The latest release of the Mac4Lin project brings the Leopard look and feel to Linux. There are a number of steps you need to go through to get your GNOME desktop and GTK-based apps all looking consistent, but when you’re done, the makeover is quite convincing. The only giveaway is that menus remain attached to […]
Because of the cross domain security restrictions in most Javascript implementations, it’s normally impossible for one HTML document to communicate with another frame, popup, or iframe unless the two pages are served from the same domain. James Burke came up with a clever solution to this problem, allowing bidirectional communication between a parent window and […]
Jackilyn Hoxworth figured out how to revert the dock in Leopard back to something more familiar: Type this into terminal to get the no glass dock. defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock I haven’t yet upgraded, but the new design elements seem to be pretty attractive. When you spend all day in front […]
(image generated with HAHA FUNNY PICTURES). James Kendrick has posted his take on Verizon’s new terms of service (TOS). After recently settling claims about their unusual definition of the word “unlimited”, they are up to some annoying tricks: Verizon has posted their new TOS and sure enough they have cleared up what limits they may […]
If you have an older toilet with a 5 gallon tank, there’s an old trick that you can use to convert it to use less water. By simply filling a half gallon container and submerging it in the tank, you can cut your toilet water usage by 10 percent or more. Lifehacker’s Gina T. points […]
Over at the Craftzine blog, Becky Stern posted a link to an excellent Instructable for rearranging the keys on a MacBook: Jonathan made a great instructable on how to reorder your keyboard keys on a MacBook if you prefer a Dvorak layout (an alternative to the standard QWERTY layout, the Dvorak keyboard requires less finger […]
Check out this video from last August’s CCC Camp, which describes using a Universal Software Radio Perhiperal (USRP) to record GSM messages, and then using an FPGA to defeat the A5/1 encryption that’s used to secure an encrypted GSM channel in the span of a couple weeks. By spending a couple months to precompute a […]
