Raviteja : Crack the logic and hack the logic

Make your USB read only while putting in other's machines.

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Now a days most of the people might have an experience from virus attacks after giving their USB Pendrives to their friends or putting it in other's systems. My machine doesn't have any virus "I think so". Up to this point it is OK. But what about other's machines? To prevent your USB virus attacks from others system here is a tip for you.

Recently the most common viruses attacking USB drives are:
folder.exe
,.exe
thumb.dll
Scandle.exe

Preventing method is, after writing files or data into your Pendrive just make it as "Write Protect". If someone need the data they can "Copy" it and "Paste" in their machine. But they don't have chance to write again into it. Or the viruses in their system will not enter into your write protected USB Device.

You can do it by a small utility i.e "Thumbscrew".

Procedure:
1. Download thumbscrew.zip extract it.
Open thumbscrew folder Double click on the .exe file.

2. You can see a tray icon with USB logo.
3. Write file you need into the USB drive (i.e Pendrive).
4. Write click on the tray icon and click on "Make USB Read Only".

5. Then remove your USB drive safely.

That's it. Now your pen drive is Write Protected. No one can write again.
Virus will not attack your "USB Drive".
If some one wants to write in the drive an error message dialogue box will appear
like this,

To make it "Write" just put your "USB pendrive" to your machine right click on
the tray Icon and click "Make USB writable". That's it. Now your USB Pendrive
is read and write mode.

So Guys prevent your machine form virus attacks form "USB pendrives" data travelers by thumbscrew.

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Irritated by XP themes? Then switch to Mac

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:00 +0000

Dear visitor,
In my last posts I explained how to change your windows default XP theme to Vista by VistaMizer. Still if you are irritated to use such XP or Vista themes try Macintosh theme in your machine. I just tried and it is working up to my expectations.

A theme called “Flyakite OSX” developed for you. This theme provides exactly the same UI (User Interface) what Mac OS provides. It provides the apple boot screen at startup and provides its logoff screen too. Very smooth interface provided and it makes you think like; working on Mac machine. FlyakiteOSX is associated or affiliated with Apple Computers to provide its theme. The above figure captured in my machine.
To view the exact theme look, just open the above image in new window.

What is FlyakiteOSX?
FlyakiteOSX is a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP+ system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc. FlyakiteOSX DOES NOT contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. All files needed for FlyakiteOSX are stored in the Windows directory in a folder named 'FlyakiteOSX' that is hidden by default. All registry values for FlyakiteOSX are written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FlyakiteOSX.

Feature provided by FlyakiteOSX transformation pack:

Object Dock – You can move around the desktop borders easily.

Search Spy -- Search bar to search for a file or folder like Google desktop search.

Y’Z Shadow – To place colorful shadows for windows and dialog boxes.

WinRoll -- A nice little utility that allows you to roll up a window so that just the title bar shows.

iColorFolder - allows you to change the color of any normal folder.

So dear visitor just download FlyaKiteOSX transformation pack and enjoy the User Interface of Mac without installing Mac OS.

Restore accidentally deleted from your computer by Recuva

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0000

Accidentally deleted data from your hard disk? No Problem dear...
Here is a solution to retrieve them by Recuva. By Recuva you can retrieve data even if you delete them by suing SHIFT+DELETE key. We generally think that by using SHIFT+DEL data may lost permanently. But it's wrong. But Recuva you can!

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Recuva supports:
► FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems
► Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.)
► Can be run from a USB thumb drive
► It's fast, tiny and takes seconds to run!

► Select drive
► Click on Scan
► Select files which you want to recover
► Click on Recover
► Save it.

Make sure that it is better to recover files as quick as possible when you accidentally deleted. Because newly updated data may over write on deleted data space. This results incorrect backup of your lost files.

Download Recuva from filehippo

Are you a human? Spam code

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:31:00 +0000

Have you ever ever think about the code like below ? LOL, every internet user may encountered this tricky logic of websites.

I think most of the websites while registering (Sign up) our account in their sites they asks us to enter some code as it shows a distorted image like above. For example in Yahoo, G-Mail while we are registering a new e-mail account it asks. Some websites asks like this "Are you a human?". Then we have to type a code in box below it. Till now I observed lot of websites and just left it. While registering my friend's account (Who is newbie to internet) in yahoo he aked "Why to type that code?". Then I started to think "Why?". Now I got that answer by searching on google.
That is here for you.

