Apparently, if you put in a “tragedy” word for every 167 words in your email message, Gmail’s servers won’t display ads out of some robotic simulacrum of empathy. You’ll also freak out or depress your friends, but hey, no ads! [BoingBoing] (Photo: solidariat)
It's Easy To Access Random Customer Info With Best Buy URLs
By May 2, 2008
Cole discovered that by simply incrementing a numerical string by one in a url Best Buy sent out, he could pull up screen after screen of random customer info. Fortunately, all he could see were customer names, their home addresses, and their order numbers. It’s still surprising that Best Buy—or more specifically, Postpublisher.net, the email company they outsourced this to—wasn’t more careful with customer security.
Get Free Sprint Features With URL Hacking
By April 14, 2008
Two more instances of Sprint’s insecure online system:
By September 19, 2007
UPDATE: This is a total hoax. Inside a 6 volt battery is 4 D batteries. So it seems you can open a 6 volt battery and find 32 AA batteries inside. Consider that a 4 pack of AAs costs around $5, and you can get a lantern battery for about $5, and that’s some powerful savings.
Confirmation: GrandCentral + TMobile = Cheap Incoming Phone Calls
By May 9, 2007
You can get cheap calls on your T-mobile plan by hooking it up with Grand Central, reader Noah’s T-mobile bill confirms.
Protect Your RFID Credit Card With A RF Jammer
By January 18, 2007
Credit card companies are embedding radio frequency tags (RFID) in credit cards. Since these are transmitters, there’s the possibility of a thief using an RFID sniffer to snag your credit card digits.
23 TiVo Hacks
By January 16, 2007
We know you people love the TiVo, so here is a link to a list of 23 “hacks” you can do to your TiVo to make it more awesome than it already is. Yippie!
Search Amazon For Deals Up To 90% Off
By January 15, 2007
Why go to the trouble of manually hacking Amazon’s URLs to search for bargains when we’ve got all the messy work done for you?
More Price Tag Codes Decrypted
By January 9, 2007
The popularity of yesterday’s “Target Price Drop Hack” post helped rustle out some other retailer’s secret pricing codes:
Target Price Drop Hack
By January 8, 2007
UPDATE: Check out, “More Price Tag Codes Decrypted.”
GrandCentral + TMobile = Cheap Incoming Phone Calls?
By January 5, 2007
Do you have TMobile? If you do, you might be able to use GrandCentral to forward calls to your cell phone, add your Grand Central number to your “five faves” and everyone who calls your Grand Central number counts as a “fave.”
Get A Better Cellphone Deal By Being Immigrant?
By December 14, 2006
A reader tip suggests you can get a better deal on a cellphone by being an immigrant.
HOWTO: Remove Annoying Announcers From Sports
By December 9, 2006
If you’re like us and you’re sick of listening to Joe Theismann overstate everything on Monday Night Football, this might be the tip for you. Joe seems like he’s just stepped out of the womb, doesn’t he? Every touchdown is a game winner to Joe. Anyway, here’s a feature you didn’t know you were getting when you sunk that cash into a 5.1 system.
Best Blank DVDs
By December 8, 2006
Are brand-name items any better than no-name ones? It’s a question that shoppers have been asking themselves since before the markets were super. DigitalFAQ.com has endeavored to enlighten us as to the ways of the blank DVD. Where do they come from? Who makes them? Why are they purple?
Hack Sprint For Dropped Call Credit
By October 25, 2006
This sounds like a nifty HowTo on getting Sprint to give you a few extra bucks off your cellphone bill.
New Ways To Escape Your Cellphone Contract
By October 16, 2006
Spotted some good tips on getting out of your cellphone contract, without paying a penalty fee, over at Wiki-How. Most of them we’ve posted already but here’s some new kids on the block.
Cut $20 Off Your Cable Bill
By October 3, 2006
Sometimes the obvious solutions are hardest to see. This gal felt her monthly $132.07 Comcast cable/internet bill was too high. So she called them and said she wanted to cancel because of the price.
Fight Debts With Snow
By September 29, 2006
Stop debt collectors before they start. Pay your bills on time, sucka. To help you do that, the Debt Snowball Calculator helps you figure out which ones to pay first. Generally, these are the ones with higher interest rates. The calculator does the math for you, freeing your brain for higher level tasks like applying for more credit cards with your new and improved credit rating.
