Offline iPhone apps with RFC 2397 07/16/2007 An old and forgotten RFC provides a way to create applications for the iPhone that people can save and execute...
Hackety Hack: Ruby for kids 07/15/2007 In response to Friday’s post about Scratch, the visual programming language designed for kids, Ryan Briones writes: In the same...
HOWTO: Reset a lost OS X password 07/14/2007 I’ve you’ve forgotten your Mac’s admin account password, don’t worry. Assuming you haven’t locked out OpenFirmware, it’s a pretty simple...
Scratch: exploratory programming language for kids 07/13/2007 Developed by those nice folks at the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a visual programming language for kids. The development...
Fix Mac’s Home and End keys 07/12/2007 Brian Litzinger writes: Coming from many years of using a PC I like my home and end keys to work...
Play ripped DVDs with VLC 07/11/2007 Steve Anderson wrote in about an underused feature of our favorite open source video player, VLC. I discovered yesterday that...
Gethuman: quickly bypass automated customer service 07/09/2007 Here’s a good idea. Gethuman is a huge database of customer service numbers and the touch-tone combinations that will get...
Elevator express mode hack: truth or myth? 07/08/2007 There’s an urban legend that claims you can put most elevators into “express mode,” causing the car to sweep directly...
HOWTO: Arduino LCD interfacing 07/07/2007 David from uC Hobb writes: I have scrounged up several LCD displays and wanted to use one with the Arduino....
Telekinesis – remote control your Mac with an iPhone 07/06/2007 Telekinesis is a bundle of small web apps that you can run on your Mac to give the iPhone remote...