For most of us, life consists of a daily cycle of work – and very little play. Hence, getting away from it all for a weekend or two will certainly be a welcome treat. Trouble is that we are more often than not limited by our finances against going all out when recreational travel is concerned
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Travel on a Budget by Exploring the Web
Don’t forget: Tomorrow is SparkFun’s day of free merch (from 9am – 11pm MST). Here’s Becky’s original post from November: Sparkfun is giving away things for free on January 7! You can blame it on Chris Anderson’s book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that’s ‘free’
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Reminder: SparkFun’s free day, tomorrow!
The Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those just slightly off to the side). Every other Wednesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” was also the theme of MAKE, Volume 17 Sorry we haven’t run a Lost Knowledge column recently
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Lost Knowledge: "Artistic printing"
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas will feature more than just the latest and coolest gadgets . Top brass from Washington will also be making appearances – proof that Washington is interested in tech policy. Consumer Electronics Show (2008) CES will begin on Thursday in Nevada, and the top technology advisers, regulators and lawmakers of the Obama administration will be there, rubbing shoulders with the top honchos of Silicon Valley
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CES 2010: Tech Geeks Meet Tech Policy Leaders
Many people are agog over the possibility of an Apple tablet (the iSlate or iTablet or whatever it ends up being called, if something like it will ever be released at all). One would not be too surprised to find that with all this expectation and hullabaloo, manufacturers other than Apple may want to jump into the craze. HP Mini 5102 It does not seem like it will be that way for HP .
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HP Keeps Focus on Touch Computing
Nexus One Image from Google Website Google Inc has finally presented the new smartphone, which will be sold directly to consumers. The phone, dubbed the Nexus One, is the fist hardware device which is designed and sold by the 11-year-old Internet giant. The plan is to challenge the iPhone from Apple Inc., which has been considered a revolutionary innovation when it was launched back in 2007
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Google Presents Nexus One Smartphone
Who would’ve thought renaming your WiFi network could be so useful? Leave it to PassiveAggressiveNotes.com to state truth: “folks with wireless networks still named “linksys” or “trendnet” are clearly missing out on a priceless opportunity to piss off your neighbors.” That’s because, instead of leaving a potentially offensive note on your neighbors doorstep, wasting your to tell them off, you can do so through the magic of WiFi, without getting up from your computer.
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Why You Need to Rename Your Home WiFi
Tom’s Hardware forum member tecmo34 has struck again! Not only does he provide useful info on what PC parts to get on a budget (something also done well by the TH staff ), he wrote what’s probably the best step-by-step guide to building a PC from scratch. Unlike other PC-building guides that are borderline, tecmo34’s guide fleshes out the details of each step
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The Best Damn PC Building Guide Ever
Printer News: Epson Stylus Pro 3880 Offers Two Black and Nine Color Inks for Professional Results Photographers and design professionals often find printing black-and-white photos a nightmare. Because most inkjet printers only offer one black ink, subtle grays get lost and unwanted tinting can ruin a black-and-white print
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Epson Stylus Pro 3880 Inkjet Printer for Professionals
Nominated in search 5 Golden Globes and 7 Academy Awards, including Nicest Motion Envisage of the Year, Million Dollar Coddle opened to widespread critical acclaim and excellent audience reviews. Director Clint Eastwood, whose pursuit spans multiple decades in Hollywood, creates perhaps his greatest film to meeting, and co-stars Morgan Freeman (Shawshank Redemption) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Shed tears) find up the screen with their deft type portrayals and unique charisma. Combining all the inspiration of Stony with all the theatrical piece of a Greek disaster, Million Dollar Baby is well-deserved of its Best Duplicate victory (in defiance of the divers protests of competing directors who about Eastwood won based on nostalgia in search his heralded occupation and his adverse likeability)..
