AppleJack Goes Leopard
You might hope that you never need it, but if you ever run into a situation where your Mac doesn’t boot all the way to the Finder and you don’t have any boot capable utilities like Das Boot to fix your problem, AppleJack will be your best friend. AppleJack is a single-user-mode tool that is [...]
Mac Error Confusion
Last month I was in Vancouver for a round of taping of the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show when this somewhat odd error window pop’s up on my screen. “The wireless network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled for about a minute.” I have never in my years seen this one, [...]
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Best of the week – Sept 17 – 23
Mac Errors (Frank) Unofficial Linux Support For New iPods (Frank) Make it all portable: Thinstall it (Rob) VMware goes flash with 3i (Rob) Wii to get Turbografx Titles (Frank) USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps (Frank) 6V Battery hack (Frank) NES Clone – Good cheap memories (Frank)
Top 10 Windows Errors
I love it when Windows errors pop up when you least expect them. They guys over at Newlaunches.com have compiled a Top 10 list of the Biggest Windows Errors. If any of you have snaps of any Windows errors at the most inappropriate places drop us a line. Top 10 Biggest Windows Errors Via Newlaunches.com
Best of the week – Sept 3 – 9
Small Fry 1,000,000 Volt Mini Stun Gun (Frank) Hackers at Microsoft (Rob) Windows Error: “Operation Completed Successfully†(Frank) 26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256 (Frank) Learn to Hack (Rob) New Phone-less Ipod’s and more (Frank) How To: VGA over Cat-5 (Frank) Eco-Friendly DVR (Frank) Inflight USB: Power for you gadgets from an audio jack (Frank)
Windows Error:
Not too long ago we posted about a roll your own windows error site that allowed you to do just that, create your own Windows Error dialog boxes. Here we see a truly genuine (no pun intended) Windows Error. I wonder if it will be fixed in the upcoming service pack?
Nmap 127.0.0.1: Flash style
A design flaw found in ActionScript (Flash) has been allowed the scanning hosts via trial and error. Whenever a port is queried by Flash that isn’t open, it responds with a “SecurityErrotEvent” instantly. But, when a port is open, it doesn’t get that response for an extended period of time, while it waits for a [...]
Duck Hunt on iPhone, without a hack
Just a few days ago we talked about hacking up your iPhone so that you could run an NES emulator on it. Now super cool developer Deron Dantzler has created a full featured version of the great NES classic Duck Hunt that runs on the Safari browser on your iPhone. Instead of a light gun, [...]
The Coca Cola Media Player Has Encountered a Problem
I’m sure i’ll get e-mail about me being a mac fan boy, but this one is just way too funny. This photo is from flickr and should a giant Coke billboard in Piccadilly Circus, London, and it’s underlining error message. I’ll quote the guys at The Gadget Lab on this one… Sing after me: “I’d [...]
NES controller for your iPod
I’ve wanted to do something like this for quite a while. I found this one during a visit to one of my favorite hardware hacking website, instructables.com. By embedding a PIC microcontroller into an old NES controller you can convert it into a replacement for Apple’s iPod remote. Imagine loading up Linux for the iPod [...]
