Install-It
Featured Windows Download: Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications. Very simple to use and set up.
Disable Startup
This program takes around 4MB space but saves it later. Whenever a program wants to add itself as a startup program, this gives you the option of allowing or disallowing it. This means no more unwanted adobe crap starting up with your PC.
Quickoffice MobileFiles Pro
This allows for editing of office (word / excel / powerpoint) files on the iphone / ipod
Pocket Informant
For my agenda I’m a firm believer in the week view. I want it to look just like an old fashioned paper agenda. This seems to be quite difficult for some reason, as there are very very few apps on the PC or Windows Mobile that can do this. Pocket informant looks like it has Read more about Pocket Informant[…]
JPG Magazine
JPG Magazine is a crowd sourcing art experiment: they let people submit and vote on the pictures that would be printed in the bi-monthly issue. The results were a vibrant, colourfull amateur(ish) photography magazine. Unfortunately the venture has had to close down, but they have all their issues for free online so you can still Read more about JPG Magazine[…]
Stanza
This turns your ipod touch into an ebook reader. It has sources to free books (such as Project Guthenburg) and also allows you to buy commercial books for around $8 – $10.
SSL totally in the shit!
Not only have they found a way to hack certain keys, and found a way to forge certificates, they’ve now found a way to use the registration process of one of the CA’s to issue a certificate for any site you like. Researchers (whoever /they/ are) are now estimating around 14% of all certificates to Read more about SSL totally in the shit![…]
UK Police feel they’re judges
The UK police feel justified to hack into your computer, read your emails and other documents on your hard drive, install keyloggers – all without a warrant! The only nod they need is from a ‘senior police officer’.
Screen cracking prank apps
They’re just very neat! Cracked screen is available through Cydia Oooops is available through the appstore (or will be)
White Balance Lens Cap
This allows you to set your white balance before uncapping your lens.
Howto Break Nokia SMS capability
Basically all you have to do is send a text message with a ‘from’ identifier of length > 32 chars and a small flag set. The only way to recover is a factory reset, allthough there is a link in the text which may or may not work. A staggering amount of the Nokia product Read more about Howto Break Nokia SMS capability[…]
Don’t shout at your servers
This causes vibration which in turn leads to quite measurable latency.
How to upgrade your camera setup on the cheap
This links to a whole range of impressive cheapskate (but effective!) ways of upgrading your camera setup, such as how to make cheap flash diffusers, your own camera bag, flash deflection umbrella’s, tripods, ringlighting rigs, etc.
iPhone 3G Software Unlock Released
Which basically means: you can put your iphone on any carrier you like now! It’s called yellowsn0w and is available through Cydia.
Novelty seekers have less dopamine receptors
So people who tend to exhibit risky behaviours do so to increase the rate of dopamine firing in their brain. It’s a pysiological thing, to enjoy bungee jumping, drugs, sex, motorbikes, etc.
GSM Watch Phones
It’s GSM Watch phone week! The first is the Phenom Watch Phone which features a 1.3″ touchscreen you can operate with a stylus and has a seperate keypad. It’s feature packed and also has an MP3 & MP4, built in microphone and speakers, digital and video camera, Micro SD slot and built in Bluetooth. They Read more about GSM Watch Phones[…]
Sex offenders a US Subclass of human
Showing that there is no limit to how far the US is willing to push people around, they’re now forcing convicted sex offenders to submit their online email adresses and passwords. They’re allready forced to walk around and tell everyone in their environment they’re sex offenders, they have limited movement and that after they’re supposed Read more about Sex offenders a US Subclass of human[…]
The Gecko project
These guys are making a shot of creating a app store like Android or Apple have for Windows Mobile programs.
DIY adjustable glasses
Some clever chappie (professor Silver) has designed a lens for your glasses that you can change the strength of the focal distance yourself – ie. no more optician! He does this by filling a membrane with water. Using in syringe with a dial you can put in more or take out some fluid, customising it Read more about DIY adjustable glasses[…]
Nanoparticles Polish your teeth very very smoothly
Nanoparticles Make Surface Too Slippery For Bacteria To stick to
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is where you take a camera and overlay digital images on the picture. These pictures are then anchored to certain items, so when you’re looking at an object, you can see the digital addition, but if you move the camera, the digital addition stays with the object. ARToolKit is a system to build Read more about Augmented Reality[…]
EA learns from Spore DRM fiasco?!
EA is going full blown for the Steam distribution. There is allegedly no third party DRM on any of the games distributed this way (no SecuROM). They will apparently even be sending out patches allowing people to free up installation slots.
Licence plates
Two hacks are described here: 1) make a laserprinted copy of a license plate of your ‘enemy’, stick it on the back of your car and go zooming past speed cameras 2) cruise the neighbourhood for a similar car to yours, duplicate the license plate and drive around worry free.
Flash on the iPhone and iPod Touch
Well, a iphone Safari plugin that allows you to watch flv films. Which is pretty good 🙂
ml_ipod: Love llamas, Hate DRM.
ml_ipod: is a winamp plugin which allows you to copy your music, photo’s, etc, to your ipod through winamp. It doesn’t yet support write to ipod touch and iphone yet, but they’re hoping to get there. In the meantime it does support read from them…