Diggnation on the BIG Screen! (Movie Theater)

Sometimes I get bored watching Diggnation on my computer, so this week took it to the local movie theater and played it on the BIG screen. Check out the pictures.

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Amazing Stained Glass PC Case (Photos)

Creative use of stained glass and wood in this PC case mod.

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A hacked NES that fits inside its own controller. Brilliant!

How would would you like to have an NES controller that housed an actual NES? Okay, the innards aren't an actual NES; the creator used a third-party knock-off system packed with pirated games to do his mad-scientist work, but I'm still impressed. The controller plugs right into the television, has a bunch of games built-in, and, even more crazily,

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Steampunk Keyboard Mod

Gorgeous Steampunk style keyboard mod made with an IBM Model M keyboard, brass plate, and the keys from two old typewriters.

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DIY Infrared Goggles for under $10

How to make near IR vision goggles for ~$10 with light filters and welders goggles. "The whole world looks blue-grey with deep red highlights. Many plants look frosty-whitish-pink with the goggles, but for normal human eyes they look green or greenish black. Sometimes you can see birds moving around deep inside the frosty white bushes and trees."

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Enterprising hacker gets video playing on Optimus Mini Three

Scott Hanselman might not be the camera man of the century, but he does apparently have the coding chops to get some choppy video playback going on those teensy Optimus Mini Three screens. He set his Mini to watch his baby son's webcam (which he inexplicably swapped for a plane landing vid for demonstration purposes),

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The Vehicular Thomas Crowne Affair: how to creatively defeat photo radar

To photo radar: you got served. Hint: this technique has nothing to do with paintball guns, reflective spray or radar jammers. Think Thomas Crowne Affair only with license plates...

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Get Around the Coinstar Fee!

So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don't want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to hack a CoinStar.

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Get Around the Coinstar Fee!

So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don't want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to hack a CoinStar.

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Etching and copper plating Altoids tins

Laser printed images are etched into Altoids tin tops using salt water and a car battery, the Altoids tins are then plated with copper. Pretty.

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Digg 3D

Digg in 3D, use the scroll to zoom.

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50 Fun Things to Do With Your iPod

In the four years since its introduction, the iPod has proven to be a versatile little device. Here are a few dozen things you can do with your iPod besides listen to music.

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10 cent ring.

Site shows how to make a ring out of a dime!

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Liquid Time Machine Freezes Drops Mid Fall

Nate True has developed yet another impressive hack using UV strobe lights, luminescent-dyed water, and a timer to create the illusion of water stopping in the air, slowing down the splashes into the pool beneath, and even travelling upward. You have to see it to believe it.

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Unlock Linksys WRTP54G, RTP300, PAP2 v2.0 and other CYT devices

Software unlock tool FAQ for CYT devices like PAP v2.0, WRTP54G and RTP300

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How To: Add a Mesh Wire Antenna to Increase Router Signal Strength

This hack will give you a very noticeable improvement in signal strength. The wire amplifies the wireless signal doing the same job as expensive add-on antennas. Featured in Squenix Episode 3.

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Hack up your MySpace profile

Let's face it, the profiles on MySpace are UGGGLY. I came across this nice tutorial for getting your profile to look exactly the way that you want it to.AUTHOR'S WARNING:This post contains information that exploits MySpace and is against their terms of use.

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A Real Life Replica of the Simpsons' House

This house has an eerie similarity to the Simpsons' house, don't you think? It's got the same garage, the same pathway, the same windows. Sure, it could be just a coincidence. But when you look at the interior, you begin to realize there is a deep obsession going on here.

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Spreadshirt plugin made for WordPress lets you sell gadgets from your blog

There's a nice free (as to speech) WordPress plugin to download: Spreadshop. Start selling gadgets directly from your blog, without iframes, without includes, without tables. Use the The WordPress Spreadshop directly from your admin page.

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CNET: Researchers Create Machinima News Broadcast Using Half-Life 2 Engine

What is truly original about News at Seven is that the folks at the InfoLab have also replaced the traditionally human jobs of news editor and news producer with artificial intelligence, and the anchors are models using the Half-Life 2 engine (CNET - Webware)

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HOW TO: Telegraph Taps Out RSS Feeds in Morse

Make a replica telegraph sounder that taps out RSS feeds in morse code

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Gallery and google maps

I integrated my gallery with google maps using the google map module for gallery2. It is pretty cool for being only a beta module.

