At Google Blogoscoped, Philipp Lenssen has a great Google Maps hack to overclock the resolution of Google Maps, bumping any location up to the resolution available in Google Earth, simply by tweaking the URL: Select a location and switch to satellite view Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” […]
Wow, a single sided AVR ISP programmer that fits in an Altoids tin, sweet, er, minty – My simple inexpensive Parallel ISP programmer has done the job since I started working with AVR’s, but it definitely has its problems. It doesn’t work with some computers, it is slow, it is unreliable and it requires a […]
scanR is a free service that transforms phonecam photos of documents, business cards, or whiteboards into cleaned-up PDFs that it will then fax or email on your behalf. Documents are placed through an OCR process, so the text is selectable and searchable (though I’d probably rather have my documents converted to plain text or html). […]
A common problem that people have in Windows is running out of disk space on the C: drive. Because the C: drive is the default location for user created documents, photos, and music (among others), it’s not simply a matter of getting another hard drive. You also need to move all of these special folders […]
The winners of the Atmel AVR design contest were recently posted, here’s a really interesting one, Doggie 911 – The code from the projects are included too. The Doggie 911 electronic monitoring system enables dog owners and vets to monitor the patterns of epileptic seizures in dogs. The real-time, ATmega32-based system logs the number of […]
Over at the SmileOnMyMac Blog, Gordon Meyer (author of
Love tag clouds? Check out this page, which displays the top 20 search terms that drive people to each O’Reilly domain, including Hackszine. As noted on that page, here are a few things to keep in mind about these visualizations: The terms are organic, which means that these are terms that someone typed into a […]
