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Many of you are surely familiar with the image above, but if you inspect the image carefully you will notice something 'weird'... Yep! No tricks. This image is 960x544 (without the footer with the buttons). How did that happen?! :) Well this "TomTom" is running natively under windows. I know, there's no such a thing. And NO, it's not windows emulating something that is running tomtom! Thrilled? Many people think that the application TomTomHOME connects to the device and "somehow" runs the software in there... Wrong. TTHome uses a DLL which is, as a matter of fact, the FULL TomTom navcore application compiled for windows and mac! So, I modified the TTHome application to get the coordinates from a GPS! As simple as that! All that is needed is the tomtom application and your original tomtom SD card containing maps and firmware (which is checked but not used). The image above is a cropped screenshot of my PC with just my sdcard in my cardreader. Obviousl...

ml> Hello again, sweet readers ! OpenRG is an embedded OS for routers. It's based on Linux and it's inside many ISP routers out there. Inside OpenRG configuration file, passwords appear in a way that can seem to be crypted, but it's just obfuscated. For example: (username(admin)) (password(&b7;X&5c;&b9;&a2;)) Above you can see a simple deobfuscator. Enjoy! You can try it with: &ad;Y&5b;&b3;&a3;&17;T&8b;&c4;&b9;#&96;&04;c&ea;&1d;$%&5d;&16;&08;B3&c0; :) Zibri.

I successfully connected the Uncle Milton's Force Trainer to my PC.. It was easier than expected. Here's a sample interface, but you can also use a cellular cable like the CA-42 And connect it to RX,TX and GND on the base. The serial speed is 57600 8N1 and the data stream is pretty easy to understand. I also (lousily) coded a sample application which gives the two brain 'parameters' the headset sends to the main game station. In the above example I was focusing on a particular thought very intensely. In this other example I was relaxing and focusing on my breath with my eyes closed. Stay tuned for more about this!

Yes.. I bought this game. Fun aside, both the headset both the base have a nice JTAG port and maybe a serial interface. I got it this morning and I just started inspecting the devices. They communicate on 2.478 and 2.408 Ghz frequencies it's not bluetooth but a normal serial over the air. If you are curious like me, the FCC site has FULL documentation and pictures of the inside. You will find them under these FCC IDs: XCY150511UMI2009 and XCY150512UMI2009 . I'll keep you posted. Yoda. Zibri Note: The 'unknown' chip on the base you can't see on FCC site is a PIC16F727 44 pin. The other 'blank' chip on the headset is a PIC16F722 28 pin.

Well, what to say? The best feature I've seen in blackberry phones is hidden! Let's unhide it! On 8900 and 9000 (for example) press ALT+CAP+H. You will get to the "Help Me!" screen. That screen is not really what you think it is. It's a crippled engineering screen. How to uncripple it? Enter on the above form the data you see on your 'crippled' screen. For App Version you must include the space and parethesis. For Uptime, just enter the number. After filling all the form, you'll get your key. To enter it just press the keys. (You won't see anything) Use ALT for numbers and normal keys for the characters. To enter C8, for example, you will have to type: c then ALT+x As soon as you have entered all 8 characters you will see the above screen every time you will press ALT+CAP+H Stay tuned, Namaste! Zibri

When I heard the new blackberry 8900 was 'difficult to unlock' I got curious. The BB security is nothing compared to the iPhone's. Do you want to laugh? I initially thought this unit had a defective display.. do you see that strange stripe of dotted vertical lines? Well.. putting a ruined image as the default background is a really nice joke... RIM, you got me on this. If anyone else have "secure" devices for me to test, you're welcome to send them in ;) Happy holidays, Namaste! Zibri

Since I can't be too far from phones and alikes, I started studying Qualcomm chips. These chips are included in a LOT of data cards and MANY phones (blackberry, android based phones, etc) Well Security on these chips (all of them) is ridiculous compared to competitors. Now, let me tell you one thing: I found a way to know the unlock code (SP lock, sim lock, network lock, whatever) directly from the card with a simple procedure. For now I won't spread this information. I will wait sometime and give time to qualcomm or any company producing phones or cards based on qualcomm chips to contact me. If you want to contact me, you can write your message and contact as a comment to this post. Namaste, Zibri