Archive for 'Hacking'

My favorite Iphone Apps

I’ve been using iPhone Apps for a while, the day after I bought my first generation iPhone, I hacked it, so some of these apps will be for hacked iPhones and also some from the Apple App Store. AOL Radio: I use this app everyday at work, since all the music is over your Edge [...]

Defcon, What happens in Vegas goes on YouTube

This was my first year at Defcon (The Worlds Largest Hacker Convention) and while I had said that I would blog, twitter and message people from Vegas, it just didn’t happen.. I’ve been to many “hacker Cons” around the States but this one took me by surprise and hit me with a bat. I arrived [...]

What does your ISP do with your traffic?

With all the hype going on about Comcast and “redirecting” everyone’s BitTorrent traffic, one of the biggest opponents of what Comcast did, The Electronic Frontier Foundation is in development of a software program testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs and firewalls. It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between [...]

Keeping your code managed with an SVN

For those that don’t know what an SVN is, it’s a successor to a Concurrent Versions System (CVS), but what is that and how can it help me? What an SVN does When I would do just small changes to a site or a small piece of code, I would usually just make a copy [...]

What’s your definition of a Hacker?

In 2 weeks I’ll be heading to Defcon, For those that don’t know Defcon is: DEF CON (also written as DEFCON or Defcon) is the world’s largest annual hacker convention, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first DEFCON took place in June 1993. In 2007, at DEFCON 15, there were over 6,000 people [...]

Getting Pretty Code Boxes in WordPress

-Edit- I’ve now started using SyntaxHighlighter Evolved ignore all below! One of the problems I’ve run into with WordPress was when I wanted to post code, what usually happens is WordPress will try to run the code i’ve posted, both messing up the layout of the page and then noone can see the code I’ve [...]

WordPress User Pages (part 3)

-Update- While most of this is out dated as per line numbers and such, you can still get the basic idea on changes that need made. If you’ve missed them read Part1 and Part2. So in part2 we changed the code to the Register Plus plugin to allow for instructions for our defined fields. Today [...]

WordPress User Pages (part 2)

-Update- While most of this is out dated as per line numbers and such, you can still get the basic idea on changes that need made. See Part1 Creating WordPress User Pages The first things we needed were the plugins, we needed something to help with the profile page but also the new users we [...]

Creating WordPress User Pages (Profiles)

Also Read Part2 and Part3, Finished Product is at Thebackpacker.tv Profile Pages I’ve spent the last couple evenings helping Scott Janz over at TheBackPacker.TV to create user pages for hikers. This is one of the most wanted things in WordPress, everyone wants to have users and a place for those users to call home. Scott [...]

The 5 foot Antenna

While at one of the many “security” (hacker) conventions I visit, there was a vendor selling external wireless cards, but not just any wireless devices but one of the most powerful ones currently made. The Alfa 500mW is not only powerful but you can add any antenna to it you may want. I know you’re [...]