Most of the computers are infected by USB or Flash Drives containing autorun.inf viruses. Although you can protect your computer by turning off the autorun feature, more permanent solution would be to install Net Studio USB FireWall. It is a freeware that sits on your computer system tray and monitors all the usb devices for…
Most of us don’t know that the optical mouse we use has a 18×18 camera. It can be used to capture images using serial port of your computer. The author hacked the mouse, and used a Visual Basic program to translate the data sent from mouse into an image. Below is an image generated by…
Trees can now be used to generate clean electricity, thanks to SolarBotanic, a company specializing in mimicking nature. The artificial trees consist of Nanoleaves, which uses nanotechnology to capture solar energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cells. They also have nano-stems and twigs having piezoelectric material to convert wind energy to electricity. The company has several…
There are many tools available for enhancing the picture quality in iPhone, But ClearCam is certainly different. It takes multiple pictures of 2MP from your iPhone, and turns it into a 4MP picture.The enhanced mode can take up 6 pictures and combine them to improvce the quality.Apart from this, the QuickShot mode allows the user…
This is Part 3 of the series of articles which will have many new (and old) tips and tricks to enhance windows 7. Stay tuned for more! Part 1: Patch uxtheme.dll And Apply Custom MSStyles Part 2: Modify bootloader configuration and OS descriptions SetteMaxer is a freeware utilty that can easily tweak windows 7. It…