Disabling USB Port

If you are in a need of disabling the USB Ports of your laptop for security purpose,here is a simple trick you can use.

 Registry Method to disable USB drive access

Following registry changes will prevent users from successful connection of USB drive to USB ports on Windows PC. Be careful, do not try this if you don’t know about registry settings.

- Click Start > Run. Type regedit, and click OK.
- Locate & then click the following registry key:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
- In the details pane, double-click Start.

- In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
- Exit Registry Editor.

To enable the access again, follow same steps as above and change value to 3 from 4.

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Facebook Easter Eggs

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Some Easter Eggs of Google+ : Cheat Sheet

Google+ is a free social networking service by google which is continuously trying to gain some more public exposure day by day revealing some more good and worthy features daily. In past I shared the useful Google+ keyboard shortcuts, which you can use to improve your Google+ browsing experience. Hence I am again back with a cheat sheet for Google+, which can be very useful for you, if you love to use Google+.
Below are some of the Cheats by Simon Lausten


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Crack the Free Trial to Full Version of IDM

IDM which is also known as Internet Download Manager is the fastest download client for downloading files from Internet with great speed. The software really increase the downloading speed. But it is not a free of cost, you have to pay some money to it's developer company, so that you can easily use the full version of Internet Download manager / IDM.
But there are many cracks or patch present over the Internet, which are being used by many of us, to activate their IDM. But in many Patches or Cracks, you will notice that, you will be not be able to update your IDM to the latest release, if you will update that, then you will get the error.
But with the use of IDM Cracker Tool tool you can easily update your IDM and make it full version software.


How to Update Internet Download Manager

• First of all go and Download IDM Cracker Tool.


• Now after you have downloading it, open it and make sure you have already installed latest version IDM on your PC, well if its not latest than you just need to click on Update in this tool and than go to your IDM and choose check for updates and update it too the latest version.


• Now after you have updated it, you just now need to crack it up so that its again full version and you can use it for as long as you wanted too.


• So now just again go to IDM Cracker Tool and than click on the Start option and it will patch your IDM and after that enjoy unlimited downloading.

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How To : Recover disabled services after any Virus Attack

If you are using PC or Laptop, then it is well known fact that, you are aware about Viruses, Malware and Trojan Horses. They are the common name of the deadliest geeky creatures, which are developed to destroy the any of PC. We can't say why the people create Viruses, Malwares or Trojans, to harm other PC. If your PC have been ever, attacked by Viruses, then you will notice that, they are generally disabling many of the Features of your PC, which totally harms the PC.


Thinking on that, we thought to share a great tool, which will help you a lot, for re-enabling the disabled features due to Virus Attacks.Tangosoft, is very useful Windows software, which comes with a simple motive to re enable the disabled services in your Windows.

Download the software from here

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Downloading Google Books

Fond of reading Google Books ? But can't save them? Then you have come to the right place to get the solution for the problem.
We all had someday landed up in the Google Books section and had wanted to save the copy of the book as a PDF/JPG/PNG or in a better way to read it offline.

If you want the whole book as a PDF/JPG/PNG then follow this :

1.Download Google Books Downloader .

2. Install the software and run it after installation.

3.Insert the URL of the Google Book which you will find


To download a book (or the preview pages you can see) from Google Books follow this : Install the greasemonkey add-on to Firefox
Install the Google Book Downloader script (Click on Install in the upper right)
Go to the Google book you wish to download.
On the left hand side column click Download this book, select the from and to pages
Once the images are created of the pages you're allowed to view, you may download them. Currently it's one at a time.

For the current page your viewing there is a download image that looks like a floppy disk with PA### where ### is the current page on the right hand side of the page. Clicking this will allow you to download the single page.
Check the screenshot here

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Extend Your RAM using your Pen Drive

One of the best ways of using Pen Drive is as a temporary storage device i.e. RAM for our system, to increase the general boot up speed and also operational speed of the system. It can be possible with any kind of Windows operating system, all you need is a pen drive of minimum 1GB memory

Now go with the following steps:

1. Insert the Pen Drive with 1GB at least in the USB port, better to prefer 4GB.

2. Wait for the PC to detect the pen drive.

3. After detecting it, there is a real and smart thing to do.
4. Right click on My Computer--> Properties.
5. Advanced--> Performance Settings.
6. Advanced--> Change.
7. Select the Pen Drive.
8. Click on Custom Size.
“Check the value of space available”
9. Enter the same in the Initial and Max columns.
“Here you just used the space of Pen Drive as a Virtual Memory”.
10. Now restart your PC.

Finally check the general start up time and also speed of your PC. So, you can have a high speed system in low cost./>.

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Install IDM Addon For Firefox 9 and above

Here’s a small but useful post for people, who use Internet Download Manager and have recently moved to Firefox 9. The old Firefox add-on that came with IDM is not compatible with Firefox 9. There are alternative solutions on the internet like the FlashGot extension. Anyhow, it’s a simple matter of a new add-on. Download the add on below and install it on your Firefox 9 browser.

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/idmmzcc/idmmzcc.xpi

1- Open Firefox,
2- Paste the link to the address bar and Go,
3- Wait for the download,
4- Restart Firefox,
5- Enjoy.

