Here’s an example of a normal embedded Youtube video, borrowed from Patti Schiendelman’s Gakken Mechamo Inchworm post. Back in march, it was discovered that when you view a video directly on Youtube, you could add a “&fmt=18” to the URL to enable a higher quality, higher resolution stream which is encoded with the H.264 codec. […]
IT’S EMAIL TIME – Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox – by Tom Igoe. I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry […]
Handy tip, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Superlocal writes – I am always forgetting my prepaid numbers esp when i’m in a city for a few days, so i just snap the number on my iPhone camera and make it my wallpaper, so it’s easier to get at whenever i meet someone who needs it. […]
Wired’s how-to wiki gives us “Cake in a Mug,” perhaps the greatest thing to come to the microwave since peep jousting: You’re working at home and your mind starts to wander to snack possibilities. There are probably some prepackaged, good-until-the-next-millennium baked items in your cabinet, but you’re in the mood for something warm from the […]
Now that you can run commands as root on the Google phone, you may have been thinking about what else you can do with the device. You know, besides the usual talking, texting, and surfing while driving. The device is Linux based, sure, but the installed software is relatively spartan and there isn’t too much […]
Phil Endecott has done a bit of hacking with the Linksys NSLU2 “Slug”, the low-power network storage device which runs Linux under the hood. His SlugPower project is a switched outlet that can be controlled from the Slug. This enables his print server to power up the printer when it needs to be printing, and […]
If you’re prone to scratching or loosing your Wii games, there’s a way to back up your games to DVD and play them later. An alpha copy of Wii Backup Loader was leaked to the public a while back, and combined with the hack to enable your Wii to run homebrew, this will allow your […]
