Friday Fun With Hard Drives

Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 17. Oct, 2008 | View Comments

Let’s end this terrifying week on a positive note by exploring the many fun things you can do with old dead hard drives.
LED Display Clock
First up is this LED display/clock. It consists of a series of colored LED lights which flash on and off below a slot cut in the hard drive platter. The perceptual illusion [...]

Amazon MP3 Friday 5

Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Jun, 2008 | View Comments

I know this will sound like an ad, but please don’t take it that way.  I love Amazon’s selection of MP3 downloads – they’re DRM-free and uniformly cheaper than iTunes.  And the company has a download app that integrates nicely with iTunes (unlike the eternally-borken Emusic manager).
I was surprised this morning with an email from [...]

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