Constellation in a Canister

People have looked at the stars for many, many years. They could imagine pictures in stars. Those pictures are called constellations. After you do this activity, see if you can find the constellations in the night sky.

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The RocketPlanes Era

Your common plane is coming to an end. See the new generation of revolutionary rockets that will take you from a to b faster and safer.

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Cracking Wifi with Back|Track

I'm going to show you how you can test your own wireless network's security using the linux livecd distro back|track. Before we go any further, I feel it necessary to mention two things. The first being the ethics of hacking. Most of you are probably familiar with this subject already but, just to refresh your memory.

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A TV Remote Control Decoder

Have you ever wondered what makes your remote control work? The messages travel via electromagnetic waves just above radio in frequency--the infrared.

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Mini Galaga arcade

Nice Flickr how-to for a kick ass mini arcade cabinet.

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Scientists Succeed In Cooling Solid Material With Laser

A team of researchers at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have experimentally demonstrated something that other scientists have been trying to achieve for decades: the cooling of erbium-doped materials with laser light.

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Top Dutch Web 2.0 Apps

Read about the Dutch versionof Digg.

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Advanced, customized searching with Opera and Firefox

Here are some tips on how you can customize the Opera and Firefox search bars and address-bar keyword searches, in order to include regular and advanced search options for your favorites sites.

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MAKE 07 - Shipping soon, subscribe yet?

MAKE 07 hit the printing press today (Backyard biology - including three DNA-based experiments. Other projects include putting a video camera in a model rocket, an easy-to-make Stirling engine, and a home mushroom growing lab) and it will be shipping in the next couple weeks. ACT NOW!!!

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Controlling LED Arrays on TCP/IP Networks

Open-Source methods for embedded TCP/IP networking. This tutorial will show you how to control a full color LED matrix from anywhere in the world using a Java script on the remote computer and an ARM development board connected to a tri-color serial LED matrix listening to a specific UDP port.


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DIY Bike Lock Holder

Here is a neat and easy way to make a bike lock holder that stays on your bike.

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Electrolytic Rust Removal aka Magic

This is a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object. I used this process to restore an old wood plane that I bought for $1.

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Make incredible pictures, no photoshop/gimp requiered.

No photoshop/gimp skills, no prob. Even now is easier to apply this knowledge with the advent of digital cameras.

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Exercise your Brain

Feeling distracted, stressed or bored? put those brain cells back to work with this site.

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Clusterballoon: This beats airlines anytime

A website by a guy who likes to attach himself to helium filled weather balloons and simply float away.

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Screen Printing: Cheap, Dirty, and At Home

You don't have to spend a ton of money on equipment or have a screen printing studio to make some pretty good quality prints.

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How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal

Here's how I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal - adapting Biquad WiFi antenna designs for use with UMTS (3G) mobile phone networks. Via Makezine.com

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Measuring resources for a MySQL server on Linux

Some useful tips on how to know whether your MySQL database is wearing down your Linux box.

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Sixteen-Point Digital Compass

Pussy robots use gps, hardcore robots use a compass.

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New York City Hackers

The examfilm from my masters in Visual Anthropology. Finished december 2000.
Deals with US hackers, their history and ... model trains!

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Proxy mail through ssh without port forwarding.

"In my situation, I am behind a firewall which blocks all SMTP requests, so that I cannot send any mail from my mail client, mutt. However, I have access through ssh to a server which is connected to an SMTP server, andI describe how to enable communication to that server without port forwarding."

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Where Babies Come From in Germany

Oh the germans!!!!.

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The Best Jamaican Tourguide

I guess this is the reason why some people go to Jamaica?!

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Latest Shakira Video

Her you have, in all her glory?.

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DIY Infrared Security Camera

"initially i just wanted to take a webcam and make it infrared, but in the process of disassembly i destroyed the lens. in my search for a replacement lens, the idea grew to use a camcorder so that i could use the zoom feature. i played around with the idea and this is what it turned out to be."

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A geo-located photo album in five easy pieces

Open standards, and openness in general, enables people to combine a variety of technologies in new and interesting ways. For example, Mike Whitton created a Web-based photo album in which the photographs are automatically placed on a map at the exact location they were taken. Let's take a look at how this is done.

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Create GUI dialogs for GNOME and KDE

We have already discussed how you can create text user interfaces for command-line tools using dialog. This time, we are going to look at Zenity and KDialog, which allow you to create GNOME- and KDE-specific front ends for scripts.

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Tux Guitar: Unleash your Inner Rocker with your Linux Box

With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features:Tablature editor.Multitrack display.Autoscroll while playingNote duration managementVarious effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off).Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12).Repeat open and close.Time signature management.Tempo managementImports and exports

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ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.88.3.1 released

ClamWin Free Antivirus includes Clam AntiVirus engine and uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL, please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU Project - Free Software Foundation.

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DIY laptop case: a 12-step program

Custom made cases for your valuable Lappy.

