Month: July 2005

If you liked our Atari 2600 PC project in issue 02 of MAKE you’ll really like this. Tursi documents how he built a mini-ITX PC into a TI-99/4A case. The TI-99/4A Home Computer was the number one home computer in America, with approximately 35% of the market share in 1982. Thanks Rich! Link.

The Ray Kurzweil Reader is a collection of essays by Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, radical life extension, conscious machines, the promise and peril of technology, and other aspects of our future world. These essays, all published on KurzweilAI.net from 2001 to 2003, are now available as a PDF document for convenient downloading and offline reading. The 30 essays, organized in seven memes (such as “How to Build a Brain”), cover subjects ranging from a review of Matrix Reloaded to “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine” and “Human Body Version 2.0.” Link.

If you liked SYSTM, here’s more. WARspy LA is Los Angeles’ first and only WARspy resource. This is the place to look for the latest WARspy information. But WARspy LA’s star is the “WARspy Challenge,” where we challenge you to find our cameras. Please surf around our Web site, participate in our challenges and send us any information you think we should add, and make sure to participate in our challenges. Link.

Playaway, the world’s 1st digital audiobook bundled with a player. Simply purchase off the shelf and listen on the go, no external player needed. I’m going to crack one of these open once I spot them, I’m not really too excited about a DRM’ed locked up device that you can’t get the audio content off of. If you want to listen to two books, you’ll need to buy 2 devices. But, I’ll give it a go. Link.

nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn’t include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components. Link.

Weather Maps lets you view real time weather information on a map. Most of the data comes from personal weather stations that are run from homes and schools. Weather Underground and Weather Bug are two of the major sites that compile this data. Incorporates webcams as well. [via] Link.

The Ultimate Portable Studio by Gina Fant-Saez — If you’re a musician, producer, engineer, or songwriter who wants to set up a professional, laptop-based recording studio, here’s all the information you need. Wow, this makes my podzilla recorder look really dinky. Link.