Aug 28
Video of Jiffy Lube scamming a news team.
Aug 22
The “Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator” will generate “bullshit-compliant products and services” with the click of a button. I also appreciate that the creator has included links to related services to give the budding entrepreneur all of the tools they need to “sell your company to Yahoo”.
Aug 16
Story about the birth of Pirate Bay, people behind it etc.
Aug 15
Applications that test bandwidth speeds have been around for years, but Speedtest.net takes the concept a step further.
The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.
Finally, Speedtest provides a simple way to share your results with others–taking the practice of monitoring bandwidth into the Web 2.0 realm.
Aug 10
AirportMonitor is a dynamic, interactive display of air traffic and flight information available on many airport Web sites. AirportMonitor tracks flights from approximately 100 miles from the terminal right down to the runway. View information such as flight origin, destination, aircraft type, altitude, and flight ID. AirportMonitor has a ten minute delay and filtered information for security purposes, but replays with full flight information are available for the previous three months. [AirportMonitor]
Jul 06
Ophcrack is the fastest Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 password cracker. Download and burn!! Ophrack 2.1 comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows as well as on Linux.
Jun 28
When immigrants want to become Americans, they must take a civics test as part of their naturalization interview before a Citizenship and Immigration Services officer. The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 sample questions
(see at http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/natz/English.pdf ) that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview (though the examiner is not limited to those questions). Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.
Should you be welcomed immediately to the Land of the Free or sent home for some more homework? Find out!
(PLEASE NOTE: These questions are as asked on the official United States Immigration and Naturalization Services Web site. Candidates are not given multiple choices in the naturalization interview, which is conducted orally.)
Jun 12
Today Google announced the availability of Google Earth 4 Beta, which is a free download not just for Windows, but also for Mac OS X (yes, it’s a universal binary) and Linux. Aside from going multi-platform, Google Earth 4 sports a new, sleeker interface, support for textured building models with SketchUp integration, and some KML improvements. Head over to the beta site to grab the new release.
[Via TUAW]
May 29
SocialMail is a handy service from Big in Japan that will turn any e-mail inbox or mailing list into an RSS feed. It’s pretty simple: you sign up and get a unique @biggu.com e-mail address. Then you can put that e-mail address on a mailing list or forward messages from your inbox to it and they’ll automatically be posted to an RSS feed. The latter functionality can be handy if your company has a generic support@ or sales@ e-mail address, for example, that you want lots of people to be able to monitor easily. As far as I can tell, SocialMail is free for anyone to use. [via SocialMail]
May 16
Instructables has a step-by-step for turning a regular old landline phone into a VoIP phone.
This hack requires a little bit of soldering and might not be for the novice hardware hacker, but the results look pretty good. If you’ve been wanting to try out Skype but haven’t wanted to buy a new headset (and you’ve got an old phone laying around), this seems like a cool idea.
[Link: Portable Skype Phone ]
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