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Detect Phishing before You are Phished ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Have you ever seen the suspicious actions of your trusted website - such as, eBay, Yahoo?...If yes, you might being phished.Those suspicious actions can be asking you your credit card number, identity card number, or any of your private information that you should keep it as your secret. Fraudsters often use the notification like "Your account will be suspended, you must login and identify yourself with your credit card number".Yes, that might be an easy example for everyone to catch it but in fact, many fraudsters have changed their ways to create the damn stuffs. Here are little advices for you to be alerted when you face with phishing:Always see the website URL first before you take any action on the suspicious forms. The fake one will be different from the real. You may see "http://www.ebey.com/" instead of "http://www.ebay.com/".Don't give any of your private information to any website that asking for. If you're not sure it is the real one or not, you should contact and ask firs Read more:Detect
Does NAME Matter? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Does it matter to make your website popular?Is it an important key to attract your visitor?Can you guess what 'it' is?...No? aha, 'it' is Domain Name of your website.Some domain name is attractive but meaningless, like what?, I think Google is a good example. I don't know what Google means at first but I think it is very easy word for me to remember and I don't have to bookmark it in the list. (You can find the meaning of Google at Google.com :-) This Google first date was a long time ago.If I want to setup my domain name, I think it should be meaningful and easy to remember. There should be less than 3-4 words. But many examples from many weird domain names told me that it does NOT matter...:-0What about you?Does it matter?
Tune up Windows speed 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Easily tune up some seconds while booting up or shutting down your windows by turn off the SOUNDGo to your control panel double click itCheck for the the "Sound and Audio Devices" icon and double click itAfter you double click "Sound and Audio Devices" you should be in the windows called "Sound and Audio Devices Properties"Click at "Sounds" tab on top of the windows.At "Sounds" you will see drop down list called "Sound schemes"Choose "No Sound" so that when you start up your windows, restart, and shutting down your Windows
Operating Systems would not play the sound.Observe that what i tell you here is true and I am quite sure of itNow your windows can boot-up faster**For normal boot-up and normal shut-down only, other condition I am not sure yet.This is real simple column but it does helpp.s. Next column going to be real good one, so don't miss it!
Simple ways to prevent SPAM 1970-01-01 00:59:59 SPAM = Problem of all time....I believe that many people out there on this cyber world have faced with one kind of email that always make receivers feel bad - but good for senders. Mostly, it contains the advertisements and description with some attachments. That kind of thing we call it SPAM. The attachments always be worms or viruses and their descriptions are very attractive to us to click and load those attachments.This little article will let you know how to prevent
this SPAM things:Don't give your email to any website that is untrustable.Don't use your email as you nickname on any website or chat room.Don't use your 'primary' email to register on any website, avoid this if possible.Those three things can prevent you from the beginning. Anyway you might not be able to avoid SPAM though you always do as the tricks mentioned. Last thing you can do is to filter your email inbox to block any SPAM. The algorithms of any filter from each email are different but at least you will se Read more:Simple
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Password Story ******** 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Is there anyone who doesn't know what password is? Uh, okay I think everyone knows it but if not sure, you can click here to see its full definition. Wikipedia explains it clearly but for me, password is "something uses to verify your identity before accessing something".You know it is very important and you MUST keep it as a secret treasure. I know you guys do but how? Memorize it? Write it down on a piece of paper? Save it in notepad? Or asking your friends to do? Which one you like most?If you don't want to lose your treasure you have to use memorization, always. You might say :"hey dude! it's ok and nobody will steal my password!" or"my computer doesn't have anything worth for them to steal, they won't steal my password man"But actually it's not. Everything in your computer is worth for some guys, such as, your emails - they will SPAM you for their benefits in businesses, your full name - they can use it to search for your profile, your works - can you guarantee that they won Read more:Password
