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Automate your login process in browser at IIT Rajasthan GPRA Campus

2012-03-25T02:16:00.000-07:00

If you find the Watch Guard login screen annoying each time you open your browser, then use a script to automate the process.

Only for Google Chrome and Firefox. If you want me to post for some other browser write it in comments.

Download the script

DON'T download the file by Left-Clicking on it. If you did browser will ask you to install it, but before that we'd need to change some parameters.

So Right click on the link and Click Save link as: IITJ_LogIn

Make some changes

Now you'd need to save your credentials. Right click on the file that you downloaded and click edit.

Look for these lines and replace YOUR_USERNAME and YOUR_PASSWORD with your username and password.

document.getElementsByName('fw_username')[0].value="YOUR_USERNAME";
 document.getElementsByName('fw_password')[0].value="YOUR_PASSWORD";

Save the file

Install the script

Google Chrome:

Open the file(you just saved) in Google chrome. You can just drag and drop.

Or Right Click on file -> Open With -> Default Program(if not in the list) -> Choose Google Chrome.

Make sure you uncheck Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.

Click ok.

You'll something like this at bottom:

Click continue.

Click Install.

That's it.

In case you did something wrong or you want to uninstall it. Directions are at the end.

Note: You'll still have to click on "proceed anyway" during the SSL error that you usually get in Google Chrome. I'm still working on managing the certificate.

Mozilla Firefox

As far as I know, Firefox doesn't provide a way to run user scripts without some plug-in. So to run this script you'd need to install Greasemonkey. It will take few seconds.

If the monkey icon is not activated. Just click on it.

Open the file with Firefox. See Google Chrome part to see how to open it in a Browser.

You'll see something like this.

Click install and you're done.

How to uninstall the above script

Google Chrome

Go to Settings -> Options -> Extensions -> Remove

Mozilla Firefox

Uninstall the script:

Go to: Click on the arrow beside the Monkey icon.

Click Manage User Scripts -> Click Remove.

Uninstall Greasemonkey:

Firefox -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> Remove Greasemonkey.

Restart your Browser.

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Hope this helps!

A quick Google hack

2011-03-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

Use google to search for almost any song.

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” + "beatles" +(mp3|avi)

you can do lot of things with above hack and search for almost anything. Try to figure it out!

Must have Firefox Add-ons for Students

2010-11-19T14:15:00.000-08:00

There are hell lot of add-ons available on the web.Its difficult to find useful ones. Here I have compiled a list of some useful add-ons for Firefox. I am a student and I have found them to be a very useful for both studies and fun.

1. Read It Later

This is one of the coolest plug-in for studies. On many occasions we need to save pages for reading later and we don't want to bookmark every one of those pages. It makes the bookmark area crowded and you may not be needing these pages later. So by using this add-on you can make a list and read it off-line as well as online. It also let you create a account with a click of a button and then you can access your list from anywhere. And it is Free!!. You can install it just by clicking on the link given below.

Install: Click here to Install ReadItLater

2. Video DownloadHelper

Here is something very useful for the fun part. Many of us use different techniques to download stuff like videos, flash files or any other downloadable file from different sites like Youtube, videos of Facebook, or any other site. Here is simple alternative to all those techniques. After installing it will make a tiny icon on your address bar, will automatically detect downloadable stuff of the site and the icon will start rotating. You can convert your videos into different formats and there's much more that you can do with this tool. So its a must have!
Install: Click here to install VideoDownloadHelper

3. FireBug

If you are working with Javascript, html, CSS then you must have this Add-ons. Believe me, this makes life much more easier and you don't need to remember many things that you are trying to remember while working with above technologies.
You can also debug your Javascript code by running line by line. It also shows you the requests sent by browser, DOM tree and many more things. So it is also a must have tool!

Install:Click Here to Install FireBug

4. Web Developer

This is another cool tool for web developers. It allows you to do different kind of stuff with a web page. It lets you do various things with cookies, CSS, Javascript, Forms, Images. You can also validate your web page or any web page with a single click. It also provides you with a screen ruler to get the size of various elements in the webpage with out any difficulty. And much more...
Install: Click Here to Install Web Developer

5. GBookmarks

All of us have some frequently used or important sites in our browser and some of us use google bookmarks to access those bookmarks from web. But it is not worth to install google toolbar to just use this particular function. This add-on allows you to bookmark pages and also sync. them with your google account so you can access them from anywhere.

