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Here’s a cool hack that you can use to make your Windows boot up faster
using the built-in msconfig command.

Well we were thinking of making some new video podcasts so today we stopped by the Apple
store in downtown San Francisco to get some ideas from Phillip Torrone at Make.

Actually Garrett and I were supposed be there together but Garrett and I got lost while my car
ran out of gas on the way there… (next time, we will have to take one car!)

Here’s the summary of Podcast HOWTO:

• Use GarageBand to create enhanced mp4s.
• Using an enhanced podcast allows you to do more such as putting a clickable hyperlink to your
  website.
• Make easy to navigate menus for different parts of the podcast
• Interactive PDFs can be good, such as 3D images that can only be opened with latest versions
  of Adobe reader but really cool. Check out the spud gun pdf again if haven’t yet and click
  on Explode and Implode and you can move it around like that!

We did get to show Phillip our golf POV with “makezine” on it, so hopefully we will get hands on
one of those soon and get to hack it a little. Above is picture of the Phillip’s version of the MP3
player. We are going to try to put the LCDs and some more hacks for it.

I think Phillip will have a more detailed instructions on Podcasting at Make blog…
We did get to talk about how Google ads are not really relevent anymore, maybe people need to
start using video sites such as metacafe, blip.tv, revver, etc… to make some revenue.

In all, we did learn a lot from Phillip about podcasting and plan to implement a lot of what he had
to say. Watch out for Zedomax Podcast coming soon! Hey thanks Phillip, that was great info,
something we needed to get off our slow podcast start…
We definitely need to get our hands on an ipod… maybe I can borrow my dad’s for now…

Here’s a little secret video we took which isn’t much but next time you should goto the show
if you want to learn about podcasting

Check out this Top 10 Ways Microsoft Would Change The Auto Business. Hilarious!

10. New seats would require everyone to have the same butt size.

9. We would all have to switch to Microsoft Gas.

8. The U.S. government would be forced to rebuild all of the roads for
Microsoft cars; they will drive on the old roads, but they run very
slowly.

7. The oil, alternator, gas and engine warning lights would be replaced
by a single ‘General Car Fault’ warning light.

6. Sun MotorSystems would make a car that was solar-powered, twice as
reliable and five times as fast, but would run on only 5% of the
roads.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car.

4. You could have only one person in the car at a time, unless you
bought a Car95 or CarNT — but then you would have to buy ten more
seats and a new engine.

3. Occasionally, your car would die for NO apparent reason and you
would have to restart it. Strangely, you would just accept this as
normal.

2. Every time the lines of the road were repainted, you would have to
buy a new car.

1. People would get excited about the new features of the latest
Microsoft cars, forgetting that these same features had been
available from other car makers for years!

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Now you can boot up your computer faster and also disable the annoying Windows splash screen at the same time!

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Cool little hack using tracert command and www.ip-address.com. Trace the IP
address down to a satellite image!

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Kenji found this cool video on hacking a staples easy button and the video is hilarious.
It’s a cool little project that hacks the staples easy button with a voice module
from Radio Shack! The cat in the video does some soldering too!

Remember we found a MAC Address HACK for Windows the other day?

Well, here’s more ways for hacking your MAC Address that includes Windows XP, Vista, Linux, AND MAC OSX!
I think these are simpler than the ones before.

BSD

1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig xl0 down”

2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig xl0 link 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA”

3) Bring up the interface: “ifconfig xl0 up”

Linux

1) Bring down the interface: “ifconfig eth0 down”

2) Enter new MAC address: “ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:AA:AA:AA”

3) Bring up the interface: “ifconfig eth0 up”

Windows 2000/XP
Method 1:

This is depending on the type of Network Interface Card (NIC) you have. If you have a card that doesn’t support Clone MAC address, then you have to go to second method.

a) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel and double click on Network and Dial-up Connections.

b) Right click on the NIC you want to change the MAC address and click on properties.

c) Under “General” tab, click on the “Configure” button

d) Click on “Advanced” tab

e) Under “Property section”, you should see an item called “Network Address” or “Locally Administered Address”, click on it.

f) On the right side, under “Value”, type in the New MAC address you want to assign to your NIC. Usually this value is entered without the “-” between the MAC address numbers.

g) Goto command prompt and type in “ipconfig /all” or “net config rdr” to verify the changes. If the changes are not materialized, then use the second method.

h) If successful, reboot your system.

Method 2:

This should work on all Windows 2000/XP systems

a) Go to Start -> Run, type “regedt32″ to start registry editor. Do not use “Regedit”.

b) Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}”. Double click on it to expand the tree. The subkeys are 4-digit numbers, which represent particular network adapters. You should see it starts with 0000, then 0001, 0002, 0003 and so on.

c) Find the interface you want by searching for the proper “DriverDesc” key.

d) Edit, or add, the string key “NetworkAddress” (has the data type “REG_SZ”) to contain the new MAC address.

e) Disable then re-enable the network interface that you changed (or reboot the system).

Method 3:

Use the program Etherchange from http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/etherchange/

Windows 9x

Use the same method as Windows 2000/XP except for the registry key location is “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Net” and you must reboot your system.

Wow, tight ass iPhone like cellphone that you can hack using the open source mobile platform!

We have all seen the new Apple iPhone that was just released at CES. Now have a look at the new OpenMoko open source phone that has some similar sexy lines. The specifications sound impressive, what do you think?

Have a look at the presentation (PDF).

“Until now, mobile platforms have been proprietary and scattered. With the release of OpenMoko, which is based on the latest Linux open source efforts, developers now have an easy way to create applications and deliver services that span all users and provide a common “look and feel”. OpenMoko also offers common storage models and libraries for application developers, making writing applications for mobile phones fun and easy while guaranteeing swift proliferation of a wide range of applications for mobile phones. With such extremely high quality open frameworks, developers will be armed with exactly the tools they need to revolutionize the mobile industry.

Preliminary Specification

Note: These are _not_ final. But since we’ve had so many questions on our mailing lists,
it’s probably best to post them in one place:

Hardware

* 120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm)
* 2.8″ VGA (480×640) TFT Screen
* Samsung s3c2410 SoC
* Global Locate AGPS chip
* Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
* Unpowered USB 1.1
* Touchscreen
* micro-sd slot
* 2.5mm audio jack
* 2 buttons
* 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
* 128 MB SDRAM
* 64 MB NAND Flash

Software

* Dialer
* Contacts
* Application Manager
* Calendar
* More…”

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Remember the 200MPH Radio controlled model Jet? Here’s another cool one that
can go 300KM per hour!

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Here’s a funny robot competition that robots try to pop each other balloons!

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