sil3ntmac

13 ms·

91.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
The OP is referring to Apple's iPhone power/usb connector cable, as seen in this picture: http://i.imgur.com/yAywo.jpg . The dock connector strain relief is decidedly weaker (I have had two or three break on me personally) than other Apple
92.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
Ah, right, that makes sense. Well then someone should put together a rainbow table of collisions with actual songs, haha.
93.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
Are the mp3s going to be in the cloud? Or on my hard drive? ... because it seems like it would be trivial to "spoof" an mp3 for downloading (take a random mp3, perhaps cut to the correct length, add the correct id3 tags and tell iTunes Matc
94.
The Mona Lisa Curse (video series)(youtube.com)
1 points by sil3ntmac 15y ago|0 comments
95.
How I implement static-site search (an alternative to Tapir)(joevennix.com)
1 points by sil3ntmac 15y ago|1 comments
96.
Hacking Safari's Reader(joevennix.com)
1 points by sil3ntmac 15y ago|0 comments
97.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
Gah, motion smoothing. More than once, I've been asked by friends why their brand new huge LCD TV "makes movies look like they're filmed with a handicam." Always the same answer: turn off motion smoothing. It's a silly feature to ship with
98.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
Bummer. I love the Slicehost interface... so simple! I hope they retain all the linux tutorials on Slicehost, that's what made me join anywhere. The content in those is pure gold.
99.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
Oops, I meant "not that it's worse (less readable) than the left."
100.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
"Better" doesn't necessarily mean more readable or understandable. I'm not an expert by any means, but the flow of the text on the right is a bit disconcerting (e.g. spacing of "Regular Classes" - half of typography is negative space), not
101.
JScrollie, and Why Javascript Scrollbars Suck(joevennix.com)
4 points by sil3ntmac 15y ago|0 comments
102.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
That's correct, unless the object is autoreleased, in which case the system will get around to deallocating it after the current run loop iterates (provided you're using the default autorelease pool).
103.
by sil3ntmac 15y ago
You were downvoted for adding a snidey remark to a decent question. Next time just ask the question. Since I'm curious as well, how does Tumblr make money besides themes? Does anyone know their monetization strategy?
104.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
I don't think so... isn't the keyboard disabled in Flash fullscreen? Same goes for Silverlight and Java applets.
105.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
I used to do the same thing, but a little differently. I used SleepWatcher as well, ( http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/ ), but set it up to run the following script, which uses isightcapture ( http://www.intergalactic.de/pages/iSight.html )
106.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Using Safari 5.0.2, after clicking "Share my location" and then searching, it used Manhattan as my location, and I had to go and manually change it in the search options.
107.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
You may want to download TinkerTool ( http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html ) and set font smoothing to "light". Here's a before and after screenshot I just made: http://imgur.com/gOffi
108.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
One comment: on your home page, http://embed.ly , you might want to change the font that is used in the blurb "Convert your links into embeddable content..." It's narrow and really strains my eyes to read. It looks like it's meant to be u
109.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
You might be thinking of the movie 21, the MIT blackjack team does exactly this.
110.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
It's not an OSX or iOS device, but Apple recently removed the hard drive from the Apple TV.
111.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Yes, and also remove an open overlay whenever you click elsewhere on the map.
112.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Maybe you could turn one on, capture the positions of the dots, and then turn the other on, and somehow guess which one was which when the 3d mesh changes (from motion)?
113.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
To be fair not all covers of Wired feature a person. I did a google image search to check though, and ran into this: http://mrmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/wired.jpg ...which seemed a bit more of a stretch than putting up breasts f
114.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Are you redirecting based on user-agent string? The iPad reports Mobile Safari in its user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.
115.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Yes that seems a very possible result. Besides, I'm sure Apple already does UX/UI testing of their products as much as possible.
116.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
Ah, this might be bad news for http://smokescreen.us I've been watching them hopefully for a couple months, and it's been looking pretty good (see the demo of Strongbad in js here: http://smokescreen.us/demos/sb45demo.html ), but unless
117.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
McDonalds has never made me sick. Just sayin'.
118.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system ), most Tire-pressure monitoring systems nowadays use RF as their communication link. I'm no EE major, but I do like to tinker with stuff like this... Any
119.
Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors(arstechnica.com)
26 points by sil3ntmac 16y ago|13 comments
120.
by sil3ntmac 16y ago
I thought this idea had been around forever? I've seen it implemented with turntables before, which adds a nice touch. Edit: It's been done with legos: http://philohome.com/scan3d/scan3d.htm Also, check out the MilkScanner, very cool! h

More ›