I like the way osalt lists open source alternatives along with their commercial counterpart, very handy…. Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software: Find alternatives for Visio -> Dia, OpenOffice Draw or Kivio Or for iTunes -> Amarok or Banshee Check-out Microsoft Access, Photoshop or Norton Ghost on you own. Our mission is […]
Nick writes – “Here’s an article, with plenty of pictures, describing the methods of uncapping various types of chip packages. Most of the methods shown are applicable to at-home use and require minimal equipment.” – Link.
Chipwhich sent in this adjustable metronome built with the picaxe-08m for keeping rhythm when learning to play the piano – Link.
Serious Flickr users who regularly respond to multiple comments on their photos might be looking for something a little more personal and functional than the de facto @username: convention for specific replies. For this specialized task, Flickr user doc18’s Flickr Buddy Icon Reply Greasemonkey script might be just what such hardcore Flickerers are looking for: […]
Natetrue writes – “I must admit I loved my Konica Minolta DiMAGE x50 camera. When the screen broke on it I was very saddened – though I moved on to a customized Kodak V570, I figured the old camera might still be useful. For a couple of months my old camera sat on my desk, […]
Brian (one our MAKE Media editors) writes – “This is my first Make Controller project. I wanted to grab weather feeds and display them on the Serial-Enabled LCD display I got from Spark Fun. Weather Underground has RSS feeds for their forecasts, so I used the Make Controller’s Socket* APIs to fetch the feed, grab […]
R. Stern writes – “I work in a computer lab with a physical computing studio, and recently I cleaned out the component closet. It occurred to me that the reason we had a build up of unlabled resistors was because noone knew how to read them without the Resistulator widget or a resistance calculator website, […]
