Building The Ultimate Custom PC (ExtremeTech)

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Take control of your PC!

Why do they load up a PC with stuff you don't need and leave off the things you really want? Don't take it anymore! Grab a screwdriver and let these two experts show you how to build the PC of your dreams, even if you've never cracked a case before. You'll learn to choose the right components, install them safely, test your system, find the best prices on parts, and even trick out your new machine with some cool tweaks and mods. Plenty of illustrations and step-by-step directions make it easy, and you just might make your wallet happy, too.

How to build what you want

Oh, the things you'll learn!

* Safety first—it's Chapter 1
* Choose your tools
* Powering this puppy
* Motherboard knows best
* RAM it into drive(s)
* Video and sound are in the cards
* Bringing your PC to life
* Testing! Testing!
* Operate on Windows® XP
* Warranties—in English

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Hacking del.icio.us (ExtremeTech)

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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 more…

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Hacking Digital Cameras (ExtremeTech)

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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

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Hacking GMail (ExtremeTech)

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* The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans
* This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts
* Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for backing up files, using it as a blogging tool, and even creating customized Gmail tools and hacks
* Shows readers how to check their Gmail without visiting the site; use Gmail APIs in Perl, Python, PHP, and other languages, or create their own; and maximize Gmail as a host for message boards, photo galleries, even a blog

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Hacking GPS (ExtremeTech)

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* This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
* Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
* Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
* Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
* Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector

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Hacking Myspace Mods and Customizations to make Myspace Your Space (ExtremeTech)

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Get noticed. Get discovered.

It's YourSpace

There are over 90 million profiles on MySpace. How do you make yours stand out? You use these programming tricks and techniques to tweak the look, feel, and content of your profile. You get the inside scoop on hot design and photography. You maximize the effects of HTML and CSS. And, if you happen to be a musician, you check out Chapter 30 to see how MySpace can launch your career. It's all in here. What are you waiting for? Make it all about you.

Complete code and instructions for these and more MySpace hacks:

* Embedding graphics
* Creating animated images
* Developing your own background
* Building custom cursors
* Changing profile text styles
* Getting kinky with links
* Adding a comments box
* Altering your contact table
* Redesigning the navigation bar
* Making DIV overlays

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Hacking Windows XP (ExtremeTech)

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* Get ready for some down-and-dirty hackin'! Over 200 serious hacks readers can use to force Windows XP to do it their way, written in the ExtremeTech no-holds-barred style
* Sinchak doesn't waste time tweaking Movie Maker or Instant Messenger-these hacks are heavy-duty, detailed instructions for squeezing every drop of power from Windows XP and maximizing speed, appearance, and security
* Not for the faint of heart! This book is written for users who aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves, risk voiding their warranties, take total control of the task bar, uninstall programs that are supposedly permanent, and beef up boot speed
* Mines gems like unlocking hidden settings, customizing boot screens, supercharging online and program launch speed, maximizing the file system and RAM, and dumping hated features for good
* Written by the creator of TweakXP.com, a site considered Mecca for Windows hackers and trusted by more than ten million Windows XP users worldwide
* Includes a hacker's dream CD-ROM with a set of ready-to-install hacks, theme creation tools, custom boot screens, "undo" files that help the reader tinker with Windows XP's registry, and a whole lot more

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Hacking Video Game Consoles: Turn your old video game systems into awesome new portables (ExtremeTech)

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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

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Wi-Fi Toys: 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)

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* This ultra-cool volume invites readers to tap into your inner geek and build seventeen ultra-cool wireless devices including a solar powered access point, a wireless picture frame that dynamically changes its own photos, and even a wireless car-to-car audio and video system
* With a few simple tools, some off-the-shelf parts, and this book, readers will be creating wireless devices they never thought were possible-toys that certainly can't be found at the local computer store
* Written by the cofounder and members of the Southern California Wireless Users Group, this book provides readers with hands-on instruction and insider tips and tricks from those who are on the bleeding edge of wireless technology
* New addition to the ExtremeTech line of books-books for serious technophiles

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Circuit-Bending Build Your Own Alien Instruments (ExtremeTech)

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* Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-"bending," for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound
* Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the trade, shows how to build a bending workshop, and reveals secrets that will have readers of all levels making sweet music in no time
* Readers learn basic bends, body contacts, and other bending skills, as well as ways to create bent instruments from a variety of popular toys and electronic devices
* Features some of the author's own unique creations

