Looks like Google is going to be using Jabber- talk.google.com is talking Jabber. You can telnet over to talk.google.com 5222. The last line will be the standard response sent by a Jabber server prior to negotiating a login. I heard on IRC that some have logged in using their Google username and password. Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member wirehead writes “I’m bringing up the gen2 circuit board. This should be the sort of thing that a qualified electrical engineer would whip out in a matter of minutes. But, I’m a programmer who likes to mess around with technology, so things sometimes take a little longer than they ought to. Or I connect power to ground and ground to power. I do that sometimes, too. But now, I can program this board to do stuff, once I get the LEDs all soldered up. Soon, you will start seeing this board in my light art”… Link.
Make your own Beastie Boy song, they are adding a new track every Friday or so…We’ve launched a new section on the site offering Beastie Boys A Cappellas for you to download and use for your own personal remixes (along with tempo information for most tracks). We’ll be updating it each week for the next little while with a new one for you to download. Check it out. Link.
Bob Moog is a giant in both technology and music, the two softest spots in the hearts of so many MAKE readers. Jimmy Guterman was making plans to visit Moog and interview him for MAKE when we learned he was battling cancer. Moog died Sunday, August 21, 2005. Link.
Some caveats, but this is nice. Are you angry that Sony has limited your memory stick videos to “Nintendo DS” resolution? (320×240). Well, a PMF player has finally been released, allowing you to view clips at the PSPs Native Resolution (480×272). Link.
Nice little overview of the CVS hack from Alex Beam at the Globe – seems like they don’t mind the hacking…“It restored my faith in American ingenuity to see that electrical engineer/hardware tinkerer John Maushammer had taken the trouble to ”hack,” or modify, the new CVS disposable camcorder. After Maushammer’s intervention, described on the Make magazine website stage.makezine.com, the $30 disposable camera becomes . . . reusable! That’s what I call a bargain”… Link.
Noah Glass from ODEO showed me this amazing USB mic- Blue Microphones is now shipping a USB microphone designed for professional recording applications. Dubbed the Snowball, the mic is an extension of Blue’s line of spherical mics that includes the original Ball, the world’s first phantom-powered dynamic; the 8-Ball condenser mic. Link blog post and photo in action…
