Category: Tips & How To’s
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Modern Mobile Redirect Using .htaccess
The following set of rewrite rules will redirect all Android, Blackberry, iOS, Windows and WebOS devices to a specific mobile directory on your website. Additionally, it will redirect Google’s mobile crawler – according to Google search spam czar Matt Cutts this is perfectly acceptable and even somewhat encourage. Code snippet – Simple .htaccess Mobile Redirect…
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How To: Get Better BitTorrent Speeds
Have you been seeing decreasing BitTorrent transfer speeds? Have you received an annoying notice from your ISP accusing you of illegally downloading a Hollywood blockbuster? Would you like to live in a better internet? Well, I have the answer for you: encryption. You see, every BitTorrent packet your computer sends or receives contains header data stating that…
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Gawker Hacks [update: no Digsby]
If you missed it, Gawker Media’s username/password database was hacked and paswords decrypted! This is very very bad. Lifehacker, has a comprehensive post about the compromise. They only left out one little piece of info, your password may have been exposed even if you’ve never logged in to a Gawker site. Multi-IM client Digsby is…
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No “Gate Rape” for Canadians…yet.
With all the talk of enhanced pat-downs/sexual assault/gate rape being conducted by the TSA at US airports (in the event that you wish to opt-out of the full body scan), I was wondering what the Canadian Air Transport Security Agency’s policy might be. Typically we seem to follow US rules fairly closely up here. CATSA’s…
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How To: Watch Hulu in Canada. A New Method.
In August I posted a method I found for watching Hulu in Canada (or anywhere outside of the US for that matter). Unfortunately, that method was a little complicated and Hulu fixed it a few days after Lifehacker posted about it. Last Night I found a new hole and this one’s a fair bit simpler.…