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iPhone Video Conference Hack

August 13th, 2007

Ken and Greg Aspeslagh claim that they created the application at the C-4 Developer Conference’s Iron Coder Live this weekend, winning first prize.
The hacked videoconferencing is now working on the iPhone using the Wi-Fi connection and its built-in camera and a combo mirror and stand device that allows your face to be seen with the [...]

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Facebook Secrets Revealed

August 13th, 2007

The source code for the front page of the widely used social networking site Facebook.com has been leaked. If you want to see more take a look at the following post at http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/2007/08/facebook-home-page-code.html
It seems there are people already getting Cease & Desist letters from Facebook as they attempt to use this newly released information.
UPDATE: [...]

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Text-Based YouTube Video Player for Linux

July 1st, 2007

A fellow by the name of Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text!
This is a really long video and the first few minutes is just him trying to find a video on YouTube using Lynx and then sifting through the source code to download [...]

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JPEG To HTML Converter

June 25th, 2007

http://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/
A table is created which is filled with large numbers of 1×1 cells. Each cell has a background color of the corresponding pixel in the image. That’s all it is; just a massive grid of colored table cells.
We tried to post one in this article but Firefox kept freezing. Not to mention that every time [...]

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DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio

June 18th, 2007

Cardboard box + Tracing Paper + Movie Poster + Tape = $0.00
Full article availabe here [strobist]

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Reddit.com XSS Exploit

May 27th, 2007

We’re not sure if this is directly related to the Ajax exploit we posted about, but interesting to see the point proven that security shouldn’t be forgotten in the name of “Web 2.0”
Apparently it was a simple as them not validating any input on their posts/comments as reported here. This is a similar [...]

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MacBook Zero-Day @ CanSecWest

April 23rd, 2007

Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple’s Safari browser. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the “PWN to Own” hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.
Macaulay teamed with Dino Dai Zovi, a security researcher until recently with Matasano [...]

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AppleTV “Expanded” in Traditional Hack-tastic Fashion

March 26th, 2007

With Apple’s new set-top device filtering into the hands of the faithful, its buzz has been appropriately high. Over the weekend, however, many enterprising hackers took the time to probe the internals of the AppleTV a bit more thoroughly. What did they find?As it turns out, Apple’s claim that its new devices (e.g. AppleTV, iPhone) [...]

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Mac OS X Stickies Hack

March 10th, 2007

Sometimes an otherwise useful application is missing a feature or two. Take the Stickies app, for example. For whatever reason, the authors decided not to include a scrollbar. Perhaps this was because it’s not a necessary feature for most users. Perhaps it was just overlooked.
Thankfully, you can customize most OS X apps with the tools [...]

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LinuxBIOS With X Server Inside

March 9th, 2007

Alan Carvalho de Assis (and friends), as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list, has released a video of the newly released LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside.
All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)… The [...]

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