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Wow, Jose @ Planetx64x has a nice step-by-step on installing Mac OS X on the super tiny MSI Wind, it’s a pockable Mac almost – via /. Recently I’ve managed to install Apple’s OS X Leopard operating system 10.5.4 onto a 10 inch MSI Wind Netbook, and you can too. Let me preface this by […]
This is a very simple hack that allows you to plug a guitar or microphone into you computer. It can’t possibly cost more than a couple of dollars, and it shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete. You can buy external boxes that do this and a lot more, but that’s no fun! Read […]
The online operating manual for your government is now more complete… Not the type of “code” we’re usually posing here! From a paper-choked sublet office in Sebastopol, Carl Malamud is operating a kind of nonprofit Napster, with offerings a little less sexy than the music of Metallica, Dr. Dre and Green Day. Example: 404.1. All […]
This is pretty handy, you can now search old newspapers on Google… Official Google Blog: Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time… For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint — from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around […]
People from the Russian town of Chelyabinsk got together to form a massive smiley face just in time for Google Earth’s photo-taking satellite to pass by. – Smile to Quickbird [via Slashdot]
Captain-ahab writes- Last week I dropped my new iphone 3G in the Farmington River. It’s become a very expensive paperweight so tonight I figured I’d get some use out of it. Seeing it was the river that took it from me, it’s gonna at least catch me some fish. Thanks Jonathan! I can imagine some […]
Designed as a multiplayer version of his skittle-based sequencer, Kyle McDonald created this camera-driven beat making setup using webcam, projector, and openFrameworks based software. Since it’s deriving data from each phone’s lit screen, it would seem this could become a flashlight-based sequencer with ease. Info on Vimeo – I See Beats More: I Eat Beats […]
