Console to USB Adapters Connect Gamepads to Your PC, Save You Money [Stuff We Like]

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• Console to USB Adapters Connect Gamepads to Your PC, Save You Money [Stuff We Like]
• Scenes From a Massive Undersea Cable Ship [Undersea Cable]
• The Week In Games: Face Off [Twig]
• Ideas For a Great Control Room?
• Ask The Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
• Upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Upgrades User Interface for Netbooks
• Black Hole Coffee Table Devours Personal Wealth [Tables]
• EVGA Precision Overclocks Your NVIDIA Graphics Card with Little Effort [Downloads]
• PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video)
• Build a GML tag recorder, win 1200 euros

Console to USB Adapters Connect Gamepads to Your PC, Save You Money [Stuff We Like] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT PC peripheral manufacturers like Logitech have been making gamepads for years now, but you can save a lot of money by just buying a cheap USB adapter for your old PlayStation or Xbox controllers. More »

Scenes From a Massive Undersea Cable Ship [Undersea Cable] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT When Alcatel-Lucent lays cable at the bottom of the sea, it does so using a variety of massive tools, ships and repeaters. They look a little something like this: More »

The Week In Games: Face Off [Twig] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT A lively week of releases kicks off the stretch run of Labor Day through the holidays; EA Sports ships two hockey titles; the first PlayStation Move game arrives and a couple of strong handhelds round out the week's cattle call. More »

Ideas For a Great Control Room? Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:32 PM PDT lewko writes "Our company is about to build a central monitoring facility and I'm looking for ideas/suggestions about the best hardware and the best way to make it comfortable for those manning a screen. It will be manned 24x7 and operators will be monitoring a variety of systems including security, network, fire, video and more. These will be observed via local multi-monitor workstations and a common videowall. This is going to be a massively expensive exercise and we only get one chance to get it right. The facility is in a secure windowless bunker and staff will generally be in there for many hours at a time. So we have to implement design elements which make it a 'happy' place. At the same time, it has to be ergonomically sound. Lastly, we will be showing it to our clients, so without undoing the above objectives, it would be nice if it was 'cool' (yet functional). Whilst Television doesn't transfer to real life always, think 'CTU' from 24." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Ask The Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT Where's the best place to put an internal WiFi antenna for the best reception? What can I do if I have a crappy cell/data signal in my house? How can I get rid of old desktops? I need to get a checking account in my college town. What should I look for in a bank? What are everyone's best hangover cures? What are some good cardiovascular exercises besides running? More »

Upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Upgrades User Interface for Netbooks Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:17 PM PDT The upcoming release of Ubuntu, scheduled for final release in October, will bring some new interface improvements including a different Netbook edition. The beta ships with GNOME 2.31, which introduces support for the new dconf configuration storage system. Ubuntu’s standard F-Spot photo tool has been replaced by Shotwell, a relatively new application that is developed by nonprofit software group Yorba… The Ubuntu Netbook Edition has seen particularly dramatic improvements during this development cycle due to Canonical’s work on the new Unity user interface. Ubuntu 10.10 beta arrives with new netbook UI [ArsTechnica]

Black Hole Coffee Table Devours Personal Wealth [Tables] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT Don't worry, your coasters and coffee table books will be perfectly safe on this table. About the only thing designer Jon Gilmore's Nova Black Hole Illuminated Coffee Table can destroy is your wallet. More »

EVGA Precision Overclocks Your NVIDIA Graphics Card with Little Effort [Downloads] Posted: 05 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT Windows only: If you're looking for a way to eke a bit more performance out of your video card, free app Precision from manufacturer EVGA will help you easily overclock your NVIDIA card—even if it isn't made by EVGA. More »

PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video) Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:29 PM PDT Two weeks ago you'd have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key. Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own. Today, there's no need for any of that -- you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone. Working closely with the PSGroove team, hacker Kakaroto adapted the same jailbreak to the Nokia N900, and the open-source community lost no time porting it to the Palm Pre as well. If the videos after the break are any indication, both versions work just as well as the original, and you too can get your game on with downloads and detailed instructions at the source links below. Sadly, the aforementioned Australian importer OzModChips is a casualty of this little story, with all its shipments of the PS Jailbreak dongle seized (and the item subject to injunction) by an Australian court, but we suppose knowing its product has enabled the hardware hacking community thus might somewhat soften the blow. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video) PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Maemo.org, Exophase, BBC News  |  KaKaRoTo's Blog, PSX-Scene  | Email this | Comments

Build a GML tag recorder, win 1200 euros Posted: 05 Sep 2010 01:00 PM PDT Evan Roth wants a Graffiti Markup Language tag recorder badly enough to pay 1200 euros for one. GML Field Recorder Challenge An easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer's normal practice in the city. Project Description and Design Requirements: The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY hardware and software solution for unobtrusively recording graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer's normal practice in the city. The winning project will be an easy to follow instruction set that can be reproduced by graffiti writers and amateur technologists. The goal is to create a device that will document a night of graffiti bombing into an easily retrievable series of Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files while not interfering with the normal process of writing graffiti. The solution should be easy to produce, lightweight, cheap, secure, and require little to no setup and calibration. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!

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