Find and Grep 101 07/13/2008 Find and Grep are perhaps the most used command line tools for the Linux user or administrator. Terse but powerful,...
Cruel Super Mario World hack 07/12/2008 Kaizo Mario is a homebrew level for Super Mario World that’s equal parts evil and genius. My tolerance for frustration...
Reverse autocomplete 07/11/2008 Traditional autocomplete is such a powerful tool that it’s managed to work its way into most desktop and a significant...
Mapstraction – map abstraction API for Javascript 07/10/2008 Mapstraction is an abstracted Javascript mapping API that can make use of Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps and...
Maglite LASER burnination 07/09/2008 Desertfoxx sent us a tip to a classic KipKay howto video. It’s pretty easy to swap out the diode in...
3D Studio Max motion capture with a Wii Nunchuck 07/08/2008 By passing Nunchuck data to a PC via an Arduino, Melka figured out a way to convert the accelerometer output...
PlaceSpotting – Google Maps geo quiz 07/07/2008 Martin Fussen tipped us off to PlaceSpotting, a user-contributed geo quiz map mashup. The idea is to create puzzles for...
KidWash sprinkler toy 07/06/2008 Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean the kids have to stay indoors in the A/C. There are a number of...
Crawling AJAX 07/05/2008 Traditionally, a web spider system is tasked with connecting to a server, pulling down the HTML document, scanning the document...
Direct video manipulation interface 07/04/2008 Direct manipulation of video is one of the more uncanny HCI concepts I’ve ever seen. Instead of manipulating time with...