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External HD support hacked on the iPad

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Here's an awesome trick for adding external HDD storage to an iPad. By "awesome" we mean complicated, round-about, wire-friendly and ultimately impractical (are you going to sit at Starbucks with this rig?), but hey...why do people climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there!

After reading our...

Found Footage: Twitter on an Apple IIe (kind of)

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Here's a great video from technabob that shows an Apple IIe displaying archived Tweets from a 5.25-inch floppy disk, complete with lo-res graphics.

Here's how it works. Modder Yergacheffe uses a PC for interacting with Twitter. He hacked together a PC-to-Apple IIe interface for...

Use the iPad in landscape orientation with the keyboard dock

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Using a Bluetooth keyboard with an iPad is terrifically convenient, yet some users dislike that the iPad must be in portrait orientation while docked. Here's how to get around it.

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Inertial scrolling should be possible on all multi-touch trackpads

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A new feature called "inertial scrolling" has been introduced in the latest MacBook Pros. This feature changes the way that scrolling functions in OS X, making it behave more like the iPhone. Traditionally, when you use two-finger scrolling in...

Rhapsody on an iPad

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No, not the music service. I'm talking about OS X's grandfather. And here it is booting on an iPad.

Developer Steven Troughton-Smith saw the video of Windows 95 running on an iPad in emulation and was inspired to try...

hacksugar: Putting iPod touch GPS to the test with roqyBluetooth

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A few weeks ago, I wrote lovingly about GPS. For me, at least, GPS on the iPhone OS family is often more about the social features that location unlocks than about simple positioning. With GPS, you can track your...

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

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Warning: If you are baffled by people who think dismantling technology is fun, and completely fail to understand the excitement of building robots to battle other robots, this post may not be...

How to: Get your 1984 Mac running Snow Leopard

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It couldn't happen, they said. It wouldn't work, they warned. But gmjhowe over at Instructables did it anyway: he converted his old 1984 Macintosh into a machine that could run Snow Leopard. And...

TUAW How To: Downgrading your 3.1.3 iPhone to 3.1.2

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Last week I downloaded (but did not install) the iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware for my 3GS. I wanted to have a copy of the firmware on hand, but didn't want to upgrade right away. I checked "Do not ask me again"...

Found footage: Jailbreak BTstack support extended to 1st gen iPod touch

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The BTstack project that we've covered before on TUAW, offers a way for iPhone and iPod touch units to communicate with arbitrary external Bluetooth devices. To date, it's been used to connect...

TotalFinder beefs up Finder

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A new "hack" for Finder is in the works, and it's pretty darn cool. TotalFinder adds tabs, Visor-like functionality and a few other goodies (with more on the way) to your...

Create a Time Capsule gift box

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If your Time Capsule is among the recently deceased, don't toss it just yet. The folks at Instructables have published photos of a dead Time Capsule that's been converted into a quite handsome gift box. The...