"The secret finger trick"
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Digital camera silliness: secret finger
trick
Digital camera silliness: secret finger
trick
04/21/2004 12:47 PM
This page has dozens of photos like the one shown here. Safe
for work, but if your boss catches you checking it out, you'll have to
let her/him in on the secret.
Link (via horkulated)A one-trick pony that does the trick
well
A one-trick pony that does the trick
well
06/02/2004 03:44 AMConvergence is something we talk about in this space from time to time
and today is one of those times. But it's not convergence of protocols
and standards that I want to mention today. Instead, it's a
convergence of two of the concepts that intrigue me as they offer a
very good ration of reward to risk when combined.
A secret that stayed secret in the place
where no one can keep a secret
A secret that stayed secret in the place
where no one can keep a secret
02/07/2005 01:37 AM
We may soon know
the identity of Deep Throat. It seems that Bob Woodward has penned
the obituary of the elusive Deep Throat. There have been
no lack of theories for who might actually be Deep
Throat. And of course, any political
conspiracy
theory secret wouldn't be any fun without
tying it back
to Bush somehow.
Feds defend secret law with secret brief
Feds defend secret law with secret brief
09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Bill sez, "The Justice Department continues to demand the right to
file a secret brief in Gilmore vs. Ashcroft, a case that involves
secret law. In response to a September 10th ruling by the 9th Circuit
US Court of Appeals that rejected DOJ's attempt to file their
arguments in secret, the DOJ filed a motion asking the Court to
reconsider its decision."
Link
(
Thanks, Bill!)
Refresh trick
Refresh trick
03/12/2003 12:38 PMIf you, like me, have stopped using the pop-up comment windows but
Google is still pointing people to them (like so: FedEx sucks) then
add the following to your Comment Listing Template: <meta
http-equiv=”refresh”
content=”0;<MTEntryPermalink>”> Have fun....
Neat trick, Ole
Neat trick, Ole
04/09/2004 04:03 PMProps to Ole for finding a really neat way to access his
mobile’s filesystem .. It’s a shame it doesn’t...
Motorola's Hat Trick
Motorola's Hat Trick
05/08/2004 06:26 AMForbes May 8 2004 10:20AM GMT
A Nifty Trick
A Nifty Trick
10/28/2003 11:08 PMI have a nifty trick I wanted to share, since I think Web designers
might find it useful when making reductions of bugs to send to browser
developers. Basically I had this bug I was working on where content
would sometimes shift too far to the right in Safari (don't worry,
this bug isn't in 1.0). The bug was timing-related, and it only
occurred intermittently when you reloaded the page.
The bug would only happen if layout occurred at a particular time,
and usually this happened when a script was stalled loading long
enough for the browser to decide it needed to show the user what it
had so far.
If a script stalls, it's blocking the parsing of the rest of the
content, so if a layout does occur, you're basically guaranteed that
you're going to lay out the content of the page exactly up to the
opening script tag and no more.
The bug in question would only happen if Safari had to do a layout
before the script had loaded. Maciej (the JS guru on our team) came
up with a clever idea: instead of pointing the script at an external
resource, just make the script do something that would force a
synchronous layout. Then you could basically construct test cases
that made layout happen at precise chokepoints that you set up
yourself! How cool is that?
A trick that works with both Safari and Mozilla is to try to access
a property like offsetHeight, so here's an example:
<script>var v =
document.body.offsetHeight;</script>
The layout engine basically has to lay out in order to give you a
decent answer, so the handy little snippet above can be inserted
anywhere in a document to force the layout of a page up to that
point!
Armed with this trick I was able to easily fix the bug, since I now
had a test case that demonstrated the problem 100% of the time.
Thanks, Maciej!
Clever Vendor Trick No. 17
Clever Vendor Trick No. 17
04/09/2004 11:43 PMShark Tank: This software company has just sold its very pricey
software to a bank, and as tech pilot fish heads out to install it,
his boss reminds him, "Try to distract them when you load the software
off the two floppy disks." ...
Copperfield's Card Trick
Copperfield's Card Trick
12/15/2003 05:42 PM Copperfield's Card
Trick
Pick a card without clicking it or selecting it and the image of David
Copperfield will remove that card from the six cards.
How does this work? I've tried it four or five times and it gets it
right everytime.
Sony's Cheap Trick
Sony's Cheap Trick
09/03/2004 02:48 PMThe electronics giant is making overtures to discounters.
