What is OAuth, and why should you care? Here’s the deal: Just like Skynet of Terminator fame, web apps have lately been doing a lot more talking to each other on the “back-end” instead of all web communication being between a human and a web app. This is a GOOD thing as long as the . . . → Read More: OAuth: Totally!
 6 comments - (Comments are closed)  Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security  authentication, authorization, Bar Camp Portland, credentials, hack, hackers, handshake, humans, json, Legacy, Oauth, password, PHP5, security, serious hackers, skynet, third party, third party application, token, twitter, web application THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SERIOUS DORKAGE. ANYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT. You’re probably here because you suspect someone (parent, spouse, sibling, roomate, etc.) is reading your email. That’s the problem. Before I describe the booby-trap I will insert this caveat: Problems like this are best avoided from the get-go. Did you ever . . . → Read More: Booby Trap your Email: catch common snoops 28 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security bait, booby trap, can't resist, catch a spy, easy, email attachment, email snoop, hack, juicy, juicy pictures, juicy subject line, lightweight geekery, onestat.com, open attachment, quick, roommate, sex kitten, sexy, sexy hotmail address, significant other, slutty, snoop, spy, tempting, tracking code, trap, trap a snoop, tripwire, wise living, XXX I just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that . . . → Read More: New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing adjix, configuration, filthy rich, hack, monetize, money, monkeys, PHP class, PHP5, retirement, Richard Thripp, riches, shortener, solid waste port, support, tweet this, URL length, URL shrinkers, word press plugin I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter. I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e. without the brain . . . → Read More: When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing automate, bird, dorkage, flying monkeys, followers, Guy Kawasaki, hack, kadavy, monkeys, monkeys fly out my ass, orifice, plugin, Richard X Thripp, slideshare, tweet, tweet this, twitter, twitter replies, twitterfeed, Wordpress This is a prototype expression of thanks in the form of Linky LUV in appreciation of my fans over on Hub Pages It randomly displays one of their widgets right here in an IFRAME. This has been upgraded so it will do anybody’s fans, not just mine. If you don’t like the looks of the . . . → Read More: A hack for my Hubpages fans Comments are closed Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security expression, fan club, fan widget, fans, hack, HubPages, hubpages fan widget, iframe, linkedin, Linky, Linky LUV, LUV, prototype, random, refresh The dork is featured again in Issue #4 (August 1) of Information Security Short Takes that I was in last month. This blog features a monthly blog carnival potpourri webzine of useful selection of security related articles. I know, I know, nobody wants to hear about security. It’s boring as all get out, and . . . → Read More: Security Articles Growing a Tail! 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Hacking and Security article syndication, blog carnival, consequences, crack, credit card, hack, identity, identity theft, info security, linkedin, nightmare, security, security articles, tail, webzine If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive. . . . → Read More: StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Multimedia, Uncategorized art, artist, attraction, audio, background music, beat, cover art, crap, deal breaker, download, flash, genre, genres, hack, instrumentalists, junk, junk food, Latin, linkedin, music, niche, play, pulp, pulp fiction, ream, schlock, schlocky, singers, spanish rap, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, track, trite, untalented, visual |
Try my beta Word Press Plugin
Well, it had to happen. It is amazing that I’ve been using WordPress so long without getting into its guts. While hacking on the Tweet this plugin ever so gently, I started to get the feel for how WP plugins work. So I wrote a couple myself. The first one is serious old school, as . . . → Read More: Try my beta Word Press Plugin