A geek has got to hack a few things every now and again and when he does that, he has to tell the world, doesn’t he? ;) If for nothing else because there might be another geek/non-geek who might want to use that information :)
Most people don’t know about this but if you head on over to the Google I/O, their 2013 event website shows big I/O images that you can click and it reads out the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’. Enter the right code and you get nice effects. Here’s a list of codes you can try...
Read more →This is a really old trick for Universal Flash Drives (UFDs) and I’ve been using it for years. I just thought I should document the steps so it’s available as quick reference for me :) Insert your UFD and make sure all your data is backed up because we’re going to format it. Run...
Read more →I had this infamous issue where I was stuck with my phone unable to boot for 2 days. I documented everything I learnt so others might find it helpful and as usual, it’s on XDA for all nicey goodness :) You would want to read this post either because you have already seen this...
Read more →I was helping a friend fix his hacked site when I had to disable ESET to check where his injected code was (because the website ran an img iframe hack to download a trojan on the user’s machines). I found the issue and told him what to do but had my own machine infected...
Read more →AlphaRevX totally revolutionized the S-Off scene for HTCs everywhere a few months back. I wrote a bunch of posts on XDA-Dev which showed people how to use it. But AlphaRevX doesn’t work on all software versions. One such version was 2.30.x which I was stuck on. I can now confirm that Revolutionary (formed by...
Read more →For a first time Android user looking to customize his phone, XDA-Dev can be filled with a lot of jargon. Hope this helps users understand at least a part of it. Bootloader a.k.a HBoot:Â This is the piece of software that runs before anything else on the phone. It basically packages it all up, tells...
Read more →This is more like an extension for my last post. When you register yourself on Klout and have a look at the spotify perks, you will be given a unique link. Share this with your friends and get 5 of them to register to klout. Voila! Free Spotify Premium code for you! :-D
Read more →For those of you who don’t know what Spotify is, it’s a great music streaming site which allows free streaming to your PC and great streaming/offline music play on your mobile device. So, have you been waiting years to create your Spotify account? Here’s a way to easily get a free spotify invite and...
Read more →A problem I’ve faced quite a few times is having a folder full of files with a padded extension that needs to be removed before I can use the files. This often happens because I have uTorrent set up for having the extension “.!ut” for files which are not downloaded. For reasons I cannot...
Read more →I’ve been dabbling around a lot with Android customizations from my HTC Incredible S which I recently took from HTC’s India ROM to Android Revolution HD ;) Along the way, I S-Offed my phone and rooted it as well. If you’re wondering how to how to do this transition or having issues using AlphaRevX,...
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