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DIY HACK – How to Build a Prepaid Cellphone GPS tracker!

Posted on April 28, 2008 by max

Well, here’s a cool little hack for anyone who’s interested in building a GPS tracker for fun. Although I’d rather stick to my GoogleMaps on my Blackberry, this is good info for anyone who wants to build a custom app.

The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software. The Tracker firmware is open source and user-customizable.

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Snap.com offering publisher revenues to bloggers and alike @ Web 2.0 Expo 2008 SF

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc805Zjyunk

I had a chance to stop by Snap‘s booth AGAIN after seeing them AdTech. So, I finally got Brendon to talk to me about their new publisher program that pays you for using Snap.com on your site.

Btw, Snap.com is a free service that gives you a snapshot of the hyperlinked URL when you hover over it. I had this on some of my “failed” social networking sites

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DynamicToolbar.com builds customized toolbars for companies @ Web 2.0 Expo 2008 SF

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1hx0_ng38

Here’s a short video clip of what DynamicToolbar does. Basically they are a professional development company that specializes in building toolbars for companies who are looking for a customized service. Although I am building my SiteHoppin Toolbar from scratch by reading books, this might be a great way for companies that want a nice professional “customized” version.

There are lots of free tools out there to build a toolbar, but they usually come with e

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Web2.0 Expo 2008 – How to build a Web 2.0 Interactive Resume using VisualCV!

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3FYCLTyRY

Well, I ran into this nice lady who explained how VisualCV works at the Web 2.0 Expo.

I think it’s a really good idea that they’ve actually made resume into a Web2.0ish interactive media.

It’s basically a free service that let’s you build resumes for yourself or even companies.

Instead of sending attachments, now you can simply point to your online resume as mine here:

http://w

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DIY – How to build your own G-Force Meter!

Posted on April 27, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Al-pWAw3g

Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller.

After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple project of my own with this cool sensor just seemed natural. The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For this application A G-Force met

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Web 2.0 Expo 2008 – Jeffrey Walker on Enterprise Wikis!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8s53XaJn6s

Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian.com, explains the benefits and some bullet-points about running Enterprise Wikis over at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Atlassian, is btw, a company that specializes in Enterprise Wikis built for organizing large companies.

What is interesting to me is that these “wikis” have been replacing e-mails, documents, and all sorts of other technology of large comp

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PocketGuitar for jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

Here’s a cool little PocketGuitar you can play with your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch.

PocketGuitar is a virtual guitar for iPhone and iPod touch. You can even have guitar sessions with the songs in your iPod!

You need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch. Google it if you don’t now what it means. It will void your warranty, so do it at your own risk. If you’re not sure what you are doing, please wait until the “iPhone 2.0”

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WordPress HACK – How to widgetize your theme!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

Well, I had to widgetize my old theme today but it was pretty simple:

Make a file called functions.php in your theme directory. (if you don’t have one yet)

Add the following code and save the file: if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(array( ‘before_widget’ => ”, ‘after_widget’ => ”, ‘before_title’ => ‘

‘, ‘after_title’ => ‘

‘, )); ?>

Then add the following anywhere you want to add dynamic widgets:

<?php if ( !funct

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iPhone Video Recorder just released!

Posted on April 26, 2008 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIIBSDUAJSk

Yey, it looks like iPhone Video Recorder is now available.

My friend just started blogging again, please click here and check out his cool blog if you got time.

Check out the features:

iPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed

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Recap of Web 2.0 Expo – What is Web 3.0 and Semantic Web?

Posted on April 25, 2008 by max

Here’s a recap of great stuff I learned through attending the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco this week.

All these companies are building new mass collaboration “online” web apps that are basically easy to use and built on wiki platforms.

Semantic Web is an idea that’s often talked by Web 2.0 junkies.  It’s basically the idea of mass collabo

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