Author: vanevery

I can’t wait for the hacks

Apple – iPod Photo

Here is what I think is missing:
Bluetooth for getting images from your phone or sending to others (phones or iPods)
A mechanism for downloading photos from your camera
QuickTime Capture (from an external camera via Firewire or USB), QuickTime Playback and anything else related to QuickTime.

(How fast can it change between images, can video be simulated?)

Wouldn’t it be nice to plug in your iSight and record a video…

Hacks for the Linksys WRT54G wireless router

Portless Networks
The other day I put this hacked firmware on a spare router. It was fun to look at the additional capabilities that are offered (such as SSH) but what I would really like to do is be able to modify one of these and put a very light weight streaming server on it. Unfortunately, you need a solid Linux box setup (I have to get to work on that one) to build a new firmware image.

Oh yeah, what is MORE interesting (to me at least) is that Linksys has made available the firmware for their wireless cameras as well (also Linux based). Looking through the firmware image for the WVC11B I was able to confirm my suspicion that in fact they do not offer a true MPEG-4 solution, rather it appears as though they *may* be using an MPEG-4 codec but wrapping it in an ASF file (hence the reason you need the stoooopid active x control to view the stream).

In any case, it is one of my missions to hack a true MPEG-4 solution onto one of these. How cool would that be!