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This is really clever, it’s an all cardboard PC case, you pop out all the perforated sections, fold it up and install your PC parts. With millions of PCs thrown away each year, this could potentially be a great way to cut down on the waste. While this one from Japan looks a little dull, there is a lot of art projects that use cardboard boxes, it’s just a matter of time until these look extremely cool and perhaps will be artwork on their own. [via] Link.
Ric writes “I came up with a simple hack that makes a lot of sense… everyone wants more desktop space but can’t afford expensive hi res monitors… well I ran across this when tinkering with my new video cards…I placed three monitors on their side and used rotation software to make them into one workspace… 3000 pixels by 1280 pixels… view whole web pages in one view… see US letter docs at 100% in one screen… its just magic and cheap.” Link.
Make pal Jason Striegel is looking for testers for his new app – PhotoPlug allows your Windows Mobile phone to display photo slide shows right on your home screen. It’s a very cool, must-have for Smartphone owners. If you own a working, unlocked 2002 or 2005 Smartphone, please contact me at inquiries at virtuoffice dot com. I need a couple of testers and in exchange I’ll send you a free copy of the latest version. Link.
Make pal Hans sent in this web-only analog computer museum. Analog computers have a long history dating back to prehistory, but with the recent development of the microprocessor these computers and their technology has been discarded and is quickly being lost to history. Their mission is to help preserve some of this technology and to provide a source of information for people that want to use this technology – Link.
Nice HOW TO from Zapwizard – This guide will show how to make a separate LED to show exactly which drive in your system is active. This modification is done without warranty, I did this to three 80 conductor cables without any problems, if you screw up don’t blame me. First off this Mod only seems to work on IDE Harddrives, the two CD-Roms I connected (one Pionner DVD, and one Lite-On CD-RW) don’t even use this pin on the IDE cable. The CD-RW LED is always on, and the DVD LED is always off. Link.
Mr.Bill, MAKE pal and MAKE Flickr photo pool member posted his photo set of the Replica-1, a recreation of the Apple I using modern components, from Briel Computers. Great final result and construction photos. Link.
Ryan St. Evens and Digg pointed me towards another interesting thing to do with a PSP “Through a combination of PSPbochs (x86 emulator for PSP) and vMac (680×0 emulator for x86) – Mac OS 7 is running on a PSP! Since it’s an emulator running on an emulator running on a slow-ish processor, the whole thing takes about 4 hours to boot. But who cares?!” [via] Link.
