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Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Top 10 Barely-Legal Gadgets for the Modern Spy

This is a guide I wrote for people who have a desire to obtain gadgets like James Bond without being enrolled in the military or secret service.
Here are listed 10 categories of devices you can buy to make you feel like a James Bond, from laser beams that cut things to x-ray goggles that see through clothes to CSI grade forensic lab hardware.




I have also included links to websites where you may buy any of these products! Make your friends more jealous of you than anyone else in the world. I have listed websites to buy these items from as well. These products are legal in most places but, if you select something you would like to buy, please look up state laws about the buying and use of that product.
It is your responsibility to follow the law and I will take no responsibility if you do something wrong with one of the items I will show you where to buy. Please comment this article with opinions or suggestions! Thanks for the feedback!
A Laser

We've all seen 007's watch, that red laser can cut through anything it needs to. Now in our developed world we have technology that does better; lasers in any color of the rainbow. They are so visible in daylight you need to wear protective glasses just to look at the beam. Although they cannot fit inside a watch yet, these military grade burning lasers are only the size of a pen but can cut like a knife, light things on fire, and have their beam be visible any where you point it; hundreds of miles away! Although many places sell these lasers, to get ones with power, beauty, and the ability to make you the feel like a ninja, you have to go to a place rightfully called WickedLasers.






If you for some reason require a laser that does not look as nice on the outside but works just as well and has a beam just as bright, a laser that is not visible to the naked eye, one that turns on with a unique key, or one that is yellow or orange go to LaserGlow. Both these websites are great.



Lock Picking Tools


Most of us don't care to use our shoulder to break through locked doors, and many doors cannot be broken. Here's where these tools come into play. You can buy little metal skeleton keys called picks to lock pick doors. Don't have the skill needed to pick the lock? Buy a lock pick gun which does it for you or a lock picking training device. If this isn't your thing and you already have access to a key get a key mold kit which comes complete and ready to duplicate any key you've ever seen. All these items can be found at the lock picking section in The Spy Store.


A Tracer



Admit it. You've watched a lot of Hollywood in your lifetime and from 007 to StarWars films have had many scenes where people trace each other with small gadgets they slipped onto each other. Thanks to Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) this is now no large feat to do. You may buy a small box, less than half the size of a cigarette box which you can then stick, using the built in magnets, onto anything you want to trace. Then you can monitor the position of whatever you happened to be tracing all the way to Hong Kong. Some of these GPS trackers can be found at this website.

Intrusion Gear



Any good undercover operative can enter any facility. Even without permission. Apart from lock picking, which is for the patient man, you can get in like a ninja or like Jackie Chan. These websites will sell you anything from fire department forcible entry tools, to grappling hooks, to metal rope ladders, to suction cups. Although the suction cups are not meant for climbing, some one-handed cups can hold up to 75 pounds so with a couple cups and a lot of creativity you should be ready to go. Check out Ninja Gear at Tbo-Tech. Find Locksmith Equipment at The Spy Store.

Biometric Security
Security using your one-of-a-kind body is the best there is. Although things like voice recognition, palm, hand and fingerprint scanning, iris and retina reading, hand vein imagery, facial 3d modeling verification, and DNA testing security devices are harder to buy as they require you personal information, what you need it for, and a price quote these high end security devices were too cool not to be included on my list. Here's where you can buy some of these from well known brands such as Panasonic.


Secret Surveillance: Audio and Video





Here's where the word "spy" comes from. Using these gadgets you may record audio and visual data within a large radius, or though a specific device such as a phone. You can do all this without being detected using special equipment.





These Microphones and cameras can be smaller than the nail on your pinky finger and can be on constantly or activated by sound or motion. You can even get cameras that see in the dark or mikes which can pinpoint sounds a hundred feet away. To be able to monitor your targets with precise accuracy and secrecy go to the audio or video site at The Spy Store.
Virtual Secret Surveillance

Ever wished you could know every single thing somebody did on a certain computer? And all their passwords? Well, this is now possible. Using simply a small plug-in device, the size of a nickel, between a person's keyboard (even a wireless one) and their computer, you can see hundreds of pages of text that they type no matter what it is. You can monitor every single button they press on their keyboard. No software is involved in this process; you simply set a password on the device and plug it in. When it has been recording a good deal of time you can take it out and plug it into your own computer enter the password and Viola! You can see everything they've typed. If you do not want to have to retrieve the device you can have what it has recorded sent to a website, email, or FTP server. This device can be left in for years on end. You may also buy software that does exactly the same thing and at the same time records the person's screen.

Self Defense


Now that your going to be a real spy your going to need some serious protection. On the website below you can buy anything from Martial arts and ninja weapons, to police batons, to stun guns and tasers disguised as cell phones (just like James Bond), to pepper spray disguised as lipstick, to handcuffs and thumbcuffs, to blowguns which shoot tranquilizer darts 200 feet using only your breath. These are mostly non-lethal weapons but always use the utmost caution.

For some real butt-kicking power check out the following website.

Counter Equipment

Of course, now that you have bought the necessary accessories and become a double O, you have made enemies, use these gadgets to prevent them spying on you. They have bug sweepers to see that no one is spying on you through your Phone, fax, or computer, or with hidden microphones and cameras. Also in stock are anti-tracers so as to jam, and not to be tracked by, GPS. If you want to protect your computer from spies, buy a Government Grade Computer protection program which will save you from stealthy spy programs monitoring your computer. You can find them all on the websites below. Did you know that no matter what you delete on your computer, even "permanently" is never really gone? No matter what you do, even if you are a good programmer and delete the cache, the 1's and 0's are still there in a non-accessible piece of your hard disk. This information is kept there for the government to see. If you are paranoid or simply want to get something off your computer forever, so as to not be haunted by it, you can get the software you need today. If you have information on a person spying on you it is possible to find out who the person is with their living address, email address, telephone number, or car license plate.

