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If you spot interesting/useful thrown out stuff in the Bay area, send it on up to GarbageScout – “A found treasure map – a recycler’s dream, a cheapskate’s best friend, and a dumpster diver’s companion. From your phone, email a picture of your find to “street@garbagescout.com” In the body of the email type a description […]
Since Apple released new Macbooks you can now pick up the old iBooks for pretty cheap, here are some mods – appearance, hard drive replacement & overclocking and screen/hinge repair. Thanks Silas! – Link.
Pastelero writes – “Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo […]
This is somewhat “new” – eBay has RSS feeds when it returns search results, so you can subscribe to something you’re looking for – Link. As GetLoFi pointed out, this can be handy if you’re looking to scoop up cheap gear or items that are hard to find. Here are a few handy ones for […]
Will shows you how to build an IR remote control interface for your PC, works with WinLirc and/or LIRC – Link.
Chris writes “This project has been many months in the making and I finally had enough time to put this thing together. For those people that aren’t HVAC engineers, Phase Cooling involves using a refrigeration compressor to compress a gas till it changes phases to a liquid. This liquefied gas is then pumped into an […]
Ken writes “WEP password, meet oil landscape. Recycle that old painting into a functional piece of tech decor. Keep your network protected while your house guests can surf the ‘net and admire art.” – Link.
