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QR/Square barcode?

By on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | No Comments

What are these square barcodes you see on some websites, emails or even in print? Well, using technology and a decent mobile phone with a camera (read: just about every phone these days!), activate the camera and take a photo of the ‘barcode’. Get your software to read it and tell you what it contains [...]

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WPA hack revealed

By on Monday, November 10th, 2008 | No Comments

Everyone knows that Wi-Fi WEP can be easily hacked, but recently an expolit for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard has come to light. The exploit allows a hacker to “send bogus data to an unsuspecting WiFi client,” completely compromising your Wi-Fi security. Fortunately there is an easy fix. Jump into your mode/router and switch off [...]

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Enable SNMP on Netgear DG834G

By on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments

If you have a DG834G ADSL router and wish to monitor it, there isn’t any options in the GUI interface to manage it via SNMP. Yes, you can configure it to respond to ICMP (PING) but what if you want more? After a bit of searching around, I found instructions to do it (as shown [...]

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Linksys WRT54G2 released

By on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Wireless internet access is great – most of the time. It saves the need for running wires through your house, but can be a bitch to set up, and can be affected by other devices that emit radio signals. Most new routers are expensive, high-performance affairs that use the 802.11n standard. But the ‘funky looking’ [...]

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Google Maps Street View Hits Australia

By on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | No Comments

Google today has released street view in Australia, the third country to get it. The snapshots are taken by a fleet of cars fitted with special cameras that drive across the country, capturing images on every street corner and along every highway. Quite possibly you have seen them out on the streets. They are just [...]

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