Whoops. Looks like somone’s found a buffer overflow exploit on the iPhone which allows arbitrary code to be executed as root. Details won’t be released until the Blackhat convention in Vegas on August 2nd, but it looks like Safari is the culprit – [via] Link. The exploit’s authors suggest that you not use unfamilar WiFi […]
I was talking with a friend who has an iPhone and was sharing some of the videos and audio (podcasts) I have. It’s a pretty good mix of current news, updated videos, science audio shows and best of all, free… The audio shows are good for running and the video shows are good for commuting […]
In order to display relevant advertisements, Adsense has its own web crawler which scans Adsense enabled URLs for page content. This helps Adsense get a clue of what the particular page is all about, and enables it to display ads with purchased keywords that match your content. For forums and other password protected sites, however, […]
Hacky way to change the iPhone’s background screen – [via] Link.
It’s a laborious process, but here’s a pretty thorough walkthrough for using Jailbreak and iPhoneInterface to upload ringtones and custom system sounds to your iPhone. What jailbreak does is (at a very high level) perform the first half of the restore operation that iTunes would, getting the phone into the powerful restore mode. It then […]
A couple people wrote in today in response to my post about WiiRemote, the Windows Wiimote input device driver. More specifically, I’ve been reminded that I completely left the similarly capable DarwiinRemote for OS X out of the discussion. In all fairness, there was a driver roundup back in March that mentioned it, but what […]
I wish I had a Windows box handy at the moment, as I’d like play around with this. Using WiinRemote, you can have the Wii Remote control your PCs mouse. Tilting causes the mouse to move up, down, left, and right. In addition to a mouse click, the remote’s buttons can also be assigned to […]
