And on this day a fourth large
newspaper's found guilty of CIRCULATION
INFLATION, DIP! has a love-in with a
"diverse" convention of news hacks whose
political conformity will help inspire
more "sales rewards programs" leading to
more CIRCULATION INFLATIO

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Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed

Two little CSS hacks

BSD Hacks

Excel Hacks

Mac Mini Hacks

Developers eye PSP hacks

Gmail Hacks

Lots of Gmail hacks are already showing up. I surely do love programmers that are curious enough to figure out how stuff works to write mini utilities to let us utilize our time more wisely. [G-mailto]

Gaming Hacks

The MIT Gallery of Hacks.

IM hacks way up in first quarter

OCSmart Hacks 1.0

Hacks.O'Reilly.com

Gotta Hack? Got a non-obvious solution to an interesting problem? Throw your hack into the ring and it just might be in a Hacks book-to-be. Not a hacker yourself but have a hack or Hacks book you'd like to see? Suggest it and perhaps it will be so written.

New: O'Reilly's IRC Hacks

New: O'Reilly's PDF Hacks

Firefox Hacks

Firefox Hacks: Coming in March. I ache with anticipation.

Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to maximize the effectiveness of Firefox, the next-generation web browser that is quickly gaining in popularity. This highly-focused book offers all the valuable tips and tools you need to enjoy a superior and safer browsing experience. Learn how to customize its deployment, appearance, features, and functionality.

New: Excel Hacks

Mac OS X Panther Hacks

Wireless Hacks

"Life Hacks"

New: "Panther" Hacks

OCLC Hacks

OCLC is is loosening up and having some fun in a Google Labs kind of way!

OCLC Research Software Contest

“In celebration of libraries and their heritage of technological innovation, OCLC Research is sponsoring a software contest to encourage innovation in the use of web-based services for libraries.

Prize

• $2,500 in cash
• Visit with OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., in Dublin, Ohio
• Potentially have your code incorporated in OCLC services for libraries

The challenge

OCLC is providing a set of bi bliographic records extracted from WorldCat plus a set of services:

• Research Works
• Terminology Services

You may also use Open WorldCat, either by simply incorporating links to publicly accessible records or by enrolling in Open WorldCat's Partner Access program. Contact us if you wish to discuss enrolling in this program for the purposes of this contest.

Your mission is to write a program that does something interesting and innovative with the WorldCat data using at least one of the OCLC-provided services. You must submit a working prototype.

Part of your job is to convince us of why your program is interesting and why it will help libraries and/or library users; other than that, you're free to implement whatever strikes your fancy.”

And they were smart enough to ask Jon Udell to be a judge – good call! I hope we see some really cool stuff come out of this, in more than just a proof-of-concept way. Makes me wish I could actually program. Entries are due by midnight on May 15. If you’re entering, good luck!

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New: Firefox Hacks

PSP Hacks and the Mainstream

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed

Raffi, my young TiVo Jedi friend, good on you, mate! I've learned more about my TiVo over the past month than I'd ever wanted to. Now where'd I put that screwdriver...

The book will be in brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves sometime in August, but you can of course pre-order it from Amazon.

New: Flash Hacks

Google Hacks

Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Tara Calishain & Rael Dornfest

The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling data off the Web. You've got a cadre of techniques up your sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always looking for better ways to search. It's the "hacker" in you: not the troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by trying new ways to get things done. If this is you, then you'll find new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in Google Hacks from O'Reilly's new Hacks Series.

Spidering Hacks

Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content.

Sony PSP Hacks Roundup

Threats, Viruses, and Hacks

Coke Machine Hacks

Update:: Reader Chris Vincent says,

Just thought I'd point out that most of the content on those sites (including the Coke machine article) is verbatim from the Anarchist's Cookbook, a legendary collaborative document that can be found all over the internet. Everything from social engineering to fun explosives to (obviously) Coke machine hacks can be found there.

Another interesting bit of information, this time about Pepsi machines (not from the cookbook, just something I found out about last week):

New Pepsi machines have a "code", a special sequence in which you can push the buttons on the face of the machine, which causes the LED screen to report the number of cans sold and the total cash value. I'm not sure what that code is, and it may be configurable on a per-machine basis. I'm sure somebody out there can shed more light on it than me.

Looks like NEWS HACKS get to run the CIA again