Google+ Tricks: Hacking the Sign-in button behavior
Before continuing, I want to emphasize that this is not a best practice. You should be using the Google+ Sign-in Button as intended. Signing in to an application with Google should do just that – if you sign out of…
OSCAR, the hangout robot
A Robot in a Hangout I have been having fun recently playing around with hangouts and I thought it would be nifty to create a robot that can join and be controlled from within a hangout. Rather than wait for…
Blog attack! Pt. 2: What happened?
How a site on my host was hacked I wrote previously about why my site had gone offline. I looked a little more into what had happened and here’s a synopsis. Tampering with data First, a script was uploaded using a zero…
Blog attack!
My blog went down for about 36 hours this week. A hacker exploited a friend’s blog that I’m hosting. My host, 1&1, took down all my hosted sites without notice. At first, I freaked out. I mean, who does this? Who takes…
How to mount and browse Windows backups from the backup and restore tool
I was recently doing data recovery for my parents on Thanksgiving and they told me they had no idea how to get to their backups, stored on an external drive, and see what was actually backed up. Not knowing what…
Playing with paper.js and background animations
After starting my blog, I got a few comments on my @gguuss twitter account about the animated background that I have. So, I figured I would write a short post about it. What is paper.js? I’m sure that its…
Quick Post: Setting up an OBi100+ Google Voice to ring a physical phone
It’s surprisingly easy to set up Google voice with a physical phone line now that the OBI100 has been released with some tools for doing this. Step 1: Get an OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge Step…
Application Verifier: Save your memory! Debug your apps! Also, hax.
Application verifier is a nifty application that Microsoft introduced for Windows XP around 2001. This testing tool is also useful for if you want to troubleshoot Windows applications. For example, if you notice a process that is getting out of hand…
Simple WordPress theming for matching your site
When I added this blog to my personal site, I really wanted to just maintain the look and feel of my existing site, but wanted to have the flexibility to make posts without having to SSH into my hosting, pop…