Flexbeta has an excellent essay on the floppy drive and why it’s had its day (duh): It’s something universally recognized with computers, and something I’ve come to loathe with a passion. Even though it’s changed over the years, it’s still mostly the same. I speak of none other than the floppy disk. We all know [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cool Geeky Stuff'
Floppy Drives – This Is The End, My Friend
July 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
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Convert That Laptop Into A Walltop!
June 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Mobiles & Gadgets
GRYNX has written a howto on making good use of that old disfunctional laptop that’s just lying around: Welcome to my guide on how to convert a laptop into a walltop (that is what is hanging in the middle frame). First, let’s clear out the expression walltop. It’s comes simply from a laptop that is [...]
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Why Is Retro Computing Coming Back?
June 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff
The new Scientist has an interesting article on why retro computing is becoming so popular these days: REMEMBER your first time, when you sat in front of a keyboard and monochrome screen and joined a brave new world? You may have been playing Pong or Manic Miner, or carefully crafting your first lines of code. [...]
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Build Your Own $30 Air Conditioner
June 14th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
I’m sure this little hack will come in very handy for all the people trying to keep cool on a budget this summer. Some guy has figured out how to make an air conditioner on the cheap, and has written a simple HOWTO on how to do it: Here’s the basic setup. The garbage can [...]
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Transmit TV With Your VGA Card!
June 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, TV
In what must be one of the coolest hacks I’ve seen so far this year, someone has written a howto on transmitting TV with your VGA card: How does it work ? Every VGA card contains high speed Digital to Analog Converters (DACs), one for each Red, Blue and Green component. Here we use only [...]
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Computer Case Made From CPU Fans
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Some dude has make a computer case by using only CPU fans: I work in a computer store building PCs all day. With every new case there are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as [...]
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The Z Machine Gun Shoots Faster Than the Earth
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Math & Science
Forget the fastest gun in the west, these guys have made the fastest gun in the world: Imagine a gun sending bullets at 34 kilometers per second, faster than Earth moves through space. This is the new speed record recently broken by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). With this machine, Sandia researchers [...]
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Tokyo Geek Walhalla
June 8th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Anime, Cool Geeky Stuff
The Washington post has written an article on Tokyo’s infamous Akihabara district, where Japanese geeks can be themselves. Excerpt: TOKYO At his favorite neighborhood cafe, Shunsuke Yamagata, a college student who proudly calls himself a nerd, smiled shyly behind his horn-rimmed glasses at waitresses hurrying about in black Minnie Mouse shoes and lacy, racy mini-dresses [...]
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Play Videos On Your iPod!
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can [...]
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Transform Normal Phone To Skype Phone HOWTO
May 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Telephony
A nice tutorial to convert your phone to connect it to your PC can be found here. The guy found out how to do with by the scientific method of Trial & Error: So, the problem. You have a computer, your friend has a computer, you both have a broadband connection, and you make use [...]
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