WEP Hacking with KisMac in 10mins

This video is amazing! It shows how you can easily reveal a hidden SSID and hack WEP encryption in about 10mins on a Mac with just KisMac. (Unlike the way with Whoppix where you have to use several apps)

read more | digg story

How to turn your car into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

tired of searching for a Wi-Fi hotspot? Now you can have your own, in your car, while you're on the move!

read more | digg story

Tons of PS3 Details Revealed!

The March issue of PSM not only reveals details about Sony's new online service set to take on Xbox Live, but also that the PS3 will act as a DVR and a Location Free Player for the PSP. Let the hype begin!

read more | digg story

Sirius Shock: Pirates Hit Howard Stern Show

Everyone saw this one coming. His show has never been better. No more bullshit.

read more | digg story

Laugh tracks standing up on iTunes

Did you hear the one about comedians becoming a hit on Apple's iTunes? That's actually not a joke: MTV Networks has been surprised to discover that low-profile stand-up specials from its Comedy Central channel are outperforming such better-known franchises.

read more | digg story

30 Boxes, Best... Calender... EVER

Well earlier last week Om Malik said that 30 Boxes would be to calendaring what gmail was to email and I can't agree more. It's this and so much more. I had a chance to demo the software and have written a review. The public beta launches on Sunday and you will definitely want to check this one out.

read more | digg story

Huge list of Torrent Sites

This was in the forums at niteshdw sci-fi fansite.I have put the list on a new blog so you can view it without signing up.

read more | digg story

Caffeine Free: Blue Light Makes People Alert at Night

There's much more than meets the eye to how we perceive light, researchers have learned in recent years. The latest revelation: blue light helps fend off drowsiness in the middle of the night.

read more | digg story

ZDNet Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, part 1

Richard MacManus interviews Kevin Rose!!

read more | digg story

Playstation 3 Developer Fired For Talking

PS3week has an interview with the Sony artist who was fired for his opinion of the PS3: "I started off very excited about PS3. I was very confident that it was going to destroy the XBOX 360 just on the name SONY alone. The more time that goes by the more I�m becoming doubtful. Everything I�ve developed or seen developed has yet to be next gen."

read more | digg story

Open AJAX: IBM, Google and others endorse a standard framework

"The goal of Open Ajax is to standardize around a common set of widgets, interfaces, and plug-ins to Eclipse...regardless of browser client or server deployment platform. Open Ajax is all about assembling critical mass convergence around a stack to prevent Microsoft from co-opting it."

read more | digg story

How Products Are Made

Everyone knows about HowStuffWorks.com, but this site describes how hundreds of things are made!

read more | digg story

Elements of HTML that cause you to rank well on Google

Mike tried to rank for the term lodefizzle on Google. He wrote a dozen different pages to find out what aspects of HTML Google really cares about. Scroll down to the Google Vacuum Tests section for the interesting stuff!

read more | digg story

Send a SMS Text Message to any phone for FREE with Google

Ok, Ok, I know you will only save 10 cents by using this service, but you get to use your keyboard to type. Save time, save (a little) money. Might as well bookmark this because you will probably want to use it later.

read more | digg story

Hack your Toyota Prius

With a little do-it-yourself, you can unlock a whole new set of latent magic powers that Toyota never wanted you to know about.

read more | digg story

New Torrents! USB Flash Drive Versions of Digg's Most Talked About BootCD's

Hiren's BootCD's, Ultimate Boot CD 3.3, Bart's Network Boot Disk, MiniPE, even the old Windows 98SE Rescue Disk from your USB key. Just ghost your USB flash drive, and it will boot up like your favorite BootCD.

read more | digg story

List of Algorithms

This single wikipedia webpage shows you a list of algorithms neatly classified into categories. Pick the ones you are interested in !

read more | digg story

Drawing a Good Logo

A great analysis of logo-making.

read more | digg story

Host Your Own Website Using Ubuntu and Your DSL or Cable Line

I found this tutorial very helpful, as I am setting up a server in my home to host my websites. Very informative. Quit paying BS hosting fees every month; you already pay monthly for the internet connection to your home!

