WP7 Jailbroken, well not jailbroken, that's for iCrap phones. But the locked down os has been cracked open, enabling many more possibilities in the os.

"Windows Phone 7 is “finally” jailbroken! ChevronWP7, the unlocker tool, works with every WP7 phone and allows for the side loading of apps, the use of private APIs, and access to low level functionality. Basically, it unleashes your WP7 phone."

via Windows Phone 7 Gets Jailbroken | Gizmodo Australia.

Essential android apps - From my HTC HD2

norgan's Android apps on AppBrain

- AppBrain App Market -
Great for backing up your app install (built into windows marketplace but additional on Android)
- Tetrīs -
Speaks for itself
- The Moron Test: Section 1 -
Funny test to fool your friends
- Ohm's Law -
The age old calulation of power
- WordPress -
Enables me to post to my blog
- PAC-MAN Championship Ed. Demo -
Not yet tested
- Angry Birds -
Crazy addictive game of slingshotting birds at piggies
- Yellow Pages® Australia -
Speaks for itself
- Google Earth -
Again google Earth speaks for itself
- Retro Camera -
Great retro camera effects
- Horoscope and Tarot -
For those who are into this stuff
- Flash Player 10.1 -
Flash rocks lol
- Google Sky Map -
Very cool almost augmented reality app to show you whats up there in the sky
- Adobe Photoshop Express -
Editing images on the run
- Winamp -
Really whips the llamas ass
- FxCamera -
More camera effects
- Google Goggles -
Take a photo of something and let google find it, translate it or identify it
- Star Wars Light Saber -
shooosh shooosh
- Shazam -
Identify that song thats driving you crazy
- Foursquare -
Check in at places all over the world and show your friends where you are, reccommend a place or score free or discounted stuff
- MSN Messenger Droid X -
Good old msn
- Earth Live Wallpaper -
Live Wallpaper
- Tricorder -
Real working Star Trek Tricorder - shows magentic fields, gforces, radio signals and more
- Bump -
Bump into a friend and share something with them
- Speedtest.net Speed Test -
My HD2 can get 1mbit by 1mbit transfers, on Optus. How fast is your mobile internet?
- SydneyTrain - NSW Australia -
Need to catch a train, look it up with this handy app
- Sydney Traffic Cameras -
Avoid traffic before you reach it
- Instant Heart Rate -
Uses camera to detect your heart rate
- Wifi Analyzer -
Shows WiFi signals strength and channel
- Tuner - gStrings -
Tune your guitar
- Urban Dictionary -
The Urban Dictionary, everything and anything
- Bubble -
Bubble level
- Voice Search -
Google Voice search
- Metal Detector -
Yup it finds metal
- Compass -
Where am i going?
- Advanced Task Killer -
Essential for managing your running apps and keeping your phone running smooth

Cloning a Domain Controller: Part 2

If your cloned DC is not a Global Catalog server then you will need to do an additional step, disable the GC check:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Type: Dword
Name: IgnoreGCFailures
Value = 0x1

This will stop your dc from waiting for GC and will enable logons.

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Hacking the Kinect

The race to hack the Kinect and use it for some cool things....

The Microsoft Kinect is a great device, but is it only for the XBOX? Several advances have already been made in using it for other means, including using it as a 3D bullet time style pan and zoom, Minority Report style pc control and i am sure there will be plenty more to come.

It's not the first time XBOX hardware has been used for other means, after all the hardware is all based on the USB standard.

The article below tells a great story of how the Kinect has been eagerly awaited and is the new toy for hackers everywhere.

"While they waited, others charged ahead. By Saturday 6 November, a hacker who goes by the nickname AlexP had gained control of the Kinect's motors. Microsoft tried to quash the news, saying the Kinect had not been hacked "in any way". The hacking community took it as an affront. "This is silly, so now we've made it $3k," wrote Adafruit."

via Inside the race to hack the Kinect - tech - 23 November 2010 - New Scientist.

Life @

"More than 80 per cent of the habitats on Earth are colder than 5 °C – but there is no shortage of species that can cope with the chill"

Amazingly enough 80% of life on Earth exists at below 5 Degrees Celsius. Bacteria make up some of that but they sease to function at minus 15C. Animals such as the Arctic Springtails can survive by producing an antifreeze and having a structure that has no point at which ice caould form.

Amazing world we live in, you'll need to subscribe but it's free to check out the below article.

via Extreme survival: Life frozen solid - environment - 16 November 2010 - New Scientist.

Silverlight 360 - Xbox to support silverlight soon?!

It seems MS is toying with the idea of Silverlight on Xbox 360. Meaning they will have a common platform between Windows Phone 7, Desktop PC and XBOX 360.

More below...

Hello Xbox 360 Apps? Silverlight's Coming to Xbox 360.