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I know there’s a number of folks out there who love Arduino sketching but have yet to really break the ice with Processing (same here!) Morgellon posted this basic orientation for communicating between the two pleasingly similar environments – and he didn’t forget to post the relevant code either. Using both environments in tandem, opens […]
Fans of the Boxee media player were bummed last week to hear that Hulu support would be removed. From the Boxee blog: two weeks ago Hulu called and told us their content partners were asking them to remove Hulu from boxee. we tried (many times) to plead the case for keeping Hulu on boxee, but […]
Ben sent us a nifty translation tool that uses Wikipedia’s alternate language links as its result set. The “Hack” is essentially using Wikipedia’s inter-wiki links (the ones on the bottom of the navigation bar) for translation of nouns. I used to do it manually all the time for mathematical terms. Say for example, that I’d […]
Wow, incredible use of Google maps and Google earth for a museum… Experience some of the most important Masterpieces from the Prado Museum. In the next two weeks, you will be able to access a new painting every day on Google Maps. The Prado Museum’s Masterpieces in ultra high resolution. Zoom in and browse the […]
A couple weeks ago, I posted a guide to installing the latest version of Android (with the “Cupcake” features) on an Android Dev Phone 1. Joel Evans of Geek.com and I met up the other day and played around with the build. Joel’s written up the experience with video and pictures: Included in the video […]
Dana Mattocks posted these incredible pics of his Steampunk Frankenstein computer casemod to Flickr. I’ve never seen so much crazy-cool hardware! SteamPunk Frankenstein’s photostream [via Steampunk Workshop]
Here’s a great resource for command-line geeks; you can browse and vote on snippets that people have posted and upload your own: Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. Delete that bloated snippets file you’ve been using and share your personal repository with the world. That […]
