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Edit or Download Facebook Photos with Photon - Facebook Photo Editor!

2014-02-26T09:42:00.001+05:00

With the help of little and small tools, apps, and extensions that can be added to our web browsers our daily internet life really became so adorable and much easier. And today in this short -snapshot kind of- tutorial I will share with you one of the most inspiring chrome extensions.

As the title implies the extension is called “Photon – Facebook Photo Editor” the functionality of this application gives social network users a chance to easily download and edit photos in Facebook, Google+, and Instagram with one click.

To get your computer or tablet equipped with this amazing chrome extension, refer to the following steps:

Go to the below link on a Google chrome browser or any chromium based browserLink: >> Download.
Then when the chrome store lunches, try to click the free download button, look the below snapshot for reference.
After clicking the free download button you should give it time to download and automatically install the extension, look the below snapshot for reference.
When the download and installation process finishes, you can confirm that you have successfully downloaded and installed the extension to do so refer to the below snapshot.
Now it’s time to test and experience the Photon- Facebook Photo Editor tool, just go and login to your facebook account or if it’s already open try to refresh the page. And whenever you hover over any picture/image on facebook you’ll see a little toolbox appears at the left-top corner of every image/picture.

That is it you are almost done just click any of those toolboxes and you’ll really see what they can do.

That is all for now, keep tuned with LBR we’ll be randomly posting new fantastic tips and tricks on your demands, your feedback is really needed feel free to leave a comment on the comments section below.

How To Find Out Someone's IP-Address Without Even Asking Him?

2014-01-19T12:25:00.000+05:00

First Off, I have to apologize for not blogging so long, sorry for keeping you waiting and willing to get new posts, but I really had some personal issues to sort out which made me unable to get a free time, but now I’m done with all that and want to share with you a little mesmerizing tutorial which is really unique and rare of its kind.

As the title implies on this short post I will let you know how to get people’s ip-addresses without asking them, I promise I won’t include any hard or tricky arguments on this blog I will just keep it simple and straight forward by raping it all to gather step by step without skipping anything. And the reason made me do such a tutorial is I have recieved an authentic comment on an old article I've posted on August-2013 titled as [ Hack Any PC Using IP Via Metasploit].

A direct comment form Abdifatah Mohamed said: “is there a possible way to get the ip address of someone who lives in a different country than mine. WITHOUT ASKING HIM/HER !!!!”

And to get the distilled and the ideal answer for that question you may just watch the bellow video:

Sorry for the inconvenience! earlier i have hosted the video on FACEBOOK, which made some visitors unable to view and watch the video at all.
Now i have shifted the gears and hosted the video on DAILYMOTION, and you won't face any problem this time.

Warning: don’t ever use the knowledge you have received for this short post or video to violate people, if you ever do so LBR blog is not responsible for what you meet as a penalty for the mistakes you do. I have just provided this information with you for educational purpose.

Again if there’s anything that you’d like to suggest or ask feel free to put it in the comments section below.

Extra Chrome Saved Passwords Security Feature With The New Chrome Canary

2013-12-08T13:17:00.005+05:00

Web Developers deciding which Chrome Channel to use the beta or the stable one, it’s really and largely depends on their tolerance of bugs and strength of desire to try the latest features and improvements. But there is a way to get the best of both worlds: a perfectly rock-solid stable experience and access to the latest features say hello to the Canary Channel.

Chrome Canary is Google’s code name for its latest Chrome browser which is currently in testing, is once again available to both developers and users. Chrome Canary is not necessarily for the faint of heart in its current state, it’s a decidedly beta product that comes with warnings from the search company that says it could crash at any time and shouldn’t be considered a replacement for Chrome or any other browser at the moment. Quite the contrary, Chrome Canary is a work in progress, a piece of software that should not be relied on for the most important tasks. Still, Chrome Canary is an important browser for those who have been using Google’s software for some time. Chrome Canary represents the future of Google’s browser, and includes several improvements over the current platform that should make for a better experience.

Unlike the beta and dev channels, Google Chrome Canary installs separately alongside the regular version of Chrome. It doesn't change, modify or affect any files; nothing is shared between them. This means that you can keep a stable version of Chrome for your regular day-to-day work, but also have a safe way -playground- to toy around with the latest features, changes and flags.

Note: Once caveat being that some settings altered on Canary will sync – but only if you sign in.

The major meaningful reasons you should try Chrome Canary are:

It’s safe – it doesn’t affect regular chrome browser.
It’s fun – you get to try the latest features earlier before anyone could see it.
It auto-updates – unlike Chromium snapshots, Canary is updated almost daily.
It’s useful – developers can work with newer chrome features & APIs sooner.
Its proper Chrome – all of Chrome’s features are present, including flash Quick Office viewer and a PDF reader.

New Security Feature

Up until now, anyone with access to your PC could view all of your saved passwords in Chrome by pointing the browser to chrome://settings/passwords, but that changes in the newest build of Chromium, the open-source project that chrome is based on. When the update eventually makes its way to the official version of Chrome, the browser will prompt users to re-authenticate using the Windows/OS X user’s password before showing any saved passwords. And sooner the worries about revealing saved passwords on Chrome will vanish.

Google provides official Canary builds for windows and Mac (sorry for Linux users) and, once downloaded, it installs just like regular Chrome.

Canary uses different colored icon to that of regular Chrome, helping ensure that you don’t accidentally start the wrong one. This means you can pin it to your start screen, task bar, or dock without creating confusion!

So what is that you are waiting it’s time to be fabulous and adventurous as well, go and grape your free piece of copy from here >> Download Chrome Canary.

Breaking News: CloudCraker! An Online Pentesting Service

2013-11-26T20:26:00.000+05:00

Holla! It’s being always a dream to meet a reliable, flexible, and trust worthy online PenTesting tool or service and it’s just happen to day when I intentionally found CloudCracker.com while I was serving the web, more importantly I was absolutely impressed about the fact that this online website is even much faster and accurate than a lot of third party Cracking and PenTesting tools and softwares.

So what is cloud cracker and what it does? It’s an online password cracking service for penetration testers and network auditors who need to check the security of WPA protected wireless networks, crack password hashes, or break document encryption.

In this PenTesting service you will be asked some data and that you need to provide (not the password), and then it will try identifying your password (it’s done in the same way the hacker tries to find out your password), if it fails to find your password then you are ready to use your wireless network and if it finds out your password then you have no other choice left other than changing your password.

Disclaimer: This post is not a complete guide or tutorial about how to use cloudcraker’s service but it’s just a fantastic cracking alternate that I’ve found instantly and I just wanted to share with you the news to be aware of the service if you are not already knew it, so don’t relay this post for the complete and confidential reference just take its as breaking news from LBR’s news desk.

For a formal info and reference visit cloudcraker’s official website from here >> cloudcraker.com and make your own appropriable judgements.

