In addition to the regular tips and tricks for bloggers, browsers, and blaggers, Sciencetext.com also brings you Saturday Quick Tips (SQTs) and now, sneaky snippets, links and micro-blog entries pointing you to some of the best hacks and cracks on the web.

The first five items are in my Google shares and the monthly archives can be found here.

• POP3 Hotmail Free?
  Neowin is suggested that POP3 downloads from your Hotmail account could soon be free.
• P2P Accusations – Dec 12, 2008
  Innocent Brits accused of illegal file-sharing should complain to the government.
• Predicting popularity online
  How popular will your blog post be? Scientists have found a formula to provide an answer. Gabor Szabo and Bernardo Huberman at HP Labs in Palo Alto reckon they can forecast a site’s page views a month in advance by analysing its popularity during its first two hours on Digg. They say a similar prediction can be made for YouTube postings.
• Twit photos – Nov 9, 2008
  You can now share photos on Twitter.
• Twitter Grader – Nov 8, 2008
  Nice tool to check your Twitter karma. It gives you a measure (98.8% for sciencebase) of how good your twitter profile is.
• Hubdub crosses The Pond – Nov 6, 2008
  Brits are set to go HubDub crazy as the news forecaster is set to hit UK shores
• Wikipedia-on your iPod – Nov 4, 2008
  Usually costs you $8 to download an offline version of the Wikipedia encyclopedia for your iPod/iPhone but you can get it here for free courtesy of Google.
• Gmail Backup – Nov 4, 2008
  Use Google Mail’s inbuilt IMAP system to backup your GMail account using…you guessed it…GMail Backup
• Google OCR – Nov 3, 2008
  Is there nothing that Google won’t turn to? They’ve now opened up their OCR system so that you can convert scanned-type PDF files into digitized text with a few clicks.
• Greasy Chrome – Oct 19, 2008
  Google Chrome got greased – support for Greasemonkey added.
• Fraudless – Oct 17, 2008
  Major fraud site Darkmarket has been shut down in an international crime swoop. The invitation-only site was netting criminals millions and millions from stolen personal data and credit card details. There were 60 arrests in four countries.
• Wireless security – Oct 13, 2008
  Ten tips on securing your wireless network, all are obvious, some are simple, some are hard, some simply involving moving your wireless router to a more central point in your building.