NYCResistor.com is up!
October 5th, 2007
The awesome Bre Pettis had the idea to create a hacker group (of the “we hack things together”, not “we hack things apart” variety) here in NYC, and once I heard about it, I was excited to help out.
We’ve had a few meetings and with a big push from Nick Bilton, just rolled out a website with lightning speed!
Check out the site, and if you’re here in NYC and want to learn how to make awesome electronics projects, join our Microcontroller Study Group. We’re meeting on October 10th!
P.S. - George Shammas gets huge credit for putting together our initial site, setting up the NYC Resistor calendar and wiki, and working on our own server! Thanks George!
Anyone with a good local pharmacy, help!
September 13th, 2007
If you have a good local pharmacy that you think might stock Cylert (aka Pemoline), or are in another country which hasn’t banned it, please call to see if there is any available. If there is, contact Len directly through his twitter account or comment here and I’ll get in touch with him.
The phonecall to my local pharmacy took 5 min. Please take a few minutes if you can, it could save a life!
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Headphones don’t fit in your new iPhone? Hack ‘em!
August 20th, 2007
The iPhone is one of the best thought-out devices ever made, but that doesn’t stop if from having a shortcoming here and there.
One of its more obvious flaws is that the metal around the headphone jack is so damn slim that you can’t fit most 3rd party headphones. Sure, the iPhone headphones have a mic built in, but they’re really not that comfortable in even my big ears, and they’re downright painful in Sara’s.
So, I did what any enterprising (read: cheap) geek would do, and hacked a super comfy and great sounding pair of Sony Fontopia headphones to fit. They’re only $30, so the risk here was pretty low, but that doesn’t make this first picture any less scary. Here’s the step by step photos with their captions.
An iPhone, some headphones, and knife. It’s going to get ugly.
The jack is too small for normal headphones
The adaptor itself fits, but the casing is too wide
These little Sony fontopia earbuds are super comfy and deliver great sound, for about $30. Lets make them fit.
The L jack only needs to be trimmed a little.
You can easily cut through the rubber casing trimming off about 1mm
Then whittle down the grey plastic a little
Final product
Perfect fit!
It now sits perfectly flush
And music sounds great!
UPDATE: Eric Rice mentioned in a Twitter post that plugging in regular headphones can “zap” the iPhone’s audio, but that plugging in the iPhone headphones cures the problem. Interesting - I’ll have to test that out with Sara’s iPhone when she gets home.
Just try not to click that link!
August 20th, 2007
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I’m always amazed by the great clips that find their way there, but this one literally made me guffaw here in the office. That’s got to be one of the most clickable links I’ve ever seen. Something behind that link is exciting, but you don’t know what!
Here’s the link for the curious (SFW)
A Beach Party, Fireworks, and Music
August 19th, 2007
We’re currently taking a summer hiatus from our podcast, The Alternative Music Show, but we’re still evaluating new music. Crazy Fraizer’s song “Crazy (City Lights)” has been stuck in my head, and seemed to fit really well with these pictures in iPhoto, so I set about making a little music video.
You can download this promotrack for free, but if you enjoy it, please support the artist and purchase the full album!
“Crazy (City Lights)” (mp3)
from “After Autumn”
by Casey Frazier
(Cul De Sac Records)
Buy at Casey Frazier Music
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What’s your house’s Walk Score?
August 2nd, 2007
When Sara and I look at getting a place, not needing a car for every little errand will be high on my list of wants.
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New Media wonks are jumping on the Clip-to-blog bandwagon
August 2nd, 2007
I’ve been working hard on some new stuff for Clipmarks and admittedly haven’t been paying as much attention as I’d like to the quiet traction that Clip-to-blog is gaining in the New Media space.
Clip-to-blog lets you clip the best parts of a web page and easily post them to your blog, and I’ve always hoped that my new media friends would see it as a great tool for keeping your blog up to date with fresh, relevant content. Recently, the awesome Adam Broitman wrote me for a little help getting clip-to-blog running on a.mediacirc.us, and he’s now clipping up a storm. Podcaster extraordinaire C.C. Chapman has also posted a few clips, and now new-media mavens Julia Patricia Roy and Amanda Mooney are going to town as well.
I’d love to hear from anyone else using Clip-to-blog - how it worked for you, if you liked it, what we can do to improve, etc. One thing that we’re definitely looking at is adding the ability to post to a specific category, what else should we add?
Track the price of crude oil on your iGoogle page
July 27th, 2007
I got sick of going to the Bloomberg energy page every time I wanted to see today’s price, and really wanted a graph of past activity.
I found oil-price.net and their nice javascript widget, and they agreed to let me make a google gadget from it. I whipped one up and added it to my page. You can add it to your google start page by clicking here
I’ve played this game!!
July 23rd, 2007
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funniest talking cat in history
July 17th, 2007
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