Radio Gaga

Now, I'm about to purchase a fm transmitter so that I'll be able to plug it into a laptop (the ultimate ipod) and play music. Now, some places like fast food restraunts and such play the local radio station in their sit down area. Upon doing some research I found that these little fm transmitters are pieces of shit and the signal produced by theses won't be strong enough...well, Lets see if I can remedy that.

FM transmitters that one would normally buy at like Radio Shack or WalMart or offline are weak for a reason. They have to go along with some stupid as hell FCC regulation. Part 15 to be specific. This regulation says it can't be strong because it might take presidence over "legal" stations. This is bullshit. But anyway, we're going to remedy this. A few things can be done to change how this works.

A. You can attach a bigger antenna to which to broadcast from. Some of these can get pretty strong, I've seen some powered antennas that you'd have to plug into an outlet to get working. These are good, but the downfall is the bulk you have to take with you as well as the extra power needed to run it.

B. You can go to radio shack and overclock your transmitter by adding battery packs to it. Most of these run on battery, 1 or 2 AAA batteries usually, so overclocking these with a few more powerful batteries such as some 9 volt or even larger like the huge square 12 volt batteries. Be sure to put a few in a series connection for maximum output. This will increase the signal put out by the transmitter, but too much power and your transmitter is toast.

C. This is the complicated part. The FCC regulation states the limit is .25mv. My normal college radio station is much more powerful packing a whopping . Well, what if we switched out some of the hardware of our fm transmitter? Yea, illegal, but don't put it past us, we're here for informational purposes and don't condone this, but will willingly tell you how (Thumbs up) This is hard and I don't know the exact way on how to do it SO, we're going to go with option D.

D. Convert your Wireless Headphones (in this case some good rca ones) into your fm transmitting device. Yea, thats right, we don't go cheap here, we go all out. You need to make sure they're the ones that work with a 2.4 ghz signal rather than a crappy infrared signal. Another thing you want with these is for it to work with your car stereo...Yes, this pair can be bought. RCA WHP150 Wireless 900mhz headphones are the choice I'd go with, cheap, easy to convery, and 20 hz to 20 khz response is good stuff.

There ya go, Get those wireless headphones and work on converting them to your fm transmitter which will be able to pirate signnal...how do you convert them? Well, upon looking at the fm transmitter I think you'd only have do sobder another part in. There is a place on the headphone's transmitter that sends the signal, simply sobder in a fm transmitter there and you got it.

AK

It's that time again

Yes, it's time for another post. I had a post planned out in my mind because some friends of mine wanted me to Post about something. This kinda stopped when not only I forgot what the post was going to be about, but they forgot what the post was going to be about too. SO, I am left in a prediciment, what to post about.

I know, I'll break down 3 really good media editing programs and tell what I think about em.

First Pinnacle. Well this program has some good features. Shoot, if you buy a certain version of this you'll get a green screen to go with it. It has some great modifications you can add to it, a good list of transitions to go through, some random other video editing uses, but I'd have to say it's the worst of the three that I'm looking at tonight.

Next Avid, Okay, this program is amazing. If you want to produce an actual show I'd go with this because I know the local news stations and such use this program but they haven't barely scratched the surface of this program's useability. I've yet to see every plugin for this program and I must say the quality of the work you'll produce with this is much better than with most programs. I highly suggest this if you can afford it.

Finally I must rate the program I use to edit my videos and such. Adobe Premiere, I know a lot of people know this program but some people don't and I wanna get this outta my system. I love this program. I used to make videos for Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the only way I could make it was record 24 .tga files per second and splice em together pic by pic, but Premire did it for me. It's a good program for editing but sometimes the capturing can be a bit twitchy. I've seen entire clips be stripped of their audio on it. The plugins rival Avid because Premiere is a more respected and known name. All in all I'd have to say this is the best because of all the features that it has. Avid has a lot and it really good, but if you know what you're doing with Premiere then you'll be able to make media just as good as Avid would if not better.

Well, thats it for now, just opinion rather than actual fact based analasys like how to hotwire a car or bypass security codes. Hope you enjoyed it.

AK

Lightscribe

I recently was turned onto this feature which is being offered in more and more cd and dvd burners. Lightscribe takes an image that you supply in a jpeg or gif format and burns that image on to the top of your dvd as a label. Thats a pretty nice feature by itself, easy to tell cds apart because of what's burned in the top of em. Possibly make some really professional looking dvds if you make short films.

