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Web Design Hack – How To Make An Awesome CSS Web Calendar with iPhone-like Graphics!

max — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:23:20 +0000

As a web developer/hacker, I am always searching for the next new thing in CSS, of course, this particular web calendar really impressed me with not a whole lot of code.

I think you can easily apply this to make your web app shine more. (Check out the demo)

I wanted it to be similar to the iPhone Calendar application (or, if you want, to the little calendar on the left bottom corner in iCal). And I also wanted to keep the code as little and sweet as possible (we don’t like maintenance, do we?).

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Web Design Hack – How To Make An Awesome CSS Web Calendar with iPhone-like Graphics!

DIY Pulsar Mini-Synthesizer/Sequencer!

max — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:43:11 +0000

I have a confession to make, I have been corrupted by one of my best friend to spend hours in front of his 80s sequencer and make my own music. If you are a hardcore DJ/hacker/musician, you might be interested in this cool DIY Pulsar Mini Synthesizer/Sequencer that will let you make some cool 8-bit sounds ALL day long. :p

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Video of the Pulsar Sequencer in action:

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DIY Pulsar Mini-Synthesizer/Sequencer!

Multi-Touch DIY – How to Build a Multi-Touch Surface Computer!

max — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:11:09 +0000

Microsoft Surface may be an easy option for businesses to get a multi-touch surface computer but they did not invent it nor is it the only viable option to having one yourself.

The guys over at MaximumPC has done a fantastic job of documenting how to build a multi-touch surface computer all from scratch using open-source multi-touch software Touchlib. I find it facinating that the multi-touch is basically composed of IR LEDs, camera, and IR filter; it’s not much of a science at all nor new technology but it does, however, look tight in the eyes of a modder/hacker.

There are several different ways to make a multi-touch surface, but we’ll focus on the one that we employed: the FTIR screen. An FTIR (short for Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) setup involves three vital components: a sheet of transparent acrylic, a chain of infrared LEDs, and a camera with an IR filter. The LEDs are arranged around the outside of the sheet of acrylic so that they shine directly into the thin side surfaces.

If you are up for the challege, I highly suggest you to build one of these and guest blog it on my blog.

Here’s a video demo:

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Multi-Touch DIY – How to Build a Multi-Touch Surface Computer!

Note to Spammers and Hackers

max — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:16:42 +0000

Dear Spammer and Hacker who’s trying to spam this site,

STOP! Your IP addresses are being reported to FBI for interuption/spamming act.

LAMO, and stop trying to leave nasty comments, that will only get you IP-banned, this is my site, not yours.

Take your nasty comments elsewhere, spammers and hackers (without class) are not for Zedomax.com.

If you are going to leave a nasty comment, you will receive a nasty comment back.

For everyone else, sorry if the site has been down, there’s been a lot of DoS attacks we have been receiving but fighting very hard.

We are working on reverse-hacking the spammers/hackers and they have all been reported to FBI so things should be resolved. (Have a great time packing up your bag and going somewhere else to hide while the feds are coming after you.)

Btw, your elite proxies aren’t good enough buds, try harder, I am a hacker too.

Best regards,

Max :p

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Home DIY – How to Make a Cold Cathode Tube Night Light!

max — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:43:56 +0000

Here’s an awesome DIY that shows you how to make these cold cathode tube night lights that will brighten up your room much better than that $1 night light you bought last week.

The road to hacker prowess is paved in stillborn experiments and bloody pieces of failed projects. From these failures we learn patience, determination, how to cuss, and of course, what not to do. The following hour of programming details once such disaster;

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Home DIY – How to Make a Cold Cathode Tube Night Light!

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas!

max — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:54:46 +0000

Well, being a hacker I am, I made my girlfriend an LED heart few years back but if you don’t like hacking, you can get this USB Plasma Heart for Valentines. (via cg) Of course, there’s no guarantee that this will satisfy her over other jewelry options out there.

There’s also an LED Heart-Shaped Pillow, that could be a good alternative.

