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Disable V-Cast Manager Popup

~SP — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:19:16 +0000

A fresh annoyance on the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible and Droid X is the V-Cast Manager web page that automatically launches each and every time you plug the phone into your computer. This issue surfaced after Verizon pushed the Android Version 2.2 (Froyo) update through their network to my Droid Incredible. Fortunately, I discovered a way to …

The SpyPhone – and remote recording

~SP — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:55:20 +0000

The project: How to record a meeting in such a way that even a strip search wouldn’t blow the agents’ cover and also store the recorded intel in such a way that should the agent be compromised, the intel would be safe. Oh god oh god oh why: The list of movies in which an [...]

Sniping the security

~SP — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:22:45 +0000

The project: How to remotely disable security cameras nondestructively from quite a distance… Oh God oh God oh why: It’s no secret. A lot of my inspiration comes from movies and for quite some time I have become more and more annoyed by Hollywoods sometimes rather silly solutions for an agent to shut down [...]

Nokia 6280 with SLR optics

~SP — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:42:28 +0000

Resently the cameras on cellphones are getting better and better. How ever the optics on them are mostly crap made of cheap plastic. Then i spawned the idea “Why not oparate an SLR lens on to the cell?” This hack will give you 36x optical zoom on your cell just because of the crop factor + the [...]