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How to bypass iPad 2

If your iPad 2 ask “Enter Passcode” when you open smart cover you can just:

1. Press power button until you see “slide to power off”
2. Then close the Smart Cover
3. Open Smart Cover
4. Press Cancel

and now your iPad 2 is unlocked.

If you want to disable this nice little security hole just turn off “iPad Cover [...]

Overlook Fing network scanner for Android

I have used many network scanner/monitor apps on my IOS devices and Android devices but now I found Overlook Fing which is everyway better than any of those which I had tried before.

It’s fast, show vendor (It get this from MAC-address), it can scan services it can export your current network to CSV, XML and [...]

Problems with TimeMachine and Airport Extreme with USB harddrive

I had iomega’s 2 terabyte external USB harddrive and I wanted to use that as a disk for my timemachine backups. When I plugged it in to my iMac it showed up to my desktop and I could do my timemachine backups to it like a dream.

Then I wanted to get rid of useless stuff [...]

Make your Apple iPad a bit more secure

Probably we all have (or should have) at least this kind of screen when we wake up our iPad:

But how many knew that it’s easy to make it even more secure?
It’s easy to see your code when you write your 4 digit pin-code without you even noticing it so let’s make our iPad ask password.