Month: September 2005
Plasma televisions look great hanging on a wall without any visible wires, but they require a lot of wiring and effort to look that good. To install a plasma television using WireTracks, you must set up both the electrical and signal cables. [HOW TO Sync iCal to your Sony PSP (video)
Looking for a quick and easy work-around for syncing your Apple iCal calendar to your Sony PSP? This Quicktime video tutorial demonstrates the procedure to get your iCal calendars on your PSP using the free application PDF2PSP. (Download PDF2PSP via Sourceforge) Link.
Control Stuff With Your Mac
Andy writes “I picked up a Velleman K8055 USB I/O card the other day and was a bit disappointed that the only software that came with it was a closed source Win32 DLL and a simple control panel for the board. So I don’t have to boot into Windows to play with it I’ve produced a Mac OS X application that talks to the board. It’s open source too so you can write your own control applications”. Link.
The Ancient Art of Metrocard Puppetry
Deadprogrammer’s Cafe writes “It seems like humans will try to fold and rearrange just about anything. Paper, money, postcards. Some people make a living folding their members in surprising manner. Others fold dollar bills. What chance did humble Metrocard stand from being turned into an art material?”… Link.
HOW TO – a message from the band re: copy protection
Switchfoot’s new album Nothing Is Sound shipped from Sony with copy protection software on the CD, much to the dismay of thousands of iPod-wielding fans. The band posted a response on their official forum apologizing for the protection and detailing ways to circumvent the protection and rip their songs to PC. Switchfoot linked to open-source program CDex’s download page with instructions on disabling the autorunning protection and ripping the files to MP3. Many of Switchfoot’s fans have been upset by the copy protection measures, and it’s nice to know the artists seem to care about the issue. [via] Link.
Josh writes “After scoping out the new AJAX multi-platform IM client 
Video with sound on iPods with Linux
I finally got around to checking this out…“we’re going to do something pretty bold… we’re going to release the iPod Video.” Finally, I got sound and video to work together on the iPod Photo (thanks to a new audio driver by Bernard). It should show up in CVS soon (within the next few hours). It’ll be in the next nightly kernel+podzilla.” [via] Link. HOW TO and downloads here. I’ll post a video soon, so far it worked great.