Twilight Hack returns to knock out Wii Menu 3.3 engadget, CA - Jun 21, 2008 While the Wii Menu 3.3 did slightly break the Twilight Hack, it didn't even bust up folks who already had the hombrew channel installed, and its protections …

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Disney doing game about a super-dog Eurogamer, UK - 3 hours ago Disney is making a game about Bolt, who is a super-dog with laser beam eyes and a sonic boom bark. He, along with owner Penny who is sneaky and hacks things …

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DIY wax, bulb-shaped night light - actually easy enough to do Tech Digest, UK - 13 hours ago Not one for children or the clumsy with all the broken glass involved but as hacks go, making a wax bulb-shaped night light is actually pretty doable and …

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Chicago Tribune Notices Make: O'Reilly Radar, CA - 3 hours ago Of course, Dale was the one who started the popular rehabilitation of the term "hacks" with the Hacks series that he started four years ago for O'Reilly …

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WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 Slashdot - 17 minutes ago Hours of relentless researching to find the flaws (hacks) in the target. - 3rd party vendor mistakes allow entry point for unwanted intruders. …

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Your Wednesday Morning Bullet Points Royals Review, MO - 4 hours ago Unlike a lot of the ESPN hacks, Law's actually pretty good at what he does. Unlike a lot of the ESPN hacks, Law's a Scouts Inc. guy. Go figure. …

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Essential Mac Maintenance: Get Set up PC World - 44 minutes ago Two things to note: First, never connect a laser printer to one of the UPS's battery-backup outlets; laser printers can draw a lot of power, …

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An RFID Hack Job RFID Journal, NY - 13 hours ago It quoted Grunwald as saying: “It is only a matter of time before someone puts a root exploit on one of these tags and hacks into your supply chain. …

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RE[2]: Scrollbars? Newmobilecomputing.com - May 11, 2008 See i have one of the logitech mx laser mice that has the clutch scroll wheel. Click and it's smooth, click again and it's jumpy…i like it smooth Reader …

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Throwing light on the media blackout Hertfordshire Mercury, UK - 9 minutes ago As in the days of Prince Harry's stint in Afghanistan (when sadly local hacks were just as much in the dark as Osama Bin Laden was in his cave), …

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Microsoft hires SCO veteran as its Competitive Strategy guru CNET Blogs, CA - May 5, 2008 After all, SCO once said of Gupta that "he is able to laser-focus on product deliverables." If half-truths in the interest of competitive strategy are what …

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CRICKET'$ NEW $PIN Electric New Paper, Singapore - 29 minutes ago Mallya was the man behind the glitzy opening ceremony in his hometown of Bangalore, an exhibition of fireworks and laser technology unlike any other seen in …

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Maker Faire mimesis and open speculation O'Reilly Radar, CA - 16 minutes ago It features a fair number of expected hacks, such as a 1956 Ford Truck retrofitted with a Navy boat diesel engine and upgraded to run biodiesel, …

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RE[2]: Comment by sappyvcv Newmobilecomputing.com - Apr 30, 2008 The only reason they are not included is because of third party applications that hook into the windows or hacks. Reader comments are owned by the poster. …

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Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition gets priced engadget, CA - 20 hours ago Judging by the product listing, Nokia plans on charging around a Benjamin more for the WiMAX iteration, though this particular e-tailer hacks off another …

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Geely TX4 LTC show car turns London taxi into hot rod. Sort of. Autoblog, CA - Apr 21, 2008 … the TX4 LTC is almost boring, and even with that stock engine, lead-footed hacks can probably still smoke Geely Beauty Leopard drivers at red lights. …

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Chumby Hacks - now with larger LCD goodness SlashGear, AZ - 3 hours ago Then he even mounted it to a laser-etched metal bezel so it looks like one of those digital picture frames, but does so much more. …

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Burned by Acrobat and Windows Update…on the same day! InfoWorld, CA - 3 hours ago Regardless, it's sad to see my once robust NT reduced to a quivering mass of bloated Vista hacks and compromises. And since I normally run Windows Server …

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If you're serious about your headphone amps, you probably already know about the M3 headphone amplifier. Instead of going for the extra tiny, they're going the 'screw the size, it's all about the sound' route. Thsi thing needs a 24v .5amp power supply. Boards are available, and the discussion has gotten so long on headwize that they exceeded the maximum thread length.

I got busy with the laser last night and came up with something new: a custom etched track pad. It still works, with a bit of added texture where I introduced it to the warm glow of the laser. Hit the link for pics and a walk through.

