TOOLBOX: PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier
Most of us electronics obsessed folks know that the everyday power strip just doesn’t cut it. A typical 5-outlet strip might be able to accommodate two bulky power converters, so you end up needing three of them to connect your five devices. Definitely not a pretty picture. To solve this problem some brilliant person eliminated the actual strip and simply connected together five flexible outlets. Now your big square power converters can exist in peaceful harmony, all of them humming along in unison to the same lovely tune. [via] Link.
The idea is simple: Using the Windows CE emulator, I could have my entire “internet communications system” on a virtual machine that I carried around with my on my USB keychain. I could essentally plug it into the USB port of any machine running Windows, and bring up the emulator and use Internet Explorer, Messenger, Inbox, etc. Version 2.0 is now based off the new ARM based Device Emulator which can run native Pocket PC binaries. Yes, you read that correctly – with this version, you will be able to run most Pocket PC apps from emulation. 
Great HOW TO from Jake “I was intrigued by the idea of having all my own bookmarks, my own desktop/icon artwork and themes and preferences, all my own programs and data instantly available to me on any computer on campus. The computer essentially becomes a temporary host for my personal operating system — which I carry in my pocket. SLAX seemed to be the best balance of customization, function, and ease of use…This is a howto on installing SLAX on an iPod nano. It may seem long, but I tried not to gloss over or leave out any details”. 
This will allow you to put more than 100 songs on the “iTunes phone” along with a couple other things …hack for the new Motorola ROKR (merging several MP3s into one will let you store WAY more than 100 songs on the DRM enabled phone). However Chapterizer definitely IS useful for lots of other stuff... 
Wow, I need to try this – Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it’s all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began… Don’t carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase! 
DaveC writes “Great Australian site for Car Tuning, but not just the bolt on/mechanical stuff, they have many articles about hacking the various control systems of your car. I haven’t ever seen this in U.S. Tuning magazines as they tend to be more low tech in scope. Perhaps a liability issue in the U.S. prevents this sort of low level hacking?” 
