Using an optical mouse for robotic position sensing 12/15/2007 The standard optical mouse contains all of the hardware necessary for tracking X/Y movement on a flat surface. With a...
iPhone HD video recorder 12/14/2007 The Monster and Friends Design Studio released a beta version of an iPhone camcorder app today. The hack’s author, drunknbass,...
Vista on the Eee PC 12/13/2007 Looks like it’s possible to install Vista on that tiny little Eee PC. Why? Because you can, of course. Paul...
Hacking the Western Digital MyBook World Edition 12/07/2007 Western Digital sells a number of external drives under the MyBook World Edition brand. These are network-based external storage drives...
HOWTO – Install Leopard on an old G4 12/06/2007 The Leopard installer enforces the minimum requirements of 512MB RAM and a 867Mhz CPU. Under normal circumstances, if you have...
Show hidden files in the OS X Finder 12/05/2007 Every once in a while I need to make an update to an .htaccess file on a server share or...
Open source MIDI keyboard 12/04/2007 Here’s a guide for creating a MIDI keyboard from a cheapo toy keyboard. This project details the steps to build...
Ardiuno-controlled Gaggia Espresso machine 12/03/2007 Here’s the latest espressotronic creation in the long human tradition of modifying machines to produce the perfect cup of coffee....
Big Book of Windows Hacks #16: a grab bag of Vista interface hacks 12/03/2007 Here’s another hack from Preston Gralla’s Big Book of Windows Hacks that digs into some cool hacks for the Vista...
Annotate the web with ShiftSpace 12/02/2007 ShiftSpace is an open source platform that uses Greasemonkey to place an API layer over the web. When you have...