Felony for weezing the Wi-Fi? In a way, Dinon was fortunate the man outside his home stuck around since it remains a challenge to catch people in the act. Smith, who police said admitted to using Dinon’s Wi-Fi, has been charged with unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony. A pretrial hearing is set for July 11. It remains unclear what Smith was using the Wi-Fi for, to surf, play online video games, send e-mail to his grandmother, or something more nefarious. Prosecutors declined to comment, and Smith could not be reached. [via] Link.

Here’s a neat web-distributed movie called THE.SCENE. NYU student Brian Sandro has a secret: he and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time. They are revered, reviled, hunted and admired. No one knows who they are – at least, not as far as they know. Catchy music, uses screen captures and IMs as part of the action. Link.

Regarding our earlier post– Userbit writes “I had a go and was pretty pleased with the results: Canon EOS 20D, Manual mode, f16, 5 sec exposure, tripod.” Link. Here are some of the ones I took, I like the telephone pole and transformer outline in the front, Link.

In 1776 we had enough and weren’t going to take it anymore. And now you can get the Declaration of Independence read by Bill Barker interpreting Thomas Jefferson over at Colonial Williamsburg. They have a lot of other history related podcasts too. [via] Link.

As you ooh and aah at the dazzling explosions of a fireworks display, there are three things going on that you probably wouldn’t guess: The chemists who made those pyrotechnics designed most of them so they wouldn’t explode, you’re actually seeing nature conserving energy, and most peculiar of all, when things are at their flashiest, you’re actually seeing the fireworks as they’re cooling down. Link.

To see the graphics, ctrl click iTunes->show package contents/ Contents/ Resources-> iTunes.rsrc, Click once on the file and hit command + D. Drag iTunes copy.rsrc to the desktop. While still in the resources folder, open the folder titled English.lproj. Highlight the “Localized.rsrc” file and hit Command + D and drag Localizedcopy.rsrc to the desktop. Next, download the Resorcerer 2.4.1 Demo (Or any other Resource viewing App) . In the application, locate the iTunescopy.rsrc and Localizedcopy.rsrc files now on your dektop and use the ID #s in my picture to locate them in Resorcerer. Hope that helps. Link.

I’ll be Geotagging some photos in Seattle, WA. Happy 4th, Makers! Regardless of the camera equipment you use, making good photos of fireworks can be challenging. Here are some basic things to consider whenever you are shooting a pyrotechnics display. If you have an fun MAKE moments over the holiday, send them along! Link.