Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Gmail Emoticon Smilies
I was trying to steal the gmail emoticon (you can see it as my favicon), when I noticed something exceptionally strange. You’d think they would use a GIF to make the emoticon, but no, they are using a PNG sprite. Check out this amazingly tall sprite they use for their emoticon. It’s always interesting to [...]
OkCupid: more desiring of sex
So this morning I was looking up some background information on someone I met online. I always do this with new people I meet, because I actually find it kind of rude when you don’t take the time to learn about people you are talking with. It’s an easy way of getting “small talk” out [...]
How To: iPhone iOS 4 Tethering Free
Here are a couple of simple steps to take your iPhone running iOS 4.0.1 to tether for free. While this still works, visit: http://www.jailbreakme.com on your iPhone. Follow the instructions and jailbreak your iPhone Once your phone has been jailbroken, open the “Cydia” app and search for “ultrasnow”. Install the ultrasnow app, which will unlock [...]
Jailbreakme iPhone PDF Font Type1C Exploit
Ever since hearing about the jailbreakme iPhone hack yesterday, I’ve been obsessed with trying to figure out how this massive hack was achieved. I know very little about iPhone exploits, so it has been small, tiny, baby steps for me. So far, all I got is a parsed PDF file, with what seems like shellcode [...]
Quickbooks Online Login Is Down
If you search for “quickbooks online login”, you will notice that it is marked as “Currently Offline” https://login.quickbooks.com/ This is interesting to me because WorkingPoint, an online invoicing solution has never been down. We’ve been very careful to only add new functionality and features doing off peak hours. We have literally stayed up past midnight [...]
iPhone FaceTime Sucks
Here is why the iPhone FaceTime is really a FacePalm. It only works on WiFi – What are the chances the person you want to talk with will also be near a WiFi location? Texting is easier – We’ve already abandon “talking” on the phone in favor of texting and twitter. Why would we go [...]
Rails ActionMailer working but not sending
I was following some instructions on setting up activation emails for authlogic. I got everything working, but I noticed actionmailer was not sending out the activation emails, eventhough I can clearly see it created them in the logs. What’s even more interesting, it does work when I deploy into production. So I snooped around in [...]
Facebook “Man With The Biggest” Trick
I get abnormally excited when I see cool hacks and tricks go down. Today I found a couple of people on my profile “liked” the page “The Man With The Biggest…” First order of business, go here to unlike that page if you are a victim: http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://allhqpics.com/the-man-with-the-biggest-dick-on-earth.html&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&font=tahoma&colorscheme=light&height=80 Secondly, here is what you see when you [...]
How to tether the iPhone OS 3.1.3
If you accidentally upgraded your iPhone to OS 3.1.3, like I did, you will notice that the peacefulinsanity and help.benm.at mobileconfig no longer work. Well here is, the only way, to enable iPhone tethering again for ATT customers: Use the http://spiritjb.com/ to jailbreak your phone Go into Cydia and install MyWi with Rock Sign up [...]
Latest Posts and Latest Comments WordPress Widgets Plugin
Got bored so I started experimenting with making wordpress plugins that are widgets. 1) I wrote this one because the default WordPress “Recent Post” widget does not show dates. It is important to have dates, so here it is: https://gist.github.com/0c80a1918d6f66683f42 2) I was using a plugin called “get recent comments” that was working fine. But [...]