How to add Waypoints via Coordinates in Navitel Navigator

For those of you who are fond of Navitel Navigator, here is a simple guide how you can add POI, Waypoints on your GPS Navitel Navigator. In case some places is not on your POI list. If you can't find on your database about a particular location. You can manually add them. Here is how, join me after the break.

Enchancing your Globe Wimax antenna gain with an old satellite dish

I have been plagued with a very poor signal strength due to bad location or area from my house. With the standard aerial antenna that comes with my Globe Wimax. I have decided to try using an old satellite tv dish lying around and put it to good use. Everything is in temporary mounting for this little experiment. You will notice rust and dirt on my dish and antenna receiver, as I have mounted this around 7:00 pm with a little rainshower.

Check out more photos after the break.

DIY: Building your own PirateBox

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communications device that enables anonymous file-sharing. It utilizes wifi technology, catering to most devices that uses wireless connectivity thru wireless standards. PirateBox is created by David Darts and is registered under GNU GPLv3. This license grants the right to freely copy, distribute and transform creative works according to the principles of copyleft.

Here I will share you my first PirateBox project, incase you will build your own.

How to Secure your NetGear Wireless Router with WPA/WPA2

Photo credits to http://tricksdaddy.com

In this article I will teach you how to secure your wireless network if you are using Netgear Wireless Router. This applies to other routers, they only differ in some menu orientation but follows the same concept. This is in response to Raszonjenny who asked in the comments.

Configuring the router to require a passkey or passphrase to connect, to prevent unwanted workstations to use your network or internet connection.

I highly recomment using WPA/WPA2 for encryption, WEP is so easy to crack. With the right tools and know how, you can easily crack it in less than 20 minutes.

So here goes with the walkthrough after the break.

Globe Wimax doesn't allow port forwarding

This is Teamviewer 6 on a Debian Linux

Have you been a Globe Wimax subscriber and realized, why can't I forward a port? You need to forward your port if you have an IP Camera in your network and wish to view it from the internet, browse and transfer files from your NAS (Networked Attached Storage), or Host your own website from your computer, or you want to host a game server for your friends to logon to.

How to make home-made pizza

Sometimes we get bored on a lazy Sunday or weekend, we then try to do something to keep us occupied. Now here is an easy way to make your day, Cooking a home-made pizza. This is very easy and if your ingredients is also easy to grab.

Have you ever wondered what's the new Globe Wimax BM622i user password is?

BM622i

New BM622i modems being issued and released by Globe has new user passwords. To date, there is no known exploit to hack the admin user for this new set of modems that I am aware of. If your BM622 modem is not a patched firmware, unlocking its admin settings still works as I have posted here before. Now a new generation of modems such as BM622i has new passwords to begin with, the old user-user combo trick doesn't work anymore.

So have you ever wondered what's the password? 


Read more and I'll tell you what.

How to troubleshoot Garmin GPS Navigator on No-Name China GPS

Splash Screen booting up

Ever wondered buying cheaper GPS devices from your recent trip to China and later found out it can't get a decent satellite lock here in the Philippines? Here's what I did to workaround the problem.

I am refering to this no-name China GPS you can buy online from your favorite China goods seller. This particular device used for this guide is a 5 incher running a custom firmware and win ce 5. It comes preloaded with Garmin Mobile XT version 5.010W.

When I fired up Garmin it loads a script Garmin.mscr which preloads Port Splitter 1.20 before it loads the Garmin software. It takes forever when detecting satellites to lock into within Garmin. I have tried every ports listed and no luck.

How to Replace Harddisk on MSI Wind

The 250 GB Hard Drive (OEM)

This is How, Use some precision screwdrivers to remove the screws from the back side of the laptop.
There's no need to remove the keyboard panel, just the backside only.
First is to remove the battery out of the way, then track down the screw holes.
Use your thumb to lightly lift the plastic on either side of the battery bay.

How to configure a router to your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem

Here is an example of a typical router ports

It's been awhile since my last blogpost, been busy. This is for my friends asking How to configure a router to use with Globe Wimax.

How to Configure a router to use with your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem by Huwaei Technologies?

There are two types of router, namely the wired and wireless. What I have here is an example of a wireless router.

Wired and Wireless router are the same in terms of usability except for the fact you don't need wires for wireless, and convenient to use with wireless devices and gadgets.

Firstly, connect the router to your PC lan ports, Plug the cables to the number 1 port, not on the distinguished WAN port. Fire up a browser and type in to URL address bar, where you type website addresses to browse pages, type in http://192.168.1.1, this is always a default.

How to use Globe Tattoo on Ubuntu 10.04

Yuki with my Openline Globe Tattoo

It's handy to have a plug-it internet or USB HSDPA Modem that you can use when on mobile and or when your main internet connection is down.

Here's how, first in order for your system to read your modem as a modem and not as a storage media, you need usb-modswitch installed.

You can do that by typing at the terminal.

"sudo apt-get install usb-modswitch"

How to unlock Echolife Bm622 Wimax Modem's Admin Settings

The shaman wants to share a procedure to unlock your Echolife BM622 CPE Wimax modem's Admin Settings. This is for Globe Wimax Modems so you can see additional settings, be advised not to play with your configuration if you don't know what you are doing. It may make things worst, for those of you that doesn't receive your subscribed speed, i.e people who subscribed for the 1 mbps plan and receiving half or around 500kbps, your are bandwidth capped from Globe's datanet server. The modem has nothing to do with it. You will need to call customer service to update your account.

To unlock your Modem, open up a web-browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Oracle, Safari, Iceweasel, etc) and go to url "http://192.168.1.1" and login with this credentials, username: user and password: user.

How to Unlock Smartbro USB HSDPA Modem

WM66A Longcheer HSDPA USB Modem

This will be a guide for you guys that wanted to unlock your usb hsdpa modem dongle, but doesn't know how. First things first, the shaman doesn't know what kind of modem smartbro is using.  This one is WM66A.(looked it up on google.)

Step 1. Google is your friend. Always, if you don't know something and wanted to know and doesn't know who to ask. Google it up, you might end up to find that there are others like you looking for the same answers. You will be surprised to dig up something somewhere, and might also have a scenario that your question have been answered to the nth time since last year. You will be lucky then, and follow the instructions you will find. I googled it up and found some message boards discussing about unlocking your usb dongle.

Wine regedit tweak

Here is a wine registry tweak to boost FPS ( Framerate) when using World of Warcraft thru wine.

Type in "regedit" in the terminal console.

Then,

1. Find this key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine"
2. Highlight and select "wine" right click it, then select [NEW] then [KEY]
3. Rename the new [KEY] to "OpenGL" (this is case sensitive )
4. Select the new OpenGL [KEY] on the right pane, then right-click then create new string and name it "DisabledExtensions" (once again case sensitive) then modify the value name it, "GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object"

Should look like this.