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Make your own ringtones

Make your own ringtones

This site has a pretty simple interface for making your own ringtones – as always, Maker beware, I’m not sure if they store/keep your phone # or whatever… check out our related links for other ways to get and make free ringtones too… Link. Related: DIY ringtone projects – Link. Rington archives @ MAKE – […]

USB Snooping in linux

USB Snooping in linux

Rad, Quiet Earth has a good how-to on listening in to what’s going on over USB, great for reverse engineering weird USB doo-dads… – “This is intended to be a howto to debug usb transactions under linux, or simply to reverse engineer propietary usb stuff. If you need to reverse engineer a windows only usb […]

Homeade laptop water cooler

Homeade laptop water cooler

Many of the newer-ish laptops get hot, really hot – here’s one solution, an external water-cooler… Bard writes – “Introducing the Waldic (water & air laptop direct input cooler). This device is a dual mode home made laptop cooler. It was made for the purpose of watching movies without being disturbed by the annoying fan. […]