Don't be Tricked! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Have you ever heard of "Social Engineering"? This is an easy hacking technique that doesn't not require any other additional tool except your cleverness. Hacker will lure his victim to give him the important information for gaining access to the system. Hacker will play with human trust, that means he tries to make someone trust him and he can obtain the information easily.Sounds interesting right? No tools. No costs. No risks. Just some personal skills are required.Actually, social engineering is categorized into two types: human based and computer based. For computer based, phishing is a good example of this. (you can read my article about how to detect phishing in this blog.) For human based, this one is the most popular way that hacker uses. This article mainly talks about this human based type.Any security of any system is all about trust. Naturally, human will be tricked so easily if he/she already gave a trust to another person. When we face with someone who uses this technique Read more:Tricked
IE Forever? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Anybody here uses IE as your default web browser please raise your hand.... Okay, I'll count your hands,1,2,3...Oh, yeah that's a great number.Okay now come to this post. What I wrote above is to tell you that many people in this world are using IE as their lovely web browser, and I was one of those people. The good reason to explain why IE still be the most popular one is that Microsoft put it together with Windows, isn't it? Yes, I would say that. And Windows is a big OS that has a big market share so it is very easy for IE to has a big fanclub.Reaching this line, you may think that I want to give a bad word to Microsoft? No, but what I want to discuss with you is that why Microsoft doesn't follow some of the standard rules that W3C was set. IE today still lacks of the W3C standards and uses its own rules to generate the web pages.If you are web developer, you might see that web pages generated by IE and Firefox are different. Once, I developed my web project using ASP.NET from M Read more:Forever
Take a break 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Too long articles? Yes, I think so and now we'll take a break with pixel art, quite interesting :)Generally, "pure" pixel art must be created by manual pixel-level editing, without the use of any automatic filters. In the pure form, it is generally said that "each pixel was placed carefully"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_artLittle definition above was defined in Wikipedia. And here are some examples:(Pure?) Pixel artImage Source(This image is public)Pixel arts on the wall Image Source(This image is public)I myself never draw any pixel art but I think it's cool. If you have good information sources about this, please tell me.For more pictures, you can use Google and the keyword is 'pixel art'
Things That Programmers Should Do 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I believe you might have seen this kind of topic from many programming websites. But here, I summed up the most requirements and mistakes that most programmers always do. Whatever programming language you're using, whatever platform you like, that's not important. Okay, let's see:Any variable name should be meaningful. This will reduce your works when you're in teamwork or even individual. Think of assigning variable name as 'x' and 'itemCount', which one you like?Your codes should be in order and clean, it means, as a result, your codes are easy to read and review by both of you and your team members.Any comment is necessary and important. It helps a lot to remind you what your codes functioned and helps other team members as a useful description. When you're at maintenance phase, you'll see its importances.Don't forget to catch any exception error that may occur.Don't forget to clear any session or some variables that take memory, right after they finished their job(s).I Read more:Programmers
How To Fail Your Blogging!? 2007-03-02 00:25:00 Since you have seen so far about how to success your blogging from many places, now let's see the other different views and you will see what are the reasons that cause you to fail your blogging.Giving up too quicklyThis is an important point that you must be aware. Many bloggers out there easily leave their blogs when there is less reader than they expected. Most popular blogs are, at least, 6-12 months old. So, just don't give up, start write your new stuffs and rock the world!Not focus on your readersWhen you're going to write something, try to think and ask yourself first, "What will your readers get from your stuff?" This can let you to write more interesting blog.No point of saleYour blog should have something unique. It means you should create your blog by putting your creativities and ideas then blend them together with your writing skill. This will make your blog fresh and more interesting.Not enough timeIf it is possible, you should update your blog at lease once in every Read more:Blogging
Truth About Software 2007-02-28 21:50:00 Hi!I've go through good books and come up with something that is (maybe) useful to be share, the book name is "Why software project fail?". Software
