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Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed

Mac OS X Hacks Put to Bed 03/11/2003 11:41 PM
Mac OS X Hacks was just sent to the printer, which means it'll be appearing in online bookstores and on your local brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves in a couple-three weeks. Whew!

BSD Hacks

BSD Hacks 07/27/2004 02:44 PM

Two little CSS hacks

Two little CSS hacks 03/11/2003 10:46 AM
Workarounds to vertically align nested blocks and to emulate the CSS's min-height property in MSIE.

Firefox Hacks

Firefox Hacks 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

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.

OCLC Hacks

OCLC Hacks 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

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!

New: Firefox Hacks

New: Firefox Hacks 03/30/2005 11:47 AM
O'Reilly released Firefox Hacks, which includes coverage of migration from Internet Explorer, anonymous browsing, increasing security, creation of tags and widgets, and more.

Mac Mini Hacks

Mac Mini Hacks 03/19/2005 02:07 AM
The Mac Mini is opened with a Putty knife as instructed by Apple however this method is leaving peoples Mac Mini in damaged conditions in many cases including scratches, seperation gaps and other...

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IM hacks way up in first quarter

IM hacks way up in first quarter 03/23/2005 12:56 PM
The number of combined IM- and Web-based attacks increased by 300 percent in the first quarter, Websense says.

"Life Hacks"

"Life Hacks" 03/30/2005 05:17 PM

Google Hacks

Google Hacks 03/30/2005 05:47 PM

New: Excel Hacks

New: Excel Hacks 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
O'Reilly's Excel Hacks offers 100 tips and techniques that include hacking pivot tables, designing charts beyond the basic types, specifying dynamic ranges, using XML, and more.

Excel Hacks

Excel Hacks 05/06/2004 06:58 PM
for all you dorks who were geeking out in the Excel Pile thread

New: "Panther" Hacks

New: "Panther" Hacks 07/16/2004 09:59 AM
O'Reilly's latest "hack" book digs down into Mac OS X "Panther" internals.

New: O'Reilly's PDF Hacks

New: O'Reilly's PDF Hacks 09/16/2004 09:41 AM
O'Reilly's PDF Hacks by Sid Steward shows how to use a variety of PDF tools--not just Acrobat--to create, rearrange, customize, and present information as PDF.

phpAdsNew Hacks

phpAdsNew Hacks 08/16/2004 10:15 PM
phpAdsNew 2.0.2 CVS 2004-08-16 Released

Gmail Hacks

Gmail Hacks 06/26/2004 07:45 AM

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]

Looks like NEWS HACKS get to run the CIA
again

Looks like NEWS HACKS get to run the CIA
again 06/27/2004 05:58 PM
CIA Puts Harsh Tactics On Hold .. Washington Post report .. information

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Mac OS X Panther Hacks

Mac OS X Panther Hacks 08/11/2004 06:15 AM
I finally got round to reading my copy of the wonderful O'Reilly Mac OS X Panther Hacks book, which, like all of the hacks books, is clever, informative, well-organised and useful; this one has the additional merit of having been co-written by my pal Rael Dornfest, who edits the line, and is witty, silly and very imaginative indeed. The hacks assembled in the text range from surprising things you can do with iTunes and iCal to hacking AppleScript to making OS X cooperate with perl and Python, but my favorite of all is the iOscillate: an iSight camera mounted to the top of a de-bladed oscillating desk-fan, so that the fan sweeps the iSight back and forth in a steady, 180-degree arc, covering all those seated around a table or in a conference. The hack is truly worthy of the appellation "hack" -- it's ingenious, funny, and actually useful in a seriously bent way. Link

New: Flash Hacks

New: Flash Hacks 07/13/2004 10:03 AM
O'Reilly's Flash Hacks, written by Sham Bhangal, contains 100 tools, tricks, and techniques for Flash, including scripted and timeline-based visual effects, page turning animation, and more.

The MIT Gallery of Hacks.

