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Setting up VLC Remote on your BlackBerry 10

This will be a quick how-to guide on setting up VLC remote on your BlackBerry 10 device.
VLC Remote will work if both your VLC player (so your PC for example) and BlackBerry 10 device is on the same wireless network*.
*Now, technically speaking, you should also be able to get it to work if your BB10 device is not on the same wireless network by port forwarding the VLC web server on your router but that’s another story – shoot off in the comments if you would like this use case covered.

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What does the iOS Diagnostics App Send to Apple?

I was asked by an Apple rep to send in diagnostic logs via the iOS diagnostics app in an attempt to diagnose a reboot/battery issue with an iPhone 4S.

Curious as to how this information was collected and more importantly what was collected, I fired up my new friend Fiddler 🙂

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Tampering with Mobile Traffic Using Fiddler

In part one of these series I talked about how you can very easily capture mobile traffic using Fiddler.

In this second part, I will talk about how you can actually tamper with the traffic you send and receive to and from your mobile device.
Please note that tampering with traffic is not just limited to mobile traffic!

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Capturing Mobile Traffic Using Fiddler

This article will briefly go over the details on how to capture wifi traffic from your mobile devices. This includes capturing traffic on iPads, iPhones, BlackBerries, Android devices and pretty much any device that supports the ability to add a proxy to the wifi settings.

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Find out what Technologies are Being Used on a Website using BuiltWith

BuiltWith is a “website profiler, lead generation, competitive analysis and business intelligence tool providing technology adoption and usage analytics for the internet.”

BuiltWith is a very useful tool for finding out what services and technologies are being used on any given website. The tool has a Firefox and Chrome extension available which makes it a lot more accessible for the geeky type.

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