RollerMouse: A better mouse trick
RollerMouse: A better mouse trick
02/10/2004 02:48 AMI type so much that I developed tendinitis in my elbow some years ago.
Ever since then I've been keenly aware of ergonomics for my office.
Contour Design's $190 RollerMouse, a new pointing device par
excellence, quickly let me ignore my old mouse and keep my hands
centered on the keyboard, where they are far more comfortable.
"Fullerton Road Trick"
"Fullerton Road Trick"
09/02/2004 10:09 AMA poem.
XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick
XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick
08/07/2002 06:32 PMKendall Clark looks at the first draft of XHTML 2.0, which makes some
interesting and major changes to the current HTML language.
XHTML 2.0: The latest trick (XML.com)
XHTML 2.0: The latest trick (XML.com)
08/08/2002 11:58 AMCyberNeko Tools for XNI: XML trick bag
CyberNeko Tools for XNI: XML trick bag
08/27/2002 06:47 AMCyberNeko Tools for XNI (NekoXNI)
is an open-source XNI-based suite
that includes an experimental pull parser, a framework for
automating batch XML transformations, and tools that
enable standard XML APIs to be used to access information in HTML
documents and DTDs.
Chiron: No One-Trick Biotech
Chiron: No One-Trick Biotech
11/12/2003 04:27 PMBusiness Week Nov 12 2003 2:43PM ET
DVD Jon Pulled Off Old Trick with iTunes
(NewsFactor)
DVD Jon Pulled Off Old Trick with iTunes
(NewsFactor)
03/22/2005 03:15 PMNewsFactor - Despite the froth and fury being generated in the press
about the breaching of iTunes' song locks by the infamous hacker DVD
Jon, the "accomplishment" really is nothing new.
Papa's Sneaky Pizza Trick
Papa's Sneaky Pizza Trick
04/08/2005 03:41 PMPapa John's builds another quarter of strong sales and upstages
Domino's on "The Apprentice."
Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick
Atlantis' Dividend Magic Trick
03/28/2005 01:30 PMThe plastics maker is offering a huge payout, but it's financed with
debt.
Simple PWM Trick with Linux/RTAI
Simple PWM Trick with Linux/RTAI
12/07/2003 12:49 PMThe December issue of Linux
Gazette includes a short article by Pramode C.E demonstrating how to
use Pulse
Width Modulation directly from the parallel port with Linux/RTAI
systems. RTAI is
a commonly used set of kernel patches that give Linux real time
capabilities. The article includes source code that demonstrates PWM
by modulating an LED. This story seems the perfect way to follow
yesterday's story on the growing use of Linux in robotics.
Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Trick
Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Trick
09/07/2004 10:25 AMHere's a tip for using a Windows PC to expand the capabilities of
Apple's SuperDrive.
A simple iTunes rating trick
A simple iTunes rating trick
08/27/2004 01:38 PMThis is a very simple hint, but maybe useful to any of you like me. I
have almost 1,500 unrated songs in my 8,000 song iTunes library.
Because many of these songs are not my *absolute* favorites, I have
never gotten round to ...
Notes and Tips: QuickTime Trick
Notes and Tips: QuickTime Trick
09/02/2004 10:30 AMShift-click the volume control for extra amplitude in QuickTime.
Shark Tank: Never reveal how the trick
is done
Shark Tank: Never reveal how the trick
is done
09/01/2004 11:11 PMThis pilot fish signs on to support the minicomputers at a paper mill
and is told that the biggest problem will be maintaining several
printers scattered throughout the plant -- not the computers, which
have never caused a problem.
Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick
Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick
04/18/2004 01:43 PMRain ruins the red carpet as the Bafta TV awards, which Ricky Gervais
could dominate for a third time, begin.
Here's a Nice Mozilla / Phoenix Trick:
Just One
Here's a Nice Mozilla / Phoenix Trick:
Just One
12/18/2002 07:04 AMHere's a Nice Mozilla / Phoenix Trick: Just One
Here's a nice trick for web developers. Its not rocket science at all
but its certainly helpful. All (well at least folks like me) of us
have too many browsers open. This makes it hard to know which browser
is open to a Blog, which browser is open to Slashdot and which one has
the web application you're working on. What I do is save Internet
Explorer for blogging and content I'm reading / researching, Mozilla
for development tools like PhpMyAdmin and Phoenix for what I'm
testing. This makes my ALT+TAB switching between windows very easy --
I just look for that one icon for what I'm testing or the tool I need
instead of trying to "Step right up. Pick an Internet Explorer icon
and you have a 1 in 10 shot of getting the right one". (Replace 10 w/
the average number of IE windows you have).