Install: Click here to Download

6. Live Http Headers

Well Another cool tool for web developers. It allows you to do debug your page, tells you about the kind of server used on remote machine and you can see the cookies sent to you.

Install: Click here to Download

7. CoolPreviews

Now with this add-on you can view images and links without leaving current screen. It will show you a preview of link or image in a new small window. It can save lot of your time...

Install: Click Here to Install CoolPreviews

8. SEO

If you are into search engine optimization then it is the tool for you. Very cool tool with lots of information and they provide lots of free stuff to
learn.

Install: Click Here to Download SEO for firefox

Feel Free to Suggest More!!

Having a Proxy Trouble In Ubuntu Terminal (1 step solution)

2010-10-31T04:07:00.000-07:00

We all have some proxy issues in our college and we do all sort of things to set it right. Recently I faced a bizarre problem of not being able to get rid of my proxy settings in Ubuntu terminal.

I reset it, at all places I knew to set proxy but still each time when I started my terminal, it automatically started connecting to proxy server.

The problem was that i was not able to reset the environment variables. You can check it by typing following in terminal:

set | grep proxy

or

echo $http_proxy

It will show you if you have any value set to your proxy variable.

To set or unset it temporarily all you need is to type following in terminal:

To set :

export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyserver.net:port/

 if it need your username and password

export HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/

To unset:

 
export HTTP_PROXY=''

To make above changes PERMANENT

Add the above lines of code in following file and save the file.

Sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

You can use any editor you want. I am using gedit over here. You can also make changes inside terminal only if you are comfortable with vi editor.

To know more about this method refer to run-any-set-of-commands-while-launching.html

Run any set of commands while launching Terminal

2010-10-31T04:06:00.001-07:00

Many times we want some default set of commands to run in terminal whenever we start a new instance of it and there's a way to avoid typing the commands every time you login......
All you need is to add the commands in ~/.bashrc Configuration file.

I have taken the example of printing some message but you can almost write any command and make it run.

Open Terminal. Applications>Accessories>Terminal
Type gedit ~/.bashrc in terminal. You can use any editor you want. I am using gedit over here. You can also make changes inside terminal only if you are comfortable with vi editor.
Just write the commands you want to run!! for example:

echo "THIS IS MY FIRST POST ON THIS BLOG"

This is how it will look. Notice that the command ran as soon as terminal was started. So you can write all kind of commands and make them run.

Tip: you can also run shell scripts. And do all sort of crazy things..:P

Note: Commands requiring root privileges won't run directly. They will ask for password once.

Create a Temporary Swap file in Ubuntu

2010-09-26T07:18:00.000-07:00

SomeTimes you may have to run a program that consumes more of your Main Memory and you may need more swap memory. Well, One way to create a temporary swap file is described below....its no way as efficient as original swap. But still it serves the purpose...

first of all, check your present swap space..

$free

Now, lets create a empty swap file..

$sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1024

Notice bs=1024 is the block size in KBs and count=1024 is number of blocks. So you can decide your memory requirements accordingly.

$sudo mkswap /swapfile

switch on the swap file...

$sudo swapon /swapfile

Now again run the free command to notice the increase in swap memory.

$free

you can also free the space by switching it off.

$sudo swapoff /swapfile

NOTE: This swap memory will not be there when you reboot your pc. To retain it, you can make a entry in /etc/fstab file or again run the commands from 3rd step.

Receive mails from Gmail Using Exchange Active Synch In Samsung GT B5310 Corby-Pro

2010-09-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

I am using these settings on a wi-fi connection and they work very well.

Caution : Backup your phonebook. It'll format it on first successful synch

So first of all when you click on Exchange active synch it'll ask you for you network. There you select your wi-fi connection and then in server settings...

Server URL: m.google.com
Username: username@gmail.com
Password: yourpassword
Domain: google
Use SSL: on

Click Save

It works well for me....hope it helps you too..

Install Apps On Samsung GT B5310 Corby-Pro

2010-07-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

Finally i am able to install third party applications on my Samsung Corby-Pro. It is bit tricky but damn easy.

