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How to revert/restore back to the old version of Spotify

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 05:49:00 +0000

How to revert/restore back to the old version of Spotify

Probably, many of you guys hate the new Spotify as I do. They removed the ability to search/filter local files, Drag and Dropping files and many other cool features. This tutorial will provide a temporary solution for Spotify in order to use it the way it used to be.

For those who don't want to watch the video, here are the instructions:
How to revert back to the Old Spotify:

Download Spotify from here: http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/15011/download/
1) Uninstall the old 0.9 version.
2) Install the new 0.8.5 version.
3) DO NOT LOG IN.
4) Go to this location:
C:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data\Spotify (Win XP)
C:\Users\ \Application Data\Spotify (Win 7/ Win Vista)
5) Make the two files as above:
- Make a new empty text file
- Name it Spotify_new.exe
- Right click the file and make the file read only

- Make a new empty text file
- Name it Spotify_new.exe.sig
- Right click the file and make the file read only

6) Log in.
7) ???

Please note that changing the files' permission to Read Only will prevent Spotify from upgrading.

How to revert back to the old version of Spotify (before it went white n sh*t) | Drowned In Sound

How to Hacktivate (bypass iCloud Activation) iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:56:00 +0000

Hello guys, I'm going to make it short. After spending several days searching, testing, and trying tools that I've found online and on YouTube. I figured out a way that allowed me to Hacktivate my iPhone 4 running on iOS 7.1.2. So basically, This tutorial should work with any iPhone 4 running on iOS 7.1.2 and any previous version.

tl;dr This is How you Hacktivate (bypass iCloud Activation) iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2

For those who are not familiar with the term Hacktivate, Hacktivate means that you activate your iPhone when it is either locked by carrier or locked to an iCloud account.

This tutorial will show you how to hacktivate your iPhone 4, 100% MALWARE FREE and 10000000000% FREE NO BS.

Tools you need:

Java installed. (Download from here)
iTunes 11.4 (Download: 32 bit / 64 bit)
TinyUmbrella (download it from their official website)
Putty (download it from here)
WinSCP Portable version (download link)
Java utility made by msftguy (or download it from here)
This tiny file

How to Hacktivate Your iPhone 4:

Step 1: Put your phone into DFU Mode (Hold Power button for 3 seconds, Press and Hold Home button for 10 seconds, release the Power button and keep pressing Home Button).
Step 2: Plug it into your computer. (It should be recognized by Windows/Mac/Linux..)
Step 3: Open the Java utility, it should end up by giving you:

Step 4: Open PuTTy and put "localhost" in Host Name and 2022 in Port.

Step 5: A prompt will ask you about a certificate, Press OK or Yes. then write root in username and alpine in the password (Don't worry, your password is hidden due to security reasons).
Step 6: Type "mount.sh", then "cd /mnt1/Applications", then "mv Setup.app Setup.app.old" then exit PuTTy..
Step 7: Open WinSCP, write localhost in your hostname, 2022 in port and the username root and the password alpine.
Step 8: Click the Terminal button and write mount.sh and then go to /mnt2/root/Library/Lockdown (Or type in the box cd /mnt2/root/Library/Lockdown ) and then, drag and drop the plist file there. A prompt will ask you to replace the exisitng file, press Yes and you're done!
Step 9: Hold the Power and the Home buttons until the recovery mode appears on your iPhone screen.
Step 10: Open TinyUmbrella, you should see your device, select it and Click on Exit Recovery

Now, your phone should boot normally and it should take you directly to the normal lock screen.

Remember, this hack will let you use your iPhone as an iPod and you can use it with iTunes in Airplane Mode.

This method was tested on an iPhone 4 as shown in this video.

[ Video was taken down due to copyright claims :-( ]
Please share this post if the method worked for you. If you need help, just leave a comment below or send a tweet to @shichemt :).

Tutorial pictures were taken from here and the front photo from here.

Hey, we're back!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:04:00 +0000

Hello guys, It is me, Alen the owner of Shichemt-Alen.com, again. I am back to blogging again. After a year and a half, we're back online with a .com domain again, I will post some new cool stuff in this board.
Expect us soon! ;-)

Google makes Graphs for Maths functions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:43:00 +0000

Google adds secretly a new feature into its Search Engine which designs automatically mathematics functions with coordinates on axis of ordinates and abscissa axis, by simply taping the Function on the search bar.

