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How To: Make Enhanced Podcasts
Here's everything you need to know about enhanced podcasts: how to get them, how to make them, and some fun ideas for what you can do with them.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Get MSN Filter News (or Any RSS) on a SPOT Watch
MSN Filter is a new blog with some pretty good posts about tech, music, etc. Since it is from MSN, I assumed that it would be a channel I could add to my MSN Direct SPOT watch. But no, MSN Filter isn't one of the pre-chosen available options on the watch. Here's how to get MSN Filter, or any other news via RSS, onto a SPOT watch.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: iPod Nano Hacking
The iPod nano isn't as hackable as its older cousins (yet). But you can still do a few things to make it your own, such as change the text strings, the fonts, and the graphics that appear onscreen. This article will show you how to use a PC to customize the text and fonts on your iPod nano, and how to use a Mac to customize the graphics.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: Play Video on a Pre-Video iPod (iPod photo)
The newest, fifth-generation iPods play video, but you can also play videos with sound on your "old" iPod photo (or fourth-gen iPod mini), using the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod). Here's a quick how-to on installing podzilla, using a Mac, so you can watch videos and do other fun things.
by Phillip Torrone;
January 03, 2006
How To: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo
by Phillip Torrone;
December 20, 2005
How To: Run Homebrew Apps on Your PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Want to do more with your PSP than just play prepackaged, commercial titles? Thanks to the community of PSP tinkerers out there, there are emulators, cool homebrew applications, and thousands of games that you can run on your PSP for free. Liberating your PSP is easy; here's a quick how-to.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Windows Vista/Longhorn-Style Auxiliary Display
This article shows how to make your own laptop auxiliary display. It describes a great and cheap way to mount an LCD onto a PC case, and how to use Konfabulator (which is now free) to build a versatile interface "widget" that runs on the display.
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make a Powerbook in to a Wi-Fi access point!
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Liberate the Sony Librie E-ink reader
by Phillip Torrone;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make an RSS Widget
Widgets are great--there is no denying it. Arranging these small, lightweight utilities on your Mac OS X Dashboard desktop puts lots of useful and fun possibilities at your fingertips and eyeballs. But when a widget you want doesn't exist, there is only one thing to do: make it. Jake McKenzie shows you how to make a Mac Dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger that displays any RSS feed you want, customized any way you want.
by Jake McKenzie;
November 21, 2005
How To: Make Square Holes in Aluminum Sheet Metal
Why would you want to make a square or rectangular hole in aluminum sheet metal? The short answer is that engineers are perverse, but there are other reasons: to make something that slides in or mounts on a hole without rotating, to make a picture frame, or perhaps you just happen to have a round peg that seems lonely. Here are 14 methods of making square holes for a variety of situations.
by Nick Carter;
July 21, 2005
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