This is how to do it.

1.Download the demo.jar file
2. Open a notepad file and type following:

<html><body><a href="demo.jar">install demo.jar</a></body></html>

3.save it as demo.html

4.Copy both demo.jar and demo.html in you mobile.

5.Now run the demo.html file in your mobile. It will open in Browser and click on install demo.jar.

Note: demo.jar is any jar file. The name demo is chosen just as an example.

Don't worry you will be able to install demo.jar after running demo.html in 5th step.

Now you are done!!

Check this out: Must have Firefox add-ons for Students

Unable to mount FileSystem in Ubuntu

2010-06-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

Recently i faced an error while booting my Ubuntu PC. It said unable to mount file system. So this is how to fix it.

1. Reboot you PC in recovery mode.
2. Unmount all drives by using: sudo umount -a
3. run the file system check command: sudo fsck
4. Reboot Again.

Error Was Fixed!!

Search a username of your own choice on hundreds of popular sites in a single go..

2010-05-23T22:18:00.000-07:00

Almost every time i sign up on some popular site i couldn't find a user name of my own choice. Here is a cool website which tells you about all website with availability of your user name.
Just go to

http://knowem.com/.

enjoy!!

Add alias to commands in Terminal

2010-05-10T09:08:00.000-07:00

Alias can be very useful. One example is that if you enter the remove command on wrong file by mistake it would be damn difficult to obtain it back. Because removal of file through terminal doesn't send the file to Trash.

so each time you can run a command to remove as

$rm -i file.txt

but again by mistake you can type rm file.txt

what you can do is add an alias for rm command. i.e, you can make the default "rm" command as "rm -i"

This is how to do it.

go to home directry i.e, /home/ankit

by running ls -a command you will see .bashrc file.

we need to edit this file.

$vi .bashrc

now press i to enter into insert mode of vi editor.

type

alias rm="rm -i"

Now save this file by pressing esc and then :wq

finally to make changes active enter

$source .bashrc

Note: if at any time you mess up in editing the file with vi editor then press esc and then :w!. it will take you out without saving the changes.

now when you run rm command again you will be asked to verify it.

similarly you can alias to many other commands and thus make your life easier on terminal!
Also think about the other uses of it!

Open .7z zip files on Ubuntu

2010-05-10T08:51:00.000-07:00

Recently i encountered .7z zip format file. so to open it is very in Ubuntu just install p7zip by typing following.

$sudo apt-get install p7zip

now just double click file or type

$p7zip -d name.7z

Run .exe on Ubuntu

2010-05-03T02:02:00.000-07:00

Well many of us don't want to use windows at all but we are forced to use because of unavailability of some software. You can run your .exe files on Ubuntu (or any other unix based OS, i haven't tested it) by using software called wine.
You can install wine :

Using Terminal:

sudo apt-get install wine

you can also install using synaptic manager.

Here i am taking uTorrent as an example and you can put any .exe also replace ankit by your username in commands given below.

1.place your .exe on desktop.
2.Right click on desktop and click create launcher
3.write following in the pop-up you receive after creating launcher. as shown below.

In Command textbox you have to write this

wine "/home/ankit/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/u Torrent/utorrent.exe"

4.You need to make a Directory(Folder) on specified Target(in terminal).

sudo mkdir /home/ankit/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/"u Torrent"

5.Now you need to move your file from Desktop to /home/ankit/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/u Torrent/

to do this, as you have placed your .exe on desktop you need to type this..

sudo mv /home/ankit/Desktop/utorrent.exe  /home/ankit/.wine/drive_c/"Program Files"/"u Torrent"/

6. Now run the launcher and you are done!!

Talk in your language on Web....

2010-04-25T04:01:00.000-07:00

Using google transliteration you can write in you own language very easily without need of any extra hardware or software...

You can also download it and then you don't even require Internet and you can also integrate it with your website.

Many other features are available, So check 'em all!!

JAuthentification_construct Error in Joomla fixed!!

2010-04-20T13:24:00.001-07:00

Once while working on joomla i wasn't able to login and after putting lot of effort i realised that i accidentally i disabled the Authentication-joomla plugin

To fix this all you have to do is to enable this from your database.

so go to phpmyadmin section and under jos_plugins table.
change the published of J_Authentification from 0 to 1 and then you can login into your account.

