Tag Archives: Info

You can Almost get rid of Cable

Image via CrunchBase For a couple months now I’ve been testing new software called Boxee. Boxee allows me to watch many of the online video sites on my television. As of now there are different versions for different OS’s, some allow Netflix while orhers have ABC, still lacking behind is the Apple TV setup, but [...]

Thank you Google Maps

The above photo of my driveway was brought to you by Google Maps, who I guess likes to take street view images of your house on garbage pickup day.. But I guess this is also a good image to say it’s time to take all the trash out and restart blogging again on Tek-Works. As [...]

ADT Home Security Lives in the Late 90′s

My wife and I are due to have our first born in April and while getting the house all ready for the new born, I figured i’d look into home security systems. Because of great advertising ADT is probably the first place you think of when looking for a after your house is built security [...]

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 [...]

Clean up your web pages created with Word.

First off, I need to say STOP creating web pages with MS Word!!! There are other programs out there that you can drag and drop to create a webpage, these tools create 100 times better code and code that is easy to look at and change if needed, giving you a better chance at actually [...]

Returning to “The Hack”

It’s been about a year since I’ve worked on Tek-works. As always life is stranger than fiction, While working on Tek-Works last year, teaching everyone how to hack their WordPress site and Plugins, but having no training or actually worked with code in a professional setting, I coded for the fun of it. Soon after [...]