Note: This could also be very useful on OS-X where the implementation
of ALT+TAB is brain damaged. At least brain damaged in my opinion. I
suspect Jeremy who has vented on this same topic would like this
trick. Just three browsers and you can always ALT+TAB directly to at
least one or two of them.
A shell/AppleScript interaction trick
A shell/AppleScript interaction trick
06/18/2004 04:15 PMIn unix, most scripting languages accept line-initial # as a comment
marker. This allows the file-inital shebang sequence (#!) to be used
to automatically exec the interpreter on a script. I wanted this
functionality for A...
Handy trick for the rest of your life
Handy trick for the rest of your life
05/12/2004 07:05 AMIf you’re anything like me, a clean t-shirt looks more like a
ball than a piece of clothing after you’ve...
Quantum trick may multiply CD capacity
Quantum trick may multiply CD capacity
05/13/2004 09:40 AMHow Houdini's escape trick worked
How Houdini's escape trick worked
06/06/2004 10:16 PM
The secret of Harry Houdini's signature "Metamorphosis"
escape trick is
out of the bag. Do not visit that page if you don't
want to know how he did it.
Tennis: Serena targets hat-trick
Tennis: Serena targets hat-trick
07/03/2004 12:44 AMSerena Williams says it will be the "most special moment" if she beats
Maria Sharapova in Saturday's final.
Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet....
Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet....
10/31/2003 06:21 PMI'm sitting on the doorstep handing out treats to trick or
treaters. I'm dressed up as a computer geek with my laptop playing
Halloween songs from Rhapsody
over my wireless network.
Well, okay, I'm not really dressed up... it's my everyday outfit,
but I'm still running with it. It's a shifted holiday at my house!
Oh, and the Laughing
Librarian just came by my house with his daughter. He's dressed in
a safari outfit with a giant snake wrapped around his body.
Awesome!
Other News: Modem-Dial Trick
Other News: Modem-Dial Trick
08/31/2004 06:12 AMThe FTC warns about sneaky software that makes trick modem calls and
sticks you with the charges.
Dell unveils hat trick of products
Dell unveils hat trick of products
09/01/2004 01:33 PMThe PC maker is gearing up for the fall with new printers, TVs and a
spiced-up desktop.
Christie single scores hat-trick
Christie single scores hat-trick
04/04/2005 03:56 AMCrooner Tony Christie notches up three weeks at number one in the UK
singles chart with (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.
Is That Your Finger in Your Ear, or...
Is That Your Finger in Your Ear, or...
12/11/2003 04:57 PM
I've long remembered something about a wrist-phone with mic hidden in
the wristband and thumb as earphone, allowing you to talk on the phone
simply by making the international sign for "I'll call you."
Unfortunately I never blogged it and soon lost track of the link.
Thankfully, it appears to have returned, albeit a finger, not a thumb,
in your ear.
Yahoo!
News reports that NTT DoCoMo's Masaaki Fukumoto is developing the
idea. Similar to the "bone phone" idea back in the 70s or 80s, sound
travels as vibrations through the bones to the finger, into the ear,
where the eardrum converts them back into sound. And as if that
weren't juicy enough, "by touching forefinger to thumb, the user
starts or ends a call, and uses voice recognition technology to dial
the number."
You _know_ I want one...
Spammers Use Spyware To Trick You Into
Opening Spam
Spammers Use Spyware To Trick You Into
Opening Spam
06/22/2004 12:09 PMThe war over spam keeps escalating, and it's pretty obvious that the
spammers have been winning in many cases. Once they figured out how
to get Trojans onto computer, creating their own virtual spamming
super computer, spammers have
adopted
this method for most of the spam they send out. However, they're
now adopting another net.annoyance to piss everyone off. They're
usi
ng spyware to get personal details about you that they can then
use to get you to open their spam messages. In other words, they're
doing some keylogging, not necessarily to get your credit card and
bank account info (not that they wouldn't mind that info, of course),
but to put the name of your children or your dog into the subject
line, making it
much more likely that you'll open the spam
message. Of course, it seems they didn't consider the next step,
which is that it also makes it
much less likely that someone
will actually buy. By tricking them into opening such a message,
spammers will tend to both creep people out and piss them off. That's
usually not the best sales combination.
Home Office up for Internet Villain
hat-trick
Home Office up for Internet Villain
hat-trick
12/23/2003 07:20 AMZDNet UK Dec 23 2003 6:52AM ET
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