Colors: Nintendo DS homebrew paint application

Wired’s how-to Wiki ran an article about installing homebrew apps on your Nintendo DS, describing how to install and use Colors, a really pro-looking sketch application. It seems like such a simple application, but its capabilities as a sketch tool (in the hands of someone with artistic talent) are stunning. It uses the pressure sensitivity of the DS touch screen to control the stroke width, much like how you might use an expensive Wacom tablet, except completely portable.

Wii Balance Board hacks

A few days ago, this video appeared with Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler showing off a hack that allows them to surf Google Earth using a Wii. Unfortunately, there weren’t too many details about how it was accomplished and I couldn’t track down any source for the C# application that talks to the bluetooth device.

What I did find was this other clip from almost a month ago (?!?) in which Daniel Schneider demonstrates using the Wii Balance Board to navigate the web in Firefox.

Wii Guitar Hero guitar as a real musical instrument

I’ve been trying to get better at Guitar Hero and I’m bothered by the fact that you dump so much time into learning a basically useless combination of finger twiddling tactics. At least with DDR you get some exercise, and other video games let you drive fast or kill things. Of course, I say this only because I completely fail at Guitar Hero and I’m jealous of everyone who was born with the appropriate twiddling genes that let you get past the easy level. Back to my point, though, wouldn’t it be great if those gaming hours could be spent actually learning to play an instrument?

Hack Orkut Accounts

First get firefox and the cookie editor plugin for it…u will need them…

Then make two fake accounts…u will ned one to receive the cookie and one to advertise your script so that if orkut starts deleting such profiles your real account wont be compromised…the choice is yours though..

Google Cheat Sheets!

The Google cheat sheets cover the following info:

• A list of all Google domains
• Company information
  • Founded Date
  • Key People
  • Revenue
  • Employees

How to make your plugins work in Firefox 3 Beta!

Well, if you are like me, an early adaptor, you probably are already using Firefox 3 Beta. As many of you know, a lot of your Firefox plugins do not work or is not compatible with the new FF3.

Here’s a simple way to make it work: (Thanks to Lifehacker)

1. Type About:config in your FF3 Browser address bar.
2. Right click->New->Boolean then, type in extensions.checkCompatibility, select false.
3. Right click->New->Boolean then, type in extensions.checkUpdateSecurity, select false.

This pretty much disables your compatibility and update security check for all the plugins. Now,
some of your plugins may not work and you might not be able to re-start your browser.

Well, if this happens, it’s pretty easy to fix