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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]
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]
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]
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]
'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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Windows XP Hacks: Build Your Own Firefox Search Engine
White Papers Take a look at the upper-right corner of the Firefox browser. The user will see a nifty search box called the Search Bar that lets the user search Google by typing in a search term. Better yet, the user doesn't have to settle for searching just...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Web site owner hacks own site
News www.hoffmanbikes.com was cracked and defaced four times last week and marketing director Bryan Baxter -- apparently pushed over the edge -- finally decided to spoof his own company's logo, posting pro-hacking messages on the site's front page.
[October 5, 1999, 11:53]
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]
Skype Hacks: Accelerate Skype Using Your Keyboard
White Papers If a person is proficient with the keyboard, sometimes driving Skype in this way can be easier, and faster, than if the user uses the mouse. Even if the user is not one of these people, this hack will nevertheless help the user speed up some Skype...
[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]
Palm & Treo Hacks: Use Your Treo as a Modem
White Papers If one has signed up for the carrier's wireless data plan, one can get the entire Internet on the Treo. It may not seem like it at times, because the small screen can really constrain the web-browsing experience when compared to, say, the user's...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
PHP Hacks: Access Your iPhoto Pictures With PHP
White Papers Apple is a company known for producing innovative and easy-to-use products. Following on that line, it recently released the iLife suite, which makes it easy to produce and organize rich media. The author was a bit dismayed by his options for...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
PHP Hacks: Create Excel Spreadsheets Dynamically
White Papers Word processing documents aren't the only things one might want to generate dynamically. One also can create spreadsheets dynamically. With the new XML features of Microsoft Office 2004, one can build spreadsheets by simply using XML.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
PHP Hacks: Fix the Double Submit Problem
White Papers The author has a couple of pet peeves when it comes to bad web application design. One of the biggest is the wealth of bad code written to fix "Double submits. How often has the user seen an e-commerce site that implores them, "Do not hit the...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
