HOWTO: Install Apple iPhone Themes like Stereo’s Leopard Theme using SummerBoard

SummerBoard is an extension to the iPhone’s SpringBoard user experience. SummerBoard adds a variety of useful and fun features to your iPhone, including [...]

HOWTO: Use The Private Photobucket Exploit

Here’s a quick little (albeit limited) HOW TO using the mobile Photobucket pages. If you want to see the pics in, say, “test”s album, you have to start with a filename you already know is in the album, say, pic074.jpg. The universal URL is:
http://m301.photobucket.com/albumview/albums/*/*.html?
you then insert the album username and image filename into this address [...]

HOWTO: Remote Shutdown of a Windows Computer from Linux

I was away for a few days with my family visiting relatives, but being self-employed it can be hard to take time off, and wouldn’t you know it I had to spend a little time online checking email, finding passwords for people and occasionally just checking in on things at the house through a remote [...]

HOWTO: Install a hidden operating system with Truecrypt 6

If your system partition or system drive is encrypted using TrueCrypt, you need to enter your pre-boot authentication password in the TrueCrypt Boot Loader screen after you turn on or restart your computer. It may happen that you are forced by somebody to decrypt the operating system or to reveal the pre-boot authentication password. There [...]

Embedding a File in an Executable, aka Hello World v5967

I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I’m working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to make this happen. A bit of searching on the net found [...]

Recover Deleted Files with Free Software

From our friends at Lifehacker… “The computer ate my term paper!” We’ve all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it’s disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there’s a very good chance that [...]

HOWTO: Scrape Data From a Remote Website

Alright, I’m sure you’re saying to yourself, ok I have all this data (e.g., web page, file data, it’s all the same to us) but I really want to extract some very specific data out of it. Does that sound like what you’re looking for? Well what we’ll do is a basic PHP web scrape, [...]

HOWTO: Steal $5,000 in Fuel…

Talk about a gas guzzler… Police seized a truck and trailer equipped with a trap door that was used at least three times to siphon thousands of gallons of BP diesel fuel from underground storage tanks at a Tic Toc Food Mart in Mercer County.
“You got to have a little respect for this,” Hermitage police [...]

HOWTO: Catch Script Kiddies


HOWTO: Fill a Used Print Cartridge with Invisible Ink

If you’ve got a spare printer ink cartridge and a document you only want one person to see—or just some free time and a cloak-and-dagger kick—one helpful Metacafe post has a project for you. The tutorial requires a utility knife, some invisible ink pens and a syringe, and an empty ink cartridge, with black seeming [...]

HOWTO: Creating An Army of Free Captcha Typers

After all this talk about CAPTCHAs, let’s take look at the “blackhat” side of things and create an “Army of Captcha Typers,” that don’t even know they’re doing it.
People are finally starting to catch on to this technique. However I’m finding a lack of tact in how to accomplish it successfully. The objective is [...]

HOWTO: Linux Crontab syntax, setup, and help

We’ve been showing people how to automate various tasks in Linux for quite a while now. Today, we would like to briefly show people how to automate tasks in Linux using Cron jobs.
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if [...]

HOWTO: Playing NES games on your Smartphone

(This is for Windows Mobile (WM) phones. I have tried it with WM6 and 6.1. I would assume that it runs for WM5 as well, though.)
Pocket Nester is an excellent NES emulator that runs nearly full speed with sound! You can map your phones keys to your preferred layout and even rotate the screen to [...]

HOWTO: Change the mood of any user on Facebook who has the Moods application installed

This “hack” has already been patched but the method is still useful to any good script kiddie. In fact, it’s barely a “hack.” You are only modifying the information being sent to a 3rd party that is used within a Facebook application. LOL.

Personally, I don’t want to be responsible for putting someone in a [...]

HOWTO: Back Up and Restore Your MySQL Database

Do you need to change your web host or switch your database server? This is probably the only time when you really think of backing up your MySQL data. If you’ve got a website with a database or your custom database running for your applications, it is imperative that you make regular backups of the [...]

© 2008 twinturbo.org. All Rights Reserved.
24 queries. 1.632 seconds. | ¯\(°_o)/¯
Word to our gui, os, http server, database, and scripting language. lamp-for-life.