Oct 08

Browse the Web Through Windows Help in XP & Vista

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili, Windows Vista, Windows XP

This article was written on January 04, 2008 by CyberNet.

Over in the CyberNet Forum, Richard pointed out a post from Download Squad that explained how you could surf the web on a Windows XP Computer by accessing a help file in a Windows application like the calculator. This would be useful for times when you’re in a public place and the administrator disabled the web browser so that you couldn’t surf the web.  The only problem is that the trick (which I’ll explain below) only works if you’re on a computer running Windows XP. I figured there had to be a way to do the same thing in Vista and sure enough, there is!

First, here’s how it will work in XP.   Open a Windows application like the calculator then click Help > Help Topics.  From there you’ll right-click on the title bar (next to the minimize or maximize buttons) and then click “Jump to URL.” From there you can enter in any address that you please!

Next, here’s how it would work in Windows Vista.

  • Open the Run Command (windows key + r)
    Vista Help Run
  • Type the following: %systemroot%\Help\
  • Doing the above will take you to the Help Folder in the Windows Directory
  • You’ll be looking for a .chm file and once you find it, double click it
    Vista Help CHM
  • Right click in the task bar or the title bar and then click “jump to URL”
    Vista Help Jump to URL
  • From there you can enter in any address!
    Vista Help Enter URL

Whether you’re using Windows XP or Windows Vista, you’ll have a solution for those times when you’re on a public computer and you need to browse the Internet but the browser has been disabled.  Cool, huh?

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Oct 08

Software For Hackers — Password Recovery And More

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

Software For Hackers -- Password Recovery And More

There are a lot of people out there that are just wannabe hackers, and now there are some tools that will help those people. Of course, there is a disclaimer with this software stating that they are not liable for anything the software is used for…YADA YADA! If you don’t understand what some of the software does then we HIGHLY recommend that you do not use it! Still want to continue? Okay, here is the software they have available:

  1. Cain & Abel – “password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes and analyzing routing protocols.”
  2. IRS – “scans for IP restrictions set for a particular service on a Host. It combines “ARP Poisoning” and ‘Half-Scan’ techniques and tries totally spoofed TCP connections to the selected port of the Target. IRS is not a port Scanner but a ‘valid source IP address’ Scanner for a given service.”
  3. sTerm – “Telnet client with a unique feature. It can establish an entire bi-directional Telnet session to a target host never sending your real IP and MAC addresses in any packet. By using “ARP Poisoning”, “MAC Spoofing” and “IP Spoofing” techniques sTerm can effectively bypass ACLs, Firewall rules and IP restrictions on servers and network devices. the connection will be done impersonating a Trusted Host.”
  4. cPfPc – “(Cisco PIX Firewall Password Calculator) produces the encrypted form of Cisco PIX enable mode passwords without the need to access the device.”
  5. ArpWorks – “utility for sending customized ‘ARP announce’ packets over the network. All ARP parameters, including the Ethernet Source MAC address (the phisical address of your network card) can be changed as you like. Other features are: IP to MAC resolver, subnet MAC discovery, host isolation, packets redirection, general IP confict.”
  6. CredDump – “utility that dumps passwords from Windows XP/2003 user’s credential files and shows them in they’re cleartext form.”
  7. Winrtgen – “graphical Rainbow Tables Generator that supports LM, FastLM, NTLM, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, MySQL323, MySQLSHA1, CiscoPIX, SHA-2 (256), SHA-2 (384) and SHA-2 (512) hashes.”

View Software Homepage: Oxid.it Software Projects

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Oct 08

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Available

Posted in: Features, Freeware, Linux, Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili, ubuntu

This article was written on April 24, 2008 by CyberNet.

ubuntu wubi.png
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A huge milestone for Ubuntu was just released! Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is only the second release of the popular Linux operating system to offer Long Term Support (LTS). The last version was 6.06 which is coming up on two years old, but they are still supporting it until June 2009 for the desktop and June 2011 for the server. With Ubuntu 8.04 support will continue until April 2011 for the desktop, and April 2013 for the server. As you can imagine this is extremely important in the corporate world where IT departments can’t afford to hassle with upgrading the operating system every six months.

