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Twoddler Plaything Lets Toddlers Tweet
As if Twitter weren’t already full of utterly bland, mindless codswallop, researchers from Hasselt University in Belgium are about to add the random, idiotic bleatings of a baby to Continue reading this post…
OS Xbox Pro: The Final Hackintosh?
W hen PC lover Will Urbina was finally forced to switch to a Mac by market forces (he’s a video editor, and most everyone these days wants you to use Final Cut Pro), he didn’t give Continue reading this post…
Mac Cloner Psystar Sold Fewer Than 1,000 Hackintoshes
The story keeps getting worse for Psystar, a small Florida-based startup that was selling Mac clones. In its court battle with Apple, a judg e recently found Psystar guilty of violating Apple’s Continue reading this post…
DIY iPhone Macro Lens Carousel
The first two iPhones had terrible cameras, something Apple fixed with the 3GS. Those of us who like to complain can still find fault with the lack of an optical z oom lens. Those who don’t Continue reading this post…
The Chop is Invest in: OS X Fastened to Sprint on Atom Netbooks
When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t kno w that it wou ld happen Continue reading this post…
Chumby Guts: Automaton Viscera For Hackers
In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These hav e been stripped of their fur Continue reading this post…
The One-Dollar iPod Keychain Chop
When not puffing on his pipe, petting his sociopathic parakeet or growing a rather creepy-looking mustache, gadget blogger and ex-Wired.com writer John Brownlee likes to tinker. This morning Continue reading this post…
Hackers Mod, Overclock and Reprogram Their Calculators
Benjamin Moody spent two months trying to crack the programming code of his TI-83 graphing calculator, a process that involved finding the prime factors of enormous numbers. When he was done, Continue reading this post…
Mac Cloner Psystar Responsible of Violating Apple’s Copyright
Apple has won an important round of its legal battle against Psystar, a Florida-based startup that has been selling Mac clones for over a year.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled late Continue reading this post…
Verizon Won’t Proffer Liberated Tethering But Droid Hackers Strength (Updated)
Updated 8 p.m. EDT: Google has released the source code for Android 2.0, according to Android developer Cyanogen.
In TV ads, Verizon is trying to sell its new Google-powered phone Continue reading this post…
