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Know Where Nearby Sex Offenders Live - Windows Live Maps Mashup
Know where the sex offenders near your neighborhood live. It's a little frightening, but a logical use of google mashups regardless. Vision 20/20 is a free web maps mashup using the sex offender data with over 600,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. and Windows Live Maps. You just need to…
Wake UP Already - Alarm Clock Hacks for the Sleepy
I have a bad habit of using the snooze on my alarm clock too much. Probably from reading blogs and blogging too late at night... Anyway, I ran across a ingenious alarm clock hack that inspired me to make a compilation of several alarm clock hacks all with a little different aproach. Thankfully, I…
Must Read: Good Stuff I'm Reading
It's Friday and I'm too worn out to post new stuff. So instead, I'm passing along thing's I've been reading from other great blogs: How to Sync your iPod to LastFM and Facebook - a great primer on connecting what you listen to on your iPod with Facebook by Internet Duct Tape…
Ultimate Geek Desk - Made From Computer Chips
I just ran across what looks like the ultimate geeks desk. Matt Tovey had taken a pile of old computer chips, removed all of their heat sinks and used them as eye candy covered by a beveled glass top! Very Nice Here's a picture of the original pile of computer chips Read More about building…
PandoraJam Ripping Pandora Music
Pandora is one of the best web-based radio "stations" for listening to and finding new music to suit your tastes. I use the web-based pandora and also use a Pandora Beyond Media HTPC plugin on my home-theater-PC to listen to music. Now there is PandoraJam, a $15 application that streams…
Hack YouTube Commercials - How To Block the ads on YouTube
As you likely already know, YouTube is all proud that they now have added commercial badness to YouTube Videos . Well as much as that sounds like a good idea for Google (owner of YouTube) it doesn't make for a very good viewer experience so you'll understand why I am excited to see that…
Make Your Own USB Power Supply
Need a cheap USB power supply to charge or power your PSP, iPod or any other USB device? A forum member at Hacked Gadgets called Reverend Jones has a way to make your own USB power supply from an old plug in power supply To convert this old power supply into a USB power supply he says to first…
New TV Season Premier Listing
It's time for the new TV Premiers! I can hardly believe it. My daughter is back in school, my summer vacations are all but over and the new TV season premiers are just about to begin. Since I'm a fan of Time-shifting shows, I mostly lose track of what day shows premier. I use…
Movie Times Google Maps Mashup
Your getting ready to head to the movies and want to know what time Superbad is showing and at what theaters? ThreeMovieBuffs.com now has a google mashup that maps the movie theater location as well as the movie listings for U.S. theaters in your area. Here's an example for the 10011 Zip Code: …
Make Your Own Ipod Case from Bike InnerTube
So you yave a new Ipod and you blew all of your cash on the Apple toy right? Well Wired.com has a how-to just for you. Make your own iPod Nano case out of a bicycle innertube. DIY doesn't get any better than this now does it... Read the full iPod Case Story at Wired.com's…
Flickr Hack: Show All Flickr Contacts
If you use the popular flickr photo sharing site and have so many flickr contacts that you can't remember what they look like, Check out this link . This will show all of your buddies (you have to be logged in to flickr of course) with buddy icons on a page. Here are some other…
DVD Authoring Software for Free: Make Your Own Movies
I had a request by a reader for a freeware or inexpensive DVD authoring program that will take video clips, convert them into DVD-compliant files and even burn them to a DVD disk. I'm an owner of a digital camcorder and also have a pretty large collection of video clips that I'd like to use…
Track Timezone Times Visually
Want to know the time in another area of the world? Want to see that timezone difference on a map? Timeticker.com is a site with a Flash interface where you choose a timezone and/or a city & country. Then it displays the current time. Here's another visual timezone map with a search…
Extreme Mod: Commodore 64 Movie Server
My first computer at home was a Commodore 64. I learned a lot from that old box and it was the beginning of my move from video game junkie to computing. Today I ran across a cool mod that takes the old Comodore 64 computer and Snapstream's Beyond Media to make a movie server. This guy used an…
