A few months ago I bought a bluetooth mouse from Kmart for some ridiculously cheap price. Well, no, not that type, this type: This mouse has 4 driven wheels on the bottom, and drives them “tank style” in two pairs. Yes, this is a 4WD mouse… 🙄 Since the cat didn’t appear to take much … [Read more…]
Another late night of hacking… and something cool emerges. Three years ago I tried to tinker with the YN360 light wand. In the last few years since then, Web Bluetooth support has matured, and Web Bluetooth is now well supported in Google Chrome. What this means is, that we can create a web-based remote control … [Read more…]
I’ve moved all my content on the various pain relief patches over to a new separate site. Pain Relief Patch Reviews: Kailo Signal Pain Relief nCap TaoPatch In preparation for a pain-less (haha) return to tech geek-ery and philosophical ponderings in 2021. 🙂
In the last year I’ve successfully switched to a PC for work and home. I felt that this was not by choice – an outcome I’ve ranted about before. I’m revisiting this, as I saw a recent video (embedded below – skip to 2:38) where I think Dave2D nailed this issue, giving a clear explanation … [Read more…]
I saw a tweet today that reminded me of a quick tale from a few years ago, from before my blog existed. I’d like to think this post qualifies me as a “real hacker”â„¢. Dear infosec Twitter, I'm looking for the crappiest IoT device I can buy on Amazon or anywhere in the EU. Something … [Read more…]
After replacing some Palm PDA internal batteries, I have a few success stories so far:
Ok, here’s a hot tip for refurbishing Palm & PDA devices with dead batteries. If you search “palm battery tx” or whatever, on ebay or aliexpress, you’re bound to find lots of batteries with this “CS” logo. That is Cameron Sino , who have batteries for almost every model out there. They do not sell … [Read more…]
In case display specifications and dongle-madness wasn’t confusing enough, here’s an example of a dodgy product to watch out for, by LESHP. I have an older 2015 Macbook Pro 15″. It has 3 display outputs: 1x HDMI port (HDMI 1.4) 2x mini-displayport ports (DP 1.2) Now, my laptop supports 4K on all ports. However, the … [Read more…]
Warning: A rant on bluetooth. Ah, bluetooth. You have been serving us faithfully for now over 20 years. With over 4 billion devices shipping this year alone with bluetooth support, you’re both ubiquitous and omnipresent. You made the promise to us, that it would be easy – that things would Just Workâ„¢. It’s a shame … [Read more…]
Few people would agree with the phrase “I love and trust marketing companies”. Even having worked in marketing, I would still disagree with this statement. Marketing is primarily about finding ways to persuade people to change their behaviour, in order to commercially benefit a company. This is not hard to do, and decades of psychology … [Read more…]