Monday, September 25, 2006

Google:Writely

http://www.writely.com. You can write your document and such, and then save it as a word, pdf, etc.. Kinda cool.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Hack: ATM hack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmW_4R81jVU

Ok, this is just stupid, why would make a secret pin to access the atm, especially since they probably could used switches inside the machine instead of some software program to tell what bills are used.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Cool: MMC drive from a floppy connector.

http://uanr.com/sdfloppy/

very simple, just put a spacer in, and everything is nicely done.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Cool: XBox 360 Lap Top

http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_1.htm
A very intersting article with a funny comic. (I think the store is probably Best Buy, they are a bunch of idiots at those stores).

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Hack: wget - unix style

Source: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--mastering-wget-161202.php

"First, create a text file called mp3_sites.txt, and list URLs of your favorite sources of music online one per line (like http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3 or stereogum.com). Be sure to check out my previous feature on how to find free music on the web for more ideas.

Then use the following Wget command to go out and fetch those MP3's:

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i mp3_sites.txt
That Wget recipe recursively downloads only MP3 files linked from the sites listed in mp3_sites.txt that are newer than any you've already downloaded. There are a few other specifications in there - like to not create a new directory for every music file, to ignore robots.txt and to not crawl up to the parent directory of a link. Jeff breaks it all down in his original post.

The great thing about this technique is that once this command is scheduled, you get an ever-rotating jukebox of new music Wget fetches for you while you sleep. With a good set of trusted sources, you'll never have to go looking for new music again - Wget will do all the work for you."

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

How To: Make a M80

Source: http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/13/48/

Here are your materials:
1-3/4" Tubes & Plugs (3/4" ID, 1/8" Wall, 1-3/4" Long)
Flash Powder
"Visco" Safety Fuse (Available at local gun stores, miliary surplus stores, and online)

Pretty much self explantatory afterward.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Interesting: Demographics for websites

Source: http://adlab.microsoft.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx

You can use adCenter technology to predict a customer’s age,
gender, and other demographic information according to his or her
online behavior—that is, from search queries and webpage views.


So you enter a website and get back predicted demographics. So on this blog, I get .55 males, .45 females, about 47% of my visitors are 24 and under, mostly under 18. Hmmm, am I that kid-ish?

Interesting, if you look up google, you get 1.0 females, 0.0 males.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Interesting: Fake ID Generator

Source: http://dev.allredtech.com/fakename/

Interesting, this thing makes a fake first and last name with an address, phone number, maiden name, and birthday. Here is an example of one:

Horacio Mcalister
772 Ash Street
Pacifica, CA 94044

Phone: 650-355-6003
Mother's maiden name: Fiducia
Birthday: February 5, 1981

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Interesting: Make Notepad confuse...

Source: http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1

This is interesting, notepad has trouble with this.

Here's how to do it:
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.


I guess some people also get simplified chinese characters instead of blocks.