May 1, 2011
I’m a big fan of RSS, let it be known. The idea of actually visiting the same website over and over in order to read the content is rather tedious. However, one problem I do constantly run into is sites that display an excerpt in the feed instead of the full content – so today I’m going to show you 3 ways in which you grab the full feed from the partial feed.
March 30, 2011
Did you know that the New York Times spent an incredible $40 million on their recent paywall solution? Did you also know that it can be circumvented with all but a few clicks? If you’re interested in how the Internet has rendered $40 million worth of effort redundant, then read on.
February 15, 2011
With piracy a constant concern for computer software companies, methods of registering and validating software are now the norm. Operating systems are no different. Microsoft Windows has long used a product key that validates the operating system. The complexity of the validation used, however, has increased over time. Today, Microsoft has online activation servers that must validate [...]
January 6, 2011
Did you ever wonder why text messages on your mobile phone are limited to 160 characters? The first text message was sent in 1992 and texting soon became a mass phenomenon. Subsequently, the magic number of 160 characters was adopted for other forms of communication and today we see similar character limits on micro blogging [...]
November 28, 2010
If there was ever a great website to stream series and documentaries, it isn’t YouTube. No offense. MegaVideo, from the same minds of file-sharing website MegaUpload, gets a slightly better shot. It’s fun and easy to browse, has an incredible array of videos and sports one of the best web players I’ve ever seen. The [...]
November 27, 2010
There’s nothing worse than a program losing features, so it’s understandable that Boxee users are upset about Hulu’s latest outage in their favorite media center. Lucky there’s an easy fix. The enthusiastic community over at the Boxee forums found a way to get Hulu working on Boxee, at least for now. By masking Boxee so [...]
September 30, 2010
Pirating video used to be limited to downloading movies and shows, but these days the dark corners of the web offer plentiful opportunities for pirates to broadcast and watch live events. Such streams are illegal but might give you access to something that you couldn’t find otherwise. Also, unlike legal streams, these work in every [...]
August 20, 2010
I had quite a lot of trouble last week with a company’s browsing restrictions. It used an extensive directory of ‘forbidden websites’ that kept out all but a few popular sites. In effect, no games sites, no personal email, and no MakeUseOf. None of the conventional proxy servers worked, and even Google Translate failed. My [...]
June 7, 2010
Sometimes curiosity gets the best of you. Sometimes you want to know what “The 10 Funniest Pictures you’ll EVER see in your Lifetime” are, but you don’t want to have to become a fan of it on Facebook before you even get to see them. There are a few different methods to see the hidden [...]
April 27, 2010
There are some very effective methods to get around firewalls. However, the best of them involve setting up your own proxy server, remote access, VPNs, tunnels, proxy software and all sorts of other methods that involve a little bit of foresight and planning (not to mention some geek smarts). But none of these fancy fixes [...]
