13 things tagged “hack”
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Thursday July 7, 2011
iPlayer for Kindle « Frisnit Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
To address this I’ve designed a system to automatically convert a terrestrial digital TV transmission, as captured by a DVB card or PVR, to a sequence of static images annotated with the subtitles from the stream that convey the story as a kind of comic strip format. This can be viewed as HTML or PDF, so expanding the number of devices the content can be viewed on. -
Friday September 10, 2010
Clever arrow shim for pointing boxes
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Using stylized ◢ ◣ UTF8 characters.
Used on heatmap.mozillalabs.com/, and apparently flickr too. -
Monday August 23, 2010
Embedding compressed CSS & JavaScript in PNGs
Can everyone stop wanking over CSS/JS compression in PNGs? A neat but utterly impractical hack that doesn't even beat gzip. -
Tuesday May 25, 2010
A New Type of Phishing Attack, using tabs
A very clever phishing technique, an open but unfocused tab changes it's favicon/title text. Leaving a more trusted looking tab than something you just opened. -
Wednesday January 6, 2010
Batch event importing to Last.fm
Over christmas I sorted out some old boxes from University and found all the paper ticket stubs for... -
Thursday April 16, 2009
Inside the precision hack
4chan rig Time poll, not only for moot to win, but to spell out a message with the order of the other results. Interesting investigation of the hack methods, organisation and Time's attempts to secure things. -
Tuesday September 16, 2008
Disable the Genre column in the iTunes 8 Browser -- Apple are dicks
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Thursday April 17, 2008
Beginner's guide to OpenID phishing
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Saturday December 8, 2007
Success!
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Kind of fixed it
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Entirely disassembled
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The problem
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Partially disassembled
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