is unique in that its most significant issue is its complexity (programmer's logic).Software is the most abstract product that can be created in a project.It is uniquely difficult to define a complete set of requirements for software before beginning development.Software development technologies change faster than other construction technologies.Most software development technologies are not mature enough to have a set of proven best practices.Software development has far more technologies, and its technologies have far more complexity than a single individual can hope to gain expertise with.Expertise with particular software development technologies is very quickly outdated, and therefore most specific skills are learned on the job.Software development isn't just a process of creating software, it's also a process of learning how to c Read more:Truth
Internet Addiction 2007-03-03 08:44:00 Are you addicted to it? For me, I was addicted to the internet about 5 years ago. That time, although I knew myself that it was bad, but I couldn't leave my computer, really. I wanted to use internet every time or, at least, I had to check my email inbox to see whether there's any new mail or not. I didn't go out to see my friends, had a lunch, many more.Here are some signs that you might be addicted to the internet:You always want to check your email inbox, may be, every 5 minutes.You can't cut the internet connection and shut down your computer. You will leave it connected and you feel better if it still connected.You spend your times with chatting, surfing websites, checking emails or blogging on the internet.You get some sleep while using the internet. Yes, I mean, in the front of your computer.The addiction might not hurt you directly but, in fact, it does. You won't see its effects immediately but later on, when you getting older, your health will be worse comparing with oth Read more:Internet
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Not Only Firewall, Sweetie! 2007-03-04 13:13:00 For this article, I will cover only home users who may use only firewall to protect their computers from intrusion. And I will not go through the technical details.Firewall
is the software (or hardware) that act like a barrier between the internet and your computer. It can protect you by filter or block any suspicious packets which transfer to/from your computer. So, from its basic description above, it is clearly that firewall can totally protect you from hacker but actually, it is NOT.Why? While firewall can protect you from some harmful transmissions, you might forget an another transmission which you are familiar with and always use. That is web browsing. And you must allow firewall to open this transmission port (80) for opening any website, checking email or some web-based transactions.As you already know, web browsing today is not safe anymore. You might be tricked by, such as, phishing method, worm or virus attached with downloaded programs, or even poisoned links that will lea Read more:Sweetie
All/Some or No Rights Reserved 2007-03-04 18:26:00 I got this definition from Wikipedia about Creative Commons:"The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information."I think this is quite interesting to protect some of our works without conflicting with general copyright laws. (anyway, it is based on the copyright laws) I myself not sure what US laws said about the copyright, but in my opinion, our works under the Creative Commons will be more flexible to deal with.If you have your own works, such as, blogs, arts, photos, or whatever, you might want to reserve your rights but just some of them and you may allow other people to use your works under the Creative Commons conditions. But, you still can't stop someone who want to break to rul Read more:Rights
Are You being Watched? 2007-03-08 00:14:00 Hey! Please don't turn your face away and say "boooo!". Although this tip is a basic thing, but, knowing it doesn't hurt you right? :)Here are the important signs of the spyware infection which causes you to lose your time and money. You'd better look for these signs before your computer getting worse:I see pop-up advertisements all the time. If you see pop-up ads as soon as you turn on your computer or when you are not even browsing the Web, you may have spyware or other unwanted software on your computer.My settings have changed and I can't change them back to the way they were. Some unwanted software has the ability to change your home page or search page settings. Whether you recover your settings or not, that unwanted software still be able to change or revert them back after you restart your computer.My Web browser contains additional components that I don't remember downloading. You might notice this after you have installed some software which contained the spyware. It wil
