The iRobot Roomba 560 can be controlled by IR (infrared)! iRobot have the iRobot 80401 Wireless Command Center for Roomba 500 Series. But if you have a PSP lying around, you can control the Roomba 560 using it!

You will need to install “iR Shell” before you can use the codes below. Enjoy chasing your furballs with it! Oops.

Download iRobot Roomba 560 IR codes for iR Shell

The change in the location of hard disk mounting point in the DNS-320 broke fonz’s fun_plug. fonz’s fun_plug was created to run on earlier D-Link NAS (DNS-313, DNS-323, DNS-343) whose Volume_1 was mounted at /mnt/HD_a2. In DNS-320′s case, Volume_1 was actually mounted on /mnt/HD/HD_a2.

This change in mounting point also broke some of the packages created earlier as rely on /mnt/HD_a2 for storage. Transmission Bittorrent client (transmissionbt) is one of the packages that won’t run on the DNS-320 out of the box.

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Tried my luck (again) at compiling MLDonkey 3.0.4. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7). This should be the last time I will be compiling MLDonkey for the D-Link NAS. If there are any issues with the package. Do inform me.

1. mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
2. mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
3. mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
4. mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
5. mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
6. mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect

Didn’t realized MLDonkey 3.0.2 has been released until I saw Marcos comment. Tried my luck at compiling this release. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7). If there are any issues with the package. Do inform me.

1. mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
2. mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
3. mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
4. mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
5. mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
6. mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect

CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) has finally been ported to the Canon S90! CHDK extends the functionality of the camera like allowing you to control your camera remotely through USB! Not only that, you can create scripts to invoke the camera functionality.

One of the cool feature. It overwrites the shutter speed! The Canon S90 allows exposure time up to 15 secs. With CHDK, you can open the shutter way longer than 15 seconds! No bulb mode though. Time to get ND filters!

Installation is easy, download the BOOTDISK.BIN and PS.FI2 for your camera and firmware version. Load it into the root of your SD Card.

To start CHDK, start the camera in Playback mode. Hit the menu button and select update firmware. Confirm the update and the camera will reboot with the CHDK firmware.

Don’t worry, it doesn’t update the camera firmware, it simply loads the CHDK off the SD Card. CHDK is unloaded when your camera is rebooted.

Check out the CHDK website. While you are at it, check out the Canon S90 CHDK port forum thread.

My iPod Touch and iPhone used to be on 2.0 firmware and it works great with my third party video out cable which I got for 10 bucks online. The video cable ceased to work after I upgraded to 3.0 and subsequently 3.1.2 as it keeps prompting “This accessory is not made to work with iPhone” whenever I try to play a video file.

Good news if your iPod Touch or iPhone is jailbroken – a patched iapd file solves the problem. Backup-ed the original iapd file in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support. Put in the patched iapd, set its permission to 755 and reboot. Viola! Cheap 3rd party cable is working again!