"Now a days computers and Internet have evolved to the point when software tools ( such as standalone programs or web scripts ) can perform automated task on the web, such as navigating from website to website ( spiders ) filling and submitting web forms.

This task was difficult many years ago, and people did not thought much about it back then. But now, with the increasing amount of SPAM and the advanced script languages, many hackers and spammers are writing and using scripts to automatically fill and submit forms."

The mistory behind of the code requires that the user have to type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. This usually ensures that only humans can enter the correct answer, because is difficult ( but not impossible! ) for machines to extract the letters and digits from the image. So finally what I concluded my self is that, to prevent spam websites uses that code.

Here is site to accomplish above task in your website http://www.captcha.net/. This provides free service to prevent spam in your websites. For more information go through it's home page.-

Delete files securely with File Shredder

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:47:00 +0000

With File Shredder you can remove files from your hard drive without fear they could be recovered. There are quite a few software tools today for retrieval of deleted files under Windows OS. Those tools, often referred to as "file recovery" software, are taking advantage of shortcoming of Windows "delete" command that we all use regularly to delete files.

Actually, the "delete" operation in Windows only removes bits of information from files so they appear deleted in OS. It is easy to retrieve those files using aforementioned specialized file recovery software.

In order to remove, or shred files permanently from your system you have to use a program that is capable of rewriting the files with random series of binary data multiple times. This process is often called shredding. That way, the actual content of the file has been overwritten and the possibilities to recover such a shredded file are mostly theoretical.

File Shredder has been developed as fast, safe and reliable tool to shred company files. I believe this utility should be available to anyone for free and that permanent and safe removal of confidential documents is a matter of basic right to privacy.

In File Shredder you can choose between 5 different shredding algorithms, each one gradually stronger than the previous one. It also has integrated Disk Wiper which uses shredding algorithm to wipe unused disk space. More on options of File Shredder check Online Help page.

Reference from: http://fileshredder.org/
Download linke: click here to DOWNLOAD
For tutorial help: click here

New Feature "Scheduled Posting" in blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:35:00 +0000

Blogger acquired a new feature to post your posts on a specific day when the day you specified. This is a great feature what I thought earlier. Because, if you have lot of new content to post in your blog, this idea works well to keep the track of visitors regularly. Suppose if you are writing a suspense thriller story posts in your blog per twice in a week. You can post the part of the story in a particular day. And remaining parts will be posted on the day you want to publish. Your visitors waits for the day of your post and they can view new post on correct regular intervals. This new feature of blogger can only be used if you log-in in draft page of blogger. So to experience the schedule posting and other soon to be added features in blogger you must log-in to http://draft.blogger.com instead of http://www.blogger.com.

To do this blow of the post editor you can see "Post Options". Click on it. Then in after a dropdown link you can see "Post date and time". There you need to specify the time of your post to be posted on a specified day.

What is that file?

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:57:00 +0000

In our machine while installing softwares we can see lot unknown files which are unrecognized by Operating system.
Sometimes some file formats may be unknown to us.

This whatisthatfile site is extremely helpful if you are suspicious about a file running in your task manager and want to know that either it is a safe file or it is virus or any type of spyware. You can learn more about functionality of a file format.

Move your "My documents" Folder in safe place

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:36:00 +0000

"My documents" in windows is the very important folder. I think everybody know it.
It is default folder in windows. Most of the people don't know that we can change the default path of "My documents" folders to other drives. As we all know, My Documents is the most popular folder where computer users save almost all his or her data including but not limited to videos, musics, pictures and important documents.

Some times when we are saving any document it will directly shows the path to save in my documents folder. So using "My documents" folder is very popular.

Now a days virus attacks make our system to become crashes down. Some times windows my crash up due to boot failures. So in that cases we can't backup our data. So it is better to save "my doucments" folder in other drive rather than windows installed drive.

To do this fallow these steps

In general "My documents" folder is placed in C: drive i.e windows default installation drive.

"Just right click the My Documents shortcut on desktop and click on the "Move" button and choose the location where you want to transfer your My Documents folder and then click OK."

Now your data will be secure when your system crashes.