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HelloDS - Voice Over IP (VoIP) for Nintendo DS WiFi

HelloDS is a simple VoIP application for Nintendo DS, created by Alias-Zero It makes use of Stephen Stair's Wifi Lib.

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HowTo: Electronic design on a budget

"After a little thinking, a lot of reading, and fair amount of courage, I took the plunge, placed a Jameco order, and started learning to do electronic design. So far I
�ve had a blast � the first time I took a stab at solving a problem and it worked, I knew this was the right thing to do."

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LAMP on Ubuntu 6.06 for Noobs

"I am writing this as a partial documentation of my trials and tribulations with hopes of aiding all Linux noobs on the steps necessary to create a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQl5 and PhP5 system with FTP. Again, this document is tailored to complete Linux beginners and is in no way a complete guide to attacking such a setup"

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WTF!!!!

I posted a message on digg, the spell check didn't report anything and I ended up posting this. :P.

X-Men Blooper

Doing a movie about comic characters doesn't have to be boring.

Tupperware iPod Boombox

An Easy Cheap way to make a sweet boombox for your iPod. Uses dollar store tupperware styrofoam, and cheap speakers to make a surprisingly cool boombox/stereo.

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Making an online Fish Tank webcam!

Step by step guide for modding the case of an IP camera so that it can be attached directly to a Fish Tank.

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A Red LED Desk Lamp

Need a red lamp to provide soft red illumination around the telescope? Described here is an easy way to do this. Take a commonly available desklamp and convert it to LED's. This is a single evening project, taking just a few hours to accomplish once the parts have been obtained.

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Migrating and moving UNIX directory trees

Occasionally, you need to copy around an entire UNIX
® directory tree, either between areas on the same system or between different systems. There are many different methods of achieving this, but not all preserve the right amount of information or are compatible across different systems.

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Handy regular expressions for system administration

Add to your bag of tricks several handy techniques for crafting real-world regular expressions (regexps). Building regexps is a part of the daily life of any administrator. Learning to think in terms of pattern matching, in order to construct successful regexps that return the desired criteria, is a skill that takes both time and practice.

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How to secure the data in your PHP applications

Get an overview of what it means to encrypt and decrypt information, as well as some practical examples involving passwords and other data, using PHP's built-in functionality.

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Create an embedded database and Web server application

Cloudscape and Derby are great database servers for Ajax applications -- particularly if the client and server are on the same host -- due to their zero admin requirements and ability to be embedded.

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Go beyond the basic browser

In this overview of RIAs, you'll learn how to adapt them in the user interface (UI) layer. Web developers and architects might be particularly interested in the discussion of Laszlo, XUL, XForms, Macromedia Flex, and Dojo -- the common technologies currently available in this area. Links to other technologies are also included.

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USB Access Made Easy

Sometimes USB thumb drives or hard drives do not get auto mounted in the commmand line or GUI, here you will learn how to easily access such USB Storate media

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Build Your Own Firefox Search Engine

Firefox's built-in search box lets you search Google from wherever you are. You don't have to settle for that built-in searching, though, because you can build your own Firefox search engine plug-in to search through any site from the Google search box

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DIY Video Game Character Mosaic: Bubble Bobble (w/pics)

How I was inspired by former street artist "Invader" to realize a mosaic with one of my favorite video game character, the Bubble Bobble litle green dinosaur!

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Wireless eMate

"I�m aware it
�s 2006 now� But still I spent some time in getting this marvelous little eMate wireless."

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The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict Stats Web Site

An ongoing study by the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya provides an in-depth look at the fatalities on both sides of the current Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

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Create Excel files using PEAR Spreadsheet Excel Writer

Wouldn't it be great if you could provide your customers access to downloadable numerical data in the form of an Excel spreadsheet? The good news is that you can, with PEAR::Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.

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The Twelve Biggest Secrets of Alcoholics Anonymous

Or, What They Don't Want You to Know.

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Does (password) size matter?

Does size matter? The question has arisen lately on Security-Basics, a computer security mailing list hosted by SecurityFocus.com. As usual, the question comes down to physical size or mental prowess.

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Nice TrueCrypt hack

Using TrueCrypt with Alternate Data Streams to hide encrypted data.

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Alfa Spix - The Flying concept Car: WOW!!!

In the future there are still roads, but the way to cruise them will change.

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Dual screen in Linux

I
�ve just gone dual screen, and after two weeks I cannot imagine going back. Fantastic! Open Office always open on the right screen, Firefox/Thunderbird/Eclipse/Topologi/command shells in the left. This configuration makes it much easier to do research (cutting) in the left and writing (pasting) in the right:

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How to make a flame cannon

In this instructable I will describe how to make a flame cannon out of PVC pipe. It is a simple project and all parts should cost under 10$.

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Knife Sharpening Tricks

There are many ways to sharpen a knife. This method produces a good general purpose edge.

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Mr Butternaker has died

Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85. Farewell and thanks for the good memories.

