Month: July 2005

Adjusting the power supply voltage to your CPU can make all the difference between an erratically performing speed-hack and a stable screaming demon. Overclockers love to tweak every available parameter in attempts to squeeze every bit of performance out of their CPUs and system boards. Cranking up the speed is the most obvious way to get the CPU to run faster, but to get or keep it running at higher speeds you may have to jack up the CPU’s power supply voltage a notch or two. Link.

Here’s another neat site that takes any URL you give it and makes a mobile version. I tried it with the MAKEzine.com site and it looks really good. I wonder if this, along with RSS viewers / services for mobile devices is how we’ll just use the mobile web–no one really seems to want to create another version just for phones. [via] Link. (You might need to hit refresh after it loads for some reason).

…your weekend iPhoto fun project: the Life Poster, Tiger Edition. Select 96 photos in your iPhoto library, click a button, then sit back and watch while your Mac does the work of assembling the photos into a spectacular poster. Link.

I’ve been thinking about using Audio book services that distribute audio books on CD. I’m trying out Simply Audio Books and added Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I’ve wanted to read this for awhile, now I can listen to it. As an added bonus, Bradbury reads the book himself. Here’s a screen shot of the audio book added to my “Bookshelf.” I’ll keep posting once the CDs get here.

Evio violin simulator, works kind of like one of those Beatamania things, you play the violin along with the on screen prompt and get a score depending on how well you do. Works via motion sensors that detect if you’re moving the bow across the strings right. There is also a “Evio Jr.” aimed at the wee ones that has a Karaoke function. [via] Link.

ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show is next weekend in Dublin. We’ve had musical robots in the past (including Lemur), but this year’s show focuses more on robotic sculpture and installation. Slashdotters in Eire — come say hello! From the site: “Featuring 21 works selected from a large and diverse pool of entries submitted by artists from around the world, the show celebrates the strange and wonderful collision of shifty artists, disgraced engineers, high/low/no tech hackers, rogue scientists, beauty school dropouts, backyard pyros, and industrial spys that has come to define the emerging field of robotic art. [via] Link.

WorldEar is a device that would be installed at the head-height of seated passengers in trains around the world. Because of its low volume, users must turn their heads to listen to other worlds. Scrolling through a list of cities users would hear ambient sound from the city shown, transmitted using the wireless network in place in many of the subway systems around the world. Link.