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Hacking for Parental Sanity

By ⋅ June 23, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

This is one of a series of “classic posts“. Resurrections of old posts that I enjoyed writing, and you might enjoy reading. There is a company somewhere in Asia that manufactures small speakers. Small piezoelectric speakers that can put out a surprising amount of noise. I would one day like to visit this company, and [...]

Fixing iPhone Mail Crashes (2.0 Firmware)

By ⋅ July 19, 2008 ⋅ 64 comments

Sometimes your iPhone mail client just doesn’t go. You open mail, and it closes again. You can’t even delete the account from the Setup application. I’m not 100% positive, but I think this usually happens when you’ve restored your settings from a pre-2.0 phone (again, unsure whether it matters if the phone was pwned or [...]

I haz success!

By ⋅ July 19, 2008 ⋅ One comment

And yeah verily did he upgrade his 1st gen iPhone to 2.0. And it was Good. Well, almost. Everything is working perfectly from a system perspective. 2.0 firmware is on the phone, I can make and receive calls, use the App Store, and install 3rd party apps from Cydia. But by the gods is this [...]

LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ NXT Robotics Toolset

By ⋅ January 6, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

The volume of news from CES is totally overwhelming, and frankly you’re better off going elsewhere for the full experience, but there are occasional highlights that I’d like to pick out. One such highlight is the newly announced LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ NXT Robotics Toolset. I’m a huge fan of the original Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. It [...]

PSP Downgrader Released

By ⋅ September 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

The new PSP 2.0 firmware hack has, as predicted, started a veritable cascade of sub-hacks, homebrews and workarounds. We have the venerable Pong, and we have the PSP firmware downgrader. The downgrader is probably the bigger deal, giving owners of 2.0 PSPs the ability to downgrade to the thouroughly reamed 1.5 version, and thus access [...]

PSP 2.0 Firmware Hacked

By ⋅ September 24, 2005 ⋅ 4 comments

Wow. Just…. wow. Regardless of how you view the legalities of these things, you can’t help but be impressed at these dudes. Some enterprising hackers have found a buffer overflow in the PSP 2.0 firmware that seems to allow arbitrary code execution by loading a specially configured image file. If true, this of course opens [...]

TV Time

By ⋅ March 4, 2005 ⋅ 16 comments

I have finally freed myself from the arcane concept of the television schedule. After reading about the wonders of televisual bittorrents for several months, I finally decided to dip my toes into the font, and I have to say the water is great. The dromedary back-breaking straw that caused me to enter the world of [...]

New and Shiny

By ⋅ January 10, 2005 ⋅ 6 comments

Testing a new little excerpt display box thingy. Hopefully I can add quirky comments here…

More XBox Hacking

By ⋅ December 21, 2004 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m quite liking XBox Media Center. I’ve installed the latest version and reconfigured the XBox so that when booted with the modchip on (by holding the power button down for 1 second), XBMC is loaded by default. Like EvoX (the de-facto standard modchip console), XBMC includes an FTP server, which is the main ingredient for [...]

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