For laptop users and data center administrators, power consumption is an important issue. Intel recently released a cool, top-like utility called PowerTOP, which can help you track down processes which are consuming the most power on your machine. When your CPU isn’t executing intructions, it enters an idle mode and consumes far less energy. Any […]
There’s a way to take photos through a microscope, telescope, or binoculars with a regular digital camera and no special lense adapter. The trick is to use the macro mode on your camera. With a bit of positioning and focus tweaking, you should be able to get a clear photo. If you use a tripod […]
If you use Firefox with Greasemonkey, there are a lot of really nice scripts available for tweaking the iGoogle interface. You can resize columns, replace the iGoogle logo, or, my personal favorite, add some subtle transparency effects to the search interface so that it blends in with the theme you are using – Link. Related: […]
There’s a new “Listen” link in the O’Reilly Network weblogs. It speaks the contents of an article, and sounds pretty nice. Dave Battino went on a search for some rhythmic posts, and made a fun remix out of it: O’Reilly recently snuck a wacky speech synthesizer into our blogs: Clicking the “listen” link above will […]
Bubbl.us is a simple online tool for making flowcharts. It’s easy to use, which makes it a nice way to quickly brainstorm ideas without getting too caught up in the details with Dia/Xfig or Visio. It’ll also allow you to export your sessions as a png, jpg, xml, or html, so that you can archive […]
Mark from Geek Technique posted a bunch of photos last week of his prototype iPod CF card adapter. With a bit of hacking, he was able to wire everything up to make his iPod run on flash memory. Just short of a full howto, you should be able to glean a few pin wiring details […]
With a Linux box and the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), you can set up a virtual print server that will output all of its jobs to PDF format. Why might this be useful? From the linux.com article: When you buy stuff online, virtually every site provides a receipt, which you may want later if […]