Other Really Cool Equipment
Here are some other cool necessities. On these websites you can find a USB SIM card reader which will allow you to see anything on a person's phone, even deleted items such as text messages, simply by plugging in the SIM card. You may also find some hand-held lie detectors and generic versions of previously listed spy equipment.
Also the website below is most likely the best spy website in existence! It has the widest selection of high tech gadgets anywhere including cell phone jammers and REAL X-RAY GLASSES that see through clothes; they are most likely illegal but still interesting. The glasses cost a ton but the camera costs only one tenth the price. Check it out you'll be impressed.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Useful Windows XP DOS Commands & Tricks


Typing DOS commands on the Windows Command Line prompt is a most efficient and faster way of doing things in Windows XP.
Typing DOS commands on the Windows Command Line prompt is a most efficient and faster way of doing things in Windows XP. Here's a run-down of the most useful DOS commands available in Windows XP.
Some of these DOS commands even do not have an visual alternative.DOS Command-line tools must be run at the prompt of the Cmd.exe command interpreter. To open Command Prompt, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.

ipconfig - Windows IP configuration
Useful for troubleshooting your internet connection. Displays the current IP address of your computer and the DNS server address. If you call your ISP for reporting a bad internet connection, he will probably ask you to run ipconfig.

fc - Free BeyondCompare in XP
FC is an advanced DOS Command that compares two files and displays the differences between them. Though the file comparison results are not as interactive as BeyondCompare or Altova DiffDog, fc is still very useful. You can even set fc to resynchronize the files after finding a mismatch.

type - open text files sans Notepad
Similar to Unix cat command, Type is my favorite DOS command for displaying the contents of a text files without modifying them. When used in combination with more switch, type splits the contents of lengthy text files into multiple pages. Avoid using the type command with binary files or you'll hear alien PC beeps and see some greek characters on your PC.

ping - Say hello to another computer
Ping network command followed by the web-address or IP address tells you about the health of the connection and whether the other party is responding to your handshake request. Ping tool can also be used to convert the web address to a physical IP address.

tree - visual directory structure
You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file.
tree > mydirectory.txt
print mydirectory.txt

attrib - make hidden files visible
Attrib lets you change attributes of System files and even hidden files. This is great for troubleshooting Windows XP. Say your XP doesn't boot ever since you edited that startup boot.ini file (Hidden), use attrib to remove the Hidden attibute and edit the file using EDIT dos command.

assoc - which program will open that .xyz file
The assoc DOS command can be used to either isplay or even modify the file name extension associations. The command assoc .htm will quickly tell you the name of your default web browser (see picture)

move - more flexible than copy-paste
Say you got a lot of XLS and DOC files in you MyDocuments folder and want to move only those XLS files that have their name ending with 2006. In XP Explorer, you have to manually select each file and then cut-paste to another folder. However, the DOS move command make things much simpler. Just type the following at the command prompt:move *2006.xls c:\2006Reports\

find - advanced file search with filter
Find is the most powerful DOS command and even more useful than the Windows Desktop Search tool or the Windows Find Wizard. The find command searches for a specific string of text in a file or files. After searching the specified file or files, find displays any lines of text that contain the specified string.
To search your hard disk to find and display the file names on drive C: that contain the string "Google" use the pipe () to direct the results of a dir command to find as follows:dir c:\ /s /b find "Google"

Quick tip - Drag to avoid typing:
When your command acts on a file or folder, you must type the path to that folder after the command. You can save typing time by dragging the file or folder from Windows Explorer into the command window.To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following:CommandName /?
Related resources on Microsoft Website: List of DOS Commands with Examples Command Line Redirection Methods

Save Clippings from Microsoft Documents

Free Movie Recorder for Your Computer Screen - TipCam

TipCamp is a new screen recording software for Windows similar to other screencasting tools like Jing, Camtasia Studio or Camstudio.
While Jing and Camstudio render the desktop screen recording video in SWF format, TipCamp uses Flash Video (FLV) that is supported by blip.tv.
Save Clippings from Microsoft Documents
You are reading a long document in Microsoft Word and wish to save some important parts to a separate file. You can either create a new Word document and copy-paste selected content to the new document or a better option is to create "document scraps."

Backup Your Blogger Blog Posts and Comments Locally

Blogger Backup is a free Windows Utility that saves your entire Blogger posts to the disk and can easily restore them in case you accidentally delete your blog. Blogger Backup follows the incremental backup style so if you run the software again after a week, only blog posts and comments published during this seven day period will be downloaded locally, not the entire blog.

Print Your Passport Size Photos at Home

If you have a photo printer at home, you can easily convert any of your digital picture into a valid passport size photograph using ePassportPhoto.
Upload the digital photo, crop and you immediately get a printable strip of 6-8 photographs for free.

Turn Your Emails into MP3 Files Online

Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.

Create a Mobile Friendly Blog with Google Reader in 10 seconds

Your blog may look perfect on the desktop but there are lot of people checking your content on small mobile phone screens.
You need not be a geek, just use Google Reader and your mobile phone optimized blog is ready.