I am in awe of these 3D pancakes. For a guy “just trying to make some cool pancakes for his daughter,” Jim (he only gives his first name) is a master, chronicling his daily adventures in pancake making on his blog, and I tip my lightsaber to him. He also makes 2D pancakes that are [...]
Aliens Power Loader
Posted on September 23, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
In just two weeks, this guy used wood, polystyrene foam, PVC pipe, and a racing harness to build his own Power Loader exo-suit, as seen in James Cameron‘s Aliens. (Remember how Ripley used a big yellow metal suit to dispatch the Alien Queen at the climax of the film? It’s that thing.) Being the extremely [...]
Hack and tweak your Firefox
Posted on June 8, 2010 Written by 2 Comments
Despite the wide variety of web browsers available I’m still a daily Firefox user. I could never get used to Safari or Camino. I do use Chrome for testing websites or when I need multiple logins on one website. As for Opera I can’t really care for it at all. While Firefox is the slowest [...]
ClothesHacking: T-Shirt Displays New E-Mail Messages
Posted on April 2, 2010 Written by 3 Comments
Oh, the things people do to be different. Take this guy, for example. He went ahead and created one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and I highly doubt that anyone anywhere will ever own one of these shirts other than him. Why? Probably because it’s not machine washable, but things with a chipset [...]
Play Guitar Hero with a real guitar
Posted on June 11, 2009 Written by 1 Comment
Sounds trivial doesn’t it? Of course everyone loves to play guitar with a real guitar. But what when it comes to Guitar Hero? There are many Guitar Hero aces among us, but we all play on those pesky plastic guitars. Well the guys from OpenChord have modded a genuine guitar to also function in Guitar [...]
Install Windows XP on the Sony Vaio P
Posted on February 11, 2009 Written by Leave a Comment
A complete guide to upgrade downgrade the Sony Vaio P from Windows Vista to Windows XP.
ucLinux for PSP
Posted on April 6, 2006 Written by Leave a Comment
A programmer that goes by the nick “Freedom Fry” has recently released a proof-of-concept release of a Linux distro for the PSP. The program doesn’t really do much yet, however, if he keeps working on this and someone bothers porting KDE we might have a fully functional graphical Linux OS on our PSPs soon.
Is your PSP hackable? Know before buying
Posted on December 20, 2005 Written by 41 Comments
The guys at PSPhacks have released a nice article explaining how you can get a PSP that is hackable, or at least downgradable. Before you buy a PSP for that special gamer this Holiday season, you have to ask yourself one thing: do they homebrew? If the answer is yes, you better take care not [...]
Play Firmware 2.0 Games on a 1.50 PSP
Posted on November 28, 2005 Written by 51 Comments
Before you ask, no you still can’t play GTA:LCS and don’t ask when you’ll be able to or if you can play it on a 1.50 PSP. Currently the games that are supported (and confirmed) that had the 2.0 perquisite are: The Hustle: Detroit Streets Harvest Moon Pro Evolution Soccer 5 For the original article, [...]
Check Disk Space in Linux
Posted on October 6, 2005 Written by 41 Comments
There are plenty of tools with which you can check your disk space. However, Linux already has a built in function to show you just what you need to know. Open a terminal window or push (ctrl+alt+F1 to go to console) and type: # df You will see something like this(your output may be different, [...]
