All electronic devices send out eletromagnetic waves, so does your monitor – and your monitor does it all the time at very high frequencies. High enough for your short wave AM radio. All you have to do is display the “correct” image on your screen and your monitor will emit the “right” signals. Tempest for Eliza displays pictures on your screen. One for each note in the song. Link.
William writes “Radio Shack has made the Vex Robotics Programming kit “in stock” for online and phone orders. Word on the street is that most ‘shacks don’t have them in-store”. I think Radio Shacks aren’t going to carry these in store as they continue to move towards a consumer electronics only inventory. Link.
Ryan St. Evens and Digg pointed me towards another interesting thing to do with a PSP “Through a combination of PSPbochs (x86 emulator for PSP) and vMac (680×0 emulator for x86) – Mac OS 7 is running on a PSP! Since it’s an emulator running on an emulator running on a slow-ish processor, the whole thing takes about 4 hours to boot. But who cares?!” [via] Link.
Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page. Here’s ours from makezine.com! Link.
Here’s a great list of applications you can download and run off any USB drive or music player like the iPod. I usually keep my iPod nano filled with applications so I can use any system, but still have access to all the programs I need. It’s also handy to have a toolset when you need to fix computers. Link.
Scott writes “Just a quick, simple hack I did to totally change the feel of my Logitech scroll mouse. (basically, removal of the scroll wheel detent spring.) This will probably also work on many other mice with scroll wheels”. Link.
Earlier I posted about Google’s secure VPN access, turns out you can use it with a Mac as well (here’s how) – and if you’re looking for another VPN client – Tom writes “There is a free and more trustworthy free VPN client software (called “iPig”) and the iPig server, so you can set up your own (WiFi) VPN in a few minutes. Worked very well for me!”
