Oh god. Everything’s piling up. Too many emails. Your ears have started bleeding. Something smells sweaty and you think it might be you.
If one or more of the above ring true, then you’re not using the web properly. And you should maybe see a doctor. Seriously, though: life doesn’t have to be as difficult as you’re making it out to be. In fact, it can be dramatically easier if you set the right tools loose on your workload. Here’s how to put the web to work for you. Read more
Gaming mods are like fan-fiction: painstakingly crafted alternate stories, features and transformations born out of sheer love for the source material. In some cases they breed entirely new games in themselves, such is their sheer amazingness. Here are the best ones we’ve seen… Read more
UPDATE: Like these Apple TV hacks? We’ve got 10 more we’d like to see using Siri.
It only took a few days for eagle-eyed hackers to spot the second gen Apple TV runs iOS, and then they did what they do best – went about exploiting its full potential. Find out how to get more from your Apple TV here, from new streaming abilities, a secret app store, and much, much more.
Why should you be bound by your Kindle’s restraints? If you’ve got the know-how your Kindle can be a virtual newspaper, its own reading light, compatible with a Bluetooth keyboard, and can even run Linux. Read on to see how, and prepare to bin that warranty.
Another day, another Kinect hack and boy is this a good one. With a Wiimote, Wii Nunchuck, the Microsoft Kinect and a PC copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Demize2010 has managed to create the ultimate Call of Duy setup which you can see in the video after the break. Are you up for playing Call of Duty with gesture-control for ducking, leaning, stabbing and reloading thrown into the mix? Click through to see the setup in action…
2010 has been the year of Kinect hacks, and other devices have barely had a look in. While some were hacking the iPhone to install Flash, Kinect hacks ran the gamut from Minecraft and Super Mario gaming to a web browser and light saber. Click through for our pick of this year’s gadget hacks and mods.
We love Google Demo Slam, it’s a treaure trove of Google-inspired weirdness. Our favourite this week is Google Earth sky diving. The video, which you can see after the break, shows a band of brilliant Japanese teenagers doing Google Earth sky diving which essentially means using a huge projector screen and Google Earth to simulate chucking yourself out of a plane.
A laptop running Google Earth is made to zoom through the different levels of Google Earth as if the virtual sky divers are falling from a great height. For added realism, the Google Earth sky divers have stuck on some fans to get that rushing through the air feeling. Read on to see Google Earth sky diving in action. Warning: it is odd.
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