I keep hearing from friends each month about how Amazon’s S3 is making website hosting reasonable for regular folks – here’s another example from one of MAKE’s kit makers – Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) isn’t new, but its certainly gaining traction. Its a wonderful product for people who have a lot of content on […]
The new del.icio.us Firefox extension is so good, I’m using del.icio.us again (I stopped for awhile when things just seemed slow/down too much)… The mosst useful feature for me is the bookmark search right from Firefox. Soon I’ll add this extension to every computer I use so I have bookmarks across multiple machines. If you […]
benjiwenjifoofoo sent a link to Cbreak, a cool tool that automatically removes commercials from AVI files. It works by scanning the AVI for black screens, which typically come before and after a commercial, and divides the AVI into black-seperated segments. Segments that are shorter than some specified length are discarded and the rest of the […]
Interesting PIC based project that can use your eyeball to move a mouse around – EyeWhere is an electrooculargram (EOG) that will allow your eye position to dictate the position of a cursor on a computer screen. At the moment, only the schematic, parts list, and PCB patterns are available. The price is $19.95. The […]
Here’s a photo build log of a living room PC in a wood case – [via] Link.
Neelandan writes – I am assembling this to find out the limit of oscillation frequency of a transistor from my junk box. After it is completed, it shall be used as a signal source for some uhf circuits. The frequency of the oscillator depends upon a tuned circuit – a parallel connection of an inductor […]
Walt Mossberg has an article that sums up the out of the box experience for a lot of new PCs out there, it sucks – they’re filled with a ton of “value added” software, offers and trials that the companies get paid to include, over the years I think Sony has consistently been the worst. […]
