EXTREMETECH-Hacking Video Game Consoles[Ebook] [PDF][13.0MB]

Space Invaders and Asteroids are back!

Loved that Atari(r) when you were a kid? So did Ben Heckendorn - so much, in fact, that he successfully resurrected it as a slim, go-anywhere portable. When Playstation(r) and Nintendo(r) aficionados got jealous, he created miniaturized, fully functioning, battery-powered versions of those too. Now it's your turn. Every secret is here - complete instructions, materials lists, tool tips, even advice on finding parts. Just wait 'til they see this at the high school reunion.

Ready? Let's get started

Plans and instructions for building eight handheld, classic video games
• Choosing a game system - Atari(r), Nintendo(r), Super Nintendo(r), or Playstation(r)1
• What you'll spend
• Electronics and soldering 101
• Hacking portable TVs for their screens
• Building the case - CNC or freehand?
• Yank the cord, install the batteries

EXTREMETECH-Hacking RSS and Atom[Ebook] [PDF][10.5MB]

Now you can satisfy your appetite for information
This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It's about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds-making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It's about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn't thought up yet. Because if you can't have fun with the technology, what's the point?

A sampler platter of things you'll learn to do

• Build a simple feed aggregator
• Add feeds to your buddy list
• Tune into rich media feeds with BitTorrent
• Monitor system logs and events with feeds
• Scrape feeds from old-fashioned Web sites
• Reroute mailing lists into your aggregator
• Distill popular links from blogs
• Republish feed headlines on your Web site
• Extend feeds using calendar events and microformats

EXTREMETECH-Hacking Digital Cameras[Ebook] [PDF][17.0MB]

Why waste a thousand words?
Photos tell stories. And the more you can do with your digital camera, the better the story you can tell. So build a remote control and sneak up on that picture that keeps eluding you. Create an adapter that lets you use SLR-type lenses on your point-and-shoot. Play with lens magnification or create a pinhole lens. Beef up flash memory. And that's just where the tale begins. The ending is up to you.
Hack any digital camera

Illustrated step-by-step directions for more than 20 hacks, including:
• Building triggers
• Accessing raw sensor data
• Making accessory lens adapters
• Eliminating the infrared blocking filter
• Extending lenses
• Making reverse macro adapters
• Building a monopod
• Creating bicycle and car mounts
• Hacking microdrives from other devices

EXTREMETECH-Hacking Photoshop CS2[Ebook] [PDF][22.0MB]

This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe’s wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer.

This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking – blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ hacks, readers will find their work with Photoshop faster and easier than ever.

Roll up your sleeves, and dive into these hacks including:
• Faster Photoshop startup
• Customizing the Photoshop interface
• Hacking Photoshop’s Tools
• Access hidden dialog buttons
• Hacks for Masks, Layers, Paths, Curves and Selections
• Camera Raw tricks

and so much more.

EXTREMETECH-Hacking del.icio.us[Ebook] [PDF][15.0MB]

This is the ultimate guide to hacking, tweaking, and modifying del.icio.us - one of the hottest topics on the web today.
Tons of hacks including:
• Geotagging del.icio.us bookmarks
• Mapping del.icio.us tags with Google Maps
• Building and watching tag clouds over time
• del.icio.us tagging using browser keywords
• del.icio.us Firefox hacks
• Integrating Bloglines and del.icio.us
• Linking to posts w/ greasemonkey
• del.icio.us Safari hacks
• del.icio.us desktop hacks for Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Combining del.icio.us and blogs - Movable Type, WordPress, blosxom: and others
• Programming with the del.icio.us API

and much more...

EXTREMETECH-Hacking Knoppix[Ebook] [CHM][5.1MB]

Knoppix is one of the great innovations in open source software in the last few years. Everyone that sees it wants to use it, since it is that rarest of software tools: the true Swiss Army Knife, capable of use by unsophisticated, experienced, and wizardly users, able to perform any of several hundred (if not thousand) tasks in an efficient and powerful way. Best of all, it’s super easy to employ, ultra-portable, and platform- and hardware-agnostic.

• Knoppix is an innovative Linux distribution that does not require installation, making it ideal to use for a rescue system, demonstration purposes, or many other applications
• Shows hack-hungry fans how to fully customize Knoppix and Knoppix-based distributions
• Readers will learn to create two different Knoppix-based live CDs, one for children and one for Windows recovery
• Teaches readers to use Knoppix to work from a strange computer, rescue a Windows computer that won't boot, repair and recover data from other machines, and more.

With Knoppix you can do hundreds of things including:
• Surf the Web
• Listen to music
• Fix Linux
• Fix Windows
• Test system security
• Create diskless clients
• Build a Knoppix distro for kids
• Personalize your own distro

EXTREMETECH-Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth[Ebook] [PDF][6.7MB]

This one-of-a-kind resource contains 500 pages of jaw-dropping hacks, mods, and customizations. These include creating mashups with data from other sources such as Flickr, building a space station tracker, hacking Maps with Firefox PiggyBank, and building a complete community site with Maps and Earth. Now you can map out locations, get driving directions, zoom into any point on the globe, display real time traffic, and much more.

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets[Ebook] [PDF][11.5MB]

A full-color, portable guide to getting all the fun and productivity from Twitter

Twitter is hot! It's used by everyone from teens keeping up with their friends to fundraising charities and organizations responding to natural disasters; even President Obama tweets. Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets gets you in on the fun, taking you all the way from setting up an account to incorporating cool third-party applications.

Defined as microblogging, Twitter allows you to be as active or passive as you choose in keeping up with the conversation. Limited to 140 characters per comment, or "tweet", it's designed for here-and-now communication. This handy guide gives you everything you need to know.


• Guides you through setting up an account and following Twitter rules
• Explains how to tweet from mobile devices
• Shows how to add Twitter to a blog or to other social networking sites such as Facebook
• Offers ideas for using Twitter in business as well as for personal contacts
• Covers Twitter terminology
• Provides useful tips and tricks for expanding Twitter's usefulness through third-party applications

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets explores all the features of Twitter, so you can join the conversation and discover what all the buzz is about.