read more | digg story

GPS on a stick

This dream device for stalkers runs on 2 AA batteries, has a USB port and is compatible with Google Earth, MapQuest, Microsoft Streets and other mapping services.

read more | digg story

Removing unused device drivers from Windows XP machines

Did you know that unless you uninstall a device driver on a Windows XP machine that it still may be sucking up valuable system resources? Here are step-by-step instructions on how you can view and remove these unnecessary devices.

read more | digg story

Optimus Keyboard - End of 2006

On the Optimus mini three answers page, it says that the Optimus keyboard will be released at the end of 2006, not February 1st. The mini three keyboard will be available in May 2006, but the full-size keyboard is still being developed.

read more | digg story

Tutorial: Hack Extra Bandwidth From Your ISP

Warning: for educational purposes only. Site provides free software and tutorials to jump your cable modem speed up by 3 - 4 megs. Works great for me, enjoy.

read more | digg story

Inventor develops 'artificial gills'

An Israeli inventor has developed an underwater breathing system that literally squeezes oxygen directly from seawater, doing away with the need for compressed air tanks.

read more | digg story

Video Tutorial on How to Shoot Better Video and Still pictures

This week the Mac Pro Podcast covered some basic tips on how to shoot better video and still pictures. Also covered: new features in iMovie HD, iPod Film Festival, and more!

read more | digg story

Apple iBooks by April, 'media hub' product, iPhone within a year

"We are still confident in Apple's product road map including potential for new iBooks by April in time for the June quarter, a potential 'media hub' product (and more services), new iPods into year-end (including a new media player) and even a new cell phone within a year."

read more | digg story

AT&T sued over NSA eavesdropping

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.

read more | digg story

Enable XP Pro features on xp home

This hack allows xp home (oem or upgrade) to have all features of xp pro. This includes remote desktop. Finally making xp home worth something.

read more | digg story

Nerd TV Season 2 Starts

Season 2 starts with episode 12: Bob Kahn: Inventor of TCP/IP. Upcoming episodes will include Judy Estrin, Jerry Kaplan, Steve Wozniak, Larry Tesler, Eric Schmidt, and Linus Torvalds.

read more | digg story

Warner Bros to sell movies on net

Films such as Batman Begins and TV series The OC are to be made available over the internet via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks by studio Warner Bros. The BBC Reports

read more | digg story

XBOX 360 Update is OUT!

Here are some of the changes in this update: Improvements to the Xbox Guide. Option to retain your saved games when you delete a profile. Increased accuracy of "last time played." Network configuration improvements for Xbox Live® members in the Netherlands. More detailed messaging for unreadable disk or region errors.

read more | digg story

Firmware completely hacked for Xbox1

The next step is teh hacking of teh 360. The system will be unable to distinguish regular disks and backed up one. Making it hard to block xbox live. The firmwares are similar in the 360 and xbox1. Since there is multiple drives out there (core and premium have slightly different drives) changing the firmware will be hard.

read more | digg story

Dutch Biometric Passport Cracked

The Dutch passport, one of the first to include "biometric" information which can be read digitally in accordance with totally bogus new internatiomal legislation, has been cracked from a range of 10 metres such that cleartext of the data stored therein is extracted.

read more | digg story

Expose for Windows

This brings my favorite feature with macs to windows. Expose'. TopDesk is a quick and easy way to switch between applications. With a single key press, you can instantly view thumbnails of all open windows, display thumbnails of windows belonging to the current application, or hide all windows to quickly access the desktop.

read more | digg story

Holy Grail of CSS layouts

Well described technique for achieving 3 column CSS layout with an absolute minimum of non-semantic blocks (just one).

read more | digg story

Hiding Email Addresses

A comprehensive list of methods on how to hide email addresses in source code from spam bots. Includes; CSS, Javascript, Forms, Images, Obfuscation, Authentication, Flash, Unicode, Encryption and other methods. Each technique is presented and explained with their advantages and downfalls.

read more | digg story

New proxy unblocks myspace and gmail

If your school / work blocks access to certain websites, you can hop through a proxy to get to the unreachable site. I came accross one, www.Vtunnel.com, that allows you to log in to myspace, gmail, and a variety of other websites for free. Most free proxies block "form post", but this one does not. Also try vpntunnel.net or safeforwork.net.

read more | digg story

WoW 1.10 details, weather effects and more!

