Nice HOW TO if you use Google Sidebar and Talk…After you install both Google Talk and Google Sidebar, you can select an option to integrate Talk into the Sidebar. (Then you can dock it to the side of your screen.) Do you think Windows is slowly becoming a bunch of device drivers to run Google apps on?… [via] Link.
This site is dedicated to those individuals who like to do-it-yourself (DIY) when building Kustom cars and hot rods. These are the ones who take “it can’t be done” as a challenge and like to prove it wrong. People who enjoy spending the time searching through junkyards and data books looking for the illusive part that will work. Link.
Mark posted a fun puzzle from the April 1960 issue of Popular Science. Head on over to BoingBoing and solve it- it would be great to have a MAKER solve it first! Link.
This was Day-1 for Vol.03 on newsstands, and so far it looks like they’re showing up all over the place! Photo! MAKE is available now at Amazon.com, and in the magazine section of Barnes & Noble, Borders, CompUSA, and Tower Records. MAKE is also available through many of the same leading online and brick-and-mortar retailers that carry O’Reilly’s other publications, plus select newsstand outlets. Link.
MAKE pal Hans writes “I just found this, I have not looked up Wearable Computer stuff for years now- How to build your own hand-held, seven-key, programmable, ergonomic keying device. Great for Wearable Computers. Link.
Some good news, hopefully in a few weeks we’ll be able to run our own apps on the new firmware – Some very interesting things going on in the PSP hacking world. It would seem that someone has gotten the DATA.PSP files from the various update EBOOT.PBP files decrypted. This is the next step in unlocking the secrets of the PSP’s firmware. How to flash/re-flash, and modifying firmware files to suit individual hacker’s needs, etc… Link.
Slight shot with a laser sight, they’re $49 – you could likely build your own for cheaper, these are pretty neat though – The secret to the Laser Slingshot lays within its dual offset pivoting system. This system is able to precisely align a laser or sight to the trajectory of the fired projectile. This revolutionary breakthough allows the Laser Slingshot to precisely split pencils at 20 feet, hit cans as far as 150 feet, and hit flying targets with a shotgun spray of BBs (with optional addon shotgun pouch). [via] Link.