Instructables has bunch of DIYs on how to make Valentines Treats, so check that out too.

If you are green eco-conscious person, make sure to check out Valentines gift ideas from Treehugger too.

And more DIY Valentines gift ideas at Make…

If you run out of ideas, there’s also bunch of Valentines gifts over at Amazon here.

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Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas!

Wii Hack – How to Make a Wiimote Jogging Board!

max — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:58:46 +0000

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If you are a Wii addict/hacker, you will want to check out this homebrewed hack on making your own Wiimote jogging board. Of course, making things yourself always beats anything you can buy such as WiiFit.

I wondered about a way to get fitter, work out without having to go running outside (although that is very healthy). I didn’t think the Wii balance board would do the trick, as the Wii games where reported not to be very intense, and the board itself is to hard for running on it. So what is different about the Swiiboard is that can absorb running effort, measure the effort and perhaps that it can use those measurements to control a virtual environment. It turned out this can be achieved using a Wiimote controller.

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Wii Hack – How to Make a Wiimote Jogging Board!

Lady Ada’s new DIY Singing Pencil Kit!

max — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:48:56 +0000

Lady Ada, crazy-lady-hacker I met at Maker Faire 2007, has made a new fun kit that consists of a pencil that will “sing” when you draw stuff.

Our friends at Adafruit have released a fun new kit called the “Drawdio” — adapted from the original Drawdio design by Jay Silver – which lets you create a pencil that makes noisy almost-music via the variations in the resistance of graphite pencil lead. It’s $20 plus shipping. I just ordered one so I can recreate my middle school notebook sketches to literally hear the music of the anime spheres.

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Lady Ada’s new DIY Singing Pencil Kit!

Phone HACK – How to Unblock Blocked Caller-ID Numbers!

max — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:25:07 +0000

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Here’s a cool hack showing you how to unblock blocked caller-ID numbers.

*This is informational purposes only. Do not use this hack unless you are a law enforcement agent.

In a demonstration video, a hacker tweaks said asterisk box with some new configurations to strip out privacy flags, forward the call to another number, and ultimately reveal caller ID information which, surprisingly, is still available. This isn’t meant to be easy, but if the terms “prepend,” “SIP trunk,” and “asterisk box” don’t scare you away, go ahead and watch the video after the break.

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Phone HACK – How to Unblock Blocked Caller-ID Numbers!

Ultrasonic Repellent Circuit Diagram!

max — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:31:33 +0000

If you are a hacker, DIYer and you don’t want to buy an ultrasonic repellent, you can build your own using free schematics on the web.

The one above from electronic-circuits-diagrams

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Ultrasonic Repellent Circuit Diagram!

GooHack Searches of the Day – Goo

max — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:13:58 +0000

Well, to promote our new hack search engine, GooHack, we will be doing “GooHack searches of the Day” daily and try to find some interesting new hacks for all you hacker readers.

So to start out, I did a Goo Hack search on the term “Goo” and found some interesting stuff:

How to make glow stick goo – Lol… I really need this guy next time I am at a rave.

The future of Goo – Yey, goo is officially awesome and being continually improved by companies.

How to make Nasa-grade Space Goo – Don’t you just love Goo?

What is Goo exactly?

Goo is a term for a slimy, shapeless mass. – according to Wikipedia

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GooHack Searches of the Day – Goo

DIY HACK – How to Turn Your Canon into a Super-Camera!

max — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:59:14 +0000

Here’s CHDK, an aftermarket firmware you can download to your Canon digital camera and turn it into a super-camera.

Good thing I have 2 Canons, I will have to try this hack out and report back to you on how well the time-lapse feature worked.

The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit, aka CHDK, is a firmware enhancement that supports an impressive array of Canon digital cameras. I emphasize the enhancement aspect of CHDK because the tool is non-permanent and non-destructive, meaning that you load it onto your camera whenever you want to use it; CHDK makes no changes to your camera, and turning it off is simply a matter of restarting your camera. Installing CHDK involves copying a couple of files onto your camera’s memory card; permanently removing it from your camera entails deleting those files. It’s simple and powerful (sort of like hacking your router firmware) but even easier.

