So I’ve been listen to Kerrang’s radio station online recently while working and when an epic song comes on that I don’t have and want, I built this little Chrome Extension you click and it’ll open the current song in the iTunes Store for me to buy then and there. This is useful as not all songs have the buy icon next to them, or if they, iTunes is not listed!

Download here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32558029/Kerrang%20to%20iTunes.crx

Source code here: https://github.com/jwhelton/Kerrang-to-iTunes

Hello fellow avid internet goers,

found on my travels on Reddit.

Troll face [[171108522930776]]
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME [[143220739082110]]
Not bad Obama [[169919399735055]]
Me Gusta [[211782832186415]]
Mother of God [[142670085793927]]
Cereal Guy [[170815706323196]]
LOL Face [[168456309878025]]
NO Guy [[167359756658519]]
Yao Ming [[218595638164996]]
Derp [[224812970902314]]
Derpina [[192644604154319]]
Forever Alone [[177903015598419]]
Not Bad [[NotBaad]]
Fuck yeah [[105387672833401]]
Challange accepted: [[100002727365206]]
Okay face [[100002752520227]]
Dumb bitch [[218595638164996]]
Poker face [[129627277060203]]
Socially awkward penguin [[98438140742]]
Rage face [[FUUUOFFICIAL]]
Lamp [[100001256102462]]
Feel like a sir [[168040846586189]]
Forever alone christmas [[125038607580286]]

Update:

As pointed out by @Kudoz and @ebygum these aren’t actually similes, rather it grabs the whatever profile picture corresponding to the  page id, try using your facebook page’s id or another pages id, eg [[jwhelton]] 

So I’m currently a couple thousand feet up in the air on a Virgin America flight to San Francisco from Boston and Google are doing this cool thing where they loan you a Chrome Book for the flight, apart of this, you get free wifi on the Chrome Book, whilst on any other device you need to pay like $12.95. I figured out by faking the User Agent to be that of the Chrome Book, you can get free wifi.

TL;DR : Set your browser User Agent to this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS i686 1193.117.0) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.66 Safari/535.7

On Safari do it like so, make sure the Develop menu bar item is enabled (Do this in the Advance tab in Safari Preferences), then click on the Develop menu, then into User Agent, click other and copy and paste in the above browser agent string.

This tricks whatever is handling the wifi into thinking your computer is a Chrome Book and gives you free wifi as apart of the programme they’re running with Google!

Enjoy my friends!

Someones been doing nice work with the facebook API.

If your (or a friend’s) facebook account is spamming someone over chat or posting comments like this:

this is because they let a facebook app access their profile and it now has control over it. This is then used in turn to trick others into doing the aforementioned and sending people to links with ads and scams to make the creator of this money. Heres what you do to stop the app having permission of your account and thus stop spam.

1. Login into facebook and click on  Account on the top right and click on the Privacy Settings option!

2.This will bring you to the Account Privacy settings page, on the bottom left click edit your settings under Apps and Websites

3. Now under the list of apps click the Remove unwanted or spammy apps option

4.You’ll now see a list of apps that have access to your facebook account, not all are bad, but remove anyone that looks dodgy, if paranoid, remove all. To remove a app, click the ‘x‘ icon to the extreme right of it. The apps are listed in order of how recently they accessed your account, from this you can determine the spam ones.

5.You’ll now be prompted to remove it, which you can do so.

This will stop the app from being able to use your account, report the app to facebook. You may also want to consider changing your password or security question as the app may have pulled some of your basic info. You should also reexamine your privacy settings on the privacy page and adjust them fittingly (props Ben).

Any more issues, get onto Zuckerburg and friends: http://www.facebook.com/help/ and if you need a had gimme a shout on Twitter: @jwhelton

If you havn’t updated the official Twitter iPhone app on your iPhone/iPod recently, you may want to do so as I’ve found something in the app version (3.3.0) previous to the current one (3.3.1). If you’ve updated to the latest version since the 9th or so, you’re fine. This affects only the official Twitter app for iPhone/iPod, not Twitterrific or others.

I found a security hole in the 3.3.0 Twitter iPhone app! You can inject your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript into the iPhone client, this hack leaves users wide open to phishing scams and the sort.

