Hacks

Play ripped DVDs with VLC

Play ripped DVDs with VLC

Steve Anderson wrote in about an underused feature of our favorite open source video player, VLC. I discovered yesterday that the wonderful VLC media player has the ability not only to mount a DVD directory that’s been ripped to the hard drive, but also to play a .iso image of a DVD. Seeing as I’ve […]

iPhoneDevCamp wrapup

iPhoneDevCamp wrapup

It’s been a few days since iPhoneDevCamp wrapped up. Although I couldn’t make it there myself, the authors of the upcoming iPhone Hacks were there, and two of them (whurley and Raven Zachary) were organizers of the DevCamp. I’d say it was a success, with over 350 attendees, and 40 new applications for the iPhone […]

Top 10 apps from iPhoneDevCamp

Top 10 apps from iPhoneDevCamp

Andrew Mager of WebWare has posted a roundup of his picks for the best applications from iPhoneDevCamp: 10. iPhoneVote: This application was the first one presented at the hack-a-thon, and it was used as a voting system for the event… 9. AppMarks: If you have an iPhone, make AppMarks your Safari home page… 8. PickleView: […]

OpenMoko: 0 Linux-powered mobile phone

OpenMoko: $300 Linux-powered mobile phone

OpenMoko, a project to create an open, Linux-based smartphone, and FIC (the manufacturer) have started shipping a phone for developers who want to play around with OpenMoko and get a jump start on application development, the Neo 1973, which features: 2.8″ VGA TFT color display Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers 266MHz Samsung System on […]