It sounds like I’m not the only one bummed out about the NBC/Microsoft/Silverlight version of the olympics. Hackszine reader No Dust writes: How do you view the Olympics on the Internet? NBCOLYMPICS.COM only shows popular games in the U.S., and missed many good games. I went to other international web-sites in China and England (bbc). […]
I’m fond of iPhone-specific versions of web sites; they usually have just the minimal set of features you need and are very easy to use. Adam Darowski just posted a great way to get the iPhone version of Google Reader running on a Mac as a desktop app: Do you find yourself checking feeds on […]
Most solutions for getting around the captive portals used in $7 airport wireless services involve sniffing the network and spoofing authenticated MAC addresses. I stumbled across an old post from 2006 by Felix Geisendörfer who discovered that some of these proxy systems are set up to allow pictures through before payment. Presumably this is to […]
With the new 2.0 firmware, you can take a screen capture using an easy key combo. Just hold down the home button and press the power button briefly. If you hold it for several seconds, the phone will soft reset, but if you just press and release, you’ll see the screen flash and an image […]
Team Twiizers is at it again, releasing a Wii port of the MPlayer media player. If you’ve already added the homebrew channel, you just need to download an install a couple of files to get things working. You can read more details about the port at HackMii and WiiBrew. There’s also a convenient instructable to […]
I apologize if this is a bit of a niche hack, but I’ve had my eye on Korg’s little pocket synthesizer and then David Battino showed off some impressive audio samples on the digital media blog that he was able to create with a hidden Kaossilator feature: What loosened my credit card was a secret […]
By default, Google Mail sets a session cookie that doesn’t have the secure flag, meaning that if you log in to GMail, leave, and later return to the unencrypted “http://” URL (instead of “https://”), your browser will transmit your session information in plain-text to the server. This problem gained some attention last year and we […]
