nathan hammond

Neither Mozilla nor WebKit folks have felt that this issue merits secrecy, so now that information about it is in the wild, I'll go ahead and post about a fun new social engineering hack that will probably be making its rounds in the not-so-distant future. The vulnerability is with regards to how easy it is to ...

One of the things I've always said I wanted to do was to spend a number of months in a Latin American country in order to really learn Spanish. I'm not sure why necessarily, but it probably stems from the fact that I've had the privilege of spending a week in Honduras every year for the ...

There hasn't been a clear tutorial for this, so I'm writing one: Jailbreak your iPhone. Install OpenSSH through Cydia. Copy the file /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N82AP.plist to your Mac. Using Property List Editor add a new boolean child to the capabilities property list: gas-gauge-battery. Save this file. Hop over to Terminal and run a bit of code to convert ...

A couple of weeks ago I saw this article on Mac OS X Hints which pointed to this thread on Apple's discussion forum which had an interesting suggestion for getting delegates to sync by way of CalDav to your iPhone. The solution that was proposed on the board implied just enough about how the CalDav protocol ...

Every now and then you run across something that you have a distinct impression is going to end up as an internet meme. To help make that happen sometimes you have to participate. This has been a sleeper hit for a number of months now and really demonstrates the value of a read-write culture. I'll probably ...