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Have Your Macintosh Call You

Submitted by BDub on February 15, 2006 - 11:37am
Nothing fake, plenty phony. Use Skype, Applescript, and iTunes to make phone calls and play audio files automatically.
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Software Guides

Overview of Encryption II

Submitted by BDub on January 19, 2006 - 11:56pm

Describing how to obtain a shared key without prior trusted contact.

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Software Guides

Overview of Encryption I

Submitted by BDub on January 12, 2006 - 11:31pm

Codes and ciphers are important when securing communications. This is a quick primer on several methods.

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Software Guides

Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists

Submitted by Tom Owad on January 4, 2006 - 2:37pm
This article describes how anybody in the world can develop sophisticated profiles of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens, using only free and publicly available resources.
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Software Guides

Repairing the PowerBook 5300

Submitted by Tom Owad on November 17, 2005 - 11:21pm


A design flaw in this PowerBook inevitably leads to a flakey power connector. Learn how to repair it.

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Guides
Hardware Guides
Computer Type: 
Power Macintosh

Building a Case for the Replica I

Submitted by iceandfire on February 21, 2005 - 12:17pm

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In this detailed tutorial, Larry Nelson explains how to make a traditional-style Replica I case out of Birch and Walnut.

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Projects
Guides
Hardware Projects
Hardware Guides
Computer Type: 
Apple I
Manufacturer: 
Apple

A quick Mac battery replacement

Submitted by Tom Owad on June 13, 2004 - 10:11pm

Battery replacement - finished
Quickly make make a replacement Mac battery.

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Guides
Hardware Guides
Computer Type: 
Power Macintosh
Manufacturer: 
Apple

How to successfully install Mac OS X 10.3 on Beige G3s

Submitted by rael9 on May 27, 2004 - 12:23pm

First of all, here are the specs of my machine:

Beige G3
Sonnet 400 MHz G4 upgrade w/ 1 MB L2 cache
768 MB RAM
40 GB IDE drive
4 GB 10,00RPM Cheetah SCSI drive
Apple UltraSCSI card
Radeon 7000
USB/Firewire PCI card
Toshiba DVD drive
Built-in Zip drive
Rev. A ROM

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Software Guides
Computer Type: 
Power Macintosh
Manufacturer: 
Apple

Learning to Count in Binary

Submitted by BDub on January 24, 2004 - 3:52pm

Learning to Count in Binary

We've all seen the stereotypical movie computer person. They watch a screen of binary scroll by, apparently interpeting it and making so much sense of it they only have to glance up every few seconds to figure out whats going on. Not gonna happen.

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Software Guides

Keeping Clean - How to Make Your Mac Look And Feel Good

Submitted by BDub on January 23, 2004 - 10:35pm

So you just bought that shiny new, or old, Macintosh and you're wondering how many stickers you can put on it before the sheer weight of the glue makes the case collapse. How many crumbs you can spill in the keyboard before the letter "J" refuses to move. How much dust can collect in your mouse before the little ball actually starts leaving a trail of dirt behind it when you move it.

Content Type: 
Hardware Guides
Computer Type: 
Macintosh, 68K

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