Decoding magstrip cards with Arduino 08/01/2008 Instructables user powerpants created a quick and dirty card reader interface with an Arduino. The Arduino decodes the data from...
Buzz Kill – stopping iPhone GSM speaker noise 07/31/2008 Every GSM cellphone user is familiar with the annoying Bzzzhtzttt noises that tend to emanate from random electronics anywhere you...
Asterisk File Transfer Protocol 07/30/2008 Cory Menscher writes: As part of the NYU ITP “5in5” event this week, I created the Asterisk File Transfer Protocol....
DJBDNS, DNS exploits, Bernstein, Schneier, and security by design 07/29/2008 If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the DNS vulnerability that Dan Kaminsky announced about...
Web application hotkeys with Javascript 07/28/2008 It’s unfortunate, but there are only a few sites that have done a good job of enhancing the user experience...
Cyber Security Awareness Week 07/27/2008 Dan Guido from the Information Systems and Internet Security Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU wrote in about the...
MySQL performance tuning 07/26/2008 Jay Pipes, MySQL employee and co-author Pro MySQL, gave a great presentation to Google employees which covers a number of...
Peggy LED lightboard 07/25/2008 MAKE’s Collin Cunningham really impressed me with this short film “A Date With Peggy,” a story of an overworked hacker...
Farm Fountain – edible eco-sculpture 07/24/2008 Equal parts hydroponic garden, aquarium, and interactive art, the Farm Fountain is an experiment in self-contained, indoor ecosystem design created...
NTFS Alternate Data Streams – hide files inside other files 07/23/2008 The NTFS file system has support for additional data, called Alternate Data Streams (ADS), to be attached to any file....
