Monday, August 20, 2007

WinZip Serial Number Algorithm Found on NEW Google CodeSearch!!

Just by searching for "keygen", "serial", "name", and some well known cracker groups you can come by the keygen sources (how serial numbers are generated) to some very popular programs. I found WinZip, Photoshop, mIRC, and a few others.

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Shiny Scriptaculous Javascript Effects Cheat Sheet

Colorful, downloadable PDF cheat sheet for the Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/) visual effects library. Site also has cheat sheets for various aspects of Ruby on Rails.

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Responsible Asynchronous Scripting

AJAX and its kin are empowering developers, but with great power comes great responsibility.

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Google to Launch Service Like Source Forge?

Google is about to launch a service for the open source community. The question is, what could it be? Garret Rogers thinks it might be a competitor to Source Forge and Krugle. Greg Stein (the Googler who started this whole thing) has worked on projects like SVN and WebDAV and is currently also the Chairman for the Apache Software Foundation.

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YouTube is almost entirely written in Python!

Guido van Rossum, the creator and BDFL of Python programming language says that YouTube is almost entirely written in Python. Oh! think of the scalability of a Python based system.

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Learning Ruby: A Complete Guide

Come Learn Ruby withSatish TalimSatish TalimMy interest in Ruby was aroused after I read an article Ruby the Rival in November 2005. I decided to learn Ruby myself and started making my study notes. What's presented here is a result of that.

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Why SSN should NOT be stored as an integer in a database

If you have a hand in storing SSN's on any level during developing, read this. Personally, I've seen this happen too many times.

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Adobe rejects AJAX as competition

Mr Elop, former CEO of Macromedia, rejects the idea that Ajax poses a challenge to Flash.

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Ultimate Website Snapshot Service

A free web service - very easy to integrate on your own website. It automates the process of capturing a snapshot of any website and displaying it as a normal JPEG-image on your own website.

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YouTube is almost entirely written in Python!

Guido van Rossum, the creator and BDFL of Python programming language says that YouTube is almost entirely written in Python. Oh! think of the scalability of a Python based system.

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Adobe Flash Video Streaking Tool with Source Code

Excellent tool for creating streaking effects behind a moving object. Click on image to open the tool or download the source code for further study.

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GNUstep participates in Google Summer of Code 2007

GNUstep provides a cross-platform solution for Objective-C/OpenStep/Cocoa developers. This year, it offers various projects for SoC, such as adding new classes from Mac OSX 10.4, enhancing text system, porting WebKit to GNUstep, improve GNUstep on MS Windows platform, etc. It is a great chance for students to learn programming in many aspects.

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Ultimate Programmer Reference Resource (with Ajax search)

You can find any function/class/tag/style in 2 seconds using this search service. Works with most of the technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, Oracle, PHP, XSL, ActionScript, ColdFusion, C/C++ and more.

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Commodore 64 emulated in Flash!

cool project... go re-live the good old days!

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C/C++ development with the Eclipse Platform

Get an overview of how to use the Eclipse Platform in your C/C++ development projects. Though Eclipse is mainly a Java™ development environment, its architecture ensures support for other programming languages. In this article, you'll learn how to use the C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT), which is the best C/C++ toolkit available for Eclipse.

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Yahoo! Maps in Flex 2 / AS3

Currently, the Yahoo! Maps Flash API is only supported in Flash 8 / AS2. The current work-around is to publish the API in Flash 8, then load it into Flex and talk to the loaded SWF through the local connection. So, until Yahoo! updates the API, here is an example of how to get it to work in Flex 2 / AS3.

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Making an MP3/FLV Player with Flash MX 2004 and JavaScript

In this tutorial, S.M.H. Qadri shows us how to design an application interface with Flash MX 2004, how to add action script to the Flash interface, and how to write the JavaScripts and HTML files necessary for handling Flash.

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Actionscript 3 YouTube API

i just can't wait for the flash 9 release, but i think you can try this with the flash 9 alpha release. really nice thing adobe has put in.

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jQuery - New Wave Javascript

An intuitive Javascript library with full support for CSS 1-3, basic XPath, effects, events, and DOM.

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The Importance of Maintainable JavaScript

Chris Heilmann has 8 steps for keeping JavaScript clean

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Develop for the Web with Python Django Web Framework

In this first article of a two-part series, we show off Django, an open-source model-view-controller (MVC)-style Web application framework powered by the Python programming language. With Django, you can create high-quality, database-driven Web applications that are easy to maintain in minutes.

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975(and counting) Downloadable Ebooks

the title says it all.

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When ESPN switched to CSS they saved 2 terabytes of bandwidth a day.

ESPN.com, the online sister of the ESPN cable networks, serves up more than half a billion page views every month, so when the home page of the site dropped all layout tables in favor of structural markup and CSS-driven layout, the Web design community took notice. Savings: 730 terabytes a year.

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Huge Collection of Programming and Computer Cheatsheets!

This website contains a large collection of quick reference materials ranging from HTML and CSS to Python and Perl. All of the links are up to date and all of the cheatsheets are free to download.

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Fashion Oriented Programming

On dynamic languages and Java in the world of fashion...

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How to install open Source Digg code (Meneame)

Recently a site called Meneame (which emulated digg.com) opened it's source code up. The problem for Anglophones is that the code is written in Spanish and installation documentation is non-existant. Here's how you get it running.

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Videobox: Lightbox for videos, Youtube, Metacafe... [Like digg.com/videos]

Videobox is a 7kb unobtrusive javascript library for mootools, which lets you display your flash (youtube, metacafe, google video, ifilm) videos in lightbox effect as in the http://digg.com/videos. It's the easiest way to display your videos. You can set width and height of your videos.

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Watch live TV on your Google homepage

Do you use your Google personalized homepage as much as you could? There are plenty of great gadgets that have been developed, including gadgets for weather, to do lists, gas prices, Pacman, and even Live TV.

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What to do if you spill liquid on your laptop

Losing a laptop to a spilt glass of wine can be a very frustrating experience, particularly when said wine is of the cheap Rosé variant, as was the embarrasing case with this writer's late laptop. Well, one group of kindly DIY technology authors have assigned their noggins to the problem, and have created a post with an accompanying video

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Hobo DIY Softbox for Perfect Portraits

"Basically (though you should already know this) a camera is only as good as the light that comes into it, cameras capture light and make a mess when they try to amplify the dark."

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World's Dorkiest Tattoo

Oh dear... I guess the only Digg category suitable for this is Technology > Mods.

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New Reddit Button Wordpress Plugin

Reddit Button is a new and highly customizable Wordpress Plugin that displays - you might not believe it... - a reddit button in your posts!

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Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter

I've put together this page to document a one-wheeled balancing scooter / skateboard that I've just finished. It's the culmination of several iterations over the last few years, and definitely my favourite.

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Graffiti Research Lab's L.A.S.E.R. Tag

Graffiti Research Lab and friends hacked together a high powered projector with some computer components and a camera to track the writings of a 60mW Green Laser on the side of a building in Rotterdam and project it as blue graffiti. The resulting art looks surprisingly good, and the perpetrators documented the event along with DIY instructions.

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FREE Internet access at ANY Internet Cafe

A Tactical Toolkit to Liberate Pay-Per Use Wireless Networks!

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Sweet hack for FF and IE users. Make web pages load much faster.

Make web pages load lightning fast.. A must-see tweak for Firefox and Internet Explorer users. Most browsers are configured for dial-up.. Tweak the settings to boost surfing speeds and minimize page load times...

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