Two New Applications – MailBin 2 and Suction

DrNathan has two new useful applications for your consideration, MailBin 2 and Suction.
MailBin was originally mentioned here last summer, and has changed quite a bit since then.  No longer a compiled Perl script, MailBin was built from the ground up in C#.  It still checks your Gmail account and remotely queues up NZB files for [...]

Hack-a-Day.com is dead. Long live Hack-a-Day.com!

Yes folks Hack-a-Day is back online and it looks like most of the issues have been ironed out.  I’m sure Eliot and Co. are glad to have it up and running once again.
If you need your fix, please go to http://hackaday.com versus http://www.hackaday.com.  Every DNS server I have checked at the time of this posting [...]

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Hack-a-Day is Down (For Now)

As you have probably noticed (and who hasn’t?), the Hack-a-Day web site is currently down and has been for a few days.  It seems that initially, DNS issues plagued the site and then they were DDoS’d when the propagation completed.  Now a pending Wordpress conversion is underway, which should be completed soon.  Forum moderator snorkle256 [...]

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A Quick Hello to Our New Visitors

I can see that we are getting a little influx of traffic from my Lifehacker comments and such, so I wanted to give visitors an idea of what Team Hack-a-Day is about, and encourage them to stop by our forum and chat room as well.
Our main focus is participating in Stanford University’s Folding@Home Project, which [...]

Forum is Back!

The forum upgrade went smoothly, and everything looks like it was carried over properly.
There are a few things that are missing such as  “Quick Reply” and the advertisements, among a few others.  I will be bringing those components back up to speed shortly, so bear with us.
The only issue that might remain from the upgrade [...]

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Forums down?? Say it isn’t so!

The forums might seem like they are down, but that is not the case.  We are doing some housekeeping and upgrading our forum to the newest version of phpBB.  Expect some down time as we migrate posts and such, as well as after the upgrade.  Hopefully our old theme will work with the new software, [...]

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Welcome to the new Team Hack-a-Day.com!

As you might notice, this page has changed completely from the last time you visited. We were visited by a cracker, who took the liberty of exploiting the Xoops installation we used to have for our main page. I have now installed Wordpress, and things are looking good.
I plan to utilize this main [...]