What is Bandwidth (explained) 2007-08-04 12:58:00 This is well written explanation about bandwidth, very useful info.BandWidth ExplainedMost hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide is determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public internet.Network ConnectivityThe internet, in the most simplest of terms, is a group of millions of computers connected by networks. These connections within the internet can be large or small depending upon the cabling and equipment that is used at a particular internet location. It is the size of each network connection that determines how much bandwidth is available. For example, if you use a DSL connection to connect to the internet, you have 1.54 Mega bits (Mb) of bandwidth. Bandwidth
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How To: Change Your Ip In Less Then 1 Minute 2007-08-04 04:30:00 Change Your Ip In Less Then 1 Minute
1. Click on "Start" in the bottom left hand corner of screen2. Click on "Run"3. Type in "command" and hit okYou should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.4. Type "ipconfig /release" just like that, and hit "enter"5. Type "exit" and leave the prompt6. Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop.7. Click on "properties"You should now be on a screen with something titled "Local Area Connection", or something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other networks.8. Right click on "Local Area Connection" and click "properties"9. Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab10. Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab11. Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).12. Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.13. Hit the "Ok" button here Read more:Change
10 reasons why PCs crash you must Know 2007-08-04 04:18:00 Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications."You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?1 Hardware conflictThe number one reason why Windows crash
es is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash c
How to Bypass the BIOS Password. 2007-08-04 00:49:00 Recover from a CMOS memory-affecting virus or work around a boot-time password by making BIOS forget all it once knew.A PC goes through a process when it is first turned on: the Power-On Self-Test, or P.O.S.T. Some system boards provide security measures that demand a password before beginning the P.O.S.T. process or allowing you into the BIOS setup program.The original IBM-PC (1981) did not provide any security measures or a BIOS setup program; all it had was a P.O.S.T. If you needed to configure a PC, you did it with switches and jumpers. A program to set up the system BIOS and configuration did not come along until the IBM-PC/AT (1984), and it had to be run from a special boot-up diskette. The idea of providing a user interface and access to the system configuration settings within the BIOS did not come along until about 1986. Today no PC system is made without this valuable built-in setup feature. Eventually, the security feature of password-protecting access to the system came al Read more:Bypass
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Change the location of My Documents 2007-08-03 01:48:00 Change The Storage Location Of 'my Documents
', a bit safer for when your PC crashes...Many people stores there Important files in "My Documents", isen't?But what if your computer Operating system crashes .....Your all important data will get crashed :( .So what to do.How to make "My documents" safe ?Just change its storage location.normally windows saves the "My Documents" folder on your C-drive. But when you right-click on it and go to properties, you can change the location where you want windows to save your Documents folder.I have a partition set up with just windows on it, and all my things i want to keep are on different partitions/disks. So now I put My Documents on another partition than where I have windows installed. If windows screws up and you have to format your C-drive again, your documents will be spared at least...Related keywords - save my documents, change the storage location of My documents .. Read more:Change
Block Websites Without Software 2007-08-02 03:56:00 Many people want to Block some websites that are harmfull to our PC or/and our life.Like some parents take care of our children by blocking porn websites and some offices blocks some special websites that may harm there network.You may need a costly (or even free) software to block such websites.Why to spend money and time and why give HDD space to such useless softwares.Just do this and block unwanted softwares from accesing .Steps:1] Browse C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc2] Find the file named "HOSTS"3] Open it in notepad4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.thesitenamethatyouwantblock.com , and that site will no longer be accessable.5] Done!-So-127.0.0.1 localhost127.0.0.2 www.blockedsite.com-->www.blockedsite.com is now unaccessable Read more:Websites
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Increase the internet speed or bandwidth 2007-08-01 19:47:00 Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it backA nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)Here's how to get it back:Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable BandwidthDouble click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000other o/s not tested.Please give me feedback about your results.....