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Geek House, 10 Hardware Hacking Projects for Around Home (ExtremeTech)

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* From the garage to the living room, Geek House provides hackers with 10 PC-based hardware hacking projects that are not for the faint of heart!
* Taking the DIY mentality to a whole new level, this book teaches techies how to hack, customize, and modify everything-from their sprinkler systems to the temperature of their barbecues
* Adventurous readers will feast on such projects as installing a bar code inventory system for DVDs or CDs, converting RS232 to wireless, scheduling recording from any television in the house, and creating a remote control finder
* Companion Web site includes the custom software and source code needed to power these geeky creations

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Geek My Ride: Build the Ultimate Tech Rod (ExtremeTech)

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Roll up your sleeves and get ready to totally tech-out your ride! Geek My Ride is the first do-it-yourself guide to installing a variety of awesome projects that will turn your ordinary vehicle into the ultimate tech rod! Car hacker Auri Rahimzadeh guides readers through 15 cool projects, complete with tools, skills and step-by-step instructions.

Geek My Ride goes way beyond factory options and teaches readers how to install a custom car PC, with Wi-Fi, Internet access, and more. Dive into installing video gaming systems, video surveillance, LED message boards, and more. You'll even learn to how get your car's new MP3 player to sync with your home music collection wirelessly when you pull into the garage!

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Hacking Firefox: More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations (ExtremeTech)

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They dreamed of a better browser . . . and before you could say "explore no more," Firefox was born. But already you want more. Tighter security, greater functionality. A custom installation for Linux. Maybe even that unique extension you've always dreamed of creating. Well, if you want to tweak the Fox, here are over 400 pages of ways to do it. From hacking profile settings to cracking links and cleaning out the cookie jar, this is the stuff that puts you in control.

Step-by-step instructions for these hacks and dozens more

* Settings, content, and extension hacks
* Hacking the interface and themes
* Performance boosters
* Anti-phishing and security hacks
* Toolbar and status bar tweaks
* Navigation, download, and search hacks
* Hacks for common plugins
* Extension and theme creation

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Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth (ExtremeTech)

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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.

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Hacking Movable Type (ExtremeTech)

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Movable Type, that amazingly powerful personal publishing application, is the superhero of the Internet age. But when you push, poke, stretch, and otherwise coax it into producing even more, the possibilities for your Web content are simply superlative. Roll up your sleeves and get moving-here's the first book to tell you how.

Discover how to do all this and more
* Hack the perfect installation
* Hack the database
* Play with Atom, Perl, and XML-RPC APIs
* Write advanced plug-ins
* Master dynamic publishing
* Hack a super-powered blog app
* Ban comment spam
* Build customized templates

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Hacking MythTV (ExtremeTech)

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Want control? Build your own MythTV PC.

You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you want?and because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how, assorted software components and plug-ins, an adventurous nature, and this book to tell you how it all goes together. Voil?he entertainment hub of your dreams.

Learn to do all this and much more:

* Choose HD capture cards and sound drivers.
* Install and configure MythTV.
* Build your program guides.
* Use xine to add DVD menu support.
* Pass raw digital streams to an external decoder.
* Do cool things with your remote control.
* Hack your own themes.
* Export MythTV .nuv recordings to other formats.

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Hacking Photoshop CS2 (ExtremeTech)

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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.

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Hacking Roomba (ExtremeTech)

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A gizmo as cool as Roomba just begs to be hacked. Now, with this book and the official ROI specification furnished by iRobot, you can become the robotic engineer you've always dreamed of being. Build a Bluetooth interface for your Roomba. Turn it into an artist. Install Linux on it and give it a new brain. Some hacks are functional, others are purely fun. All of them let you play with robotics, and not one will void your warranty.

* Build a serial interface tether.
* Set up a Bluetooth interface.
* Drive Roomba.
* Play with sensors.
* Make it sing.
* Create a Roomba artist.
* Use your Roomba as a mouse.
* Connect Roomba to the Net.
* Wi-Fi your Roomba.
* Replace Roomba's brain.
* Install Roomba-cam.
* Put Linux on Roomba.
* Features a companion Web site.

All this and it will still clean your floor!

