ll post it up.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

a lot of folks sent this in, so we’ll put it up here, so it’s always here in our console section…the playstation 2 portable project. an amazing hack, taking a psone, and using a PS2’s guts to make a portable version, nicely done.

Monday, November 22, 2004

this is the hotness, over 1,000 leds make a 3d cube which shows severely low-res video.



this project is an exercise in representing the real world with leds arranged in a cube. using video as the input, the computer takes the image, reconstructs the data and displays it in the cube.



i’m going to drop them a note and see if i get a how-to cooking, this could actually make tv watchable again.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

the linksys nslu2 is a fun thing to hack around with, not only can you change the firmware and do things like telnet to it, but with this guide it can act as an itunes server and stream music to any of your computers running itunes.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

okay, so i realize there’s not too much hackyness in this hack. it’s basically googles, fresnel lens, enclosure and a video source—then strapped to ones head in an uncool way.



all that said, i have a lot of things around here that can play video which are a lot smaller and lighter, so i think this is the start of a cool project….stay tuned.

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