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'Mod' squad hacks away at Xbox
News The hacks just keep on coming for Microsoft's Xbox. Still, the hacks are embarrassing and could potentially pave the way for more piracy, which can move rapidly if conditions become ripe. A second "mod chip", an add-on chip for the console that...
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
MoJ sends out hacks email details on data protection invite
Blog As a result, I now have a full list of email addresses for the hacks who were invited. I find this very ironic. The Ministry of Justice has just sent me an invitation to a press briefing with Information Commissioner Richard Thomas on Thursday.
[July 9, 2008, 13:33]
Daily Mail loses hacks' personal details
Blog Associated Newspapers sent a letter to staff and hacks letting them know that a laptop, stolen last week, contained their names, addresses, bank account numbers and sort codes. The Guardian has reported that the organisation behind the Daily Mail...
[July 7, 2008, 16:40]
OCSmart Hacks
Downloads OCSmart Hacks is a software bundle, which allows all native Cocoa applications, among others: to use tear-off menus to resize windows by any edge or corner to save to HTML from any application which uses the standard OSX text editor object to...
[August 2, 2004, 8:00]
Word Hacks review
Reviews This book includes some of that, but it also includes much more sophisticated hacks. Many of these hacks will work with versions of Word as old as 97, but the book primarily covers only 2000, 2002 and 2003.
[February 17, 2005, 10:30]
101 Microsoft Windows XP Tips, Tweaks, and Hacks You Need to Know
White Papers Keep Windows XP machines running at peak performance with these tips, tweaks and hacks! You'll also find many easy tweaks and hacks to allow you to customize all aspects of Windows XP to suit your needs.
[October 14, 2009, 11:37]
What colour is my trilby? The ethics of hacking by hacks
Blog Three French journalists have been thrown out of the Black Hat conference for sniffing their fellow hacks. Apparently, sitting in the press room, finding people with insecure connections and telling the organisers is Just Not Done.
[August 8, 2008, 15:44]
SQL Hacks: Date Handling
White Papers In many of the hacks described here, the reports are generated using the current date; however, it is usually a simple matter to use a user-specified parameter instead. SQL is capable of handling just about any date calculation.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
What colour is my trilby? The ethics of hacking by hacks
Blog Comment Yes the irony is especially droll, however I find it disturbing that the Black Hat WiFi Gestapo evidently doesn't have a sense of humor. What a bunch of crap. Journalists were able to deduce/detect the open systems and log onto them?
[August 11, 2008, 9:27]
Word Hacks
Member Review Most Word users leave a large amount of its functionality unexplored and unemployed. This book will help you expand your repertoire of word processing skills.
[February 17, 2005, 10:24]
MoJ sends out hacks email details on data protection invite
Blog Comment Hello Tom, I get messages like that way too often! Can someone please take the time to learn how to use Outlook already? It's not like email is a new technology.get with it! Perhaps you should have replied all to send them a "top of the morning" note.
[July 11, 2008, 3:06]
Skype Hacks: Display the Technical Details of a Call
White Papers This feature, on by default in earlier versions of Skype, is now off by default in the current version of Skype. Why Skype disabled this feature is a mystery, as it can provide a wealth of detail about what's happening during a call.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Desktop Hacks: View Word and PDF Files From Within Mutt
White Papers Mutt is an extremely powerful terminal-based email client that supports IMAP, POP, and much more. No graphical email client can come close to the configurability of Mutt. That's why a lot of hard-core Linux users still use Mutt in spite of the...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Use an iPod With Linux
White Papers This paper shows how to use an iPod with Linux. It's aimed at Linux purists - that is, people who don't want to have to use a Mac or Windows - based PC, nor Wine nor Windows software - to get going. The iPod is basically just a FireWire hard disk...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Web hacks using 'evasive' techniques
News Hackers whose malicious code is hosted on websites are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to avoid the code being detected. Once hackers have subverted a website, it is in their interests to minimise the malicious code's window of exposure...
[June 4, 2007, 16:57]
PSP Hacks: Make a Battery Pack for Your PSP
White Papers The transformer in the PSP's AC/DC converter adjusts the regular household voltage down to a whopping five volts, which trickles slowly into the PSP, charging the internal, Sony-supplied battery. Why don't they beef up this voltage into the machine...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
PSP Hacks: Add a JavaScript Keyboard to Your PSP Web Portal
White Papers "Find Yourself a PSP Web Browser" provides an extra dimension that allows even the most novice user the ability to surf the Internet from her PSP. However, getting online is the easy part! Once there, the user quickly discovers that web surfing is...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Visual Studio Hacks: Speed Up Visual Studio
White Papers No one has ever accused Visual Studio of being the fastest application in the world. One particular sore spot is the time it takes to launch a new instance of Visual Studio. If the reader is a frequent user of Visual Studio, this is not news to him.
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Paypal Hacks: Sell Subscriptions to Your Online Content
White Papers If one's web site offers something special that people are willing to pay for, such as access to a technical information database or specialized business-to-business commerce site, one might want to offer subscriptions.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Statistics Hacks: Use Random Selection as Artificial Intelligence
White Papers According to behavioral psychologists, all animals (including humans, otters, and single-celled creatures) learn essentially the same way. Experience presents situations in which choices lead to outcomes.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
