Danny O’Brien wrote a wonderful Greasemonkey script, as mentioned in our Issue #02 column. It pings you every few minutes to see if you still really need to be surfing the web, and it’s wonderful.The idea, of course, is not to make you insane and interrupt your real work, but to ensure that you’re always aware of the task that brought you where you are—that you not allow a legitimate work search to turn into a 4-hour wikipedia party. Link.
Oldie, but goodie- XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox™ from Microsoft. Currently XboxMediaCenter can be used to play/view most popular video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in Xbox DVD-ROM drive or of the Xbox harddrive, XBMC can also play files from a PC over a local network and even stream media streams directly from the internet. Link.
I need to dust off my Pocket PC and try this out (blog companies could sell refurb’ed PDAs just for blogging)- Pocket Blog extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device. Weblog entries are maintained offline. When Internet connectivity becomes available, such as when your Pocket PC is placed in it’s docking cradle or a WiFi card is inserted, changes are automatically posted to your weblog. Pocket Blog also downloads recent weblog entries, enabling you to edit entries that were originally posted from your desktop. [via] Link.
Here’s a list of stores, ordered by zip code, which carry MAKE as a newstand/magazine item through our distributor, Ingram Periodicals. Additional bookstores carry and shelve MAKE as a book…those stores may not appear on this list. We’ll try to update this list about once a month. You may want to call your store to verify that they have MAKE in stock. Link.
Great for emulation projects- There is no DOS in Windows XP! What is called the “command prompt” is not really DOS … it can be thought of as more of a simulation of DOS. Windows XP (and Windows 2000), unlike Windows 95, 98, and ME, are NOT built on an MSDOS foundation. So, while this makes for better speed and stability, it also makes for sometimes lousy backwards compatibility. Link.
We at MAKE promise never to use print versions of “pop unders” ads also called “shadow ads”. What are they? Watermark logos and ads under news, stock listings, weather and all sorts of content that usually doesn’t have ads inside them. We prefer the “They Live” style of advertising where you see MAKE on billboards when you build and wear special glasses. [via] Link.
In Make 02 we covered getting Linux on your iPod to do things like play new games, image viewing, recording high quality audio- and now it looks like we’re getting video playback using a modd’ed Podzilla build. I just tried it out the new kernel, but I can’t seem to get the sample video to play- I’ll try more soon, let me know if you get it going Link to instructions. Update: Got it working on THREE IPODS! Here is our video.
