Brian Oberkirch has a great article about designing for “hackability” – the article tends to focus on software, but it’s equally applicable for (some) hardware too… In a world where anyone can create, mimic, remix Web components, the ideas that spread most easily and completely, win. Simple. You want attention? Make it simple for people […]
Last month, I issued a Call for Hacks for our new Windows Hacks book in the works, but don’t you Mac users and hackers think we’re leaving you out. We’re working on a Big Book of Apple Hacks too, and author Chris Seibold could use your help. Notice I said “Apple Hacks,” not “Mac OS […]
Phil @ Make writes: Erica Sadun has been hacking away on the new Apple TV and presents this “State of the Hacks” roundup of what people are doing with their Apple TV boxes. Discover what kinds of mods are out there and whether they’re the right fit for your needs and abilities. MacDevCenter.com — Apple […]
If you’re lucky enough to have a dual headed video card and an extra monitor lying around, there are a few options for getting a dual-monitor setup working in X Windows. If you have a dual-headed nVidia or ATI card, the binary-only TwinView and BigDesktop drivers (respectively) will probably perform well, but if you don’t […]
Quinn Norton has posted the slides from the popular Body Hacking talk she gave at O’Reilly’s recent ETech conference. She defines body hacking as: Acting on yourself, with or without assistance, to enhance the function of your body or your perceptions. Body hacking is, like all other forms of hacking, ultimately a form of violation: […]
Check out this video of plain vanilla OS X running on the AppleTV. semthex from Hackint0sh.org, in collaboration with AppleTVHacks.net has done it again! A complete replacement to the Mac OS X kernel has been built which allows the full version of Mac OS X to be run on an Apple TV. Semthex wrote a […]
After you’ve backed up your AppleTV disk, the next obvious step is to enable SSH so that you can connect to the AppleTV remotely. This will let you connect to the machine and make updates without needing to remove the hard disk anymore. Tutorial Ninjas put together a nice howto for doing just this. It […]
