Helix 2 Released. 2 Not 3

Helix 2 has been released (not 3 as the graphic say). Helix is a great collection of computer forensics tools. You can find out all sorts of juicy information with this toolkit. Winlockpwn allows you to break Windows security, Volitility processes data our of raw memory, and a whole slew of others. This is the [...]

iPhone Backgrounder – Multitasking For Your iPhone

Here’s a great app if you current run a jailbroken iPhone of iPod Touch. iPhone Backgrounder brings some much needed functionality that Apple doesn’t want to allow; the ability to run processes in the background. After installing the App, hold down the home button on the app you want to preserve and it will keep [...]

How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache

Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]

Howto: Improve Skype Quality

Ever run into bad sound quality while using Skype? Well, you might want to try the following if other reasons like blocked ports or p2p background processes aren’t to blame. Delete the shared.xml file which contains host cache information which is nothing more than a list of Skype super-nodes and host pairs that are needed [...]