Last year I bought a Navigo satnav from ebuyer for about £45 for our epic road trip across America. For £40 I got the Navigo V3 sat nat unit, the windscreen mount and a car charger. I bought a little carry case also for a few quid and then set about hacking it. With very little effort I got it running TomTom 6 (from the SD card) and then as well as the full UK maps I also got the Canadian and US maps and also the South African maps running on there too. TomTom is great, very easy ... [More]

Another video from my custom built hedgehog house (using ZoneMinder and an IP Camera) The field mouse is already in there when the hedgehog turns up, he's not worried but I think the little mouse is!

Firstly, grab a copy of devcon here.Theres a great MDSN article on devcon here.You then then run commands to easily change the state of devicesTo export all the hardward id’s to a file, run:devcon * > hwids.txtTo export on devices containing the string “sys” you would run:devcon *sys* > hwids.txtThere’s plenty more you can do with this, have a look.

Just recently I’ve had a massive influx of spam and it's getting really annoying now. I have the anti-spam setup in Exchange 2007 and it’s worked quite well for a while, but now the spammers are getting cleverer and more is leaking through. I had a few options, in fact, I had loads of options, but I narrowed it down to a few. There are many services that I can point my MX records to, they will filter it and then send it on to my exchange box (which would be set to only accept from... [More]

Dan sent me this today, I haven't used it yet, but I'm sure one day it could be quite handy: http://randomkeygen.com

This is quite a useful list of the default usernames and passwords for various devices: Manufacturer Model OS Version Login Password 3Com - 1.25 root letmein 3Com Super Stack 2 Switch Any manager manager 3Com AccessBuilder® 7000 BRI Any - - 3Com CoreBuilder 2500 - - - 3Com Switch 3000/3300 - manager manager 3Com Switch 3000/3300 - admin admin 3Com Switch 3000/3300 - security security 3com Cable Managment Sys... [More]

This is a great little powertoy addon for windows 7 to quickly resize photos Grab it here.

Here are some more of the youtube video's from my custom built hedgehog house (using ZoneMinder and an IP Camera) This one (below) is pretty cool, the first hedgehog really doesn't want the second hedgehog to come in, but once he/she is in they seem to co-exist pretty well, even if they do ignore each other - they could be married! These fast little mice (watch carefully) seem to enjoy the bog rolls and the food and water, hopefully we will see a bit more of them.

ProduKey is a great little utility from nirsoft that allows you to quickly and easily discover your product keys for Windows and Office etc. Handy for auditing or even just remembering which ones you used.

I came across a neat little utility today called nircmd which gives a command line operation allowing you to perform many additional tasks. If you couple this up with PsExec (i.e., roll out the nircmd.exe via GP to each local machine in advance) you can then perform all sorts of operations such as: Mute/Unmute the system volume – could be useful if somebody in the office is playing music I don’t like Turn the monitor On/Off – could be useful to annoy somebody Create a shor... [More]