I had coffee recently with Joel of Geek.com, and we hung around a Panera Bread getting our XO laptops to do cool stuff and see if we could brick them. Joel has a complete write-up on the fun over at Geek.com: …we had a good time playing around with the XO. I should also mention […]
It’s an underused feature, but you can give your Flash and AJAX/Javascript applications basic mouse wheel support that works across most common browser platforms. Google Maps’ mouse zoom feature is a good example of how useful this small addition can be. If you’re programming an application where zooming or scrolling is a common task, give […]
After my post last week about disabling the navigation lockout on Lexus and Toyota nav systems, I received a request from an unhappy Ford owner with the same problem. After a bit of searching, I unfortunately wasn’t able to turn up any straightforward “secret-password” solution for this. What I did find, however, is a straightforward […]
A while ago we wrote about removing the DRM from Netflix “Watch Now” movies. At the time, it involved wading through a bit of HTML source to find the target video URL. Since then, a couple of important things have happened: a Greasemonkey script was written that makes it a bit easier to download and […]
Sometimes the solution for an everyday problem is so simple it takes thousands of years for someone to fail to overlook it. Take this clever concept for a flower pot that leans over to signal you when your plant needs watering. Jonah @ Makezine writes: Unlike some plants that call you on the phone when […]
A recent Arduino -vs- Basic Stamp discussion over on the DIY Drones site really caught my eye. Jordi makes a nice argument for the Arduino, showing off the current state of his Arducopter, which you can see in the video above. Built using a low cost electric heli, an Arduino board, and the guts from […]
Don Hopkins has released a GPLed version of the original Sim City, cleaned up and renamed to the original title, Micropolis: The “MicropolisCore” project includes the latest Micropolis (SimCity) source code, cleaned up and recast into C++ classes, integrated into Python, using the wonderful SWIG interface generator tool. It also includes a Cairo based TileEngine, […]
