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pulpTunes Freeware – Access and Share Your Complete iTunes Library From Anywhere

by Jay Garrett on June 4, 2009

screenshot_tiltedI’ve just been prodded in the direction of pulpTunes – thanks Sean!

Having an iPod or iPhone is great but, if like me, you have over a years worth of constant music on your hard drive at home there’s no way you can have your iTunes collection with you everywhere – unless you have a potent laptop and/or portable HDD.

The easiest solution to accessing that music from your office, at a friend’s party, or just to share your tunes with anyone anywhere in the world seems to be installing pulpTunes.

pulpTunes is a free open source program which allows you to stream your iTunes library across the Internet from any browser.

You can either install it to a remote server or onto your own computer.

It plays nice with Macs and PC’s and has both Windows and Linux support.


  • Supports MP3 and AAC (M4A) files

  • Download songs with a right-click

  • Displays cover art if found

  • Generate direct links to songs or playlists to send to your friends

  • iTunes DJ integration (formerly called Party Shuffle)

  • Adjustable buffer level: useful for slow connections

  • 100% Open Source: malware-free guaranteed


I think this sounds a fabby idea and when I get home I’m gonna add that little orange icon to my puter

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Pandora – Forum Designed Open Source Portable Gaming Machine

by Jay G on April 29, 2009

pandoraSay hello to Pandora – that’s not the name of the lovely lady, I’m talking about what she has in her hands.

The handheld is roughly the same size as the Nintendo DS (actual dimensions: 140×83×27mm (5.51×3.27×1.06 in)) and it kinda resembles the Nintendo DS lite.

Pandora is an open end platform that will specialise in homebrew applications and games.

The Pandora developers have already shown working emulators for PlayStation, Amiga, Super NES, Atari Jaguar and Sega Mega Drive software.

The Pandora is a unique machine. It was designed based on the input of thousands of forum users with one goal in mind – to make the ultimate open source handheld device and it is said that it can cope with things such as Firefox3 or Quake3 with ease.

It has an estimated 8.5-10+ hour battery life for games, 10+ hour battery life for video and general applications and, theoretically, 100+ hours for music playback (with backlight off and maximum power management).

Apparently there’s a number of Pandoras left from the first batch and if you are interested in buying one you have to email openpandorasales@gmail.com and one will cost you $330.

I really dig the to-do list on the Pandora site – nice touch :)

Now. Here’s the science bit:

  • ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
  • 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
  • PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
  • 800×480 4.3″ 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
  • Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
  • Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
  • Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
  • 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
  • Texas Instruments OMAP3530 System-on-Chip with Cortex-A8 at 600MHz
  • 256MB DDR-333 SDRAM
  • 512MB NAND FLASH memory
  • IVA2+ audio and video processor (based on the TMS320C64x+ DSP Core at 430MHz) using Texas Instruments’s DaVinci technology
  • PowerVR SGX 530 (110 MHz) OpenGL ES 2.0 compliant 3D hardware
  • Integrated Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
  • Integrated Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (3Mbit/s) (Class 2, +4dBm)
  • Headphone output up to 150mW/channel into 16 ohms, 99dB SNR
  • TV output (composite and S-Video)
  • Internal microphone plus ability to connect external microphone through headset
  • Externally accessible UART for hardware hacking and debugging

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    Blood Powered Gadgets – The Future Human Grid

    March 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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    Ever considered yourself as a source of power?  Imagine, actually hooking up gadgets to you in order to power them?
    This might not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
    Scientists reckon that piezoelectric nanowires could be put into our blood vessels where they’d harness the energy created by blood flow in order to power various gadgets and futuristic people-powered devices.
    I [...]

    Mozilla Files To Legalise iPhone Jailbreaking

    February 20, 2009 Click to read more →

    Firefox makers, Mozilla, have filed papers to the US Copyright Office in a move that sees them going head to head with Apple over the legally murkey process of iPhone unlocking.
    Mozilla is backing a proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make an exemption to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow a legal iPhone [...]

    nuvo Code Being Shared With All – ZMP

    August 7, 2008 Click to read more →

    ZMP, the Tokyo based “world’s first venture company focusing on robot technology” is selling the source code (Japanese site) for nuvo, one of its best-selling robots.
    nuvo was unveiled in 2004 and ZMP says it’s the first robot for home use.
    The company are aiming to establish a research community focused on the findings from research with [...]

    Open Source Stomp Box Effects Pedal For Geeky Guitarists – Coyote-1

    June 20, 2008 Click to read more →

    Now here’s a thing.
    To get your own custom effects pedal can be a little on the expensive side – so why not do a Brian May and build your own?
    The OpenStomp Coyote-1, whilst still in the prototype phase, seems a pretty well thought-out open source guitar effects module.
    It has a Parallax Propeller 8-core processor running at 80MHz that can even [...]