Archive for May, 2010
Lasers: Barcode scanner “gun” has real laser inside!
by firestorm_v1 on May.18, 2010, under Hardware, How-To's, Investigative Dissassembly
I know it’s been a while so here’s another post. In this post, I’ll go over the hardware in this gun style barcode scanner that holds a real helium-neon laser tube with power supply! Although this post only covers the basic modding, there’s nothing to stop you from gutting the gun and using the HeNe tube for your own nefarious plan. 🙂 (continue reading…)
Android:Sprint officially releases Android 2.1 for Samsung Moment!
by firestorm_v1 on May.15, 2010, under Embedded devices, Linux, Product Reviews, Software
While writing up the review for the Samsung Moment versus the Palm Pre, I happened to find out that Sprint has now released Android 2.1 (Eclair) for the Moment. Guess now I have to start over again, but the up side is that this is a very significant update from Samsung’s initial release, Android 1.5.
You can download the update from Sprint at http://shop.sprint.com/en/software_downloads/pda_smartphone/samsung_moment.shtml
Please note: According to the instructions available at the link above, you will need to use a Windows PC to apply the update to your phone. I will be posting a mirror shortly and it will show up in the “Download Files” page at the top of this page.
Web: Stupid HTML trick to get past content filters
by firestorm_v1 on May.02, 2010, under How-To's, Miscellaneous, Networking, Software
I know it’s been a while since I posted, and I do apologize. Life has definitely not been kind to me in the regards of time however I have not forgotten anything. I have two major posts coming up hopefully within the next week, however here’s a quick article about a trick I discovered while working on a project with a friend. The project was to see if their content filter could be broken in their chat application andthrough a little bit of HTML know-how and some PHP code, I was able to crank out a generator to do just that. Read more to find out the details. (continue reading…)