The Yahoo Hack Day 2008 event wrapped up this weekend and the winners have been announced. One of my favorite entries that didn’t make the cut, but is worth mentioning is SnackUpon, a Yahoo Pipes application that provides StumbleUpon-like behavior using your Delicious username as input. The output is RSS-feed based on data gathered from […]
Sometimes it’s nearly impossible to get the perfect photograph in a popular tourist location, without having gobs of people crossing into view. Wired’s how-to wiki has a useful entry on removing these bipedal obstructions from your travel photos. The trick is to use a tripod to take a number of duplicate photos. Each photo should […]
Along with Firebug, GreaseMonkey remains one of the best Firefox extensions, giving the browser capabilities that Safari, IE, and Chrome still can’t compete with. It gives you the ability to easily write your own custom features for Firefox in Javascript, letting you customize the way content renders and executes on any website you visit. Super […]
This info graphic guide by Vectortuts user Jonathan blew me away. I putz around in Adobe Illustrator from time to time, but I’ll be first to admit that I basically have no idea what I’m doing. Maybe after running through a few tutorials like this I’ll be able to fake it. There are some really […]
Alessio Sangalli has been maintaining a guide for a few years that shows you how to create a serial port IR receiver from scratch and use it in both Windows and Linux. Her design is pretty slick since, as you can see from her photo above, the whole package fits neatly inside a standard 9 […]
Nich sent us a link to his project, Dr. Pic, an all AJAX image editor. Without using any Flash, the application allows you to upload an image, do simple draw and filter operations, place text, crop, resize, and save a finished copy. Javascript is used to draw preview material to the canvas, and then the […]
If you’re waiting impatiently for the native Linux release of Chrome, check out the instructions by Romeo Adrian Cioaba, who was able to get Chrome running on his Ubuntu box using Wine. The latest Wine release (1.1.4) contains a fix that corrects some rendering problems with the application, so make sure to upgrade first. Most […]
