Few families made it through the 1980s with collecting one or more Nintendo Entertainment Systems, but many of them sit unusable today, no matter how hard you blow into them. Wired's Chris Kohler and his brother Dan show in the above video that given a screwdriver, a 72-pin connector available for a few dollars online, and a wee big of patience, the garage-bound game sysem can be revived and made ready for duck hunting, Koopa-stomping, or whatever lies inside the cartridges you haven't sold off.
Few families made it through the 1980s without collecting one or more Nintendo Entertainment Systems, but many of them sit unusable today, no matter how hard you blow into them. Wired's Chris Kohler a... 查看全文
Fun GPS voice hack... A custom voice file for Garmin Nuvi GPS units stylized"GLaGPS - Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System" via Waxy. In 2007, Valve Software released Portal, one of the most... 查看全文
Wikipedia too open, too free for you? Still prefer to rely on old-school professional editorialism? Then the folks at Encyclopedia Britannica have something for you which you might enjoy. It’s called ... 查看全文
There's something grimly fascinating about this Blackhatworld forum in which spammers are discussing with comradely zest the best means of overcoming the new Craigslist phone-verification technique th... 查看全文
The NYC subway system's unlimited-ride MetroCard turned ten years old this month."I think it's absolutely changed travel habits in the New York region, and it's been a boon for the economy as well," s... 查看全文
NY-based private file sharing service Drop.io announced today the launch of a new view into the files you upload into "drops". The new view is called system view and allows for a variety of ... 查看全文
The Commonwealth Fund is expected to release its second annual U.S. Health System Scorecard on Thursday, and it’s expected to report that while the U.S. spends nearly twice as much per person on healt... 查看全文
Filed under: OS, Mac 101 Sometimes applications can install extras in the form of System Preference panes. However, when you remove the app from your Mac, you might be left with extraneous System Pref... 查看全文
Just as we feared, the EU has now approved copyright extension of performance royalties from 50 years to 95 years.This is basically an approval to steal from the public.The public made a deal with mus... 查看全文