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NetBeans 5.5 Beta 2 is OUT

NetBeans IDE 5.5 Beta 2 builds on the success of NetBeans 5.0 and adds support for Java EE 5 and Sun Java System Application Server PE 9. Got Web 2.0? Of course! NetBeans 5.5 generates JAX-WS 2.0 artifacts for Java SE 6 and Java EE 5 projects.

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Enable the USB port on your GP2X

The GP2X is a Linux based handheld game system. It supports USB devices through its EXT port. Problem is: it doesn
�t provide power and you have to use a dongle. The GP2X uses a MAX1566 DC-DC converter so Sprite_tm was able to get 5V from the chip that was otherwise unused.

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Mac Spoof: Gaming

In the series of new apple ads spoofs, comes the dagger to the heart: gaming on a mac.

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Moore's Law is DEAD!!! Long Live Amdahl's Law!!!!

Update your knowledge on computing trends right now before is too late.

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Create Bootable USB Flash Drive

A basic article for those that don't know and don't want to use Linux.

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DIY digital picture frame runs Windows CE

In this article, based on excerpts from Jay Ongg's weblog, Jay explains how he built a digital picture frame using Windows CE 4.2 and an old laptop.

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DIY Laser show

A cheap laser pointer, a small mirror and a little dc motor is all you need to start your own laser show.

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Playstation memory card reader.

When I bought my playstation, I played Final Fantasy 8 for many hours, but my cheap cloned memory card lost its memory(That's what happen when you dont use Sony memory cards.).

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DIY Homemade Tesla Coil

The aim of this design was to get the highest voltage (or longest arcs) possible from a singe self contained unit.

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Seattle Powertool Drag Race Wrapup

There was smoke, fire, and good times at Seattle's powertool drag races.

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DIY Soldering Helper

With a project requiring the soldering of 100's of pins per day I made up a holder out of "Loc-Line"

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Dude you're getting a Zune!

The iPod has a new enemy in town, with advanced wifi technology and a superior RAID 5 hard drive system. The Zune incorporates a new interface as well as audio and video capabilities. Microsoft has equipped the gadget with a microscopic 16 hour wave cell battery and two high speed cooling fans.

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The National Virtual Observatory

These are the same tools that astronomers use to get complete data on the sky, in all wavelengths of light. These tools search thousands of different data sets, with more added every day.

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A 007 pen-scanner

Planon introduces the DocuPen RC800 color handheld scanner - the latest technology breakthrough from our R&D efforts. We have been able to achieve full color 24 bit scanning in a remarkably compact and light form that provides you with the ultimate convenience.

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AJAX pagination made simple

Paginated lists in web pages imply specific controls to navigate across pages (link to previous and next page, link to a specific page, etc.).

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Download The Whole Unicode Chart

Looking for a geeky poster, do you code for a living?. Behold the Unicode Chart!!!!.

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You Might Be a Game Developer If...

Follow this digg to find out.

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Linux sucks, Apple sucks, and Popularity Isn't Everything

This blog is not about Linux or Apple, but rather the sensationalist nature of blogging that encourages low-value content. The irony, eh?

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New washers, dryers send messages to PCs

The technology behind cleaning clothes has spun through more than a few cycles over the last century, from clunky hand-cranked machines to today's gleaming appliances that can detect a load's size and even how much grime is ground into the fabric.

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What hot gadgets will cool off shoppers this winter?

Summer heat turns gadget makers' minds to chilly winter days, when shoppers buy millions of iPods and sleek TVs, but consumers may be lukewarm to this year's newest crop of gizmos.

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How to set up a multiple button Mouse under Linux

This guide will explain how to get newer mice working on XFree86 or Xorg with all the buttons being functional. Older methods of mouse setup will leave buttons mapped incorrectly or not functioning altogether. Certain options must be changed in your xorg.conf (for XOrg Foundation version of X) to use a newer protocol which will recognize those butt

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Aircrack running on a Zaurus C1000

The Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 is one of the handful of PDAs that Sharp has released preloaded with Linux. With it
�s full qwerty keyboard it�s pretty easy to use any program intended for a full size Linux box. Reader [Sonicvanajr] decided to make a video of his new toy doing a few tricks. Namely, running Aircrack-ng (key to WEP cracking) and MDK2.

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4 extra playerfields for MKDS@WiFi

Nice trick for your nintendo DS and Mario Kart.

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Battlefield 2 Hacking Hacks

No tech keeps online games from being wiped out.

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How to tell your parents U R Gay

Break the news with style!!!.

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Yet another prank

Guaranteed to cause the victim a heart attack.

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Uni-Directional WIFI Range Extender

Easily receive WIFI signals from far away using a standard USB WIFI adaptor and a bit of ingenuity. This Simple idea requires no modifications to a USB WIFI adaptor or your computer. A simple way to increase the signal strength and range of your WIFI. Plus it works with all USB WIFI adaptors

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How to take apart almost anything: a tinkerer heaven

This site is a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see -- for any reason -- how to take apart certain electronic devices. We will try to post a new dissection as often as time permits.

