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Pasteler0 writes – “Have you ever looked down in the base of your computer cooler? They aren’t always clean and shining. This DIY tutorial shows how to make it look like a mirror and this way have more contact with the heat source and low more the computer temperature. Step-By-Step with many pictures.” – Link.
Not a bad deal, 500Hhz Celeron, 128MB RAM, 4GB HD Ubuntu pre-installed, just add keyboard/mouse/monitor – Craigslist, eBay, free — still might be better… [via] – Link.
I’ve been using a tablet for sketching, and also use Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS to make “pen based” music, so it’s neat to see that there are applications to turn the big tablet into a musical instrument too, Peter writes – “Whether you’re a graphics artist wanting to make music in new ways or […]
If these were web connected, always on and used as we slept, could be an interesting web connected seismograph project… – “SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.” [via] […]
Rick writes – “This tutorial will explain how you can set up a Mac mini or other spare Mac to be a 24-hour spam filtering drone. The process utilizes Apple’s Mail application, IMAP email, and C-Command’s SpamSieve along with a few custom AppleScripts that will allow you to remotely train the Mac mini in the […]
Aaron shows how to use an Apple iSight to take photos through a telescope – [via] – Link.
Windell has a step-by-step on making hard drive wind chimes – [via] Link.
