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Hack to get free internet access at WiFi hotspots

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Nice little set of instructions Haven't tried them out yet unfortunately but was too good not to blog.. clipped from www.system666.net How to get internet free! Tools (windows): Mac Makeup Wireshark Angry IP Scanner (optional) Step by step howto (windows): 1. Connect to the network 2. Open up Wireshark and start a capture for the nic you are connected with. 3. Filter it so you can just see the network traffic your connected to with this (insert filter thingy) If you are having trouble finding traffic or other computers, you can use Angry IP Scanner to see what other computers are on the network. 4. Pick an ip that you think had access and look at the corresponding mac address 5. open up Mac Makeup and select the nic you wish to change NOTE: BE SURE TO SAVE YOUR ORIGNIAL MAC ADDRESS Open up command prompt and type ipconfig /all and save it somewhere. 6. Look at the new mac address and enter in the box in Mac Makeup and click Change. ...

Response video to media coverage of MMC

Response video to media coverage of MMC

Intel(R) Extreme Graphics 2

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This is a nice technical post (kinda) cos I haven't posted in ages (blame goes to Facebook) Ok, see this little icon on the left. If you use Intel(R) Extreme Graphics 2 you'll see it in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen along with the other annoying icons that sit there doing nothing. One of the handy features of Intel Exteme Graphics is that it allows you to rotate the image displayed on your computer screen. Obviously you'd only want to do this if you're also able to physically rotate the screen. This is sometimes nice if you're writing a document cos then you can fit a whole page at once on the screen. I have such a screen (at work) and until today I've had to locate this icon in the corner and go into the menus to rotate the screen. Today, all that changed. I was pressing some random keys trying to make little e's with accents (é) and it wasn't working, and suddenly my screen flipped. So here we go. The Intel Extreme Graphics keyboard shor...

Music downloads via Google and ZShare (with UnPlug)

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There have been a few clips on hacking Google to get music. Here's another option if you use Firefox and have the UnPlug extension. Do a simple Google search for your music keyword plus site:zshare.net Example: madonna site:zshare.net Click on a search result then use the UnPlug extension to download the song (use UnPlug's normal Save option on the far right-hand side). Good luck clipped from zshare.net With z SHARE you can upload files, images, videos, audio and flash for free. Simply use the upload form below and start sharing! You can also use z SHARE as your personal file storage: backup your data and protect your files. clipped from addons.mozilla.org UnPlug 1.6.03 UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool.  

AJAX development tools by Backbase

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clipped from www.backbase.com