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Cool Art Web MMORPG

TheBroth is a mosaic art project, where you have to move little coloured tiles in the playing space to make a picture.

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Using open source software to deploy a collaborative Web site

This series shows you the tools and techniques to get relatively complicated Web sites up and running quickly using open source tools, including Drupal, MySQL, PHP, Apache, and Eclipse technologies.

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PayPal XSS Exploit available for two years?

The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which was harnessed by fraudsters to execute a convincing phishing attack against PayPal users, may have been exploitable for two years previously.

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How secure are WiFi phones?

With processing power, battery life and memory at a premium in most WiFi phones, they tend not to support the latest security specifications.

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Accessing free wireless access points made even easier

WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.
It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it.

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3 vs the world

Awesome first page of the independent.

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Amnesty International criticises US web companies

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo stand accused of putting corporate interests above the human rights of the Chinese people.

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KDE e.V. Hardware Fundraiser Week

Even when gnome rocks, help kde!!!.

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Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet is more than a phone, according to John Littler. It's a Debian GNU/Linux system. This makes it a prime target for hackers. Littler explores some of the built-in utilities and some of the other tricks you can use.

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10 hints to writing more popular online tutorials

This article give you ten hints on the tutorial writing process from the actual writing through to submitting them to tutorial directories.

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Output MySQL Database Variables to a Table

Using PHP to output all your MySQL database variables.

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Output MySQL Table Details

This simple tutorial will show you how to output the details of a MySQL database to a HTML table using PHP in just a few simple steps.

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Send an Email Attachment with PHP

Send a PDF (or any other file) as a mail attachment

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How Intelligent Are Cats?

Cat owners often claim that cats are too intelligent to do the sort of tricks that dogs do willingly. Others believe cats are unintelligent because it's harder to train them to do tricks. In this article I aim to explain some of these differences and explore feline intelligence and the limitations on feline intelligence.

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Can a Christian be a good American?

Recently, an email chain letter has been spamming its way into countless thousands of inboxes around the world. No, this one isn't about erectile disfunction or low-rate mortgages - it's titled "Can a Muslim be a good American?" It attempts to make the case that Muslims can never become "good Americans" because of their religious beliefs.

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LED POSITION LIGHTS FOR EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT

After looking at the prices of certified position lights for my RV-7 (about $200 a pair) I looked into the possibility of building my own using high-brightness LEDs. After doing a bit of research into the FAA requirements and then into the available high-brightness LEDs, (These are NOT ordinary LEDs.)

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Roombongle! A Roomba USB dongle

"The RooStick by RoombaDevTools.com is pretty cool. It's tiny and it's USB, which is about all you need for me to bring you home. But if you want to hack together something similar and you don't want to build a huge honking Roomba serial tether, you could build the Roombongle!"

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How to Make Homemade Practice Poi

The Poi dance was originally used by the Maori women for keeping their hands flexible for weaving and by the men for strength and coordination required during battle. Poi are also used as a training aid for other ancient weapons like the Mere or Patu (Short club)"

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Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves?

Obviously, indexes are a central concept to databases and database performance. But horror tales still abound of naive developers who "forget" to index their tables, and encounter massive performance and scalability problems down the road as their tables grow.

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DIY Easiest POV project ever

In this first article on microcontrollers, Erik Zoltan tells you what they are and how they work to your advantage. He presents a few simple examples illustrating how microcontrollers can be used, and gives you a complete implementation of a kinetic glowstick that uses persistence of vision to display images with a flashing row of LEDs.

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Practical business graphing with SVG and XML

Learn to build business graphs using XML, PHP and Adobe's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard. The SVG standard gives your graphics infinite vector scalability, visual effects, and even scripted interactivity.

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M$ blogs against Open Office

M$ feels that only way to combat Open Office is through lame rants, weak!!!.

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A giant Atari 2600 joystick

"Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface. The joystick itself becomes a social sculpture and territory for inter-personal communication." Via Makezine.com.

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HP Unveils Revolutionary Wireless Chip that Links the Digital and Physical

�The Memory Spot chip frees digital content from the electronic world of the PC and the Internet and arranges it all around us in our physical world,
� said Ed McDonnell, Memory Spot project manager, HP Labs.

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PSP Movies: So Long UMD, Hello Memory Stick?

A couple of days ago, news surfaced that Target had to decided to pull all PSP UMD movies from their shelves; as of now the format is still available on Target's website. Now comes news from IGN that Sony appears to be embracing the memory stick for movies.

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Macular degeneration: Help's in sight, but at what cost?

Several questions about cost and the manufacturer's motives are dampening enthusiasm for the first approved drug that reverses a potentially devastating eye disease seen in the elderly.

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Build a Do-It-Yourself Telephoto Lens

This series of projects describes how you can expand the versatility of the Casio Exilim EX-Z120 and possibly other digital cameras.

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Fabulous Filters in Photoshop

Helen Bradley tells you all you need to know about filters, including how to apply multiple filters at once, how to find hidden options, and how to change the colors that a filter applies to your images. A bonus is a list of 10 filters you can use today!

