At Google Blogoscoped, Philipp Lenssen has a great Google Maps hack to overclock the resolution of Google Maps, bumping any location up to the resolution available in Google Earth, simply by tweaking the URL: Select a location and switch to satellite view Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” […]
scanR is a free service that transforms phonecam photos of documents, business cards, or whiteboards into cleaned-up PDFs that it will then fax or email on your behalf. Documents are placed through an OCR process, so the text is selectable and searchable (though I’d probably rather have my documents converted to plain text or html). […]
A common problem that people have in Windows is running out of disk space on the C: drive. Because the C: drive is the default location for user created documents, photos, and music (among others), it’s not simply a matter of getting another hard drive. You also need to move all of these special folders […]
Over at the SmileOnMyMac Blog, Gordon Meyer (author of
Love tag clouds? Check out this page, which displays the top 20 search terms that drive people to each O’Reilly domain, including Hackszine. As noted on that page, here are a few things to keep in mind about these visualizations: The terms are organic, which means that these are terms that someone typed into a […]
There’s a great article at Mother Jones which profiles Wayne Gerdes, a mileage hacker who’s able to get 59MPG in a stock Honda Accord. There are a number of driving hacks which allow hypermilers to increase their milage, ranging from over-inflating tires to extreme drafting behind large vehicles. It’s incredible, really, to think that by […]
Preston Gralla’s latest article for PC World provides Windows tips and tricks for everyone, not just the early adopters of Vista: Whether you’ve jumped to Vista or are sticking with XP, our tips will make your computing faster and safer–and even a little more stylish. This is the kind of inclusive view we like to […]
