Page Cage released

Ever got a funny feeling when your password manager popped up offering to save a login that you thought was really, really confidential? Well, you should get it, because this is a sign that the app is able to see everything you’re doing. The developer of this app could get hacked (or the developer of any add-on or extension you’re using, for that matter), and then all your precious logins would be sent to some hacker’s computer without your noticing anything amiss. That is, until you look at your bank account and find that all your life’s savings have been sent to an account in Cayman Islands.

Page Cage is here to help you with that. It won’t work always, but it will work with a number of sites. Read More

Make an octave ukulele

An octave ukulele is a 4-string instrument tuned like a regular ukulele (gCEA, with the g being one octave higher than one would expect), but a whole octave lower. It is still played exactly like a ukulele but it sounds more like a guitar, with pretty deep bass. For those of you who actually want to accompany your singing and don’t want the instrument competing with your voice, yet are too lazy to learn a new instrument and set of chords. In this post, I tell you a simple way to make one starting from a baritone ukulele. Read More

Make a cuatrolele

A what?

Well, there is the ukulele, and then there is the cuatro. So the cuatrolele is their love child. Essentially a ukulele that sounds like a Venezuelan cuatro, but can still play along with other ukuleles. The good news is that building one requires less than one hour of your time, plus a two-dollar budget ($38, starting from scratch). The result is a sweet-sounding instrument that your friends will want to borrow constantly. (Image courtesy of camburpinto.org) Read More