Here’s Hack #15, Reduce Workbook Bloat, from David and Raina Hawley’s Excel Hacks, 2nd Edition. Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. Yet there are many ways to take advantage of Excel’s sophisticated capabilities without spending […]
The German translation isn’t perfect, but this site describes a privacy product that defeats security cameras. A simple IR LED array in a headband is able to oversaturate the pixels in the camera’s CCD to the point where even adjacent pixels are effected, shrouding the wearer’s face in a white halo. Infrared Light Against Security […]
Shantanu Goel put a proof-of-concept Outlook macro together that will send you files in response to a specially formatted email. The idea is that you can activate this and leave Outlook running on your computer at work and if you are offsite and need to grab a document it’s only an email away. This project […]
In this video, researchers at Princeton demonstrate the ability to lift encryption keys from RAM that has been powered off for a brief period of time. When you use a full disk encryption product, the key is stored in RAM while the machine is unlocked and operating. This data is typically considered safe as long […]
Here’s Hack #94, Download Windows Patches Securely, from Kyle Rankin’s Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition. Knoppix Hacks offers a collection of tips and techniques for using the enormous amount of software Knoppix offers–not just to work and play, but also to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, and disinfect your system without having to install a thing. The book […]
Hackszine reader IraqiGeek writes: I made an application that uses libusb-Win32 and PPJoy to map the Sony Sixaxis into a windows joystick with the accelerometers working and mapped. Unfortunately, the gyro on my sixaxis seems to be faulty. So, while the code is already there to read the gyro data, it can’t be used for […]
Here’s Hack #59, Wipe a Hard Drive, from Kyle Rankin’s Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition. Knoppix Hacks offers a collection of tips and techniques for using the enormous amount of software Knoppix offers–not just to work and play, but also to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, and disinfect your system without having to install a thing. The book […]
