Do you remember when the first Nintendo PowerGlove came out? It was like the tightest game controller ever.
Well, nowdays “nobody” uses a PowerGlove but here’s a guy who hacked it, added an accelerometer, and now functional just like a Wiimote, or maybe even better.
Over the past month, I’ve done just that. I stripped the guts out of an original Power Glove, replace ...
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Microsoft Surface may be an easy option for businesses to get a multi-touch surface computer but they did not invent it nor is it the only viable option to having one yourself.
The guys over at MaximumPC has done a fantastic job of documenting how to build a multi-touch surface computer all from scratch using open-source multi-touch software Touchlib. I find it facinating that the mult ...
Here’s a roundup of interesting laptops from our Laptop Pimp Blog this week:
Looks like Toshiba and Sun are working on OpenSolaris laptops, a good thing for open source. If you want to check out luxury handbags, you should really check out our BagWhiz blog but here’s a fashionable bag if you want to carry a laptop in it.
If you still don’t use a laptop stand/cooler, I ...
Well, I have been messing around with more web software (as usual). Last year, I made SiteHoppin, which is a complete hack job of open source MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia.
This year, (actually just last night) I am messing with Wordpress MU and BuddyPress, both which combined gives you some sort of blogging social network.
Anyways, I need some beta testers to work ...
Yes, Google Chrome has been around and I have even made a blog dedicated to Chrome hacks, but Google Chrome is now going official. I really sense that Chrome will start picking up even more users due to the fact that they did fix a lot of security bugs with enhancements from the community feedback.
Go Google!
One thing I highly admire of Google over Microsoft is that they went with ope ...
Here’s a really cool mod that shows you how to play doom with your really, really, old Mac display and an iPhone as controller. Kinda pointless but still, if you have bunch of junk laying around, this might be a great way to spend your free time.
If you’ve gotten excited about this iPhone/TV-out stuff, you can give it a try. Troughton-Smith has released the Doom source as ...
One of my greatest websites I ever made (and hard-coded all myself) using MediaWiki open-source as base platform is SiteHoppin.com.
SiteHoppin has been re-launched as a domain search engine. Basically, it’s like Digg but we only store your URL infomation, no content whatsoever other than previews under iFrames.
You can also submit your blog/website URLs as they will get indexed ...
In case you have bought an ASUS Eee PC with Windows, there’s a special version of Ubuntu, customized just for the Eee PC models.
This allows you to install the Ubuntu on Eee PCs without too much headache as it has already been configured for the factory hardware.
Ubuntu Eee is not only Ubuntu optimized for the Asus Eee PC. It’s an operating system, using the Netbook Remix in ...
HP shifting focus to Linux in order to get over Vista Unpopularity!
Well, I am not a big fan of Vista, maybe XP at the least, but here’s another great news that HP might be using Linux to increase sales while not having to deal with Vista’s unpopularity.
If you have noticed, many computer manufacturers including HP, Dell, and others who have been putting the sign, “This ...
For Do-It-Yourselfers, making your onw multi-touch input device has never been easier with the DIY Multi-Touch Kit.
TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit with the aim to make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion. It is a sister project of the CUBIT multitouch system and aimed at rapid implementation of multitouch projects.
via make, Product Page ...
