4 Cool Things You Can Do With Wappwolf and ifttt
Wappwolf and ifttt are a bit like the chocolate and peanut butter in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Separate, they're pretty good. Together…
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Articles tagged "Hack of the Day"
Tue, 24 April 2012
Mon, 26 March 2012
Microsoft Uses RICO Laws To Take Down Zeus Command Servers
The next time representatives from Microsoft come knocking on your door, it may be to actually seize your servers. And it is all legit…
Fri, 16 March 2012
What SendHub Learned Building a Single-Page Backbone.js App
SendHub has put up a post on things its developers learned in rebuilding the front-end of its Web site as a single-page application with…
Mon, 12 March 2012
NASA Launches Global Hackathon Challenge
NASA is inviting all citizens of planet Earth to take part in a two-day coding marathon next month. Called the International Space Apps…
Thu, 8 March 2012
Nervous Medical Students Await Next Week's Match Day
Imagine looking for a job at the same exact time that everyone else is doing it, and you have to adhere to rigid interviewing and…
Mon, 16 January 2012
Pushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.js
Sometimes, you need to see what a technology can do before you can fully appreciate it. Take, for instance, CSS 3D and Three.js. It's one…
Thu, 29 December 2011
Create an HTML5 Game, Win $30k and a Trip to GDC/SF
We bring in the new year with a new Pokki developer contest. Like the one we mentioned in October, you have a chance to win 30 large. But…
Fri, 16 December 2011
Create Subway Maps with jQuery Plugin
There's something very appealing about the design of the London Underground (PDF) Tube maps. The design has spawned plenty of spinoffs…
Wed, 14 December 2011
Tales of Extreme Coding: Shark Week at BrightTag
A blog post from the coders at BrightTag this week is instructive in how they responded to a "shark week." No, it wasn't giving all the…
Wed, 7 December 2011
A New Kaggle Contest for Kinect
In addition to the official Kinect Accelerator program we wrote about last month, data crowdsourcing contest site Kaggle today announced a…
Mon, 7 November 2011
Coding in the Cloud With Just an iPad
Mark O'Connor, a Munich-based programmer, recently swapped out his laptop for an iPad and tried an experiment to see if coding in the…
Tue, 1 November 2011
Stop Sharing Your Files When You Travel
Earlier this fall, I wrote about how hotel lobbies are becoming more social. Well, through no fault of their own, they are also becoming…
Wed, 26 October 2011
Siri, Pour Me a Beer!
The history of nerds automating their potables goes back a long way, even before claims about who invented the Internet. The latest…
Tue, 18 October 2011
New Stuxnet Variants Are Found in Europe
The same Symantec team that cracked Stuxnet has found new variations on the same theme in packet captures from European networks. They…
Mon, 10 October 2011
Top 6 Dumbest Hacks of All Time
Alan Wlasuk, CEO of 403 Web Security, has compiled a list of the top six dumbest hacks of all time. While hackers can be dangerous, Alan…
Sun, 2 October 2011
Build an HTML5 App, Win $30K
Yes, another contest (we aren't affiliated, just like to spread the word). This one is from Pokki. You have until November 15th to submit…
Mon, 19 September 2011
Foursquare Holds Hackathon Weekend
This past weekend groups of developers gathered across the world for Foursquare's two-day global hackathon. Officially taking in place in…
Wed, 14 September 2011
Carnegie Mellon Team Wins Yahoo Open Hack Contest
In news that will no doubt make our Pittsburgh-based COO Sean Ammirati swell with local pride, the Carnegie Mellon University team D1W…
Mon, 5 September 2011
Viadeo Launches Developer Contest With $20,000 Prize
We've written before about Viadeo, a business-oriented social network. Today they announced opening up their API and to get folks…
Fri, 2 September 2011
Build Your Own iPad-based Oscilloscope
James Turner writes in this month's IEEE Spectrum of a neat project, and if you are looking for something to do over the long weekend it…
Mon, 29 August 2011
Will Static Sites Rise Again with Cloud Services?
Once upon a time, before the word Internet (or cloud) put dollar signs in VC eyes, sites were built with static tools. All a good…
Thu, 18 August 2011
Hack Your Firewall's Content Awareness
It isn't every day that you can easily try to examine your own perimeter defenses with what Fidelis Security Systems calls its Content IQ…
Mon, 15 August 2011
Take the Defense Department Hacking Challenge
If you fancy yourself a law enforcement computer forensics examiner, then you might want to sign up for this year's Defense Department DC3…
Tue, 31 May 2011
DOOM Ported to JavaScript and HTML5
OK, we've seen Linux and a GameBoy Color emulator running on JavaScript. What's next? The original DOOM, apparently. Alon Zakai has ported…
