Even more router reliability reflections, 4 years on

November 27, 2016 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Wow so it’s been 4 years since my last “Router reliability” thoughts, and so much has changed in the landscape, yet so much has stayed the same too. There’s still the problem of downright terrible routers being hocked off by ISP’s, left, right & center for free under the guise of “valued at $299”, when […]

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Quick n Easy: Gargoyle on the TP-Link TL-WR941ND

October 16, 2013 Chilling_Silence Uncategorized

So getting Gargoyle going on the TP-Link TL-WR941ND is nice and simple (even for non-techies), and it gives you a reliable and easy to use router with some pretty awesome features. This is a “Quick n Easy” guide that’ll have you up and running in 5-10 minutes! I’ve previously recommended Gargoyle on the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. […]

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Hacking Ultra Strikes in Ingress without a Motorola phone

September 18, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So the Ultra Strikes have been out and about for a bit. They’re not really “game-changers” like an ADA or Jarvis Virus is. It’s more of a kind of concentrated XMP Burster, so when you hack one, think of it kind of like hacking a couple of that same level XMP. Modifying your phone so […]

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5 ADB, Android, Ingress, root, Ultra Strike,

Protip – Setting up Google Wallet for use outside of USA

January 31, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So there’s a lot of things that can be ordered from Google, but many of them require two things: 1) An American IP Address (To make it seem as though you’re accessing Google from within America) 2) An American credit card However, thankfully you don’t actually need an American credit card and we can make use […]

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4 Credit Card, Google Play, Google Wallet, Ordering, vpn,

Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 5 – Google Music

January 30, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Today we’re going to take a look at Google Music! Google Music is usually only available in a few select countries like the USA but it’s not difficult to enable it here in New Zealand. From there, you can upload all your music for free to Google and access it anywhere in the world from your […]

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Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 4 – NFC (Near Field Communication)

January 15, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So you’ve probably heard of NFC. Your credit card probably also has NFC in it. There’s a ton of useful things you can do with NFC that make it worth keeping it enabled and it drains almost no battery. Its also secure, in that, if your screen is off or you’re sitting on the Lock […]

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Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 3 – Location

January 11, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So you’ve got yourself one of the most powerful smartphones on the face of the planet, why not start using some of the “smart” features. Location is clearly one of the better features of a smartphone, as seen by the recent Apple Maps screwup, and it’s also pretty clear Google are leaders in the field. […]

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0 Android, Google Maps, Google Now, GPS, Location,

Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 2 – Chatting

January 10, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

In Part 2 of this series, we’ll take a look at Chatting. You’ve got your notifications setup in the previous setup, now lets put them to good use and start having some fun chatting with some friends. There’s 3 chat methods that ship with the Nexus 4 (Excluding Email stuff etc) which we’ll look at, what […]

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0 Android, Google, Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, Gtalk,

Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 1 – Notifications

January 6, 2013 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

So you’ve got yourself a Nexus 4, here’s some cool things you can do to get started with it. There’s going to be at least 4 parts to this (Nexus 4, 4 parts, see how I did it!) and they’ll be some useful things to try out on your phone. We’ll take a look at […]

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0 Android, Light Flow, Nexus 4, Notification Light, Notifications,

Guide to CyanogenMod & AOSP Jellybean / ICS on the HTC One X

August 2, 2012 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

UPDATE: FAQs are at the very bottom of the page! 🙂 There seems to be a lot of confusion about getting the HTC One X running custom firmware. It’s actually quite simple, there’s just a few steps that you need to take in order to first unlock the Bootloader, and then flashing the new firmware. […]

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