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On March 9, Apple hosted the March 2015 Special event. Tim cook presented the new products and innovations that Apple has been working on.
Personally, I am more excited about the new 12″ MacBook and the Apple Watch. Continue reading “Apple’s March 2015 Special Event: what you need to know”
Today, during the March 2015 Spring Forward event, Tim Cook spoke about the most important Apple Watch features, its release date and the technology and innovations that made the Apple Watch possible.
I mention the most important announcements.
Continue reading “Apple Watch – 20 important announcements from the March 2015 Special Event”
Windows 10 Technical Preview has been recently update and it got even better. In this review post, I will cover some new features in Windows 10 TP.
Yep, the Start button and the Start menu are back again. The Start menu is now a hybrid between Windows 7 start menu and Windows 8 tiles menu:
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A big number of Airports in major Western cities in the US provide free and unlimited Internet access.
In my recent trips to the Middle East, I was disappointed to find out that the internet is not totally for free. Instead, they usually give you 30 minutes for free and then you have to pay after that.
UPDATE:
I have a release a free utility for Windows that allows you to get unlimited internet at airports in two easy steps!
Download the tool:
In this article, I am going to show you one trick on how to keep extending your 30 minutes free internet so you get unlimited internet.
Temporary Internet at the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport:
Continue reading “How to get unlimited free Internet at Airports”
This is a quick blog post to tell you about a bunch of nice password recovery utilities for Windows. They are free and very useful. Please check out the following password recovery tools:
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Remote Deskop is a nice facility built-in Microsoft Windows from XP and up.
You can use it to remotely administer your computer or simply do programming work.
Many times you may want to keep track and see who is logging into your PC for security reasons. This article will show you how. Let’s proceed!
Continue reading “How to check who logged in and when via Windows Remote Desktop”
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While researching for Big Data related books, I ran into this link: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/10/3-free-big-data-books-from-amazon.html where it points to three free ebooks on that subject matter.
Check it out!
This blog post is inspired by my review and experience with Amazon Echo device.
I will be presenting some other AI based personal assistants.
SHE’S THE WHOLE PACKAGE: a personal assistant, photographer, storyteller, telepresence device & the smartest home automation system.
Check it out from here.
Intelligent self learning home automation and security device, and a smart personal assistant.
Check it out here. Continue reading “Personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistants”
Hello readers, I just received my Amazon Echo device today. I was one of the lucky Amazon Prime members who got an early invite. What follows is my quick review of this device and two videos to show it to you in action.
Amazon Echo ships in a nice package that contains the following:
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In the previous article, I showed you how to capture traffic from WiFi devices. In this article, I will illustrate how to capture HTTP/HTTPS traffic using Fiddler.
This skill is very useful for web programmers or security engineers who want to debug their application or audit third party applications that use web services over an encrypted channel. Let’s get started! Continue reading “How to capture and analyze HTTP/HTTPS from your smartphone or tablet using Fiddler”
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In this blog post, I am going to show you how to record all inbound and outbound network traffic from a wireless device (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc…).
People desire to capture traffic for many reasons, namely for/by:
Let’s get started! Continue reading “How to capture all network traffic going through your smartphone/tablet/laptop or other wireless devices”
Today I open source and share with you my final year project called COMPEL for my Computer Science degree from the American University of Science and Technology in Lebanon.
I started the project back in early 2006 and worked on it for something close to 6 month while maintaining a part time job, freelance jobs and my part time studies.
Today, 8 years later, when looking back at the amount of work I did and the level of professionalism, I am still satisfied with the COMPEL project.
I hope you will find this project useful! Continue reading “Introducing COMPEL: A command based interpreter and programming language”
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Today I am going to illustrate an input method where you can use for typing text and numbers using a device that has a limited set of physical keys. I call this input method “Direction Key input” or DKI in short.
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In this technical blog post, I am going to give you a head start on how to write assembler code and compile it directly from the Visual Studio IDE.
If you are interested in x64, please check this article.
You are expected to be familiar with:
Okay, let’s get started! Continue reading “Introduction to writing x86 assembly code in Visual Studio”
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Have you ever wanted to create your own PDF out of a set of pictures? A set of scanned notes or receipts?
Because I take notes using pen and paper, often I find myself scanning individual notes as pictures but never really consolidating the related pictures/notes in a single PDF.
For this reason, I created this simple and free/open source Pic2Pdf conversion tool. Continue reading “Free pictures to PDF converter: Pic2Pdf v1.0”
In this blog post, I am going to illustrate how to reveal the saved Wifi passwords under Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 in three easy steps.
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Alternative method
You can just use the WifiPasswordReveal script to automatically reveal the saved password with a click of a button!
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Right click on the wireless networks icon in the tray bar (just next the clock):
Then right click on select “Open network and sharing center”
Select “Change adapter settings”
This will give you a list of all available network adapters:
Double click on the Wifi card adapter icon for which you want to retrieve the password. In my case, I double-clicked on the “Wi-Fi” card.
The “Wi-Fi Status” dialog will show up. Press the “Wireless Properties” button:
Then switch to the “Security” tab:
Press “Show characters” to reveal the password.
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