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Jason over @ Hackszine shows you how to run an iTunes (DAAP) server in Linux with Firefly – Firefly, formerly mt-daapd, is an open source digital audio server that can stream your music library to iTunes. Linux appears to be the most supported platform, but there is also beta support for Mac OS X, Windows, […]
Handbrake, an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows and one of the easiest way to rip DVDs, has a new version out: User presets (Mac) AppleTV and PS3 support Anamorphic, even in QuickTime Surround sound (both AAC 5.1 and Dolby Pro Logic II) Chapter markers (QuickTime-style) […]
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Ben Heck shows you how to make an Xbox 360, he writes – The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down an Xbox 360 motherboard, and modding / reattaching the DVD and hard drives. The next installment will cover case […]
Gene writes – Rigid Chips is almost like a virtual set of legos, except you have parts like V8 engines, rocket thrusters, laser ring gyroscopes, and guns. You can also add scripting to your models so you can make things like segways and autonomous vehicles. If your really ambitious you can also script “scenarios” or […]
Justin sent in some photos from his electro etching for a computer case using just salt water, it looks kind of like bacon, sweet metal bacon – Link. Related: Saltwater etch process – Link.
John writes in – I picked up some of these Point of Sale Touchscreen Systems on the cheap, so I set one up to boot into PBSKids.Org in a captive Firefox window (full screen, no menus). The kids are 3 years old, and 18 months old, and they love to click around. PBS Kids.Org is […]
