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By Frank on Jan 6, 2011 · 1 Comment
In our next installment of Distros That Don’t Suck we will be looking at open source HTPC software. Sure you can load up VLC or even use Windows Media player, but having a dedicated solution with a UI that is made for a TV is a lot easier and pleasing. I’ve left the PVR-centric software [...]
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By Frank on Dec 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
Following our list of Linux Distros That Don’t Suck, More Linux Distros That Don’t Suck and Even More Distros That Don’t Suck, we are going to start to narrow our lists to a specific role. In this installment of our “Distros That Don’t Suck” we are featuring routers/firewalls. Sure you can use your default DLink [...]
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By Frank on Oct 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The snooze button on my alarm clock has to be the most worn out button by far. I admit it, I am an alarm clock abuser. I tend to beat the crap out of the time telling device every time that annoying buzzer goes off. Now if I had me Mr. Wake which was designed [...]
Filed under Hacking And Security · Tagged with ac, alarm, alarm clock, arm, avi, bus, buzz, cat, clock, design, ds, ea, frame, heat, homebrew, id, ir, job, loa, lock, make, mit, os, pen, robot, tech.nocr.at, time, video
By Frank on Oct 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m not a big gun fan but watching a bullet is some metal at 1,000,000 frames per second slowed down to 30 frames per second is quite amazing. To put in perspective how fast the camera was that created this video lets do some math. Video is typically shot at 30 frames per second. This [...]
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By Frank on Oct 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Our favorite quicktime add on, Perian, turned 1.1.2. If you have never heard of Perian before then you should take this opportunity to slap yourself. The free plugin for quicktime allows you to play back all kinds of popular video formats like avi, mkv, flv, and more. It’s an absolute must for anyone who likes [...]
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By Frank on Sep 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The world’s greatest QuickTime plug in has just turned 1.1.1. Perian is a free add on for QuickTime that allows for decoding of virtually every known codec in QuickTime. Some of the great changes include: H.264 in AVI fixed Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1 [...]
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By Frank on Sep 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This great geek Pong Clock comes to us via the Make Flickr photo pool. User Funnypolynomial decided to put an old laptop to a good use and build his very own Pong Clock like we have seen floating around the net this pas week. I rescued an old Thinkpad ages ago and began a project [...]
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By Frank on Aug 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Remember OpenClip? It was supposed to be an open framework for implementing copy and paste functionality to the iPhone. If Apple wanted to implement copy and paste they would have done so already or they will do it soon, OpenClip was a notable effort to work around the limitation or the forgetfulness of Apple. OpenClip [...]
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By Frank on Aug 12, 2008 · 2 Comments
These might not be as functional as the Anti-Paparazzi Glasses but they will look cool. All you do is turn an old pair of sun glasses into Terminator shades, just like the Movie. It’s quite simple and silly actually, all you need to do is install two red LEDs onto the frames. You don’t even [...]
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By Frank on Jan 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
If you bought a picture frame for yourself or a loved one at Best Buy over the holiday season you might have gotten more than you bargained for. Apparently they came with a factory installed virus that is a threat to Windows machines if connected via the included USB port. The frames that had the [...]
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By Frank on Nov 29, 1999 · Leave a Comment
The Mini One iPhone clone is coming out at the end of this year. The most notable point is that it has a 720×480 display, which is quite amazing for a 3.3 inch size. Emgeton (a Czech company) claims that this phone is powerful enough to record (and compress) video at 30 frames per second. [...]
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By Frank on Nov 29, 1999 · Leave a Comment
Mirror Media has been making Mirrors that double as TVs for a while now – these products are dubbed the MirrorTV. And now they’ve taken their MirrorTV and combined it with a built-in computer to create a MirrorMedia computer- a magical mirror with a PC inside for using Microsoft Office, watching videos, surfing the web [...]
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Open Source Firewall/Routers That Don’t Suck
By Frank on Dec 30, 2010 · 1 Comment
Following our list of Linux Distros That Don’t Suck, More Linux Distros That Don’t Suck and Even More Distros That Don’t Suck, we are going to start to narrow our lists to a specific role. In this installment of our “Distros That Don’t Suck” we are featuring routers/firewalls. Sure you can use your default DLink [...]
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