1UP has an interview with Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan detailing the upcoming 1.10 patch for World of Warcraft. They have movies and pictures of the highly awaited Weather Effects-system!

read more | digg story

10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don't Get Glamorized

10 Extensions that don't get promoted a lot that make Firefox an even better browser.

read more | digg story

New tech tv show inspired by systm

Check this out...son of systm?

read more | digg story

MS Official:- Microsoft IE& Beta 2 Live Download

Offical Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 public release download.

read more | digg story

Spell with Flickr - Get your name(or anything) spelled with Flickr Images!

Like the title says, just type in something(ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter. Give it a try! Very cool Flickr app!!

read more | digg story

Google Stock Crashes in After-Hours Trading

"Web search and Internet stock phenomenon Google Inc. on Tuesday posted a profit that missed Wall Street targets due largely to a higher than expected tax rate, sending its shares down as much as 19 percent in after hours trade." IT'S DOWN $70!

read more | digg story

Bill Gates too rich for tax computer to handle

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.

read more | digg story

Web 2.0 Innovation Map

This Google Maps mashup visualizes the explosion of web applications by plotting over 200 sites gathered from various sources, using WHOIS information or contact information from the sites.

read more | digg story

Feds Want A Wiretap Backdoor In All Net Hardware and Software

hinks the federal government is too intrusive? You ain't seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications.

read more | digg story

Band sells 120,000 copies of album thanks to online downloading.

The Arctic monkeys sell 120,000 copies of their first album. It is the fastest selling album in britain thanks to their internet downloading savyness. They promoted the sites that illegally played their music and they gave out demo copies which spread on the internet that gained interest. Take that RIAA.

read more | digg story

Intel Mac's have upgradeable CPU's

A Japanese magazine has reported that a 17" Intel iMac had it's processor upgraded from the 1.83 Ghz to 2.0 Ghz without issue. The processors apparenty are not soldered on!! Sounds like good news!!

read more | digg story

Core Duo + G4 + G5 + Athlon64 + Pentium 4c Comparison

Geek Patrol puts their new benchmarking app Geekbench to work comparing 12 machines including both new iMac Core Duos, recent PowerMac and iMac G5 models, an Athlon64, a Pentium 4c 2 G4s and a Xeon. Interesting stuff.

read more | digg story

Tom's Hardware Wags Finger at the Rest of

Aaron McKenna of TGDaily chastises the entire tech review industry for not catching the USB battery drain flaw in Core Duo. Seems to be getting interesting, but McKenna's main complaint is that he doesn't want to have to read all the review sites on the net to catch one important tidbit. There is a solution for that: Digg!

read more | digg story

How to get free OTA HDTV!

Here is a short article on how to setup an antenna so you can watch all the free OTA HD in your area. The article covers where to get the information you need to get started. It also includes pictures of my setup.

read more | digg story

New! Google Bookmarks

Access your bookmarks from any computer. Supports labels, stars, and notes.

read more | digg story

Inexhaustible Energy; The N Machine

Physicist Bruce DePalma has a 100 kilowatt generator, which he invented, sitting in his garage. It could power his whole house, but if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it. Unfortunately the U.S. is not interested (thanks to its energy monopoly), but Japan is.

read more | digg story

The Megapixel Myth

This article takes apart the cooler-than-thou argument we've all heard about how more than 3.2 megapixels is just stupid, since that's all you need for an 8x10 print.

read more | digg story

The Top 10 Most Wanted Games 2006

What have we got to look forward to in terms of gaming pleasures? By the end of the year, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Revolution should both be on general sale, and we already have the Xbox 360 as well as the trusty PC. We've scoured the globe for the finest titles that the world of videogame entertainment can offer you.

read more | digg story

Picture Hoaxes

100 years before Photoshop, they managed to falsify pictures, with some brilliant concepts.

read more | digg story

Tutorial: Coding a Layout

A guide to quickly and easily coding a layout. Includes a free template and related files.

read more | digg story

Amazing Photo Rebuilding - Photoshop Move Over!

