Hacks

bbum acquired a bunch of excellent salmon, and shows us how to fillet it without making an awful mess: …if you are willing to exercise a bit of knife work, it isn’t hard to breakdown a whole fish into fillets. What cost $15/pound fully processed, can be had — typically much fresher — for well […]

Rockbox is an alternative (open source) firmware that will run on many iPods. One of its cooler features is that it supports several audio codecs such as OGG, AC3 and everyone’s favorite lossless codec, FLAC. What’s also interesting about Rockbox–and this is slightly less talked about–is that it handles gapless playback really nicely. Instead of […]

“This little program enables iPod shuffle users to finally get rid of all that iTunes or other complicated playlist management stuff. Due to the simple structure of the shuffle (compared to the »big« iPods), it is possible to use the player almost like any other USB flash MP3 player: You simply copy MP3 files onto […]

Jeez, I just tried this – it worked great. Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone. Using this service, you can: search for a local business by name or category. You can say “Giovanni’s Pizzeria” […]

I keep hearing from friends each month about how Amazon’s S3 is making website hosting reasonable for regular folks – here’s another example from one of MAKE’s kit makers – Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) isn’t new, but its certainly gaining traction. Its a wonderful product for people who have a lot of content on […]

The new del.icio.us Firefox extension is so good, I’m using del.icio.us again (I stopped for awhile when things just seemed slow/down too much)… The mosst useful feature for me is the bookmark search right from Firefox. Soon I’ll add this extension to every computer I use so I have bookmarks across multiple machines. If you […]