Examples

sin(x)/cos(x)

sin(x)/tan(x)

sin(x)/x

sin(x)/log(x)

Five reasons to leave Facebook now!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:24:00 +0000

Facebook becomes a source of wasting time, drop-off productivity and moral capacity. Statistics show that People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. One way or another, we have to leave it to save our lives from this serious issue and here are my top five reasons to quit it.

#5 Stupid statuses and Spam

People share stupid statuses about Time "It's 11:11, who's thinking about me?" and "Who is online?" statuses and more crappy statuses and the most wondering thing that some other users liking/commenting them.

#4 Games, Games and Games

Games are a serious source of time and money misusing like Sim Social, Poker and Cards games, buying virtual stuff and an endless missions and levels.

#3 News

News and Rumors are everywhere, but Facebook is one of the most usable tool to spread them worldwide. So you may read one, two, three... and Boom! you spend 5 hours reading them.

#2 Accounts Hacking

One Facebook user gets compromised every 140 milliseconds, as a result, it means that 600,000+ user account get compromised every day! So you surely don't like that a cyber-criminal shows off your conversation with your beloved and close friends or family members.

#1 Everyone is on Facebook!

via Otega Daily Times

Everyone is on Facebook which means your beloved friends, your enemies, your entourage persons! those are OK but we don't forget about freak, strange, psychopath and sick people who downloads users photos available on Facebook to use them in an ill-behaved way.

Photo on the top was taken from MikeWhite Blog

Webtool for web-designers to view your site's layout on different browsers

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:14:00 +0000

Browsershots is an opensource project under GNU GPL v3 license and one of the best online-tool to view your site's layout in different browsers, different operation systems, different devices and even tablets and gives you a screenshot for the page you submit its URL. More than 24 browsers shown on Linux, 38 browsers on Windows, Safari on Mac and 7 on BSD system.
You can select by:

Screen Size
Color Depth
Javascript : Disabled/Enabled
Java : Disabled/Enabled
Flash : Disabled/Enabled (Flash v.10 and Flash v.11 available)

Also you can select screenshots by OS, availability of Gecko and availability KHTML/WebKit. Also you can download all those screenshots on a single ZIP file.

Screenshots can be processed from 2 minutes up to 5.
They can be expired in 30 minutes if you don't hit the "Extend" button and it will be extended up to one month from the last visit.

The default homepage screen:

The process screen:

A screenshot example (taken from Avant Browser):

Review:
An useful tool, needs some boost on the speed of process of photos to the central server and some few features, hope they will add them as soon as possible and hope it will be always a free.

Tutorial: How To Speed Up your Firefox Really Fast!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:36:00 +0000

How To Speed Up your Firefox Really Fast!

1/ Open about:config

2/ Put in Filter box: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers and change the value to 0

3/ Put in Filter box: network.http.pipelining and change it to True

4/ Same thing for network.http.proxy.pipelining

5/ Put in Filter box: network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and change it to 100

6/ Right click anywhere, then choose Toogle then New then Integer

7/ Put on the box: nglayout.initialpaint.delay then OK

8/ Put inside the box: 0

9/ Look for network.dns.disableIPv6 and turn it False

10/ Add content.notify.backoffcount as Step 6 and put it 5

11/ Add ui.submenuDelay and put its value 0

Tutorial: How to Surf Securely the Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:26:00 +0000

A way from Simple and easy tricks to how to avoid Cyber Security Threats and avoid been hacked or getting spied-on.

1- Tools available on Mozilla Firefox:

Mozilla Firefox is one of the best browsers available for now. A Quick load for website, Customizable Interface and the ability to add on some options. This software does not make your security perfect and can not secure your Internet Connection at 100%. So here is some tools you need, to surf a secure Internet and fast one.

1.1/ HTTPS Everywhere: one of the best Firefox extension, Enforce your browsing to turn on SSL connection whenever it's available. You can get it from here.

1.2/ NoScript: NoScript provide for you protection from XSS Attacks, Phishing threats made by hackers on websites or Malicious codes on several others. You can get it from here.

1.3/ BetterPrivacy: An Extension removes your paths on the Internet like your LSOs search-queries history on YouTube, Google and others. Download it from this link.

1.4/ FBSecure: This extension allows you to control what permissions to grant to third-party applications before actually installing them.

2- Tools available on Google Chrome:

Google chrome is an alternative for Mozilla Firefox, made by Google Team to compete Firefox. Provides fast respond from servers, fast loading websites and somehow a secure internet.

