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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Replace Windows Task Manager with Process Explorer

Posted by Deekshith Marla




There are times when you feel Windows Task Manager is not sufficient to track any particular troublesome process. It happens when suddenly your system starts to behave indifferently and you begin investigating the convicted process. You end up with one and only solution – reboot the system. But what if you in middle of something very important and suddenly your machine stops responding?

For these types of adverse situation and many more, Process Explorer comes into the picture as your savior. Process Manager is an advanced freeware process management utility that displays running processes in a tree structure that includes not only the process name but its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes and much more.

Its main window is subdivided into two panels – the first one displays the basic information like currently active processes names, account under which they are running etc. whereas the other one which is the bottom panel gives in depth information about process selected in the top window. The information displayed in bottom panel is based on the mode that has been configured in Process Explorer. If it is in HANDLE mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened or if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.

This is a very handy tool that can give you full information about any running processes and can be very useful if you want to track down any spywares in your system. But if you are not a technology geek then you may find the detailed information a bit difficult to comprehend. Nevertheless, anyone with an average knowledge of computer system can use this utility to their advantage.

Installation file is just 1.6 MB in size and you can Download it from HERE.

(It’s totally FREE to use)

 

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Edit any website with a single line of code

Posted by Deekshith Marla

Have you ever thought of editing the web pages of another website..!! This simple code makes it possible.

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But,you can’t actually edit the actual web page but you can edit the page as you see it on your screen.

This is one of the ways scammers create fake screenshots, fake Adsense & affiliate earnings and even fake Paypal transactions.

All you need to do is visit the site you want to edit, paste the code below into your web browser address bar (tested in Firefox & IE7) and hit the Enter button.Then simply select a portion of text on the page and start editing.

CODE :
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

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TOP 10 REASONS - WHY ANY WEBSITE CRASH

Posted by Deekshith Marla


Website not opening !!, seems there server is crashed ..

Many times we came across such statements, there are possible few reasons why any website or server may crash.
Top and most possible reasons may be…

1. Digg/Slashdot - Got appearence on front page of Digg orSlashDot
2. Cable tripping - Someone who probably shouldn’t be walking around in a server room trips on a cable.
3. Coffee/Cola - Someone spills coffee or Jolt Cola on the web server, or, if things are really bad, beer.
4. Pure Enthusiasm - Your boss gets whiff of a new feature and says, “Just install it! What could possibly go wrong?”
5. DDoS attack - An angry, angst-ridden teenager launches a DDoS[Denial of service] attack on your website.
6. Web server upgrade - Your web host upgrades the web server. Nobody told you and now nothing works. This is strongly connected to point 4…
7. Police raid – It happened to The Pirate Bay/Demonoid etc…
8. Bandwidth - Your web host decides you have consumed enough bandwidth this month and cuts you off.
9. Burnout – Your web server decides to spontaneously combust.
10. Blame it on the weather - The next big hurricane hits the US East Coast where your servers are.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Anonymous Internet Surfing

Posted by Deekshith Marla

We all know that while surfing Internet we leave our information and whereabouts behind us in the form of IP addresses in the log files on the remote web servers of the sites that we visit. But did you know that this may unknowingly lead you into trouble? How? - Let’s quickly run through a list of scenarios wherein you might want to browse Internet in anonymous mode.

  • You work for an organization and have been working from a different country. For security reasons your company does not want to let anyone know that you connect to their servers. For this reason alone, you will be required to connect as an anonymous user who can not be traced back.
  • You work for defense department and connect to the office network from home. You may wish to connect anonymously to protect your identity.
  • You are visiting your competitor’s website and do not wish to leave anything behind you that can help your competitor determine your visit to their website. In this situation you may want to visit their website as if you were surfing through anonymous proxy server.

The above mentioned scenarios are just few of the hundreds of reasons because of which you may want to surf the Internet as an anonymous user. Now let’s look at how do we become anonymous.

Using Tor: anonymous internet software

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Since it uses a distributed and anonymous network, no single point on Internet can link you to your destination. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it’s going.

Installing Tor on your system: Browsing anonymous

You will have to download and install the Tor application bundle that will also install aTorbutton plugin for your Firefox browser (using Firefox browser is highly recommended). Post which you may configure your other applications that you want to protect and anonymize, that’s it.

» [Download Tor] | [Documentation of Tor]

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How to Create a Personalised Menu for Your Firefox?

Posted by Deekshith Marla

Tired of looking at same menu for very long? Try the [Personal Menu], a free Firefox Add-on that will let you hide existing menus in the Firefox tool bar and design your own menus with few settings to work with. There is a history and a bookmark button.

Firefox Personal Menu Add-On

However, the tool bar items that you hide might still appear upon a restart of Firefox but that requires a change of setting to change the delay before hiding and you should be all set with it.

Firefox Personal Menu Add-On Options

If some of the menu items are not replaced to their original location after you hide the menu, just take a back up of ‘menuedit.rdf’ in your profile’s folder and then delete it.

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Create Your Private Network on Internet

Posted by Deekshith Marla

Did you know that you can create your own, private and secured network over the Internet? Your private network can have its own members, password, applications, you decide who joins it and not only that, it’s free.

We are talking about an application called Hamachi which is in fact a Virtual Private Networking application enabling you to create your own private network over the Internet.

Before we get to know how it works, let’s see its features:

  • Ability to run almost any application in your private network on Internet that you run on your local network at home or office. Examples of such applications are VNC, File Sharing, Intranet Messenger, Web Servers or even Gaming.
  • Industry standard encryption algorithms to secure over private network. Once a network is created, the communication remains private amongst the members of the network only.
  • The private network can be created any time you need it.
  • Very small in size, less than 1MB for Windows.

Hamachi

How does Hamachi work?

You will have to download Hamachi software that will run on your systems. This software, when run for the first time, will connect to Hamachi servers to obtain an identity and from next time onwards it registers itself on the Hamachi network. After which it becomes easy for anyone to find and join your network. Your friends can simply key in the password and join your private network.

[Website of Hamachi] » [Download Hamachi]

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