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MAKE: Technology on Your Time Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Frauenfelder
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  23 reviews
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Format: Illustrated
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0596009224
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.381
EAN: 9780596009229
ASIN: 0596009224
Publication Date: February 8, 2005
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Product Description
If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE. This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by our bestselling Hacks series books but with a twist. MAKE is a mook (rhymes with book). We ve combined the excitement, unexpectedness, and visual appeal of a magazine with the permanence and in-depth instructiveness of a how-to book. Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come. Our premier issue, available in February 2005, includes 220 pages packed with tips and tricks, including: - how to create a $14 stabilizer for your video camera with readily available household items
- how to use an ordinary kite to take extraordinary professional quality aerial digital photos
- how to get rid of that tangle of wires by creating your own 5-in-1 network cable
- how to decipher the magnetic stripe on your credit card to find out what your credit card company really knows about you and lots more!
Every quarter, MAKE will contain a unique set of innovative ideas and creations for a variety of new technologies, including mobile devices, in-car computers, web services, digital media, wireless and home networking, and computer hardware. Visit MAKE's web site: make.oreilly.com.
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 Super! (almost...) February 16, 2005
Uncle Marky (Kings Park, NY USA)
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
What's not to love? The 9"x7" book format is much better than the typical magazine size, all the articles are interesting, and almost no fluff.
My only dislikes: The body type is really small, and some of the sidebars are set even smaller. Us older geeks really need a slightly larger font. I'm not a big fan of body copy set in sans-serif either, but can live with it.
I subscribed, PLEASE ship this in a poly bag. The Post Office can to cruel things to a magazine.
 High Quality March 15, 2005
E. Wuehler (Portland, OR)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
While flipping through this "mook" (as it apparently is called), it brought back childhood memories of browsing my Dad's Popular Science (or was it Popular Mechanics?) magazines. I like the smaller, "bookish" form factor as it makes it feel more - well, uhh - like a book. Since this is a magazine, I was curious to see how many ads I was going to have to wade through. I was pleasantly surprised to discover there were hardly any; I hope they keep them to a minimum going forward.
The "how to" articles are very well done, with a great amount of step-by-step information in both visual and written detail. My only problem now is time. Every project looked like so much fun it was disappointing to realize I wouldn't be able to do them all before the next issue would arrive and give me a whole new set of cool projects. =) My personal time management issues aside, Make is high-quality publication, top to bottom.
181 Pages of D.I.Y. Technology February 26, 2005
M. Stafford (New York, NY United States)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
From my BlogSPot site: "The Boy Reviewer"
The fine people at O'Reilly have published another modern masterpiece. Think Wired meets Everything Else: The Missing Manual. My much-anticipated copy of the premier issue of Make arrived in yesterday's mail and I quickly devoured it. On the geek boards, there has been a lot of hype surrounding the launch of this new magazine and the pre-publication praise has been well-deserved. Packed with tons of tips for the tech-savvy hardware hacker as well as projects for the neophyte everyman, the first issue is a true delight. And I'm especially glad that the magazine includes projects for Apple users like myself.
Highlights of the issue include:
- step-by-step instructions for builidng your own Gauss rifle (a poor man's "particle" accelerator)
- a call for building an open-source automobile
- instructions for building a kite-born aerial camera
- hacks for the iPaq, Excel, and Airport Express
- cool iPod tricks
- 10 great Gmail hacks
- tons of other tech and real-world mods for the warranty-voider inside of each of us.
Note to friends: If I don't return your calls for the next few days, it's because I'm busy building a magstripe reader and constructing my kite-cam.
Good going, O'Reilly! I'm looking forward to the next issue the way a five-year old looks forward to Christmas!
a geeky blend of all my favorite mags March 9, 2005
Christopher G. Williams
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I just received the premiere issue of Make Magazine from O'Reilly yesterday. Let me just say this mag is a geek's dream come true. It's not a magazine about coding. Heck, I'm not sure if calling it a magazine is even accurate. It's more of a journal or zine (but with higher production values). A geek quarterly, if you will.
For example... the premiere issue features an article on aerial photography. Not geeky enough for you? Ok, how about aerial photography accomplished by rigging up a camera to a kite? Still not geeky enough? Throw in a homemade mechanism for triggering the shutter from the ground. The best part is, this isn't just an article full of theory. These guys DO this stuff. The article is full of pictures, plans and step by step instructions on how to make it happen.
That's not all... other How-To articles include: making a 5-in-1 network cable, making a magnetic stripe reader, XM Radio hacks, tips and tricks for your IPOD, gmail hacks, IPAQ hacks and a lot more. This puppy is just under 200 pages of D-I-Y technology.
Still not geeky enough? How about an article on how to make your own railgun, using magnets, a ruler and some steel bearings? There's also an article about hacking robotic dogs to sniff out toxic waste. This is geek goodness in all it's glory.
If you like reading 2600 (the hacker quarterly), Maximum PC and Scientific American, roll them all into one and you have Make (but without the attitude of Maximum PC and the leetspeak of 2600). I'm gonna subscribe!
Great fun, low commitment, high interest reading. April 1, 2005
Douglas Rowe (the Columbia Java Users Group, Columbia, SC USA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
When I was 13 (way too many years ago) I rigged a plastic camera I had received from saving bubble gum comics to a kite I got from saving green giant labels. The idea was to take a picture of my house and me from the air. My favorite toys were always built from parts of other toys.
So I was delighted to see this form of aerial photography as the cover article for the newly launched Make magazine. There were some really elegant solutions to problems I dealt with at 13. This magazine is filled with cool little projects any geek would want to play with. Build your own rail gun! That would be way better than the volcano model every other kid is bringing to science fair. The articles bring the science down to the ground where most of us can "get" it. Sometimes the underlying science is ignored altogether in favor of the sheer gee whiz of it all. But everything is fun, even if just to read about.
This is the kind of magazine you'll want to carry around with you to poke your nose in every time you have to wait in line or kill some time. I found that everywhere I went, the magazine created conversation from curious bystanders.
My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that all of the computer projects (only a few) were based on Apple computers. I'm sure both of the people who own Apples have their projects built now and perhaps the editors can get to the rest of us.
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