Portable Apps For Your Mac
For the longest time we have seen portable apps for Windows. You know; the kind of applications you can drag onto a USB stick and have them run directly from the stick and never, and I mean ever, have to install anything on any machine that you may run them on. Now with U3 technology [...]
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 [...]
DVD::RIP – Rippin Linux Style
There is a ton of software available for both Windows and OS X that allow you to rip and encode DVD’s, but what about Linux? A few months back I did a segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show on just that, DVD rippers for Linux. (Video after the break) DVD::RIP is a [...]
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, [...]
Cheap DYI Laser Cutter
I’m been trying to source decent desktop laser cutter for the Lab with Leo TV show that I’m on. The biggest problem is finding anything that would be a reasonable cost for most consumers. Decent desktop laser solutions can easily run you into the thousands and they are big and ugly. Thanks to the wonderful [...]
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, [...]
EEE PC Goodies
I’m a huge fan of the ultra portable and ultra hackable Asus EEE PC. In a few upcoming Lab With Leo Laporte TV Episodes i’ll be showing off a few of those hacks, so I was extremely delighted to find out that some cool accessories have been announced for my new favorite machine. The range [...]
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Best of the week – Aug 20 – 26
Blinged Out Shuffle (Frank) Howto: Hide Files Inside of Images (Rob) Fix a Wet Cell Phone (Frank) Relaunch of suprnova.org (Rob) tech.nocr.at on your Cell Phone (Frank) Mac Upgrade Kit: Hammer and Cheque Book (Frank) Google Earth Sky Easteregg (Rob) Coin-Operated Washer/Dryer Hack – Real or Fake (Frank) Media downloading made simple (Rob) Rumour: New [...]
Lab with Leo: 100th Episode Party
The wacky kids in Vancouver that produce the Lab with Leo TV show are having a meet-up to celebrate their 100th Episode. If you’re local to the area you should make the trek out and meet the cast and crew of the Lab. If you are wondering, yes Leo Laporte will be there, as well [...]
Lab With Leo 100th Episode Jam
Just a reminder to all, if you’re in the Vancouver area tomorrow come and join all of us for the Lab With Leo 100th Episode Jam. You’ll be able to meet and hang out will all your favorite tech-heads; Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, the kids from TikiBar TV, and the entire cast and crew of [...]
First Looks: VMWare Fusion
In preparation for my monthly trips to Vancouver to appear on the Lab with Leo I installed the latest and greatest for the Mac from VMWare, Fusion. Suffice to say that only using this product for only the past 12 hours has already lead me to completely remove my install of Parallels. Now don’t get [...]
