What I envisioned RapLyrics to be was totally uncensored – The true lyrics from the entire spectrum of hiphop. But Apple had other thoughts (and a contract with me), which required that I wait for the SDK 3.0’s parental controls to be released.
After what seemed like a never ending “In Review” yellow light within iTunes connect, RapLyricsRaw v1.0 is finally out!
And its big bro RapLyrics 1.1 has a long awaited update.
Thanks for all the support – I really mean it! Thank you! Its been a good weekend!
Apple has finally give the “go!” to my RapLyrics application. Here’s the pitch:
Ever wanted to know what Eminem or Twista is really saying in their raps?
Feeling nostalgic and want to dig up lyrics to a Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, B.I.G, 2Pac or other classics?
How about flowing along with Jay-Z, Nas, Ludacris and others?
RapLyrics provides access to nearly every track, from every Hip Hop, R&B and Rap artist over the last 30 years. From Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, to underground artists like Papoose, Joell Ortiz, Little Brother, to the majors, Missy Elliot, Dre, Snoop, Lil Wayne and more, RapLyrics has every rap lyric you could ever want, and probably a bunch more you don’t need!
Features over 2,500 Rap, HipHop and R&B Artists.
Features over 7,500 Albums.
Features nearly 30,000 song lyrics.
Only 40MB and no internet connection required. Follow along on the subway, on a car trip, on the plane … anywhere!
Purchasing this app entitles you updates as new artists, albums, tracks, lyrics and improvements are made.
A built in index and search lets you find the artist your looking for quickly.
Get RapLyrics today so you can stop pretending you know the lyrics. Now you really can!
I’ll be following up with the technical hows and sample code soon. Inbetween, cop yourself the freshest app out and drop me a dope review! = ]
($1.99) iTunes: RapLyrics on iTunes
RapLyrics Homepage: www.RapLyricsApp.com
Its finally out – Black Box Penetration Tests is an article I authored a number of months ago and I’ve been patiently waiting for its release. It was a joy working with the PHP|Architect editorial staff and I’m happy to have been provided the opportunity to venture into a new area. Thanks y’all!
HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) just finished and my talk “The Singularity: Focus on Robotics and Hackers” slides are available as PDF (w/notes) and online as HTML (no notes) and MP3 Audio. Enjoy and please provide feedback.
News: Mr-sk featured on Basement.org - Arc90’s Ben Sgro at the Last Hope Conference
PHP allows variable declaration anywhere, anytime. This can lead to silly bugs in which you misspelled the variable name; $complexCamelCaseVar & $complxCamelCaseVar might take a while to find in your code. This script gives you a listing of all the variables and methods with a count, in alphabetic order. Makes finding misspellings a bit easier.
Code:. doubleCheck.txt
Additional:. Shouts to Slashproc for all his help! Also, this tool is still fresh as heck so if it breaks, throw me some fixes!
This script will provide notifications when someone connects and disconnects to your shared iTunes. Originally written in perl, then ported to php, there were a number of unresolved problems w/mac osx’s implementation (or lack thereof) for pcntl_fork(). So, this current version should be executed as ./whoTunes.php &.
I’m currently not working on a new version that will be an OSX Widget – but I encourage you!
Code:. whoTunes.txt
Additional:. This requires growl and growlnotify hack, explained here.
Trossen Robotics offers an excellent starter kit for RFID research. However, the getting started documentation posed some problems, like .h files missing or included in the wrong order. Thanks to some help from galt (#innercircle) we got that fixed quickly. The included source polls indefinetly while waiting for any number of callbacks to initiated. When a user swipes a card and then removes it, the script calls system() on a php file, that goes about some db stuff. The CPhidget API provides a convenient interface to interacting with the RFID reader.
Code:. ce_rfid.txt
Additional:. This depends on the CPhidget Linux Framework (bunch of .h files) to be installed.
Security:. This runs as sudo. So, a user with a reader could write data to the card that would be executed when the code attempts the system() call. This requires money and time, but I know it can be done.
/* Copy the entire command to the buffer.
* BUFFSIZE = ./ (2) + purchase (8) + space (1) + 10 + NULL = 22
*/
snprintf(buff, 22, "./purchase %02x%02x%02x%02x%02x", tagVal[0], tagVal[1], tagVal[2],
tagVal[3], tagVal[4]);
system(buff); /* Call the php file w/the RFID as the argument. */
This is a Python DoS in the simplest terms. It will attempt to connect to the targeted device repeatedly. For phones such as the Razr and Windows Mobile powered devices, a dialogue box will be presented and provided application focus when an incoming bluetooth request is made. The user must ‘deny’ or ‘accept’ the incoming connection. If they select ‘deny’, they will be immediately presented the same dialogue.
Code:. connect.txt
Additional:. This could be used in conjunction with a social engineering attack.
Sigmas are basically a for-loop right? The is a very simple implementation of an obstacle avoidance algorithm for the Kheprea II robot. It isn’t a controller. It does allow you to set two motor and eight sensor values.
Code:. ff.txt
Additional:. Algorithm taken from “ Evolvable Machines: Theory & Practice“.
This bot is not complete and will only connect to a channel. While developing this, we stopped using campfire for general chat, instead sticking with AIM. So, this dropped off my development radar.
Code:. archy.txt
Additional:. It would be great if someone wanted to continue development on this.
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