The Canon Pixma MP990 is a wireless photo printer that doubles as an all-in-one printer (with no fax, purists take note). I haven’t had the chance to review it yet but have the full specs online ; also, this printer usually retails for about $299 but I’ve seen it for about $219 through TriState (with free shipping), and Staples had a deal on it that brought it below $200–unfortunately, last I checked they were out of stock. Still, it’s worth checking back now and then to see if they’ve got it back in stock, and if their promo is still around
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Great Deal: Canon Pixma MP990 Wireless Photo Printer
If you have multiple PCs that are all running Windows 7, you can share a printer fairly easily between them. But what if your network also comprises older versions of Windows, or Macs? Tricky, but still possible, thanks to some great instructions from PC World’s Zack Stern , who gives good step-by-step instructions on how to get various computers to work together so that printers and other peripherals can be shared
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How to Share a Printer on a Home Network with Windows 7
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Extra Application Process Is Way Too 20th Century [Lord Of The Rings] Quick, grab the ent-draught and gather ’round, for I have some exciting news from Middle-Earth! Peter Jackson has put out word that extras for The Hobbit are in dire need.
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Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Extra Application Process Is Way Too 20th Century [Lord Of The Rings]
Mike Rotondo created an instrument using an Arduino, Max/MSP and some sensors for a Physical Interaction Design workshop at Stanford’s CCRMA . As he puts it: “When the guitar is too sexy and the piano makes too much sense, it’s time to stick a bunch of sensors to your body with electrical tape and plug it all into your computer!” How it works: There’s a small electret microphone attached to my foot, and two bend sensors on my arm: one in my elbow, and one on my finger.
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Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin
From Wired’s Autopia blog: China is home to a widespread DIY culture fed by necessity (the mother of all invention) and innovation. These garage builders and innovators are, like their products, often called shanzhai. Literally translated, it means “mountain strongholds,” but it has come to mean nonprofessional or clandestine manufacturers turning out products from the basic to the highly sophisticated
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China’s DIY aviation community
Make: Online’s space correspondent, Rachel Hobson, points us to this article in Florida Today : After months of searching for a new home for a full-scale model of the space shuttle’s crew compartment, Chuck Ryan is beginning to accept the replica he spent almost 15 years building may soon be destroyed. He is now trying to find takers for 1,000 toggle switches, 50 gallons of paint, 40 gallons of fiberglass resin, plywood, tools and other never-used materials.
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Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home
Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why) [Remainders] The holiday hangover days between Christmas and New Year’s are sort of the year’s remainders to begin with, so it’s a perfectly appropriate time to check out these remainders: Google phones, space probes, misspellings, and one serious party popper. Google Phone On Wheels You can count on Engadget to watch the FCC website like a hawk, and today they spotted a tasty little critter: a bluetooth car dock for the HTC Nexus One. We can’t blame you if you’re a little tired of hearing about the Nexus One by now, but you might not have to hear that name much longer.
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Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why) [Remainders]
Wow, an incredible Instructable fromKyle McDonald: The same technique used for Thom’s face in the Radiohead “House of Cards” video. I’ll walk you through setting up your projector and camera, and capturing images that can be decoded into a 3D point cloud using a Processing application. Most 3D scanning is based on triangulation (the exception being time-of-flight systems like Microsoft’s “Natal “)
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How-To: Structured light 3D scanning
From the MAKE Flickr pool Mark Demers shows off the latest from Spikenzie Labs, Four in a line – a laser-cut Connect Four style game which looks a heckuva lot slicker than its retail counterpart. I’ve always been a last minute Christmas shopper and it has usually worked out. This year I had a request to get a Connect Four game, but I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere
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Laser-cut Connect Four game looks mighty fine
Getting a “printer driver” error can be one of the most frustrating of all error messages, in part because there are a lot of reasons that printer drivers can go bad. As Susanne Bullo points out in her article, How to Fix a Printer Driver Error , problems with drivers can be caused by issues with Windows registry, faulty driver files, missing resources leading to conflicts, and so on.
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How to Fix a Printer Driver Error