Zfone is a VoIP encryption package developed by Phil Zimmermann, the author of PGP. There’s a software utility for Linux, Mac and Windows that automatically detects VoIP calls, negotiates a secure connection, and then filters all call traffic. So now you can have a secure iChat A/V call and protect against packet snoopers and man-in-the-middle […]
Jeff sent in the latest PDF story from Carl & Jerry: Their Complete Adventures called “Abetting or Not” first published in October 1956 by Popular Electronics, he writes – It’s one of my personal favorites for a couple of reasons. The boys were playing with (roughly) the same frequencies in 1956 that we now use […]
Interesting story on CNET about these open robots, the best part is the documentation on TeRK site, it’s outstanding – Carnegie Mellon University unveiled a new project Thursday designed to help people make robots from parts found at the local hardware store. The Telepresence Robot Kit, dubbed Terk, was developed by Illah Nourbakhsh, an associate […]
Kevin made a simple and useful cable catcher from PVC to keep all his cables tidy – [via] Link.
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 supports it. I recently learned […]
Last year, a laptop meltdown resulted in the source code for the drawbot disappearing. Adam recently took the time to rebuild a bunch of it. Now you can download it and check it out! – Link Even more code. Here are the programs that make it work! Drop your bmp into the launchdrawbot program and […]
In a MySQL Conference presentation with the subheading “How to store a hundred billion BLOBs without buying a single disk,” Mark Atwood described a new open source storage engine that he built which allows you to store data in Amazons S3 service using MySQL. It doesn’t (yet) allow you to create any generic table schema […]