Final note: Honestly I’m in a middle of confusion about what kind of topics or niches to write articles about because nowadays technology arena is hilariously growing and vanishing at the same time, so if you have a query, suggestion, or special request try to scroll down till you reach the comments section below, so you can leave your query suggestion, or whatever you’ve in mind just right there. And I’ll always appreciate your comments because I’m sure they’ll help me provide rich articles and tutorials continuously about the things you ask, suggest, and request. So feel free and let me know what you would love to see next time on LBR blog.

How To Stay Safe&Secure While Serving The Web

2013-11-25T06:43:00.000+05:00

When you first enter to the connected world of the internet try to imagine a place where there is so many Apps and Services don't even cost a penny; games, social networks, videos, music, and pictures it’s almost like virtual paradise, but looking under Neath that wonderland there is a far greater told being collected-your identity- names, locations, addresses, family and friendship connections, likes, searches, browsing history.

Basically the more the internet you use the more information you give corporations so they can turn around and sell your identity to the heights bitter.

So here a great question comes into the mind, is there a way to be a part of this online economy without sacrificing your identity and privacy? YES you can lie!

Here is the four major ways online companies collect your data and four major ways you can hide your data from them.

First is Location: By using your computers ip-address fine online services can determine where you connecting to the internet from, a good practice are to hide your ip using a Proxy or what is called Virtual Private Network (VPN). And there is a plenty of plugins for your specific browser type that allow you to do both i.e. Switchy and FoxyProxy, there is also free services out there such as CyberGhost that allow you to serve web while hiding your ip-address, you can also build your own VPN service using computers in different locations, or you can pay premium vpn services like [witopia], which make it look like you are from a different country all together.

Second is site tracking and browsing history: when you visit certain websites they collect data on you even if you aren't aware of it, i have already mentioned your ip-address but also your browser type and your Operating System, what pages you’ve visited and what you clicked on. Depending on your browser again you can use third party plugins like [DNT+] that can block these websites from collecting information on you, or you can use harder security browser systems such as Tor and SRWare Iron which is like chrome.

Normally if you want to use an online service you've to sign up using personal information but it doesn't necessarily have to be your personal information that is where the Third step comes into play.

Third Fake Identities: if you go to fakenamegenerator.com you can generate intire fake identities that you can use to fill out forms, another good one is datafakegenerator.com that even let you generate fake Credit Card number. Fourth step concerns the most important part of information your email address.

Fourth Disposable Emails: This is quite tricky because most online services require a valid email before you can complete the registration process. So you need a fake anonymous email that you can actually check, the best options that can allow this, is the disposable email services such as 10minutemail, guerrillamail or mailnesia for a longer lasting fake email address.

Final note: Although it’s not 100% anonymity these tips will at least give you 90% to the way there.

At last I'd love to hear some of the methods you guys use to stay hidden online let me know in the comments section. That is it for this short tutorial until next time hack some fun into your week ends. Cheers

Use Any Trial Software Forever! No Crack Needed

2013-11-02T02:01:00.001+05:00

In today’s world all software developers and computer engineers continuously create a huge bundle of professional applications, standalone softwares, and smooth web applications to integrate social media sites as well as the other custom websites out there on the World Wide Web.

And here is what they do while they're developing and coding those spectacular and helpful new productions, they usually set and implement some certain terms, protocols, and regulations for the usage of any specific element[software] of their production; i.e. Professional software firms like Microsoft always set and give their productions/softwares such as Microsoft Office a certain and specific trial period which gives the user a few days to use Microsoft Office without purchasing the software, that is good so far and it’s the professional way to deal with gaining some revenue from your regular users, customers, and clients while giving them a demonstration and checking time to convince them that your software is valid and your services are reliable so later on when the trial version expires they go and get your full software package by purchasing it.

But what about if there are others like me and you those who don't want to purchase the software at all and the same time need to use the software forever without paying a penny, so in that case I’ve decided to give them a chance by telling them a simple technique which can help them to use any specific software of their choice for ever without worrying about the trial period.

And there may be a number of different ways to use a trial version of a software for ever like using Keygens or Cracking the software which is absolutely illegal and impossible to do for a normal computer user but in this tutorial I will show and another way which is much simpler, easier and safer than all of the previous methods you’ve ever known and its to use a third party software called RunAsDate so to know how this makes any trial version of a software works for ever, just follow below steps.

Before starting the steps let’s get tuned and review what RunAsDate software is, its definitely a small utility that allows you to run a program on the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application. You can run multiple applications simultaneously, each application works with different date and time, while the real date/time of your system continues to run normally. Now let’s proceed to the steps.

First of all we have to download RunAsDate software and there are two available versions one for 32bit systems and one for 64bit systems so first make sure whether your system is a 32bit or 64bit then follow along and click one of the below download links according to your system type.
RunAsDate download links: for 32bit system // for 64bit systems.

After clicking the download link and the download completes you’ll get a zipped file so go and unzip it by using WinRAR, WinZip, and 7zip or any other tool that you can get which can unzip the downloaded file.

After unzipping the downloaded file you will get a separate three files in that file, so try to double click the one that says RunAsDate.exe or follow the below image for a better demonstration.

Note: RunAsDate.exe does not need any installation just double click it and it will automatically run and for now when the application launches you will have a window like the one in the below image.

Now if we look deeply to the previous window we will notice that the the window consists three fields and a few checkboxes and buttons, so we are not going to use all of them for now we'll just use the first two fields the one “application to run:” and the one beneath it –for a better understanding look the below two images, and from this stage will chose our software from our PC’s installation directly by clicking the little Browse button on the top right corner of the application so click there and choose your desired trail software on your system and on the next field just specify the date you have installed the trial software you want to run forever and to do that make some guessing or if you noted earlier the date that will be much better.

Note: I usually note the date of installing any trial software on a sheet or I mark it on a calendar and I recommend you to do so.

Now if you have done the previous steps correctly go and click “Run” and wait a second then the application will instantly launch. And the best of is you can make a shortcut for your favorite application by just giving a name to your shortcut and click that button says “Create a desktop shortcut>>” and there you go you'll find a shortcut on your desktop so whenever you need to launch that specific software it’s not must to again launch RunAsDate and then browse your software from there, just go and click that shortcut.

Congratulations now you can use almost every trial software you or you may have on your system forever, with using RunAsDate but the question is how RunAsDate software works so below I will tell you in short sentences I hope that you can catch up something from it.

RunAsDate intercepts the kernel API calls that returns the current date and time (GeSystemTime, GetLocalTime, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime), and replaces the current date/time with the date/time that you specify.

Final note: if you get confused about the steps try to pin your question on the comments section below, hopefully you'll get a reply as soon as possible. Cheers

Pipe App! A Direct and Secure File Transfer

2013-10-20T09:43:00.000+05:00

Pipe App. is a file transfer web application based on Adobe Flash with peer-to-peer functionality at its core, and most importantly there is no software to be installed on the user’s computers both the sender and the receiver because Pipe is a web application with the capability of running on Facebook’s app platform.

