Last week, Hackszine fielded a reader request to come up with a way to infect a computer without letting too much heck break loose. This procedure was so much fun that we decided to use it for our first Hackszine screencast. Check it out for a little surprise near the end: I managed to sneak […]
It freaks me out when any application does any thing automatically when media is inserted – a DVD, CD, camera, storage card – it doesn’t matter, I don’t like it. Perhaps it’s because every auto-run type thing on my PCs were just attempts to install some weird software to do something awful. So, if you […]
IMified and Stikkit seem to have heard my request. You can now post to Stikkit via IM.
Neat, this could be a new type of audio virus, or at least a fun prank like the old days with MacOS speech recognition – get an audio file say “start listening” and then tell Vista to do stuff, from the SANS blog… On January 30th Sebastian Krahmer asked himself (out loud on the Dailydave […]
The Consumerist has a couple step-by-step scripts for getting out of your Cingular or Verizon contracts without paying an early-termination fee, based on the former’s new arbitration clause and the latter’s recent raise in basic text-messaging rates. It looks tedious and a lot of work, but it doesn’t look nearly as difficult as my attempt […]
We at Hackszine are all about collaboration, and lately our geographically distributed team has been working on web-based and decidedly non-MS Office ways of doing so. We’ve been paying particular attention to the Google suite made up of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Gmail, and Google Calendar (and rumored to soon include a PowerPoint alternative), which […]
Contrary to what you might think, based on the focus of most of the posts on this site, we don’t necessarily believe there’s always a technological solution to every problem. In fact, for many areas in life, I’ve often found the right life hack for my particular need may be discovered at perhaps the opposite […]
