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AwkwardTV hacks the AppleTV
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The folks over at AwkwardTV project have found a way to boot the Apple TV from an external USB drive attached to it, without opening the Apple TV case or removing the internal hard disk.As his video shows, Apple TV is booting a modified system off the external drive.
The AwkwardTV project is now looking to build a bootable image for USB drives based on the Open Source Darwin kernel which will allow mounting and editing the internal hard disk, so that the various hacks, such as enabling SSH, can be made without opening the case.
WestN arranged for a torrent of the hi-res version of the video. You can find it right here.
Font Xplorer helps you pick the perfect font.
Need to find a perfect font for best friend’s birthday card? Want to get a detailed overview of all the fonts installed on your system? Or find that font installation in Windows is too difficult for you? Want to print professionally designed sample sheets listing all your fonts? Font Xplorer comes to the rescue. Designed for both beginners and professionals, this new FREEWARE font tool should find a place in every computer.
Klipfolio takes on Microsoft and Google with a solid sidebar
Gadget utilities and Sidebar utilities are a dime a dozen now a days. Everyone from Google to Microsoft have one so why would you be interested in seeing this Sidebar / Gadget utility? The problem with most of the sidebar utilities is that you are limited to screen space for widgets as well as customization. This one was built from the ground up to be highly customizable application that can dish out whatever you can throw at it no matter the level of customization, expanding for each widget (or klips). This one beats the current crop of sidebar applications to the point that Google Sidebar was disabled on my PC. The interesting part of this application is it doesn’t necessarily replace your other sidebar apps but can compliment it, something that Google and Microsoft are unlikely to ever do.
Opensource blogging, provides bloggers a way to pool resources
BlogContentDepot.com is a way to help bloggers find new content for their websites. We noticed that many popular sites would have the same news rewritten for each site and thought what a waste to rewrite the same content. BlogContentDepot.com allows bloggers to pool their resources and keep their sites up to date with all of the latest content. Think of it as opensource blogging. The benefits are two fold, your site receives a link back to your site and in the future advertisement revenue, bloggers get to keep their pages current when the occasional writers block or dis-interest crops up. Quite simply this site allows bloggers to edit, proof, and post their content as well as give them a way to collectively vet ideas and content.
Let Google’s Creative Commons Search Find You
I found this article at Google Blogscoped and realized that most people with a blog or webpage who want to use your content on their webpage may have a hard time finding your “free to use” content.
Google allows you to search specifically for free-to-share content. Just select e.g. “free to use or share or modify†from the usage rights box in the advanced search options. Yahoo has a similar option.
So how can you make sure your site is found with that search option? When I switched to Creative Commons-licensing for this blog a while ago, I figured Google would understand the change, ’cause I linked to the Creative Commons page identifying the usage rights. But doing a site-search on this blog recently (site:blog.outer-court.com) showed that no page was found using the CC option. I then included the full meta data of the license onto every page of this blog (you can copy the meta data from the Creative Commons website after choosing your license) …
like this), either one of which might have triggered the change as well.
Comparing the Google page count for a search for “the†(in different languages), we can see that about 0.6%* of all webpages so far also include a CC license.
*A search for [the | der | le | la | 1] returned 15,080,000,000 results not filtered by license, and 84,700,000 results free to use or share (“free to use or share†is a subset of “not filtered by licenseâ€, and e.g. “free to use, share or modify, even commercially is a subset of “free to use or shareâ€).
Top 3 plugins to integrate Digg into your Wordpress Blog or Webpage
You’ve seen them on other sites but had no idea on how to get a digg icon bar/plaque into your Wordpress blog. NoHeat reviews the best plugins and dissects each plugins unique features.
Diggit 1.1.3
This little plugin is one of the easiest plugins to integrate a Digg plaque on your Wordpress generated webpage or blog. Just…
- Download the Digg IT plugin from our website
- Upload the file named “diggthis.php” to the wp-content/plugins directory
- Activate the plugin through the Wordpress administration panel
- Integrate it!
This simple guide will teach you how to make the plugin work:
- Open
wp-content/themes/[yourtheme]/index.php - Find the line where it says:
- Before that line, add this:
DiggThis 1.0.2
DiggThis is a little different as it detects incoming links from Digg to your Wordpress post and automatically displays a link back. Its most stand out feature is that it emails you every time your story is dugg, which of course is nice to know that you can be expecting earth shattering traffic.
Balupton’s Digg Plugin
This plugin takes a slightly different approach to integrating with Digg. When you write your post you are given the option of clicking on the “Digg” button in “Expert Mode”. It allows you to choose which article gets the digg plaque and allows you as admin more control of the look and feel of your integration.
Check it out
