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Damien Stolarz, co-author of the upcoming iPhone Hacks and author of Car PC Hacks, has crammed two hard drives into his MacBook and likes to live on the edge: I bought two nominally 500GB hard drives (amusingly, each enclosure contained a different manufacturer – one Hitachi and one Samsung). Then I purchased an adapter from […]
I was browsing through the Android market on my G1 phone, and came across this gem from onlythoughtworks: My Name Is This application simply allows to build your own nameplate in seconds. It is highly customizable and will help you to get through your next meeting in no time. Weighing in at a mere 51 […]
Tetherbot is a SOCKS proxy for the T-Mobile G1. Using this tool, you should be able to connect your laptop to the internet using your phone’s data connection. It’s not a true routed connection like you might be familiar with with other devices, but browsers like Firefox or Safari can be easily configured to use […]
Starting at 9:43am EST 1/31/2009 Google says every site is malware… including Google. A few makers emailed me asking why every site was “malware” – looks like something went really wrong, or really right (for someone). It’s pretty clear what happened – Google became self aware and decided the web is mostly harmful – including […]
Leaked picture of the upcoming XO-2 OLPC via netbooknews.de. The next OLPC is being reported to be an open source hardware project too… It appears that the very first photo of the next-generation OLPC XO 2.0 low-cost laptop has finally emerged on the Internet, showing us some of the things we should be expecting. In […]
Eric Gradman has created this awesome interactive fluid dynamics program called Besmoke. It is iPhone accelerometer aware and responds to sound input. It is based on Navier-Stokes fluid simulations. Besmoke – Interactive Fluid Dynamics with iPhone and Sound Reactivity
This looks like a handy library for mobile-enabling your next Arduino project: This library implements the Software serial Arduino library to establish a serial connection to a Mobile phone. The methods methods hides the AT+ commands from the user allowing messages to be sent by passing the method on a phone number or email and […]
