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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Ever wonder how you are able to talk to your friends in the UK [or any other country]
Filed under Tech Talk
This is quite intresting. It takes 3 weeks just to load the cable onto the ship! This video does not show how they lay it but it does show how its made and loaded and some other interesting stuff. Ahh the stuff that powers my lifestyle 
-Tracker
Long day running around so no tech post…Sorry :(
Filed under News
I was hoping Dark would have had a post written up for today but he didn’t and I was dealing with family issues all day so I did not have a chance to write a post. I am running on about 3 hours of sleep as of right now so I cant really write a decent post. Ill be back tomorrow with the good stuff. In the meantime heres Canon Rock -Jerry C.
-Tracker
Thoughts on planing a project.
Filed under Tech Talk
Well Tracker and I [Dark] are starting to get more active on modding everyday items. I’m coming up with a few ideas but I am always restricted. Some of my ideas are easy and really not at all hard. Others will require me to do extensive research and cost me oodles of cash. Those are tw0 things I don’t have, Time and money. We [Dark and Tracker] want to make something we know everyone will love. It has to be unique and it has to be “kool” so to speak. On top of that we are attempting to make our posts and future podcast, much more interesting and to the point, no longer about stupid products, but we will probably keep posting *Fail of the day* Because well, everyone needs some humor.
Now to the topic at hand, Modding. Im going to go ahead and tell everyone my plans for modding my ol’ Toshiba Satellite M45-S169 (Amazon page)
First off, yes this is my main computer. Yeah get the laughs out. It has barely more power than most net books. Yes I know this. I’m getting a new one soon, and because of that I have to find some use for this one. This is step one in my planing, Make sure you have something that you can lose and not be in deep shit! Modding is something for experienced users in electronics and programming. I am a novice at best. So I picked something I can mess up and not really care about. Next is now that I have this object, what can I do with it? Well this is a 4 year old laptop. And seeing as it travels almost everywhere with me, it has gotten its fair share of wear and tear. So now I something to do, Fix or upgrade my object. Now as a modder I’m going to try and kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Not only am I going to fix this worn out thing, but I’m going to give it a few perks. First, a new paint job. Then add an internal USB hub, for more USB ports and internal USB goodies. Now this is the fun part, what goodies can I add? Well here are some of my ideas. Some extra internal storage?, Bluetooth?, a built-in wireless mouse receiver? Multi-card reader? The sky is the limits. Then there are some of my more… wishful ideas, like a built-in small lcd that can display pictures? or maybe even system data? or even better network info? Any way I’m still in the planing stages and can’t even start on this project until I get my replacement laptop.
-Dark
Fail Of The Day: Lit Candle + Computer = Fail
Filed under Fail Of The Day
I am not sure there is much to say on top of that….Moral of the fail. Dont light a candle and walk away 
[Source: FailBlog]
-Tracker
Send in your mods!
Filed under News
Well seeing as me [Dark] and Tracker are kind of in a tight spot with this economy we don’t exactly have all the necessary equipment that we love to have. So with that in mind we would love for anyone who is working on a mod, or hack, or any sort of really neat project to go ahead and shoot us and email with some pictures and what ever data you got on your project. We would love to show case your mods, and you can even use the TMS forums as a base for your updates. If you need a specific topic or what ever you can simply email either I or Tracker.
Dark: zechtech[at]hotmail.com
Tracker: tracker[at]themodshop.net
Now eventually me and Tracker are working on a delivery system so that you can simply fill out a form and send us content to show case, but for now email is the way to go!
Jumbo DS Mod
Well I was actually going to post this last night, but I didn’t get around to it. So when I look to buy a new product the first thing I always do is look for creative mods and hacks. For this particular find I was looking into some DSi hacks. While I have found a few PoC Videos (Proof of Concept) and a few flash carts I have yet to see any real progress as of yet to make me want one of these instead of just working with my normal DS. So as I was trolling through youtube looking at some PoC’s I found this. A DS that has been modded to play on two tablet screens! Apparently there is quite a lot of hardware hacking in this, its not so simple that you could just go buy a touch screen and go to town on it. This was really just something that interested me and I would really love to try, but with this recession I really can’t afford it. In any case its pretty interesting to watch.
-Dark (happy tracker? lol)
-> Source: http://home.comcast.net/~olimar/DS/jumbotron/
EDIT: Just a thought but let me break down the cost that he estimates it would be to make this again and this is a direct quote:
“Parts and approximate cost (you can do better scrounging for stuff on eBay):
Gateway M275 screens (14″ 1024×768): $100*2 (eBay)
LVDS modules (Advantech PCM-205): $60*2
Digilent S3BOARD + headers: $130
Nintendo DS: $100
Wacom pen: $30Grand total: $580 (let’s make it an even $600 for any other miscellaneous junk). However, _MOST_ of these things were spare parts I had laying around from earlier projects, so it didn’t cost me anywhere near that much. I wouldn’t have bothered if it did.”
There you have it, now I know I can’t afford it! Dammit its just so cool!
[Tracker: OMG HE LIVES!!!!!!!]
300 posts…wow
Filed under News
Wow this is the 300th post since I installed wordpress on the site here. My my its amazing how far we have come. From a theme that was standard to every blog out there. To one that was downloaded form some wordpress theme site. Then to one that was slightly customized. Then to the theme you see before you.
That’s not even mentioning the post quality. The first few posts made were horrible and I am almost embarrassed to leave them up on the internet. But we have gotten a lot better so thats always a plus.
Since Augest of last year we [Me and Dark (mostly me)] have been making at least 1 post per day. Before that it was not really updated that often. Since then our visitors have went through the roof. Around 7500 Unique people each month visit the site and that is quite impressive if I do say so myself. Not even close to a site like say Gizmodo or Engadget get. But for a small site its still not bad.
Its been a fun 300 posts and lets hope I can keep this going for another 300. Hope everyone had a good Easter Sunday.
-Tracker
Wireless field of light – So cool!!!
Filed under News
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The image above is a field of lights that are all lit with out using any direct wires! How do they do it? The power lines above emite electrical fields that power the lights below. The artist behind this said he got the idea from a friend who played light sabers below power lines. Kind of kool right?
Hit the read link for the full sotry
[Source: io9]
-Tracker
What form of communication do you use the most?
Filed under News
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Vote in the poll! Lets hear what you use the most.
-Tracker