Also because Pipe relies on Facebook for user authentication and matching, the user is certainly addressed which makes the transaction process safe and secure. To get the full functionality of Pipe you don’t need to install any extra software on your computer, and neither do your friends. Just open the Pipe app on Facebook and you have immediate access to all of your friends. The Pipe app creates a direct connection between you and an online friend. Files do not and won’t pass through Facebook as the file is transferred directly from your computer to your friend’s computer.

Pipe has a tree hilarious file transmission types formally named as “Green Pipe, Blue Pipe and Grey Pipe”

Green Pipe: it’s the kind of transmission you must use whenever your friend is online on the Pipe app, and it’s really simple and goes this way: if you drop the file in a green Pipe, your friend must be online on Pipe and ready to receive a file up to 1GB.
Blue Pipe: briefly blue pipe is the transfer you made when your friend is online on Facebook, but not on Pipe App itself. Just send a file and drop it on the blue pipe and your friend will be notified by getting an invite from you.
Grey Pipe: it’s the type of transaction you make when your friend is not completely available simply means when your friend is offline on both Pipe and Facebook, on that occasion still you can send a file to a locker for your friend to pick it up later.

So from this point of view we know that we can always make a file transfer no matter whether our friends and colleagues are available or not.

How it works

Pipe is a file transfer application that transfers files up to 1GB directly from one computer to another computer using peer-to-peer mechanism. To do this, Pipe uses the transfer protocol called RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol) from Adobe, which is based on UDP. RTMFP has a 128bit AES encryption for the communication channels between the sender and receiver’s computers which gives us the complete trust and on it. An in simple words this means files do not pass through Pipe or Facebook, as the file is transferred via a secure connection directly from your computer to your friend’s computer, or via a locker in other words, neither Pipe nor Facebook sees the files.

What is Pipe Locker

In case where the intended recipient is either offline, busy or unavailable the user can choose for the file to be uploaded to Pipe’s cloud-based storage called ‘locker’ via an HTTPS encrypted connection. Each locker can contain a file up to 100MB.

Facebook Integration

To establish the Pipe connection between friends whilst respecting the user’s privacy, Pipe uses only the anonymous 3^rd party ID provided by Facebook. Pipe does not use real names or Facebook IDs for enabling the transfer of file.

Browser Compatibility

Pipe uses the very latest browser and Adobe Flash features and for this reason works best with Google Chrome and Comodo Dragon. Some Pipe features might not be supported by older browsers like IE6,8,9 I therefore recommend that users keep their browser up to date, and preferably use Google Chrome or Comodo Dragon.

Relay On Pipe

Even when users find themselves behind unusual network configurations or symmentic NAT’s, a file can still be transferred with pipe. In this case, the Pipe relay service forwards it between the two computers, but without ever storing the file. So it’s totally clear and understandable what Pipe App provides as a service is really reliable so go and get it. And believe me it has the potential to be a true game changer.

If you are willing to visit Pipe App’s official website feel free to browse from >> here.

And if you are really eager to jump to the App by clicking here >> Go to App. but before you do that make sure that you’ve logged in to your Facebook account.

Final note: If you face any problems while trying to test or use Pipe App. feel free to post your queries under the comments section below. All together if you really admire the little work I’m doing on LBR please show some love and don’t forget to leave your review in the comments section below… thanks

An Easy Solution For “Cannot Delete File or Folder Error” On Windows!

2013-10-18T09:44:00.002+05:00

Occasionally the [cannot delete file or folder error] is one of the common errors for windows regular users, and it usually occurs whenever we install a third party software or application on our computer and then by uninstalling that specific software or at the moment of the installation an unwanted changes occur inside our computer’s registry paths and directories. Or on the other hand when there are some malicious spywares, malwares, and viruses that affect our files, folders, and change their permissions. And maybe when there are a background processes related to that file or folder.

And the truth is we really can't predict or control when that error will happen but we can solve the problem later on when we see the pop-up alert while trying to delete a file or a folder. Look the below pop-up alert windows snapshot and I bet you have seen it quite a lot if you are a regular windows user.

So now the question is how we can solve that error? The answer is simple and the easiest answer you'll ever find on online forums or on the internet in major will be to use utility software called Unlocker, and on this special post I will show you how to download, install, and use Unlocker to get rid of that error, so let’s roll.

Download Unlocker software from filehippo by click here >> Download.
After a successful downloading run the download [ .exe] file and give a complete UAC Permission and start to install the software by following the wizard instructions it will take less than a 40 seconds to install.

After installation, it integrates itself into your right-click windows explorer menu. Then when you get the dreaded “file is currently being used by another person or program” error box, just do the following to show that operating system who the real boss is:

As shown on the above image right-click on the offending file or folder and from the menu choose “Unlocker” menu item. The below box will then appear.

Again as shown in the above image you'll then get a list of certain system processes which represents the actual background tasks taking place on your processor in real time which are related to that offending file or folder. Just click any or all and then kill or unlock the offending processes.
And after performing such a task on unlocker you can go back and try again to delete that folder or file and sometimes it may require a restart or reboot so give it the chance to do so and restart your computer and for sure it'll that file or folder will instantly be deleted.

Unlocker is really a tiny, small, and simple utility software and it won't require any updates because it will be automatically updated as long as you've an internet connection on your computer system, so download and install one time and it will be always updated and running smoothly. And always remember it’s an absolute dream when your Windows OS decides to start playing up and you're about to smash something in frustration. I recommend that Unlocker should be part of everyone’s computer set-up always and forever.

References

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Conclusion
As usual if you've any alternatives to unlocker or may be met some other amazing utility softwares that can perform a similar tasks let us know by leaving your review in the comments section below.

How To Add A Fully Functional Toolbar To Your VB.NET Application?

2013-10-14T09:21:00.000+05:00

First off, I have to apologize for not blogging in so long, I am truly sorry to keep you waiting, but I had a lot of personal matters to arrange. Finally I am done with that and I am here to respond a question that a dear friend of mine Mr.Mansur Ali Shah posted under a snap-shot I have posted in BS CheEtaZz’s Facebook group/forum on ~~October 9^th at 6:54PM.~~

That snap-shot was about a simple application I have created using VB.NET which had a fully functional toolbar menu and Mr. Mansur particularly asked me how I have implemented such a fully functional toolbar on my application and on this short post I will show you step-by-step how I have did that. So follow me along and take advantage from these tiny steps.

Open a new project in visual basic and name it whatever you like.

Now you will have a ready project with a plane form accordingly named [ form1 ] on that stage don’t do anything else just go to the toolbox and search a tool object called MenuStrip under Menus & Toolbars section inside the toolbox, for more info look the below image as a reference.

By the way MenuStrip is the tool that gives you the functionality of a toolbar menu taps and that is what we need to add our form in order to get that toolbar functionality and later on we’ll give it a code to function.

