Lady Ada has done it again! I still remember when I first met her at the Maker Faire couple years back, very nice lady indeed who keeps stirring up really cool DIY kits.
Here’s her latest Russian VFD alarm clock kit, it features vaccuum flourescent tube and open-source platform so you can hack it all you want.
Why limit yourself to a clock? Hack it and make it tweet your GPS location via your Palm Pre. hahaha. Happ
For those of you who like to swim or simply like being in water, you might be happy to learn that there’s a waterproof USB flash drive with 8 gigabytes of memory and according to one review:
It is fast, cheap, and has lots of storage. I accidentally sent it through the washing machine and it still works just as good. It can be a little bulky to get into crowded USB areas, but other than that no complaints.
can even withstand a washer!
Price:
Rememnber, the contest for LED desklamp with digital photo frame ending in like 10 minutes.
Even if you don’t win, you might be surprised to learn that you can make your own giant LED lamp to replace a flourescent lamp in your garage. This is great since LEDs are way more efficient plus they are super-brighter too.
To power it up, connect a 12V 1A power supply to the lamp ensuring that polarity is correct. You will be amazing by the bright white light that comes from this tube.
While I am waiting for my cellphone signal booster to arrive, (which also works on broadband cards) I figured out a really simple method that actually gets you better broadband signal in your car.
So here’s how to get better broadband signal when you are working inside your car like me:
Simply, pull all your windows down.
If you have a sunroof, open it up as much as you can.
I just went from 2-3 bars to like 4-5 bars with that.
You can also try op
Well, I digged a bit further with my Palm Pre GoogleMaps GPS tracking app and made a new app that will track your Palm Pre’s GPS location via Twitter.
This is a better way to keeping a record of where you have been traveling in the past with your Palm Pre.
Here’s a screenshot of my latest update
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kk2dx9Rl0
Over this weekend, I’ve cooked up some really great Palm Pre hacks, one of which shows you how to setup a website on your Palm Pre and track your phone via GoogleMaps GPS. This means that if you lose your phone or someone steals it, you will know exactly where it is.
You know, I haven’t had this much “hacking” fun since I first started this site. I just figured out how to install a WordPress blog on my Palm Pre! It runs really well btw but I can’t tell you the domain name since Sprint might cancel my contract if too many people start accessing it.
Anyways, I’ve written a detailed DIY guide over at Palm Pre Hacks Blog, make sure to check it out if you plan on taking your website with you at all times.
P.S. I am sure there will be one day technology gets so good that my blog will run on a cellphone.
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Here’s a write-up I did over at my new Palm Pre Hacks blog on how to SSH into a Palm Pre. Check it out if you got a Palm Pre and ahead of the curve. 🙂
The second day I got the Palm Pre, I was able to SSH into my own Palm Pre and also make it into a WiFi Router. Of course, this is usual business for me as I manage about 30+ web servers on a daily basis. If I see a linux machine, the first thing I want to do is SSH into it.
Over the last couple weeks, I have been doing a little “host” shopping, jumping from hosting company to another, thus Zedomax.com went down a lot. (Sorry about that, sometimes in life, you need to keep searching until you find the best deals.)
So, I’ve actually narrowed it down to 3 companies that provide the best “cloud/grid”, “VPS”, and dedicated servers.
This review is based on the 30+ blogs I manage, each of blogs getting anywhere from 100 to 20,000 pagesviews each.
In the end, I found that each hosting company had its stren
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsrRGkBnmk
Here’s a hands-on review of the USB Mini Can Humidifier Ionizer from BudgetGadgets.com. It’s a really cool little device as the Can Ionizer will purify the air around your office while providing a purified, ionized mist. I really like it a lot since I smoke in my kitchen, this should help clean up the air quite a bit while I do gadget reviews and whatnot. (Thanks Meka for the free sample!)
The fog of PC/Car Humidifier will neutralize with the s