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DIY Solar Tattoos

These suntanned pieces of art are being termed "solar tattoos", your skin is the canvas.

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Fabulous Filters in Photoshop

Helen Bradley tells you all you need to know about filters, including how to apply multiple filters at once, how to find hidden options, and how to change the colors that a filter applies to your images. A bonus is a list of 10 filters you can use today!

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Microsoft, Xen to run Windows, Linux side-by-side

Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it is teaming up with Linux supplier XenSource to allow computers to run the upcoming version of Microsoft's Windows server operating system on computers that are simultaneously running Linux software.

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Hackers Turn To Open Source

Hackers have borrowed the same open-source development techniques used to build Firefox, Apache, and Linux as they collaborate on malware projects, a security company's researchers claimed Monday.

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Feather Linux: Linux in a 128MB Thumdrive

Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 128Mb of space. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day on their desktop.

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Best Windows Admin Downloads

More than 9,000 tools, templates, white papers, and other items are currently available from the Microsoft Download Center, and all of them are free. What's a busy admin to do? To help you sort the wheat from the chaff, I've compiled the following list below of must-have downloads every Windows admin should have from the Download Center.

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Clever Staples Easy Button Mod

Make your Staples Easy button say "I hate spam...", PDF ahead.

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The Amazing lawnmower board

Who hates summer noons mowing the lawn?.

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Windows 98 + ME *still* alive campaign

Most small companies, charities, schools and numerous individuals cannot
afford to upgrade to Windows 2000, XP or any other OS, even Linux, because
they don't have the necessary resources and/or knowledge.

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Build a nice bike trailer out of a piece of electrical conduit and some old

The cheapo way to haul things around.

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A slick computer desk made for compact living made of recycled material.

A slick computer desk made for compact living made of recycled material. I got some offset boards from the local newspaper printer. Total cost under $30.

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howto: Make an Eyetap

Interested in taking photos from your perspective? An eyetap is where the eye is both a display and a camera. Instead of putting the camera up to your eye to take a picture, you mount the camera over your eye, and take pictures when the opportunity strikes.

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Impressive expo of animatronics

Take a look to cool animatronics at The Academy's Galleries. If you live in LA or are planning to go there this is your must go, and its F R E E ! ! ! !

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The programming language for the abstract artist

Piet is a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings. The language is named after Piet Mondrian, who pioneered the field of geometric abstract art.

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Re-inventing HotWheels

A veteran designer Gary Swisher talks about the challenges of designing toys for tech-savvy kids


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Mag-Lite Bike Lamp

Modify a AA mini-maglite to be a long-lasting, low-key CHEAP bike light. Features LEDs for long battery life and handlebar-mounted remote controls. You can even continue using the flashlight off the bike. Perfect for urban nocturnal stealth rides.

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Materazzi vs Zidane: The soccer world cup controversy explained...

Or how the internet interpreted the facts.

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A site for open source hardware

OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently the emphasis is on digital modules called 'cores', since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero.

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Police dog runs over an old woman driving a truck

Officers don't know how he did it, but they are sure a police dog is to blame for putting his handler's truck into gear and running over a woman, seriously injuring her.

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Real time world ship tracker

Look how many ships are sailing around the world. You can even parse the coordinates for a specific ship.

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Linus Torvalds doesn't matter!?!

When I came across the news yesterday, I couldn't believe my eyes. But there it was, in pixels, plain as day. A story on CNN reporting that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, the most disruptive technology of the past 100 years, just doesn't matter anymore.

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Converting Excel to Mathcad: Best Practices

Why convert your Excel worksheets into Mathcad worksheets?
You
�ve already spent the time and energy in creating valuable math content and engineering work. Why not continue to benefit from your work as you embark on future projects?

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Build an automatic can crusher

Thinking of a home based business?, if you are thinking of aluminum recycling, this is the project for you. Other funky uses are left to your imagination.

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USB wifi adapter external antenna modification

"I recently bought a Ralink-based 802.11g adapter on eBay to use with the Aircrack-ng suite on a linux platform and decided to add an antenna connector to enhance its usefulness."

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Online store for the gadgeteer

Playing madscientist as a hobby or a way to make a living?, here is you one stop store fo all your materials and needs.

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41 LED Flasher Circuit using 555 IC

"I made this as a quick project I made to use a lot of the LEDs I recently got. It basically connects via a 555 8 pin IC and allows for adjusting the time between the flashings by changing the resistor or capacitor values. It provides for a cool looking effect in a dark room. Use your favorite color LEDs and enjoy!"

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Sesame Street helps army children

US children's TV show Sesame Street is to be used to help American military families explain why a parent has to leave to serve overseas.

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Linux: The Quickening

The computer software industry is best explained by comparing it to science fiction.

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The Begineer's guide to Peak Oil

The Wolf at the Door is the home of a load of information aimed at educating the beginner about Peak Oil. This subject is all about when the planet's natural reserves of fossil fuel, namely oil, might finally run out.

