The Traveling Terabyte Project – Helping those who protect us

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Though some people differ on what exactly a “hacker” is, there is one thing that can be said for certain - this global community of tinkerers, experimenters, and hobbyists we belong to is one of big hearts. Through our various projects and tutorials, we lead by example - sharing knowledge and offering help whenever we can. You would be hard pressed to find something that could exemplify this … [Read more...]

Bluetooth multimedia remote

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[Mathieu] spent three months developing this multimedia remote control. It connects to a PC via USB or Bluetooth and communicates with Winamp to pull down track information for display on a Nokia LCD screen. It can also be used as a wireless headset via the two on-board jacks. [Mettieu] thinks it's just a small hop away from working as a Skype client if you take the time to write a plugin for that … [Read more...]

VLC media player 0.9.2 released

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VideoLAN just released VLC media player 0.9.2. VLC is probably the best known open source media player, and supports most audio/video formats without additional codecs. Before VLC, we usually installed buggy codec packs to watch videos in Winamp or Windows Media Player. We've found the nightly builds to be pretty stable for the past month, but it's nice to see the final version … [Read more...]