Build a Portable Flash Tripod Out of Tent Poles [Photography]
If you’d like to experiment with studio flash configurations but you’re short on the space or money to buy heavy-duty flash stands, this video tutorial details how to make portable flash stands using lightweight tent poles.The design relies on sturdy but lightweight tent poles to provide support for your flashes and/or flashes with a soft [...]
Nintendo DSi Uses Camera Face Tracking to Create 3D Mirages [3D]
Three-dee displays make me dizzy. I want to see real 3D without eyeglasses, which is exactly what this new Nintendo DSi game does. It opens a world to a new dimension by tracking your face with the DSi camera.
Its name is Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda, and the mechanics are quite simple: You move your [...]
Step-by-Step Guide to Rooting and Tethering a Nexus One [Tethering]
With the Nexus One, Google made it a little easier for modders and hackers to unlock and alter the phone. Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow took the Cyanogen plunge for 3G tethering and open access, and explains the process in great detail.Doctorow’s post stems from his reading of the CyanogenMod Wiki tutorial, which does assume [...]
From the Tips Box: Chrome Awesomebar, Flyaway Cables, and Food Defrosting [From The Tips Box]
Readers offer their best tips for adding missing Firefox features to Chrome, keeping cables from slipping behind your desk, and defrosting food faster in the fridge.
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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for [...]
New Pwnage Tool for 3.1.3 available
Fear not, people who jailbreak your 3GSes! PwnageTool for the latest firmware, 3.1.3, is available and ready to crack, hack, and otherwise damage your iPhone.
I’ve stopped hacking my 3GS simply because too many things break after unlock. You should also keep your “SHSH hashes” backed up (basically keep the keys to previous versions lying around [...]
semaanjay says "Great GPS especialy if you hack it" about Omnitech – Omnitech GPS 16878-US
This is a great GPS. Even with only the the software that comes with it, it performes great. I got it for real cheap from Staples. I had a coupon and it was on sale plus easy rebate. Ended up paying like $40 for it. It comes with preloaded maps of the 48 States and [...]
PS3 Hacked, Exploit Is Now Available for Your Illicit Pleasure [Hacks]
GeoHot, one of the fathers of the iPhone’s jailbreak community, has just released the exploit that’ll let loose all sorts of promising PS3 hackery, just like he promised. We can’t wait for hackers to unlock the PS3’s power.
Apparently the hack gives full access to memory and the OS, and definitely works with firmware version 2.4.2 [...]
Aliens vs. Predator Heritage Trailer
This video takes us back to the original Aliens vs Predator from 1999. They show how far the game has progressed since then. I actually never played the original, I started with Aliens vs Predator 2. Man that was fun until the hackers ruined the online play. One hack I didn’t mind though was character [...]
Geohot (Original Iphone Hacker) Claims to Have Hacked the PS3
Very interesting to see where this goes but the hack seems to be extremely impractictle. As of right now he still can not play games from what I understand, but he is further then anyone before him. He is a very trustworthy hacker (oxymoron?), so he is most likely telling the truth. [...]
DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She [Hacks]
At least with those Kanye West Venetian blind glasses, you could kinda see. These things are just two screens on your face, blocking your entire field of vision. Get ready to run into walls, just like Lady Gaga probably does.
DIY Lady GaGa Video Glasses from Angela M. Sheehan on Vimeo.
So this hack is pretty much [...]
