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iPhone hacker extraordinaire Erica Sadun made an application for the iPhone that will listen to music and identify it! She writes – Download a copy of the Listen beta. It’s still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt […]
Jason writes – WMWifiRouter is a new utility that you can run on your WiFi-capable WM6 device to turn it into a GPRS-uplinked WiFi router. When activated, it will set up your WiFi link in ad-hoc mode and start a DHCP server. Your laptop will see a new network called WMWifiRouter, and connecting to it […]
Aparently there’s a U.S. Special Information Tone signal for a dead phone line, and robot callers (telemarketers, debt collectors, etc.) listen for it, then remove the “dead lines” from their lists. Record it at the beginning of your answering machine messages to make (some) robots stop calling you! [via] Link. (Photo by Flickr user scriptingnews)
Ok Makers, here’s a portable graphical resistance calculator for iPhones, but it should work on most other things including most/all computers too, enjoy – Link. Try it out, if there are any changes to make it look better just send me a HTML file and I’ll upload a new version (just keep the credits from […]
Instrucatble with techniques for quieting that wood chipper inside your PC tower. Noise Free HDD – Link
Hacker hacking wunderkind Bunnie Huang deconstructs an XO laptop and details his findings: Thanks in part to the low power of the Geode CPU, the design mounts the motherboard against the LCD, unlike most laptops where the motherboard is under the keyboard. This configuration has some simplicity advantages, especially considering the flexibility required by the […]
Gever Tulley’s 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) – Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will […]