But for now just click that menustrip tool and drag it over your form surface.

Hopefully if you did the previous two steps correctly you’ll see on top your form a shaded portion like the one in bellow image which says type here. So it’s time to give your toolbar menu items a text or formally a name. So do that and run your application to see if the toolbar is there.

Now that we’ve done and decorated our form’s design by adding a toolbar items, let’s start coding, and to make any specific item work accordingly we’ve to give it a command or certainly a code, and to do that you should double click that specific menu item which you want to give the code and at the moment you double click, it will take you to the coding environment and in there do your best coding skills and run your application again to check the code. That is what it takes to add your VB.NET application a fully functional toolbar.

Disclaimer: This post is not an academic review neither a regular tutorial, it’s just my own way to share information and tips with my respected viewers, friends, and classmates, and the truth is in order to answer Mr. Mansur's query just underneath his question I truly thought it will be much better if I made a post from it on LBR blog so that ever online viewer could take advantage from the detailed answer.

Special Thanks to Mr. Mansur Ali Shah for tagging such an informative question which made me able to write an article from it. Thank you indeed.

And at last but not at least if you really admire the little work i am doing here at LBR please show some love and leave your review under the comments section below. i have also to mention discussions are open so feel free to raise your questions.

Lockify! A Fully end-to-end Encryption For Your Confidential Messages

2013-09-26T18:13:00.003+05:00

With the entertaining, enormous, and magnificent inventions of today’s world especially in the technology arena software development is a major part more specifically the web applications. And exactly from the invention of Google Chrome web applications has largely expanded in a variety of categories which include business tools, office apps, entertainment, education, lifestyle, productivity, social & communications, utilities, extensions and themes.

And fortunately Google Chrome lunched a new niche of web applications that can run on desktop environment without any extra requirements, just download them and run them. If you want to experience some of that applications visit here >> Desktop-apps.

With that keeping in mind to day I want share with a unique and amazing app called Lockify, Lockify is an encryption software which will give you a fully end-to-end encryption for your messages, with Lockify your confidential message is encrypted on your machine. And it will never enter the cloud unencrypted and only you have the decryption key- in the form of a link- which you can share with whomever you like, however you like. And after they receive and click the link verification will be asked in order to view the encrypted message and the receiver should verify the link you’ve have instantly sent to him/her according to a verification method you specify, and that verification could be a question you pose to them, a password you share with him/here, their email address, or their twitter username. And for assured security the best verification option is a password you share with them which means only those you give the password can decrypt the message.

Well now that we understood what Lockify really is? And what it can do for us it’s obvious and convenient to think about how to setup and install the app. So let’s do that and enjoy the best encryption smart application ever. Follow the below steps.

Go to this link >> Download Lockify App.
After you do that the installation process will start instantly and you have to wait a moment till the process finishes, the speed of the installation process really depends on your computers capacity and your internet speed unless that the app is very light and small.
When the installation completes your computer will notify you and you will see a new icon on your task bar just click that icon and you’ll see the Lockify app inside the panel click the Lockify icon and that is it.
The Lockify app will smoothly come handy after this stage and its app to you what you’ll do next and don’t panic the Lockify app is self explanatory software. You run the app you’ll see everything in front of you and again it’s up to you what you will do after that. And good luck with a fully end-to-end encryption software on your hand, enjoy it and share with your fellows and friends.

Final note: The progress that Chromium family made so far is really wonderful and certainly helpful to many regular users like me, so as a grateful fellow I have to say thanks to the chromium team and let me give you a free giveaway link to get one of their rare and special software they have ever developed. Click here >> Giveaway.

And if you truly inspire LBR blog, and the little work I am doing here please show some love by leaving your comment on the below comments section, because that will help me gain some traffic loops. Thanks

How To Make Your Favorite Window On Top Of The Other Windows?

2013-09-25T04:02:00.003+05:00

Have you ever wanted to run and navigate between multiple windows on your desktop while specifically making one of those windows on top of the other windows, have you ever wished to watch a debate, TV-show, movie, or a music clip on VLC, Windows Media Player, or any other available video player while chatting with a beloved one, a friend or a member of your lovely family on Facebook. I personally had exactly the same imaginations and thoughts for a long time till I finally get simple and useful trick to make that happen.

Honestly there are a variety of ways that we can follow to make specific window always on top of the other windows, and some of these ways may require extra experiences and knowledge about computers particularly the softwares and coding. But don’t worry the trick I am going to share with you is not none of these its simple as “ABC” and useful like any other tricks I shared with you so far on LBR site. So let’s get started and begin our journey to experience and feel the difference of been joined to the computer professionals crew just be with me and follow these below simple steps. But before going to the steps let me remind you we’ll use a freeware application called always-on-top which is a portable app which means we won’t install anything we’ll just run it and use it. So let me guide through the steps smoothly.

First and for most try to prepare at least two windows i.e. a web browser and any other application like notepad, and for sure that will give us the ability to bring one of the two windows on top of the other one even when we are working on some other window, don’t be confused just go ahead and proceed you’ll definitely enjoy shortly.
Now go to this link <<download-link>> and download the always-on-top application, after you download the file you’ll see that the file is a zip file which means you’ll need some unzipping tool like Winrar or 7zip or hopefully if you are on windows 7 or on windows 8 operating system you won’t need any extra tools to unzip the file just double click it and you’ll see two files inside the zipped file [always-on-top.ex and readme.txt] files, for now let’s forget the readme file and again double click on the one that says always-on-top.exe.
If everything went correctly you’ll see a popup windows which asks you to run the application just click run and that is it now you've unzipped the file and started the application, to check whether always-on-top is running or not look into the right-bottom corner of your task bar the try icons area hopefully you’ll find an icon with “DI” letters.
Now that we make sure always on top is running let’s go deep and perform the final and the most importantly task which is making one window on top of other. To do so just navigate through your open windows and just pick a one just like notepad now click the title bar of that specific window when you click the title bar of the wanted window now leave the mouse and go to your keyboard and please do this carefully because if you won’t get the always on top feature.
As soon as you are on your keyboard just press Ctrl and while keeping it press the Space bar (Ctrl + Space bar), and the reason we are doing this is because always-on-top application works with hotkeys. And after pressing these hotkeys your always on top effect is running and the window you selected will be always on top until you close it.

NB: if you want to disable the always on top effect just again click the window and again press the hotkeys. And the always on top will disappear.

Final note: now you can enjoy watching videos on vlc or windows media player over any other window, therefore if you get this post useful don’t forget to share the news with your friends, family and special ones. And please show some love to LBR blog and leave your review questions in the below comments section.

Get Rid Of The NSA Surveillance For Ever

2013-09-17T14:31:00.002+05:00

Due to the NSA's surveillance on almost every internet transmission except the encrypted ones, and their backdoor gates on every windows equipped system, the entire regular internet users including me myself are still struggling to find the best ways and options to be anonymous on this rare and epic situation.

