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Comments from all over (Virtual Kindle Style)

July 3, 2009

When the blog was the only out­let for typed thoughts and shared com­ments, every­thing got posted here (or, tech­ni­call, over at Live­Jour­nal, as that was my blog long, long before I moved it here.) Now that we have Twit­ter and Face­book and what­not, those thoughts get scat­tered through­out the inter­nets.  In an effort to […]

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Forcing iTunes to automatically download TV shows (or, the magic of crontab)

January 29, 2009

In the past two weeks, I have expe­ri­enced noth­ing but heart­break and let­down with regard to Bit­Tor­rent.  Most things I down­load, I am per­fectly con­tent with access­ing them a day or two later, but LOST is my big show.  I have to watch it that very night.  When it comes to LOST, I had grown […]

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Heat map of election hackability

October 20, 2008

The web­site “dvice” has a nice click­able map of the states and what sort of vot­ing equip­ment they use–and con­se­quently how prone to hack­ing and soft­ware bugs they all are.  Click a state to see what kind of equip­ment each dis­trict uses and a lit­tle more detail on the systems.

I have to say that I […]

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IntelliScreen

May 14, 2008

Holy cats, Intel­liS­creen is the coolest iPhone hack since… um… sliced bread?

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A list of +/- with standard deviation

October 18, 2007

Earlier this week, I was in a con­stant cranky mood.  This is mainly because of an ill-timed mus­cle knot­ting in my neck.  I guess I slept funny on Sun­day and tweaked those ropy mus­cles at the base of the skull.  Today, I am feel­ing almost com­pletely bet­ter.  The real kick in the pants was this […]

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iPhone hacking: not good, not bad

September 11, 2007

I’m sure many of you have seen this, but Apple’s head mar­ket­ing guy says Apple is stay­ing neu­tral on iPhone hacks.  Apple doesn’t hate the fact that peo­ple are writ­ing 3rd party apps for the phone, but they’re also not directly sup­port­ing it.  They won’t make firmware updates specif­i­cally to break people’s native apps, but […]

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Hacking the iPhone

August 21, 2007

Apple released some new iPhone firmware today.  For­tu­nately, they left in all of the loop­holes for hack­ing your own apps into it.  The last time I hacked my phone, it took about half a day.  This time, it took about 13 min­utes (10 of which were wait­ing for some­thing to down­load.) This is all […]

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Wing of Bat, Skin of Mole

December 4, 2005

Make Mag­a­zine points to some really inter­est­ing Mole­skin note­book hacks.  I'm not sure how use­ful the “pen­cil sharp­ener” would be in the real world, but it might be worth a try.

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Comedy is…

February 25, 2003

Windows 2000 (and other ver­sions) ships with a ser­vice installed and run­ning called Win­Popup (well, tech­ni­cally it is called “Mes­sen­ger” in the reg­istry, but let's not con­fuse it with the Microsoft Mes­sen­ger appli­ca­tion).  It allows the admin­is­tra­tor to pop up mes­sages on people's com­put­ers like “the net­work is going offline in 10 min­utes.”  A dialog […]

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