Charatter Bear Regurgitates Your Tweets
It can be a chore to keep up with your twitter feeds, countless hours of following people’s daily minutia can quickly chew up your day. This is where the Charatter bear comes in – it synchs with your Twitter account and reads back to you all of your incoming tweets and not on a small [...]
Winner: iPod Nano Twiiter Contest
Congratulations to @MikeFancy on Twitter, he won the tech.nocr.at Twitter contest and a shiny new iPod nano is on it’s way to him. When we informed him that he was randomly chosen from the list of re-tweeters, he posted this to his twitter account: “I won an iPod Nano, just because I follow @technocrat_blog! A [...]
Reminder: iPod Nano Giveaway
Remember, we are giving away a shiny new iPod Nano to a random twitter follower/retweeter. All you have to do to enter is follow us at @technocrat_blog or re-tweet one of our tweets to be entered. One re-tweet per tweet (go ahead and try to figure that one out) per day and a follow will [...]
Geohot 1 – Sony 0
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 [...]
DIY: Twittering Coffee Pot
You can use Twitter for just about anything these days and thanks to an Arduino you can now schedule your coffee from Twitter. This is a simple hack and a great one if you have been wanting to play with an Arduino but felt a bit intimidated by it. The idea behind the project is [...]
Follow/ReTweet iPod Nano Giveaway
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 [...]
DIY: Snail Mail Notifier
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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Tweet From Your Joystick
Xbox 360 fans rejoice, you will soon be able to tweet from your Xbox 360, another great reason to not use the console for what it’s made for, playing games. You’ll also get a few other tweaks to the update that will be pushed down on the 17th like on-demand 1080p HD video from the [...]
DIY: Cool Arduino Clock
People build all sorts of cool things with Arduino. Take the Twittering Doorbell or the Bedazzler but how about something as simple and useful as a clock? And an eye catching one at that! The clock build requires a few simple materials; a laser printer, some LED’s and a few connectors. The instructions are super [...]
A Cell Phone For Grama
With the massive amount of multi-function “smart” phones out there people tend to loose the focus of what cell phones actually are; phones. My mother couldn’t care less if her phone plays mp3′s or if it’s got a twitter client. All she wants is a phone and a super easy one to boot. As she [...]
MacHeist Nano Bundle: $154 In Apps 4 Free
The guys behind MacHeist are at it again. This time they are offering $154 in apps for free. Yes I said for free as in speech and beer. I’m not sure how the developers or the guys at MacHeist are making any money from this since it’s all free, maybe they are building up their [...]
A Doorbell That Twitters
As if twittering GPS units and twittering cars wasn’t enough you can now have a tweet go out when someone rings your doorbell too. This is a perfect project for those people who just insist on having a tweet go out about every aspect of their lives. It’s a fairly easy project to implement and [...]
Change Can Be Good
By Frank on Sep 1, 2008 · 1 Comment
Someone somewhere once said that change can be both scary and good, well we have undergone some small changes that have instilled both those feeling in us here at tech.nocr.at. Syndication Some of you might have already noticed the new syndication images off to the right sidebar. Since I have received many emails asking if [...]
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