Wow! I came across this site via a blog entry. Check out the image inpainting section. Subtitles almost in-detectably removed. Cages removed and subject behind is rebuilt. This is incredible software. No Photoshop Used.

read more | digg story

Ruby/Python/C++/Java Side By Side Code Comparison

An essay comparing some aspects of the 4 languages but possibly more interesting is the page that lets you make a side by side comparison of some real code of a red-black tree algorithm done in each language. Follow the link to the comparison page.

read more | digg story

Email masking with CSS

A CSS technique for displaying your full email address in plain text while masking it from spammers. Degrades gracefully too.

read more | digg story

Free stock photos gallery (redesigned)

A free stock photo gallery with lot's of great pictures you can use for your personal work. You can coose from Amimals, Constructions, 3D renders, Nature, Textures & Backgrounds, web templates and more. Great resource!

read more | digg story

Convert any Instant Messaging Thread Into an Online Cartoon

A new web-based service that allows you to take any saved conversation and turn it into a pretty cartoon strip. This is ripe for abuse.

read more | digg story

The 100 Best Companies to Work For

Want a better company to work for here is a good list of the top 100 that you will actually like to work at.

read more | digg story

Sell your music online with iTunes and Rhapsody WITHOUT record labels!

TuneCore is a just-launched music delivery and distribution service that gets music you created up for sale on iTunes and Rhapsody without asking for your rights or taking any money from the sale or use of your music. Watch out record labels.

read more | digg story

make your own tshirt folding machine!

for those that never understood the "ninja folding technique" someone has created a new way to help single geek men have their clothes tidy

read more | digg story

25 Words That Hurt Your Resume

Instead of... "Experience working in fast-paced environment" Try... "Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night" Instead of... "Excellent written communication skills" Try... "Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users" more.....

read more | digg story

Configuring Apache: Don't Succumb to the Slashdot Effect

Helping you to survive a good Slashdotting on low-budget hardware.

read more | digg story

Google Map of World of Warcraft

The map utilizes the Google Maps API and therefore behaves just a like a Google Map.

read more | digg story

Why parents must mind MySpace

NBC's "Dateline" investigates the perils of social networking websites, and what they find is shocking. When �Dateline� surfed MySpace, it found scenes of binge drinking, apparent drug use, teens posing in underwear, and other members simulating sex, and in some cases even having it.

read more | digg story

Sell your music online with iTunes and Rhapsody WITHOUT record labels!

TuneCore is a just-launched music delivery and distribution service that gets music you created up for sale on iTunes and Rhapsody without asking for your rights or taking any money from the sale or use of your music. Watch out record labels.

read more | digg story

iTunes Now Selling TV Shows Before Network Premiere

The iTunes Music Store is now starting to add television shows before they have made their network television premieres. The first two shows to do this are from Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. It looks like downloadable television shows have a great future ahead as they result in more profits for networks than traditional advertising.

read more | digg story

Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data (beta)

Nice little tutorial on howto covert pictures to data files, burn that image onto CDRs. via make

read more | digg story

TorPark: Anonymous browsing on a USB drive

If you're serious about online privacy, you probably already anonymize your browsing sessions at home, but what about when you sit down at an Internet cafe or public terminal where your decidedly non-anonymous use could be tracked back to you? The solution, of course, is to take your privacy with you, and that's what TorPark is for

read more | digg story

The Far Side of the Moon

On October 7, 1959, humanity for the first time saw what the other side of the moon looks like. These photographs are the first of what any human being ever saw of the far side of the moon.

read more | digg story