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iResQ Upgrades Apple TV HDD for the Uninitiated

If those Apple TV hacks proved to be a little too risque for your techie skills, fear not. The gang at iResQ will crack open that shiny box and upgrade its hard drive for you. Options range from a 160GB hard drive upgrade ($299) to just 80GB ($209). Prices are steep, so we recommend you…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 27

Gizmodo’s Top 5 Apple TV Hacks

Click to viewOn the fence as to whether or not you should buy an Apple TV for your living room? Feeling a little constrained by the device’s restrictions? From upping your unit’s hard drive to getting it to run unsupported video codecs, these hacks will make your $299 purchase worth the splurge. Boot Apple TV…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 27

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Now that we’ve all seen the gutted insides of Apple TV, some forum users claim to have hacked into the unit and gotten it to run nonsupported codecs like XviD. The actual hacking shouldn’t be too hard for the skilled. It involves removing and mounting App TV’s hard drive and installing a few scripts. The…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 23

Don’t Feel Like Activating Vista? It’s Cool, Take As Long As You Like

With a simple registry tweak, you can take that 30-day activation deadline and shove it—possibly forever. According to Brian Livingston, publisher of Windows Secrets, the activation delay hack previously thought to work for 120 days can be reused “indefinitely,” though it varies from copy to copy. The haxx0ring? Change a registry key (SkipRearm) hex value.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 16

What You’ve All Been Waiting For: USB Humping Dog Finally Does More Than Just Hump

That’s right, a reader over at Digital World Tokyo has put together a guide on retro-fitting your favorite hypersexually active dog peripheral with some actual memory. Better yet, part of the mod is that the dog only humps when it’s accessing data. While DWT characterizes the guide as “quick,” be warned that you need some…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 12

Hack Google Maps to Get Super Zoom

Ever wish you could zoom in ever farther using Google Maps? Well, with a tiny bit of URL tweaking you can, provided the area you’re looking at has big enough images. Check it: Select a location and switch to satellite view. Zoom in as far as you can, and click ‘link to this page’ at…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 8

Slate Explains How to Make Your Cell Phone Jack Bauer-Worthy

Coming off a story about a Wal-Mart employee intercepting conversations and text messages between Wal-Mart PR and a NYT reporter, Slate takes it upon itself to teach you how to do just that with your own dinky cell phone. First on the list, predictably, is copying the interceptee’s SIM card, sending all of their phone…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 7

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

Finding the secret keys to the kingdom has become an international sport, and now we’re hearing that the mighty product activation for Microsoft Windows Vista has already been compromised. Using a brute force technique of checking 20,000 possibilities an hour, it might take a few days to find a valid product key, but it works.…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 2

Xbox 360 Hacked To Run Unsigned Code

The Xbox 360 was hacked… again. By exploiting an unpatched hole in the system and messing around with shader files from the game King Kong (can you tell the hack is pretty damn complicated?), a hacker was able to run an unsigned, homebrew app for the first time on the system. Some pretty heavy technical…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Mar 2

HD DVD and Blu-ray Now Completely Hacked, Cracked, Sacked

The guys at the Doom 9 forum are marking February 11, 2007 as the day when digital rights management was defeated on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. It turns out that cracking the high definition disc formats was much easier than was originally thought. The processing key that can unravel the DRM on all HD…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 13

Optimus Mini-3 Hacked to Play Video

Do what any bored hacker does and modify the Optimus Mini-Three so that the individual buttons can play video. Hit the link to figure out how to do it yourself if you happen to be one of the few that actually owns a Mini-Three and has the desire to watch video on a 1-inch screen.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 7

iNoPhone: Headset Made from an Apple Mouse

An enterprising modder has created his very own Apple Phone, dubbed the iNoPhone. It’s not exactly as slick as the official version, but it’s not without its charm. Made from an old Apple mouse and a Bluetooth headset, it’s not really a full phone — it’s a headset, and you need a real phone equipped…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 31

