November 17, 2009
Google is the Nirvana of most nerds. They’ve given us things we could only dream of for free. They’ve showed us on multiple occasions that they’re more than just ‘the search engine guys’. One of those occasions was very recently. With its own mobile operating system, Google has been challenging Windows Mobile (not much of [...]
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October 11, 2009
Facebook is pretty awesome, but it is far from perfect. More than once, I’ve heard complaints about some of Facebook’s technical aspects. Sadly, Facebook isn’t open-sourced, so users can’t change anything themselves – or can they? By using simple pieces of Javascript code, or by applying Firefox Greasemonkey userscripts, users can change the appearance and [...]
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October 1, 2009
Whether you’re a college student, a middle-aged networking guru or a wife and mother fascinated by the world of online games – everyone occasionally comes across a situation where some form of hacking would make life a whole lot easier. Maybe you’ve lost the license that came with your legitimate software package that you paid [...]
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September 21, 2009
The very first thing I should mention is that when it comes to Facebook, there’s really no such thing as “hack codes.” The title of this article is partially tongue-in-cheek, because with Facebook, the rules change so often that one “Facebook hack” code that works today will likely not work tomorrow. Facebook designers change links [...]
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August 2, 2009
For those of you that work in Information Technology and started in the last 20 years or so, chances are you were inspired by movies such as War Games, Sneakers or even Hackers. Remember that 80′s T.V. show Whiz Kids? That was cool too. I so wanted to be one of those kids. Of course, [...]
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July 17, 2009
There are a lot of different reasons why one would want to use any number of password hack tools to hack a Windows password. Of course, there are the good-hearted reasons, like helping your grandpa because he forgot his password and is locked out of his own computer. Then, there are the more dubious reasons, [...]
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April 24, 2009
Most of us will agree that we are paranoid about email security and hack attacks. We should equally be concerned about the other popular connection device we use ““ the humble instant messenger. It is also open to some of the privacy risks we associate with emails. Especially in a business environment, unsecured IM installations [...]
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April 13, 2009
Nowadays I think many people are over-obsessive about security online, but in some cases it is more than warranted. Remember when Make Use Of was simply stolen from under us? Gmail security flaws, website design problems, you name it, the user doesn’t necessarily have to be at fault all the time, but we have to [...]
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March 25, 2009
In the first part of "Utilize Your Mac SMS" series, we discussed a SMS-based application to prevent Macbook theft. Now we will discuss other cool applications utilizing the Sudden Motion Sensor feature of Mac laptops.
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January 9, 2009
Today, Paypal is one of the most popular methods of making a financial transaction on the Internet. Unfortunately, it also remains one of the easiest systems to infiltrate for a hacker. This is why it’s important for every Paypal user to understand how to keep your Paypal account safe. Knowledge is power – and if [...]
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November 21, 2008
As many of you already know on November 2nd, MakeUseOf.com’s domain was stolen from us. It took us about 36 hours to get the domain back. As we have pointed out earlier the hacker somehow managed to get access to my Gmail account and from there to our GoDaddy account, unlock the domain and move [...]
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October 11, 2008
So you like to share your music eh? Yes we know that you can let other people on your network connect and listen to your iTunes library. We also know you are sucking up the office bandwidth and wasting valuable company time. BUT….don’t worry we wont narc on you to your HR department or even [...]
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October 3, 2008
I’ll bet that headline got your attention! We all know that the purpose of computer passwords is to protect personal information that you’ve stored on your computer, and in your online accounts. With access to your passwords, cyber-criminals (they come in all shapes, sizes and flavors – so don’t be fooled), can and will, steal [...]
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September 30, 2008
Back in February Mark wrote an article, Are You Sure Your Email Isn’t Being Hacked. It provided step by step instructions on how to setup “electronic tripwire” in your email. When someone opens it the account owner gets alerted. This time I want to go over one new Gmail feature. It watches your account and [...]
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September 19, 2008
Windows XP is, in my opinion, one of the best operating systems. It is extremely customizable (even if it is not intended to be), compatible with nearly everything, and is quite stable. Here I will show you just one way to customize it, to be precise ‘ how to change windows start button text ‘. [...]
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