Overview of how a Maker solved his audio problem in his new car “iPod your Subaru Outback’s Closed Audio System – For some incredibly stupid reason, Subaru has shipped its popular Outback for the past two years with completely closed audio systems making it near impossible to use them with the immensely popular iPod. Here’s a clean, affordable solution for iPodding your closed Subaru’s audio system.” [via] Link.
Jason writes “I made this tutorial after receiving a movie from Iraq, but the music overpowered the narration. People who don’t use iMovie can at least take the lesson that music too loud becomes the only intelligible audio in a piece.” Link.
Don’t throw away your old CDs! Here’s a knitting pattern where you can knit coasters for your old CD disks. It only requires a small amount of worsted weight yarn and is a great solution to finish up yarn scraps from past knitting projects. Try using different colors of yarn for every other row and create a stripy spiral. Link.
Tom writes “Inventgeek.com has a great article on rescuing your LCD monitors from the dumpster. Those of us that have used LCD monitors for a while know that over time the backlight starts to dim and can eventually completely fail. Well for less than $20.00 and about a half hour of your time you can replace the backlight and rejuvenate that monitor to as good as new condition. Now if they can only come up with a way to do this with my old Plasma TV tube.” Link.
In MAKE 04 we show you how to make a rocking pocket amp from a mint tin (Penguin, Altoids, etc). You can preview the PDF here, or you can subscribe to our iTunes feed and have all our new audio shows, videos and PDFs delivered to your iPod. Click here and click subscribe in iTunes.
This just launched today – “OpenSource.nokia.com is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source community. The Projects link will take you to project descriptions and give you access to any Nokia developed downloadable code with an Open Source license.” They’ve got an NNTP news reader up there (source is on Sourceforge), and a few more things (Python, a SIP user agent library, and more). A web browser is coming soon (based on Apple’s Webkit). Also, “Series 60” has been rebranded as “S60”. Thanks Brian! Link.
Piers writes “Daylight savings has started now, and it was still quite light, but not light enough, and I really needed to use a flash. The shadows cast from my built-in flash are really harsh and especially prominent in close-up shots, so I made a makeshift light diffuser out of the top of a slide box, lined on the inside with some thin paper. It worked pretty well, as you can see, the photos have a nice soft light.” Link.
