Hacking & Tech
Microsoft has never forgotten its roots. Once the unstoppable juggernaut of the software world, Microsoft now has to contend with Google, Apple and the like, taking a bite (pun unintentional) from the consumer electronics market. Still, Microsoft has always known its two strongest divisions are operating systems and office software, […]
Its been about 2 years since the site went live .. and although its been one of those projects that’s gone through phases of near-abandonment and then fits of activity, i thought it would be interesting to have a look at the stats. Reports generated from AWSTATS based on the […]
Civ5 is one of the great games of our time, it is built on a fine heritage of turn based strategy games in the same franchise, and it has refined this concept to a perfect finish. The only downside is that there is no Linux version, so I thought I […]
Okay so everything arrives within a few days after ordering, I ordered a pair of these, One for myself and one for Alex, but I figure while you have 2x identical tablets in the house, it would be interesting to benchmark the supplied operating system against the modded one. Having […]
The following has been tested under Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, But you should be fine under Windows XP/Vista/7 and any vaguely up-to-date Linux install. You will also need the following files. backup_Hannspad_v2.zip ClockWorkMod Recovery v4.0.1.4.zip HannsTitan-v0.4-FULL.zip Okay, The first thing we want to do is Backup everything […]
Now to copy over the files we need to load a custom image… Power off the Tablet, and unplug the data cable, Keep it plugged into the power supply. Power the tablet back on in normal mode. Once Booted, plug the usb cable back in and enable USB transfer on […]
As part of my daily commute I spend roughly 2 hours a day on either a train, bus, or the tube, I figured I could do with some entertainment whilst travelling. I already own an Android Smartphone, and have been impressed by the Android software platform and the Market. Picking […]
This was a piece I hadn’t originally intended to write, however I thought before modding the tablet I should learn a bit about its inner workings. What I discovered was that the Hannspad is very much a ‘top end’ tablet, which for its low price I find confusing. What follows […]
Ok, before consigning the stock ROM to oblivion (Or more correctly, before diligently backing it up in case we need to return the device to the store), I will just give people a quick tour of the supplied OS. If this was a film it would be “Nancy Drew and […]
So, I thought I would have a play around with the Ogre3d library, not with any particular goals in mind, but it looked very accomplished technically, and a simple clean layout of the API made me think, that it would be nice and quick to knock up something visually satisfying […]