2.1/ KB SSL Enforcer: a HTTPS Everywhere alternative for gChrome, provide customizable way to add SSL to some advanced (non-popular) websites.

2.2/ NotScripts: Also one of NoScript clone for chrome. provides the Abilty to whitelist your trusted websites from getting their Javascript codes rejected.

2.3/ FBSecure: This extension allows you to control what permissions to grant to third-party applications before actually installing them.

3- Advices:

3.1/ If you're a Windows-user, you have to Install an Anti-Virus service.

3.2/ Remember do not click any link you find it in front of you.

3.3/ Do not add/accept/share files with strangers.

3.4/ Keep your browser always up to date.

3.5/ Do not add or accept strangers on your Social network account or in your IM service.

3.6/ Always use a Private session when you're using the Internet at public places.
(on Mozilla Firefox: Tools Menu > Start Private Browsing // on Google Chrome: Tools > New Incognito window)

3.7/ Use an Anonymous E-mail on Non-trusted third-party Facebook apps. (Screenshot)

4- Be careful:

4.1/ Your Antivirus have to be patched daily or one time at least, because more than a hundred viruses are getting launched in the Internet just in one hour.

4.2/ Your OS have to be up-to-date with Security updates.

4.3/ Internet Explorer 4,5,6,7 are not recommended to be used.

Theregister.co.uk , Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic got hacked!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:35:00 +0000

The Register One of the Biggest British technology news and opinion website got hacked by Turkguvenligi . Not only this Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, Ups.com , betfair.com also got hacked by him. Turkguvenligi is also know with name "TG Hacker'. These hacks are done by DNS Hijacking method. But still theregister.co.uk and other sites are accessible via the original IP address (68.68.20.116) from several places around the world.

Nameserver lookup of the register has the following nameservers now:

theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns4.yumurtakabugu.com.
theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns2.yumurtakabugu.com.
theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns1.yumurtakabugu.com.
theregister.co.uk. 86129 IN NS ns3.yumurtakabugu.com.

But, It should probably look something like:

theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns1.theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns2.theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns3.theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns4.theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns5.theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk nameserver = ns6.theregister.co.uk

Also the TTL for the domain has a TTL of 24 hours. It may take a while for normal service to resume. TG hack most of the biggest sites in past, Like Interpol, NASA, Microsoft, Dell , Zdnet, F-Secure, Adobe etc. You can check his Zone-h Record of defacement here. '
Hacker Deface these websites and wrote "h4ck1n9 is not a cr1m34. Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day - Have fun ;) h4ck y0u".

Written by TheHackerNews

Shichemt-Alen.com as a Download Website down? Why?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:41:00 +0000

More than 106.000 results on Google, more than 1200 visitors per day, more than 36500 visitors per month...I annonce THE END^{(Maybe I will get an other domain name for it)} of "Shichemt Alen - Free Full Download From Rapidshare, Megaupload...".

Yup it's was a successful website but Films Production Companies, Apple, Microsoft and even Google are locking up the case. First hosting it was 000webhost and I use it about 7 months and all data/database were lost, then from July 2010 to January 2011 I hosted in Kangoulya Hosting company ^{(Thank you again kangoulya!)} it was a very nice season, where the website went to a nice level but in the last month, Kangoulya's owner were wanted by the Government according to his message because he's one of the activist of the Tunisian Revolution.
Then I migrate to The Ultra Computer Hosting about 6 months and It was also a successful season, I went to the top with that website and that Hosting company ^{(Thanks again!)}. Then in June 2011, I migrate to Santrex for 3 days and they suspend my hosting account and I paid them 8$ for 3 months and they didn't give my money back! (SCAMMY AND A BAD COMPANY), Then July 2011 I migarte to Papy Host but it didn't take so longer ^{(2 weeks)} and the website was down completely AS A DOWNLOAD WEBSITE.
Now I re-launch the website as a Blog for tips and cool stuff and make it my personal blog until I get another domain name and a good hosting company for my Download website.

Regards,
Shichemt Alen
CEO Of Shichemt-Alen.com

Shichemt-Alen.com Suspended since 07-12-2011

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:31:00 +0000

Shichemt-Alen.com Suspended again in July 12th, 2011 due to "disallowed content" aka. "WAREZ".
I really don't know, what would be the next. I re-buy another host, or I suspend the website forever and stay away from DMCA and copyright infringement problems.

