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Cops Use Stingray To Almost Track Down Suspected Fast Food Thief
"When a cell site simulator is deployed, it gathers cell phone info from everyone in the surrounding area, including those whose chicken wings have been lawfully purchased."Annapolis' log shows police...
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Apple Plug
Upgrade to iPhone 7 with Apple PlugThis isn't 2009. Your phone doesn't have a floppy drive, and it shouldn't have a headphone connector either. When we made iPhone 6 and 6s, the world wasn't ready for...
View ArticleiOS ad blockers
Dear Lazyweb, which iOS ad blocker reliably blocks Youtube pre-roll video ads?I have been using 1blocker and I think it used to block them, but now it does not.Previously, previously, previously,...
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Important changelog entry
'PILE OF POO' (U+1F4A9) gains a thicker, more 3D appearance.Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Seeking Facebook's iPhone app key
Dear Lazyweb, how do I get an OAuth token that impersonates Facebook's official app?Why? Because I desire to post videos to my business's "page", and apparently "normal" apps can't do that. The...
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Today in Applied Demonology
kyliu99 "The next iPhone will be, I am told, a clear piece of glass." Magic, my friends, is real. We do not need engineers. We need wizards! maxgladstone "Oh & also, evil sorcerers crippled our...
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Notes
Dear Lazyweb, what's the deal with security of iCloud-synched Notes on iOS 10?In previous versions of iOS, Notes were synched via IMAP. This means that to store them in iCloud, you had to have iCloud...
View ArticleRotary Cell Phone Prototype
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The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
How fitting, I thought, that a rugged individualist-type would still be running a dial-up only BBS (no Telnet) out in the middle of Texas.I dialed-in, looked around, and found a bare-bones FidoNet...
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Stealth Cell Tower
Stealth Cell Tower is an antagonistic GSM base station in the form of an innocuous office printer.Masquerading as a regular cellular service provider, Stealth Cell Tower surreptitiously catches phones...
View ArticleAdd to Reading List
Dear Lazyweb, every now and then "Add to Reading List" stops working in both Feedly and Reeder on my iPad. It says "Ok!" but when I switch to Safari, the link is not there. Sometimes it magically fixes...
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90s Payphone Boombox
"Dreadful 90s Music Playing"His taste in music is deplorable, but it's a good hack.I was interested in what he did to hook up the keypad, since that was the hardest part of my payphone project. He...
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Dial-a-Grue
Zork with text-to-speech inside a telephone.The Goal of GruePhone 2.0 is to be able to play a number of text adventure games using nothing but an old phone. This will be accomplished using a small, ARM...
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How To Run A Rogue Government Twitter Account With An Anonymous Email Address...
Hack the Planet.But it's a lot harder to get an anonymous phone number. You need to buy a burner phone and SIM for cash, wait two weeks for the CCTV system in the store to overwrite the video of the...
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The iTunes race to the bottom continues.
You are surely aware that both locations of DNA Pizza play music videos all day. One of the nice features of our setup is that if you have the Apple "Remote" app installed, you can request videos. It...
View ArticleTrommelwähler
Trommelwähler: Until now, I had not realized that there was a Drum Selector Telephone-shaped hole in my life. And people say I'm hard to shop for.Previously, previously, previously, previously,...
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Would you like to supersize that for a dollar extra?
The sign behind which your MP3s might be located. How many more roadblocks can these companies throw between them and their customers' money?Back in the 90s, a friend was the engineer at Amazon who...
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jwztv 1.0
Hey, I wrote a thing: jwztv 1.0. Critiques of my usage of jQuery, AVPlayerView, AVMutableAudioMix or NSScriptCommand are welcome. I haven't done a lot of any of that before.Also: is there any way to...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Texting
< i Rebecca Just got it 💁🏻👀 Wha I don't even know I couldn't tell which emojis I was clicking on my computer they are too small Im blind OSend Previously, previously, previously, previously,...
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iCal alerts
Dear Lazyweb, my iCal alerts have started randomly not showing up. WTF?I use Apple Calendar on my desktop Mac and sync it through iCloud with my phone and iPad. It used to be that when an alarm went...
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