I haven’t tested the full possibilities of this but I imagine there are loads here! The hack I’m demoing adds JavaScript remotely (in this case ‘tweet.js’) to the view, it executes, spoofs a warning pop up, tapping either ‘Ok’ or ‘Cancel’ brings you to a new page regardless, this page can be anything, in this case I’ve set it to look like a Twitter login page, which upon entering a users details, could, via a form, be emailed back to someone.

Heres the screenshots and a walkthrough:

1. Tweet containing the JavaScript to inject (the ‘<script>‘ bit)

2.Intial view with scrolling warning text

3.’Warning’ pop up, (appears after 3.5 secs), pressing either button sends you to our phishing site, no way out (*wimper*)

4.Fake Twitter account protect page

5.Upon press of ‘Protect Account’ button, sends you to my site (or any site with nastier stuff or could email entered details)

What you do?

UPDATE your Twitter app via the AppStore, should you be unable to do so, stay the hell away from any tweets that contain any tags like ‘<html>‘ or ‘<script>‘, you’ll notice the weird link. You can see if a tweet contains this from your main timeline view in the app.

So I’m starting to learning PHP, but as a student whose’s bag is already crammed with (uselessly oversized) textbooks, I want to store the eBook/PDF of a PHP book I bought online, on my iPhone. Imagine all the PDF’s you’ve ever downloaded or torrented right on your iDevice (iPad would be savage for this)! Its extremely fastand easy to do! What we need is:

• iDevice: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (obviously)
• Mac (more obviously)
• eBook or PDF file (more more obliviously)
• WiFi network that both iDevice and Mac are on

If you’re stuck for a wireless network, you can create one on the Mac and let the iDevice join it.

Right lets rock(paper)(scissors)…

First off we want the iDevice to be able to access the eBook/PDF on your Mac. Open the ‘System Preferences‘ application and click on ‘Sharing‘.

In ‘Sharing‘ click on ‘Web Sharing‘ in the left column.

Now click on the checkbox of ‘Web Sharing‘ so it turns blue and has a tick in it. You’ll see the green light is now on and its says “Web Sharing: On“, you will also see a web address in blue, make note of it as we’ll be going to it on the iDevice. In my case it said “http://192.168.1.4/~jw”, it could also say the computer name, like “http://spartan.local/~jw”.

Next, in Finder, goto your home folder (mine is ‘jw’) and then into the ‘Sites‘ folder. Basically anything you put in here you can access on your iDevice (or computer) by going to the web address we took note of earlier. So in this ‘Sites‘ folder, copy/place/drag the desired PDF/eBook into.

Now on the iDevice, first get the iBooks app from the AppStore (if you hav’nt already), now in the Safari app goto the web address we took note of earlier, in my case it was http://192.168.1.4/~jw.

You’ll see a list of files, touch/click on the PDF/eBook you put in. It will open and on the top right, you’ll see an option “Open in iBooks”

Press that option and it’ll open in iBooks and will be saved

Well done! You’ve done it, the eBook/PDF is now in iBooks Library

You can do this to add all your eBooks and PDFs into the iBooks app so you can enjoy them on the go!

Note: When you enable ‘Web Sharing’ everyone can access what you have in your ‘Sites’ folder, now its mega-super-highely unlikely that some will know where or go into your ‘Sites’ folder while you’re doing this, but if you’re adding some explicit content, I’d just removed the evidence from your ‘Sites’ folder when your done. Also in every case, for piece of mind, just turn off ‘Web Sharing’ in ‘System Preferences’ when you’re done.

Like this tutorial? Thank me on Twitter: @jwhelton

Pricks changed the name…

.PSD on request. Created this little Icon, took me 4 hours ahhh

Really?

Just messing around more with PhotoShop. I imagine that if I keep posting my (crappy) work, that when I get better, I’ll have a nice lil timeline of work!

Wassup?!??!…. Im saying Wassup to a website…. god I’m going insane….

I made my first Icon. I followed this tutorial, did it in photoshop and changed around one or two things, it ended up looking kinda like HAL, but its cool like that!

Any who, here is the finished product!