Disable navigation lockout on Ford cars (and possibly most others) 01/16/2008 After my post last week about disabling the navigation lockout on Lexus and Toyota nav systems, I received a request...
Unlimited ripping of Netflix “Watch Now” movies 01/15/2008 A while ago we wrote about removing the DRM from Netflix “Watch Now” movies. At the time, it involved wading...
Roly Poly Pot 01/14/2008 Sometimes the solution for an everyday problem is so simple it takes thousands of years for someone to fail to...
Arducopter: Arduino helicopter control 01/13/2008 A recent Arduino -vs- Basic Stamp discussion over on the DIY Drones site really caught my eye. Jordi makes a...
Micropolis: Sim City open sourced 01/12/2008 Don Hopkins has released a GPLed version of the original Sim City, cleaned up and renamed to the original title,...
HOWTO – disable Lexus and Prius navigation lockout 01/11/2008 The greatest feature of the navigation system used in Lexus and Toyota autos is undoubtedly the lockout mode which occurs...
Target Disk Mode: transform your Mac into a firewire drive 01/10/2008 If you hold down ‘T’ while booting a Mac, the screen will go black and display a large Firewire logo....
DIY Arduino on a prototype board 01/09/2008 The myriad incarnations of the Arduino are really a testament to the effectiveness of platform standards that are designed around...
Kindle Hacks 01/08/2008 Igor Skochinsky has been doing some great reverse engineering on the Kindle ebook reader from Amazon. If you’re not familiar...
Turn a Windows Mobile 6 device into a WiFi Router 01/06/2008 WMWifiRouter is a new utility that you can run on your WiFi-capable WM6 device to turn it into a GPRS-uplinked...