Pirates at the cinema
Feb 29I entered the theater to a late howing of what i thought would be a still popular showing of Star Wars I re released in 3D. Making my way to the back of the theater where the arm rests fold up for added comfort I noticed something out of place. What I had noticed was a cable draping down from the projector room. going in for a closer look, I realized that it was a SPDIF cable… was someone...
Compass Remote Testing Software
Feb 25As I was preparing to take a remote test with the Compass testing software today at an impromptu remote testing site today, the obvious thing came into my mind. How can do I get out of the aged and clunky GUI used for the assessments and gain access to the operating system’s interface (windows XP in this case)? The obvious things didn’t work, ctrl+alt+delete, alt+f4, Windows key,...
HTML5 Standardization
Feb 25“By looking at the chart above, you probably already realized 2 things; multiple video codecs CAN be used by HTML5 capable browsers, and that the browser developers seem to be picking and choosing which ones they support. Let’s use the three most popular web browsers as our examples; Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Both Chrome and Firefox share support of Ogg...
Backtrack 5 R2 release date announced!
Feb 18Backtrack 5 R2 will be released March 1st (3/1/2012) if you wish to download the .iso of the release it will be available soon at http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ Current Backtrack users can simply run the command ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ from the Backtrack Terminal to do an in-place upgrade.
New Google Wallet vulnerability effects rooted and un-rooted users.
Feb 10The vulnerability is painfully simple, the attack involves opening the application settings menu and clearing the data for the Google Wallet application. Once the application data is cleared, upon the next start of Google Wallet, the user (or attacker) will be prompted to enter a new Google Wallet PIN, effectively bypassing all authentication. The main problem with this is that the PIN is not...
Laser etched battery doors for Galaxy Nexus
Feb 10“I’ve seen the Galaxy Nexus “limited edition” battery doors, they were cool and all; but they weren’t $100+ cool that people were paying, I did this kind of thing back when I had my BlackBerry and it was a great success. I thought to myself, why not do it for Android. If there is enough funding/demand, I will try and get other devices included.” You can...