Saturday Fun – Video Lan Player (VLC)

I love movies, especially foreign films. In browsing some of the more obscure video stores around Montreal I’ve discovered a few DVD’s imported from Europe that are the wrong region. Rather than spending some additional money for a region free DVD player, I just used VLC on my laptop, a free video player for Windows, [...]

Saturday Fun – Flash based Ipod Mini

I have an elderly Ipod Mini that has a battery fully on its last legs. I’ve been working slowly on putting together the resources to take it apart and replace the battery, when I came across this project by Mark Hoekstra.
What is fascinating about this project is that Apple used a standard Compact Flash II [...]