MAKE: Amends for issue 02: Page 116, 3b should read: “Reconnect the capacitor, switch the meter to DC voltage, turn off the input signal, and measure across the capacitor. Ours read 74 volts (V). The voltage rating on the capacitor is 75 volts, so there is not much margin in this old amp.” The title for the “Testing current/amperage” figure should be “Testing BFC current”. The title for “Testing Voltage” should be “Testing Output Current”. Link.
Someone is saying they got Mac OS X running on a Tablet PC. Apple’s Developer Transition Kit offers information, sample code, software, and hardware developers need to build Universal Binary applications to run on Macs using Intel processors. As expected, people are also trying to install OS X on Intel platform computers that they already own. Charles Alexander installed OS X on his Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC. The system runs. The digitizer functions. He’s run into issues with screen rotation, networking, USB, etc [via] Link. Likely a hoax, but one can dream.
Update that seems to fix a lot of the issues with the 650 folks have been reporting…Should I update? We highly recommend you take the time to update your smartphone. You will receive direct benefits in memory handling; in most cases, your data will occupy less memory, freeing up more storage space on your smartphone. Additionally, when you’re making phone calls, you should experience improved voice quality using the handset or a Bluetooth headset. [via] Link.
Awesome hack. You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should containg the keywords of a song title (and possibly an artist name) that you want to hear. DittyBot finds that email (he checks Mail every 45 seconds) and copies the song name into a text file. The song name is then copied into iTunes and a playlist is created from your search. Next, DittyBot loads Skype (the internet telephony app) and begins calling your mobile phone. Your mobile phone rings and when you pick it up, you should hear your song start playing in all its compressed glory. Link.
What do you get when you mod an original My Scene Barbie with new paints, fairy wings, costuming, swords, elf ears and more? Really amazing looking D&D style figurines. These modded Barbies look like they’ve just stepped off the set of the Lord of the Rings. The Warrior ones are my favs. And here’s how the artist makes them.
A little open source book action…This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows©. Since reverse engineering is under legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the knowledge widespread. The idea is that since discussing specific reverse engineering feats is now illegal in many cases, we should then discuss general approaches, so that it is within every motivated user’s ability to obtain information locked inside the black box. Link.
Starbucks in your PC. René G. from Munich, Germany, is one of these individuals, a tinkerer and inventor to whom performance and visual style alone have long ago ceased to be sufficient. As a passionate coffee drinker, René G. set a difficult goal for himself, one that took him nearly 80 hours to achieve: through laborious and precise work, he was able to convert a coffee maker into a standard PC shell. A case of extreme modding, if you will. He invested over $3,000 into the components alone. Link.
