What do you do when you discover that your neighbors are leaching off your wireless connection? Well, you could use WEP or you could have a bit of fun. I’d choose fun if this happened to me.
[via Slashdot]
Category: Hacked
No iPod? No Problem!
I recently started using my Viewsonic V36 PDA as an MP3 player. Yeah, I know, Earth shaking news ain’t it. Well as I use iTunes as my music orginizer I knew that I’d be jumping through hoops to get music on to the PDA. You don’t know how happy I was when I found this app.
iTunes is a great music player and organizer. Unfortunately iTunes is made to only synchronize with iPods. Not everyone own an iPod, though Apple certainly would have loved that. How great would it not be if you could synchronize your non-iPod MP3 player, your Playstation Portable and your Walkman phone with your iTunes Library? Enter: iTunes Agent!
It works great, heck I told a guy at work about it and he’s using it to sync his phone to his library.
The Banana Jr. 6000
This is so darn cool. The computer made famous by the 80’s comic strip ‘Bloom County‘ has been re-born as a file server! I’ve wanted to build one of these for years, it’s nice to see that someone has finished one up. This one looks as if it started out life as a Mac SE/30, the original was based on a Mac 128 if memory serves me right. The floppy is in the right place on that model. Still, it looks real cool. Anyone have any cartoon inspired case mods out there that they would like to share? I need to pick up some yellow paint on the way home tomorrow don’t I…
whoa02 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
A great collection of Bloom County strips featuring the amazing Banana Jr. 6000
Boot to XP From a USB Drive
Booting your PC via a USB key drive into a cut down version of XP could have many uses. I might give this a go, it would be handy to have when I get people that have a bad virus/malware infection.
[via Mike Linnen Blog]
VGA to NTSC Without a Scan Converter
Have some old NTSC monitors gathering dust in your basement? Why not make a triple head display out of them. Sounds kooky but you can drive three monitors from one card by sending data on each color. So you get one monitor each for the red, green, and blue signals. Cool, eh? You have to hack your video cards BIOS a bit to get the refresh to match the TVs, but that’s well worth it.
[via hack-a-day]
The Paperclip Trebuchet
I’m a little short on the batteries he used as the counter weight but other than that I’m all set! this makes a great addition to the paper trebuchet that I found online a while ago. Come to think on it, its almost as cool as the popsicle trebuchet.
Time to get bending and lay siege to the photocopier.
[via Digg]