Weather Station on an old Cellebrite Touch device

October 18, 2019No Comments
Weather Station on an old Cellebrite Touch device
A few years ago I was given an older model Cellebrite Touch device since they are old and obsolete. For those who don’t know what these are, they are used to extract data from your phones by law enforcement and government agencies for the purpose of acquiring data to be used as evidence. Major cell phone companies use these devices as well. The versions that they use have limited…

Halloween is almost here and I am super excited!

October 15, 2019No Comments
Halloween is almost here and I am super excited!
Haha! My youngest's homemade mask. She thinks it looks cute. I think it looks terrifying. Halloween is the perfect start to the holiday season. Why? Well, the weather gets cooler, leaves turn to beautiful colors, horror movies are playing, fire pits are lit, candy for everyone... shall I go on? Previous Halloween nights were a bit crazy but so much fun. Our oldest daughter wanted some custom made costumes…

Internet Service Upgrade!

October 7, 2019No Comments
Internet Service Upgrade!
I've been thinking about leaving Spectrum for a while now because their service was constantly going out and was super unreliable. The copper coax connection is old tech, was always slow and gaming with it was such a headache. My wife is a professional photographer and needs a faster upload and download speed for her business. It would take her 20 minutes or more to upload photos to the…

It Still Works!

September 2, 2019No Comments
It Still Works!
So about 4 years ago I was given an old rugged touch tablet meant for field work for digital forensic investigators. It's the TabletKiosk EO TuffTab and it came with a 7" touch screen display, HDD, Windows 7, Intel Atom CPU and 2GB of RAM. I immediately took it apart because... well... of course I did. Everything was sealed nice and tight. The case had a nice rubber seal…

Let There Be Light!

August 31, 2019No Comments
Let There Be Light!
Our living room becomes a dark corner in our house whenever the sun goes down. It has huge windows which the sun brings a lot of light in, but that's just during the day. At night it's rather difficult to find the remote to the TV. We needed a solution. This became a difficult task because the wife and I completely disagreed on lamp styles. She likes the more…