The MIT Gallery of Hacks. 01/04/2004 05:52 PM
The MIT Gallery of Hacks. Good-natured creative pranks by MIT students. The pinnacle was possibly 1999's Great Droid, with the Great Dome made to resemble R2D2's head to mark the release of some film or other at the time. In the spirit of the tradition, students left detailed instructions for the safe removal of the decoration.

Developers eye PSP hacks

Developers eye PSP hacks 04/05/2005 05:24 PM
Blog: Keep your multiplayer racing games and widescreen movies. For some people, Sony's PlayStation Portable won't be really cool...

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
My month of a thousand hacks ended this morning as I put TiVo Hacks to bed (read: sent it to production).

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.

Wireless Hacks

Wireless Hacks 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

New: O'Reilly's IRC Hacks

New: O'Reilly's IRC Hacks 09/07/2004 10:25 AM
IRC Hacks, by Paul Mutton, starts with the basics of IRC clients, then delves into the protocols and services beneath the surface, and culminates with building autonomous IRC clients.

Gaming Hacks

Gaming Hacks 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

Spidering Hacks

Spidering Hacks 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
The latest book in the O'Reilly Hacks series, "Spidering Hacks," (written by Kevin "Morbus Iff" Hemenway and Tara "ResearchBuzz" Calishain) is out. It's the site-scraper's bible, with 100 tips and tricks for sucking in data from the Web.

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.

LInk (via Ben Hammersley)

Hacks.O'Reilly.com

Hacks.O'Reilly.com 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
The full-blown version of O'Reilly's Hacks Series site is now up at hacks.oreilly.com. In addition to info about the current crop of books (Linux Server, Google, Mac OS X), there are listings of published hacks, some complete hacks, and each has its own discussion forum.

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.

PSP Hacks and the Mainstream

PSP Hacks and the Mainstream 04/07/2005 01:03 PM

EU data mining hacks available for U.S.

EU data mining hacks available for U.S. 09/04/2004 06:57 AM

NetNewsWire Display Hacks

NetNewsWire Display Hacks 09/23/2004 07:41 PM
In the full version of NetNewsWire 2.0 are a couple display hacks. One is document ed by Jon Hicks. Another is a hack to add indenting to the datelines and summaries display in the headlines table.

We added the ability to show datelines in the headlines table mainly for the benefit of people using the widescreen layout. (Choose View > Layout > Show Datelines in Table.) This removes the columns and puts a dateline below each title. (Thanks go to Alex King for suggesting this feature.)

There is no exposed preference for adding indenting to the datelines—but you can add it manually via the Terminal.

1. Quit NetNewsWire if it’s running.
2. Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
3. Type the below and hit return.
   defaults write com.ranchero.NetNewsWire summaryTableIndentPixels 15
   (Make the number the number of pixels you want to indent.)
4. Launch NetNewsWire. (Be sure that showing datelines and/or summaries is turned on, or you won’t see any effect.)

You end up with something like in the screen shot above (click for a larger version).

Another hack, similar to the above, allows you to set the number of summary lines when showing summaries is on. The key is summaryLinesToInclude.

We call these hacks because you have to use the Terminal to change the settings and also because they’re unsupported. But I couldn’t resist telling you about them.

Will Sony Crackdown on PSP Hacks?

Will Sony Crackdown on PSP Hacks? 04/08/2005 10:28 AM
“Less than two weeks after Sony released its long-anticipated PlayStation Portable, a handheld gaming device with multimedia capabilities, the device’s most ardent fans began spreading details about their successful hacks. Among the more ingenious: Web browsing additions, instant-message chats, and TiVo-recording playbacks. The PSP is already a strong seller in that short timeframe. Reviews of the multi-function device are almost universally positive, and with the heavy overlap between hardcore geeks and hardcore gamers, it seems…

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Now available: Mr Webb's Mind Hacks!

Now available: Mr Webb's Mind Hacks! 12/17/2004 06:42 PM

My work colleague and R&D partner has a book out (with Tom Stafford)! It's called Mind Hacks and it's from O'Reilly in their Hacks series. So when you've finished fiddling with your Tivo or with Google's API, now you can take that spare screwdriver and start mucking around with that most interesting pieces of squishyware in the world: your brain.