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Go from couch to 5k in 6 weeks.

This is how I did it: In 7 steps.

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MAKE: Videos + PDFs + plans = fun

OK Makers, our "Weekend project" (videos and PDF/plans) is in full swing. Each week we have a fun video of something you can make and build, additionally - we send out a PDF of plans or something else that's printable.

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Simple XML on PHP

PHP 5.0 offers a completely redesigned XML API built around the libxml2 toolkit; this API supports SAX, DOM, and XSLT, as well as the new SimpleXML and SOAP extensions.

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Automate Your Favorite Photoshop Routines

If you find yourself repeating the same tasks in Photoshop, it's time to learn how to write a Photoshop action.

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Using DesktopBSD

Like PC-BSD, DesktopBSD provides many features that will allow a complete Unix novice to start using the operating system immediately. Those already familiar with FreeBSD and the KDE desktop will recognize the tools underlying the GUI conveniences.

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Data Protection for LAMP Applications

The number of web and enterprise applications based on the LAMP application stack is growing. LAMP applications use Linux or BSD as the operating system, Apache as the web server, MySQL or PostgreSQL as the application database, and PHP, Perl, or Python as the programming language.

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Tux Factory

Lots of TUX icons to choose from.

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Free Linux CDs

This project is one way we are going to fulfill this mission. There are many places around the world that are still on dialup or have restictive download limits which makes downloading Linux time comsuming or expensive. We hope this project will help these people and many others obtain Linux.

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Funny Programming Quotes

Guaranteed to make you laugh unless you.getJobTitle() !~ "PROGRAMMER".

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Digital technology may help restore sight

Researchers in Scotland are working on a prosthetic retina that could restore sight to blind people.

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Google Web Toolkit How To

This article describes the development of a simple Ajax application on Mac OS X using GWT and familiar Java tools.

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The Best Data Cleaning Utilities for Windows Systems

Computers are stupid. So are people, sometimes. However that mangled data got into your database, you need to be able to get it straightened out and any duplicates removed. While you can do some of the work yourself, Rick Cook advocates looking over all the possible choices to choose the route that best meets your needs.

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HP and Warner Bros. give old films new life

Although classic films are easily damaged with age, few have been restored because the process has been both painstaking and costly. Now HP and Warner Bros. are automating the process and yielding some spectacular results.

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Predicting the future -- with games

Predicting the future isn't just the province of fortune tellers or crystal-ball gazers. A team of researchers at HP Labs is doing just that � with the tools of economics.

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Microsoft hit with second lawsuit over WGA

Microsoft Corp. has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), its antipiracy program that checks if the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license.

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Learn Vim

If you've had a less-than-agreeable experience with Vim in the past and are willing to give it another shot, please ponder these points: there's generally a learning curve involved with any powerful tool, Vim is much more than just your run-of-the-mill text editor, and the effort required to become a proficient Vimmer isn't as much as you think.

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Build a Virtual Routed Network

Building a multi-domain, multi-site testbed network with a workstation in each domain and at each site can take about half a dozen machines...unless you follow Mitch Tulloch's advice, and build a virtual routed network on one PC with Virtual PC.

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LCD to USB converter

LCD2USB is a open source/open hardware project. The goal of LCD2USB is to connect HD44780 based text LCD displays to various PCs via USB. LCD2USB was meant to be cheap and to be made of easily available parts.

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Why you should drop from using Photoshop

If you blog about Photoshop there is a good chance you are infringing their trademark guidelines, will they sue you for that?, not now, tomorrow?, who knows?. (yeah I know, I'm infringing it too ;) )

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Cool Tetris ad from the 80's

The NES 8-bit system, good times, good times.

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Profiling and Optimizing Python

Most of the time, code that we write doesn't have to perform as fast as if we wrote it in C. Most of the time, the first pass at writing it is "fast enough" and we don't have to optimize--but there are times when a piece of code just has to meet a certain standard of performance.

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Building Decision Trees in Python

This article introduces a popular and easy-to-use datamining tool called a decision tree.

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Breaking/RESETTING grub password

This guide illustrates three methods to break the grub password.

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Developing Linux Device Drivers using Libusb API

We often come across a situation where a USB device which runs perfectly on Windows platform does not even get detected on Linux. Lack of support for USB devices is one of the reason why some people don't embrace Linux. Now there is a new API by name Libusb which helps the developers to develop USB device drivers on the fly!

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No more spam; Akismet and PHP to the rescue!

In this article you'll learn how to use the Akismet anti-spam service to prevent any spam from being added to your PHP website. Live examples and demo's are included.

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Real time indoor positioning Web apps

Write a simple location-tracking Web application with the help of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technologies.

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Hack almost any Nokia cell phone

This site will give you the codes to unlock your Nokia cell phone, plain, fast and simple.

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XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet

This page is for people who already understand the basics of XSS attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion.

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Hacking Hotmail through XSS

Microsoft's code is not always secure. This is very clear, once again, with this XSS exploit. This is not the first XSS exploit that has been found, others before it can attest it.