The latest backup I did is in June 12th 2011. Shall I backup the website again?
I've tried a lot of hosting companies, they said that they allow "WAREZ" and then they don't. I'm already looking for a hosting company which REALLY allow warez hosting, because this matter is becoming harder and harder everyday.

Signed by the Staff of Shichemt-Alen.com in July 27th, 2011.

TOP 3 of The Best Music Player Applications for Windows Mobile

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 May 2011 01:54:00 +0000

Windows Mobile has a plenty of applications created by developing teams like xda-developers and so on...

#3 GSPlayer

GSPlayer is a free MP3 Player, can stream also radios.
It supports MP3, M3U, PLS, MP2, MPA, OGG, RMP and WAV extensions..
One of the most feature it has is a fast loading on streaming radios! and it has an ugly design.

Download

#2 Windows Media Player for Windows Mobile

It's the default Windows Mobile, Media Player, It's a good player, well-designed and stable too provided by Microsoft, but it miss some other features like Automatic Update Library every ActiveSync connection with the computer. Also it supports known extensions like WMV, MP3, MP4, 3GPP, WAV.
No Download Link (Built-in Program)

#1 Nitrogen

Nitrogen is my #1st Player in my phone, I really like it, it plays all known extension even iTunes ones. A cool design. Nice Menus, automatic update Music-Library and much more features...

Download

All applications above are Freewares!
Last update: 11:47 PM - Oct 12th, 2013

Le .TN fera-t-il sa révolution?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Depuis le 14 Janvier, l’internet tunisien est marqué par de grandes réformes aussi audacieuses que rapides touchant notamment le domaine national .TN, désormais accessible à tous.

En effet, les conditions d'enregistrement de domaines en .TN sont moins contraignantes et privilégient "un mode de vérification des demandes à postériori plutôt que la méthode de vérification des demandes à priori (avant l’enregistrement) - jusque là adoptée." selon le communiqué de l'ATI (Agence Tunisienne d'Internet).

Ainsi, toute personne morale ou physique établie en Tunisie peut bénéficier d'un nom de domaine en .TN selon les modalités fixées par la charte de nommage.

Par ailleurs, et en vue du renforcement de la concurrence entre les bureaux d'enregistrement qui ne sont qu'au nombre de 5 aujourd'hui (les FSI), il est désormais possible à toute personne morale acceptant les clauses de cette convention, d'obtenir le statut de bureau d’enregistrement.

Malheureusement, les conditions d'octroi de ce statut sont extrêmement restrictives. En effet, parmi les conditions présentes on trouve d'abord l'obligation pour les entreprises postulantes d'avoir un capital minimum de 75 mille dinars. Ensuite, elles doivent être couvertes par une assurance responsabilité civile commerciale d'au moins 100 mille dinars et disposer "d'une infrastructure technique, hautement disponible, permettant l’hébergement DNS des Noms de Domaines Internet, installée géographiquement en Tunisie, et connectée au réseau Internet tunisien" a savoir que la mise en place d'une telle plateforme, N+1 minimum, n'est pas chose aisée du fait des restrictions imposées sur la co-location de matériel et du fait que les intervenants n'ont ni la possibilité d’accéder à leur infrastructure en datacenter ni de garantir eux mêmes la haute disponibilité escomptée.

Et pour finir, les futurs bureaux d'enregistrement devront embaucher en "nombre suffisant", commander des audits de sécurité à l'une des entreprises reconnues par l’Agence Nationale de Sécurité Informatique (ANSI) une fois par an et accepter de subir des contrôles.

La question qui se pose donc est de savoir si ces nouvelles mesures sont vraiment destinées aux entreprises tunisiennes sachant que la plupart d'entre-elles sont des PME ayant des capitaux proportionnels à leur taille et aux besoins de leur activité ou bien si ces réformes visent à attirer des opérateurs spécifiques ou même étrangers?

En jetant un rapide coup d’œil sur les composantes du secteur des TIC tunisien, on se rends vite compte que les candidats dont la commercialisation des noms de domaines est le métier et qui remplissent ces conditions ne se comptent que sur les doigts d'une seule main, voire ne se comptent même pas du tout.