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Doom played on iPod with NES controller

"A little side project I have been working on. Playing Doom with a NES controller on my iPod". This is really awesome.

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Extreme Office Prank: Office Constructed of Cardboard

"A few of us at work have been pranked one too many times by a certain coworker by the name of Mike. He was out of town for a few days and we had some extra cardboard laying around. This is what happens when you push creative IT workers too far! Enjoy your new office Mike!"

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AMAZING LEGO NEW YORK CITY!!! looks so real!

amazing!

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Wooden Touchscreen Terminal

This is a 15" LCD touchscreen with a Celeron 633MHz board with 128MB RAM in a wooden case of my construction. The case also contains the PSU. The bottom part of the screen surround hinges down to allow access to the monitor controls. The button mounted on the base is the power button and indicator light.

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Xbox Elite

First official look at the new Xbox Elite- video and all.

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Zune Firmware Update v1.3 Is Out

It was but a mere eight days ago when we suggested that the number one thing that would currently improve the Zune's status would be to get firmware v1.3 out to end users, and thankfully, that day has come. Sure, it's arriving ever-so-slightly behind schedule, but ZuneInsider is reporting that the latest software is finally available for download

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Hell freezes: Windows listed as most secure OS

Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.

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Vista cracked totally by Paradox - Microsoft's in trouble now

Turns out a person called Paradox has worked out a way to crack Vista so that you may even get all of the automatic updates just the same as any legitimate Vista user could, the main story explains fully...

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PICTURE: Maybe they should have blurred something out? [LAPTOP]

Yes this is an ebay auction listing I found.No, it is not mine.Yes, I did laugh when I found the pictures of the WinXP CD and Auth. Certificate just clearly showing the CD key..... I guess this pawn shop doesn't have people dropping off laptops w/software very often. Oh well, it gave me a chuckle.

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Automatically Slipstream XP with SP2 and All Post-SP2 Security Hotfixes

The biggest problems about installing XP from scratch is the hours spent downloading all the updates for it. Even with an XPSP2 install cd, you still have a fair amount of work getting the machine up to par. Now someone has wrote a batch file that takes an XP cd and slipstreams it with SP2 and all the security updates saving up a ton of time.

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The best feature of Vista that you never knew about!

A screenshot, pretty self-explanatory.

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Vista is a giant step backward for your freedoms

Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. They're DRM.

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Microsoft Soda

A new brand of refreshment [picture]

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Vista's twofold sales boost: Microsoft should thank PC market growth

Windows sales are strongly tied new computer purchases, so when Microsoft announced that Vista's launch sales were outpacing the XP launch 2-to-1, we decided to do some digging.

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Why Does It Take Microsoft Over 6 Weeks To Send A Mailer For An XBOX?

Poor guy. A blogger calling himself Saruman has been waiting for Microsoft to ship him a box for his broken XBox for 6 weeks. Just the box. So he can mail it in for repair. 6 weeks. They still haven't mailed it. Did we mention its been 6 weeks?!

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GPLv3 draft 3 arrives, bans patent pacts

The Free Software Foundation released the third discussion draft of the GPLv3 (GNU General Public License, version 3) on March 28. As expected, it contains language designed to prevent patent partnerships that extend protection from patent litigation to only the companies involved in such agreements.

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HOLY CRAP: Tango Artists Attempt To Update 193 Icons In One Day!

For the next Tango Friday, the entire gtk+ stock icon set - 193 in all - is the subject of a massive Tango facelift challenge. This will get rid of a LOT of ugly icons still plaguing the GNOME desktop!

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Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses

Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Here are my top-four reasons why Windows wins and Linux loses.

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AMD Catalyst Control Center For Linux Released

In the new 8.35.5 display drivers ATI/AMD has unveiled the new Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition. This replaces the aging fireglcontrolpanel with a ton of new features. Phoronix has plenty of screenshots and news on the amdcccle.