And since the beginning of the struggle particularly when I read some articles and news feeds talking about PRISM, XKeyScore, and Tempora, I was trying to find out a better and peaceful way to get rid-off those annoying eyes watching me whenever I browse a page on the internet or just lunch and applications which is synchronized to the net. Hopefully during my research I come up with so many options which successfully made me anonymous and out of that NSA surveillances radar, but the truth is I never felt safe and secure in so many ways until a friend of mine Mr. Subeer Muse a freelancer, penetration tester, and security guru. The initiator of SEH group and top level co-author at aqoonwadaag website, gave me a link to a website called prism-break which contains a huge and massive information, softwares, plug-ins, tips and tricks all about how to stop governments and surveillance agencies from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services. And believe me by just landing that website I felt safe and secure because there are a plenty of options available for almost every existing system including Apple OS X, Windows, Linux, and even for Android operating systems.

The lists of the useful and available applications on that site are too much to mention on this particular post but I will shortly tell you the gist as well as some of my favorite ones. By suggesting secure alternatives for existing proprietary services like operation systems, web browsers, chatting applications.

Operating Systems

Instead of using Mac OS X, Google Chrome OS, and Windows Os you better use one of these GNU/LINUX alternatives [Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Linux Mint DebianEdition, openSUSE] and if you are interested in the Linux BSD based operating systems you may check [openBSD]. Don’t panic all of these are secure, reliable and open source Linux operating systems, if you need more info regarding one of these operating systems you may click the link or just Google it yourself. Unfortunately if you have iOS or Windows Phone operating systems you better replace the device because these operating systems have no free alternatives.

Web browsers

If you are eager to get more browsing security and privacy options you must particularly use Tor Browser Bundle which is encrypted and anonymous web browsing powered by Tor network. JonDonym is also a great browsing option after Tor because it has special JonDo IP anonymization service and JonDoFox profile for firefox. And remember these two above browser systems are IP HIDDEN systems which mean they can be completely anonymous with no worries.
Mozilla Firefox is the third option to check because it’s fast, flexible and secure web browser with a vibrant add-on ecosystem. If you are using android equipped tablet or phone you better check Orbot which is the Tor Browser Bundle version for android systems. On the other hand if you are a regular user for iOS you should use Onion Browser.

Chatting and instant messaging Alternatives

Normally people communicate across the internet using popular emailing and instant messaging applications and social networks, but if you want a secure medium you better use one of these two amazing and user friendly tools:

CyptoCat: which is a private web based add-on and encrypted instant messaging within the web browser. And as I’ve experienced it works only on Google Chrome and Comodo Dragon web browsers. you can get cryptocat from here >> Download.

TorChat: which is Peer-to-Peer (P2P) chat built on Tor Hidden Services not sponsored by the Tor Project, and so far this is my favorite although I previously admired CryptoCat and for simplicity set up if you are a newbie CryptoCat is good for you. get torchat from here >> Download.

Final note: As I earlier told you at the beginning of the post there are a huge alternatives and tools to talk about and I can’t gather all that information on this small post I rather advice you to take your own adventure and explore your personal experience by visiting prism-break’s official website from here >> prism-break org.

At last but not at least some of the above applications and tools may require team participation for instance chatting applications like cryptocat and torchat because you won’t understand how they exactly work unless you check them and the only way you could do so is if you have an end user receiver.

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The Windows Secret and Hidden send to Menu Items

2013-09-14T09:07:00.000+05:00

Using windows operating system equipped PCs and Laptops is something we are all familiar with it and apparently we all seem relaxed and happy with the clicks we make whenever we are editing a file, clicking on a link, or pinning an icon to the task bar. But it will be more interesting and easier if we knew all the tips and tricks to do all of those tasks in a simpler ways i.e. using shortcuts and hotkeys.

And today we will go deep on the windows built in functions specially the handy ones and we’ll explore something odd and interesting about the “send to” function. Hopefully we are all familiar about the concept and how it works but what I am going to show you is how to access the secret “send to” menu items.

Well this may be little bit confusing because you already knew that the “send to” function is handy whenever you right-click on a folder, file, or icon on the desktop but what are the secret menu items I am talking about. Just follow the below steps and you will get idea instantly.

Hold down the “SHIFT” key on your keyboard and right-click on any file or folder on your Desktop.

Definitely on a moment a menu will popup, which contains a lot of menu items, don’t get impressed because it may look like the actual menu you've usually seen but it’s not; you are almost there to explore the hidden and the secret “send to” menu items just keep holding the “SHIFT” key and click on the “send to” menu item.

Now you will see a plenty of new options which gives you some secret great options like the one in figure 0.1. Some of the secret send to menu items are Mail Recipient, Fax Recipient, Bluetooth Device option if you have installed any. And some other useful menu items which you can directly send to that specific document or folder to any place you want.

Figure 0.1

Hopefully and successfully you've seen a variety of secret and hidden options under the “send to” menu, but give another glance to the popup menu you’ll see that whenever you right-click on a file or folder while holding down the “SHIFT” key the menu items will show up are tremendously useful than ever and they are more than enough, so keep in mind with the help of “SHIFT” key we explored the hidden and the secret send to menu items and some other useful things as well. And that is the beauty of using the hot-keys and sticky-keys.

Final note: if you've already knew the trick I have just demonstrated, 95% of the regular windows users don‘t aware of it, so participate spreading the word and share it with your friends and loved ones.

And at last but not the least if you truly inspire the little work I’m doing here, don’t please show some love by leaving your review on the comments section below.

Your Freedom! The Ultimate VPN & Tunneling Solution

2013-09-10T08:19:00.002+05:00

Have you ever been trapped behind a firewall or a filtering web proxy and cannot access some or many web pages or use an application you would like to use or play a game you would like to play? Is your internet connection being censored and you would like to stick censorship where the sun doesn't shine? Would you prefer to stay anonymous, that your IP address is not logged with every access to someone’s webpage? Then look no further, today I have a rare and unique solution for you which will instantly give you a full freedom to browse the net.

That impressive solution is to download, install, and configure a professional VPN application called “Your Freedom”. Well, if you are an internet nerd have already used one of the popular vpn applications like CyberGate, TunnelBear, ExPat Sheild, UltraSurf, or Hotspot Sheild. The concept is same but “Your Freedom” is all-in-on vpn, tunneling, firewall and proxy bypassing, anonymization, and anti-censorship solution which means you don’t have to worry about anything or search solutions for all of these specific areas as long as you have installed and correctly configured “Your Freedom” application. So let me tell you some of the basic configuration hints that will help you correctly configure YF. Just follow the steps carefully.

1. First and for most you have to create a new account from YF’s official website right here >> Register.

2. Then after creating your account successfully, you have to go and get the software by downloading it from here >> download YF, and by the way you may see a table with a plenty of options try to download the windows full installer in the first row and as recommended, but if you have slow internet connection you better go to the second option which simply says Windows Installer and remember with this second option its must to have java 6 or newer unless that the application won’t run. And there will be some other two options for MAC and android.

