Turn Any NAS Drive Into A Time Machine Drive
Time Machine is a great built-in feature in OS X. When Apple first announced that they would be offering the ability to backup and restore your files and system with the ease of use that we have come to know and love from Apple I was ecstatic. Then I found out that you had to [...]
iControlPad: Gamepad For Your iPhone
Since the release of the iTunes app store the iPhone and iPod touch have really been pushed as the next great portable gaming platform. Game developers have really started to push the limits of the device but the one major stumbling block has only been the “touch only” interface. The iControlPad looks to change all [...]
iSteady Shot: Camera Stabilizer For Your iPhone
If using your iPhone 3G S to shoot a movie is in your plans you will quickly learn that such a small and light weight device won’t be the easiest thing to keep stable. Gladly someone has got your problems covered. The iSteady Shot is a camera stabilization unit for your iPhone 3G S. Although [...]
Cup Communicator
When I was a kid you communicated with two tin cans connected with a string, and that was the early 80′s for God’s sake. If you want to relive your childhood with a modern twist (some of us supres our childhood memories of have a Sega system while everyone else had moved on to the [...]
Google Voice Invites
With all of the hoopla surrounding Google Wave most people have forgotten about Google’s last hot product, Google Voice. If you haven’t heard of Google Voice, let’s look at wikipedia …. The service provisions a U.S. phone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes, free of charge to each user [...]
Electronic Guitar Shirt
When only wear a shirt with a picture of your favorite instrument when you can actually play it? The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt from the clothing masters at ThinkGeek isn’t just a picture of a guitar, it’s actually a real instrument that allows you to play your favorite tunes right on the shirt. The shirt [...]
Dell Mini 9 Tablet
Hardware mod Rob928 has done a great job converting his Dell Mini 9 netbook into a tablet. He has also added some more features to his unit; an SSD hard drive, relocation of all ports and of course, a touch screen. The final product looks quite nice and without deep inspection you would never be [...]
iPhone Keyboard, Sort Of
Not quite ready for mass production or very easy to build, but if you really really really have a problem typing on your iPhone or iPod Touch you can build one of these “keyboard for your iphone” adapters. By using an Arduino, a 9 volt battery, an iPhone breakout board, and a PS/2 keyboard, Ben [...]
Flash Drive Comb
File this one under the “what the f*#k are you doing spending money on something so damn stupid” category. It’s now official, I have now seen every stupid possible way to jam a USB flash drive into even stupider objects. The only possible need to this $36 2GB comb flash drive is if your a [...]
Drill Powered Outboard Motor
This is a ridiculously simple way to create a drill powered outboard motor. Another crafty Instructables user shows us how he uses his cordless drill to power his boat. The drive shaft is a 10 mm wire rod that is connected to a right angle drill which drives a 3-blade propeller. Drive time might be [...]
NirLauncher – The Ultimate Thumb Drive Toolkit
For those of you who love to carry with you everything you might ever need to fix a friends system NirLauncher is the right product for you. You get over a 100 utilities included right out of the pop and it even gives you the ability to tweak it and add more. You can easily [...]
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 [...]
Duplicate Keys From An Image
Think your keys are safe on your desk? Think again. Computer programmers at UC San Diego have created some software that can pose a serious threat. Dubbed “Sneakey”, it can analyze an image (not even a good one) of a key from almost any angle and create an exact replica. In the picture above, the [...]
Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
By Frank on May 15, 2009 · 24 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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