Using Web and Technology to Enhance Your Life

Here is a neat little trick to register domains for only 99 cents, thats right less than a buck, at Godaddy.com

Most of you might already have a godaddy account, and even though their customer interface sucks, I use them fairly often due to the competetive prices. To use this, you must have a credit card verified/certified godaddy account.

So here is how you register a .com (which costs around $10) for only $0.99 (plus ICANN fess).

1. Head over to godaddy.

2. Type in the domain that you want to register and proceed over to checkout as usual.

3. When you get to the “review your shopping cart” stage (see figure), use the promo code: test99.

4. Once you click on “Apply Code“, you’ll see the price updated to $0.99 + 20 cents ICANN fees.

5. Congratulations, you’ve just registered a premium .com TLD for 99 cents.

Make sure you take maximum advantage of it while it lasts. Who know, godaddy might disable the coupon code in a couple of days.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox addon that allows you to customize your browsing experience using snippets of JavaScript code.

You can find a huge collection of different types of user-written scripts to install run on Firefox(with Greasemonkey installed) or Opera.

Movie Dude is a UserScipt that cross-links movie sites so you don’t have to search for a movie info on related sites.

e.g Say you’re browsing the imdb page for The Dark Knight. Now if you want to visit the wikipedia entry for the same movie, you’d have to open a new tab and run an independent search.

Now with the Movie Dude script installed, you’ll automatically see small icons for  related movie entries different sites including Wikipedia, RottenTomatoes, Google Video, YouTube, MetaCritic, etc.

You can also edit the script to make it display related link from other sites. Here’s a little hack to add ThePirateBay Movie Search and Mininova Movie Search to the list.

If you’re on Firefox you’ll need to have Greasemonkey installed. Then go ahead and install the Movie Dude script.

Open up the .js file for editing in your favorite text editor and add these lines to the code:


Mininova: {
name: "Mininova",
link: "http://www.mininova.org/search/{search}/4",
icon: "http://www.mininova.org/favicon.ico",
scanURL: "mininova.org",
},
ThePirateBay: {
name: "ThePirateBay",
link: "http://thepiratebay.org/search/{search}/0/99/200",
icon: "http://www.thepiratebay.org/favicon.ico",
scanURL: "thepiratebay.org",
},

Save the file and you’re good to go. Now whenever you’re browsing IMDb and feel the urge to *ahem* have a look at *ahem* the mininova listings, all you need to do is click on the link at the top of the page.

Have Fun!

Yes, I was hacked if you consider editing someone’s 777 access file in the wp-content/uploads folder to be hacking.

This is the website where I saw shypy.com listed among a list of hacked sites:

This is the guy who apparently did the damage.

Now that was scary…(not).

Anyways, I’ve still left the page up, so little Dexter can show is momma how he can hack.

Edit: Sorry about the images running out of the borders…

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A freckly faced 12 year old hacks into an alien warship’s database and saves the planet…

This is the general conception that most people have of the term -hacking. It couldn’t be less true.
The term hack was originally meant to be used as a verb for “messing about”, but the perception of the term in the minds of people has changed as time has gone by.Technically, a hacker is someone who is enthusiastic about computer programming and all things relating to the technical workings of a computer. Under such a definition, I would gladly brand myself a hacker.

For me it is about finding various hidden tweaks and chocolate eggs in the software which some people might not be able to find/see/understand.

So you succesfuly got through the anti-pr*n software that your dad installed, or did you beat your school computer which prevents social-networking sites? Congrats, you are a hacker!
These is exactly the sort of things I am going to show you how at EasyHacks.

Legal BS: I do not prescribe to either of the above…