Licence plates

Two hacks are described here: 1) make a laserprinted copy of a license plate of your ‘enemy’, stick it on the back of your car and go zooming past speed cameras 2) cruise the neighbourhood for a similar car to yours, duplicate the license plate and drive around worry free.

PeerGuardian 2

Phoenix Labs ยป PeerGuardian 2 is an IP blocker that has most of the people in there that you don’t want accessing your IP, such as the RIAA and other fanatics with a history of randomly suing people with an internet connection.

Schools: more sexist and more stupid

This experiment took the top science students of this year and gave them 1965 exams. They all failed miserably, showing the dumbing down of education quite graphically. An interesting side effect was that the girls did worse than the boys did, even though other research puts girls ahead in current exams. This clearly shows something Read more about Schools: more sexist and more stupid[…]

Wider Landscape Keyboard Not One But Eight!

This article links to five in the appstore. They work by writing a message and then opening the email app and pasting the input into a new mail: Wide Email Lettera Sideways Touchtype Compose Firemail If you’re jailbroken you can type SMS messages in landscape mode using biteSMS or iRealSMS from Cydia.