Map of online communities
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Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Real Costs – emissions data into travel related e-commerce website
Adds C02 emission information to travel sites, extremely clever – Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce website. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of […]
Open 2+ start page tabs in Firefox
Every time I launch Firefox I’m usually researching something online and/or something that has appeared on MAKE – so here’s a fun feature… You can have two pages open up in tabs as your start page, just put a link, the pipe symbol “|” and the other URL – handy!
Hackszine reader request: Play 3D games on an unsupported card
Brian @ Hackzine writes – Michael K. wrote in, asking for a hack to “enable someone to play a game on a computer with an incompatible graphics card.” Normally, I would have thought such a thing impossible, but I’ve been itching to try out Neverwinter Nights 2, and I don’t have a graphics card that […]
C64 wordpress theme
Jason over @ Hackszine writes- Rod McFarland has put together some really cool AJAX-based CLI themes for WordPress. With his CLI 2.0 theme, you can browse blog entries by “cd”-ing through categories, typing “ls” to list article titles and “cat [articlenum]” to read a post. AJAX is used to make the whole experience seem like […]
DIY PVC cable catcher
Kevin made a simple and useful cable catcher from PVC to keep all his cables tidy – [via] Link.
The Bug: Steampunk computer mouse
Jake made an stunning Steampunk computer mouse! Though the eccentric Professor William C. Ravenscroft remains stingy on details of his “Telecalculograph”, he has recently allowed photography of the device with which its user controls it. These images, as well as speculation upon their contents follows: One holds the device in a manner similar to the […]