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Hawking seeks answers on humanity's future

Hawking's question: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

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Intel price cuts throw fork in AMD plans

Intel Corp.'s attempt to stanch the loss of market share to Advanced Micro Devices Inc., its smaller rival in the computer microprocessor business, appears to be working and may allow it to gain lost ground over the next six months, analysts said Friday.

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Why is so much private data allowed to be on laptops?

Every month seems to bring another episode of sensitive personal information escaping into the wild because a corporate or government laptop computer is lost or stolen. A common response is a lot of hand-wringing over how the data should have been encrypted.

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'Homebrew' community blends hackers, gamers

Independent programmers are working on ways to listen to Internet radio and wirelessly check e-mail through the handheld Nintendo DS game device. Elsewhere, some jokers figured out how to get a playable version of Doom onto the iPod.

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Impressive use of LEDs in Buildings and Structures

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are reinventing the look and feel of skylines, bridges, facades and other architectural surfaces around the globe. The light bulb is being unscrewed by energy-efficient LEDs that are both environmentally friendly and cost-effective.

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'Pirates' a Bermuda Triangle of bad

Arrrgh! Sequel a wild ride that leads nowhere.

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Zoop Framework 1.2 Released !!

Zoop is an object oriented framework for PHP based on a front controller. It is designed to be very fast and efficient and very nice for the programmer to work with. It is easily extensible, and you need only include the functionality you use.

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FREE PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder

Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder is a free command line tool to convert PHP applications to standalone Windows .exe applications. The exe files produced are totally standalone, no need for php dlls etc.

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PlayStation 3 Launch Date - video

Nice video on the upcoming PS3.

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Sony's "Location Free TV" Hits Europe - video

Sony's breakthrough on TV from anywhere you can watch any time you want where a broadband connection is available.

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Google Checkout API

Google Checkout, our recently unveiled checkout option, has an API that exposes sophisticated functionality and programmatic interaction via XML over HTTP. Once you've created a sandbox account, the Checkout API's equivalent of "Hello World" is quite easy using.

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Supernova leaves behind mysterious object

Thanks to data from ESA
�s XMM-Newton satellite, a team of scientists taking a closer look at an object discovered over 25 years ago have found that it is like none other known in our galaxy.

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Great source for quotes

This a killer link for your ultimate email signature, presentation, blog or just to kill an argument in a forum.

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Shout a question at the Internet

Your know the mirror in not accurate, the 8 ball is overrated and the only Oracle there is is leaded by a narcissist, so why don't ask a question to the Internet?.

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How to Use a Wiki for Your Projects

A wiki is a website where users can add, remove, and edit every page in a web browser. It's so terrifically easy for people to jump in and revise pages that wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects.

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PS2link tutorial - Homebrew on the PS2

Hook up your PS2 to your computer and run homebrew software with ps2link software, crossover cable and a modchip or exploit code.

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Stop web ads cold

"I decided to write a proxy that would detect ads heuristically, much like modern anti-virus software manages to detect many viruses unknown to it."

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Electronics: An Online Guide for Beginners.

Are you a beginner in electronics? Have you been interested in electronics but never really taken the time to start learning? Are you just starting out but was unable to find any resources on the net that teaches the basics? Are you just curious about what electronics is?.

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DIY Chewbacca Puppet

No need to carry big posters of Chewbacca for your traffic ticket violations, this puppet is easy to take around.

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Unaired Pilot

Fans of Buffy The Vampire Slayer: enjoy!!!!.

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Mini Cooper Creative Advertisement

Creative ad by Mini Cooper at Zürich�s train station.

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Rethinking Community Documentation

Andy Oram explores how free and open source software projects can share their knowledge with users and how publishers and editors fit into the future of documentation.

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Emacs tips: Searching and replacing

Even if you use Emacs every day, sometimes you'll misplace a word or phrase. When that happens, you'll be glad that Emacs has flexible, built-in search and replace commands to help you find exactly what you are looking for.

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Hardware diagnostics with open source tools

A GNU/Linux live CD distribution can come handy for hardware diagnostics. For this purpose, my favorite live CD distribution is GRML, which bundles the tools we're about to discuss, along with some other useful programs for both home users and veteran system administrators.

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Building a free software community in a PC Garage

Four Debian enthusiasts in New York City got together in 2003 and created the Community Free Software Group (CFSG), a non-profit entity to promote the use of free software in the local community.

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Using a 74HC595N shift register latch with an Atmel AVR

Using a shift register latch can increase the number of output pins your AVR can use. It takes 3 avr pins to control a 74HC595N latch.

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Using external interrupts on an Atmel AVR microprocessor

A common task in embedded programming is checking when the state of pin has changed. You can write software to poll a pin's state, or in the case of AVR you can set up an interrupt. An interrupt can be used to notify your program when a pin state has changed.

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Quake III - Cell Shading

The goals of this project is to add Cell Shading capabilities to the Quake III engine with Real-time performance. Time to reinstall Quake 3!!!!.

