Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet – Broken Power Button [UPDATE]

pcb assembly failure, low reflow temperature

Death Android Tablet..# Today, on my way home, i would like to read some stuff on my Lenovo Thinpad Tablet 32GB – but.. i can’t turn it on. The power-button/switch doesn’t gave any haptical feedback. So what’s going on ? I very like the robustness of the tablet and of course..it costs around 600€ half […]

XBox 360 Rapidfire Traceability Analysis

RapidFire Controller Signal Analysis, “Secure” Rapidfire Mods

Big Brother is watching you!# Did you know, that a standard RapidFire controller mod is fully traceable by the game software ? No ? But it is true.. The trigger-signal-waveform can be analyzed as well as the statistical distribution of the trigger-down-time. In this post i will explain how it’s traceable and show you the […]

XBox 360 Controller Advanced Rapidfire Mod

advanced firing modes, variable sensitivity, microcontroller based, diy

Motivation# Of course, there are several rapidfire mods on the web but most of them doesn’t work as exceptet: they only operate in a few games, they are traceable by the game software, you have an addiotional inconvenient firing button with a longer responsetime as the normal trigger, and so on.. With this mod you […]

Howto: Remove NextGen Gallery Version Meta-Tag

increase wordpress security, hide plugin version informations

Why ?# For Security Reasons it is not recommend to show any user the version of the software you are using. Since the NGG Version 1.9 a filter was added on my request, to hide the meta-tag with the version informations: Default HTML-Header Output of NextGenGallery# [html] <!– <meta name="NextGEN" version="1.9.2" /> –> [/html] Just […]

WordPress NextGen Gallery – Page Title

clean page titles containing album/gallery names

Titles# You like the NextGen Gallery Plugin for WordPress, but you want ‘nicer’ name based page titles instead of something like “Album 78”, “Gallery 12” ? Here is a simple solution, you just have to edit your theme files: Page Title# Mostly the title (<h1> Tag) ist set into your page.php file or alternative in […]

MooTools Multitouch Event Class for Android and iOS

improoved touch support for mobile devices within the mootools framework

Multitouch and Mobile Devices..# There are several tutorials and demos about multitouch usage on mobile devices on the web, but they cause some platform dependend problems: e.g. on Android 3.1 multitouch events are limited on a single dom element and touchmove/touchend cannot correctly added to DOM-Elements. So here is the platform independent way with desktop […]

Disable Zoom Function of Android Browser, force native resolution

web based control interfaces, mobile device web development

The Task# Sometimes you need the native resolution of your tablet pc/smartphone for e.g. web based control, games or user interfaces and you wanna disable the multitouch zoom function. It’s quite easy, just add the following meta tag into your HTML document: It should work on all Android Devices and also on Apple iOS. Tested […]

Universal PHP “spawn-fcgi” WrapperClass

spawn-fcgi utility, lighttpd, virtual hosting, a3non::platform application

Why don’t use the spawn script from the lighttpd wiki ?# Is Shell scripting so bad ? Well i dont’t like it when using it in complex environments. Currently i am building the A3non::Platform application (a simple, managed webhosting platform) and need some php cli based utilities to spawn php-fcgi processes via the famous spawn-fcgi […]

A3non::Tools – Javascript Password Generator

a3non tools, client side, helpfull utilities

Another One ?# You like password generators ? ok here is another one…but it is completly javascript based – the passwords are generated on your pc and not on a server which can log the generated passwords and track you by using methods like Evercookie. A3non::Tools# A3non::Tools – Password Generator A3non::Tools – other helpful stuff […]

WP: Prevent automatic removing of directories on update

wordpress plugin development, advanced topics, wp api, hooks

Every WP Plugin developers knows this issue: you have some subdirectories in your WP plugin and they are removed by wordpress on each update. I’ve got this problem with Zanmantou and Cryptex too. I found some solutions but they are all using recursive, inperformant “copy” functions to fullfill the task – the much better solution […]