Hacks and How-To's
LinkedIn: Top 10 Tips to get Headhunted
New Year’s resolutions generally focus around losing weight or finding a new job. You may have already cut down on the Jaffa Cakes, but are now faced with the problem of a poor job market as companies still try to recover from the recession by keeping on skeleton staff.
Apart from sending your CV to recruiters, [...]
Amazon Kindle Copyright Hacked: PDF Books Up for Grabs
In the spirit of giving, hackers have claimed success in cracking copyright protections on Amazon’s Kindle eReader, allowing eBooks to be exported to other devices.
The eBooks will take the form of a pdf file, allowing it to be easily shared around the Kindle community and other file supporting devices.
Israeli hacker Labba is taking the kudos [...]
Windows 7 Black Screen of Death Caused by Malware: Safety Tips
We’re all familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (or BSoD) giving you a friendly notice that your computer has encountered a critical system error, which makes Microsoft’s latest Black Screen of Death just that bit more exciting.
An unlucky lucky number of Windows 7 users this week have faced said black screen after logging on [...]
Get more from your storage.
So, you have a NAS box, or perhaps a USB external storage device. It sits there on the shelf, or desk, and occasionally you head on in to retrieve the Abba album you squirrelled away, or perhaps that photo of uncle Philip asleep on the sofa at Christmas with a party whistle up his nose. And certainly these devices do this very well. Have you ever wanted to do a bit more with it though?
Windows 7 Activation Hacked Already
Just one week after Windows 7 was released to PC manufacturers, pirates have already cracked the product’s activation.
The product key has been posted on the internet from one of Microsoft’s major OEM partners, Lenovo. A Lenovo disk image of Windows 7 was leaked to a Chinese forum which then quickly spread to English-language domains.
To compound [...]
Top Five Ways To Improve Your iPhone Battery Life
You may be strutting around town with a pocket full of iPhone that gives you a head full of inner-geek confidence, but if your Apple device is constantly out of battery, which has been its most commonly reported problem, then you’re basically carrying around a bit of black plastic.
Apple uses a lithium-ion battery to power [...]
Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman Video Tutorials
Here at Gaj-It we’ve been quite keen on the new Sony Ericsson W995 handset with its 8.1 megapixel camera, GPS receiver, standard 3.5mm jack and an an 8GB M2 memory card for all of your music- well it is a Walkman after all.
A couple of weeks ago we unboxed the phone and liked what came [...]
Google Chrome gets add ons
The latest developer release of Google’s new browser, Chrome, however, come with vastly improved APIs and developer tools that allow keen developers to create applications attached to the newly-released browser.
A tour of XP Mode
In an article I wrote about XP Mode, I said at the bottom that as soon as I could get my hands on the various bits of software, I would post. Slightly later than anticipated here we go. For the people out there who have yet to hear of the miracle that is XP Mode, you can think of it as an extension of Microsofts Virtual PC. As well as being an update to Virtual PC, it also has the added benefit of publishing apps installed on the virtual machine to the host. This means that if you have an application that is incompatible with Windows 7, you can still run it as if it were native. Still confused? Lets go through it.
Make your USB stick more interesting (how to video)
So I got bored the other weekend and had a little surf around the net, and ended up finally buying a new USB memory stick. I really wanted a novelty one, but they’re so expensive! So I settled on a normal one, but carried on looking at the funky things I’d never have. Until I [...]
