If you bricked your iPhone by updating an unlocked device, the iPhone Elite dev team has a tool that will restore it to its inital virgin state. It will safely back up and then restore the seczone area of the phone, undoing the bug created by the inital unlock code. RevirginizingTool – Link
WebDesignerWall has a big list of undocumented Photoshop shortcuts that you might find useful. Most notable are scroll wheel zooming by holding down Cmd+Opt, scroll wheel document panning by holding Cmd (or Cmd+Ctrl to toggle between left/right and up/down) and, my new favorite, moving a selection by holding the spacebar while dragging. The latter lets […]
If you have a jailbreak’d iPhone, you can update the Maps.app database with tiles from OpenStreetMap. Mikel Maron figured out how to update the Maps sqlite DB and was able to import the street tiles for London. My first idea was to modify the configuration or constant that the Maps App used for constructing Google […]
The DS Music Interface (DSMI) is a collection of tools that will allow you to use one or more DS devices as wireless MIDI controllers. Using the touchpad on your DS, you can control a MIDI capable music instrument or MIDI-driven visualization software. Using DSMI, the DS can also receive MIDI events. This can be […]
One of the problems with traditional turbine generators is that they are only really efficient and cost-effective at large scales. They may be great for feeding the grid, but an efficient, cheap, and portable device to power your cell phone or charge a radio a wind turbine will never be. Shawn Frayne’s invention, the Windbelt, […]
Universal Plug and Play support is available on most modern wireless and DSL routers. Among other things, it allows client machines on the local network to remotely configure the router’s port forwarding, typically without authenticated access. Adrian Crenshaw has a nice screencast which shows how to detect UPnP capable devices on your network and how […]
Thanassis Tsiodras writes: What would you do if you had to automatically backup a remote Linux box (e.g. your web server), and all you had locally was Windows machines? How about this: automatically expanding local storage space transmissions of differences only automatic scheduling local storage of differences only secure and compressed transfer of remote data […]
