Sunday, October 29, 2006

Keg Costume

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"Take an old keg, and with a few hours, a plasma cutter, a jig saw, and some big suspenders you have yourself a nice keg costume."

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HOWTO: Lego Minifig costume

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"Two years ago, I decided to make a Lego minifig (ie: "Lego man") costume for Halloween. The hardest part was building the head. Here's how I did it."

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Build a solar iPod charger

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"I looked everywhere for a lightweight solar iPod charger. Nothing fancy, just something I could attach to the top of my backpack. I couldn?t find one anywhere, I couldn?t even find instructions on how to build one. So, I set about building one for myself."

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Floppy Drive Pan Cam

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"The goal of the game was to make a webcam panning unit out of things I had lying around on my table. Then this would be made accesible via a web interface, so that a person watching the webcam images could move the camera."

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Monday, October 23, 2006

How To Decode your drivers license barcodes

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""Using a cool little program I dug up on the web, and a scanner I was able to decode the barcodes on the back of my NY drivers license, and find out what information people get when they scan it. I'm pretty sure that just decoding the barcode is not illegal, but some of the other things I describe probably are, so let those be just proof of concept"

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Fan Modding with LEDs

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"Giving an old fan new life."

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Pumpkinputer

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"Nice mod for the Halloween addicted geek."

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

22.7GHz Cluster of Vegetable Fueled Computers

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""The cluster consisted of 31 PCs with a sum total processing power of 22.7 GHz and an average 733 MHz per node. Their peak power consumption on their vegetable-oil-powered generator was about 30A.""

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Zimbra: 4 Million Paid Mailboxes and Counting

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"Founded in 2003 in San Mateo, California the company today announced that it has passed four million hosted and on-site mailboxes."

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

SexyDesktop, home of the sexiest wallpapers on the net!

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"178,637 wallpapers for your desktop with more added daily to our library, and they're all high-resolution top-quality scans. SexyDesktop is the original and best wallpaper website with over 790 galleries and support for screen sizes from 800x600 up to 1920x1440, plus widescreens from 1280x800 up to 1920x1200, and ultra-wide 1366x768."

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Sunday, October 08, 2006

How to Turn your eBooks into Paperback Books At Home…FAST

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""If you like ebooks but don?t like reading them on your computer screen, this How-to post is for you. I?ll show you a quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebook into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort. In fact, this is so easy, you might end up self-publishing your own books on demand for profit.""

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

HOW TO - Make a LED Dot-Matrix display

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""This is a simple HOW-TO make your own personalised LED Dot-Matrix display. I will be adding the complete program with an explaination to light the LEDs with. It's also rather hackable, you can change it to suit yourself.""

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Friday, October 06, 2006

1 addon to make all your old extensions compatible with Firefox 2

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"No hack, no hassles, just install this Addon and Press one single button to make all your favorite but old incompatible extension to work with Firefox 2."

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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Scare the beejesus out of your neighbors this Halloween

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"Awesome costume that will have everybody running for their lives."

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