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Geek to Live: Securely track your passwords
by Gina Trapani Are your passwords written down on a piece of paper taped to the bottom of your keyboard? Zipped up in a passworded archive? Stowed away in a passwords.doc file?
What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks. Photo by Debs (ò‿ó)♪ .
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
O'Reilly's has posted instructions for using Google as a free proxy. What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections, usually those services are set to provide more safety, blocking the access to undesired web sites (the "black list"). What you can do now is use Google translator service (language tools) as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection!
Use Google as a free proxy
We love XBMC media centers for watching movies and TV, but if you like video games, they can do so much more. With a simple plug-in, some configuration, and a USB gamepad, you can play video games straight from your set-top box. As if your media center wasn't cool enough on its own, you can turn it into an all-in-one game console with just a bit of tweaking. After setting it all up, you'll be able to scroll through your XBMC library just as you would movies and pick out a video game to play right there on your TV, whether it's as old as the NES (using emulators) or as new as the Xbox 360 (using PC versions of popular console games).
Turn Your XBMC Media Center into a Video Game Console
You've hacked your Nintendo DS for easy backups and single-cartridge playback . Now it's time to install some awesome homebrew software, capable of playing back music and video, organizing to-dos, playing emulated and homebrew games, and a lot more. Photo a composite of images by Lecate and daveynin .
Supercharge Your Homebrew-Hacked Nintendo DS
How to Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Games and DVD Playback - How-To Geek
Want to play emulated games on your Wii? How about DVD playback? Here’s how to use the SmashStack exploit to hack your Wii with the latest system menu and enable all of that and more! And yes, in case you are wondering, this does work with the latest version 4.3 firmware update.
Operate Your Computer with Wii Controllers
Click to view Nintendo doesn't exactly advertise it, but the remotes for the Wii gaming console—including the balance board that comes with Wii Fit—have Bluetooth capabilities. That means you can connect your Wii peripherals to your computer to operate the media center hooked up to your TV, play emulated games with a Nunchuk , Classic Controller , or even a Balance Board, and pretty much have them do anything you can do with a keyboard. Let's walk through linking up your Wii peripherals and putting them in control of your Mac, PC, or Linux box.To give you an idea of what you can do with a Wii/PC hook-up, here's a look at one neat example: Controlling Windows Media Center from a distance, without having to shell out for a separate remote control. Click to view Do want?
If you're rocking a brand new Wii (or you updated your old Wii to the new 4.3 Wii OS) and you want to hack it for homebrew apps and game backups, check out this guide to using the Super Smash Bros exploit. We've shown you how to hack your Wii in the past using the Twilight Princess hack and without the Twilight Princess hack using banner bomb exploits . But what if you've updated your Wii (or purchased a brand new one) and you're stuck with the Wii OS 4.3? How to site How-To Geek explains how to use a Super Smash Bros Brawl game exploit to patch your Wii. Much like the now defunct Twilight Princess hack used a game exploit to install custom software, the SmashStack attack uses an exploit in the popular game Super Smash Bros Brawl. You'll need a Wii (updated to Wii OS 4.3), a copy of Super Smash Bros Brawl, a Game Cube controller, an SD card for your Wii, and the SmashStack exploit—which is actually a custom Smash Bros map that executes the exploit from the stage builder tool—seen above.
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew with the SmashStack
Sometimes it helps to have an entire set of tools with you to tackle a problem, and sometimes it helps to take the discreet route. [StenoPlasma] took the latter of these approaches, and stuffed a USB hub, a 16 GB flash drive, and an Atheros based USB wireless adapter into a regular looking USB mouse to make a Linux bootable system in a mouse. Because he chose the Atheros adapter, he is also capable of doing packet injection with tools like Aircrack-ng, which can invaluable in a security audit or (white hat) hacking situation. This is the only photo we have, so it could be possible that the mouse is no more than a mouse, however we know all of what [StenoPlasma] claims is 100% possible, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and hope this inspires others to hack up your own mouse kits. Be sure to check out the full parts list after the break.
Security Audit Kit in a Mouse - Hack a Day
Some build details. Let's start with the most important part, the hit detect (or laser pickup) system. I guess there are a lot of ways you could do this, ultimately, the way I chose ended up being pretty cheap and really simple. Here's a picture of my projector next to the NTSC camera with an IR interference filter taped to the front: An NTSC camera will put out a signal that contains the information of the odd lines, then the even lines in a method called 'Interlacing'. Half of your picture comes at a time, and then the other half with each horizontal line meeting the diagram above.
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With all of the new micro PCs, Netbooks, tablets, smartphones and other wiz bang small form-factor but super powerful computers out there it is high time we had one in our car dashboard. Here is a look at some of the car PC kits and components that will allow you to convert the space owned by your current stereo system. It is time to rip out that 1990's technology stereo and replace it with a touch screen, DVD, GPS, TV, Bluetooth, wi-fi,MP3, Video playing, Internet surfing powerhouse PC. Is the Car PC revolution upon us? Perhaps; lets see what we can build today. The first and probably the best type of PC would be one that fits right into a double din slot on your dashboard.
Cisco Security Expert: Create the Ultimate Car PC | Network World
Make sure you carefully plan out your modifications and hopefully have some back up plans in case things don't work out. Leave some room for experimentation. If you can find some junk to play around with before you move on to the good stuff that is preferable. I wasn't about to go installing a $300 iPod before I tried this out with the cheaper stuff on my first attempt. The 1st MP3 player I used cost me $11.
Ghettoblaster MP3 player installation
The Insignia Infocast is a $169 simple media device being sold at Best Buy. Marketed as a way to share photos and run Chumby apps, hackers are starting to release packages to extend its features . [Bunnie] shows us one package in particular that allows it to be used as a web browser with an external keyboard. With an 800Mhz processor, an 800×600 touch screen, and 2 GB of memory, we can see that this is just scratching the surface of what is possible.