Monthly Archives: June 2009

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Turn a Nike+ Sensor into a Keyless Car Entry System [DIY]

Pressing the button on your key fob to unlock your car is so last millennium. This nifty modification will have your car unlocking itself as you walk up to it.
The modification is built by chaining together several components, all of them relatively inexpensive. The iPod dongle and Nike+ shoe sensor are the great communicators in [...]

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Google Officially Adds Custom Search Options [Search Operators]

The Google improvements we saw unofficially opened to some users about two months ago have gone official, letting searchers see timelines and “Wonder Wheels,” filter for recent results, and seek out forums and reviews.
Google’s honchos unveiled the new “Search Options” at a Searchology event, one that coincides with the two year anniversary of the Universal [...]

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X-Mini Capsule Speaker

I wasn’t a big fan of Boom Boxes in their era. Unfortunately, the iPod kept the listener tethered with wires to uncomfortable ‘earbuds’ (as did the Walkman in its day). Apple has since upgraded its painful in-ear headphones, but then the Capsule Speaker came along.
I have re-configured my iPhone to play [...]

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Study: One in Five U.S. Homes Are Cellphone Only

The CDC’s report on wireless substitution – aka canceling your land line for a cellphone – is out and we discover that one in five U.S. households have cut the cable, an increase of 2.7 percent over six months ago. Another tidbit: one in every seven American homes (14.5%) took all their calls on cellphones [...]

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XBMC 9.04 “Babylon” Updates for All Supported Platforms [Downloads]

Almost any platform you could want: XBMC has updated to version 9.04, codename Babylon, available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV, the classic Xbox, and bootable CDs or USB drives.
This update finalizes features that were part of the 9.04 beta, including:
PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X, VDPAU (NVIDIA GPU Hardware Accelerated [...]

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TweetMyPC Uses Twitter to Remote Control Your PC [Downloads]

Windows only: We’ve shown you how to shut down your PC and Mac with a text message, now you can control your PC from afar using a Twitter account.
TweetMyPC uses the Twitter network instead of the SMS network to relay command messages to your PC. You install the tiny application, give it the credentials of [...]

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LaCie IamaKey Is a Sturdy Thumb Drive for Your Keychain [Stuff We Like]

The LaCie IamaKey looks and feels very much like a regular key, fits easily on your keychain without much extra pocket bloat, and stores up to 8GB of your data.
Sure you can already attach most thumb drives to your keychain, but most are still a little on the bulky side when compared to your keys. [...]

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SkipScreen Lets You Pass Go and Collect Your Download [Firefox]

Firefox: Thanks to an explosion in their popularity, it’s hard to avoid the ad-filled countdown screens of file services like Rapidshare and Megaupload these days. Skip the wait with this handy extension.
SkipScreen is a no-frills Firefox extension with a singular focus. Once you install SkipScreen the splash screens on popular file sharing services, that show [...]

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LiteOn flash tools for Linux released!

modrobert writes: “ddl over at #xbox360tools on EFnet has released a set of tools for linux to extract (key), patch, erase and flash the Xbox360 lite-on drive. You can find 32 and 64bit binaries statically compiled in the download section here which should run on any linux distro with kernel 2.6. According to ddl there [...]

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