07-30-10 \\ OSX
Organize your dock by adding spacers in Snow Leopard
Quick guide for adding seperators between the applications in your Mac OSX dock.
07-29-10 \\ News
ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand
Windows CE-based ATMs can easily be made to dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines at Black Hat, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. Jack believes a large number of ATMs have remote management tools that can be accessed over a telephone. After experimenting with two machines he purchased, Jack developed a way of bypassing the remote authentication system and installing a homemade rootkit, named Scrooge,’
07-29-10 \\ News
Android App Sends Personal Data to China
Is your voice mail password now the property of some Chinese hacker? Millions of Android users who downloaded an innocuous wallpaper app from Google’s Android Market may be nodding their heads ‘yes.’
07-13-10 \\ iOS
Convert iPhone sms.db to txt (csv or excel) via command line
This is a simple step-by-step procedure to convert your iPhone sms.db file (or iTunes backup) to txt, csv or excel format via qlite3 command line.
07-06-10 \\ Guides
@font-face Generator – CSS3 cross browser compatible
Free online tool to create cross browser compatible (CSS3) @font-face font kits.
07-06-10 \\ Guides
iPhone 4 / iPad icon design PSD template
This is a 114×114 pixel icon template for designing icons for Apple’s latest devices including the iPad and iPhone 4. Click the image to download. Posted from Cocoia Blog Let’s walk through all the different sizes and how they’re used: 57 px, iPhone – good ol’ classic. 72 px, iPad 114 px, iPhone 4 – make sure [...]
07-02-10 \\ Guides
Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS iOS 4 with Pwnage Tool
Following is the guide to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with iOS 4 final version,it’s your choice to preserve your baseband or not to preserve your baseband. Please read the whole post thoroughly and then try to jailbreak your iPhone.
07-01-10 \\ Guides
Free iPhone / iPod backup extractor (sms, call history and more)
This application converts the iPhone / iPod Touch backups that are created by iTunes into readily usable Mac OS X files. It is designed to run on “Leopard” Mac OS X 10.5 upwards.
06-30-10 \\ Guides
The Ultimate CSS3 Toolbox: 50+ Resources, Tutorials and Articles
This post serves as the ultimate CSS3 toolbox. You’ll start with a few introductory articles, then jump right in with tutorials, then see what’s possible with inspiration and finally some more resources.
06-30-10 \\ Guides
The Ultimate HTML5 Toolbox: 60+ Articles, Tutorials, Resources and Inspiring Showcases
This post serves as the ultimate HTML5 toolbox. First, there’s a few introductory articles and videos to help you understand why HTML5 is important. Then we’ll dive right in with a collection of tutorials that are start-to-finish. Next, there’s a great collection of articles and tips that will help you understand more, and will cover some of the nuances of HTML5. There’s also tons of inspirational showcases, and a massive resource list that you can use to supercharge your productivity!
06-30-10 \\ Web
iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons
Within this post you will find complete GUI kits and stencils, iPhone GUI elements and PSDs and finally a collection of the best icon-sets perfectly suited for the iPhone. (Some of the preview images are intentionally to large to show the as much of each GUI as possible).
06-30-10 \\ Web
25+ Free Vector World Maps (.ai, .eps and .svg formats)
If you are in search of a high quality vector World map, then your search is now over.
Most of the vector maps below are of the highest detail and accuracy, some have been designed specifically for designers and others to be used by everyone for whatever the project.
They are all in either .ai (Illustrator) format, .eps format or .svg formats.
06-30-10 \\ Web
30 of the Best Web Development and Design MINI Icon Sets
We have collected 30 of the best mini icon-sets for your next web design or application project. The most popular sizes you will find are 12×12px and 16×16px, but you will also find some sets as small as 10×10px and some as large as 20×20px. They are also available in a variety of formats from .png and .gif to the easily editable .ai and .psd.
06-30-10 \\ Guides
Extract SHSH Blobs For iOS4 Devices [How To]
If you’re going to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, the first thing you MUST do is backup your device’s SHSH blobs.
06-26-10 \\ News
RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
Today, an important first step has been announced. In a new human trial, nanoparticles carrying RNA have successfully reached cancer cells and silenced the target gene. ‘The researchers developed a nanoparticle carrying a molecular marker that binds to the surface of cancer cells, triggering the cells to absorb it. [...]
06-26-10 \\ News
Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells
Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have successfully transplanted a trachea into a 10 year old boy using his own stem cells. A donor trachea was taken, stripped of its cells into a collagen-like scaffold, and then infused with the boy’s stem cells.
06-26-10 \\ Hacking
Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS
Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS: “Trailrunner7 writes ‘There’s a large-scale attack underway that is targeting Web servers running Microsoft’s IIS software, injecting the sites with a specific malicious script. The attack has compromised tens of thousands of sites already, experts say, and there’s no clear indication of who’s behind the campaign right [...]
06-26-10 \\ News
Researchers Create Lung On a Chip
Utilizing human lung and blood vessel cells, researchers have created a device mounted on a microchip that mimics a living, breathing human lung. About the size of a rubber eraser, the device was developed by a team from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and Childrens Hospital Boston.
06-26-10 \\ News
FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives
FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives: “benoliver writes to let us know that the FBI has failed to decrypt files of a Brazilian banker accused of financial crimes by Brazilian law enforcement, after a year of attempts. Five hard drives were seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in [...]
06-11-10 \\ News
Scientists create artificial mini ‘black hole’
Chinese researchers have successfully built an electromagnetic absorbing device for microwave frequencies. The device, made of a thin cylinder comprising 60 concentric rings of metamaterials, is capable of absorbing microwave radiation, and has been compared to an astrophysical black hole.