Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Gather round, ’cause we’ve got some Zune hacks to get your Sunday going. First, a fellow named Kristof has informed Zune-Online about a way to get the Zune software running on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (there’s also a Vista hack too, which we saw earlier). The site has exact step-by-step instructions on how to pull off this one, but the short of it is, it essentially involves editing the Zune.inf file. For our next trick, we’ll point you to a site that shows you how to change the Zune icon as seen in Windows. For that one, you’ll need to first pull off the USB drive hack that we showed you before, and then you’ll need to use Regedt (Registry Edit) to find the appropriate registry value, an ICO editing program (like IcoFX), and patience when drawing on an icon that’s 48 x 48 pixels. But you’ll have our eternal love and respect if you change your Zune icon to the Engadget “e” logo. As usual when trying something like this, do be sure to backup any strings that you edit so you don’t end up bricking your Zune.

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Several weeks ago, we regaled you with the tale of how a pair of hackers, David Maynor and Jon “Johnny Cache” Ellch claimed that they could pwn a MacBook in a minute flat. The dynamic duo then showed the exploit to Brian Krebs, a reporter at The Washington Post and a controversy ensued over the next few weeks as to who had shown exactly what to whom when. The most recent episode involved Apple telling Macworld two days ago that SecureWorks, Maynor’s employer, hadn’t showed Apple any specific information — however, on its own, Apple discovered a problem, then released security and wireless patches for PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs. Meanwhile, SecureWorks has been awfully mum on the issue, refusing to say anything further to Krebs or to the IDG News Service. Glenn Fleishman has a very lengthy blog entry over at Wi-Fi Net News that provides a play-by-play of this whole situation, but points out that Maynor and Ellch are scheduled to speak at Toorcon in San Diego later this month, and concludes by saying that he thinks the pair will show their cards and tell all, which may finally settle this torrid affair.

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Now that you've flashed your Xbox 360's firmware to enable the playing of backup discs, you probably want to start actually backing up those expensive games you bought in case they get scratched or perhaps even melted by your toasty 360. And luckily for you, CleverMod has posted just the step-by-step instructions you need for ripping your games and then burning the images onto dual-layer DVDs -- but keep in mind, you're voiding about a million warranties with all of this flashing and ripping and such. Basically, CleverMod's method involves disassembling a DVD drive so that you can switch discs without hitting the eject button, and then installing a program called WxRipper that finds a so-called "magic number" from any regular 8+GB dual-layer DVD. The program then uses that data to unlock a substituted 360 disc and dump a RAW copy onto your hard drive, which can be burned onto a blank disc and presumably played using the Commodore4Eva hack on Toshiba-Samsung drive-sporting 360s. And just to be super clear, if you don't own a copy of the game you're ripping, then you're not allowed to do this (i.e. Blockbuster, GameFly games are off-limits).

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We’ve got more odd creations
and far out gadgets from our leisurely Saturday and
Sunday at the Maker Faire. If you liked round one, check out round two to see more from the Faire and find out
about this robot made from scrounged and garage sale parts. See you next year, Maker Faire!

Do not look at the man behind the curtain.
Marque Cornblatt is at the controls of Sparky 1.0, the bot
pictured above. Sparky 1.0 is a ‘roving self portrait’ , another in a series of art projects by Marque.
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href="http://graffitiresearchlab.com/">Graffiti Research Lab brought their portable lab (AKA matte black school
bus). They used conductive paint to create traces to power LEDs mounted in strategic locations. Pictured is one of
their programmable controllers for cycling the LEDs.

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href="http://www.pacificpuzzleworks.com/">Lee Krasnow showed off his sweet modified table saw he uses to create
precision wood puzzles and boxes.

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If you find the rising cost of gas
alarming, you might consider modding a diesel van to run on vegetable oil like href="http://makezine.com/pub/ev/85">Brandon Woll. His van features his own custom made oil pre-heater dubbed the
"hot potato veg oil heater."

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Now you don’t have to wait for your pictures
to come back to see those red eyes. The light from the LEDs in the goggles built by href="http://rebeccahinden.com/">Rebecca Hinden reflects in others eyes making all your friends look posessed. />

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The rear end of href="http://www.damienstolarz.com/">Damien Stolarz’s MP3car Toyota has just a few aftermarket bits. We couldn’t
pry people out of the inside to grab photos of the passenger area.

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href="http://brainwagon.org/">Mark VandeWettering built his own enigma machine out of his old Atar 2600. He even
put vintage graphics on his ENIGMA MACHINE cartridge.

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This uh, slightly overbilt
reading lamp was covered by hack-a-day recently. It’s
touchpad controlled, network enabled and could probably jack up your car in a pinch.

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