Hacks

Hackszine reader Keith Hanshaw sent in a tip for a safe way to remove scribble marks from your walls. Just grab a piece of bread, roll it into a tight ball, and start rubbing. It looks like it takes a bit of elbow grease, but it’s a cheap and chemical free way to clean up […]

Steve Pasetti posted a nifty trick for creating an ad-hoc chat room full of random Slashdot readers: How do you get a bunch of folks from Slashdot into a room to chat? Post a link to a Google Spreadsheet in the comments… Impromptu Chat Room – Link

Tabbed browsing was added to Safari a long time ago, but I noticed today that my new iMac didn’t ship with it enabled. If you haven’t enabled tabs yet, hop over to Safari’s preference settings and select the “enable tabbed browsing” checkbox. Firefox rocks, of course, but Safari always seems a little faster to me, […]

Tabbed browsing was added to Safari a long time ago, but I noticed today that my new iMac didn’t ship with it enabled. If you haven’t enabled tabs yet, hop over to Safari’s preference settings and select the “enable tabbed browsing” checkbox. Firefox rocks, of course, but Safari always seems a little faster to me, […]

By adjusting a few resource settings with the iPodWizard tool, you can now change your iPod’s font colors: Open iPW, load your firmwire. Go to Layout, scroll down to Font Types. In that list, go down to item 24223, which is the titlebar string. Now look at the z2 tag. It should say 0xFF000000. We’re […]

For laptop users and data center administrators, power consumption is an important issue. Intel recently released a cool, top-like utility called PowerTOP, which can help you track down processes which are consuming the most power on your machine. When your CPU isn’t executing intructions, it enters an idle mode and consumes far less energy. Any […]