So what does Ubuntu 8.04 bring to the table? Quite a bit actually. Here’s a recap of what’s new:

  • Wubi – Install and uninstall Ubuntu in Windows as if it were a simple Windows application. It does not need a dedicated partition to operate, but it is still able to offer a dual-boot setup.
  • PulseAudio – Mix audio from multiple applications together, adjust the volume for each specific application, and more.
  • Xorg 7.3 – Includes a new Screen Resolution utility that allows users to dynamically configure the resolution, refresh rate, and rotation of a second monitor. This will be particularly handy for laptop users that connect to a projector or external monitor.
  • Firefox 3 (Beta 5) – Integrates much better into the operating system.
  • Brasero – CD/DVD burning application
  • Transmission – BitTorrent client
  • World Clock Applet – The GNOME panel clock can display the time and weather of multiple locations around the world.
  • Vinagre – Remote desktop (VNC) client
  • Totem – Movie player that includes a plugin for directly searching and playing YouTube videos.
  • Inkscape – Native PDF support that provides an easy way to edit text and graphics in PDF documents.

And that’s just for Ubuntu! Don’t forget to check out some of the other variants:

  • Kubuntu 8.04 – A KDE version of Ubuntu. There’s now a “cutting edge” version available that includes KDE 4.0!
  • Edubuntu 8.04 – Designed for the education setting, and includes iTalc classroom management software allowing for teacher sharing, monitoring, and control of networked workstations.
  • Xubuntu 8.04 – Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment which is geared towards less-powerful computers. Have an old computer sitting around? Put it to work with this Ubuntu variant!

Unfortunately Ubuntu 8.04 doesn’t have the desktop redesign that was initially planned, but it is currently scheduled for this fall with the Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex release. Can’t wait to see what else they have in store for us!

Go get Ubuntu 8.04, and remember that free CD’s are available upon request.

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Oct 08

Carbonite: Unlimited Online Backup Service

Posted in: Newly Released, Screenshots, Software, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on September 03, 2007 by CyberNet.

Carbonite

There are plenty of backup services available that offer small amounts of storage space at no cost, but very few offer unlimited storage. The first two that come to my mind is Allmydata which charges $4.99 a month for unlimited storage, and Mozy Home which charges $4.95 per month. So for about $60 per year you can walk away with all of your important data safely backed up.

There’s also another service called Carbonite that recently launched a much acclaimed version 3. Their unlimited service costs about $50 per year, and with that you get a backup solution that is heavily integrated into Windows. With Carbonite installed your files and folders will have some added options to the right-click menu to control the backup process, and the central backup center (pictured above) keeps you up-to-date with how the backups are going.

Carbonite Labels

I haven’t tried Carbonite out myself, but they do offer a 15-day trial so that you can see whether you would like the service before you get knee-deep in it. It’s also supposed to be available in retail stores such as Staples, Best Buy, and CompUSA.

Note: Right now it is only for Windows, but a Mac version is scheduled for release in October.

News Source: eWeek
Image Source: Flickr
Thanks for the tip CoryC!

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Oct 08

Download Flock 0.7.4

Posted in: Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

Download Flock 0.7.4

Flock 0.7.4 has been released and is awaiting your download. This version is based off of Firefox 1.5.0.5 so it has some security fixes but also has a known bug. A new release of Firefox, version 1.5.0.6, will be released soon and I would imagine another version of Flock would shortly follow. Here are the other updates to this release:

  • Internationalization Support
  • Fixed drag and drop issue with dragging URLs or XPI files to the browser window
  • Handle HTTP authentication properly in feed discovery
  • Display top 4 results from Yahoo! instead of 5
  • Added EULA to Mac distribution

If you haven’t tried out Flock yet then you will be pleasantly surprised with the number of features it has. The RSS feed reader that it has is the best of any other browser-integrated reader I have used. It is also great for those people into social bookmarking services like Del.icio.us or photo sharing services like Flickr.

