Users of Lego Factory and Lego Digital Designer can design their own customizable models using the 3D modeling software. Users have figured out a way to modify the software that allows them to build the models in a more cost-efficient way. All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of. Link.
Something for our MAKE pals in Germany – Hans writes “This is a detailed step-by-step guide to: (1) checking your DVD drive’s coding, (2) finding, (3) downloading and (4) using a DVD code-switching utility (not to be confused with the more complicated process of making your drive code-free). Then just sit back and watch that maker Wallace and is Dog Gromit in German”… Link.
I’ll go and check this out this weekend! Non-fiction books checked out and returned at the Seattle Central Library amount to approximately 37000 items per day. From now on, the circulation of books will float in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens located on a glass wall behind the librarians’ main information desk. Link.
Mag Ads are Insanely Inexpensive – Tip: Ads in MAKE: magazine are dirt-cheap, considering the size of the magazine’s audience (50K and growing), education level (high), income (high), ad-page density (commitedly sparse), and shelf-life (three months). You can get a full page for less than $3K– chump-change for big-company advertisers, and well within reach for many small businesses or even a committed Scout troop. Link. or email.
With this Google maps hack you can see the spammiest places on the planet, well- at least where a lot seems to be coming from. Mailinator is a service that gives you free, disposable email anytime, anywhere. No need to ever sign up. Send first – come to the site later. Mailboxes are created when email arrives for them. This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator. Link.
Extremely good HOW TO – After much frustration, I’ve finally set up my new mac mini to stream all my music to my work laptop. I say frustration, because whilst there is plenty of help out there, none of it in itself was complete enough to get me up and running. Some where too mac to mac, some to unix to mad, some unix to windows. Nothing really gave me the step by step, follow this and it will work guide. So, I present “The definitive guide to setting up iTunes streaming via the internet from a Mac running OSX to your PC running windows”. Link.
New MAME! From its initial release in February 1997, MAME has grown to support over 5700 different arcade games from the early days of the 1970s through to today’s high-action 3D games, meaning it is the largest arcade machine emulator project in the world. The 0.100 release has been humourously titled “1.00”, poking fun at the MAME team’s statement that as long as new arcade machines are being released, their emulator will never be finished. Link.
