iMac night light
Samantha writes – I turned the shell of my dead iMac into a bedside lamp with an LED light from IKEA. Mmm, limelight! Diary of a Necromancer – Little Miss Cleverpants – Link.
Technology
PID controlled bio-dome heating pad
Seth writes – After a month of messing around, I finally got my act together and started working on my PID heating pad controller. Well, actually it is only a P heating pad controller right now, but I will go into that later. The Goal: Create a PID controlled heating pad to regulate the temperature […]
Silence Your MacBook’s Whine
I’ve been using a MacBook Pro for about a year now, but with a growing desire to be able to swap internal hard drives whenever I feel like it, I’ve decided to switch to a black MacBook. It’s basically perfect, except for a barely audible whine (which I’m convinced most people would not even notice). […]
Hacking Sale Prices
The Consumerist had an interesting article last month about certain retailers using a price coding scheme to indicate different discount classes. For instance, if you are at Sears and see something priced ending with .95, it means it’s an out of production, clearance product. At Office Depot, prices not ending with 0,9, or 5 are […]
Hacks Authors’ Blogs: One Feed to Rule Them All
Here’s a special post from Hackszine – great way to follow all the authors from our HACKS series…. Ed note: In this guest post, veteran Hacks series author Paul Bausch takes on a challenge that’s been on my todo list for a while, providing a solution that should be of immediate interest to all readers […]
HOW TO – Turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod
Mark writes – In this little proof-of-concept I was eager to try out if I could swap the Microdrive inside an iPod mini for a Compact Flash-card. These cards are getting bigger and cheaper by the day so my idea was, if this works out, we have a great way of extending the life of […]
Hacks Authors’ Blogs: One Feed to Rule Them All
Ed note: In this guest post, veteran Hacks series author Paul Bausch takes on a challenge that’s been on my todo list for a while, providing a solution that should be of immediate interest to all readers of this site and just might serve as a seed for future hacking around here. I have a […]