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A Facebook app called AtomicAge was created in an effort to raise nuclear weapon proliferation awareness by showing the sometimes surprising number of nuclear weapon detonations since your birthday. It was nice to see the app only asking for my birth year and month. It obviously wasn’t created to data mine. The app also [...] Those loquacious few who use Twitter must have run across the predicament of hitting the tweet max character limit and still have more to write. For them, there’s a little utility called Longtweet. It allows you to write as much as you wish and post a shortened message with a link to the full text on Twitter. Unlike Tall [...] I wrote up a simple page to view fonts online. If your system didn’t have one of the fonts listed it would load as monospace. However, I recently ran across an even better tool called Font Picker. It loads all the fonts available on your computer and lets you supply custom text for preview. [...] I’m super glad I ran across this post before shelling out the money to buy and external DVD+R/RW for my netbooks. I pulled a Homer S. and asked myself why I didn’t think of this before… I’m not sure why I haven’t run across this in the past, but I just saw an AVR demo board called the AVR Butterfly. It has an LCD, joystick, speaker, temperature sensor, a real-time clock, voltage sensor, and serial port all for an amazing $20 over at Mouser or DigiKey. The whole package is [...] There’s a good tutorial over at Instructables on making custom ethernet prongs out of zip-ties if the original snapped off. I had a busted cat5 cable causing me trouble and, surprisingly, I had the right size zip ties stowed away in my electronic gear. So, I gave it a shot. The result ended up [...] Somewhat recently I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook and have been very happy with it so far. However, one of the downsides is the lack of battery power. This blog post shows you a DIY upgrade of your original battery. Creating a battery that is 3 times the weight of the laptop seems [...] I’ve been busy recently, but I’ve still managed to build a MiniPOV device and an USBTinyISP programmer. They are both kits from LadyAda.net and were not difficult to assemble. I intend to write up my experiences building them and my future modifications, one of which is adding pins on the POV device to allow [...] |
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