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The Sound Tank Is Built To Wage War On Your Eardrums

2:20AM September 21, 2011 | Kwame Opam

This thing is a monster. Nik Nowak, a DJ hailing from Berlin, outfitted this Japanese mini-dump truck to become a veritable assault vehicle of sound, capable of pumping out 4000 watts of moving acoustic muscle. More »


Apple Driver Update Adds Magic Trackpad Support, Enables Inertial Scrolling On Older MacBooks

7:58AM July 28, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

The Magic Trackpad has just showed up and Apple has already issued a driver update for it. The same update also enables inertial scrolling and three-finger dragging on MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops with multitouch trackpads. More »


Software

How To Hack Windows Laptops With Mac-Like Trackpad Gestures

10:12PM March 17, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Attempting to scroll with two fingers on a Windows laptop trackpad after using a MacBook makes you feel like a right fool, I know. It’s not the end of the story though, with Lifehacker revealing two hacks for Windows users. More »


Software

Jailbroken iPhones Get Support For Bluetooth Keyboards

2:41PM December 22, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Good news for those wanting to use a physical Bluetooth keyboard with their iPhones: Now you can. The catch is that you’ll need to jailbreak your iPhone and that input doesn’t work outside of this particular app at the moment. More »


Software

Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Now Available

6:00AM November 22, 2009 | Chris Jacob

Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Boot Camp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]


Gadgets

High Tech Titanium Golf Clubs May Lead to Hearing Loss

9:30AM January 6, 2009 | Sean Fallon

It looks like golfers may have more to worry about than bad backs and jacked-up knees. Apparently, swinging those new fangled fancy titanium drivers may lead to hearing loss.

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Software

Official Nvidia Mobile GPU Drivers Available Online

7:30AM December 21, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Though mobile graphics drivers have historically been available only from the laptop manufacturer, Nvidia finally posted their official drivers on their site. Say goodbye to those 3rd-party hacked and often buggy drivers!

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Computing

MSI Encourages Hackintosh, Leaks OS X Wi-Fi Drivers for the Wind

8:30PM December 15, 2008 | John Herrman

Seeing that the need for a warranty-voiding Wi-Fi module switch was the only thing keeping users from easily making convincing mini-MacBooks, MSI has semi-released OS X wireless drivers for the Wind.

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Software

SDHC Driver for the Palm OS Released

6:50AM September 20, 2008 | Sean Fallon

Palm gets lost in the midst of all the iPhone and Android hype, but if you still love your good old Palm OS, Dmitry Grinberg has finally released an SDHC driver that allows for card support. The program is available for devices like the Tungsten T|C, Tungsten E|2, Tungsten T|5, LifeDrive, Palm TX, Zire 31 and Zire 72, with other machines like the T|T3 and the Zodiac on their way. At $US21, its really not a bad deal for all that extra storage. [TamsPalm]

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Software

Creative Finally Releases Fixed Vista Drivers For X-Fi

3:20AM August 1, 2008 | Jason Chen

Creative’s finally put that whole driver fiasco behind them and released Vista-capable drivers for their X-FI cards. What took them so long? Who knows, but they’ve added DVD Audio playback, which is nice, I guess. Grab yours now if you haven’t broken your X-Fi in half already. [Creative via X-Fi]

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