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Hulu Plus may be blocked on RIM’s PlayBook tablet, but rest assured help is on the way. RIM has already confirmed ongoing discussions with Hulu to get an official app up and running for the PlayBook. That’s all fine and dandy, though no date or timeline has been given as to when we’ll actually see said functionality go live.
Thankfully there’s a clever little workaround that’ll get you all the Hulu Plus content on your PlayBook that your heart desires. You see, Hulu video embeds can actually play just fine on the PlayBook as the videos themselves aren’t doing any active blocking. As such, PlayBook Revolution has a handy embedded search bar that will let you search Hulu’s vast library and play them back on your PlayBook for free.
Best get going and enjoy this little “feature” while it’s still available…
- November 16, 2010 2:12 pm
No, my GTX 580 hasn’t quite arrived yet. That little venture of joy starts tonight. But for those of you who have received your GTX 580′s and prepared to benchmark the living joules out of them, you’ve no doubt found out about Nvidia’s new power-limiting feature of the card. Included within the new drivers are special conditions for certain high-stress applications and services. When certain applications such as popular benchmarking tool, Furmark, are used, Nvidia has the cards throttle down to limit heat and protect the inner components.
But thanks to one handy PC enthusiast, we can let the GTX 580 break through its digital shackles and really stretch its legs…
I thought this was pretty damn sweet. And since I have two copies of an old Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout game for my NES, one of them is becoming a new Wireless router. I know I have brought the fury when it comes to the raping of NES products, but since I have two of them (I stole one from a friend when I was like 8 years old), I am going to use it for this project.
Found this through Kotaku, which was found by them over at Instructables. I am definitely going to give this a shot.
I’ll have to dig up my soldering iron. But once I do, this one is on like Donkey Kong.
[ Unconventional hacker]
Now, if you knew me (which you don’t), you’d know my deep love/lust for the NES and all NES type NES things. I have loved the original Nintendo Entertainment System since it showed up under my Christmas tree like 25 years ago or whenever it was. I have had a couple of them. Unfortunately, I no longer have my original console, but I do at least have one that still works. Granted, the reason it still works is because I have lungs that double as NES-saving bags of air.
I could go on and on and on raving about my beautiful little console of the gods, but I won’t. I’ll just leave you with something that I know some of you will have to change your pants for, but if you are like me, you will want to murder someone because of the blasphemy this video contains. This is anti-nerd if you will. This is killing such a perfect box of love. Honestly, even if my NES was dead and no longer worked, I wouldn’t mod it. I wouldn’t have the heart to rip it apart and shove the components of another into it. I couldn’t do that. Perhaps another more realistic analogy: If my wife were dead and gone, I wouldn’t shove the working lady parts of another into her just to seem cool for my friends.
This hurts my eyes and my feelings. I’ll leave you with the video. Go ahead and bash me in the comments if you must. But know this — I’m all for the mod scene. I’m all for taking apart your red ringed xbox and putting a toaster in it. But this is wrong, and will get you no where but Hell in my books…
Video after the break. But seriously, no one wants to do this…
- September 30, 2010 2:29 pm
iTunes users running OS X, listen up: Do you hate the new vertical control buttons in iTunes? What about the new Ping drop down that pops up inline with every song in your playlist? Personally, I don’t mind either of the new additions. I do wish, however, that Apple would get a little more consistent with UI design choices. But that’s a discussion for another day.
Back on topic — If you are aching for the old look pre-vertical buttons/ping, you’re in luck. Mac Observer has two simple Terminal commands that you can enter to revert things back to the way they used to be. All you’ve got to do is stop on by Mac Observer, and within 1-2 minutes you’ll be back to computing like it’s 2010…August-ish 2010 that is.
There are some mods that just have to be gazed upon. The Robo-Tank you see above is one such item. Not only does it have an M4 Carbine gun mounted to its roof, the beast is completely autonomous and wirelessly controllable.
Getting it all to work are Arduino boards, RC servos, an XBee Pro module, treads, RGB color processing software, and plenty of ingenuity. The coolest part of all is that the autonomous mode can even pick out objects by color thanks to the software on board, giving this thing lethal accuracy and “smarts”. Don’t go breaking into this house…
Jump inside for a video of the Robo-Tank in action…
Yup, you heard it right, iH8sn0w has posted more than just videos of him demoing the new Jailbreak for the iPhone 3G[S] with new bootrom on iOS 4.0, he has released it for all of us to enjoy. There is on huge detail you need to know, well, two of them, 1. being the fact that this is a Tethered Jailbreak. This means that whenever your iPhone reboots, you’ll need to be near a computer that you can plug it into to finish the booting process. 2. And this is an important one, you will need your 3.1.2 SHSH Blobs. If you accessed Cydia while on 3.1.2, then Cydia should have backed these up for you.
Continue on into the abyss for the tutorial as well as a video…
Fancy the sweet styling of the Droid X’s slightly tweaked UI but aren’t too keen on giving up your good ‘ol slide-out keyboard? Thanks to Droid Forum member, “Fabolous”, now you can. The DroidX theme is fully functional and at this time, doesn’t appear to come with any bugs. Smooth sailing they say. Hop on over to the thread at Droid Forums to get your Droid X theme now.
Hop inside for a few more shots…
Have yourself a BlackBerry running OS 5.x and want some of that OS 6 eye candy? Thanks to Mike over at MiPar Designs, having the latest and greatest looks on the now slightly older and not so great is a possibility. Luckily for CrackBerry users, theming the platform is easy, quick, and cost efficient (whew!). The theme above is aptly titled “OS 6″ and is currently available for OS 5.x devices and above for $2.99 over at MobiHand.
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