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DIY HACK – How to Turn Your Canon into a Super-Camera!

DIY Wordpress HACK – How to import Ultimate Tag Warrior Tags if you keep getting errors!

max — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:55:13 +0000

Well, since I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, I’ve had to let go of Ultimate Tag Warrior. Actually, I thought Ultimate Tag Warrior was working until today, when I found out every URL such as http://zedomax.com/tag/lasers, was giving me a 404 error.

Well, being an old school I am, I did even try to downgrade back to my favorite Wordpress 2.2.3, which results in catastrophic failure with the wp-categories… Damn it!

So I did look through the internet and basically Wordpress 2.5 has a built-in function to let you import Ultimate Tag Warrior tags.

Even though it should have gone smoothly, I did encounter LOTS of problems as the built-in function was very basic and did not support importing of 47,000 tags, which is what this site has.

The first problem I had was that I keep getting the following message:

Done! 13331 tags were read.
Reading UTW Post Tags…
Done! 45824 tags to post relationships were read.
Adding Tags to Posts…
Done! 0 tags were added!

Now, as you can see everything worked until the last line, “Done! 0 tags were added!”. I was so furious to know why it wasn’t working, so I even downgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1-RC, which others were saying that it worked.

Now when I tried to import, I did get this error message:

WordPress database error: [Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes]

This one is easy, this simply means your MySQL server is not set to handle large amount of data.

So I did change the max_allowed_packet size to 1 gigabyte like this by add this line:

set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1024M

(Yes, 1 gig should do the job I thought…)

Well, it turns out that after this change, I don’t get the “0 tags were added” message, but the screen “hangs” at the last step of the import screen…

As a more of a good hacker than a developer I am, I finally decided it was time to hack the Wordpress itself.

When I looked into the import php file, utw.php which is under wp-admin/import directory of your Wordpress blog.

It turns out that the import program is very basic at most and the programmer didn’t even consider large chunks of data.

So instead of doing 1 MySQL query, I changed it so it only fetches 100 data bits at a time.

If you are having problems like me with a large tag database, you can change the following function in utw.php like this:

function tag2post ( ) {

// get the tags and posts we imported in the last 2 steps
$tags = get_option(‘utwimp_tags’);
$posts = get_option(‘utwimp_posts’);

global $wpdb;
$startvalue=0;
$endvalue=1000;
$ct=$startvalue;

$tags_added = 0;
while($ct<$endvalue) {

$posts_query = “SELECT tag_id, post_id FROM ” . $wpdb->prefix . “post2tag”.” LIMIT “.$ct.”,100″;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results($posts_query);

if($posts) {
// null out our results

// loop through each post and add its tags to the db
foreach ( $posts as $this_post ) {

$the_post = (int) $this_post->post_id;
$the_tag = (int) $this_post->tag_id;

// what’s the tag name for that id?
$the_tag = $tags[$the_tag];

// screw it, just try to add the tag
wp_add_post_tags($the_post, $the_tag);
$tags_added++;
echo “Num: “.$tags_added.” – “.$the_tag.”
”;

}

}
$ct=$ct+100;
sleep(0.1);
}
echo “HACKED by Max Lee from http://zedomax.com yey!”;

// that’s it, all posts should be linked to their tags properly, pending any errors we just spit out!
return $tags_added;

}

Download my UTW.php here (rename utw.txt as utw.php)

Now, my recommendation is to run the Step 3 of the UTW import by taking 2000 tags at a time. You can change the value of $startvalue and $endvalue to control the range of your imports.

FInally, I did get all my precious tags imported, now you can install the Tag Suggest Thing and some other cool stuff from the UTW.

Phew, that was a long 4 hours of hacking Wordpress. Although I am very impressed at the new Wordpress 2.5, functions like the Ultimate Tag Warrior import could be improved dramatically through use of smarter programming and AJAX.

