Daily New Tweaks and hacks

The ultimate dream of any hardcore gamer! Having a bunch of SNES games anywhere! With a homebrew enabled Nintendo DS, it is possible!!! Though not all roms work, and some still have glitches.. the games that work, do work very nice and have a good and stable framerate. There are 3 SNES emulators in the field now. I dont know which one is the best, but I just use all of them, depending on which game that works better. Here’s a list for you!

SnesDS:
A port of SNES Advance, a GBA SNES emulatorNo really recent updates but works fine. no high compattibility.

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SnemulDS:
Nice compattibility! And its still being in development. Recommended

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SnezziDS:
Also high compattibility! Also still in development. Only con is that its harder to work with than the others, but its worth trying!

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Dont expect any of these to play FF6/III or Seiken Densetsu 3 or big roms like that… Though it runs FFIV and Chrono Trigger very nice [; Dont forget to check the compattibility lists for the best results!

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Have you allways wanted a PDA, but never could afford one? If you own a Nintendo DS, you are very lucky! With DSOrganize you can do many things a PDA can! The main features are:

• Calendar/Day Planner
• Address Book
• Todo List
• Scribble Pad
• File Browser
• Text/HTML/INI Viewer and Editor
• BMP/JPG/PNG/GIF/RAW Viewer
• WAV/MP3/OGG/AAC/M4A/MOD/IT/S3M/XM Player
• WAV Recorder
• Scientific Calculator
• Online Homebrew Database
• Integrated IRC
• Multi-Language Support

Check their website HERE!
and Get DSorganize HERE!

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Here’s an interesting hack that was featured on the Make blog. It involves removing the UV filter coating from a pair of glasses simply by polishing them. Warning don’t try this with a new pair of glasses!

As Jason (hack author) puts it:

The lenses in my favorite pair of glasses are getting to be about a year or two old, and it’s getting to the point where I can barely see through them. My prescription hasn’t changed much - the problem is that the UV filter coating is starting to wear off, giving the entire lense surface a rough, partially-opaque finish.

So what did Jason do? Well he spent an evening polishing the lenses with…get this…sun screen!! Yes oil-free SPF 45 sunscreen did the job quite well! How you say? Well Jason thinks that it might be because “sunscreen has extremely fine aluminum powder in its composition, which is course enough to work away the coating, but fine enough to not leave visibly deep scratches in the soft plastic.” Sounds like a good enough explanation for me! Neat hack Jason!!

To check out the whole hack click here.

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Well, the other day I did a write up about circuit board earrings and now today I’m doing one on a paracord bracelet. This is another great gift idea for your girlfriends! It’s CHEAP and we can make it ourselves…just the type of present guys like us love to give, right!!

Anyways, this is yet another hack from the Instructables site. Stormdrane (author) does a great job of explaning how to turn an ordinary piece of paracord rope into a very stylish bracelet. So what do you need? Surprisingly little! You need a “paracord, or equivalent 1/8″ diameter cord, a tape measure or ruler, scissors, side release buckle, and a lighter(torch lighter works best).” That’s it!

So what do you do? Well, you braid the paracord by tying a series of knots along a piece long enough to fit around your wrist. And add a side release buckle for attaching the bracelet to your wrist. Stormdrane has lots of pictures of the whole hack on the Instructables site. Check it out!!

To check out the whole hack click here.

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Are you constantly searching for wi-fi hotspots every time you go to a new city? Well, if you said yes…look no more. With this next hack you become the hotspot! How trippy is that?

I know you guys are probably reading this thinking “this guy’s on crack!” But, I assure you I’m on the level. Jason Bradbury from JasonBradbury.com has come up with an ingenious little hack. He actual creates a mobile wi-fi hotspot device that can fit in a backpack!

So, how did he do it? Well, he took a Linksys Wireless router with Standard PC Card slot for a Mobile Broadband Data Card and added a first generation Vodaphone 3G data card to the router’s PCMCIA slot. He used a 12 volt battery for juice, by soldering a power connector from the battery to the router. The battery “gives you about eight hours wiffy playtime.” And, for the piece de resistance, you can add booster antenna “to send your signal far and wide.”

The final results? A portable wi-fi hotspot that you can use to, as Jason puts it:

stage that LAN party you’ve always wanted in the middle of a field…. or on a plane…. or a bus… or in a series of canoes… or … okay, just stop before someone gets hurt.

To check out the whole hack click here.

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This is a great hack for any animal lover out there! Instead of hiding your fish tank in the corner on some dusty bookshelf, why not put it on display? Well, that’s exactly what x86Daddy did. He made a coffee table with a fish aquarium built in, at a fraction of the price it would have cost to buy a pre-fabricated one.

So how did x86Daddy do it? Well, first he assembled a wire shelving unit and mounted light fixtures and a power strip underneath the first shelf. He then placed his 20 gallon fish tank on the shelving unit, and filled the aquarium. Finally, he added the top of an old glass coffee table. The final results are outstanding!

To check out the whole hack click here.

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The can was lined with aluminum foil so I peeled that out first because this is a coil antenna and not focused like the wifi version.

I poked a few hole and inserted the wire through, and proceeded to wind the coil around the can. At the end, I poked another hole, and ran the wire up through so that I could connect the aerial to coax adapter. Read More

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