Bolster the power of your PC - and have slightly evil fun while doing it! Here is an illustrated step-by-step guide to 25 of the most innovative and fun tweaks, mods, and custom builds you can do to convert your simple home computer into a PC dream machine. Following the popular Evil Genius format, each project includes a detailed list of materials, tools, schematics, and plenty of clear, well-illustrated assembly instructions.

Jim Aspinwall (Campbell, CA) has been the Windows Helpdesk columnist and feature editor for CNET.COM and author of three books on PC maintenance. His articles have been the feature of two recent covers of PC Magazine ? March and August, 2005. Jim is also an amateur radio operator, electronics technician and OSHA certified tower climber, maintaining radio transmission sites in northern California. He is the author of Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks (McGraw-Hill, 2003), as well as PC Hacks (O?Reilly, 2005), IRQ, DMA, and I/O (MIS:Press, 1995) and several editions of Troubleshooting Your PC (MIS:Press, 1994).

UNIQUE YOUR PC WITH SUPER TWEAKS!

If you yearn for the coolest, most crazed ’puter around, PC Mods for the Evil Genius is the key to the kingdom! This book shows you how to supercharge your PC-and create a jaw-dropping system that cannot be purchased off any shelf, anywhere!

You get complete, easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and lists of parts and tools, so you know what’s needed before you begin. PC Mods for the Evil Genius gives you:

• Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing projects presented in sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers
• Loads of projects simple enough for beginners-but intense enough to impress even your most savvy friends
• Tips to add high-end features easily and economically
• Frustration-factor removal-needed parts and tools are listed, along with sources-and how to get everything you need at the cheapest prices possible

TRANSFORM YOUR COMPUTER FROM AN ORDINARY CRUISER INTO A PC MUSCLE CAR!

PC Mods for the Evil Genius equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for projects that let you:

• Jazz up your PC with a right-now case, custom lights, and other cool options
• Transform your PC into a TV
• Add TiVo capabilities and create your own PVR (personal video recorder)
• Archive your private videos
• Create mobile entertainment and navigation systems
• Let your friends and family track your travels with Google Earth
• Check and share your local weather conditions
• Make your ’puter help detect alien lifeforms in space
• Link you PC to a supercomputer chain unraveling the mysteries of DNA
• Phone almost anyone, anywhere in the world and talk to them live with your PC (and no phone charges)
• Put a live video feed of yourself (or anything else) onto the Web 24 hours a day
• Secure your PC biometrically
• Keep intruders out of your I/O ports
• And much, much more!

Bolster the power of your PC --- and have slightly evil fun while doing it!

Here is an illustrated step-by-step guide to 25 of the most innovative and fun tweaks, mods, and custom builds you can do to convert your simple home computer into a PC dream machine. Following the popular Evil Genius format, each project includes a detailed list of materials, tools, schematics, and plenty of clear, well-illustrated assembly instructions.

An illustrated, step-by-step guide to the most impressive tweaks, mods,
custom builds and fun creations you can do to bolster your PC.

UNIQUE YOUR PC WITH SUPER TWEAKS!

If you yearn for the coolest, most crazed ’puter around, PC Mods for the
Evil Genius is the key to the kingdom! This book shows you how to
supercharge your PC-and create a jaw-dropping system that cannot be
purchased off any shelf, anywhere!

You get complete, easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and
lists of parts and tools, so you know what’s needed before you begin. PC
Mods for the Evil Genius gives you:

Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing projects presented in
sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers
Loads of projects simple enough for beginners-but intense enough to impress
even your most savvy friends
Tips to add high-end features easily and economically
Frustration-factor removal-needed parts and tools are listed, along with
sources-and how to get everything you need at the cheapest prices possible
TRANSFORM YOUR COMPUTER FROM AN ORDINARY CRUISER INTO A PC MUSCLE CAR!

PC Mods for the Evil Genius equips you with complete plans, instructions,
parts lists, and sources for projects that let you:

Jazz up your PC with a right-now case, custom lights, and other cool
options
Transform your PC into a TV
Add TiVo capabilities and create your own PVR (personal video recorder)
Archive your private videos
Create mobile entertainment and navigation systems
Let your friends and family track your travels with Google Earth
Check and share your local weather conditions
Make your ’puter help detect alien lifeforms in space
Link you PC to a supercomputer chain unraveling the mysteries of DNA
Phone almost anyone, anywhere in the world and talk to them live with your
PC (and no phone charges)
Put a live video feed of yourself (or anything else) onto the Web 24 hours
a day
Secure your PC biometrically
Keep intruders out of your I/O ports
And much, much more!

UNIQUE YOUR PC WITH SUPER TWEAKS!

If you yearn for the coolest, most crazed ’puter around, PC Mods for the Evil Genius is the key to the kingdom! This book shows you how to supercharge your PC-and create a jaw-dropping system that cannot be purchased off any shelf, anywhere!

You get complete, easy-to-follow plans, clear diagrams and schematics, and lists of parts and tools, so you know what’s needed before you begin. PC Mods for the Evil Genius gives you:

• Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing projects presented in sufficient detail to be built even by newcomers
• Loads of projects simple enough for beginners-but intense enough to impress even your most savvy friends
• Tips to add high-end features easily and economically
• Frustration-factor removal-needed parts and tools are listed, along with sources-and how to get everything you need at the cheapest prices possible

TRANSFORM YOUR COMPUTER FROM AN ORDINARY CRUISER INTO A PC MUSCLE CAR!

PC Mods for the Evil Genius equips you with complete plans, instructions, parts lists, and sources for projects that let you:

• Jazz up your PC with a right-now case, custom lights, and other cool options
• Transform your PC into a TV
• Add TiVo capabilities and create your own PVR (personal video recorder)
• Archive your private videos
• Create mobile entertainment and navigation systems
• Let your friends and family track your travels with Google Earth
• Check and share your local weather conditions
• Make your ’puter help detect alien lifeforms in space
• Link you PC to a supercomputer chain unraveling the mysteries of DNA
• Phone almost anyone, anywhere in the world and talk to them live with your PC (and no phone charges)
• Put a live video feed of yourself (or anything else) onto the Web 24 hours a day
• Secure your PC biometrically
• Keep intruders out of your I/O ports
• And much, much more!

• Audience includes computer hobbyists, electronics fans, and students in need of science fair and class projects
• Projects include PC-TVs, PC-phones, dual monitors, a PC-PVR (like TiVo for the computer), boom boxes, dual-head voice cards, searching for alien signals, unravelling DNA, and Yahoo and MSN voice services