Hacks

Chris Seibold is hard at work on our second Big Hacks book, the Big Book of Apple Hacks, and he’s looking for contributors to help out with the book. Contributors to hacks books receive a copy of the book, credit within the book, and a small honorarium. Your contributions are done under a non-exclusive arrangement, […]

ShiftSpace is an open source platform that uses Greasemonkey to place an API layer over the web. When you have the plugin installed, ShiftSpace connects back to a central server to locate “shifts” that other users have left behind for the URL you are viewing. By pressing shift+space on your keyboard, you get a list […]

Google recently added a collaboration feature to the “My Maps” area of Google Maps. Similar to the collaborative document editing in Google Docs, when you’ve made a map you can click the “Collaborate” link and share your map with specific people or the entire world. What’s cool is that when you do the latter, you’ve […]

After so many years of successively bigger, faster, hotter, less reliable, power hungry computer hardware, I’m really tickled to see that a lot of manufacturers are testing the waters with something altogether different. There’s the OLPC, the Asus EeePC, and now the Aleutia E1, a little mini desktop that sips 8 watts and is packaged […]

If you like coffee and a little cryptanalysis in the morning, here’s a really interesting hack-in-progress: figuring out the coding used to program beverages in the Tassimo coffee machine. Chris R. Chapman writes: I’ve been working on reverse-engineering the Braun Tassimo T1200/T1400 hot beverage system from its barcoded T-DISC brewing pods. The barcodes are used […]

tnkgrl spent some time exploring the motherboard of her Eee PC. Looking for available USB ports, she was able to hijack the USB trace that goes to the mini PCIe slot used by the Atheros wireless card. Since the Atheros doesn’t use the USB signal, the card will still function without it. This gives you […]