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A part review / part guide to OS X from a Windows users point of view.
"An unexpected experience with the Mac came after I left it alone running in a dark room for the first time."
After recent issues with Windows Vista, and since a new updated version of Apple’s operating system had just been released [...]

Some of you may know that I do a good bit of traveling for my job. For some reason, I have avoided ever buying an mp3 player of any kind (I can’t stand the ipod). I never found one that I liked. Then I watched the PVP (Personal Video Player) devices come to [...]

i just got this dell optiplex and it came with this video out. it is clearly a video card (the s-video next to it). i didnt unpack it, so maybe the people that did lost some cable? it looks almost like DVI but if you notice, its missing the cross on the rigth side. there [...]

We have been bouncing around from company to company for the past year or so and I think we have finally found a “good” hosting company for a change. They are giving us a powerful server at a fair price along with full management, which will help us to maintain the server so that [...]

I decided to try and improve the reliability and responsiveness of my previous RFID front door project (based around a client / server design), by re-implementing it using the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2e, and the 13.5MHz APSX RW-210 RFID reader as a standalone device. I was also looking to gain some practical experience with [...]

Original Post: Using a Radiosonde as a real time, low cost GPS based tracking device

Thanks to Hack A Day and those that left comments, many useful ideas / suggestions were received along with some offers of support and a promising looking solution.

Here follows a roundup of the more informative comments:
Wizdom points out that if you [...]

A Radiosonde is a small package of electronics used in weather balloons by Meteorologist’s to measure pressure, altitude, wind speed, and humidity. They are mass produced, rarely recovered after use, and fairly low cost devices (~£20 on eBay / Bullnet (non GPS model).
After being launched the Radiosonde works by continuously transmitting back readings to [...]

I was recently considering upgrading an Intel based PC, however as is the way with technology things change fast and I decided it would be easier just to build a new machine. Here is what I found:

AGP is out, PCI Express x16 is in.
Serial ATA replaces the old Parallel ATA IDE interfaces however there [...]

I really like buying new toys to play around with. So a few weeks ago I went out and bought a Sirius Satellite Radio. I am pleased with it so far. No, I didn’t pay over $300 (with subscription) because of H. Stern but I did find the satellite radio as a whole entertaining. [...]

I have used a standard cheap wireless remote control extender to change channels on a Sky Digital decoder box in another room for a number of years. Due to the distance between rooms, this usually involves pointing the remote control into the box, and moving the two in parallel around in the air until the [...]