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  • DIY Century Compact Flash to SATA adapter

    This little guy supports 3 CF cards and can be used to make a relatively cheap SSD card out of everyday CF cards. That’s a quickie 96GB SSD for about $450 (plus $192.57 for the adapter plus shipping) given current on-line prices. That’s a heck of a lot cheaper than a 64GB SSD card for…

  • Format Wars…

    There is a great article over on Cnet.uk talking about Format Wars. So you want to know what would have happened if BeOS didn’t cost $400 million….Well maybe “it would make BeOS the operating system of choice for Apple Macs. It would also prevent Steve Jobs from returning to that company. In turn, this would…

  • Guitar Heronoid

    The credit for the discovery of this one I guess goes to the anonymous poster who commented on our “Wii Controller Hacking” post. Anyways, what the heck is a Guitar Heronoid, you ask? Well, It’s a “Guitar Hero Humanoid”, I guess. A neat project brought to you by GarageGeeks members Rafael Mizrahi and Tal Chalozin.

  • Iphone is so yesterday…..I want a MyPhone

    So Iphone is all the rage now and if you don’t have one you’re not cool….right? Well, not exactly. You see there is this whole movement out there that believes your phone should be YOURS, not Apples, not MS’s, not anyone elses. I believe Nokia is getting there with the N800, but they are not…

  • The Perfect Beer

  • Streaming DV with VLC in Linux…..

    Thought this might be useful for someone: Install the libraw1394 and libavc1394 If you want to be able to stream from a DV camcorder, then you need to install the libraries libraw1394 and libavc1394: If you use a Fedora Core distribution then you just need to install the libraries using: %yum update %yum install libraw1394…

  • Email post with picture attatchment

    Ok, here is test1 for email posting using N800 as the device