Mac Mini Installed in a Toyota Prius
21 June 2006 10:37 EST
Jason D. O'Grady
Jeremy Kusnetz has installed a Mac mini in his Toyota Prius and even hacked the touch screen to work with Front Row. Very impressive, my man!
The quest to make Mac Prius.
The first thing I needed was video in. There are a number of options here, I decided to go with the CAN-view for a number of reasons, it takes RGB in opposed to other options that are either only composite video or s-video. Also the CAN-view has a serial out which I had hoped to be able to use to read touch screen coordinates, and maybe eventually take the other CAN data to build an interface showing different car statistics.
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DVD Hacker and DeCSS Author Targets Apple
18 October 2005 09:32 EST
An article in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req'd) has the story about a 21-year-old Norwegian Jon Lech Johansen (a.k.a. DVD Jon) who defied Hollywood by releasing a hack that allowed anyone to copy DVDs when he was 15. According to the article this hacker's "next target" is Apple Computer because of their limitations on the number of times you can copy files in iTunes:
These days he is targeting Apple Computer Inc., repeatedly hacking the software that runs its popular, Internet-based iTunes music store to remove restrictions on how many times legally bought songs can be copied or on which devices they can be played.
In addition to hacking Apple's FairPlay DRM system for music purchased from the iTunes Music Store Mr. Johansen says he "may take a look" at the new iTunes 6.0 which sells protected videos as well. Although he doesn't seem as interested in video because "the shows' video resolution is too low to look good on computers or TV sets."
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