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Bottle Cap Capacitive Touch Button for Arduino

Here’s a cool trick that I picked up a few months back. We’re all familiar with the capacitive touch tech that enables our mobile devices. Come to find out, integrating basic touch functionality into your Arduino projects may not be as tricky as it looks.

Securing PHPMyAdmin with Lighttpd

If you run a LAMP server these days, there’s a strong likelihood that you also use PHPMyAdmin.  The PHP based database management tool opens up a world of possibility for those who, for whatever reason, don’t want to or can’t use traditional command line tools to manage their MySQL install.  …

Know Your Cookies

Last year some reporter over at the NY Times realized that they were being tracked by the web sites that visited. Look out world, the cookies are out to get you. Cookies are evil. They will follow you, hunt you down, report on your whereabouts, spy on you in the shower, molest your cat and in the end, force you to buy stuff you don’t want. Right? Maybe…