Back in the day, the internet ran on ASCII, and we liked it that way. If you couldn’t find it on a keyboard, why, it just wasn’t a character and that was that. Back before the day, we had Commodore 64s, and while communication could involve all sorts of crazy glyphs and wingdings, at least […]
If you’re a Mac EyeTV user, you can bring your recorded shows into Front Row, commercial-free, with PyeTV and ETVComskip: This plugin allows access to EyeTV from within Front Row on Leopard, adding a EyeTV item to Front Row’s top level menu. The plugin gives access to EyeTV’s recordings (grouped by series), along with an […]
Make columnist and kayak builder George Dyson sent us these photos (click to make big) from Wipke Iwersen, his boatbuilding friend who is on an extended visit to the Phillipines. George says: “This re-evolution of the electric rice cooker is brilliant, and new to me. Have you seen this? I love it!” The rice cooker […]
Chris Harrison and Scott E. Hudson of CMU’s Human Computer Interaction Institute developed a technique for simulating a 3D video conferencing experience using standard webcam equipment. Previous research efforts have explored the use of 3D in telecommunication, and show that the additional realism can enrich the video conference experience. However, existing systems require complex sensor […]
Damien Stolarz, co-author of the upcoming iPhone Hacks and author of Car PC Hacks, has crammed two hard drives into his MacBook and likes to live on the edge: I bought two nominally 500GB hard drives (amusingly, each enclosure contained a different manufacturer – one Hitachi and one Samsung). Then I purchased an adapter from […]
Tetherbot is a SOCKS proxy for the T-Mobile G1. Using this tool, you should be able to connect your laptop to the internet using your phone’s data connection. It’s not a true routed connection like you might be familiar with with other devices, but browsers like Firefox or Safari can be easily configured to use […]
Joergen Geerds sent in his solution to long exposure night photography: the Bracketmeister, an Arduino set up that’s used with a camera’s bulb mode to automate bracketed, long exposure shots. I do bracket all my night photography, for various reasons: for exposure blending, noise reduction, dynamic range extension etc etc. Unfortunately, Canon thinks that all […]
