Hack Your Homework
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GeekBeat LIVE Hacks N’ Cheats Segment – How to Hack Your Homework
May 28, 2011 By 7 Comments
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Tutorial: Manually Take WordPress Out of Maintenance Mode
August 4, 2010 By 23 Comments
Today while performing a WordPress upgrade on another blog the update failed! Grrr. If that wasn’t enough of a problem, when I checked the site it was stuck in “Maintenance” mode – meaning that no matter what you tried to do the only thing that showed up was a page telling you the site was in “Maintenance Mode”.
I Googled like a madman, and searched the WordPress site too, but there is no documentation as to what to do to get it out of this mode! So, I fired up my FTP browser and manually performed a complete upgrade of WordPress. Still no luck!
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Tutorial: Fix iPhone and Google Calendar Time Zone Sync
June 15, 2010 By 7 Comments
Folks, I travel a lot. And I use my iPhone, and I use Google Calendar. On my recent trip to the Indy 500 my phone apparently did all sorts of automatic stuff based on my time zones and kept me in good shape. However, when I returned to Dallas I had something strange happen!
Although my Google Calendar was reflecting the proper time zone on my computer, and ALL of my time zone settings were correct, my Google Calendar as viewed through Safari on the iPhone was off by exactly one hour – which happens to be the same as the difference on the trip I took.
I searched EVERYWHERE for settings on how to fix this, and finally figured out the incredibly complex way to do it!
Turn your iPhone off and then on again.
Yeah. That’s it. Power cycling the phone corrected the time zone immediately. So if it happens to you, now you know.
Tutorial: Speed Up Your Web Surfing with Google DNS or OpenDNS
April 10, 2010 By 13 Comments
Folks, listen up. If you are still using your ISPs slow DNS servers you are probably suffering needlessly and not taking advantage of the full speed of whichever connection you may have – even high speed ones like cable, DSL or Fiber Optics. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about – this means you!
I’m going to show you how to speed up everything you do online by switching to a better, faster Domain Name Server (DNS) system run by either Google or OpenDNS. Best of all, it will only take you like 5 minutes to make a change that will benefit you every day from now on! But before we get started, let me explain what DNS does for you in non-technical terms.
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Change Your BlackBerry Signal Meter
May 15, 2008 By 13 Comments
If you’ve got a Blackberry and you’d like a little more specific information about your cellular signal strength than just the 4 little bars, you can actually change them to read the specific DB signal strength you are receiving.
- On the Home screen, hold ALT and press N, M, L, L.
- Repeat the above process to switch back to the “traditional” signal meter.
I included a photo of my modified screen to show you what it looks like. Just look over in the top right corner of the screen and you’ll see the -83. That currently equates to 3 bars at my house.
By the way, the screen I’m using can be found on my Free Themes and Apps for Blackberry post.
Tutorial: Howto Increase the Number of Comments Visible in WordPress Editor
March 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
Folks, I get a lot of comments here on One Man’s Blog (nearly 7,000 at this point). Often there are well over 20 between times I check, even within one day, but the standard page view in the Edit Comments administration page only shows 20 thereby causing me to scroll from page to page in order to view / moderate more comments.
So, I just hacked mine to show 50 per page instead. Here is how you go about it.
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Hack a 6 or 9 Volt Battery to Save Bucks
September 22, 2007 By 15 Comments
Batteries are like crack. You just can’t live without them! However, some very industrious (and possibly crazy) folks have destroyed a few batteries to bring us tips on how to save a ton of cash by hacking into, and re-purposing the guts of, 6 and 9 volt batteries.
For example, inside one of those giant 6 volt lantern batteries actually reside 32 standard AA batteries! And here is how you get them out:
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Tutorial: How to Upgrade the Creative Zen Vision W Hard Drive
July 20, 2007 By 153 Comments
Six months ago I published a guide to the complete disassembly of the Creative Zen Vision W personal media player. At the end of that post I theorized as to how one could upgrade the hard drive when larger ones came available.
Well now, thanks to the generosity of Aaron Vronko and RapidRepair.com for supplying a 100GB drive; and Dan, one of my loyal readers, for playing guinea pig using my previous post to repair his Zen, I now have the largest drive in any Zen W in the world – and the theory is now a reality!
Here is how it was done.
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Hack Outlook Passwords in 10 Seconds Flat
March 28, 2007 By 9 Comments
That’s right. I hate to tell you folks, but if you give me 10 seconds alone with your computer I’ll not only get your user name and passwords to every mail box you have set up in Outlook and Outlook Express, but I’ll also be able to see every single login you have saved in your Internet Explorer auto-complete settings.
And I’ll do it all with this tiny little application. Don’t believe it? Fine, download it, unzip it and launch it. You’ll be instantly staring at all of the passwords you’ve ever told Microsoft to remember for you.
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