Tag: hacks

Get Google Assistant for your Android Phone - Smart Hack

Karan S

Google Assistant was announced at the launch event of Google Pixel on May 18, 2016 and since then is being slowly rolled out to a few non-Pixel devices. As the time passes Google will be rolling out the Assistant feature to all phones with Android 5.x and later. However for the restless lot, there is quicker way too. You can get the Google Assistant on your Android phone right now! Move to Google Playstore on your phone, and search for “Google Allo”. It is an instant messaging App like WhatsApp, LINE,…

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Top 5 USB Hacks that PWN You

Tarandeep Singh

A USB based dongle can go long way in terms of screwing you, your data, and even your life. Every other day we come across a new device that exposes a new type of vulnerability, enabling hackers to go wilder. Let’s take a look at Top 5 Best USB Hacks that can PWN you: 1. BadUSB BadUSB reprograms embedded firmware to give USB devices new, covert capabilities. A USB devices takes on the ability to act as a keyboard that surreptitiously types malicious commands into attached computers. A different drive…

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How to Hack Open/Unlock Office Door

Tarandeep Singh

In movies, geeks would pitch-in and attach a PDA to the door that sweeps the magnetic field patterns against the doors or analyze the lock code in matter of seconds. They employ modern science, mostly imaginary, but it sure looks complex. In reality, unlocking doors can be as easy as buying a Good Magnet. Most office doors employ magnetic sensors that require a access card to be swiped across to unlock. These magnetic cards have unique magnetic pattern underneath the plastic, which when scanned is matched against a person’s identity.…

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Kick users, devices from Wifi

Tarandeep Singh

Is your roommate eating all of your Wifi bandwidth downloading those crazy torrents? Is your wife streaming too many movies from Netflix? Are your younger ones spending so much time on nothing but Facebook? Its almost time start kicking them from Wifi connection. You can now kick users & devices from Wifi using an android app called WiFiKill. The app makes sure that a targeted users is not able to connect to Internet using your Wifi. WiFiKill is pretty simple: it scans your network for connected devices and gives the option to…

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Xbox 360, PS3 Hybrid Mod

Tarandeep Singh

While Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3 fight is ON for years, hardcore gamers know the best way out: Buy both. PS3 best for its exclusive titles and better graphics for most FPS, (& Kinect) on Xbox 360. But it could be even better if you can get both Xbox 360, PS3 in one box: A Hybrid. A modder has managed to fit PlayStation 3 fat and Xbox 360 slim together into one well designed case. Of course the package gives out two video outputs to drive different displays, enabling…

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Hack Macbook using Battery

Tarandeep Singh

Charlie Miller, the famous Apple security researcher has found another flaw with macbooks. The latest hack is very interesting as he had made it possible to hack MacBook using the battery, alone. Modern Laptop battery contains its own monitoring circuit which reports the status of the battery to the OS. The circuit is also responsible for preventing battery from overcharging, this comes handy when the laptop is switched off. The scurity researcher has discovered that the batteries on Macbooks are shipped with the default password on the micro-controller. It can…

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DIY: Transform LCD Display into LED

Tarandeep Singh

If you love to hack gadgets and electronics, here’s a tip for you that could potentially help you increase the quality of the picture of your display, computer monitor and also save electricity bills. When your LCD screen backlight burn out, you might have to get them replaced or do something even better: DIY Replace LCD with LED backlight. Not only is this solution cheaper, but also easier to find in the market. A sub $10 LED strip could replace the CFL backlight without any trouble. How to Replace LCD…

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Minority Report Finger Tracking Control using Kinect

Tarandeep Singh

The most hacker friendly gadget of all times gets another face lift. You can now use your finger, hand gestures to control your applications, just like in the Minority Report. This is among the best Kinect hacks we’ve seen so far and to add to the goodness, its Open source and available for you to try with any of the supported applications. Using your hand gestures, you can flick though photo albums, zoom and pan, and what not. Its like full two hand multitouch, without touching. The project is called…

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DIY Electronics Hardware Projects with Android [Arduino alternative]

Tarandeep Singh

All the DIY Electronics enthusiasts cherish, coz you can now do all the hardware hacking using hack-friendly attachment that turns an Android smartphone into the hub of any electronics project. IOIO (pronounced yoyo) is capable of doing almost everything that a Arduino could, including a retro-style alarm clock that can ring when you get messages. And there’s a Wall Printer which uses seven Sharpie-style market pens hooked up to servos for an old-school printer effect controlled by an Android phone. These are just some early samples, the potential is huge.…

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Control Windows 7 with Kinect

Tarandeep Singh

Xbox Kinect is the ultimate hack machine, and that’s it the most popular gadget of the year 2010. Kinect has often been hacked to work with a large number of hobby electronics to attain Gesture based control for systems. It has been hacked to control Widnows 7 PC a number of times, but it was never done and sold like a regular software bundle. Win&I is the first fully useful commercial software that let’s you control your windows 7 PC with a Kinect controller using gestures alone. You can control…

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How to Reverse Engineer USB [Kinect]

Tarandeep Singh

The hottest thing among geeks and programmers is reverse engineering USB devices. These days, the most popular topic is the Xbox Kinect hacks and here we’ve a guide on How to Reverse engineer a USB. USB is a very complex protocol, much more complicated than Serial or Parallel, SPI and even I2C. USB uses only two wires but they are not used as ‘receive’ and ‘transmit’ like serial, data is bidirectional and differential. What that means is that the data sent depends on the difference in voltage between the two data…

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Best Kinect Hack/Mod - iRobot KinectBot

Tarandeep Singh

Kinect is getting 100s of hacks everyday, and thanks to Kinect driver for windows 7, there are now infinite new possibilities. The latest and the Best Kinect Hack, Mod comes from a student at MIT. Kinect has been hacked to use camera with a Roomba cleaner to create iRobot KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands. Previously, we’ve seen how a Roomba can be hacked enable you to Google Your Home with Roomba Bot. The project leverages the Kinect’s ability to map terrain in 3-D and to recognize…

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Send Free SMS from iPhone, Web to US, UK, India, more

Tarandeep Singh

The popular free SMS website 160by2.com hs extended its service by launching its iPhone app. Already, it was possible to send SMS from their website, via the computer or the mobile phone . But the new iPhone app will allow direct access to sending free SMSs across a large number of countries. No longer have iPhone users to bother about typing numbers into webpage, its all done from iPhone’s contacts Point your phone to app store [iTunes link] and download the app, and start sending Free SMS to U.S., UK, Canada, Singapore,…

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VLC Player comes to iOS: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Tarandeep Singh

Big news for those who watch movies, videos on iOS Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, VLC Player is here to play them all. This is based on a previously released iPad version, but comes with new features, better file format support. In addition, it offers performance improvements, and allows for the deletion of files right through its own interface. Compatibility: iPhone 3GS or newer. On the android side of things, theres no official VLC media player, but you can play almost any format: WMV, AVI, DivX, MKV, rmvb, on android…

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Best iPhone 4 3D game : Modern Combat 2

Tarandeep Singh

One of my all time favorite 3D games on iPhone & Android was N.O.V.A, an elegant first person shooter game. Modern Combat 2 from Gameloft seems to cross the possibilities to a new level. Modern Combat 2 brings near-PC gaming experince to the iPhone 4. From its challenging single player campaign to its rewarding multiplayer experience and the high level of detail. The game offers a variant of maps, customizable control schemes, and my favorite: 10 player online multiplayer. Online play is very rich experience, as you progress you unlock…

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