3. Install the application as you usually do with the other applications; just skip if there is any wizard comes up at the end of the installation. So now since you have installed the application lets configure it.

4. Run the application and go to the account information panel, and put the username and the password you made in step one.

5. Then check the server connection panel. And set connection mode to “UDP” then click the wizard button. And you have to wait a while because the wizard will search all the available servers and then will list them prioritized to their strength.

6. When the wizard finishes searching try to choose the first server it gives you because that is the best for you according to the speed and accuracy.

7. Then click finish and then click save and exit. That isn’t just one step left go to the YF’s try icon right click it and choose start connection. And in a moment if everything went correct you’ll be connected to the server and became protected and anonymous.

Note: as we all now there is nothing complete in this world and the fact is YF can be the best solution but it still have one down site which is every username and password you register from YF works only three hours in the day. But don’t worry to overcame this problem try to create multiple fake emails from here >> Generate Fake Emails. And hopefully that will solve your problem.

At last but not at least if you ever need any help or support here is a link for Your Freedom user guide it’s a small PDF file just follow the link it’ll definitely help you.

If you believe this post gave you and extra option and solution to serve net anonymously and safely please share comment and like.

Join The Bloggers Crew By Creating A Blogger Blog!

2013-09-03T03:05:00.001+05:00

We all enjoy reading, watching and browsing different topics from a variation of websites and blogs, and maybe we also participate the ongoing activities on that certain blogs or sites by commenting or sharing our favorite posts, articles, vides, and images from that particular blogs or sites. But what about if you, especially you! Can create your own blog within 5minutes by just following the simple steps I’ll will show you shortly, but before we begin our adventure let me remind you some of the most important concepts about blog and blogging you’ll ever need.

What Is Blog?

It’s not really easy to describe or define BLOG, because blog is what made thousands of the wealthiest people in the world; blogs is what helped Millions of drop outs to start a new era and a successful life; blog is what you and me relay on whenever we search on Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other search engine no matter what we are looking or asking, because all that links appear in front of us whenever we type a single word or a letter on the search engines are mostly came from blogs.

So you see blog is a portion of every body’s life whether he/she believes or not. But here I will give you a short definition which you can start with to get an answer to that huge question “what is blog?” Blog is a web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.

What is Blogging?

Simply blogging is adding a new material for instance a post, article, video, image, topic to a web site. On the other hand blogging is a way of life, because with blogging people get paid or awarded with precious things like money or prizes and trust me; at the moment you join the bloggers crew you’ll just feel overwhelmed by knowledge and experiences so let’s go forward by sorting things out and determine the best platforms to choose to create our blog.

There are a plenty of platforms or systems to create a blog and the top three options are blogger, word press, tumblr. And the reason is because these three systems offer fully free resources and accounts along with free domain and hosting which later on you can shift or transfer them with no recommendations. and from these amazing three systems blogger platform is the best in so many ways according to its flexibility and don’t forget it’s a product of Google which will give you a more opportunities of SEO options, and believe me within 6 hours form the time you create your blogger blog, your blog will be listed on Google’s top then search engine list. And I will guide thorough how to create and develop a successful blogger blog but first lets create our new blogger blog by following the below steps.

First you’ll need to create a Gmail account if you don’t already have it, because blogger is a product from Google Inc., and when you’re creating your blogger site you’ll be asked to enter a valid Gmail account info specially and email and password, so go and create a Gmail account if you don’t already have it.

After you make sure that you’ve a valid Gmail account go to www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com which will take you to the same place and by just clicking one of these two URL links you will definitely see a page like the one in the snapshot. And it’s just that simple put your email and password in the fields then click the little blue sign-in button, and remember it only takes Gmail accounts.

Then you’ll be redirected to the official blogger’s website and dashboard where the important things will happen, the interface of your new blogger dashboard will be almost similar to the one in the below picture except the shaded area and you can see from the image that the shaded area has Learn By Research label on it and the reason is because I have already LBR blog, but you’ll see a button says “New Blog” just hit that.

In a moment you’ll get a popup screen like the one shown in the below image which tells you to insert your new blog’s basic information like your blog title which literally is your blog name, your blog domain or URL and a basic template to start with –the template is the design and the layout of your blog- so be careful and choose wisely your blog’s basic info. Then click the orange Create Blog button.

And that is it with in a second your blogger blog will up and running. Just visit the URL you’ve chosen earlier, and remember that was the beginning you have to do a lot if you want to become a successful blogger or web master, for that case I will share with some of the basic tips and tricks that helped me while I was beginning my blogging journey.

Try to post articles consistently, and in an arranged manner for example try to post 4 content rich articles in each and every week.Try to organize your blog’s categories and menus in an appropriate way.Avoid copy and paste methodology it may help you post a plenty of posts in a short time but it won’t help you gain respect and reputation.Enhance your blogging experience, and let me remind you the best way to became quickly experienced is to Google every question you have in mind, and trust me in one way or another you’ll find an answer to your query.

Final note: well, I hope this post gave you a hunch about how to create a blogger blog in five minutes and some tested tips about how to start your blogging journey, but I won’t leave just like that I will post an enormous blogging tips and techniques which will help you live like a legend.

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With The Help of Windroy Run Android Apps On PCs!

2013-08-30T03:34:00.001+05:00

With the luxury of smartphones people are experiencing one of the geekiest moments of their life, and the proof of that is, if you look at the park or some gathering places even on the streets 66% of the population around you are just looking to their smartphones whether they’re texting, making a video call, or playing some epic games or launching some of their favorite Apps. It’s all about enjoying the luxury of the smartphone. But what about if you want to have the exact same luxury on your PC or laptop here is where you need some miracles and to make that happen I will show you an easy way to experience the actual android environment on your PC.

As any desktop addicted user I usually like to improve my desktop experience in a wider dimensions and because of that I found out that there are a plenty of options that allows you to run virtual android machine on your desktop or laptop and you may have heard one of those softwares that work as an android emulator i.e. the famous BlueStacks, and if you haven’t then you’re missing out the most popular android emulator for PCs and laptops.

Windroy is an alternative platform for BlueStacks and its much easier and simpler than it; and on this article I am going to show you how to successfully run Windroy and use it, If you’ve ever used Vmware or VirtualBox the idea is same the only difference is that Windroy is specifically developed to run android operating systems virtually.

So get started by downloading windroy form here >> Download. And after a successful installation you’ll get a black prompt window with a huge info about windory’s current situation and you should have it open until you close and exit completely the windroy because that prompt window contains all the info you will ever need, the action events, errors, and instructions.

