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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 [...]

October 21st, 2011 | Tags: apple, iPad, passcode, Security | Category: Apple, hacking | Leave a comment

Hidden menu on Dell laptops

Not sure why but if you want to see temperature info about your Dell laptop you can open “hidden menu” using your laptop keyboard just like this:

- Press FN + Shift button
- While pressing those buttons press 1, 5, 3, 2, 4
- Release FN and Shift
- Press FN + R

After pressing numbers you should notice [...]

August 23rd, 2011 | Tags: dell, hidden, laptop, latitude, menu, temperature | Category: hacking | Leave a comment

BackTrack Linux - Penetration Testing Distribution

I have been using BackTrack since the first version if I remember right and now there has been version 5.0 out for a few weeks and I have to say that it works like a dream and works on my hack laptop much much quicker than older version.
So if you are in the security/pentest business [...]

May 24th, 2011 | Tags: backtrack, linux, pentest, Security | Category: hacking, software | Leave a comment

How to get Lightroom recognize Canon S95 RAW photos

I’m probably not the only one who bought Canon S95 and noticed that Lightroom doesn’t recognize it’s RAW (.CR2) photos.
There is a little “hack” which you can do with exiftool (You can find that on http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/.

Just tell exiftool to change canonmodelID info to Canon S90:

exiftool -ext cr2 -canonmodelID="PowerShot S90" dir_of_your_cr2_files

and after that LR should recognize [...]

November 23rd, 2010 | Tags: canon, exiftool, lightroom, s90, s95 | Category: hacking | Leave a comment
 
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