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New Site For Your Geeky Needs
Well it's happened, I've joined up with my fellow Team Hack-A-day members to collaborate on a new project.  I'm officially presenting to you, ahead of schedule, a site that is for geeks, by geeks.   What I truly mean to say is that we are going to be like your geeky co-worker, bringing stuff to you that we think you'll find interesting.  Whether it be info about making beer, what games to play...
Review – Motorola X205 Xbox 360 Headset
I made a recent Woot.com purchase of this headset simply for the fact that it was a Xbox 360  accessory and it was very, very inexpensive.  It was so cheap, at a price of $3.99, that I felt the need to buy two just to justify the $5.00 shipping.  I don't think I even stopped to really read the description or even the picture. I eventually received both headsets, or this article obviously wou...
LOTRO Goes Free
Coming very quickly, as in this fall, The Lord Of The Rings Online will be turning into a free to play game. “Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is bringing quality games based on The Lord of the Rings to multiple platforms, and the franchise’s expansive adventure story lends itself perfectly for LOTRO free-to-play, giving a wide range of players the opportunity to experience the game...
R.I.P. PS3 LINUX
Dearly Departed, We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of our dear friend PS3 Linux. It is always a tragedy when somebody so young is taken from us. Some of you barely even knew PS3 Linux, such it was that time was lost between you. We know not what the future would have held, what impacts PS3 Linux might have had in our lives. One thing is certain, we have lost something preciou...
Nyko Apologized To Me
Just last week I got a little angry that Nyko Lied To Me since they goofed up when I asked them about a pre-order item from BestBuy.com. Last night I received a direct Twitter message from them stating: "We have seen your blog post and would like to apologize for the confusion. We were going by BestBuy.com's description and NOT the SKU number. We should have checked the SKU number, and for ...

My Crazy Excel Formula

Posted By: Snorkle256 on July 6, 2009 in Computers, Hack - Comments: No Comments »

This formula is designed to extract asset numbers from monitors (a) and computer numbers (b) after the help desk program dumps summary fields.  First is goes through and looks for the monitors and if it doesn’t find any the error function runs the search for computers.  The trick is that not only numbers are returned but words as well so after you put the formula in you have to do replaceall to change the words to nothing.

=IF(ISERROR(MID(D1,SEARCH(“a?????**”, D1),8)),(MID(D1,SEARCH(“b?????**”, D1),8)),(MID(D1,SEARCH(“a?????**”, D1),8)))

How To Fix Your Text Widget Ads

Posted By: Snorkle256 on July 2, 2009 in Computers, Hack - Comments: No Comments »

If you were paying attention to my blog today (which you most likely weren’t), you would have noticed that I was having issues trying to put ad space on my sidebar. Just last week I decided that I wanted to switch back to using Adsense. Boy, was that ever a mistake. I was quickly reminded why I had started using ProjectWonderful in the first place. However I had a problem, my ads kept getting pushed off to the right of each sidebar. Nothing seemed to work.

Finally today I figured out a quick and dirty solution.

Xbox 360 Controller Thumbstick Replacement

Posted By: Snorkle256 on March 6, 2009 in Hack, Xbox, games - Comments: 4 Comments »

Earlier this week I received my Xbox 360 back from Microsoft for it’s RROD.  Eagerly I sat down to play on my console only to discover that in the two week period of not having a 360, my controller was stepped on and a analog joystick was broken.  Yes, I was disappointed that my controller was broken and I set out to work out a way to fix it.

I did a little research and found out that if you have an original Xbox S type controller that you are willing to part with, you can fix your more expensive 360 controller on the cheap.

You see it turns out that the analog joystick pickups are the same in each controller, so it is simply a matter of cracking each open and swapping in the working part.

Comcast Motorola DCT6412 PVR Hack

Posted By: Snorkle256 on April 24, 2007 in Hack - Comments: 1 Comment »

I am posting this from http://vaxcave.com/?p=443

It was just too good to pass up.

[quote="Vaxcave.com"]Apparently there is a “30 second skip” command that is available to the Motorola DCT6412 III PVR. If you have this version of the Comcast brand (and other cable carriers, to be fair) you can use the following instructions to map the 30 second skip feature to a button.

Make sure the PVR is on. Press and release the “Cable” button.
Press and hold the “Setup” button. Release after the “Cable” button blinks twice.
Using the number pad, type “994″ and look for the “Cable” button to blink twice.
Press and release the “Setup” button.
Using the number pad, type “00173″.
Press the button that you wish to have the FFW feature mapped to. I recommend a button that isn’t used normally. I used the “HD Zoom” button in the lower right corner.
The best part about this feature is that it’s not a fast forward feature. It indeed jumps forward 30 seconds immediately. It’s great.
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Comcast Remote Hack

Posted By: Snorkle256 on April 16, 2007 in Hack - Comments: No Comments »

I have this obession of controlling all my audio video equipment from the comfort of my couch. I have a remote for my tv, audio system, cable box, xbox 360, xbox (soon to include the power on hack) and ps2 (does this have a power on hack?). Oh, I even have a remote controled a/v switch which is pretty cool but not in use at the moment.

The real trick here is to get as many devices working with 1 single remote as best as they can. That means turning the tv, audio receiver and cable box on and off at will with the single push of a button.

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