We added a new section in MAKE a few volumes ago and I wanted to introduce it here… Here’s Charles the section editor – The projects in MAKE encourage us to transcend our default role as passive consumers. Armed with screwdrivers and soldering irons, we boldly go into basement workshops, creating new gadgets or ripping […]
Go Green! Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use. By Bill Barminski – MAKE 12 – Page 58. Would you like to make a video of yourself standing on the moon? There are two […]
The end of TV: Boxee + Apple TV + Hulu, a review of Boxee @ Tux Geek… People want to do much more with their iPhone then Steve Job allows. So they jailbreak it. The same goes for the Apple TV. While it is a great and relatively cheap media center, it has restrictions, just […]
Looks like more folks are talking about making things more than buying things on Twitter… Not sure if it means anything but it’s fun to poke around with the Twist site. If you want to follow MAKE we’re on there too…
Clever art project that raises awareness of net censorship – China Channel Firefox Add-on – Experience the censored Chinese internet at home… The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience […]
YouTube has a cool new feature that allows linking to any part in a video… here’s an example (click the link below). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4WHjibvcE#t=1m18s Just put #t= and follow the format: m for minutes and s for seconds. Hand for makers who want to link directly to portions of a video of their projects or for […]
Evan writes– I just finished the first major round of updates to the DeTouch project in almost two years. DeTouch is an interactive online tool that visualizes the alterations made by professional re-touch artists. This update doubles the amount of data from re-touch websites and includes downloads for full screen standalone applications in Linux, Mac, […]