Second Wii Modchip Coming This Weekend

When it rains, it pours. Earlier this week we reported that the Wiinja Wii modchip would be released on February 1st, and now the CycloWiz Wii modchip claims to beat the Wiinja to the punch. They say they’ll be shipping this weekend, which is both after the February 1st release date of the Wiinja and…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 30

Nintendo Wii Modchip Due February 1

The console scene group Ninja plans to release the Wiinja, the world’s first Nintendo Wii modchip, by February 1. With the chip installed, which only requires you to solder five wires, you’ll be able to play backup copies of Wii games on your console. (Downloadable Wii ISOs already litter the Internet.) One reason why we…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 29

PSP Firmware 3.03 Hacked, Full Downgrader Expected Soon

The latest Sony PSP firmware, version 3.03, has been cracked. (Given all these recent hacks, maybe we should change our name to Hackmodo?) It turns out that the powers that be didn’t properly patch Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, so hackers are still using it to hack the PSP to pieces. Unfortunately, the only…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 26

HD DVD Copy Protection Only Partially Cracked

The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Authority (the dudes in charge of HD DVD copy protection measures) has confirmed that the security measures of certain HD DVDs has been cracked. The hack, which is the work of a person posing as muslix64, doesn’t actually apply to all HD DVDs, though. In other words, muslix64’s…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 26

Install Western Digital Hard Drives Into Your Xbox 360

It’s now possible to install third-party hard drives into the Xbox 360, but there are some caveats. A hacker created a DOS-based program that, for now, only works on Western Digital BEVS hard drives. Also, the 20GB storage limit is still in place. It can only be surpassed if Microsoft officially releases a larger hard…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 26

Blu-ray Now Cracked, and That Makes Two

Movie studios, start your attorneys, because muslix64, the guy who cracked HD DVD with his BackupHDDVD utility has done it again. His next Pandora’s box is called BackupBluray. It’s not perfect yet, because the first iteration can only crack backup Blu-ray discs whose CPS unit key is known, but sources say full decryption will be…

Tech News Charlie White Jan 23

23 Tips to Turbocharge your TiVo

Here is a handy list of 23 tips that allows you to get more out of your TiVo or DVR (although a good chunk of the tips are specifically for TiVO). Learn anything from adding hard drives to transferring content to a PC to customizing the GUI and more with this convenient list (complete with…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

How To: Dominate the Arcade Claw Game

Brainiac, one of the few good shows on G4TV, figured out how to beat the claw game and has passed it onto you. Those damn claw games pissed me off so much as a kid, and whoda thunk it that they actually pay out on a schedule by adjusting the claw tension every xx number…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jan 3

iResQ Upgrades Apple TV HDD for the Uninitiated

Gizmodo’s Top 5 Apple TV Hacks

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Don’t Feel Like Activating Vista? It’s Cool, Take As Long As You Like

What You’ve All Been Waiting For: USB Humping Dog Finally Does More Than Just Hump

Hack Google Maps to Get Super Zoom

Slate Explains How to Make Your Cell Phone Jack Bauer-Worthy

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

Xbox 360 Hacked To Run Unsigned Code

HD DVD and Blu-ray Now Completely Hacked, Cracked, Sacked

Optimus Mini-3 Hacked to Play Video

iNoPhone: Headset Made from an Apple Mouse

Second Wii Modchip Coming This Weekend

Nintendo Wii Modchip Due February 1

PSP Firmware 3.03 Hacked, Full Downgrader Expected Soon

HD DVD Copy Protection Only Partially Cracked

Install Western Digital Hard Drives Into Your Xbox 360

Blu-ray Now Cracked, and That Makes Two

23 Tips to Turbocharge your TiVo

How To: Dominate the Arcade Claw Game

Galaxy S26 Ultra Now Available for $480 as Samsung Expands Trade-In Offers With Extra Savings on Buds4 Pro

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