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Hacking MySpace
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-09
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The online social communities have become incredibly popular with many people. One of the most popular of these social communities is MySpace. While many people register on these sites, one thing people find annoying are the ads, even in their profiles. It seems someone has found a way to make changes to that profile, of course without the blessing of MySpace.
A hat tip goes to Alice Hill of RealTechNews for the information. Many times hacking happens to change something people don't like about a program or something else, like in this case the MySpace profile. The model for much this stuff is to make money off the ads and most people don't want to see the ads. If you're one of those people, then the hacks should make you happy:
The other night, I couldn't sleep (probably too much coffee), so I decided to tweak out my profile on MySpace. The goal was to completely hide everything on MySpace (including the ads), and replace it with something much cooler. This, of course, did not come easy. Here are a few of the obstacles I had to overcome:
1. Hiding the iFrame which contains the ads (any CSS to hide iFrames is blocked)
2. Positioning the new site at the very top of the page.
3. Getting rid of the horizontal scroll bar after the CSS was applied.
4. Hide existing comments so there isn't whitespace at the bottom of the page.
Here is the CSS that needs to be copy and pasted into the "About Me" section of your MySpace profile. In the CSS the margin-left on .main, and .main table is half of the total width, and is a negative integer. For instance, if your width was 500px, margin-left would be -250px.
Here is the HTML that needs to be copy and pasted into the "I'd Like To Meet" section of your MySpace profile. You can replace the "INSERT YOUR SITE HERE" with your own HTML. Keep in mind that you CANNOT use id= on your divs because MySpace blocks them. Use class= instead. Source: The Big Noob.com
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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