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Category Archives: Gadgets

GeekBrief.tv: Check out the USB drive -> NAS adapter ($55) and the free Microsoft PowerPoint -> Flash software

by Jason L Froebe on December 23, 2008, no comments

Thanks to the all knowing Cali Lewis for hosting GeekBrief.tv! The Addonics NAS Adapter turns a USB drive in NAS, and it only costs $55. If you do a lot of Powerpoint presentations, you’ll be happy to hear about iSpring Free. It turns the presentation into a Flash movie that you can embed into a [...]

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Ubuntu 8.10, a tethered Windows Mobile 6 cell phone via USB, Firefox and Pidgin Messenger

by Jason L Froebe on December 10, 2008, 2 comments

To tether a Windows Mobile 6 cell phone (make sure you have a data plan that allows tethering), you will need to install a few things: sudo aptitude install subversion build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` Once those are installed, we need to download and build the latest usb-rndis-lite code: svn co http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/usb-rndis-lite cd usb-rndis-lite/ make ##  remove [...]

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FW (MAKE): Robert Bruce Thompson on the demise of the chemistry set

by Jason L Froebe on July 1, 2008, no comments

read more… It’s sad that we have become so terrified of litigation that we safe-tify the world that we simply dumbify ourselves and our children.

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LMAO! Logitech Remote “disasters”

by Jason L Froebe on June 24, 2008, no comments

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Using AviDemux 2.4.1 to convert a video to h.264 mpeg4 for the Sony Playstation 3

by Jason L Froebe on June 18, 2008, 7 comments

How to use avidemux to convert video to play on the Sony Playstation 3 console

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