Archive for 'Hardware' Category
How to fix your Guitar Hero Controller Whammy Bar
8 November 2007Has your Guitar Hero 2 Controller Whammy Bar gone limp on you? No worries! Fixing a broken Guitar Hero controller Whammy Bar is really, super simple. It'll only take five minutes and will save you the $49 it would cost to purchase a new one.
Tools Required: Small Phillips Head Screw Driver
Time Required: 5 Minutes
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Another reason why I love my new TiVoHD and why Cox Communications can suck it!
7 September 2007A little history here:
Many, many moons ago I purchased my first TiVo. A 20GB Series 1 recorder. This was back when Cable DVR's didn't exist and Digital Cable was still a developing technology. TiVo was glorious in its ability to record my shows and it's super easy setup of scheduled recordings, handling overlaps with grace. [...]
My Little iPhone Review
14 July 2007I know there are a flurry of iPhone reviews going around tech sites and blogs, so I'll spare you the technical details or rehash things that have already been covered time and time again.
I thought it would be interesting to just share my experience over the past week of iPhone ownership. A first hand accounting [...]
How to install a Linksys WMP54G in Windows Vista
18 June 2007Recently I moved my computer upstairs to make room in the downstairs office. I decided to just install a spare Linksys WMP54G PCI Wireless card that I had laying around in my "bin o' hardware". This was a fairly new card, as the hardware revision of it was v4.0 and the latest listed on Linksys.com [...]
Building the Replica 1 (Part 1)
10 June 2007Recently I had been cruising the internet looking for fun IC projects that would allow me to build a small computer and play around with it at a low level. I felt that it would be a great way to learn low level computer functions while expanding my knowledge of electronics.
I ran across a kit [...]
Trouble with your WRT54G after flashing to a new firmware?
13 May 2007Are you having strange issues with your Linksys WRT54G/WRT54GL/WRT54GS router after flashing it with a newer firmware? You may need to manually clear the nvram to remove previous settings/files from the old firmware.
I recently flashed my Linksys WRT54G v2 from DD-WRT v23 SP2 to DD-WRT v23 SP3 Beta (05/02). Before flashing to the newer version [...]
XBox 360 Elite Hardware Changes
12 May 2007The XBox 360 Elite was released recently to much fanfare from Microsoft. Other than the newer 120GB hard drive and HDMI video, Microsoft asserts that the XBox 360 Elite is no different then the previous 'white' version of the XBox 360.
The kind folks over at llamma.com had the grapes to actually take their new XBox [...]