TechwareLabs has published a video us making ice cream using liquid nitrogen.
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MvixUSA is looking for some basic demographic info, so they’re incentivizing folks by giving away a nice little digital optical audio cable. Just go fill out some basic info (2 mins tops), get a cable. Limited to the 1st 500 responses, and the deadline is Aug 15, 2007. More details over at GfG.
Hate coming home in the dark? There’s no need to stumble across your walkway or bump into scattered items left in your home’s entryway. With just a few simple products, you can use INSTEON technology to turn your lights on automatically at sunset, so you’ll never again need to fumble for your house keys in the dark.
Setting your porch light to turn on automatically at sunset is easy to do. Follow the included instructions to install the INSTEON SwitchLinc V2 Dimmer, which wires in like a standard wall switch, with an additional connection to a neutral wire. Plug the PowerLinc V2 Controller into a wall outlet and connect it to your PC using the included USB cable. You will need an Internet connection in order to download the free Smarthome Manager Essential Software.
The setup wizard will walk you through linking the USB module to the SwitchLinc that controls your porch light. Once you tell the software in what city and time zone you live, you’ll be able to set up the system to turn the light on automatically at sunset, as designated by your location. The software adjusts automatically for Daylight Saving Time.
You don’t need to leave your computer on in order to run the program: The PowerLinc V2 Controller module has on-board memory, so timers can be downloaded without the need to leave your computer up and running.
Products needed for project:
SwitchLinc V2 Dimmer - $45.99
PowerLinc Controller w/ Smarthome Manager Essential Software - $59.99
Source: Smarthome
Source: DVR Playground
While hacking your TiVo DVR, you should never use the original drive that came in your unit. Depending on the method that you employ while expanding the capacity, you might need to use the image on your original drive at a future date. The first thing you should do is remove the original TiVo DVR and store in a safe place.
Next, to determine which hard drive would be best suited for your TiVo DVR, you need to know what kind of TiVo DVR you have. For instance, do you have a TiVo Series 1, 2 or 3 and is it a standalone or integrated TiVo DVR (DirecTV TiVo DVR for example)? Next you need to determine if you want to add a drive, replace the current drive or replace with two new drives. Since we recommend not reusing the original TiVo DVR hard drive, you should really determine if you want to simply replace the drive or do you want to replace the drive with two new drives. Finally, you need to choose the right size and brand. We provide some hints below.
This how to guide will show you how to enjoy online video content from Internet sites like Google Video and YouTube on your Sony PSP. 
This guide assumes you have some basic computer knowledge and know how to connect the PSP to a Windows computer using a USB cable. The guide extensively uses PSP Video 9. PSP Video 9 is an excellent freeware application for Windows machines, but if you’re a Mac user you should check out PSPWare or iPSP. Both offer transcoding and syncing features similar to PSP Video 9.
Source: DVR Playground
Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) users enjoy an excellent 4.3″ 16:9 widescreen TFT screaming for video content. While there are currently over 430 Universal Media Disc (UMD) movies, fewer movie studios including Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video are releasing their movies on the UMD format due to much lower than expected sales for UMD movies. Most PSP owners simply do not want to purchase two copies (a DVD and a UMD) of their favorite movies. So with a dwindling UMD video market, but an incredible portable video screen, what are PSP users to do?
Granted, you cannot use the simplistic iTunes interface to purchase and download TV shows or movies, there are still plenty of choices for PSP users depending on the content and source for the video you would like to watch on your PSP.
Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.
My MythTV system records DVB programmes into very large MPEG2 files. These can be streamed around the house over a wireless-g connection without any problems. The bast way to do this is to install a MythTV frontend on a laptop. However, what if I wanted to view them on a PDA or over the Internet?
Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.
Welcome to part 2 of my guide on installing MythTV the easy way. It’s assumed that you’ve followed part 1 and got the basic system working. Now we’ll concentrate on some of the additional components.
Here we’ll look at getting the remote control that comes with the Hauppauge Nova-T working using the LIRC package. Contrary to almost everything you’ll read on the web, this can be done without compiling LIRC.
Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.
With the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), installing MythTV is now easier than ever.
Ubuntu is a great basis for a general purpose MythTV box and now comes with the latest version of MythTV (0.20) in its standard packages.
This guide focuses on DVB in the UK (Freeview), but much of it should be applicable to anybody installing Myth.
The old Ubuntu Dapper guide can be found here.
The Geeks have a new website! We have been planning to create a site for the creators and makers that are geeks and we’re happy to finally launch it. This site is dedicated to bringing you various projects for geeks of any subject.
Please check back often as we will continually update the site with new projects. Also, feel free to submit projects of your own.