By Chris on Mar 25, 2009 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to | 3 Comments
In order to create a bootable USB Flash Drive, you will need some knowledge of computers. I will attempt to make these directions as simple as possible, but even I can be a bit obtuse at times. (Who said that?) Also note that there are other ways to do this, but I am going [...]
By Grant on Mar 25, 2009 in Blog, Featured, HDTV, Hacks/Mods, How to, Internet, OSX, Reviews, Software | 1 Comment
Well it didn’t take long for the Boxee team to come up with a new alpha release that includes more gooey goodness including a fix to the pesky Hulu.com issue.
Last night the folks at Boxee announced the release of a new Boxee alpha. The top additions to this new alpha are the support for Pandora [...]
By Mike on Feb 15, 2009 in Featured, Hacks/Mods, Linux | 0 Comments
The following are instructions for installing the HP Mini’s Mie interface on Ubuntu.
By Mike on May 4, 2008 in Featured, Gadgets, Hacks/Mods, Reviews | 27 Comments
What is a Kindle?
First off, the Kindle is Amazon’s entry into the ebook reader market. It joins the Sony PRS-505 Reader which has been around for awhile but, it adds a lot of interesting features such as a free built-in wireless connection that allows you to tap into Amazon’s online bookstore from just about anywhere [...]
By Grant on Apr 28, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, Internet, Linux, Software | 1 Comment
Yes folks, we have all dreamed of it and it may soon be reality. There is a semi-functional Mythtv Frontend, in alpha, built for the Nokia Internet Tablet. With MythTv moving towards QT4 someone has ported the front end over to OS 2008. It is not completely functional as of now but, it looks to [...]
By Grant on Apr 25, 2008 in Featured, Gadgets, Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to, Linux, Reviews, Software | 2 Comments
Lirc being a pain? Does your favorite universal remote NOT work with your new myth box. Mythetomer is a remote control application for your N800 or N810 to control your MythTv. Mythetomer uses your WLAN or Bluetooth to make a connection to your Myth Frontend for full control. No cables, no hours of configuring key [...]
By Mike on Apr 9, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, How to, Linux, Software | 3 Comments
From time to time I am asked to break a password on an Adobe PDF file. This mostly comes up when the user who created the pdf can’t remember what their own password is. As annoying as that is, actually recovering the password is simple using pdfcrack.
PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux application (or any other [...]
By Chris on Apr 3, 2008 in Hacks/Mods | 1 Comment
The iphone-dev team has released the pwnage tool that will allow you to make your iphone work with whatever software/application you choose. Reports are coming in that it works pretty well, but you do need to have the iphone 2.0 firmware before you install the hack tool and all your favorite apps. [...]
By Mike on Apr 1, 2008 in Featured, Hacks/Mods, Hardware, Linux | 1 Comment
For awhile now I have been searching around for a cheap and low power replacement for an old P4 3.0 GHz server that I use as a dedicated Linux/NAS. During the middle of last year I picked up a used Mac Mini off of eBay, loaded Ubuntu on it, and have been using that as [...]
By Grant on Mar 31, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, Hardware, Linux, News, OSX, Windows | 0 Comments
The Macbook air went down quick in only 2 minutes on the first day of the competition. Windows Vista SP1 went down on the last day after 2 days of intense work. The only OS left standing (drum role please) LINUX. Reportedly, participants reportedly were not prepared to deal with the [...]