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Beautiful Case Modding
Miles S.F. writes "Thought you guys might appreciate this little project I've been working on.
This is what happens when the left and right brain get bored and start talking with each other." Excellent case mods, entertaining reading, good ideas, and a solid site design. Worth a read if only to see the case modded to include a furby.
Case modding is slowly becoming more mainstream. While trawling the TV at an ungodly hour last week, I saw an ad for a PC ("Tomorrows technology today" was the catchline, which was funny, given the fact they were using an old ATI Radeon in it...). The side of the case was carved out, had plexiglass fitted, and had neon lights inside. WAY cool looking machine.
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars. More and more people are customising their systems to add some individuality, which is hardly surprising given the prevalence of beige...
Seriously, why does every case design done like this have to have a window and neon? I mean seriously guys, it has been done.
How about a wood case? How about a leather clad case to match your wife's purse? How about a faux fur case? How about a carpet case to match your floor? How about a Shoji-Screen type case? How about a pyramid case? A dice-colored case?
Or how about a case that doesn't slowly cook their users by emitting massive unshielded electromagnetic radiation?
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
But seriously, I think Slashdot submitters should make sure the linked information is on the web. Flash doesn't count.
A tip for Mozilla users:
-- or wherever your plugin directory is. It works with other Mozilla-based browsers such as Phoenix and Galeon. It stops the browser asking if you want to get Flash every time you load a page with a flash file on it. You will get just one more annoying pop-up, on which you can tell it to stop bothering you about plugins.
You can use a special separate instance of Mozilla for when you want to use plugins. It's much less trouble than dealing with them all the time when you're just trying to browse the web.
This Guy!
Opening up your monitor should always come with some sort of DEATH IS EMMINANT warning. And running your power supply with the cover off? What the? Especially with little kids around, sheesh.
On a more intelligent note, does anyone have any background or experience with removing the shielding on cases? I remember visiting an engineering firm where they field tested new electronic devices to see if they met FCC requirements for emissions - they noted that they have tested computer equipment and cases before, although they mainly stick to car radios and whatnot, and that they have rejected many test subjects. Most case mods involve some sort of window that I would tend to think would cause interference with adjacent electronic devices. Any thoughts on this, or anyone know of problems setting modded cases next to your monitor/speakers/TV/entertainment equipment? Perhaps all the other devices' shielding is enough to protect it.