If you’ve previously unlocked your iPhone, or you are considering doing it in the future, you should probably hold off updating your phone for the moment. Apple’s recent 1.1.1 firmware update has been bricking hacked phones, and though there’s a method for downgrading back to 1.0.2, the telephony portion of the device will remain broken […]
When you’re on an untrusted or unencrypted network, everything from what you browse to the email and IM messages you send can potentially be snooped by a third party. Sure, some sites use https and you can use ssh to connect to a remote server, but what if you want to jack in and enjoy […]
The Atari Punk Console is a simple electronic music circuit that you can easily put together in a weekend. The original concept was created by Forrest M. Mims III, writer of Getting Started in Electronics. At it’s simplest it’s just a 556 dual timer IC, a couple potentiometers, and a few capacitors and resistors. Hack […]
Packet Garden is a network visualization tool that maps your network traffic into a 3D representation, sprouting little plants on a globe whenever a connection is made. To do this, Packet Garden takes note of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads […]
Smartcam is an open source utility that will turn a bluetooth-enabled Symbian Series 60 camera phone into a webcam that you can use on your Windows PC. Half of the application runs on the phone, reads from the camera and sends video frames to the PC via bluetooth. The other half of the application runs […]
Daniel M. German found a way to automate perspective correction and projection adjustments for his wide angle photography. He does this by using a Wiimote to record the pitch and roll of the camera at the time a photo is taken. This information can then be fed directly into panotools, instead of manually entering control […]
Well, now there’s something you don’t see every day. 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 […]
