The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Mark Pilgram of Greasemonkey hacks fame has a great how-to on backing up your DVDs on Mac OS X “Following up on the wildly popular guides on converting DVDs and other video files for your video iPod, I’ve put together a short video tutorial on how to use MacTheRipper and DVD2OneX to backup your DVDs on Mac OS X.” [via] Link.
A virtual space resort being built in the online role-playing game, Project Entropia, has been snapped up for $100,000 (รยฃ56,200). Jon Jacobs, aka Neverdie, won the auction for the as yet unnamed resort in the game, which lets thousands of players interact with each other. Entropia also allows gamers to buy and sell virtual items using real cash. The space station is billed as a “pleasure paradise”. Last year, a gamer bought an island for $26,500 (รยฃ13,700). [via] Link.
Front Row is a new media center application from Apple, it’s shipping on the new iMacs and you use it to manage movies, photos, music, DVDs and more from your couch – with a slick interface. No word if Apple will sell or distribute versions for that Mac you already have, but a couple folks have already hacked up a version of Front Row and have it working. Here’s a HOW TO of sorts via Digg and here’s a video over on TUAW + Flickr shots.
Raphael writes “One day, I bought a genesis game console with a few games. I got tired of playing Sonic and MicroMachines so I decided to build a reprogrammable cartridge. It can be used for many things, such as running demos, homebrew games and music on the real console.” Link.
Firmware wars continued…Fanjita has updated his firmware 2.0 Eboot loader for the PSP to version 0.7. This program allows for the launch of some homebrew programs (not all since it is being run in user-mode and not kernel mode.) This program builds on the work done by Saotome to load homebrew EBOOT.PBPs into PSPs with v2.0 firmware, using the TIFF exploit. It will not work on any other firmware version – including v2.01 and 2.50. [via] Link. Follow the complete saga here.
The best thing going for the Nintendo DS is “Nintendogs” a game of sorts where you raise a virtual puppy. I’m slowly raising one, more about that later, but – here’s a little “News from the Future” action, you can bring your virtual doggie to a GameSpot, place it in bark mode and get a free virtual gift. Of course, I want to set up my own version and give out treats, er tricks, outside… [via] Link.
Rob writes “Years ago I really liked the game called Bing Bang Boing, I wanted to get one for my young son but since it’s no longer on the market I decided to make one for him. The game involves setting up small trampolines so that a ball bearing can successfully bounce along a number of them in succession.” Link.
