Time lapse retro arcade art…
Artist Rosemarie Fiore makes these amazing time lapse photos of retro arcade screens. Pictured here – “Tempest 1” 2001. digital c print 4 ft x 6 ft – [via] – Link.
Month: February 2007
HOW TO – Sew and Easy Dog Bed
Candace at Crafty Daisies shows you how she sewed a dog bed for her pug, Jaxon. A great way to make something more stylish so that your dog bed can match your house! Link.
Scripts for Escaping Cell Contracts
The Consumerist has a couple step-by-step scripts for getting out of your Cingular or Verizon contracts without paying an early-termination fee, based on the former’s new arbitration clause and the latter’s recent raise in basic text-messaging rates. It looks tedious and a lot of work, but it doesn’t look nearly as difficult as my attempt […]
Make a RF probe
Neelandan writes – Probe for measuring in the Radio Frequency range built inside an earphone jack, designed to have minimum capacitance and complete shielding. Make a RF probe – Link.
Call for Hacks: Help the Hacks Team Collaborate
We at Hackszine are all about collaboration, and lately our geographically distributed team has been working on web-based and decidedly non-MS Office ways of doing so. We’ve been paying particular attention to the Google suite made up of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, and Google Calendar (and rumored to soon include a PowerPoint alternative), which […]
Everyday Stoicism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Show
Contrary to what you might think, based on the focus of most of the posts on this site, we don’t necessarily believe there’s always a technological solution to every problem. In fact, for many areas in life, I’ve often found the right life hack for my particular need may be discovered at perhaps the opposite […]
Experimental High-resolution Skype for Mac and PC
Jason has a sweet Skype hack… Jaanus Kase posted instructions over on Skype’s developer site for enabling higher quality 640×480 video. You need to upgrade to the latest Skype release (2.5.0.85 or later for mac and 3.0.0.216 for PC), quit Skype, and then edit the config.xml file in your settings directory (“~/Library/Application Support/Skype/[skypeusername]/” in OS […]