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GeekBeat LIVE Hacks N’ Cheats Segment – How to Hack Your Homework

by John P.

Hack Your Homework

Hack Your Homework

If you’ve got a big paper due, but you need to buy yourself some time, here is a dirty, sneaky, unethical trick that you should NEVER do. But if you do it and it works out for you, you can give me credit. And if you do it and it DOESN’T work out for you, well I told you not to do it!!!
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Tutorial: Manually Take WordPress Out of Maintenance Mode

August 4, 2010

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 [...]

Tutorial: Fix iPhone and Google Calendar Time Zone Sync

June 15, 2010

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 [...]

Tutorial: Speed Up Your Web Surfing with Google DNS or OpenDNS

April 10, 2010
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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 [...]

Change Your BlackBerry Signal Meter

May 15, 2008

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 [...]

Tutorial: Howto Increase the Number of Comments Visible in WordPress Editor

March 4, 2008

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 [...]

Hack a 6 or 9 Volt Battery to Save Bucks

September 22, 2007
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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 [...]

Tutorial: How to Upgrade the Creative Zen Vision W Hard Drive

July 20, 2007

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 [...]

Hack Outlook Passwords in 10 Seconds Flat

March 28, 2007
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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 [...]

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