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Need some clandestine storage space that’s within reach of your PC but hidden from prying eyes? Here’s a tutorial on stashing an HD inside of a USB-equipped uninterrupted power supply (UPS). Hide a Hard Drive in a UPS – Link Related: HOW TO – Server in a UPS – Link
This is big news, Amazon has just launched their music catalog DRM free, so if you have a music player that’s not an iPod, Zune (like the MAKE Daisy MP3 player kit) or something else this might be the best way to get your music in a format it can play (and keep it that […]
Jason Striegel of Hackszine writes: Mark Hoekstra from GeekTechnique subjected his iBook’s motherboard to successive rounds of burnination and managed to correct the infamous iBook video display defect. Had this not succeeded, I think I’d still have to give him 10 points for style. In addition to other quality control problems like frayed wires in […]
While checking inbound links to his Steampunk Workshop, MAKE pal Jake von Slatt stumbled on this amazing steampunk casemod on a Polish modding forum. Really amazing, with needle guages, lots of lighting F/X, a porthole with clockworks inside, and lots of old school plumbing hardware. Not sure how much of it is functional and how […]
As bizarre as it sounds there happens to be a high powered laser in my living room but I wanted to give the online site Ponoko a whirl. If you can make 2D designs in Corel Draw, Illustrator, etc you can upload them as EPS files and sell both the file and the completed design […]
The iPhone’s headphone jack in recessed so that most 3rd party headphones can’t plug into it. But the hardware beyond the recession is apparently standard. To get at it, you can carve away the plastic housing to make it fit. Here, John Sullivan has cut the jack on his Etymotic ER-6 phones. Etymotic ER-6 iPhone […]
If you have an iPhone and watch long movies (usually from ripped DVDs) leaving the phone in the dock doesn’t cut it, the iPhone needs to be horizontal. I usually have CNN, ABC or a few hours of news on my phone and like to leave it on my desk while I work but you […]