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Hacking RSS And Atom (ExtremeTech)

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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

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Hacking the PSP: Cool Hacks, Mods, and Customizations for the Sony PlayStation Portable, 2nd Edition (ExtremeTech)

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We're not just playing games. You love your PSP. You loved the first edition of this book. If you're ready for more fun, here it is. Check out: Networking hacks that let you IM and speed up multiplayer game action. Awesome audio, video, and image hacks. Game hacks that let you use a single UMD cartridge for multiplayer games. The ever-popular homebrew applications, with secrets for sneaking them past the firmware. We're taking playtime to a whole new level.

Let the fun begin with complete instructions on how to do all this and more with your PSP, including:

* Speeding up Web surfing.
* Getting maximum quality when moving video or audio to your PSP.
* Using your PSP like an iPod.
* Transfering DVDs to your PSP.
* Getting more power.
* Playing multiplayer games with a single UMD.
* Writing homebrew apps, even if you've never programmed before.
* Learning to fool, and even downgrade, your firmware.
* Running Linux and Windows.

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Linux Toys II: 9 Cool New Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)

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* Builds on the success of the original Linux Toys, with new projects you can build using different Linux distributions
* All-new toys in this edition include a MythTV entertainment center, eMoviX bootable home movies, a BZFlag game client and server, and an Icecast Internet radio station, plus five more.
* Companion Web site, LinuxToys.net, provides information for further enhancing your Linux Toys II projects
* Includes a CD-ROM with scripts, packages, and code for the projects

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PC Toys, 14 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)

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Come on out and play

You can only surf the Net so long. You can only play so much video poker. So if you’re a PC addict who’s ready for some new fun, this book is your toybox. Each of the 14 projects inside includes a parts list, suggestions for finding the needed equipment, clues to the cost, helpful Web links, and complete directions. What’s that? You have a few ideas of your own? Check out the suggestions in the final chapter, and start inventing your own PC toys.

The Toys

Each with a complete materials list and detailed, illustrated instructions

1. TiVo-like video recorder
2. MP3 or CD jukebox
3. Coffeepot controller
4. Telescope tracking station
5. Workout monitor
6. Home surveillance with Internet remote access
7. Fridge and freezer monitor
8. Fish tank monitor
9. Auto diagnostic center
10. In-car navigation system
11. Weather station
12. Robots
13. Networked video games
14. Model train controller

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Special Edition, CPU Bible (ExtremeTech)

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Special edition CPU Bible.
Spring 2005

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Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (ExtremeTech)

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How many cool things can you do with your Mac? Well, add 12 more to that list.

If you're one of the millions of Mac owners who like to tinker with their machines and do what their PC brethren can only dream about, this is the book for you.

Mac gurus John Rizzo and Scott Knaster will open your eyes to a dozen cool new tricks you can do with your Mac. Create a Harry Potter style picture frame that puts on a continuous slide show; teach your house to turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, and water the lawn by itself; edit and record live TV while you watch; and more.

With a dozen new things to do with your Mac, your PC pals are going to envy you more than ever.

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Project Arcade Build Your Own Arcade Machine (ExtremeTech)

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You can go back, and here's howRemember the days—and quarters—you spent pursuing aliens, fleeing ghosts, and gobbling dots in that beloved arcade? They’re hiding in these pages, along with diagrams, directions, plans, and materials lists that will enable you to build your very own arcade game. Construct joysticks, buttons, and trackballs; build the console and cabinet; install and configure the software; crank up the speakers; and wham! Step across the time-space continuum and enjoy all those classic games, plus dozens of new ones, whenever you like.

Start Here

1. Plan for your space and budget
2. Design and build the cabinet
3. Construct the controllers
4. Build the console
5. Pick an old game’s brain
6. Install the emulator
7. Convince a PC it’s a game
8. Connect a monitor and speakers
9. Add a marquee
10. GO PLAY!

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Podcasting Do It Yourself Guide (ExtremeTech)

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* Listen up! Podcasting, which has taken the online world by storm, involves recording a broadcast and embedding it in an RSS feed so listeners can download it to their PCs, iPods, MP3 players, or even their cell phones
* Written by one of the first and most popular podcasters, this cutting-edge book will have readers not only finding, downloading, and listening to podcasts, but creating and broadcasting their own
* Shows how to find podcasts to subscribe to; use podcasting software including ipodder, doppler, and more; create a podcast with just a PC or Mac; or build a professional studio for recording podcasts
* Addresses copyright issues and music ownership and offers helpful advice on understanding the "geeky stuff": RSS, XML, and Enclosures
* Mainstream media, including MSNBC and Time magazine, have recently started advertising on podcasts

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Enjoy! =)