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The first difference you’ll notice is that, unlike any other emulator that you’ve probably tried (such as BlueStacks or YouWave), Windroy launches in a fullscreen mode. The first thing you should see is a typical Android lock screen, as displayed above image. Again, this isn’t very typical. You won’t see it with many other emulators, but Windroy really emulates the entire Android experience along with some of the key features that Windroy boasts:

Runs smoothly on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
Comes with Windows applications such as Flash integrated.
Support for any UI resolution.
Can run in windowed of full-screen mode.
Supports IO devices like them.

Disclaimer : Windroy won’t leave you awed and extremely impressed if you’re used to emulating Android through BlueStacks. BlueStacks has been reported to show more compatibility with a wider range of applications, specifically those from the Kindle’s app store. Many also vouch that BlueStacks offers a higher frame rate and is the best emulator for playing Android games, if that’s what you’re after. Windroy does do its job quite well though, and that’s all that is important. It’s a great second chance if other emulators have given you poor luck.

Let me know what you think of Windroy and how it stacks up against other Android emulators in the comments section below.

Hack any PC using IP via Metasploit

2013-08-16T07:45:00.001+05:00

Usually whenever you are thinking to do some stuff with your friend's computer or maybe your colleague’s laptop without a physical contact with his/her things that may seem a little bit impossible.
But with the help of the Metasploit feature you can even fully control his entire network or computer by just having his/her computer’s IP address and a few steps which I will shortly guide you through.

It's really important and highly recommended to have a basic knowledge about coding specially on CMD and Linux environments like Red Hat Linux or the other available distros. Well for this moment I will consider that you have the recommended skills to do the real hacking, just follow me up.

1 1.) First you need to download Metasploit. The most up-to-date version is FREE at metasploit.com.

2.) You need PostgrSQL for your database.
Download here:http://www.postgresql.org/
Make sure you use all the defaults or Metasploit won't work!

3.) Now lets get down to buisness... After installing both tools, open up the PostgrSQL admin gui (start -> all programs -> PostgreSQL 9.0 -> pgAdmin III).
Then right-click on your server (in the left hand box) and click connect. Remember to keep this window open the whole time. You will also need the pass you chose to use in step 5...

4.) Time for some hacking! Go to start -> all programs -> Metasploit Framework, and then open the Metasploit GUI.

5.)Now, in the window type:

db_connect postgres:ThePassYouChose@localhost:5432

The first time you do this you will see lots of text flash buy. Don't worry, this is normal.

6.) Type db_host to make sure you are connected correctly.

7.)Now type this:

db_nmap 000.000.000.000

Make sure you put the ip of the computer you are trying to hack in the place of 000.000.000.000...

8.) Now we get to the fun part; the automatic exploitation.
Just type db_autopwn -t -p -e -s -b ,
Watch the auto-exploitation start, go play Halo for a while, and then come back...

9.) After the exploitation is done, type sessions -l to see what the scanner found. If all went well, you should see a list of exploits.

10.) Now we get to use the exploits to hack the computer! If you will notice, all of the exploits are numbered, and they all have obvious names (i. e., reverseScreen_tcp). In order to use an exploit, type this:

Sessions -i ExploitNumber

The features of Metasploit are much like a rat. Once you get into someone's computer, you can see their screen, control their mouse, see what they type, see them, etc.

If you really succeed to hack any computer by just doing these fun and easy steps let us know, share the word with us in the comments section below.

A Deep Look Into The Cloud Computing

2013-08-15T08:54:00.000+05:00

Nowadays everyone is talking about “the cloud computing” but what does it mean? A better way to get an answer to this significant question is to look back and give a glance into the life before cloud computing, usually when you recall the golden era of technology you’ll definitely observe that everything was in a traditional manner for instance business applications have always been very complicated and expensive, the amount and variety of hardware and software required to run them was overwhelming.

You needed a whole team of experts to install, configure, test, run, secure, and update them manually, and when you multiply this gigantic effort across dozens or hundreds of apps, it’s easy to see why the biggest companies with the best IT departments didn’t succeed in so many ways, while the mid-sized or small businesses didn’t get a chance at all.

With due to these hazards and difficulties working with computers became challenging and boring but somehow a new invention come up, that invention was based on the concept of connecting a large number of computers through a real-time communication network-typically the internet-according to the technological terminology this concept is called the cloud computing, so the cloud is the internet itself, while cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing.

However, cloud computing eliminates those headaches because you don’t have to manage hardware and software incompatibilities or configurations you only have to pay for what you need, upgrades are mostly automatic and scaling up or down is easy only because of the cloud “the internet”. Now everything is up and running on the network, cloud based apps can be up and running in days or weeks, and they cost less. With a cloud app, you just open a browser, log in, customize the app, and start using it.

In a cloud computing system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest.

There's a good chance you've already used some form of cloud computing. If you have an e-mail account with a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, then you've had some experience with cloud computing. Instead of running an email program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The software and storage for your account doesn't exist on your computer -- it's on the service's computer cloud.

So what basically makes up a cloud computing system? Find out in the below video, and share your thoughts about cloud computing in the comments section.

Encrypt Your Data With CipherMe!

2013-08-13T13:58:00.001+05:00

Todays world security and privacy are more important than any other entity regarding data and information, the encryption technique is the most vital part in securing the information across the network and other transmission mediums, there may be a number of different ways and procedures that we can encrypt our data, and hopefully I have recently met with a unique software called CipherMe.

"CipherMe" is an encryption program, which you can secure your important files that you don't want anyone to see its content. And if you want them back, you can easily decrypt them again by only using CipherMe's decryption mechanisim.

If you're interested and want to experience with this amazing software feel free to download and enjoy with its reliable services >> Download CipherMe .

I Hope you Enjoy the program, please leave your opinion/feedback in a comments section below.
Be save and secure and all the best.

Pirate Bay Releases ‘Pirate Browser’ to Thwart Censorship

2013-08-13T13:27:00.000+05:00

The Pirate Bay is taking a stand against the increased censorship efforts it faces in several European countries. On its 10th anniversary the infamous BitTorrent site is releasing its “Pirate Browser,” a fully functional web browser that allows people to access The Pirate Bay and other blocked sites just fine. The current release is Windows only but TorrentFreak is informed that Mac and Linux versions will follow soon. The Pirate Bay is arguably the most censored websites on the Internet. Courts in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and elsewhere have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and more are expected to follow.

Up until now The Pirate Bay has encouraged users affected by the blackout to use proxy sites. However, on its 10th anniversary they are now releasing a special “PirateBrowser” which effectively bypasses any ISP blockade.

“It’s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled adware, toolbars or other crap, just a Pre-configured Firefox browser,” The Pirate Bay explains.

The browser is based on Firefox 23 bundled with a Tor client and some proxy configurations to speed up loading. It is meant purely as a tool to circumvent censorship and unlike the Tor browser it doesn't provide any anonymity for its users.

“This browser is just to circumvent censorship, to remove limits on accessing sites governments don’t want you to know about,” The Pirate Bay notes.

PirateBrowser works like any other web browser and comes pre-loaded with several bookmarks for blocked sites, which aside from The Pirate Bay includes EZTV, KickassTorrents, Bitsnoop and H33T.

