Click track detector 03/04/2009 Paul Lamere, of the Music Machinery blog, has a most excellent post investigating the detectability of drummers who use a...
HashTweeps – find Twitter users by hash tag 03/03/2009 My friend Tom O’Neill got to hacking yesterday and created an uber-useful Twitter tool called HashTweeps. The idea is that...
jsSO: Flash shared objects in Javascript 02/27/2009 Without polling the server, an expensive operation, there isn’t a simple way send a Javascript client frequently updated server data....
Convert a 300 watt torchiere lamp to a 20-40 watt CFL 02/26/2009 The torchiere lamp does a really nice job of lighting a room, but with a blazing hot 300 watt halogen...
HDFS and FUSE – a mountable distributed file system 02/25/2009 The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is an open source, distributed file system that’s designed to run on commodity hardware...
Safari 4 beta and Safari 3 on the same machine 02/24/2009 The Safari 4 beta looks pretty slick, but what do you do if you aren’t quite ready to give up...
Projective transformation and perspective in Javascript 02/23/2009 Javascript only supports affine transformations in the Canvas element. In plain English, this means you have control over simple transformations...
How To – backup Flickr photos with FlickrEdit 02/22/2009 A reader named Bruce sent in a request for a tool that will allow you to automatically download all of...
Put Hulu back in Boxee 02/21/2009 Fans of the Boxee media player were bummed last week to hear that Hulu support would be removed. From the...
Wikislate – technical translations using Wikipedia 02/20/2009 Ben sent us a nifty translation tool that uses Wikipedia’s alternate language links as its result set. The “Hack” is...