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New community site for Customization of Beryl windowmanager launched

Today the kde-look team launched a new Sister-Site dedicated to the great Windowmanager Beryl. Beryl-Themes.org will be the central community site where users and developers can exchange themes, ideas, wallpapers, screenshots and configuration-settings for Beryl.The Emerald theme category is shared with gnome-look.org and kde-look.org

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The Architecture of Mailinator

Handling over 4.5 million emails a day on a single 2GHz box: The Architecture of Mailinator

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PLAYING CLASSIC GAMES UNDER UBUNTU

Do you still remember good old dos games or NES or SNES games Alley Cat and Mario and Contra and other classic games we used to play , these games were simple compared to todays games but were very entertaining nonetheless . Here in this article i describe how to play these games on Ubuntu as well as link to some of the popular old games i liked

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Joomla! Wins Best Open Source Project Award 2006 at UK LinuxWorld

Joomla! won Best Linux/Open Source Project at UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, in London tonight. This is the second year in a row the Joomla! project has won the prestigious award. The buzz around Joomla! is driven by it's huge user base which translates into what is fastly becoming the most popular open source web content management system.

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RIP: Community Linux (1991-2007)

The idea that Linux is primarily a community-based project based on the work of thousands of independent, idealist hackers died a quiet death at home on March 27. The proximate cause of death was the Linux Foundation's naming of its new board of directors.

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The Cuts and Pastes of OpenOffice.org Productivity

Attached PDF file shows you that you can do a lot more than work with text using the clipboard, cut and paste.

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The 2006 Desktop Linux Year in Review

The OSDL's Desktop Linux Working Group has published its first year-end report on the state of the overall desktop Linux ecosystem. The report provides insight into the year's key accomplishments in terms of functionality, standards, applications, distributions, market penetration, and more.

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Linux MCE looks hot - Download Squad

MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure. Linux MCE, which wraps MythTV up into a nice package and places it squarely on top of the leading Linux distribution Ubuntu -- m

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Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses

Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Here are my top-four reasons why Windows wins and Linux loses.

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Fedora Community Guy Needs Serious Medical Help

Jack had an adverse reaction to a dangerous class of antibiotics called Fluoroquinolones, which include Cipro, Levaquin and in his case, Avelox. Side effects have been known to kill people. Jack needs serious medical help and the clock is ticking, lets help him out and educate ourselves about these dangerous and often fatal drugs.

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First Open Graphics Card appears

Joseph Black and his team have been working for a while on a project - an open-spec graphics card. This project is on the basis that a GPU should not end up with tons of propriatary software or hardware, containing hidden problems that aren't mentioned to the press, and yet cause nervous breakdowns for developers worldwide.

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Songbird 0.2.5 released!

A new version of Songbird, the free, cross-platform audio player (and much more) based on Mozilla. Songbird 0.2.5 Developer Preview brings a host of new features and a healthy dallop of bugfixes and is available now for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. See also the release notes at http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/trac/wiki/ReleaseNotes_025

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Make a Movie of Your Linux Desktop

Want to show off your snazzy 3d desktop, or demonstrate the features of your favourite new program? Make a movie of your desktop to capture all your actions, edit it, then add a soundtrack.

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Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora Core 6

One of the best resources for working with Fedora Core Linux, the Unofficial Fedora FAQ, has been updated for Fedora Core 6!

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How to create your own Youtube and get your own billion

Article about how to create your own video sharing service with flash video streaming using only open-source tools.

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How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft

See how things might have been if Microsoft had done vi. Truly funny!

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World's First Motherboard Using LinuxBIOS Released

The need for a Free BIOS is even more pressing since DRM and Treacherous Computing have found their way into some proprietary BIOSes and EFI. This is a huge victory that enables users to have full control over their own hardware.

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Father impressed with ubuntu, thinks it's Vista

How to make money with Ubuntu :)!

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Big Brother is Watching You. Yes, YOU.

CNet is reporting that some disturbing information about the NSA’s data collection techniques was revealed at last Friday’s “Search & Seizure in the Digital Age” symposium at Stanford. Paul Ohm, a former employee of the Justice Department who worked in their Computer Crime and Intellectual Property division...

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How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)?