Alternatively, if the above link doesn’t work for some reason or is an older one. Here’s one hosted on my site with the latest version. This works with Firefox 9 as well.

Internet Download Manager 7.3.10.xpi [ http://tabinda.net/file/idmmzcc.xpi ]Firefox 7,8,9

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Customize your Facebook Profile Page

The new layout of your Facebook profile page can accommodate six images thus giving you room to be a little bit more creative with the design.

For instance, some people “slice” a large photograph into pieces and tag them on Facebook such that one slice appears as their main profile picture while the other pieces show up in the thumbnail region.
If you would like to have something similar for your own Facebook profile page, just get a 700px (W) x 500 px (H) picture of yourself and slice it in Photoshop /GIMP as per dimensions marked in the next image.

Upload all these image slices to your Facebook photo album and then tag them in the following sequence (the order is very important).
First set the largest image (200x500) to be your main profile picture. Then choose the 100x68 thumbnail from the image gallery that will appear in the extreme right on your profile page and tag it with your name. Then tag the immediate left image and so on such that the left-most thumbnail get tagged in the end.

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Check if Someone Else is Using Your Facebook Account?

Notice some suspicious activity on your wall? Well there some simple security settings built into Facebook – some of these settings are new while others have been around for some time – that should help you quickly detect if any other person is secretly logging into and using your Facebook account.







Go to Facebook.com -> Account -> Account Settings -> Account Security. Here you’ll see a list of all computers and mobile devices that have logged into your Facebook account and when. You can also see the approximate geographic location of the device, based on the IP address, that was used to access your Facebook account.
If you come across an unknown device / location in the list, say you are Mac user and the device listed is IE on Windows, just click the corresponding “end activity” link and it should immediately log you out from that machine.
For extra safety, you may also choose to receive email and SMS alerts if someone else tries to log into your Facebook account from a previously unknown computer or mobile phone. (I wish Google could bring such a feature to Gmail as well).

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Use goo.gl to Know if your Email has been Read

How do you know if your email message has been read by the recipient(s)?
One option is that you embed a tracking image in your outgoing email messages. If that image downloads on to the recipient's computer, it is a confirmation that your email has been opened and read. Obviously, this technique will only work if the recipient has enabled automatic image downloads and that he or she is reading your email in HTML and not plain text.
There’s another option as well. If your outgoing email messages include one or more hyperlinks, you may even consider taking the help of a URL shortening service like goo.gl for email tracking.

The idea is pretty simple. Before including an hyperlink in your email, shorten it with goo.gl first. Now if the recipient opens your email and clicks on the link, his activity will be captured which you can see by simply adding a + sign to the Google short URL.
For instance, if the short URL of your link is goo.gl/abc, you can see the click stats for that short URL on goo.gl/abc+ or goo.gl/info/abc. Hover over the click points in the graph and you’ll even get to know the time when the person clicked your link in the email.

This of course is based on the assumption that your email messages have one or more hyperlinks and that the recipients are keen to click on them for you to track their activity.

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How to Trace your Laptop

To allow law enforcementagencies access a novel method of tracking and recovering lost laptops,leading anti-virus solution provider Quick Heal has launched a service.

All that a laptopowner has to do is register with 'Quick Heal' on its website for theservice through Mac-id and it keeps continuous track of where thelaptop is.

If the laptop is stolen the tracker service tracesit on the basis of Mac-id and IP addresses. This information can thenbe used by the police to track the laptop down and retrieve it, saidthe company press release.

The method is aimed at helpingpolice by providing them an interface with the website, said thecompany managing director and CEO Kailash Katkar.

"Thistechnology from Quick Heal will provide a tool to the society at largeand to the police, thus reducing their burden," he said.

Launched as part of corporate social responsibility, the service isfree of charge and can be availed by anybody, whether a 'Quick Heal'user or not, he said.

The service, already launched in Indoreand Jaipur, would soon be started in other cities. Besides, the companyalso aims to create a database of stolen laptops for the help of usersand potential buyers.

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Find domains – Discover Domains by IP Address, Hosts

FindDomains is a multithreaded search engine discovery tool that will be very useful for penetration testers dealing with discovering domain names/web sites/virtual hosts which are located on too many IP addresses. Provides a console interface so you can easily integrate this tool to your pentest automation system.

It retrieves domain names/web sites which are located on specified ip address/hostname.

This tool is prepared by starting with Bing API 2.0 code sample.

In order to use FindDomains :

• Create an appid from “Bing Developers”, this link.
• It’ll be like that : 32AFB589D1C8B4FEC73D4BCB6EA0AD810E0FA2C7
• When you have registered an appid, enter it to the “appid.txt” which is on program directory.

Some outlines :

• Uses Bing search engine. Works with first 1000 records.
• Multithreaded on crawling and DNS resolution.
• Performs DNS resolution for extracted domains to eleminate cached/old records.
• Has a console interface so it can be very useful with some command-line foo.
• Works with Mono. But running under Windows is more efficient.

Sample usage :

1) FindDomains.exe 1.2.3.4
2) FindDomains.exe www.hotmail.com

Requirements :
1) NET Framework 3.5. Also working with Mono.

http://finddomains.googlecode.com/files/FindDomainsv0.1.1.rar

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