The folks at MakingThings have some new ways to get help for (and tell the world what you’re doing with) the Make Controller: A new forum system at www.makingthings.com/forum Trac-based bug tracking system at dev.makingthings.com Comments are now enabled on how-tos and tutorials Read all about it – Link Related: MAKE controller kit – Link. […]
Sometimes an otherwise useful application is missing a feature or two. Take the Stickies app, for example. For whatever reason, the authors decided not to include a scrollbar. Perhaps this was because it’s not a necessary feature for most users. Perhaps it was just overlooked. Thankfully, you can customize most OS X apps with the […]
John demonstates the potential for robots to improve humanity via parabolic beverage delivery. He writes: Have you ever gotten up off the couch to get a beer for the umpteenth time and thought, “What if instead of ME going to get the BEER, the BEER came to ME???” Well, that was how I first conceived […]
Randofo writes – I have found myself with an abundance of rotary phones. In fact, they’re everywhere I look. In hopes that I may someday see less of them, I’ve begun taking them apart and re-using the parts for other purposes. For some reason I got it into my brain that interfacing the rotary control […]
Here’s how to convert a battery drill to wall power – Link.
If your iPod decided to take the dirt nap, there may be a few tricks, short of buying a new one, that will put you back in tunes. Hackszine pal Sam writes: I recently discovered by 1. Simply opening your ipod 2. Disconnecting your drive 3. Turning the ipod back on and letting it boot […]
Back in the day, Linux users ran a utility called hdparm to make sure that their disk drives were operating at the ideal speeds. These days, Linux distributions usually can figure out the best settings for a modern drive, so it’s not needed as much. Still, it’s a nice tool for probing your hard drive’s […]
