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Jason writes – We’ve posted about installing Ubuntu and Vista on the little Asus Eee PC, so to round things off, here’s a guide for installing Leopard. Using a few tools of the hackintosh trade, Dan from Uneasy Silence was able to get OS X running on the little lappy. One thing that Dan mentions […]
Jonathan Zdziarski and his editor, Andy Oram, just wrote in with the news that Jonathan’s iPhone Open Application Development book is now available in “rough cut” form. Here are the details: Certain technologies bring out everyone’s hidden geek, and the iPhone did so instantly upon its release. Thousands of programmers want to provide applications on […]
Mikes writes in – Since Make is all about great hardware projects, I figured I’d let you know about a project that aims to develop a fully VGA compliant video card in true open source fashion. Kerneltrap now has an interview online about the motivations behind the project, when the card will be available and […]
MIT has posted all the materials from their Playstation 3 programming course, if you’re interesting in learn how to program one or the cell processor click on through… Students will spend several weeks learning about new multicore architectures and parallel programming patterns, and will design and implement projects to run directly on the new PLAYSTATION®3 […]
A reed switch is an electrical switch operated by an applied magnetic field, here’s a simple how-to on using one to turn on a computer.
HUGE collection of just about everything you can do to the super-popular and portable Eee PC. USB hub, GPS, Bluetooth, card reader 8 GB drive, 4 GB drive, wireless, FM transmitter, modem, RAM and more! – [via] Link.
The “Walking Radar” project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. Pretty cool, just don’t try to take this phone through airport security. Walking Radar – [via] Link, video
