How to: Build your own Gyration Media Center remote

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Movea has just released a version of Gyration’s wireless remote control for Windows Media Center computers. Other than the wireless mouse controls that the remote offers, one nice feature of the remote is the ability to control Windows Media Player (WMP) while your display is off. The remote interacts with WMP, by downloading data to be displayed using it’s built in LCD screen. From here … [Read more...]

Techspansion closes it’s doors

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Techspansion, creators of the popular media conversion programs VisualHub and AudialHub, have called it quits. Company founder [Tyler Loch] explains that the decision to stop the development of these popular Mac based utilities was due to personal reasons. Unlike the numerous media converters available for Windows based computers, there are only a handful of good media conversion applications … [Read more...]

How-to: Windows Media Center on a Leopard network

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We've been using Microsoft's Media Center for a few years now and have grown to like it a lot. We've also noticed that more and more Apple computers have shown up on our home network and decided it was time to get everything working together smoothly. Follow along as we walk you through the hoops we jumped through to get everything cooperating. … [Read more...]

Canon 40D hacked to record movies

Both Canon and Nikon recently released DSLR cameras that now include a feature that most consumer level digital cameras have had for sometime: the ability to record movies. What makes movie recording especially appealing on a DSLR is the wide selection of lenses available to get the look you're after. If you're an owner of Canon's 40D you may want to follow [DataGhost]'s progress on the CHDK forum … [Read more...]

Turn your projector into a laser guided controller

[Alpay Kasal] of LitStudios as come up with an interesting way to use laser pointers as a wireless controller for games and applications. The process is currently being patented, which may explain why [Alpay]'s blog is a little slim in the details. We doubt they're doing anything more than just using a camera to track the laser pointer; exactly like laser tagging. If you're just itching to get … [Read more...]

Control your camera remotely with a DS

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Using a custom built cable connected to the lower GBA slot and a copy of Canon's SDK, [Steve Chapman] has come up with a very clever way of taking pictures remotely with a Nintendo DS Lite. Currently the software supports bracket shooting as well as bulb mode. [Steve] points out that he is currently testing an audio based trigger system using the mic built into the DS and the software is still … [Read more...]

EFiX USB dongle off to a rocky start

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According to InsanelyMac forum member [qbattersby] the EFiX USB dongle he just received doesn't seem to live up to expectations. We covered the EFiX when it was announced back in June. It's designed to let you install OSX unmodified on commodity hardware. While using a MSI G965M motherboard, instead of installing OSX [qbattersby] was greeted with a flashing cursor with no option to continue … [Read more...]