This time its a generic non-branded chinese bluetooth speaker. I got this one from amazon, for less than £10. Its fabric covered so looks good, and is very loud. It plays audio recordings when you pair and un pair (its a bit chinglish, but is a nice touch) it also Read more…
Ive been spurned by expensive headphones in the past, but still burn through them. This time I decided to get some cheap ($10) bluetooth earpod style headphones from China. They are pretty good. Bass isnt great (they were ten bucks after all) I wouldnt use them for mastering, but they Read more…
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques – Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Read more…
Blackarch pacman package groups Install with pacman -S groupname to quickly install a bunch of tools in one command: This info is available in the blackarch developers guide here: https://blackarch.org/blackarch-guide-en.pdf – this post is a copy-paste of that info – there are a lot of red-team things in the list, Read more…
My brother got me a BBC micro:bit for my birthday. I decided to have a play around with it to see what it can do – its a pretty good ecosystem – you can edit code in python, load it to the device using bluetooth from your mobile and its Read more…
This post shows you how to see the strength of signal for your connected bluetooth devices in osx lion and mountain lion. open system preferences > bluetooth alt + click on the connected devices and you will see a signal strength popup
Using an apple magic mouse with linux is very easy: this post will show you how to setup an apple magic mouse on linux ubuntu, fedora, mint, etc. The apple mouse uses bluetooth to connect, so you need a bluetooth device (it may be built-in if you have a laptop). Read more…
This is a short linux bluetooth scanning tutorial with some tools you can use in backtrack linux (now kali linux) or any distribution you prefer to perform bluetooth scans. Its not comprehensive, but will show you the tools that you need to get started searching for nearby devices. linux bluetooth Read more…
Playstation psx emulator on mac osx An emulator is software which simulates the instruction set and behavior of a microprocessor. Simulating the architecture in an environment where that microprocessor isn’t available. (yay! I remembered something from my electronics degree!) That means you can run software designed for one architecture on Read more…
This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…
You probably know this already: turn off push in mail ( settings > mail > fetch new mail ) and set the schedual to hourly or manual – manual will only get mail when you open mail, it will also control the updating of calendars and contacts :) turn off Read more…