Month: July 2005

HOW TO – More iTunes 4.9 Hacking

HOW TO – More iTunes 4.9 Hacking

ItunesTo see the graphics, ctrl click iTunes->show package contents/ Contents/ Resources-> iTunes.rsrc, Click once on the file and hit command + D. Drag iTunes copy.rsrc to the desktop. While still in the resources folder, open the folder titled English.lproj. Highlight the “Localized.rsrc” file and hit Command + D and drag Localizedcopy.rsrc to the desktop. Next, download the Resorcerer 2.4.1 Demo (Or any other Resource viewing App) . In the application, locate the iTunescopy.rsrc and Localizedcopy.rsrc files now on your dektop and use the ID #s in my picture to locate them in Resorcerer. Hope that helps. Link.

The Wood iPod

The Wood iPod

23324182 0B8C415990A MAKE Flickr Photo pool member made an amazing Redwood version of the iPod by hand. It looks like he just took his iPod apart and carefully fabricated a redwood version of iPod frame, later adding a clear coat to it and reassembling it. I’ve seen wood iPod docks, but I think this is the best actual wood iPod to hit the scene so far.
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HOW TO Make a BusyBox

HOW TO Make a BusyBox

20 Never answer the phone again….you plug in the other end of the phone line that is connected to the phone box into the wall socket. Doing this will activate the Busy box and cause all phones that are connected to the system to not work (you will hear no dial tone when you pick up the phone ) and there will be no incoming calls (when ever some one calls your house it will say “this line is busy” message). Link.

Watch Spacecraft hit comet “live”…

Watch Spacecraft hit comet “live”…

120697Main Mrivis-0099 WebOn Sunday evening, observers finally may have answers to some of these celestial questions. At 10:52 p.m. PDT, a NASA spacecraft the size of a wine barrel is scheduled to slam into the Tempel 1 comet at roughly 23,000 mph. The impact, projected to leave a crater that could swallow a football stadium, is intended to scrape away part of Tempel 1’s surface and expose what’s underneath. Link. Update: Amazing, we hit it! Kersmash!

Mac OS X for Intel HOW TO (sorta)

Mac OS X for Intel HOW TO (sorta)

Indextop20050504 As the copies of Mac OS X for Intel start to make the rounds (real and fake) guides on running Mac OS X on Intel are also starting to pop up. Steven Troughton-Smith has step by step guide on what’s required to get what’s possible working right now. He notes- Luckily this leak doesn’t work – just giving us a slightly enhanced Darwin, but it means it’s scarily possible to run OS X on normal PCs without getting a Macintosh. Link.