Fire and robots 09/04/2007 Fire and robots. Robot love. Burnination. I came across a couple of pyro-robot soulmates today. Flameosapien is our familiar buddy,...
VGA over Cat-5 ethernet 09/03/2007 If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be...
NSA@home – distributed FPGA MD5 cracker 09/02/2007 Here’s an innovative use of recycled HD-video electronics: NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is...
HOWTO – beat carnival games 09/01/2007 I decided to brave the manure, mullets and *-on-a-stick this weekend and swung by the state fair. It seems like...
Google Earth has a flight simulator 08/31/2007 The latest version of Google Earth contains a hidden feature: a full-fledged flight simulator! Press Command+Option+A in OS X or...
Scrollable iPhone Dock 08/30/2007 Until now, you’ve needed to be selective about what applications are added to the iPhone’s home screen. There are a...
iPhone accelerometer hacks 08/29/2007 Erling Ellingsen figured out how to retrieve high sample rate measurements from the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer: As it turns out,...
Soldering with a graphite pencil and car battery 08/28/2007 Here’s a weird arc-welding meets soldering hack. You can use a 12 volt car battery (or charger) and a length...
Apollo IM: AIM on the iPhone 08/27/2007 The first version of a native AIM client for the iPhone was released today under the GPL2 license! It’s based...
iPhone Apper 08/26/2007 Jon Maddox made a nifty tool that let’s you easily create web application bookmarks that dock on your iPhone’s home...