Keep Folders Hidden 2007-07-31 20:30:00 first of all create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive that you want to hide.when you naming it hold down "Alt-key" and press "0160" this will create an invisible space so it will apper as if it has no name.then right click in and select "Properties" select the tab "coustimize" and select "change icon" scroll along and you should a few blanck spaces click on any one and click ok when you hav saved the settings the folder will be invisible to hide all your personal filesjust simple ... Read more:Folders
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Modify or edit .EXE file 2007-07-31 19:34:00 learn how to change *.exe files, in 5 easy steps:1) Don't try to modify a prog by editing his source in a dissasembler.Why?Cause that's for programmers and assembly experts only.try to view it in hex you'll only get tons of crap you don't understand.First off, you need Resource Hacker(last version). It's a resource editor-very easy to use, You can download it at www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/2) Unzip the archive, and run ResHacker.exe. You can check out the help file too3) You will see that the interface is simple and clean. Go to the menu FileOpen or press Ctrl+O to open a file. Browse your way to the file you would like to edit. You can edit *.exe, *.dll, *.ocx, *.scr and *.cpl files, but this tutorial is to teach you how to edit *.exe files, so open one.4) In the left side of the screen a list of sections will appear.The most common sections are-String table;-RCData;-Dialog;-Cursor group;-Bitmap;-WAV.*Icon: You can wiew and change the icon(s) of the program by double- Read more:Modify
Delete An "undeletable" File 2007-07-31 12:45:00 Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open.Close all open programs.Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXEGo to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe.Leave Task Manager open.Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable
file) is located in.At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete.Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.Close Task Manager.Or you can try thisOpen Notepad.exeClick File>Save As..>locate the folder where ur undeletable file isChoose 'All files' from the file type boxclick once on the file u wanna delete so its name appears in the 'filename' boxput a " at the start and end of the filename(the filename should have the extension of the undeletable file so it will overwrite it)click save,It should ask u to overwrite the existing file, choose yes and u can delete it as normalHere's a manual way of doing it. I'll take this off on
How to rip Dynamic Flash Template 2007-07-31 06:23:00 What you need:Sample dynamic flash template from TM websiteSothink SWF DecompilerMacromedia Flash
Yourself1. browse or search your favorite dynamic flash template in TM website. If you got one... click the "view" link and new window will open with dynamic flash.. loading...2. If the movie fully loaded, click View -> Source in your browser to bring the source code of the current page and in the source code, search for "IFRAME" and you will see the iframe page. In this example were going to try the 7045 dynamic template. get the URL(ex.http://images.templatemonster.com/screenshots/7000/7045.html) then paste it to your browser... easy eh? wait! dont be to excited... erase the .html and change it to swf then press enter then you'll see the flash movie again icon_smile.gif.3. copy the URL and download that SWF file.. use your favorite download manager.. mine I used flashget icon_smile.gif NOTE: dont close the browser we may need that later on.4. open your Sothink SWF decompiler... click "Qu Read more:Dynamic
Make PC Faster 2007-07-31 05:06:00 1. First, run a scandisk or checkdisk. Let Windows fix any errors.2. Run a disk cleanup utility...this will flush your temporary internet folder, trash can, temp system files, etc.3. Delete any garbage files or data...if possible, run a Duplicate File Finder program.4. Run Defrag on all partitions (NOTE: run this after you have deleted all trash and excess files!)5. Run a registry cleaner utility and delete or get rid of any orphaned entries in that registry.6. Check your exisiting swap file for it's size and location (*will explain location later in the post). If you have alot of ram (i.e. 1 gig and over) set this swap file to something small, like 250 mb. The reason is that this will force Windows to load more into memory, resulting in faster performance (note: some games and applications actually require a certain sized swap file so check your applications performance after making a size adjustment for any error messages.)7. Under XP, you can tell Windows to use Classic Style on yo
Speed up Mozilla Firefox 2007-07-31 05:00:00 Now a days , Mozilla
firefox is used Globbaly by many users as a Main browsers in both windows and Linux too.Mozilla firefox has many tweaks and tricks with thousands of scripts that enhanced the use of FireFox..One of the Best trick that will speed up your Firefox
Check it out yourself1. Type "about :config" in the adress field.2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" (not availible in newer versions) Read more:Speed
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Search for Torrent files 2007-07-31 04:54:00 You want a Torrent
fileJust search GOOGLE™ With some specific keyword and with there tricks..Simple way...just type:*your file name* filetype:torrentYou must not write ( * ) when you search....Example:Windows Vista filetype:torrentand Volla get a torrent file for Downloading Windows Vista .... Read more:Search
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