With VistaMizer you can keep your Windows XP operating system while enjoying a brand new, true Vista look. In addition to changing the whole desktop appearance, more than 300 files are replaced with new icons, pictures and videos. This means that VistaMizer does not provide its own files, but modifies those of your system which you select during the installation process.
In any case, VistaMizer is optimized to get over compatibility issues and therefore ensures that the system doesn't become unstable due to the changes. And if you're not satisfied by the results or simply want to go back to XP, you have the possibility to return to your old system by running VistaMizer's uninstallation feature. Take a look at what the program features:

Modifies your own system files

Free choice of the files you want to change

Multilingual support

Compatibility check during installation

Backup of the original system files

NetVouz - Easy Social Bookmarking

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:11:00 +0000

NetVouz is a easy social bookmarking in which you can store your favourate sites online. In which you can easily categorize your folders according to the type of the bookmark. You can keep your bookmarks for Public or Private according to the use of privacy.

Here is a great advantage for firefox browser user. In firefox you will get an add-one for Netvouz.
After Installation you can see netvouz logo beside of the address bar of the browser.

While surfing websites if you want to add it in your netvouz account you have just click on Netvouz button. Then a new pop up window will appear to categorize it and to set priority. Before adding this you must have to create an account in netvouz. Netvouz is very very useful to the people who are surfing more websites and keep up them for the future use.

(Remember : firefox add-one is not working in Firefox 3 beta version. It works only <3 V )

Batch files Magic :Shutdown, Restart, And Stand By

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:50:00 +0000

In MS-DOS,OS/2, and windows, a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. When a batch file is run, the shell program (usually COMMAND.COM or cmd.exe) reads the file and executes its commands, normally line-by-line. Batch files are useful for running a sequence of executable automatically and are often used by system administrator to automate tedious processes.

Here is a technique to shutdown, restart , and standby of your PC by using batch file.

Just copy and paste below text in a notepad and save it "shutdown.bat" , "restart.bat",and "standby.bat" respectively.

Shout down: shutdown.exe -s -t 0
Restart: shutdown.exe -r -t 0
Standby: rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Standby

You can see those files like this

To put those file in quick launch button menu you have to fallow these steps

Just drop and drag those file into quick launch menu.
Right click on each short cut and click on change icon.
Then you can change those file appearances according to your wish.

By these way you can easily access Shutdown,Restart,and standby options.

Defraggler - Alternative to Windows defragmenter

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:11:00 +0000

From Piriform, the company that brought you CCleaner and Recuva... they now bring you a file defragmentation tool... Defraggler! This is a very small utility with the size of 400KB.

It differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows fragmentation tool!

Defrag Individual files
Compact and portable
vista support
Locate files on the drive
freeware

And remember like all Piriform products, Defraggler is completely free for both corporate and individual use.

Download from filehippo

Blogger editor in Flock (The social Web browser)

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:50:00 +0000

Flock is a social web browser. It is the integration of Mozilla Firefox browser. It's options are exactly same as that of the Firefox with additional features. Media sharing is the main feature of this browser. In this you can uploads your photos directly into your account of the flicker . In this browser you will get media bar too.
For blogger user this browser is very advantageous for posting not only for blogger it is for live journal , Typepad , Wordpress also. A blogger editor is provided in this browser. By which you can posts directly form the web browser itself. No need to sign in again via blogger.com. Ofcourse you have to sign in indirectly with this editor. This editor is more useful when you are in offline. When you are in offline you can draft your post and save it. After entered to online you can directly post it into your blog.
Web clipboard is provided inside to save the matter you have typed.
Disadvantage of this browser is you can not get more add-ones and extensions like provided in Mozilla Firefox.

" I sent this post through flock."

See a logo here "Blogged with Flock"

Blogged with Flock

You can enable, disable, or modify the way that error reporting works on a Windows XP-based computer. When an error occurs, a dialog box is displayed that prompts you to report the problem to Microsoft. If you want to report the problem, technical information about the problem is sent to Microsoft over the Internet. You must be connected to the Internet to use the feature. If a similar problem has been reported by other users and information about the problem is available, you receive a link to a Web page that contains information about the problem.
To disable this feature from your system
1. Right click on my computer icon on your desktop.
2. Click on Properties

3. click on advanced menu
4. At bottom of the window you can see Error Reporting
5. Click on Disable error reporting

True Crypt : The OSS power

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:10:00 +0000

True crypt is an Open source tool for storing data securely. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g.., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).
Truecrypt supports two types of encryption process. One is standard truecrypt and hidden true crypt. Select standard truecrypt option is the better choice to the beginner. I already said in my previous posts by truecrypt we can create encrypts volumes for removale storage devices too. In the next option software asks you, to whether select the file or device. You select it according to your requirement.
Don't confuse to look for the created encrypted drive after encryption process. It has to mount. Select mount option for particular drive letter where the encrypted file is stored
The great feature of the truecrypt is its encryption algorithms. Here you can choose any encryption algorihms which is better fit for the choice of encryption level. True crypt allows only a larger and complex passwords only.

