Arnezami from the Doom9 forums slurped out the processing key that can unlock every HD DVD and Blu-Ray disc, regardless of how any of us feel about these wonky multiple formats and DRM, reading the forum messages on how this was accomplished is a lot of fun… …then I realized why I first didn’t find […]
If you don’t mind your Mac Mini being slightly less “mini,” a big performance and storage upgrade can be gained by connecting a faster 3.5″ SATA drive. Unfortunately, there are two big difficulties, namely: 1) there is no external SATA connector on the Mac Mini and 2) any upgrade has got to be in keeping […]
Longtime readers of books in our Hacks series will have no doubt already noticed that the launch of Hackzine.com includes a redesign of our series logo: I love the new look and its family resemblance to Make’s typography, but before we’d made this connection official, I’d already had fun mashing up these two great brands […]
Make Publisher and Hacks series chief Dale Dougherty brings us this anecdote cum request for hacks… Stay tuned for (a la Rocky and Bullwinkle) “Jobs Really Made Fried Green Apples,” Or “Why Am I So Hot I Could Cry?” Make’s Associate Publisher Dan Woods wrote that his son, Jack, had a fever over the weekend. […]
A quick way to back up your blogspot hosted blog is to use the built in search tool to dump your blog’s entire contents. Using wget, this is something that could be easily incorporated into your nightly backup script. If you know your blog has fewer than 1000 entries, just use the following URL to […]
Testing out this Google Newsbar I saw on LifeHacker… Loading… Make your own @ Google’s AJAX search API – Link.
I’m setting up a new computer all weekend, so that also means adding a zillion tweaks and add-ons to get stuff done as the week rapidly approaches. One of my favorites is “CustomizeGoogle”. Check out the image above and the other search engine links, which you’re looking for stuff and need to compare results it’s […]
