This year was a transitional year in which much-hyped mobile advertising began to be a serious player, Apple once again changed the business and brands began fostering real, two-way conversations with consumers. Here’s a look at some of the top new technologies that redefined advertising in 2010.   1. Old Spice’s Response Videos     [...]

Using the Nook as an External Keyboard by Farasbee I’ve wanted an Optimus Maximus keyboard since I first heard about it. Whereas some people seem to think it’s an expensive gimmick, as someone who routinely switches between three different keyboard layouts (and can’t touch type on all of them) it would be a godsend. However, I don’t [...]

Hacking Windows CE driver implementations for fun and profit by Farasbee Recently, we acquired a batch of 20 “dead” Dell Axim X5 PDAs for use as prototypes. We got these for a steal, and managed to bring 9 of them back from the dead. The rest we are looking at using for spares in the [...]

Advantages of using LINUX at a glance by Farasbee 1. Price: You don’t have to license as many  “OS” as many users in your company! So it saves money in licensing 2. Stability: LINUX just goes non-stop.  3. Security: It is much more secure than other systems in the market today.  4. Compatibility: It recognises the majority [...]

Make an MP3 Player with an FPGAs! by Farasbee FPGA-Audio – FPGA based MP3/WAV Player The aim of this project was to build an MP3/WAV player using just a FPGA, some RAM & a stereo DAC. The project consists of a custom 32-bit soft core processor running at just under 60MHz which decodes the MP3 [...]