How to prevent IE clipboard hack?

You can copy any text, then go to this link. You’ll see what you copied (You must be using IE to see this effect).

What if you copy your password or cc number? You need to scare only if you are using IE as Firefox is safe from this hack.

This is the script which can be placed in any web page and when you visit the site, using IE Browser, it can easily retrieve what was in your clipboard. (Yes, I am talking about your Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V)

How to avoid data getting stolen from clipboard ?

ie clipboard hack prevention

To avoid clipboard hack, do the following:

1. Go to Tools–>Internet Options->Security
2. Press custom level
3. In the security settings, select disable or prompt for Allow Programmatic Clipboard access under Scripting as shown in the above screenshot.

Reference : Link1 and Link2

You can find your favourite song by humming!

We used to remember the song tune, music and harmony rather than the lyrics or the song title. Have you ever missed your favourite song? Have you ever just hummble it to your friends and they have ever look at you like you are from Mars? Well, not again!

You know that song is famous, but all you can remember is some tune and just hummble? That’s enough! That’s all you need!

Go to Midomi.com, where you can use your voice to instantly connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests. Listen to voices, see pictures, rate singers, send messages, buy music, and more.

As with any other innovative company, Midomi is still in beta. But you can contribute to their database by singing your well-known favourite song.

Grab your mic and let’s start singing!

Google Earth can zoom more than you think

If you think Google Earth is only for viewing hybrid image and satellite imagery for streets and building, think again! Because Google earth can take this kind of pic too:

Still don’t believe it, right? Think I play with Photoshop? Here is Google Maps link. Go there and choose Satellite. You will see that man is looking up.

How can we get it? Here’s how:


Go to Google Maps
1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

Remember you might be able to zoom more to only those location which could zoom to highest level(z=18).

If you want to see more, check what others found out here and here.

Updated: Now I have found out the truth about Google Earth.

Windows Media Plugin for Firefox

If you are solid user of Firefox and got annoy everytime you visit Windows Media embedded website, now there is a solution.

Microsoft Corp., as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.

You can download it on official Mozilla plugin site or official Microsoft open source lab.

Firefox windows media plugin

Plugin for linux version is still unavailable though .

How to run multiple Gtalk clients?

If you are a big fan of Gtalk, you do have many Google accounts for different purposes, you might want to run multiple instances of Gtalk client.

Well, first I thought we might need a special program to do that. Finally, it’s not that difficult at all.

All you have to do is just change in the Properties field of Gtalk shortcut as shown in picture below:

Add -nomutex at the end of Target file path.

Enjoy your talking!!

Check your domain value with dnScoop

I’ve found out dnScoop.com and it’s quite fun to check how much your domain or favourite domain worth. How they value a domain? Here is their explanation:

dnScoop.com attempts to estimate a value for an established website or a domain name by using factors such as:

* Links pointing to the domain
* Popularity of the domain
* Age of the domain
* Pagerank of the domain
* Traffic to the domain
* and more…

We believe that these factors are a good indicator of a site’s value and earning potential. We don’t claim that the tool is 100% accurate, but we are constantly working to improve accuracy.

I have made a search for problogger.net, it show that it is worth $234,350.

Btn is now worth only $70. :( Let’s see what’s the value at the end of this year :D . Check for your domain now. It is really fun!

Web-based torrent client

Bitlet

If you’re itching to download a torrent at school or work, where you are not authorized to install any software, you can use this web-based java bit torrent client. This is so cool if you just want to download only one torrent at a time. All you need is Java Virtual Machine.

Here is the snapshot of Bitlet download in progress.

Bitlet download in progress

Quote from torrentfreak : It’s not a replacement for the regular BitTorrent client, but it sure is a great addition.

Reference : TorrentFreak

Improve your Video Streaming Experience

I’ve found the program called “Speedbit Video Accelator“. It supports the following video networks:

How it’s works?

With SpeedBit Video Accelerator installed, your browser’s connection to specific streaming video server is being rerouted through the Video Accelerator Daemon. Unlike the normal browser connection, the Daemon uses a unique patent pending technology, that substitutes the single connection with a sophisticated multi-connection algorithm. The end result is an (up to) 5 times faster connection, which handles the cache buffering (the “preloading” of the movie) much more efficiently.

BtN’s Tips : Even though they don’t disclose their technology, I’ve observed that this program makes several connection to the video that you’re playing. For my case, without this program, I can see only three connections to dailymotion, but after using this program, it makes 8 connections. By this way, it accelerates the video. So, if your connection is dialup, using this program won’t make any difference.

How to make DRM free Zune tracks

If you have Microsoft Zune player and ever wanted to play your purchased music on any other players, here is the solution.

FairUse4WM – a WM/DRM removal program

Here is brief summary of this program could do.

… a new tool for uncovering the individual keys from Microsoft’s DRM blackbox components (“IBX”), up to version 11.0.6000.6324. Lacking the source code to the extant programs

….This version should be capable of interfacing with both Windows Vista and Zune software versions.

Have fun and Enjoy your music!

Old version and Old apps


Newer isn’t always better. If you prefer some functions of your old version software and found that official web sites only had the latest version of the software up for download, don’t sigh yet.

There is OldVersion.com and OldApps.com for you. Both these sites have a huge collection of previous releases of most famous applications.

Warnings: If you use older versions, you may expose yourself to security risks that’ve already been fixed in newer versions.