using debian on a powerbook g3 233mhz (lombard), a kensington auto/ac/air adapter and crystalfontz lcd screen with usb->serial adapter you can a pretty slick (and inexpensive) in car mp3 play for your car. add a wifi card and manage all the music when you pull in to the driveway.
here’s one hack a day pal lars sent in…
there is a reg. key you can edit to enable bluetooth headsets on ipaq.
put 1 insted of 0 in:
HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices 005Enabled=1
and add a DWORD Enabled=1 Enabled=1 to
HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices 006
and also there is a key in softwaremediaplayer that has somthing in the lines of play unsupported=0 (off) enabeling it must do something but i dont know what,but i supose U people could figure it out.
so if you have a bluetooth headset for your phone and have a bluetooth ipaq, there’s a good chance you can use your headset to listen to audio through the headset.
there’s a pretty slick device called the “thanko usb pc lock” that will unlock and lock your pc based on how close your are to it (physically).
the only downside is the software that comes with seems a bit wonky, but–bryan batchelder rolled up a better version which to address all the complaints we had, the future features look pretty sweet too.
