Jay’s Technical Talk has a step by step tutorial on how to rebuild your laptop battery. Since it happens to every good laptop, it’s worth knowing how to do this. While a replacement battery costs over $100.00 Li-Ion cells cost under $6. Replacing internal cells is not for the faint of heart; soldering and is [...]
Category Archives: Hack or Crack
DIY Handcranked Cell Phone Charger
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
It’s official, I’ve added a D.I.Y. category. As I’ve said before, nothing is better than D.I.Y. well maybe free is better. All you need is one of those hand-cranked flashlights, a screw driver, an old cell phone charger (car) and some soldering skills. The Hole – video powered by Metacafe Link via Gizmodo
Turn the iPod Mini Into A Flash-based Player
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Boy, I like me some DIY. With CF cards still growing in size, and shrinking in cost this makes pretty good sense. CF cards use less juice than a harddrive, take more of a beating, and come in sizes of up to 16 GB. If you’ve got an old iPod-mini lying around why not convert [...]
HD-DVD / Blueray Encryption Explained
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Decrypting the movie industry’s latest content has been pretty popular lately. What does it all mean? Has HD-DVD encryption truly been broken? It can be a difficult subject to grok and it’s rare to find someone who can sum up the situation so succinctly. In Freedom to Tinker’s latest post J. Alex Halderman does just [...]
Gizmodo’s First Look at the Open-Source Phone
Thursday, February 15, 2007
It’s been known for a while that Open Moko planned on releasing a mobile phone built out with open-source software. Of course, there are a few proprietary bits driving the radio but everything else should be available. Looks like Gizmodo finally got a first look. Unfortunately the phone was not powered up. An interesting tid-bit, [...]
Cook Better
Sunday, February 11, 2007
It’s not the latest in technology per say, but it’s worth mentioning. Recently, I read a New York Times article (which you now must pay to view) on using your broiler, and ever since, I’ve been addicted to seeing how quickly I can cook a meal. All you need are a skillet and a broiler. [...]
Enable DVD Library Feature in Windows Vista MCE
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Microsoft’s Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 stored DVD content under the “My Videos” folder. Vista’s MCE stores DVD content in, what Microsoft calls, a “DVD gallery,” but Vista MCE needs a registry edit to enable this feature. I don’t have an MCE version to try this out on, but since the link is coming straight [...]
Hide The Dock and Menubar On A Per-App Basis
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
While there are plenty of apps that allow you to hide the menubar or dock, why pay? Plus, this provides some satisfaction, much like working on your own car. You’ll need to edit info.plist file, stored in the applications’ package, and add the key “LSUIPresentationMode” and the number “4″. Right-click on the application in question. [...]
Google to view a restricted site
Saturday, January 6, 2007
There’s not much to say here except that this isn’t the usual, “change your browser I.D. to google and go,” type hack. Peep the link here.
The Fungus Among Us
Sunday, July 20, 2003
The Register (sqwak) just published an article to the web that raises some interesting points. Like, why do I feel like I’m naked when I’m surfing online in public? Secondly, is nothing sacred? Accessing the Internet through a public computer is now akin to promiscuous sex. Every thing looks safe enough and I’m sure Kinko’s [...]