You've finally made the move to a Windows-free computer, you're enjoying your brand new Linux OS, no trojans/viruses, no slowdown, everything's perfect. Suddenly, you need to update the BIOS on your motherboard to support some new piece of hardware, but typically the motherboard vendor is offering only DOS based BIOS flash utilities.

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UNIX Error Jokes

Do you laugh when the waiter drops a tray full of dishes? Unix weenies do. They’re the first ones to laugh at hapless users, trying to figure out an error message that doesn’t have anything to do with what they just typed. People have published some of Unix’s more ludicrous errors messages as jokes.The following Unix puns were distributed on the

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Dell: what sort of Linux systems would you like?

Dell has decided to follow up on requests for Linux-installed systems by running a survey on just what people would like. Questions cover the types of systems, which distributions, etc. There is, however, no question on whether customers want systems with 100% free software. The survey is open through March 23.

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Shuttleworth clarifies Ubuntu's stance on proprietary drivers

Ubuntu's Technical Board has decided it won't activate proprietary video drivers by default in the upcoming 7.04 Ubuntu ("Etch") release. Some people interpreted this to mean that Ubuntu won't include these drivers in Etch, and even that Ubuntu was backing away from proprietary drivers. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has clarified the situation.

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Dude raps about Unix commands at Stanford

either you hate it or love it.

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Linux users tell Ballmer to put his code where his mouth is..

Since the Linux community has now launched Show Us the Code; The grassroots organization challenges Ballmer to bring it on: if Microsoft forks over the evidence by May 1st, Linux developers will alter their code accordingly to maintain freeware status.

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My Success Story So Far: Six Months On Pure Linux

Today marks my sixth month having nothing but Linux installed on my primary computer. If you're thinking of switching to Linux, or are a Linux user yourself, check out this success story of a great journey through Linux, which has only really just begun.

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Waiting for Dell

In Samuel Becket's masterpiece, 'Waiting for Godot,' Godot never arrives, and the play ends with our characters still waiting. I sometimes think Linux users are also stuck in a barren landscape endlessly waiting for Dell, HP, Lenovo, or another major vendor to finally deliver a mass-market Linux desktop.

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Shuttleworth OK with "Evil Edgy"

What does Ubuntu father Mark Shuttleworth really feel about variants of his offspring being branded Christian or Satanic? He has an interesting -- and philosophical -- attitude about it.

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Linspire CEO on open CNR: sharing the bread

When Linspire announced this week that it is opening up its Click N Run software installation and update service to other Linux distributions -- like Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu -- many observers wondered: "What's in it for them?" CEO Kevin Carmony answers that question in this brief interview.

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8 Beryl Skydomes at 4096x1024

Eight high resolution images manipulated for use as Beryl animated skydomes. These images play well in dual screen setups too.

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Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon

FIC will begin shipping a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in early 2007. The phone will also be the first to run a brand new, open-source Linux phone OS.

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A first look at SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

The newest SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, version 10, is so close to being done that you can almost taste it. This review takes a early peek at this latest, greatest Novell Linux desktop.

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My first Linux experience: Overwhelmingly positive.

I am a first-year high school English teacher, and I was looking to get computers in my room so I could have a writing lab. I was temporarily elated when our tech coordinator informed me via email that a dozen iMacs had been donated to the school and I was welcome to take a few for my room.

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Linux-based iPhone killer available online in March

FIC has announced an on-sale date for its Neo1973, expected to be the first low-cost, high-volume phone with a user-modifiable Linux-based operating system. Like the iPhone, the Neo1973 is a GPS-enabled mobile phone with a high-resolution screen, but no hardware keypad, and with a Unix OS.

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Ubuntu tricks - how to mount your WinXP partition, make it read/writabable

Here’s a guide to making the most of your NTFS partition while in Ubuntu. When you’re done you should be able to have your NTFS partition mounted at boot, be able to write to it and read from it and be able to lift three times your body weight without breaking a sweat.

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About Nokia's 770 Tablet open source experience

This thoughtful essay by Dr. Ari Jaaksi, Nokia's director of open source, explores Nokia's experience developing a commercial software environment based two-thirds on open source software.

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Free Geek gives away free linux based machines

Train volunteers to run the business and work solely with donated electronic items to make them reusable or recyclable. In the process, teach volunteers how the business works and how to rebuild computers, allowing them to adopt a computer after 24 hours of volunteer service, giving them on-the-job training, as well as a social outlet.