The browser also lists the alternative .Onion addresses for both TPB and EZTV as backups to access these sites.

The Pirate Bay is not alone in its efforts to keep the Internet open and accessible. The Obama administration has spent millions of dollars on similar projects allowing citizens of oppressed regimes to access blocked websites, albeit for different reasons.

The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that “PirateBrowser” is just the first step in their efforts to fight web censorship. They are also working on a special BitTorrent-powered browser, which lets users store and distribute The Pirate Bay and other websites on their own.

In theory, this will allow sites to exist and update even without having a public facing website. As a result, it will be virtually impossible to block or shut them down. The first version of this new software is currently being tested but there is currently no firm launch date. More on that later.

In the meantime, the development of PirateBrowser will also continue. The current release is only available for the Windows platform but Mac and Linux versions will follow in the future.

The Invention Of PC Viruses

2013-08-01T04:39:00.000+05:00

Innovations were always there and they will be as long as there are some initiative individuals those who can take the courage to invent something by adding brilliant and useful things into existence, the world we live to day has examined really challenging situations classified as dead ends but as a grace of Allah the almighty and extraordinary efforts made by scientists, professors, engineers, and skillful innovative individuals humanity passed through those painful situations.

From that you see innovation is must and inventions should take place. Back days when humanity crossed the stone age bridge and came into the modern life the establishment of electrical tools and instruments including motors, cars, telecommunication equipments, and computers was really the needed invention, since that day engineers and developers was enhancing these tools to make them more helpful and easily understood people-users-to facilitate their daily lives, probably engineers succeeded to do so because at least they built powerful micro computers fast enough to run huge processes in a single millisecond.

That was about the old era when engineers and developers focused on the hardware part of the computers, but nowadays software development inventions are every where, but let's come to the point and give a glance to topic of the article 'The Invention Of PC Viruses'. and most importantly who invented first PC virus? why and when?.

Brain is the industry standard name for a computer virus released January 1986, and is considered to be the first computer virus for MS-DOS. It infects the boot sector of storage media formatted with the DOS File Allocation Table(FAT) file system. Brain was written by two brothers Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi from Lahore Pakistan.

Brain affects the IBM PC computer by replacing the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus. The real boot sector is moved to an other sector and marked as bad, Infected disks usually have five kilobytes of bad sectors, the disk label is changed to brain, and the following text can be seen in infected boot sector.

Welcome to the Dungeon (c) 1986 Basit & Amjads (pvt) Ltd VIRUS_SHOE RECORD V9.0 Dedicated to the dynamic memories of millions of viruses who are no longer with us today - Thanks GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS : this program is catching program follows after these messages....$#@%$@!!

Several variants of the virus are known but most of them are fairly harmless, in fact people know less about this virus invention because this virus is no longer harmful due to the amazing antiviruses security corporations invented because it can can be easily detected and and removed by any antivirus.

A research done by Mikko Hypponen the chief research officer of F-Secure in February 2011 revealed a lot of info about Brain and history behind that peaceful virus so here's the research video recorded in the real time while Mikko was asking relevant questions to the virus creators Mr. Basit and Amjad.

Interview With Basit and Amjad inside the Brain Company:

If you really inspire Brain let us know at the comments section bellow. and show some love.

Know More About BIOS's!

2013-07-31T13:31:00.001+05:00

Whats is BIOS?
BIOS Stands for Basic Input Output System. The BIOS is the first thing you see when you turn on your computer. The function of the BIOS is to connect other Other chips, Hard Drives, Ports, CD Rom, CPU etc. and make sure they all work together.
When you turn on your computer, The first thing the BIOS does it to check for the CMOS settings and after evaluating the CMOS, It loads the Operating system. and there are many more things that the BIOS does. I can't explain all of it here. Talking about BIOS, you already know that there are 2 types softwares.

1. Operating System ( OS ).
The Operating System is the main software which runs on a computer system. It manages all other activities and processes in the computer.

2. Applications.
Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer, I bet you might be already using one of these applications. Well, The BIOS is some what classified as the third type of Software.

What is CMOS?
CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semi Conductor.
CMOS is an on-board semiconductor chip powered by a CMOS battery inside computers that stores information such as the system time and date and the system hardware settings for your computer. This also where the BIOS Password is stored.

If you have already read the above BIOS and CMOS definition links you should now know that the BIOS and CMOS are two different components on the motherboard. The BIOS on the motherboard contains the instructions on how the computer boots and is only modified or updated with BIOS updates, the CMOS is powered by a CMOS battery and contains your system settings and is modified and changed by entering the CMOS Setup.

BIOS Password.
Setting up the BIOS Password secures your computer. It prevents from booting of other disks in order to access your hard disk data. After you set BIOS Password, when the computer is started it asks for the password, unless you get the correct password all the parts like Cd-Rom, USB Ports, Hard Disks, etc becomes useless. So the BIOS Password secures your computer pretty good.
But fortunately if you has a physical access to a BIOS Password enables computer, you can reset it.

You already know that the BIOS password is stored in the CMOS which is powered by a small watch sized battery inside the computer on the motherboard. If we want to reset the BIOS password, we have to reach upto the CMOS battery on the mother board. The battery holds small amount of information which can be erased by short circuiting the CMOS using a jumper. ( the jumper is just a metal conductor ). Or you can remove the Battery and keep it for a while until all the data in the CMOS is erased. Some of the computers comes with an Jumper already in it. To reset the CMOS, just place the jumper in the opposite position from the way it was. Keep it like that for some time and put it back in the original position.

Since Different computers have different kinds of CMOS and BIOS it is not an easy task to tell how to exactly reset the CMOS data in step by step. How ever, here is a videos showing how to short circuit the CMOS using a jumper.

This is the highest available information you'll ever get about the BIOS, if you have any extra idea or info. i would love to know that let me know by leaving a comment bellow this post.

The Backdoor to Microsoft Windows

2013-07-31T12:20:00.002+05:00

In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government, I ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software. Digging a little further, I found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA(National Security Agency) had already built a backdoor into all Windows software.

A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 and its predecessors. The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA “help information” trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.

Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4, Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft’s developers had failed to remove or “strip” the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called “KEY”. The other was called “NSAKEY”.

Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers. Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone’s and everyone’s Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSA’s burgeoning corps of “information warriors”.

According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system “is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system“. The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.

Depending on the facts i found out while i was searching a truthful information about this annoying and irritating thing of being totally watched by NSA, i couldn't even get one helpful solution for removing this and it really scares me because i feel there is no such thing called privacy in all windows operating system anymore no matter whether we are using Windows 95 OSR2 or Windows 8; so here is my advice to you if you really need granted privacy and you are afraid by being compromised you better use Linux or Mac by saying that i don't hate Windows even i am publishing this post using Windows 8 Pro but that is the truth since theirs a backdoor open on all windows versions.

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