blech + hacks   26

Don’t Zone-1 It When You Can Boris Bike It | Suprageography
"Ever thought what the tube network would look like if you took out the expensive Zone 1? Me neither, until this morning, when I was wondering if it was possible to utilise my current “Boris Bike” bikeshare 24-hour membership to save a bit of money on commuting in to work."
london  bicycle  transport  tube  map  hacks  via:straup 
december 2011 by blech
Collection: The Icarus Project | Flickr
Photos by Robert Harrison from his DIY weather balloon edge-of-space rig.
space  aviation  hacks  photography  uk  technology  flickr 
march 2010 by blech
Father captures Earth from weather balloon | Daily Telegraph
"Robert Harrison used his ingenuity and a collection of cheap parts worth just £500 to take the spectacular shots using a Canon camera which he launched 35km above the planet's surface."
space  aviation  hacks  photography  telegraph  uk  technology  via:deusx 
march 2010 by blech
Parliamentary Bill Analyzer | Rewired State
"[Given] two Parliamentary Bill URLs, [it] will show the differences between the two versions." Worthy prizewinner at yesterday's Hack The Government Day.
politics  parliament  legislation  rewiredstate  hackday  hacks  ruby  php  digitaleconomybill 
march 2010 by blech
Conditional classnames | paulhammond.org
A short, but clever (and, (only) in retrospect, blindingly obvious) technique for IE specific stylesheets: "<!--[if IE ]><body class="ie"><![endif]-->"
design  web  browser  css  ie  coding  html  hacks 
october 2008 by blech
Accessing all your iPhone photos | O'Reilly Digital Media
"Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks" Oddly, I want my album art in the photos app, but this should be worth a look.
iphone  hacks  development  software  cocoa  api  toread  todo 
may 2008 by blech
Sniff browser history | Niall Kennedy
"Improved user experience" or "massive privacy invasion"? What will the web 2.0 koolaid commenters say? Bet now!
web  browser  history  development  hacks  javascript  privacy  usability 
february 2008 by blech
Eee PC Internal Upgrades | ivc wiki
From the "how many USB devices can you cram inside an Eee" department. Tricked out with extra storage (thumbdrive & sd), GPS, Bluetooth and 802.11n. Insanity.
hardware  eee  hacks  laptop 
january 2008 by blech
Is Greasemonkey the answer to everything?
Rev Dan Catt posts to Flickr Ideas about Greasemonkey and scaling. I'd also note that it's a lot easier to build a little GM script than a standalone app, and also easier to drive adoption. (I was going to post about this once. Sigh.)
flickr  api  greasemonkey  hacks  web  development  database 
november 2007 by blech
Flickr Favorite Contacts 0.5
Does some of the things I wittered about in my Vox post about favourites. It's a bit disconcerting to find me in the screenshot.
flickr  greasemonkey  photography  hacks  favourites  images 
october 2007 by blech
Instructables DIY RumblePak for Nintendo DS Lite
Fits into the front slot without protruding, using a salvaged Nokia motor. Smart.
nintendo  ds  howto  hardware  hacks  via:simonwistow 
july 2007 by blech
Geek to Live: Manage multiple Firefox profiles - Lifehacker
It's time for me to move up from Firefox 1.5, I think. Cloning a profile so I can return to it if I don't like 2.0 (or the Gran Paradiso alphas) seems like a good idea.
development  browser  firefox  windows  howto  hacks 
may 2007 by blech
Escaped Thoughts - Add-ons For Camino
"ChimericalConsole adds a console window showing the most recent JavaScript and CSS errors, and allows filtering by a specific word or phrase. The console is accessible from the “Show Error Console” menu item that is added to the View menu"
camino  browser  javascript  development  hacks 
may 2007 by blech
TidBITS: Build Your Own 23-inch MacBook
Trying to get this to work so I can use my old PowerBook as a screen for the MacBook.
apple  macosx  powerbook  vnc  hacks  todo/done  via:gilest 
may 2007 by blech
Twitter, OS X, and your home
"Hi honey, someone else is home"- recieving Twitters from a network-enabled house. Is this the future, then? Also wondering about tones of voice here.
twitter  tech  x10  hacks 
march 2007 by blech
M-Dollar: Load up on canned goods, the Daylight Saving Time bug is coming
Registry setting for a UTC BIOS in Windows: 'set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\, set "RealTimeIsUniversal" to a DWORD value of 1'
windows  time  hacks 
february 2007 by blech
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Five Great Features in Windows Vista RC1
"lets you use a USB 2.0-based flash memory device to speed up the performance of virtually any Vista PC" I remember using a CF card + PCMCIA adaptor as virtual memory for old PowerBooks. Worked well enough, and most had two slots (so wireless as well)
windows  vista  memory  hacks  powerbook  lowendmac 
september 2006 by blech
Red Sweater Blog - Minimal Scriptability
I didn't realise how much of an AppleScript interface Cocoa gave you for free. Apple really should be evangelising their own tech, and yes, flipping that switch.
apple  cocoa  applescript  development  macosx  hacks 
june 2006 by blech
Perlmonks: Cool symlink hack
Nice way of storing very small configuration options, perhaps
perl  configuration  symlink  hacks  via:stig 
may 2006 by blech
MacDevCenter.com -- Grabbing iTMS Preview Tracks the Geek Way
Looks like an awful lot of hard work to me, but interesting too
ipod  itms  mp3  hacks 
may 2006 by blech
rentzsch.com: Iron Coder v0 Winner
How did I miss this? MacHack-style 24 hour apps, source available, and some of them (FFMinator?) look like people could actually use them
mac  osx  cocoa  development  ironcoder  hacks 
march 2006 by blech
daltonlp.com : Cross-browser semi-transparent backgrounds
"the dimensions of the background image affects IE's display of links" Right, so that explains that then. Sigh.
ie  css  design  hacks  bug  workaround 
march 2006 by blech
radio babylon - a photoset on Flickr
Tiny battery-powered random iTunes share player. Very nice hack from andym there.
itunes  sharing  hacks  gumstix  mp3  radio 
january 2006 by blech

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