The recent scuttlebutt in the iPhone and iPod Touch developer forums is that there is a buffer overflow bug in the code used to load TIFF images in Safari (libtiff). The letdown is that the stack is not executable on the devices, leading many to think this is a dead end. The heap, however, _is_ […]
An anonymous reader sent us a few hacks today for the Samsung SGH-i600 phone – Link. This is basically the US Blackjack, except that it’s released in the UK with Orange’s branding and a bit of crippleware. One of the hacks that’s mentioned is using GMail with the device, and it’s a cool hack that […]
I was really grateful that I could initialize and configure the iPhone using iTunes. It’s a complete break with the way we buy a cellphone. Plus, iTunes keeps insinuating itself into my life, helping me manage more and more of the content I care about. iTunes is becoming an important desktop application, growing up from […]
John Resig posted yesterday about his experiments with creating a full Javascript/DOM pseudo-browser environment that runs from the command line: This weekend I took a big step in upping the ante for JavaScript as a Language. At some point last Friday evening I started coding and didn’t stop until sometime mid-Monday. The result is a […]
It’s pretty easy to make encrypted disk images and partitions in Linux using the loop-aes-utils (cryptoloop kernel module). This can really come in handy for backing up or storing sensitive content such as your email archive or tax records.Required software You’ll probably need to install aespipe and loop-aes-utils, as they may not be installed by […]
Ever since I got my first set-top box at the end of last year, I’ve been itching to connect its FireWire port to my Mac. My friend Emilie called today to alert me to a CBS Sunday Morning report on Maker Faire, which I managed to record, and that gave me the push I needed […]
SatelliteSweeper has a great roundup of 23 TiVo hacks to turbocharge your DVR: Learn to modify your Tivo or DVR to show Caller ID on your TV when you get a phone call, store over 5 times more recordings than a standard DVR, transfer files to and from your PC and more… They’re all great, […]
