Archive for the 'technology' Category

Fix a New Style Apple Laptop Adapter

Sunday, September 18th, 2005| technology

I have seen too many new style apple laptop power adapters
break, and when my last one broke, I decided to try to fix it. I
figured other people could use this information, so I made this howto.

You need these tools:
Soldering iron
Two needle nose pliers
Electrical tape
Scissors
Wire strippers

Many things can go wrong when working with power adapters, and what
worked for me, may not work for you. You have to take the risk that it
might damage your hardware, or yourself. If you use this howto, I
cannot be held responsible for any property, or personal damage.

Click for the instructions (by clicking this link you absolve me of anything that happens if you try this project)

Flash Matching Game

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005| technology

I was asked to make a flash ‘matching’ game for a now defunct website. There was one catch to this game, it had to be able to randomly choose 8 images to be matched from a directory of over 100 jpeg images. I worked around the problems, and created a strangely addictive matching game.
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iChat Smiley Remover

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005| software
I hate graphical emoticons, but, I use iChat. Since there is no built in way to disable smileys, I made iChat Smiley Remover. Ismr

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Traxporter

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005| software

Traxporter

This is the first release of my traktor playlist exporter
traxporter. It takes a traktor playlist and converts it either into an
html table, or a delimited text file.
This is an alpha release, so it has bugs, and other problems, however, please contact me via the information page with any bug reports, or problems.

Release Notes

0.3a: Added time options
0.2a: Added html export, fixed playlist reading bug
0.1a: Initial release

Download traxporter 0.3a (~200k)
Download traxporter 0.2a (~300k)

VW Auxiliary Audio Input

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005| technology
Vwaux I had a Volkswagen Beetle, and an iPod, and I wanted to have the best connection to my audio system. After a little research,and some soldering, I added a switchable rca input to the stock stereo.

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