Upload Your files on Google server

2010-04-20T13:06:00.000-07:00

Many times you need to upload your files on Internet and then you need to have a link of that file. You can upload your files on google server via google code.

To upload follow these steps...

1. go to code.google.com
2.enter the project hosting section.
3. go to search open source projects.
4. click create new project.
5.Enter the details shown in screenshot

click on create project and then something like this will open...
under download section click to new download and it will allow you to upload your file and also by right clicking on the file you can get link location also.

Enjoy!

Download Flash File(*.swf) From a website using Firefox

2010-04-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

Recently i needed to download certain flash files from various websites for my college presentation. I found this very easy way to download flash file from a website using Firefox. Actually while displaying a web page browser first downloads the file, hence you don't need to download it again. You have already downloaded it!!. All you have to do is to save it.
In Firefox..

1. go to Tools >> Page Info.
2. go to media section.
3. choose you file and click Save As..

Enjoy!!

Error while setting up Apache fixed

2010-04-10T12:34:00.000-07:00

I got the following error on running
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

* Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName

to fix it you need to edit httpd.conf file. type

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

this will be a blank file by default. simply add the following line.

ServerName localhost

save the file and exit from gedit.

Finally restart the apche

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This will probably fix your problem also.

hope it helps...

Back up your registry

2010-03-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

Hey registry is very important in working of your PC. Half of your software problems can be solved in seconds if you have good knowledge of registry files. But even if you don't have you can keep a backup of it. In case of any problem you just have to double click the file and check.

By the way it take seconds to backup all registry files.

Open RUN
type "regedit" without quotes
file>>export
give a file name and select location
click Save

You are done!!

Trouble with .exe solved !!

2010-03-29T10:05:00.001-07:00

Recently by mistake i opened an .exe file with my browser and the field that says always use this program to open this format was also checked.

After that it was horrible...every time i tried to execute an .exe file. It would open in browser and download something. In short i wasn't able to execute .exe in windows!!

Actually that action created a open with registry under .exe format and all i needed to do was to delete it.

If you are in same situation then either manually delete it or download this file and double click on it (it's not an .exe file).... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2558114/exefix_cu.reg

Make YOur Blog Look Better

2010-03-27T02:03:00.000-07:00

BLOGGER TEMPLATE DESIGNER is now available on BLOGGER IN DRAFT... Blogger’s experimental playground.
There you will get the cool templates for your blog and You DON'T need any knowledge of HTML/CSS..
For more information visit..http://www.blogger.com/templates
For direct editing..http://draft.blogger.com/home

Enjoy!!

Give Your External HDD a cOoL IcOn

2010-02-15T09:41:00.001-08:00

Bored!! of boring default icons...wanna change the icons of your external HDD..!
Damn Easy...

Step 1: Get a Disc.ico file and keep it in oyur drive.(Image of icon you want to give to your drive.)

Step 2: Just write this in notepad file and save it as "autorun.inf" and keep it in your drive.

[autorun]
LABEL=Workspace
ICON=Disc.ico

Restart your drive and you are done!

Speed Up Your Internet

2010-02-14T23:59:00.000-08:00

I wanted to download videos of about 3gb from internet. But with my previous internet speed it would have taken days but then i found Internet Download Manager....
It will really boost up your download speed.
You can Download it for free from ... http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

HAPPY DOWNLOADING !!

Screenshot and Event Reminder Software

2010-02-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

Well these software are no big but they are very useful and FREE.......

One is Greenshot which can take different type of screen shots and you can also edit it at the amount of just few Kilo Bytes of space..... You can download it for free from....
http://greenshot.sourceforge.net/

And the other one is Animated reminder....which is very simple, funny and usefull..you can download it for free from...
http://anireminder.nicekit-software.qarchive.org/_download2.html

Enjoy!

Run Your HD Videos With no Trouble anymore

2010-02-11T08:05:00.000-08:00

I was very much frustrated by not being able to run Hi-def movies on my any of players so i went on a quest for the search of a player that serves my needs and i got this....http://mirillis.com/splash.html (Download link)....This is a cool free player that will run all your Hi-def movies without any trouble.