The Ubuntu Blog shows off one of the neat tricks that KWord has up its sleeve. You can use it to import PDFs, and they retain a lot of their formatting. Once you’ve got it into KWord, you can work with it there, or export it into your favorite word processor’s format. I imported the […]
Nitesh Dhanjani @ the ONLamp blog shows that it’s fairly easy to spoof someone’s Twitter & Jott – looks like you can require a PIN for twitter if you’re worried- Both Twitter and Jott authenticate users by their phone number. Twitter does this by validating users based upon the source of SMS messages sent to […]
If you use Google Analytics and you’ve ever tried to determine what URLs are referring to your site, you may have noticed that the report only includes the file name portion of the URL, excluding the query string. If your referrers are dynamic forums and bulletin boards, this makes it impossible to tell what message […]
Phil @ Make writes: Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs! On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin). […]
Have you ever been curious about how some applications, such as MS Word or Google, can return spelling suggestions so quickly and accurately? Chances are, they are using a fairly straightforward probabilistic model, trained on a sample dictionary of common words and phrases, to determine when a word has been misspelled and to suggest the […]
AppleTV is becoming quite the hack box, check out this RSS plug in! Link.
Apple TV hacker l0rdr0ck put together a procedure for getting Asterisk running, turning the Apple TV into a telephony appliance! To get Asterisk running on Apple TV requires (obviously) and Apple TV. It also requires an Intel Mac, as there are no development tools available on the Apple TV (yet). We’ve divided the process into […]