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Thieves rob non-profit computer recycling center in Portland Oregon.

FREE GEEK, a non-profit computer recycling center that "recycles used technology to provide computers, education, Internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service", was broken into Friday night and had a bunch of equipment stolen. Be on the lookout for laptops loaded with Ubuntu and way-too-cheap Apples.

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13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu

Article shows 13 Things to do , programs to install immediately after installing Ubuntu 6.10 to make it rock , shows how to Install DVD playing support,multimedia codecs,vlc,mplayer , beagle search ,gdesklets,ntfs-3g(NTFS Read/Write support),Making your Linux drive visible in windows ,installing Microsoft true type fonts and more.

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OpenCola - Open Source Coca Cola

OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License.

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Reduce your Linux memory footprint

A lack of physical memory can severely hamper Linux performance. In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example.

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New Flash Player on Linux incl. Screenshot

James Ward, one of the Adobe Flex evangelists, is running Flex 2 applications in the pre-beta Linux version of Flash Player 9.

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Running a Windows Partition in VMware

Many of us have a dual-boot setup, but it gets annoying to reboot between Windows and Linux. With this guide, you can run your existing Windows partition on VMware Player in Linux, all for free!

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Is GPL 3 dead on arrival?

Torvalds, the primary creator of Linux, wasn't happy with the first draft, and nothing has been modified in the second draft to make him change his mind. Without the support of Torvalds, and without the Linux kernel moving from GPL 2 to GPL 3, the new license is a dead license.

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A hacker's-eye view of Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet

This detailed, hands-on review examines Nokia's Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet first as a consumer electronics device, and then as a platform for open source software development.

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Run Apple DashBoard Widgets on Linux

No need for OS X . Say hello to Jackfield for running yahoo and dashboard widgets on linux

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basKet Tutorial

There are lots of tools to help you organize information--some good and some bad. If what you are trying to organize is diverse--for example, copied text, images and your annotations, basKet may be the tool for you. Ryan Paul offers a great tutorial.

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Beryl 0.1.3 Released

Beryl, the highly popular rival to compiz, a composite window manager for linux, has just had it's 0.1.3 release. There are several new plugins this time around such as 3d, izoom, annotate, and more.

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Order pizza from the commandline with pizza_party script! Yes this is REAL!

* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. * Can save pizza preferences. * Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas. * Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings. * Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems. * Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and "pepperoni"! * Unattended

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Linux smartphone stack challenges Microsoft

Trolltech is readying a more comprehensive software stack for Linux-based smartphones. The "Greenphone" offering should help Linux win business from Windows Mobile and Symbian, particularly in the U.S. and Europe.

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How GPLv3 tackles license proliferation

This guest column by a representative of the Free Software Foundation discusses proposed provisions in a future version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) that are intended to reduce open-source license proliferation, by making the GPL more flexible.

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Debian: server yes, desktop no

I recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as a firewall/router-OS on my home LAN. Like a red-headed stepchild grown old, it had become cranky from extended neglect, and no longer would even shutdown or reboot without issuing nasty messages.

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A Vista vs. Linux Matchup - Part 4

This is Part 4 of a series that pits Microsoft's new Vista OS against MEPIS, a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. This episode compares the operating systems' bundled application software, including games, browsers, and instant communications apps.

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Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them.

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GPL version 3 could kill Open Source

Many of the top Linux developers announced their objections to the proposed GPL version 3 in a position paper released on September 22. One quote: "...we implore the FSF to re-examine the consequences of its actions and to abandon the current GPLv3 process before it becomes too late."

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htaccess cheatsheet

A simple and quick htaccess cheatsheet.

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Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux has an option for font smoothing that isn’t turned on by default for some strange reason. This makes fonts significantly smoother, enough to be very noticable.

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Update on "open" Linux phone and its OS

This article provides an update on OpenMoko, a Linux-based open-source phone software project, and the upcoming availability of FIC's Neo1973, a hacker-friendly "open" phone based on OpenMoko that will go on sale for developers this month.

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Winners and losers in the New Linux World

Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are. So who wins, and who loses?

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