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After months of waiting, emailing and waiting some more, I took the afternoon off to stay home and wait for this special delivery. (I had to wait an extra day due to a shipping issue!) I received three huge boxes in my workshop. Not only did I receive this (not so mini) Epilog mini 24, I put together a stand and unpacked a monster air filter.

Read on for the obligatory Hack-A-Day logo and my first impressions of this sweet piece of kit.
First off I had to unpack and put things together. Assembling the stand was pretty easy - but my electric screwdriver made everything much easier. The laser has an I/O board with a test socket, USB interface and a network interface. Once I connected it to my network, I decided to be lazy and look up the dhcp address on my server - and failed. Surprisingly, the system doesn't support DHCP. This isn't a deal killer, but it meant that I had to wade through the setup instructions to manually set the interface. (Epilog just leaves it setup for the usual private lan: 192.168.x.x.)

I took a quick look inside the box - and was surprised by just how small the servo motors are. They're about the same size as a 1/10 scale model car, plus encoder. The X/Y assembly only moves a small aiming mirror, air gun and auto focus tool, so it doesn't need to be very large.


Once I got a feel for using the print driver, I grabbed some scrap pine and got to work. I loaded up some Hack-A-Day logo vector art, filled in the areas with some color and sent the job off to the machine. The laser doesn't do anything until you've pushed the go button on the device, so you can send a few jobs to it at once if you like. (The buffer holds 64, I believe.)

On the whole, I'm pretty impressed with the machine. It's built like a tank, uses servo motors to actuate the X/Y axis, and allows you to use a Mac or windows PC to drive it. If you're doing multiple runs, you simply select the job, line things up and hit go.

I haven't picked a winner for the Hackit just yet, so keep on sending up ideas if you've got em. We'll be offering more chances at getting your gear etched as time goes by, so stay tuned!

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After months of waiting, emailing and waiting some more, I took the afternoon off to stay home and wait for this special delivery. (I had to wait an extra day due to a shipping issue!) I received three huge boxes in my workshop. Not only did I receive this (not so mini) Epilog mini 24, I put together a stand and unpacked a monster air filter.

Read on for the obligatory Hack-A-Day logo and my first impressions of this sweet piece of kit.
First off I had to unpack and put things together. Assembling the stand was pretty easy - but my electric screwdriver made everything much easier. The laser has an I/O board with a test socket, USB interface and a network interface. Once I connected it to my network, I decided to be lazy and look up the dhcp address on my server - and failed. Surprisingly, the system doesn't support DHCP. This isn't a deal killer, but it meant that I had to wade through the setup instructions to manually set the interface. (Epilog just leaves it setup for the usual private lan: 192.168.x.x.)

I took a quick look inside the box - and was surprised by just how small the servo motors are. They're about the same size as a 1/10 scale model car, plus encoder. The X/Y assembly only moves a small aiming mirror, air gun and auto focus tool, so it doesn't need to be very large.


Once I got a feel for using the print driver, I grabbed some scrap pine and got to work. I loaded up some Hack-A-Day logo vector art, filled in the areas with some color and sent the job off to the machine. The laser doesn't do anything until you've pushed the go button on the device, so you can send a few jobs to it at once if you like. (The buffer holds 64, I believe.)

On the whole, I'm pretty impressed with the machine. It's built like a tank, uses servo motors to actuate the X/Y axis, and allows you to use a Mac or windows PC to drive it. If you're doing multiple runs, you simply select the job, line things up and hit go.

I haven't picked a winner for the Hackit just yet, so keep on sending up ideas if you've got em. We'll be offering more chances at getting your gear etched as time goes by, so stay tuned!

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DIY Laser Lightshow for $80: Useless but Awesome Wired News - 48 minutes ago By Dylan Tweney March 12, 2008 | 11:43:26 AMCategories: DIY, Hacks What's cooler than a green laser? A green laser that paints semirandom moving spirograph …

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Writing with a laser pointer has been done, but [Chris]'s roll your own version feeds the data the display pc using VNC. He's got some speed issues, but I'm giving him points for most original use for remote desktop software.

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3D pr0n coming real soon now Inquirer, UK - Mar 7, 2008 But Optware concedes it could well end up in the hands of advertising execs, product catalogue makers, cheesy direct marketing hacks or any other otiose …

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Microsoft working up StartKey Windows companion engadget, CA - Mar 5, 2008 … can finally bring my programmed shortcuts everywhere i go! how long before someone hacks it to allow windowblinds themes too? then i'd really be on …

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