Jeff made a fun Flash app that lets you listen to the price of a stock, he writes… So, my boy Mike Nathanson and I wore our brains on our sleeves at Flashcamp this weekend. We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks. It uses the new SampleDataEvent […]
You can watch (at least) 5 full episodes of MacGyver on YouTube now via Lifehacker. Update: Veoh has over 100 episodes! More: The MakeShift challenge invites MAKE readers to submit their solutions to a problem posed by the author, Lee D. Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver). Check out the past MakeShifts as well as the latest, […]
Jeffrey Augustine Songco made this rather foreboding dream catcher featuring a captcha text – Iรขโฌโขm really interested in the relationship between my identity and the Internet. Iรขโฌโขm interested in how I can become someone else or learn more about myself by using the Internet. Regardless of what that identity is, Dream Captcha is a work […]
Quick and easy how-to on setting up remote bittorrenting at the Wired How-To Wiki… For the full-fledged BitTorrent geek, remote control means setting up BitTorrent on a home server that runs continuously in the background. Even if you don’t want to delve into home server setups, remote control tools have other uses. Say you’re at […]
Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems – and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers – Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation. We […]
Great post from Brian @ Hackszine on getting a netbook on the cheap! He writes… Things I learned today: Microsoft is encouraging people to use Live Search by running a generous rebate program. At times (such as this morning when I bought an MSI Wind), the rebate can reach 30% or higher. eBay sellers techtreasure […]
Popular Mechanics has a quiz, a list and videos of 100 skills everyone should know, the article says “men” but as I went through the list I know more women who can do more of the skills than men, so I’m going to suggest they call it “100 skills everyone should know”… check it out, […]
