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Saturday, March 06th, 2010 | Author: Taranfx

Index your home with Google GaagleGoogle does pretty good job at crawling the web, fast enough to accommodate Billions of webpages, everyday. For the offline PC searches, Google Desktop finds every needle in the haystack. But what about your Home? Ever wished that you could index your home and find stuff you misplaced within seconds? The unofficial project called “Google Bot” or “Gåågle Bot to the rescue. The Swedish author claims that Read further »

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Friday, February 05th, 2010 | Author: Taranfx

Surveillance systems can relieve your worries, but, they can also relieve your wallet. Why fall for expensive equipment when you can build your own at Fraction of cost ? You can use a cheap Web Cam as a good Security camera that does almost everything that professional equipment does. I’ve been trying few softwares that would serve the purpose by securing my roof and the main door. Here is the softwares I’ve finally shortlisted and thought you would be interested in. Read further »

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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | Author: Taranfx

If you thought gestural input was the end of the world, you are probably wrong. It’s possible to build a PC for cheap that can be controlled by your Eyes! Eye controlled input has been around for a while, but it was never possible to DIY for cheap. EyeWriter, a project that aims to help people suffering from ALS with creative technology, has come up with a innovative eye-tracker product that will make your computer dance with Read further »

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Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Tired of Waiting on Apple to release a Tablet? and you didn’t Like JooJoo Tablet aswell? Well, you are not alone: Millions of fans are waiting,  hoping to rely on rumors for the day to come.  Unfortunately, it won’t make it to the market till the end of 2010. So what is the way out? Andrew Davidson is one of those hobbyists modders who couldn’t wait Read further »

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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

One of the most innovative Technology of this year demonstrated to public was Wireless Power i.e. transmitting power without use of any type of wires. This concept has already taken flight and is being used in commercial applications TED Talks and also in a Sony prototype. Imagine the world where all the wires just go off, all the clutter will be cleared. If you have no idea of this, watch this video first. How it works: Basically, power is fed to a ring made of magnet wire. When electricity is passed from this loop, it creates Electro magnetic field. Read further »

Friday, September 25th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Earlier, back in the  90s when I first dated the Internet, I found credit cards were easy to exploit. It was as easy as getting a software that auto-generates numbers that could be used to make purchase online. Thank god, those things no longer work, other wise it would have been chaos. Well what you are about to read could be HARMFUL to us, again. WARNING: Do not proceed if you intend to exploit this. The sole purpose of the original author of the hack is for educational purposes only. Magnetic spoofers have been around for a while. The one you see in movies,  a kid hacks CCs with a piece of hardware, is very much possible. We’re getting close to that kind of magic with Read further »

Friday, September 11th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Security and privacy is important. But most gadgets available int he market let you achieve this at couples of hundreds of Dollars. Not every one can afford it. So here is a DIY Tutorial which doesn’t even need any special hardware. Most notebooks come with WebCams or most people have it separately plugged-in via USB. If you don’t have it, not a big deal, they cost around $10-40. We will use a free software accompanying your cam that will together make a Fool Proof motion detection system. Highlight cam is a free software you can register online and start monitoring immediately and make your PC a security system and act as a silent security guard for your office, Home or any other Read further »

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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

HD is the Defacto standard for you LCD TVs and Home entertainment. 1080p or FullHD Movies is the best that is available today for the end-user. HD is addictive. Once you watch something over HD, there’s no looking back at SD. The Bad thing about buying a full HD projector is the cost. A decent one can cost you more than a grand, in fact good ones will cost in multiples. So how do we fulfill the HD Projector dream? Yes, Build it yourself. Thanks to the tutorial presented by techzilla, it’s cheap to build. watch the video. In case Video doesn’t work, click here to open in new Window. The Read further »

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Friday, July 10th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Are you bothered by short rrange of your Bluetooth device? You want to put your A2DP adapters and roam around in the neighbourhood while streaming music from laptop? This DIY might be for you. With a bit geeky Bluetooth mod, you can replace the antenna on a Linksys USBBT100 USB Bluetooth adapter with a larger one, and extend its range by up to a mile. Looks pretty good, and ubelievable? Just as a flashlight’s reflector focuses a small bulb’s light to make it appear brighter, the right antenna can boost a weak wireless signal. Follow the guide.

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Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | Author: Taranfx

Yes! Its true. you can build this. and believe me it can fit into your pocket aswell. It will take around $2400 or Rs. 1,20,000 only. Compare this with Million$ supercomputer used in R&D labs. Don’t worry, this will be faster than that one. Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet & Clank on a Cray Most scientific computing is done on cluster computers. Blue Gene/L, the world’s fastest supercomputer, uses 130,000 processors. Plus a lot of money, power and cooling. At about $4 per billion of floating point operations (GFlops) the PS3 is the cheapest supercomputer building block available today. Look under the hood The PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine processor, or Cell, Read further »

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