Hack a Day:
As you can see above, there is no wiimote in that accessory steering wheel. There is, instead, a home-made accelerometer controller that connects to the pc via USB. Based around a PIC 18F2550 and a 2 axis accelerometer, this (Read More)
Google Alerts - futurama:
Today’s stupid geek trick takes us to the unseen technical world beneath the surface of your favorite websites, and shows us how real geeks hide secret messages in the HTTP protocol headers. We’re talking Serious geek cred he (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
The Mozilla Firefox developers have released a third beta version of Firefox 3.6 just a week after releasing the last beta version of the web browser. This beta version was not listed in the Firefox roadmap and could come as (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Google is the Nirvana of most nerds. They’ve given us things we could only dream of for free. They’ve showed us on multiple occasions that they’re more than just ‘the search engine guys’.One of those occasions was very recent (Read More)
MTV Multiplayer:
Just one week after "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" went on sale, some PC players appear to have found a workaround solution to their dissatisfaction with Infinity Ward's new IWNet system. When Infinity Ward announced that i (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Now that I have your attention, I can tell you that there are a few things that you have to do first, before you can learn how to speed up your computer with that one double-click. When those things are done, though, it will (Read More)
Submitted by pcnerd37
from YouTube:
For all you people that think this is a scam- look up all the swagbucks unboxing's, heck i even have one showing my 5$ amazon gift card. this site is totally legit and free. All it takes is a little time and effort. My bigges (Read More)
CNET News.com:
At the first ever Random Hacks of Kindness event developers work on technology tools emergency relief workers can use in disasters. (Read More)
Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog:
Music selection is usually a boring process. It usually involves some common interface such as scrolling through titles on a portable player, using a remote for your stereo or a mouse on your computer. With this RFID Music S (Read More)
Daily DIY:
Most of the iPhone controller hacks I've seen tend to use the accelerometer along with on on-board camera. Walky is a bipedal walking robot that's controlled using a natural gestural interface. [via GeekyGadgets] Yuta Sugiura (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Why is the Internet so damn slow. That’s probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once. Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs and slow loading websites every now an (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Youtube and other video portals on the Internet have come a long way since the beginning of the online video boom. What started with low resolutions has now grown over the year to keep pace with the high definition developmen (Read More)
Engadget:
Yar, that was fast. Less than a day after Microsoft updated its Windows Marketplace for Mobile with new advanced anti-piracy measure, some apt xda-developers community member has managed to crack the new code -- in under two (Read More)
Submitted by robdiana
from Google Reader:
I'll admit, a few years ago, I was wrong about the original vision of Twitter. I thought it was good, but too simple and was positive they were going to have to create "channels" or "groups" in order for it to be really usefu (Read More)
webmonkey:
A new service called Typekit is now offering a legal, cloud-based method of using more elaborate typefaces on the web. The service has come out of beta and is serving up its fonts to web designers.Despite some inconsistencies (Read More)
Hack a Day:
We’re filing this one under “best interface implementation”. This robot is controlled by finger gestures on the surface of an iPod Touch. It can walk forward, turn, sidestep, jump, and kick a ball based on the input it receiv (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
As I said in my last post, the iPhone has been hotter than usual these past few days. With new carriers entering the foray globally (read the UK), the scene has gotten just that much more interesting. Since no one can claim t (Read More)
Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life:
Most of us work and play at our computers. We might abuse them from time to time, but we try to take good care of them. We install virus-protection software, we carry our laptops in a special case, we reboot the computer when (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Riding your bike is all well and good, until you have to carry home more than 2 bags of groceries at a time. Toby from the DIY cyclist website Bike Hacks has assembled a pretty keen towing package... (Read More)
Submitted by ToGo
from Google Reader:
You could say StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone, has a few problems on its hands – and some unwelcome publicity.Back in August Facebook officially became Germany’s biggest social network, increasing reach by more than 50% fr (Read More)