Threat Level recently ran a story about Kevin Bankston, the EFF attorney who decided to test the take-down procedure for privacy-infringing photos within Google’s Street View. Initially, Google required a wealth of information before removing the photo, but they changed their policy, requiring only your name and the location the image was taken. Kevin submitted […]
The great thing about the MacBook is that it’s one of the first Apple notebooks in a long time that includes a user-replaceable hard drive. And it’s incredibly easy: remove three screws, pull the drive out, put the new drive in the old drive’s caddy, and plug it back in. That part takes about five […]
You’ve got an old bike packed into the garage or picked one up at a yard sale, fix it up! This weekend, the pdf is a comic book that teaches you how to convert a bike into a single speed. Get it and the video about automatically by subscribing in itunes. – Link Watch the […]
If you want to share an external drive between a Mac and a Windows machine, you typically format the drive with a FAT32 partition. One problem you’ll run into, however, is that you can run into a file size limit if you’re dealing with really large files. NTFS gets around this limitation, but unfortunately the […]
J_Hodgie writes – This Instructable will show you how to make a device that can float almost any object with a magnet in it. It is much like the floating globes you can buy, except it works by balancing the forces of permanent magnets with electromagnets, rather then simply using combinations of permanent magnets. This […]
Here’s an old timey kid chariot you can make – Link.
TECHKnitting has a great write up explaining the meaning behind knitting charts and how you can write up your own chart. Link. Amy O’Neill Houck of The Hook and I points us to a Java based Knitting Chart Maker by Jaquie. Pictured above is Amy’s Poncho chart. [ via ] Link.
