Year: 2005

Shadow puppets are a mysterious and wonderful kind of puppet. If you have ever made hand shadows (used your hands to make shadows that look like animals, etc.) on the wall or have seen shadows cast by a flashlight on a camping tent wall then you already have an idea of how shadow puppets work. What you need to create the magic of shadow puppets is a screen on which to project the shadows (-light must be able to pass through it–it could be a sheet, tent wall, big piece of paper, etc.) a light source (could be the sun or an artificial light –flourescent lights do not work well) and a shadow puppet (an object that will cast its shadow on the screen.) Here is how it works… Link.

I usually use KXploit, but this is a good one too. With this program you can load an Eboot made for 1.0, adjust its values, pictures, icon etc and with this new release he has added: Memory stick Free space bar added. Can choose the whole folder for one PBP. Portugues language added. Auto remember folders for each category(sound,bg,icon) ICON0.PNG issues fixed. Damaged files issues fixed. Drive refresh issue Fixed. Minor User Friendly adds/fixes Link.

Here is what you need to produce and publish your podcast: A .mac account. A Mac with iLife 05, specifically Garageband and a microphone. Feeder from Reinvented Software. This article will only cover the technical aspects of actually publishing your podcast, nothing about legal problems or content Link.

Looks real…xavxbox.com has what they claim are pictues of the Xbox 360 motherboard. Their site says the GPU is under the left fan, and the CPU under the right. To translate roughly from French, they also state , “Soon on the site, a tutorial for disassembling the Xbox 360…” An unknown source had sent in the pic, but given xavxbox is a hacking site, hopefully someone like Team Xecuter is hard at work… [via] Link.

The code name, Space Beast, was one they came up with in the wee hours of the night. Tyler Lyon, Daniel Winegar and Chad Thornley were overtired and giddy as they tackled a science fair project. Their idea: Eliminate the use of Freon in automobile air-conditioning systems by relying on the Peltier effect – of course. Link.

There are tons of Google maps mashups, but this one is getting us close to the dream of driving around and our cars displaying the cheapest prices on gas, hotels, etc… This is a Google map mashup of a few cities that combines the data from Priceline. It’ll be interesting to see ratings and other data added over time. It’s too bad AAA never got the Web 2.0 religion… Link.

It looks like Sony is releasing a new firmware update to the PSP July 27th that will have a lot really great features- a web browser, h.264 support (for TV watching), wallpaper, image receiving, video navigation updates, mp4 support and a lot more. I wouldn’t be surprised if you couldn’t sync with iTunes soon as odd as that sounds. Any way, this will most certainly break the ability to play homebrew code, so you might want to hold off of get another one. Link.