Ben Heck Show Is On The Air
You by now already know who Ben Heck is. We have featured his awesome mods time and time again here on tech.nocr.at. Ben now has his very own internet TV show. The Ben Heck Show started airing yesterday on element14 and is pretty cool. In his first episode, Ben builds an Xbox controller for a [...]
Boxee Set To Roll Out A Set-Top Box
Ohh you Americans with your awesome ability to watch full episodes of TV shows via Hulu and Boxee. Us Canadians are only stuck with the ability to watch our Canadian programming in some crappy player on some crappy Canadian broadcasters website. Actually it really isn’t all that bad, but then again, you have Boxee, we [...]
iPhone Coming To Telus, A CDMA Carrier
Looks like Apple and Telus will break the exclusivity bond here in Canada as Telus is now reporting that they will be offering the iPhone 3G S here in Canada in November. Funny thing about all of this is that Telus is a CDMA carrier. Could this signal the end to the GSM only iPhone? [...]
Industrial Strength Firewall, Poor Mans Budget
What in this world could protect your computer(s) or network better than a firewall? If you said not connecting your machine to the Internet your right, but most of us can’t live for more than a few minutes without being online. Hell, it gives me the shakes. Now, here at the Frank residences we have [...]
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 [...]
Netflix and Samsung Blu-Ray Team Up
Netflix and Samsung recently announced that two of Samsung’s Blu-Ray players (the BD-P2550 and BD-P2500) now have the ability to stream the Netflix service. Samsung and Netflix also plan to bring the movie/tv subscription service to more of Samsung’s consumer electronics in the future. To make it happen, the Samsung Blu-ray player communicates with Netflix [...]
New MacBook Pro Or Wannabe MacBook Pro
I agree with all the Mac faithful in this world. We need a new MacBook Pro (now that I just purchased a fully loaded on a few weeks ago) but this has to be one of the worst photoshop jobs I have ever seen. Bad clone stamping everywhere, janky right corner, the dock seems to [...]
Wii Backup ISO Loader
The above video shows you a very legit looking Wii backup ISO loader that’s in the works. The loader works via the super easy to use homebrew channel. It seems that you will have to rip the game disc and then patch it before you can burn the copy. No release date has been set [...]
Bill Gates And Jerry Seinfeld – Episode 2
The second Gates-Seinfeld Microsoft ad made it’s way into homes today, and to be honest was a million times better that their first spot about absolutely nothing that kicked off the $300 million dollar campaign. We learned that Gates and Seinfeld are on a quest to reconnect with real people. The latest installment has the [...]
DIY: Add USB Ports To Your Alarm Clock
Every night I fall asleep listening to my iPod, and every morning I wake up with it dead as a door nail. This cleaver hack actually came to me via my wife. She said “You put USB ports in everything else, why not the alarm clock”. So I did. As you can see from an [...]
DasBoot – Turn An Old iPod Into A Bootable Toolkit
I used to be the resident hardware hacker on the Lab with Leo Laporte show that aired in Canada and Australia, and while combing through some of my segments I stumbled on something I did last year that just saved my MacBook. DasBoot allows you to take any external storage device, like an old iPod, [...]
DIY: USB Switched Power Strip
Instructable user toymotorhead cobbled together this USB controller power strip to ensure that his devices turned off automatically when he shut down his computer as well as turn them on once he turned his computer on. All-in-all he spent about $30 on the contraption. The unit consists of a solid state relay, some fuses, and [...]
PS3 Games Running Via HDD
There seems to be some sketchy details released about a hack that allows you to run PS3 games via the hard drive. Hacker StreetskaterFU seems to have no trouble getting confirmation from others that this method of running Blu-ray games from the PS3 hard drive actually worked. So far it has only been reported to [...]
DIY: Blu-Ray Laser Phaser
If your a geek then you must have loved the old classic Trek episodes, the one’s with the red shirts that never made it, and what about those over sized phasers (compared to the later Trek series). Well, now thanks to Kip Kay you too can have a cool looking Star Trek phaser that emits [...]
Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
By Frank on May 15, 2009 · 23 Comments
I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]
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