Apr 28th, 2008 by Erik Gyepes
Last week I received iPhone case from OtterBox which is an US company. They
are famous not only by cases for iPhones or iPods, but also for many types of
other PDA's cases for HP, Palm, BlackBerry etc. For iPhone they offer
2 types of cases – iPhone Armor, which is waterproof and iPhone
Defender, which is not waterproof, but it offers
3 layers of great protection. Right about this case I would
like to say something more.
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Dec 3rd, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Few days ago I’ve found a web service called Songza.com. As their tag line says - it’s an music search engine and an internet jukebox.
The good thing about Songza is that it can find almost any music files you type in the search box and it plays the song right in your browser, so you even don’t need any music player to hear your favourite songs.
Some of the Songza’s features are:
- top songza songs
- online playlists
- send to a friend link
- link to song
- watch on YouTube
- and more
The page also offer to search for an artists discography or for an artist (to buy its CD) on Google.
I wondered how this service works and after a while I found out that the source for the songs is YouTube where as we know there are a plenty of music video clips.
Posted in Internet hacks, Fun & Relax | 2 Comments »
Sep 27th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Mozilla Firefox is my no. 1 web browser and I also must to admit that it is the most used application on my desktop. I’m using it on daily basis and as I like to do things fast and in a comfortable way I’m using keyboard shortcuts. I thought that they could help to many of my readers too, so I’d love to share them with you:
- Ctrl+T [open a new tab]
- Ctrl+W [close current tab]
- Alt+D [go to address bar]
- Ctrl+K [go to search bar]
- Ctrl+Shift+T [reopen the latest closed tab]
- Ctrl+F [search the page]
- Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- [increase/decrease text size]
- F5 [refresh (reload) page]
- Alt+Home [go to homepage]
- Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (or Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown) [go to the next/previous tab]
The order of shortcuts is random as I’m using them also randomly, but those are my most used keyboard shortcuts in Firefox.
What cool (productive|killer|hidden|whatever) shortcuts do you use? Share them with us in the comments!
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Sep 16th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Everybody wants an iPhone and many of us would like to get the iPhone unlocked in order to use it worldwide. Before 2 months when iPhone was released there was no real solution to unlock your iPhone, but today the things were changed. There is a free GUI iPhone unlock application which you just install to your iPhone and you can unlock your iPhone just by running the app.
The applications name is anySIM and it’s released by iPhone Dev Team. You can freely download it right from our servers:
Download anySIM.zip from GeekHacks.com
Mirrors:
http://www.weputit.com/files/iphone/anySIM.zip
http://iphone.doggunn.com/anySIM.zip
Installation
Just copy the app to your iPhone and run it. You can find more detailed installation instructions on iPhoneAlley.com: anySIM Released: Free GUI iPhone Unlock
Attention: I don’t guarantee you that this must work!
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Sep 13th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Did you ever dream about Matrix Desktop? A desktop where you could use your screensaver as your desktop wallpaper? Today I’m going to show you a way how you can achieve this effect in Linux, especially when you use Gnome as your desktop environment:
1. The first step we need to take is turn off Nautilus which draws the current desktop and icons in Gnome:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
2. Next we need to turn up xscreensaver and its ‘glmatrix’ screensaver (nice Matrix movie like screensaver) in the root window (in the desktop):
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
3. Congratulations! That’s all 
4. Optional: If you would like to start the animation whenever you log in, then create a file “~/.config/autostart/glmatrix.desktop” with the following content:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=No name
Name[en_IN]=Desktop matrix
Exec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
After you would like to get back to your previous desktop, just insert the following on the command line (ElecBoy thanks for that):
gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus
When all steps are successfully done we should expect something like this:
Via
Posted in Linux Hacks | 72 Comments »
Aug 17th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
I was always curious about how things and technologies are done and how they works. When it goes to software and web applications I always wondered how it’s programmed and what tools were used during the development of that application.
Last week I found a great Web 2.0 application called BuiltWith which can find out what technologies were used to built a specific page. Using BuiltWith is as easy as putting the URL to the form and hitting Enter (or clicking on Lookup button) After that we get a list of technologies which powers the current website.
For example if you are curious what technologies are used here on Geek Hacks you can easily put geekhacks.com to the lookup form and follow up the list. You can see there that I’m using Google Analytics to track my visitors. Interesting thing there are the other popular websites which are also using Google Analytics and the overall percentage share of tested sites that are using it.
How BuiltWith works?
Okay, this is great tool, but what if I would like to know of what BuiltWith.com is built with? The easiest way to find out is to type in its URL to the lookup form Another answer is hidden in their FAQ’s:
When you lookup a page on BuiltWith, a robot goes off deep into cyberspace and looks at the page in question. It them compares that page with the technology list at BuiltWith.com and if it finds any matches, reports the information to you.
or:
BuiltWith.com detects technology by matching substrings of the technology name. If a page contains a matching substring it will report the page as featuring that technology.
Pretty easy, nah?
Last thing to note is that BuiltWith is a fresh new tool which means that it may not know all currently existing technologies, in this case there is a Suggest Technology page where you can suggest new technologies which should be added in the future.
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Aug 16th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Got a Microsoft sticker on your PC? It must be really awkward if you are not a Windows user and your PC or laptop “wears” Microsoft Windows sticker. If you are a Linux user or at least a free software user what about to get a free software sticker too?
Great resource for such stuff is a Free Software Sticker Book which is a PDF e-book holding all the great free software stickers like Firefox, Gimp, Blender, amaroK, Audacity and also stickers of many of popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Fedora etc. There are a plenty of icons which are ready to print and use because almost every page of the book contains 8×8 stickers which is 64 stickers per page.
Book is licensed under MIT License which gives you the following permissions:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
book and associated files, to deal in the book without restriction, including without
limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the book, and to permit persons to whom the book is furnished
to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or different versions of the book and inside images.
Also if you are a graphic designer and would like to add more free stickers you could participate in that project and send your stickers to stickers@pikao.org.
I think this book is a great project and also very easy way to print out your own stickers of your favourite software.
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Aug 9th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
Yeah, what would happen if he really was a programmer? Maybe he had programmed the world and compiled it under Windows. Then after a while it broke down, because of some unexpected error He could also be a Linux admin (= root) and seen all our steps and ban us if we did some offence.
Anyway, today I found a great website which looks like a Linux console. The God is sitting before it and typing commands. He is creating the world. Interested? Click at “If God was programmer“.
Posted in Fun & Relax | 3 Comments »
Aug 7th, 2007 by Erik Gyepes
JavaScript is recently very popular scripting language. It powers the most popular Web 2.0 applications with a combination of web development technique called AJAX.
However, if you thought that JavaScript can be used only by web developers I must defeat you. Below this paragraph you will find 2 snippets of JavaScript code that you can just copy and paste to your browser address bar and you will see the power of Math and JavaScript.
But before I show you the snippets do the following:
- Open some web page with images e.g. http://images.google.com
- Search for whatever you like e.g. hacks
- Copy and paste one of the following snippets:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.mkssddddddddddd=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);or
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);As you can see there can be much of fun with this 1 line of code. You can also freely modify the it and discover some other cool image motions. Please share them with us!
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