Note:
Be careful the user who are using it at first. I lost my 14GB data with wrong selection of options.
Be careful while selecting mount partitions. But don't have fear about data loss. You should not fear to do any experiment. In your life toooooo.

(Download )

Which is correct?

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:31:00 +0000

WWW.GOOGLE.COM = = WWW.GOOGLEBOT.COM

My Live Signature : Online singature

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:32:00 +0000

Is it boring to write every time your name at the end of e-mail. Would you like to sign at bottom of your sending e-mail. Would you like to sign at bottom of your each post in blogger. Have a look at this site mylivesignature can do this job.

This site enable to the user to create their own signature. It give the html /java script to your signature . Use that code wherever you want to appear your singature. Below this post I signed my signature.
You will get a doubt that "What is the difference between this (mylivesignature) signature image and the normal signature image I uploaded in blogger while posting?" Let it clarify me.
When you are uploaded your signed image into your post that looks like an image you have uploaded. But when you use mylivesignature it exactly looks like signature. Keenly obeserve the the uploaded image and your signature image , you can see a Square box on blogger uploaded image. Isn't it? But it will not appear on your signature.

Blogger Tip:
Blogger user who wants to use this signature on every post, you fallow this method.

Get the html/java code from the mylivesignature. Copy it.
Opne your blogger account.
Click on setting options.
There again click the formatting option.
You find this option shown below.
There you have to paste the code you have copied.
And click on save setting.

Now you will get your signature on each and every post you publish.

Typogenerator : Online background generator

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:07:00 +0000

Typogenerator is a site that will generate backgrounds for your text. Just type whatever word you want to have a background and TypoGenerator will show you randoms of background including the text design and color of the word you have typed.
If you'd like the generated background, you can keep it and just change the text design and color or vice versa (keep text design change background) if it doesn't fit your taste. If you want to keep a copy of the generated typobackground in you computer, you can manually download it by right-clicking the image when it's in the 640x480 size view.

TypoGenerator uses images indexed from Google, meaning it's involve copyright issues that's why TypoGenerator stated that "you may use images generated by typoGenerator on private websites, but NOT for any commercial applications. the images used for generating may be subject to copyright."

But for personal use you can use TypoGenerator to create typo background and use it freely.

The Power of Ccleaner- An OSS

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:31:00 +0000

My system slowed down. Most of the people says like this.
Find the reasons behind of it.
(I already explained about it in my previous posts)
Most probably,
1. Bulk of Temporary files stored in your computer.
2. Unexpected changes in windows registry entry.
3. Proper install and uninstallations of softwares.
3. Application which runs at system start up.

Are you agreeing my points.

Now all these problems can be solved by an Open source software i.e CCleaner
CCleaner consists of
Temporary file cleaner
Registry cleaner
Uninstaller
Startup
All the above problems can be solved by the CCleaner

Here a major advantage only I want to say to you.

Are you observed?
You can't uninstall multiple applications by windows "Add/Remove Programs"
Even you can't select another application while uninstalling.

But here you can do multiple uninstallations at a time.
These are the advantages of a single and powerful software CCleaner

Creating Log Files of your own

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:56:00 +0000

You can create Your own log files by using note pad.

About Note Pad:
Microsoft Notepad is a word processing tool included with Windows and is installed by default under the Accessories program group. You can use it to create a log-type file that adds the current date and time each time the Notepad file is opened. This article describes how to create a log file with Notepad.

To create a log file in Notepad:

1.Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Notepad.

2. Type .LOG on the first line, and then press ENTER to move to the next line.

3. On the File menu, click Save As, type a descriptive name for your file in the File name box, and then click OK. When you next open the file, note that the date and time have been appended to the end of the log, immediately preceding the place where new text can be added. You can use this functionality to automatically add the current date and time to each log entry.

Source of above Post: Microsoft.Support

Make windows Transparant by Vitrite

noreply@blogger.com (Raviteja) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:36:00 +0000

When I was reading Computerera (September 2007) Magazine I read an article in it.
In that they given about a small utility to make windows transparent.

I downloaded that utility and it is working nice. That utility is vitrite.

Download and install it. After installation the vitrite will appear at the tray icons.

To make windows transparnt press "CTRL+SHIFT+0,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1," Simultaneously accoriding to your requirement of transparancy.