The book is about how your mind works and is put together, but it's not one of those long boring books where you just have to nod sagely and stroke your beard. Instead, this is more of a things-to-make-and-do of cognitive neuroscience. It's full of experiments, tricks and tips designed to expose how your vision, motor skills, attention, cognition and subliminally perceptual systems work. Moreover the hacks have entertaining and non-threatening names like Why people don't work like elevator buttons (PDF) and Why can't you tickle yourself? (PDF). The only annoying thing about the book is that it would be really ideal as a Christmas gift for Mr Webb, except he had to scupper my plans by being one of the people who wrote it. Bastard.

I think I was lucky enough to be around when the idea for the book first emerged a few years ago at a social software summit in Finland organised by Clay Shirky. At the time I think there was general agreement that it was a bloody good idea, but I don't know how many of us actually expected to see it in print. Of course in order for it to make it to print, Mr Webb had to part-time abandon me in the bowels of the BBC to ponce off and have fun inside The British Library. He has been much missed (not that he's coming back or anything), but I think it's been worth it. There's a weblog to accompany the book at mindhacks.com.

Anyway, it's in my best interests to bask in the reflected glory of my chum, so I'm going to ask all of you to go and buy a copy immediately and recommend it to all of your friends - particularly those you think could do with some help keeping their brains ticking over. And I expect to see some pictures of you lazy bastards performing impromptu neurosurgery on each other by the end of the year!

• Buy the book from Amazon.co.uk
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VoIP hacks gut Caller I.D.

VoIP hacks gut Caller I.D. 07/08/2004 08:53 AM

WinZip Vulnerable To Hacks

WinZip Vulnerable To Hacks 09/04/2004 04:41 AM
Techzonez Sep 4 2004 8:42AM GMT

New Armor to Thwart Hacks

New Armor to Thwart Hacks 06/07/2004 07:28 AM
Security providers prep tools that guard applications and processes running in memory.

Google Hacks in Hand

Google Hacks in Hand 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
I have an advance copy of Google Hacks in my hot little hands. While I've seen (and seen and seen and seen) edits Word, edits on paper, page proofs, and so forth, it's simply lovely to see the book in the tree flesh.

It should be on your local bookstore's shelves within a week or two.

Detecting Photoshop Hacks

Detecting Photoshop Hacks 07/29/2004 06:47 PM

For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or not. You just can't believe a picture anymore. Especially not on this site.

For example, when two images are spliced together — like the picture of a shark attacking a helicopter that has circulated around the Internet in the past few years — one or both of the original pictures usually has to be shrunk, enlarged or rotated to make the pieces fit together. And those changes, no matter how artful, leave clues behind.

Take a picture that is 10 pixels by 10 pixels, for a total of 100. Stretch it to 10 by 20 pixels, and image-editing software like Adobe Photoshop will assign the picture's original pixels to every other slot in the new picture. That leaves 100 pixels "blank," or without values. Image-editing software fills in the gaps by examining what their neighbors look like, and then applying an average. To oversimplify, if pixel A is blue, and pixel C is red, the blank pixel B will become purple.

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Google Hacks Week

Google Hacks Week 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
With Google Hacks appearing momentarily on your local bookstore shelves, Tara's kicked off Google Hacks Week with a brand new not-in-the-book hack, Moogle (read: Movie Information via Google).

Google hacks are for real

Google hacks are for real 08/06/2004 09:40 AM
Google hacks are for real, regardless of what some uber-hackers may think or say. They can produce passwords, user IDs, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and routing codes, and more. They can also be used to troll for vulnerabilities. One quick example: using one of the simplest Google advanced operators in combination with another operator, I quickly found a number of Microsoft IIS 6.0 Authentication Manager pages exposed to the Internet on Army, Navy, state, and federal agency sites. In fact, finding the sites proved to be much easier than alerting them to the vulnerability.
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