Month: July 2005

XmailHardDrive directly connects with your Gmail account to then turn it into a portable virtual hard drive that you can access from anywhere in the world. You simply enter your Gmail username and password, just like the other third party software, and then using the username and password combination it authenticates with the Gmail servers and connects you to your personal account. Therefore allowing the user to be able to upload files to their Gmail account. Link.

Ramsink has a lot of PC hardware and modifications along with many HOW TOs. USB mods, PSU testers, IDE cable hacking, fan quieting, s-vid to RCA, BIOS reset switch, XP tweaks, overclocking video cards, building your own radio and more. Link.

QQQ is a piece of art made by modding copies of Quake III. The artist, Nullpointer, has modded the Quake III engine so that it renders out crazy, haunting, beautiful high-speed graphics instead of levels. Sometimes he gets people to play public games of Q3 on an Internet-connected server and renders out their movements in the QQQ engine at his gallery installations. The videos are just wild. [via] Link.

If you messed up your monitor with a magnet…have no fear, grab a high rpm drill.. strap a couple of magnets on it. (Hard drive magnets work great. You’ll need one at least as powerful as the one that messed up the monitor.) Bring the drill to a high rpm, and point it at the monitor like a ray gun. It’ll tweak the monitor something fierce. But after you pull it away from your monitor whilst it is running, the spots will be gone. (It may take a few passes depending on the strength of the spot and magnet.) Link.

…Zazzle, a company targeting mass customization by allowing shoppers and store owners to create individually tailored clothes, prints, and other items. For example, customers can choose an image from a large image library, design a T-shirt using the image with online tools, and then have the T-shirt delivered to them. Lands’ End, CafePress, and other online clothing stores offer similar mass customization services on a small scale, but Doerr clearly believes that there is a substantial opportunity ‘for every individual who wants to create products that are as unique as they are.'” [via] Link.

MAKE pal Scott Moschella has a good round up of how to make animated GIFs using fee and free tools. The video to image to GIMP tip is really handy if you’re a GIMP user. Link.

Wow, even the lamps and teapots are made from origami…Origami House exhibition opened on March 5th at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia. A culmination of many months of planning, hard work folding, fun and many late nights, the show opened quietly and has only begun to awe visitors to the gallery. [via] Link.