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Dell Outlet Chromebook 13 7310 $171 Celeron $210 i3-5005U 2GHz [SSD...
Dell Chromebook 13 7310 Refurbished on sale at Dell Outlet starting from $229 w/o coupons. Update: RAM in current Rev/Model is soldered! No Upgrades! Had to chat to get any coupons not will apply...
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[Deal] ASUS RT-AC68U AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Router JUST $59
The T-Mobile Wi-Fi CellSpot Router is on sale for $99; but we’re Pocketables; We wouldn’t leave you there! With code “WIFI40” you get (surprise) $40 off this wifi device; bringing this down to just $59...
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Smart ceiling light fixtures on the budget
I have been working on this for some time now. It took me ages to get to the working prototype of ESP8266 smart ceiling light, mostly because I had no knowledge about electronics. Each time I wanted to...
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Pi Zero W US Availability!
The Pi is coming! The Pi is coming! The Pi 0 W is Here!!! Go order yours then come check out Mat’s Wifi Performance break down in this preview/review! Specifically the Raspberry Pi Zero W is now...
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[Deal] $430 Certified Refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (256...
First: No Keyboard & No Pen Included…. But this is for $430, not close to the late 2014 $1299 MSRP. Second: it ships with Windows 8.1! It will hopefully self update to 10 on it’s own! [Make your...
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Root tool allows you to partition *some* of the SD card as adoptable storage
Adoptable storage is something that was introduced in Android Marshmallow. It allowed you to take your SD card and have apps treat it like it was your internal memory. This quickly became useful as ART...
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Video Tutorial Building Your 1st Mycroft skill with python & an API 6:30pm EDT
We’re excited to announce that guest poster Brian Hopkins @br1anhopkins @btotharye is back with another Mycroft adventure! As you’ll remember from Brian’s last Pocketable’s article, Mycroft is an...
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Make your own Nintendo Switch portable dock by buying or 3D printing a...
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about how third party Nintendo Switch portable docks are bricking the system after a recent system update. While the issue has gotten more traction lately due to...
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Is your home spying on you? Maybe, who’s asking?
Can you say your home assistant isn’t spying on you? As voice AI from Siri, to Cortana, Echo, Alexa, and Google Assistant invade everything from your phone, to your bedroom, to you toaster, are you...
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Google Home and Chromecast can give away your home location
File this under possible, being patched, and not currently being exploited in the wild. Chromecast and Google Home can be exploited to give your physical location away and allow execution of commands...
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Here’s mud in your eye, Wink
Wink decided a couple of days back to start charging their users a monthly service charge of about $5, which is absurdly high when you think about that they’ve already made a profit on the item they...
View ArticleAT&T: Oh your data may have been stolen from someone we gave it to, but they...
Not to be confused with the T-Mobile hack, AT&T last week was told it was hacked and now says the sample data that the hackers posted did not come from their servers. It could have come from one...
View ArticleApple Pay hack discovered, set worry level to low
There’s a contactless hack that could take an iPhone and turn it into a wallet drainer, but the way to pull it off is pretty impractical and you’ll have to do a few things to get hacked. The issue...
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Useful website for avoiding, or chasing lightning
I’m very late to the party on this, but I discovered over the past couple of weeks a site called Lightningmaps.org. I never had a use case to know when and where lightning was striking until recently...
View ArticleI saw a new email scam the other day
This may just be new to me, but while I was checking my spam folders there was an email from me in there. OK, you’ve got my attention, me. Looking at it the email I supposedly sent it said “look! I’ve...
View ArticleUpdate to the bucket o’ internet project (The Hills Have Wi-Fis)
Back in January of 2022 I was tasked with getting a hill top up and running with a security system and providing Wi-Fi for anyone who was there. It’s a quarter mile from anywhere and at the time there...
View ArticleIf you had Mint Mobile in your dead pool for the T-Mobile data breach, come...
According to an article on 9to5Google several Mint Mobile customers found their phones were hijacked and used for two-factor authentication purposes. I guess that’s the answer to “what could someone...
View ArticleNow a nearby attacker’s device could hear your password as you type it
This one is pretty cool – researchers have developed a practical deep learning based acoustic side channel attack on keyboards… or in other words a nearby cell phone can hear what you’re typing with...
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Want to use Bing AI chat on Chrome? Here’s how as of Sept 2023
Bing’s AI chat can be extremely useful, but it requires that you use Microsoft Edge. Some of us just don’t want to use Edge, even though it probably is better, we’ve had our time with Microsoft and...
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That 23andMe data breach keeps widening
While initially this was reported as some compromised accounts, looks like anyone who used the DNA Relative feature may be giving out their name and family’s information… which if I’m reading other...
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