Hotlink Prevention In Nginx
Hotlinking, inline linking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking or offsite image grabs. No matter what you call it 99% of the time it’s wrong. Bandwidth costs money. I spent sometime over the holidays examining my logs and noticed that there were a ton of sites hotlinking back to images we had posted. Worst of all, most [...]
Rubber Band Gatling Gun
Do you remember the Disintegrator that shot 40 rubber bands per second? Well how about a rubber band gatling gun that shoots 100 bands a second? It will cost you $500 but if you have money to burn or are just crazy then it will be perfect for you. The unit weighs nearly 20 pounds [...]
Nano Watch
You knew it was bound to happen. Ever since Apple announced the new redesigned iPod nano everyone has been referring to it as a watch and now you can turn it into one. I’ve been using the new nano for about a week now and love it. It’s perfect for the gym and it really [...]
Heat-Seeking Nerf Gun
The awesome heat-seeking Nerf gun won Make’s Gadget Freak Design Contest. The mod consists of a Nerf Vulcan Blaster hooked up to a few Devantech TPA81 Thermal Sensors and is controlled by an ATMega 168 processor. The unit acts exactly as it should, it tracks you via your heat signature and fires nerf bullets at [...]
$8450 Speaker Cables
I’m not about to open the debate about expensive audio cables. There are definitely two camps when it comes to expensive cables; One run by Monster Cable and the other run by everyone else and these $8450 speaker cables prove which side is right! These baby’s are made of “Solid PSS Silver” and feature “Dual [...]
A Cell Phone For Grama
With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]
iPhone Safari Bug Could Cost You Cash
Here’s one thing you don’t hear of too often, a serious bug in Apple’s iPhone version of Safari that could end up cost you, the user, some serious cash. Although it’s not a very common bug but thanks to someone who probably spend countless hours trying to poke a hole in Apple’s mobile device, all [...]
In Case You Missed It: Week 42 Round Up
In case you missed anything this past week, we have everything from cooling with mineral oil to video editing on your iPhone. Enjoy. Gadgets Asus Keyboard PC Gaming Cool Your Xbox With Mineral OilPS3 Smashing Into A TV At 80 KMHOpen Source DS Bluetooth AdapterBlack Wii For The BritsRock Band For iPhone Now Available Hacking [...]
Rock Band For iPhone Now Available
You can now head over to the iTunes App Store and pick up Rock Band for your iPhone for $10. One of the most anticipated games for Apple’s mobile gaming device lacks all of the hype that was built around it. I decided to dish out the $10 today to play it and besides suffering [...]
Rock Band For Your iPhone
This past week EA Mobile confirmed that Rock Band for the iPhone and the iPod Touch is set to be released this month. So far all we know is that it’s set to be out this month, no idea on pricing yet and that it will come with no less than 20 tracks for you [...]
UPDATE – Beatles Make It Into Rock Band
At the time of this post, further details were yet to be announced, but it appears official, Viacom and MTV Networks (owners of “Rock Band”) have licensed Beatle songs for their Rock Band game. This is a pretty big deal, since even major players like iTunes don’t even have Beatle songs yet. In fact, no [...]
More Dead Space, More Of Everything
If you own an Xbox 360, PS3, or decent PC, and can appreciate top notch audio/visual production values in your video games (along with some solid gameplay and storyline), then you owe it to yourself to check out “Dead Space”, Electronic Arts’ new survival horror game. Dead Space is getting scores in the mid to [...]
iPhone 3G Baseband Almost Cracked
In true iPhone-Dev Team fashion, the iPhone 3G baseband has almost been cracked. What does this mean to the average user? Carrier independence. Cracking the baseband allows for hacked code to run at the telecomm level. This is exactly how the iPhone-Dev team brought freedom to the first-gen iPhone last year. Sadly you still have [...]
RockBand For Those Over 40
Over 40 and wonder what the whole RockBand or Guitar Hero crazy is all about? Want to jump in but don’t know how to? Maybe you would be better off with Dan’s mish-mash of sound and electronics. This guitar has been stripped of all it’s internals and has a CPU and all sorts of cool [...]
