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Archive of posts filed under the Hack category.

How The Glitch Stole X-Mas

Imagine it, Christmas day and many American teens were furiously un-wrapping gifts found under their trees.  What would any young, red-blooded American want more than the latest from Infinity Ward; Modern Warfare 2?  What did they really get though?  Could it be possible that, instead of the wondrous game they were expecting, they were given [...]

My Crazy Excel Formula

This formula is designed to extract asset numbers from monitors (a) and computer numbers (b) after the help desk program dumps summary fields.  First is goes through and looks for the monitors and if it doesn’t find any the error function runs the search for computers.  The trick is that not only numbers are returned [...]

How To Fix Your Text Widget Ads

If you were paying attention to my blog today (which you most likely weren’t), you would have noticed that I was having issues trying to put ad space on my sidebar. Just last week I decided that I wanted to switch back to using Adsense. Boy, was that ever a mistake. I [...]

Xbox 360 Controller Thumbstick Replacement

Earlier this week I received my Xbox 360 back from Microsoft for it’s RROD.  Eagerly I sat down to play on my console only to discover that in the two week period of not having a 360, my controller was stepped on and a analog joystick was broken.  Yes, I was disappointed that my controller [...]

Comcast Remote Hack

I have this obession of controlling all my audio video equipment from the comfort of my couch. I have a remote for my tv, audio system, cable box, xbox 360, xbox (soon to include the power on hack) and ps2 (does this have a power on hack?). Oh, I even have a remote [...]