David boosted the range of his wireless keyboard / mouse by 400%, he writes - " I bought a really cool wireless media center keyboard with an onboard trackball mouse, so I diden't need to sit at a table with a mouse, mousepad and a keyboard while enjoying my media center.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:54
[buggs187] thought of this when he saw the dual antenna lafonera mod. [Goldserv] picked up a SODIMM off ebay with the right chips and used a SMD removal kit to swap out the 16MB SMD memory chip.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:53
Ever feel inundated by your IM client? The "Slow Messenger" is a small 96 x 64 pixel OLED display that delivers your instant messages over a long period of time and depending on your attachment to the device, gives you more or less messages.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:53
(image generated with HAHA FUNNY PICTURES). James Kendrick has posted his take on Verizon's new terms of service (TOS). After recently settling claims about their unusual definition of the word "unlimited", they are up to some annoying tricks:
Verizon has posted their new TOS and sure enough they have cleared up what limits they may be placing on customer's usage and what they will do as a result.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:52
MAKE reader Al sent in this fm signal boosting mod for the nano iTrip - "If your like me you have purchased an fm transmitter for you ipod with dreams of wirelessly transmit your tunes to your car stereo or home stereo.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:52
[Jkx] sent in his fonera SD card experiments. It looks similar to the wrt54g mod - bit banging the interface works, but it'll be slow. I poked around [Jkx] site and found quite a few goodies.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:51
Here's a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device:
Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in an active call.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:50
I just realized that we'd never covered the classic amateur radio antenna hack - known as the mobile electric screwdriver antenna. I was looking for a decent writeup, and ran across this interesting tunable indoor antenna.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:50
[Aaron] gave the latest on WiCrawl. The focus has been on the UI and usefulness for penetration testing. It's got support for [David]s coWPAtty FPGA WPA cracking accelerator and some UI improvements.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:49
[Vivek Ramachandran]'s Cafe Latte attack was one of the last talks we caught at ToorCon. I've found quite a few articles about it, but none really get it right.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:46