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Ryan writes “I’ve noticed a lot of attention about SketchUp happening lately, so I figured I’d send in some of my stuff. It’s basically all conceptual, but it gets the point across. SketchUp is the only 3d modeling program I use besides NURBS-based programs, and only because it’s so easy to use. I’d definitely recommend […]
Macfreak writes – “My Mighty Mouse stopped scrolling down, only upwards. The cleaning method as mentioned on the ‘Apple website’ didn’t solve the problem, so as a last resort: operation Mouse!” – Link.
Zengineer used one of those paper/letter holders to make a quick and dirty laptop stand – “I find myself using my laptop for long periods of time. I also notice that I am slouching when I use my notebook as it forces me to bend my neck to look downwards. Heres a simple notebook stand […]
About a year ago we started sending MAKE sample PDFs through iTunes, we were hoping it would catch on and eventually become another way to distribute eBooks – and now there are a couple more, so maybe it will start to happen — Wikinews print edition and Rick Steve’s audio tours – [via] Link. I […]
Randofo writes – “How to hack a USB keyboard or any keyboard for that matter. Send inputs into the computer without a pesky microcontroller. Once you have a hacked keyboard you can use it for a number of functions and attach a number of different types of switches. You can build your own typewriter keyboard […]
MonkeyHumper writes – “My wife wanted a hammock for the backyard, and Sketchup came to the rescue. I found the easiest way to build in Sketchup is to build a bunch of standard lumber sizes and use them over and over again. I can’t wait to make it… “ – Link. Check out other projects […]
Running Mac OS X on Intel is so 3 months ago, Brian is running OPENSTEP on a Thinkpad 755C – “No major trickery to get this to work… just installed a SCSI CD-ROM drive into the ThinkPad Dock and did the install. I do have to pass the “rootdev=hd0a” arg when I boot up, though.” […]
