A picture’s worth a thousand words in this case. Engadget has a story about an iPod that’s been essentially hacked into a handheld/mini-laptop. The story originally appeared over on Hack-A-Day in which Owen McGarry took an out of warranty iPod, installed a swivel device, a protruding hard drive and a Linux operating system. Unfortunately, details […]
While it’s not clear if this is practical or not, a video has been posted of the Apple TV’s operating system having been hacked to boot and run cleanly on a MacBook laptop. Still, it’s kind of cool and the guys over at Apple TV Hacks have published a full tutorial as to how to […]
In today’s episode of ‘MacBook Exposed’ fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou has taken a few journalists to task for promoting the HackBook story incorrectly leading to “a vicious orchestrated assault on researcher David Maynor and the company SecureWorks.” The dissenters are upset because they claim that Maynor and SecureWorks falsified their research presented at Black […]
Sorry MacBook users, this one requires a keyboard backlight. iSpazz is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlit keyboard and optionally the display backlight. To use this yourself, download the plugin uncompress it and copy it to Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins in your home folder. Pressing the “i” key toggles the display […]
Some people thought that the original SmackBook was too violent so a YouTube user uploaded a video of the Karma-improved SmackBook which appears to take advantage of the MacBook’s ambient light sensor (ALS).