One of the new features baked into Android 7.1 is Daydream, Google’s new virtual reality platform that lets you watch 360-degree videos, play games, or sit in a virtual movie theater using your phone and a compatible headset like the $79 Daydream View. There are only a few phones that officially support the feature so […]
hacks
Posted inFeatured, News
Playing with Fire: Hacking Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet
The Amazon Fire Tablet may not be one the best tablets money can buy, but more than a year after its launch, the $50 Amazon Fire is still one of the cheapest tablets that’s actually good enough to consider worth buying. But there is one big catch: while the tablet runs a customized version of Android, it’s […]
Posted inNews
Lumia 525 hacked to run Android 6.0 instead of Windows Phone 8.1
The Nokia Lumia 525 is a smartphone with a 4 inch, 800 x 480 pixel IPS display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. It was released in early 2014 and shipped with Windows Phone 8. While Microsoft rolled out a software update that allowed the Lumia 525 to run […]
Posted inNews
XBOOK ONE S is an Xbox One S… transformed into a laptop
For the past few years Edward Zarick has been taking apart Xbox and PlayStation game consoles and rebuilding them as laptop-style computers. And now that Microsoft’s new Xbox One S is available, Zarick has taken advantage of the console’s slimmed down design to make a slimmed down gaming laptop. The XBOOK ONE S is the […]
Posted inNews
Zuckerberg, Teamviewer hacks show importance of good passwords
Think it’s not a big deal if you re-use a password on a few websites? Two high-profile hacks in a week offer yet more proof that it’s most definitely a bad idea. The first incident seems to have started around the 23 of March. Isolated reports started coming in from Teamviewer users that their machines […]
Posted inNews
Nexus 5 hack gives the 2013 phone 64GB of speedy storage
The Google Nexus 5 was released in 2013 and shipped with 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage. But one Ukranian Nexus 5 owner decided to upgrade his aging phone. So he bought a 64GB eMMC 5.0 module for about $30 and replaced the storage on his phone. The end result is a Nexus 5 with […]
Posted inNews
Chromecast hack brings a 1978 TV into the digital age
Have an old-fashioned cathode-ray TV lying around and want to give it a new life? YouTuber Dr. Moddnstine has done just that, by taking an old color TV set from 1978, cramming a Chromecast inside the case, and hooking up a bit of hardware so that the TV turns on automatically when you use your phone, […]
Posted inNews
Give a Nexus 5 a microSD card slot (at your own risk) with this dirty hack
The last Google Nexus smartphone to feature a microSD card slot was the first Nexus phone. After launching the Google Nexus One in 2010, Google never again included support for a removable storage card in a Nexus phone. But that doesn’t mean you can’t add one yourself… if you’re willing to take apart and risk damaging it or removing […]
Posted inNews
Netflix Socks will pause your video if you fall asleep
It never fails: you settle in for a marathon Futurama or Kimmy Schmidt marathon, but you doze off halfway through the second episode. Netflix is here to help. The company has released plans for a DY project that will automatically pause your video when you fall asleep. How does it work? Simple: you just need […]
Posted inNews
Nexus 5X hack gives the phone stereo speakers… kind of
The Nexus 5X smartphone has an amazing camera, decent battery life, a speedy fingerprint scanner, and support for stock Android software delivered straight from Google. But the $379 smartphone doesn’t have all the features available on the more expensive Google Nexus 6P: there’s no support for image stabilization and the cheaper phone has only a […]
Posted inNews
HTC HD2 still isn’t dead yet… gets Android 6.0 port
So you thought it was impressive when folks started porting Android 6.0 Marshmallow to run on the 2011 HP TouchPad tablet? That’s nothing. Recently we saw Marshmallow ported to the original Samsung Galaxy S smartphone from 2010. But why stop there? Now you can also run Android 6.0 on the HTC HD2… a 2009 smartphone […]
Posted inNews
Stuff a Raspberry Pi Zero into an Xbox controller (or anything else)
The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is more than just a super-cheap computer. It’s also a super-small computer, measuring just about 2.6″ x 1.2″. That means the little machine is small enough to hold in one hand, slide into a pocket, or stuff inside of all sorts of other gadgets. Case in point: Terence Eden opened […]