Published at: 10:03 am - Monday March 23 2009
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.
Published at: 01:03 pm - Monday March 09 2009
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.
Published at: 01:03 pm - Monday March 09 2009
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.
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 [...]
Published at: 02:07 pm - Thursday July 03 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
Published at: 11:04 am - Wednesday April 23 2008
I like having the ability to remotely access my PC at home while I am away in case I want to grab an important file I have left there, or if I need to finish something I didn’t quite get around to. For ages I simply set port forwarding on my router allowing port 3389 [...]
Published at: 09:02 am - Friday February 15 2008
I saw a recent article on Lifehacker about cleanly shutting down and restarting explorer.exe in Windows Vista. I gave it a try in XP just for the sake of it, and not surprisingly, it did not work.
I did however find a way to do it in Windows XP that I wanted to share with [...]
Published at: 03:12 pm - Thursday December 27 2007
Forum member DrNathan posted a quick write-up on how to use Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2, Beta 3, and Beta 4 side-by-side without causing any profile conflicts or corruption. It only takes minutes and is a nice way to give the new iteration of Firefox a spin before the final version is [...]