Oct 28, 2010

Remember those movies where you had to know a secret knock to open up a passageway? Now you can make your own! You can do some amazing things with Arduino. Steve Hoefer of http://projects.grathio.com/ has designed a simple but amazing secret knock door lock using only some PVC pipe, a servo, a microphone, a few LEDs, and an Arduino board! Check out this amazing...

Aug 3, 2010

The BlackBerry 9800 which we’ve been waiting on for months has finally arrived.  A top secret training call with RIM took place today where they officially announced the most anticipated BlackBerry in years. The best news of all; the official release date? August 12th! First off, RIM calling the 9800 Torch. The Torch is a slider touchscreen phone with...

May 12, 2010

Here’s a cool little guide I found that takes the long way around installing washers on the Xbox 360 Heatsinks to fix the RROD. I’ve done the repair 3 times my self for me and friends, so I can vouch that it works. I only had one time it didn’t work, and that Xbox was totally wasted. The guide has a little humor in it so it’s actually a...

Mar 31, 2010

I recently purchased as Seagate 1.5 TB Barracuda LP Series of Hard Drives. They sell for about $99 bucks for OEM on Newegg or $109 Retail Boxed. I will keep this hardware review short. AVOID THE SEAGATE 1.5 TB LP DRIVE AT ALL COST!!! Here is a forum with hundreds of people with the same thoughts as...

Jan 7, 2010

Toshiba has released a preview of their new “IT” tv that everyone is going to be wanting this year. Powered by LED (KIRA2) backlighting, the 55- or 65-inch Cell TV features multiple eight-core 3.2-GHz processors. What does that mean? It’s 10 times faster than standard desktop computers and will have 143 times the processing power of today’s...

Oct 12, 2009

The keyboards we use everyday to most of us are called “QWERTY” keyboards, because they have that name because the top row of keys are arranged in that order. They did that to slow you down, so the heads on old typewriters wouldn’t catch on each other. We use it today, cause that’s what our teachers learned on and it just became...

Sep 4, 2009

!!WARNING!! The following guide is provided without warranty of any kind. Changing firmware does not come without risk. Proceed at your own risk. Hey, if you do brick, you can try my next guide on recovering your Linksys WRT54GL’s firmware using tftp. This guide explains how I flashed my Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 with  ddwrt version 24 preSP2 Build 12188 VPN...