What I do recommend that Wordpress developers do is use AJAX to fetch at most 1000 tags at a time and then update the screen and the database to protect again freezing or users having to re-configure their MySQL server.

I also found out that if your PHP setttings for max_execution_time is low, (mine was at 10 seconds), this can be a problem as the import process takes longer than 10 seconds for big databases.

So change it like this in your /etc/php.ini file:

max_execution_time = 90 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 95 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 128M

Then you can change it back after import.

Now, I’ve outlined all the possible problems you can have while importing your “large” number of tags.

For blogs with little or less than 2000 tags, the default Wordpress importer shouldn’t be a problem but for people like me with over 10,000 tags, this is a big problem but I am sure Wordpress developers will update it in the future. Check me out as I tried to get help from Wordpress Forum, but I did figure it out eventually myself.

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DIY Wordpress HACK – How to import Ultimate Tag Warrior Tags if you keep getting errors!

Robot catapult

max — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:31:09 +0000

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Remember the Wii Robot? Well, check out Robot catapult. It’s tight.

Every hacker wants a budget to do bigger, cooler hacks. Well, we got our budget, all $1000 of it, and decided to turn a borrowed industrial robot into a catapult, a hack we’d been hoping to do for a long, long time. We’d been joking about throwing heavy objects with one of these robots ever since we saw the payload specs and an anvil in the shop

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Robot catapult

Water Jet Clock

max — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:27:00 +0000

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Wow, Japan has some awesome technologies but this one is really really really cool…

John from The Hacker’s Bench has put together a selection of crazy clocks, this water clock that is located in Kanazawa Station is my favorite. It uses jets of water to either display the time or messages. If you know where we can find some more details of the build I would love to hear from you. Make sure you watch the last 5 seconds of the video to see it close-up.

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Water Jet Clock

Circuit Board Earings and Keyboard Cufflinks!

max — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:37:19 +0000

Check out some of the cool circuit board earing and keyboard cufflinks if you are a hardcore hacker! Thanks Nicola for the tip!

Thought your might get a kick out of my DIY geekware over at www.acornstudios.ca

I’ve just finished updating with a whole bunch of new creations that I think your readers might like if they are into fun geeky gifts. All hand made by me up in Edmonton, Canada.

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Circuit Board Earings and Keyboard Cufflinks!

How to use a multimeter!

max — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:36:13 +0000

Download latest version of Flash to view video!.

Here’s a cool howto on using a multimeter. This could be very useful if you are a hacker, inventor, gadgeteer, maker, or ninja among other super human beings…
It could be helpful to know the next time your wife asks you how many volts is running through the power line that your dog or cat stripped…

Check out the pdf too!

This Make: Video Podcast brings you another tutorial featuring hardware hacker Joe Grand. This weekend, dust off that multimeter and learn how to use it! In this video you’ll learn how to check for continuity, measure resistance and measure voltage. These measurements are really handy to have in your bag of tricks if you are messing around with electronics. Make sure to download the accompanying pdf so that you can print it out and have it next to you as you become familiar with these essential multimeter skills.

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Hacking and Network Security

max — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:46:48 +0000

Here’s some cool list of hacking and network security websites:

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Hacking and Network Security

DIY ideA! – Kyoto Power Consumption Device

max — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:00:57 +0000

Cool looking power display…

The Wattson displays how much power you’re using in your house so you can actively see how much electricity your going through… I think if I had one of these I’d be more likely to walk around the house and turn off more stuff to always keep the number as low as possible, looks handy…

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DIY ideA! – Kyoto Power Consumption Device

Amp Switch in a Altoids CAN

max — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:51:47 +0000

Cool Amp swtich in a altoids CAN. I was always thinking about something like this, so you can switch quickly between TV, PSP, and DVD…

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Amp Switch in a Altoids CAN

Hacks – Janus, the industrial network hacking computer

max — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:35:57 +0000

This is the computer every hacker should have…

Looks really cool…

“He said over 2000 access points were scanned and 3.5 GB of traffic was captured during the entire convention.”

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