Team Hack-a-Day

DrNathan has two new useful applications for your consideration, MailBin 2 and Suction.
MailBin was originally mentioned here last summer, and has changed quite a bit since then.  No longer a compiled Perl script, MailBin was built from the ground up in C#.  It still checks your Gmail account and remotely queues up NZB files for [...]

DrNathan demonstrates how a couple of dollars and a few minutes can turn your broken Xbox 360 DVD drive into a fully functioning unit again by tackling a common point of failure – the drive belt that runs the tray mechanism.

Forum member snorkle256 didn’t let a stepped-on Xbox 360 controller ruin his night of gaming.  He took the challenge of replacing the broken thumbstick head-on, using a controller from the original Xbox as an ‘organ donor’.  Head on over to his blog to see how he got his Franken-controller up and running again.

Typically, changing your BIOS’ SATA configuration to enable AHCI or RAID after you have already installed Windows results in a BSOD each time you reboot the machine. DrNathan shows us how he solved that problem on an Intel board with an ICH10R SATA controller using a little manual driver installation magic.

Yes folks Hack-a-Day is back online and it looks like most of the issues have been ironed out.  I’m sure Eliot and Co. are glad to have it up and running once again.
If you need your fix, please go to http://hackaday.com versus http://www.hackaday.com.  Every DNS server I have checked at the time of this posting [...]

As you have probably noticed (and who hasn’t?), the Hack-a-Day web site is currently down and has been for a few days.  It seems that initially, DNS issues plagued the site and then they were DDoS’d when the propagation completed.  Now a pending Wordpress conversion is underway, which should be completed soon.  Forum moderator snorkle256 [...]

For those of you unfamiliar with the MyVu Personal Video Device, it resembles a set of sunglasses with video screens and a pair of headphones built in.  It’s a great little product, but forum member RetroPlayer did not like the fact that his MyVu was tethered only to his iPod.  He decided he wanted to [...]

In an attempt to ensure that all of his digits survive the 4th of July, forum member morehpperliter has devised a simple but elegant replacement to the time-honored tradition of “light the fuse and run like hell!”  Using an Arduino and a bit of code know-how, you too can keep yourself out of the emergency [...]

Forum member Cerberus posted a tutorial on how to rig up an always-on USB charging port for your PC using a spare USB port, a resistor, and a few pieces of wire.
It requires a small bit of soldering know-how, but anyone who has used an iron at least one time can pull this off.  It [...]

I am happy to announce the first public release of my MailBin application, which works in conjunction with Gmail and Newsbin to enable individuals to remotely queue up Usenet downloads by emailing themselves .nzb files.
The concept is simple, utilizing the ability to send oneself a message at Gmail.com with characters appended to your usual email [...]