Year: 2007

Sleep Your Mac by Email

Sleep Your Mac by Email

With a combination of Automator actions, one line of Apple Script, and a Mail rule, you can make your Mac sleep by sending your account an email with “sleeper” in the subject line. Of course, you could use this same trick to do a number of things via email remote control. Sleep your mac by […]

Make: Space – Tethered Test

After getting a few winks at the banks lake motel our posse headed out to a remote undisclosed location. Our team of crackerjack location planners used balloon tracking software to compile weather and windspeed data to simulate our flight and picked a location out the flight maps that would keep us from landing on railroad […]

Lightsticks… in the latrine

Lightsticks… in the latrine

Steve sent in what I thought would completely bizarre and perhaps gross, but it turns out it’s quite beautiful, he writes – Last night I opened and poured a red and green lightstick in the toilet and photographed it. I find the images to be surprisingly like deep space nebula photos. Lightsticks In The Toilet […]