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Propaganda against masturbation

Any similarities with the present are just a coincidence.

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Find out how much coffee it takes to kill you

This plus many other interesting facts about caffeine. Also this is a page Starbucks won't like at all.

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TorrentScan: One of the best Torrent Search Engine Searcher

Torrent Scan allows you to search the best torrent search engines on the net from one single spot.

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Home automation using X10

In this article, Peter Seebach shows how to set up and drive X10 devices using off-the-shelf hardware and a couple of hundred lines of simple code.

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Inside the Linux scheduler

This article reviews the Linux 2.6 task scheduler and its most important attributes. But before diving into the details of the scheduler, let's understand a scheduler's basic goals.

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$6 Solar Fan

Heat wave b-gone with this useful mod.

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Decoding BIOS beeps

Ever wondered what about those beep sounds your computer makes when it starts up?, troubleshoot BIOS diagnostics with this useful guide.

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Damn Simple but Powerful Backgrounds for your Site

Stripes are undoubtedly very popular graphical element these days. They are used in many ways in web design, mostly as background patterns of various layout parts or block elements. Here is a fresh tip that could save your time.

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How To: Create an Atom 1.0 Feed

Most people are already familiar with RSS and RSS2 feeds for content syndication. ATOM doesn't appear to be as popular yet, however it is catching on more and more. ATOM 1.0 is similar to RSS in a lot of ways, is a bit simpler, and is very easy to generate. We'll walk through creating a simple ATOM 1.0 feed from scratch.

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TRON Recognizer Paper Model

Here it is - a free paper-model of the "Recognizer" from the mother of all CGI-movies: TRON.

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Highlight Table Cells Script

Give any table a "rollover" personality with this script! Using it, you can allow the cells of any given table to change color when the mouse rolls over them. This is a very powerful script that can add a little magic to any table, whatever the table is used for.

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Playing god:making a cloud in a bottle.

Sure this won't make you a "Wheather Man" but it would make a nice party trick.

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Become a camcorder pro

Shooting a vidcast?, starting the next Blair Witch Project?, read this guide to expand your knowledge on DV/camcorder shooting.

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Using command history in the bash shell

The most comprehensive article on boosting your productivity using the bash shell.

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Replication in MySQL at the same machine.

You have large hits, with database driven site and performance, redundancy, security now comes in mind. DBA is now input by many fingers to seek some good solution to make happy faces.

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Awesome commercial for a Turkish bank

No CGI, photo montage or artificial tricks, just pure originality.

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FREE Introduction to Probability EBOOK

This introductory probability book, published by the American Mathematical Society, is available from AMS bookshop. It has, since publication, also been freely available here in pdf format. We are pleased that this has made our book more widely available.

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Writing an OpenGL Screensaver for Windows

This is the paper I wish I'd read in early 2002 when I was starting development of my own screensaver. It covers the basics of creating a screensaver for Windows systems (95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP).

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How To Use the System Tray Directly from Visual Basic

This article demonstrates how to take full advantage of the Windows System Tray, or Taskbar Notification Area, using Visual Basic. It places an icon of your choice into the Taskbar Notification Area that will display a ToolTip of your choice when the mouse is rested over it.

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How To Use the System Tray Directly from Visual Basic

This article demonstrates how to take full advantage of the Windows System Tray, or Taskbar Notification Area, using Visual Basic. It places an icon of your choice into the Taskbar Notification Area that will display a ToolTip of your choice when the mouse is rested over it.

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How to make an M80

Celebrate the independance of the country by blowing a little piece of it.

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PSP 2.50/2.60 to 1.50 Firmware Downgrader Guide

Using the tools and methods that have been released, we have compiled a "Downgrader Guide" for those of you with a PSP with Firmware of 2.5 or 2.6 who would like to downgrade to 1.50.

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Nested Archive Toolkit for Java

The Nested Archive Toolkit for Java contains a collection of Java classes that provide enhanced capabilities for working with virtually any ZIP and JAR files, including J2EE and nested J2EE archives. Because it is a utility, one is able to efficiently scan, access, and update selected files within a nested archive.

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NASA Aims for Independence Day Space Shuttle Launch

NASA's launch of Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., was scrubbed again today due to inclement weather. The primary concern was the presence of showers and thunderstorms within the surrounding area of the launch site.

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Awesome notes on Fedora Troubleshooting

If you are installing or configuring something in Fedora Core 5, 4 or 3, this is the ultimate page for you, enjoy.

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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

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Bike Mania 2: Impressive flash game

Incredible use of physics and awesome set of skills to master will provide you with long hours of fun.

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Bicycle universal mounting bracket

Cheap mod to mount a gps, mp3 player or whatever gadget you want to bring to your btike trip.

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Geek Fireworks Guide

In the spirit of the good ol' red, white and blue, we've collected a geek's guide to getting the most out of the fireworks this year. Here's a round-up of some fireworks-related articles for you to marinate, toss on the coals and wrap up in a kaiser roll.

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