nathan hammond

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote what turned out to be a pretty popular bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos. Last month YouTube announced adding 1080p as a playback format. Catching wind of that a few days ago, I decided I'd go back and check to see if they still worked. Nope. I guess that betrays ...

As I don't want to simply "out" somebody on the Internet, I'm seeking a volunteer for my next post. My goal is to show that we have no expectation of privacy in this modern era and that any sufficiently motivated person can find a non-trivial amount of information about you. I plan to do this by ...

File this under "Yet another proposed method for helping episodic content creators remain profitable in the Digital Millennium." The short version of this, as it could be adopted by producers of television shows: Allow a person to sign up and pay for a subscription of digital delivery of the current season of content. This will include ...

For my more technical readers, stick with me here while I provide a bit of background, or jump ahead to the technical stuff. Meet Colt Colt is shelter dog at the Humane Society for Hamilton County in Noblesville, Indiana. He is deaf but has learned sign language for all his basic commands. He is a great ...

Aza Raskin describes here something that I have wanted for years. In short, Aza is proposing is a tightly-integrated-to-the-browser combination of two existing (and possibly abandoned) services: Sxipper, a form filler, and Clipperz, a password manager. It is great that somebody else is talking about it. However, I never did solve the problems I could come ...