Article original publié par @MentalMadness.com

ChangeLog 05-01-2011 - The Staff

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 May 2011 13:40:00 +0000

Since May 1st, 2011, Our website was down about 2 weeks from now, and we had to change to hosting company. Unfortunately in May 3rd 2011, I signed a new contract with a new hosting company but after I paid them, they scammed me and their support team always unavailable and more issues...
Today we re-launch the website again but:
* September to December Archives were deleted (to optimize navigation and speed)
* The database works like a charm so the website is more stable now.
* Updated to the last version of the website script.
* We will add a donate button, and every donator will be listed as VIP and his name will be on the right corner of the website.

So the website is coming back again step by step as usual, we're glad for its restart and we hope it will survive longer.

--Shichemt Alen Staff

ShichDouble Framer v0.1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:36:00 +0000

A small script made by me using simple codes and utilities.

Use: Use a frame to redirect others when they will go out of your website.
Language: PHP & HTML
Duration: 1 hour

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<?php
$hpname =""; /* Website name - exemple: Shichemt Home */
$homepage = ""; /* Your Homepage or your customized upframe.html - exemple: http://www.shichemt-alen.com/ */
$url = (isset($_GET['url']) && (!empty($_GET['url']))) ? trim($_GET['url']) : @header('Location: /index.php'); /* Get URL From Adress or If Empty redirect to index.php */
$link = "$url"; /* "Redirect to" URL */
?>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title><? echo "$hpname"; ?> will redirect you to: <? echo "$link"; ?></title>
</head>

<frameset rows="200,*" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="<? echo "$homepage"; ?>" name="topFrame" scrolling="No" noresize="noresize" id="topFrame">
<frame src="<? echo "$link"; ?>" name="mainFrame" id="mainFrame">
</frameset>
<noframes><body>http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
</body>
</noframes>


</html>

or click here

FAQ:



Q: How to install it?

R: Just save it to a php file and upload it to a server that support php files.



Q: An error is shown "index.php not found", what shall I do?

R: Simply, change "/index.php"

@header('Location: /index.php');


By your website index page

@header('Location: /yourpage.php');

Fix & Issues: Feel free to send an email with the issue and a screen shot.

Pour tous ceux qui ont un soucis d'Internet (Specialement TOPNET)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Pour contourner le bridage des FAIs sur le streaming par exemple, et en parallèle avec le fait de dénoncer ceci (parceque c'est inacceptable et illégal puisque non contractuel), Voici une petite solution pour dépasser cette problème:

Sous Windows :

1 Panneau de configuration.
2 Centre Réseau et Partage.
3. Gérer les connexions réseau..Sélectionne ta connexion et fait un clic-droit pour accéder aux Propriétés.
4. Clique sur Protocole Internet (TCP/IPv4) puis sur Propriétés.
5. Clique sur Avancé.
6. Sélectionne l’onglet DNS et note les adresses DNS si t'en a déjà (cela te permettra de revenir en arrière si tu le souhaites).
7. Ceci fait, efface les adresses DNS et ajoute celles-ci: 8.8.8.8 et 8.8.4.4. Il s’agit en fait des adresses DNS de Google.
8. Ferme les fenêtres, déconnecte et reconnecte toi de nouveau à ton réseau.

Pour les Routeurs:

1/ On accède à: 192.168.1.1
2/ Login et pass par défaut: admin
3/ On clique sur le menu "Advanced Setup"
4/ DNS puis DNS Server
5/ On décoche "Enable Automatic Assigned DNS"
6/ On met 8.8.8.8 dans la première colonne et 8.8.4.4 dans la 2éme
7/ Save et on redémarre.

Pour Linux:

1/ Ouvrir un terminal
2/ Passer en root
3/ Écrire dans la console: nano /etc/resolv.conf
4/ Tout effacer et mettre à la place :
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
5/ Sauvegarder et fermer le terminal

via Winston Smith

Shichem-Alen.com Website suspended on 04-04-2011

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:34:00 +0000

Our website was suspended on 04-04-2011 due to "warez". the old hosting did changed their term & conditions, and their privacy rules, according to Google and DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). they suspended our website with having no access to my files and the database which everything was saved there. So i decided to contact them to have a solution, but until now, there is no reply to my demand. And we hope so give me a backup to the website, because I have to reset it from January 04th 2011.

We hope that the website will be back soon, and we're doing our best.

Shichemt-Alen.com Staff

Welcome Readers! ;-)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:52:00 +0000

Welcome to My Blog! Visitors,

This will be the launch of our blog which will be dedicated to teach you funny, easy, useful tricks on your computer online with tutorials, last updates and news and so on.

We hope your like my blog, and follow me on social networks, Feedburner and Google Reader.