If you are a heavy Apple iTunes user your iTunes music library might contain music that is not longer on the computer system or duplicate music. Teridon’s iTunes Scripts are a collection of scripts for Apple iTunes that can perform various tasks like scanning the iTunes music library for dupli...

I'm really wanting to get into the field of hacking. It's something I've always wanted to do. It seems, however, that whenever the question of "how do I learn to hack" is asked, it is usually responded to with the over-used statement "Teach yourself." I know that hacking is a skill that is built ove...

After sleeping on it, I'm still quite enthused by my suggestion for a ruthlessly scoopish news feed that I commented over at Scripting News yesterday. In answer to the question "how will we get our news if journalism dies" : Maybe a site *only* for "scoops", ie. breaking news stories which haven't b...

Experts aim to decipher ancient script ALMODOVAR, Portugal - When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The enigmatic pattern of inscribed symbols curled symmetrically around th...

A guest blog by My Chemical Toilet’s Stuart Waterman… You probably think you’re so cool and selective in what you listen to that you’ve never heard The Script’s music. You are wrong. Do you listen to the radio? You have heard The Script. Do you watch television? You hav...

You’ve already got it! It is laying on your PC and it is called the shell. The shell was designed to start/strop and control process with ease so why do we need yet another universal pen-testing framework, which does what another tool is already doing for us and it comes by default? In this po...

I wrote a few weeks ago about how anyone can easily change the Twitter web interface with Firefox and the GreaseMonkey plug-in (here). The great news is that this process is so easy that there’s little reason not to give this a go - you really are only a few clicks away from what’s shown below. ...

It’s about time I released this script. I announced last December I had written a script for the GIMP to create the border and copyright message seen on my photos here. Previously I used a 704×490 empty image with the border and message (and a similar image for portrait shots). That was f...

As I am doing lots of experiements on my SQL Server test box, I sometime gets too many files in SQL Server data installation folder - the place where I have all the .mdf and .ldf files are stored. I often go to that folder and clean up all unnecessary files I have left there taking up my hard drive ...

We spent the better part of this morning helping a friend compose a break-up script. She was dreading a forced romantic Valentine's Day date with a man she no longer had romantic feelings for and we convinced her it was better to do it before Valentine's Day than after. Apparently, we're...