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By Frank on Jan 27, 2011 · 1 Comment
Remember the decision from a few weeks ago where a judge didn’t think they had jurisdiction to decide on the fate of jailbreaker George Hotz, aka Geohot? Well, Sony has finally seen their day in court and has managed to win a restraining order against Geohot. We all know that once you put something on [...]
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By Frank on Jan 22, 2011 · 2 Comments
Waiting for a bus will never be boring again if you live in San Francisco. Yahoo has just installed giant touchscreen panels at 20 San Francisco bus stops. The giant multi-touch screens not only allow you to play games, but allow you to play against people at other bus shelters. Top scores for each neighbourhood [...]
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By Frank on Jan 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
For those of you who have been waiting patiently for their U-Socket’s to ship rejoice, they are on their way. FastMac’s U-Socet is a wall socket that offers your standard dual 110V outlets alongside dual USB ports to charge your multitude of gadgets. For under $20 you can equip each outlet in your house with [...]
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By Frank on Jan 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Engineers at the University of Michigan have put together a prototype device that can be powered and communicate via the audio jack on an iPhone. Currently if you want to create an accessory that is to be used with the 30 pin connector on the iPhone you must pay a licensing fee to Apple as [...]
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By Frank on Jan 14, 2011 · 1 Comment
You must be living under a rock if you didn’t hear about Sony filing suit against fail0verflow and Geohot for their distribution of the PS3 jailbreak firmware. The first step in Sony’s legal battle involved a temporary restraining order (TRO) against them to stop the distribution of the code. That TRO case was heard earlier [...]
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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 Jan 4, 2011 · 1 Comment
At first glance this might look like your average beer fridge, one that could possibly be in any dorm room in the country. If you take a closer look (or watch the video after the break) you will see that it’s actually an air cannon powered beer launcher. A fancy iPhone interface allows the user [...]
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By Frank on Jan 3, 2011 · 1 Comment
Twitter is such a wonderful thing. It’s a great way to spread information quickly and effectively and it’s also great for handing out shiny objects We happen to have a shiny new 6G iPod Nano in a box that we are itching to give away to one of our readers. Either follow @technocrat_blog or retweet [...]
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By Frank on Jan 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
How did we ever live without push notifications? Email, SMS, IM; we get notified each time one of them is updated. What about our old analog world? Make Magazine show’s us just how we can get push notifications for an older form of mail, snail mail. This awesome project uses an Arduino to trigger a [...]
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By Frank on Jan 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Sure, you can control modern day video equipment like you Slingbox or satellite receiver via the web, but what if you have some old school gear that can only accept commands via good old fashioned Infa-Red? Instructables hacker nmcclana has put together a small embedded web server that transmits IR signals (Video after the break). [...]
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By Frank on Jan 1, 2011 · 1 Comment
Apple just can’t seem to get the Alarm Clock app right on the iPhone; earlier this year people experienced problems shortly after the DST time change. Alarms that were set to repeat went off either an hour early or an hour late depending on where you lived and now in 2011 it doesn’t want to [...]
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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 Sep 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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By Frank on Sep 6, 2010 · 3 Comments
Following my first two distro lists; Linux Distros That Don’t Suck and More Linux Distros That Don’t Suck, I bring you the long awaited third installment in my distro lists; Even More Linux Distros That Don’t Suck. As a fore-warning, this list is just what I have used in the past and what I have [...]
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By Frank on Aug 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
How about your very own aerial surveillance drone that is launched from it’s own mailbox? I know your probably calling me crazy right now for even thinking of it, but it’s true! The ScanCam 200 is exactly what you want for security surveillance of your property. The unit is a small quad-rotor UAV drone that [...]
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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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