MyVu Personal Video Viewer Hacked to Allow Input From Any Video Device

Published at: 10:08 am - Tuesday August 19 2008

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 [...]

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Always on USB Charging Port for Your PC

Published at: 12:06 pm - Monday June 23 2008

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 [...]

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A Tale of Two RAID Controllers

Published at: 02:02 pm - Monday February 11 2008

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of a working Promise RAID controller, it was the age of a failed Promise RAID controller…
My motherboard has two on board Sata RAID controllers – one Promise FastTrack 378 controller and one Intel ICH5 controller. They are far [...]

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