Opentape
I had never heard of Muxtape until it was shut down by RIAA. Thanks RIAA for brining such an awesome service to my attention and thanks for moving the open source project Opentape to the forefront so we can continue to enjoy this fantastic product. Opentape isn’t affiliated with Muxtape, but it’s similar in functionality [...]
Pigeon Playing Tap Tap Revenge
What’s youtube good for anyways? Video’s of kids laughing? Your cat on a toilet? What about a pigeon playing Tap Tap Revenge on an iPhone It’s amazing that bird beak actually registers on the multi touch display at all. The bird by the way, actually looks like he is doing better that I have ever [...]
Guitar Hero In Your Pocket
Can’t get enough of the addicting Guitar Hero game? Now you can play it anywhere, anytime. Basic Fun’s tiny Guitar Hero game offers a variety of tune from both GH 1 and GH 2, including Rock this Town, Cherry Pie, Smoke on the Water, Miserlou, Message in a Bottle, Surrender, Jessica, and Heart Shaped Box. [...]
DYI Photo Snoot
Although a snoot might seem like someone who is rich and wealthy in reality it’s a photographers secret weapon when creating dramatic lighting. Weather you want a dramatic highlight or an eerie vignetting effect, a snoot can help limit the spread of light from a flash. With some gaffer tape and some cardboard you can [...]
Lift Fingerprints Like The Pros
Considering all the crime dramas that I watch on TV I think I would make a great crime scene investigator. Run a Q-tip on some blood, spray some cool looking mist on a carpet, insert a hair into a fancy machine, and way a gun around. Doesn’t sound so hard. I suspect that I’m not [...]
Protect Your PC With A Magnet
Did you know that you could protect your PC or most other devices that use a power source from being powered on with nothing more than a magnet? All you need is a reed switch, a magnet and some duct tape. This is of course a basic protection and someone who really wanted to access [...]
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, [...]
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets
In this short video (after the break) Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing any audio to be captured or set to the device. Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is [...]
Use your headphone as a measuring tape
It’s one of those silly things that is absolutely brilliant. Jeff Zanooda has posted a simple set of instructions over at Instructables on how you can turn your iPod headphones into a simple measuring tape. I’ve been known to use headphone and cat5 cable from time to time as a crude measuring device, never thought [...]
Worlds Smallest 1080p Camcorder – Sanyo DMX-HD1000
It’s amazing how quickly technology moves, I remember not to long ago lunging a massive JVC camcorder that recorded stuff on VHS tapes, now Sanyo has introduced the worlds smallest 1080p camcorder, the DMX-HD1000. Recording video at 1080p at 60 fps it is using the magic of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoding to make it all happen, [...]
Cassette Mp3 Player: Smart, Very Smart
You can easily walk into any electronics store in the Western world and pickup a cassette tape adaptor to connect your mp3 player to your car stereo (why do you still have a cassette player in your car?). But this gadget wins the award for ingenuity. Not only will this gadget let you play your [...]
