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Even more router reliability reflections, 4 years on
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 […]
Hacking Ultra Strikes in Ingress without a Motorola phone
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 […]
Protip – Setting up Google Wallet for use outside of USA
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 […]
Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 5 – Google Music
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 […]
Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 4 – NFC (Near Field Communication)
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 […]
Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 2 – Chatting
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 […]
Getting started with your Nexus 4 – Part 1 – Notifications
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 […]
Guide to CyanogenMod & AOSP Jellybean / ICS on the HTC One X
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. […]
Quotas on Gargoyle Router
Yuss, it’s everybody’s fav router firmware, and quite possibly one of the features it’s most famous for! Per-device quotas provide you with the same functionality that your ISP has in terms of rate-limiting, as well as completely cutting access. On top of that, you can set unique ones for each device (Or person in your […]