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You can carry GNU/Linux in your pocket with a functional, quick, and useful USB pen drive distribution. Pen drives are faster than CDs, and the small distros that fit on them don’t require huge amounts of memory for the operating system and applications. Slax is a powerful and complete bootable distro based on Slackware, equipped with kernel 2.6, ALSA sound drivers, Wi-Fi card support, X11-6.8.2 with support for many GFX cards and wheel mice, and KDE 3.4 Link.

You work your guts our on your software product only to go to the show and sit on folding chairs in front of a banner? No more!… Now you can build yourself a trade show booth using nothing but stuff from Home Depot and Kinkos! Thanks dvgot! Link.

Your PC may not be stuck in the technological stone age, but your beloved system that you may have built piece by piece with the best CPU, graphics card, motherboard and other components available at the time has slipped far down the high-end scale. So is it time to rebuild from scratch again or does a more inexpensive alternative exist that will not put a serious dent in you wallet? What if we told you that you can take your outdated system and give it a shot where it counts – and all for under $250. Link.

Re-use your old CD jewel cases! Turn them into desktop calendars. Create your own calendars by selecting a different photo for each month of the year. Just “drag and drop” your photos from iPhoto or the Finder. Good idea for a holiday gift. Link.

We agree…what if Microsoft were to offer up an upgrade program, releasing their own ‘modchip’ to permit programs like XBMC to run? It would be an ideal solution to stream videos to the kids TV, and allow for file and content management from the central server. No more scratched DVDs or CDs, and the device is ready to go as far as connectivity is concerned. Link.

Another Oil PC, the videos are really neat…Ever since I first saw the Oilcomputer, I was impressed. I wanted to do something Similar, yet different. I did not want a blatant ripoff of the Oilcomputer, that would accomplish nothing. I wanted to take the oilPC concept and make it a little bit more refined. I wanted it smaller, and i did not want it to look like your regular rectangular aquarium. Oh yea. and i wanted it documented in english. Link.

Here’s an ambient orb style project, but with a traffic light…you can light up LEDs with 5 volts DC, but 100 watts of 125 volts AC is a completely different animal. When I received this traffic light for my birthday (purchased at a flea market for ten bucks), I jumped right to it. Link.