What is the best way to manage what is open?

• September
• 23

I want to be able to manage what is open in the background for optimal performance, what is the best program for this? I have OpenSSH and a few other programs that I don’t want running at all times.
Oh, and btw, does anyone know how I can change the lock screen to have the weather [...]

Mac pro waking from sleep

• September
• 23

Hello, I had this problem since I used the power schedule to shut down my mac a day after I went on vacation.
Now every morning I see the macpro awaken from sleep mode. The mouse is in it’s stand so it can’t be that… i disabled everything in power settings….. any thoughts?

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PhoneGap - develop native iPhone applications in HTML/Javascript

• September
• 23

PhoneGap is one of the best projects to come out of iPhoneDevCamp II. It seems absolutely perfect for web developers who haven’t yet gotten comfortable with writing iPhone applications in Objective-C:
PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK [...]

Plotting streaming data in real-time with Gnuplot

• September
• 23

Our friend Thanassis Tsiodras, who you may remember as the creator of the , wrote in to tell us about a handy way to plot real-time data using standard unix tools.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on European Space Agency (ESA) projects - writing rather complex code generators. In the ESA project [...]

Arduway: LEGO and Arduino make a Segway

• September
• 23

wrote in about the robochild of a quite unorthodox LEGO/Arduino marriage:
It’s a self-balacing robot inspired to the well-known Segway. Its brain is Arduino and that’s why it’s called “Arduway”. Arduino is mounted on a hand-soldered board which connects it to two LEGO NXT motors and an Epson gyroscope.
Aduino Poet, the robot’s creator and a [...]

WiFi robot

• September
• 23

Jon Bennett created a nifty wireless telepresence bot out of a thrift store RC car, a Linksys WRT54GL router running the Open-WRT Linux firmware, a network camera, and a microcontroller. He’s built two variations: one controlled by a PIC microprocessor, and the other controlled by an Arduino. You can use whichever processor you [...]

Resin casting

• September
• 23

Our friend Becky Stern posted a video on Craft today which shows you how to mold and cast small parts out of resin. It’s something anyone can do, and the process will allow you to make reproductions of small parts, something that could come in handy when you’re prototyping (or designing tiny custom army men).

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Resin casting

• September
• 23

Our friend Becky Stern posted a video on Craft today which shows you how to mold and cast small parts out of resin. It’s something anyone can do, and the process will allow you to make reproductions of small parts, something that could come in handy when you’re prototyping (or designing tiny custom army men).

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The (unfortunate) iPhone Development Story

• September
• 22

A friend of mine has been patiently waiting for weeks to get accepted into the iPhone Developer Program. Turns out, he’s not the only one facing difficulties with the official development process. Mike Ash in developing an application for distribution in Apple’s app store, and even when you’re accepted and everything goes right, [...]

Stanford Engineering Everywhere

• September
• 22

Standford’s Stanford’s School of Engineering has released a number of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses online, in their entirety, called Standford Engineering Everywhere. The online program includes all course materials—notes, tests, and complete lecture recordings—free for students or educators to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
SEE users may pick and [...]