Taking photographs at a slow shutter speed can really benefit from the camera stabilization afforded by a tripod, but often times lugging around and setting up a tripod isn’t so practical. The string tripod is an old photographer’s trick that will give you a reasonable amount of stabilization, while still allowing you quite a bit […]
Mii Editor is a cool flash application that can edit and save Mii binary files. You can transfer your Mii to and from the Wiimote with MiiTransfer, edit it with the Mii Editor, or take screenshots and share your Mii file with friends. Resources: Mii Editor Wiimote data transfer library (includes MiiTransfer utility) Detailed info […]
If you’re really crazy about optimizing page load time for your website, here’s an interesting trick. By abusing some parser quirks in common browsers like Firefox and IE, you can actually combine a CSS file and a Javascript file into a single download. The technique relies on how CSS and JS parser behaves in IE […]
Here’s a common scenario: you need to make an emergency remote desktop connection to an XP server at work, but you’re at home and the server is behind a firewall that blocks RDC connections. In a nutshell, ssh tunneling allows you to connect to a port on another machine by forwarding traffic through an intermediary […]
I like to use the text messages from Google Calendar to create my on-the-go todo list. Problem is, I don’t always read them. Posting on HowardForums, dan24 suggested a program called DontForget, which keeps nagging you until you read that unread text message, email, or other notifications – Link
I’m back to running a few miles a day, I’ve always wondered why it not only felt “normal” but why our species evolved this ability, here’s an article from Physorg that explores this… Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their […]
Whether you’re an avid electronics guru or an armchair robo hacker, you’ve probably encountered a situation where it would be nice for your project to communicate information wirelessly. David from uC Hobby wrote in with a cheap solution to the problem: Need a simple, one-way, wireless data transmission for your microcontroller projects? This article will […]
