AVR based pedometer! – A pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps taken by a person and calculates the distance traveled by multiplying the number of steps by the length of the step. Here’s a design solution for building a pedometer using the AVR MCU. The circuit not only combines all of […]
Whoops. Looks like somone’s found a buffer overflow exploit on the iPhone which allows arbitrary code to be executed as root. Details won’t be released until the Blackhat convention in Vegas on August 2nd, but it looks like Safari is the culprit – [via] Link. The exploit’s authors suggest that you not use unfamilar WiFi […]
Here’s a quickie how-to on using and sharing “lists” of podcast subscriptions with iTunes – if you like science and news programs you might like this – Link.
I was talking with a friend who has an iPhone and was sharing some of the videos and audio (podcasts) I have. It’s a pretty good mix of current news, updated videos, science audio shows and best of all, free… The audio shows are good for running and the video shows are good for commuting […]
In order to display relevant advertisements, Adsense has its own web crawler which scans Adsense enabled URLs for page content. This helps Adsense get a clue of what the particular page is all about, and enables it to display ads with purchased keywords that match your content. For forums and other password protected sites, however, […]
Hacky way to change the iPhone’s background screen – [via] Link.
It’s a laborious process, but here’s a pretty thorough walkthrough for using Jailbreak and iPhoneInterface to upload ringtones and custom system sounds to your iPhone. What jailbreak does is (at a very high level) perform the first half of the restore operation that iTunes would, getting the phone into the powerful restore mode. It then […]