This isn't the use that I like. Upon opening the case of the actual burner and taking the entire thing apart. Now that you're looking at the inside of it, which I only suggest doing if you know about stuff like this, you can see the different parts, well, we're going to take all of that out and mount it seperately. Now what you don't know yet is we're building a tagging tool. We're going to hook this up to a laptop and bring this around to random places and burn images onto walls wherever we want. I know you don't believe this is possible and it's not...unless you increase the voltage that the burner is using.

BEAUTIFUL!!!

p.s. this must be used on painted surfices because the stone surfaces won't burn by the pityful lazer thats used.

AK

Adelphia can't get their shit together

OK, so I finally got my connection back but theres no telling how long it will last. I have a cable modem and Adelphia is my provider. I figured this post should be specificly about broadband...

First thing to know Cable is the exact opposite as ADSL...good to know.

ADSL is ran over a analogue line...Cable is run over a digital line

The way information is sent over a cable line is the channel spacing. Certain channels are used for downstream transmission of data while others are used for upstream transmission of data.

ADSL works off your phone line. With all the services that are ran over the phone line...fax, dialtone, 56k modem...why not another. The way data is sent is that it sends signals in frequencies that a normal voice, fax, or modem would not make. See, whenever data of some type is input into the device it converts the data to frequency waves and sends them along the line. This is then converted back to the original data at the other end.

Now What would cause the signal to stop?

glad you asked...

Well, since ADSL works off the phone line you'd think it would never go down....far from true. This piece of shit connection will go down when theres a decent storm around. If theres lightning and thunder near ya, it'll go out. The electrical interference caused by lightning storms causes frequency interference to normal data transfer which seems to mimic the signal that is sent by ADSL transmissions. What does this mean? your signal gets confused when theres a storm and no signal can get through....IE you're screwed

Cable will go out when 1 of 2 things happens. 1, your modem stops recieving the signal, or 2, they stop sending the signal. That sound good right? wrong...If the signal being sent is too weak then your modem will cast it off and not recieve it. If they do maintence the signal won't be sent, when the main server updated theres usually a 45 minute downtime (at least with my shitty isp), there are a million and one things that could cause one of those 2 things to happen. And if one does happen your average downtime with any isp is 15 minutes.

In other words no brodband service is good...hmmm, maybe one day we'll have a broadband service that incorperated BOTH cable and adsl...yea so when one is down the other will be up...and think of it...incorperating BOTH cable and adsl together will improve transfer rates thus relieving BANDWIDTH PROBLEMS!!! sure it wouldn't be so easy to get them to work together since they're so different, but thats part of the inginuity of technology...shit we have hybrid cars, why not hybrid broadband services?

AK

p.s. Fuckin Adelphia

Bluetooth hacking

Yea, I know this is old news to some people but I'm just starting to get into bluetooth hacking because I just realized the potential it has.

The ability to enter any bluetooth enabled phone and gain access to the phone numbers, calander, pictures, even make phone calls without actually having the phone on hand are just a few of these benefits.

Upon doing some research I found out about the piconet which is basically a personal web of useage and a scatternet which is a web of piconets that are connected. Each piconet has 1 master, up to 7 slaves, and up to 200 passive users. While bluetooth tools are being used something called hci packets are what is used to transfer the information. I've found several random linux applications which are wonderful in the sense that they help you record, decrypt, and log hci packets.

Bluesniff is a good little program if you feel like listening in on Bluetooth conversations

BlueZ is a protocol stack for linux based systems.

A good site to go to is the bluetooth security database if you just want to know the newest crap about the security issues associated with bluetooth.

I didn't know about any of this till a friend of mine showed me a few things about bluetooth hacking. I won't release his name but I will tell you what I saw. We were chilling in the downtown of my local area, mainly sitting on this big campus thats near my house, cough cough...Well anyway he pulls out this laptop and runs a few programs that he wrote himself. Pointing out that he has a usb bluetooth adapter. Using his computer we pirated the signal off of a cellphone that was in one of the dorms, not sure which one, but he used the calculator feature built into his os which is some random version of linux as well as a plug-in which turned his calculator into the digits of a phone. We then proceeded to make a phone call from his laptop using a cheap headset. He explained to me that he was taking control of the piconet making his laptop the master and the phone a slave. He then showed me how he could easily access the phone book, call log, everything. I know this is easy to do, but the things he used gave him access to the phone within 10 minutes.

I'm gonna try to get ahold of the programs and get some links out there because, from what I've seen, none are larger than a mb and theres only 3 programs he used. Thats all I have for right now, I know, it seems like someone suffering from ADD wrote that, but my mind is all over the place right now, so much going on.

AK