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Oct 08

Adobe CS3 Design and Web Editions Released

Posted in: adobe, Newly Released, photoshop, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on April 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

Adobe CS3 Released

Adobe officially announced this morning that they have released Adobe CS3 in two flavors: Design and Web editions. In two days it will be exactly two years since Adobe acquired Macromedia, and now we finally have a whole new line of software. All of the products have rightfully been renamed to “Adobe” leaving the Macromedia name in the past.

If you’re not into spending the $1600+ on an entire suite of applications, then they also offer each of the applications for sale on a stand alone basis. Here are the applications that are available at this time: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, and Adobe Contribute CS3.

The suite of applications does contain some new features that will benefit some users, and here are a few of the things they mentioned in the press release:

  • Creative Suite 3 Web editions offer users faster, more productive workflows across the applications.
  • Web professionals can import native Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into Flash and Fireworks with full fidelity.
  • Users can also create consistent experiences across all browsers, operating systems, and a range of mobile and handheld devices with the new Spry Framework for AJAX, a pre-built, cross-browser compatible library of widgets and effects that make it faster and easier to build rich, interactive websites.
  • Fireworks CS3 boasts new workflows for rapidly prototyping RIA layouts for websites and web applications, intelligent Photoshop and Illustrator integration, and a library of common and customizable graphics assets.
  • Both the Creative Suite 3 Design and Web editions include Adobe Device Central CS3, designed to boost the productivity of creative professionals developing content for mobile handsets with essential tools to design, emulate and test content across a wide range of mobile device and handheld frameworks.

I’m sure this software will be among the most pirated ever just like we have seen in the past with Adobe and Macromedia products. Most people want to enjoy the large number of features that the products offer, but can’t afford the steep cost that goes along with them. I did a quick search on a couple BitTorrent networks and noticed that the Mac version of the Adobe CS3 Design Premium Suite is already on there and weighs in at a whopping 2.5GB…it has actually been available for nearly two weeks. However, there doesn’t appear to be a PC version of the Torrent.

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Oct 07

Best Greasemonkey Scripts: Google Reader Subscribers Count

Posted in: Freeware, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on February 08, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google Reader Feed Subscribers

I know that a lot of our readers are stat freaks, and if you’re one of those people you’re absolutely going to love the Greasemonkey script that we have for you today!  What the Google Reader Subscribers Count script does is show the number of feed subscribers that each website has. The numbers show up in a very small bar in the bottom-right corner of the browser for every site that has feeds available.

We have multiple RSS feeds for our site, and as you can see above when that happens it separates the stats for each one by a plus sign. The first one listed in the example is our main feed, and then the others are for individual categories on the site. What makes this even better is that each number is hyperlinked to the respective feed so that they can quickly be added to your Google Reader subscriptions.

The first thing that probably came to your mind is all of the requests this is going to make to the sites you frequently visit. Don’t worry, the developer has already thought about that problem and figured out the best way around it. The script will cache the subscriber count for 24 hours before retrieving fresh data, which also eases the slightly extra burden on your bandwidth.

Google Reader Subscribers Count (requires Greasemonkey)

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Oct 07

Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1

Posted in: Freeware, Mozilla, Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on December 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 A big milestone, Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 1, has finally landed for anyone trying to find a great email client that won’t cost them a penny. In a really surprising move only the English-U.S. version is available but I’m not sure if they will add more languages over time or if this is all they have planned for this milestone. From the looks of the release notes page I would say that they are only planning on doing the English-U.S. versions:

Windows: Installer
Linux: GTK2 + XFT (no installer)
Mac OS X: Compressed Disk Image

For those people who haven’t ventured over to the pre-release version of Thunderbird 2 then you may be quite surprised at some of the things that have changed:

  • Message Tags: Create your own tags for organizing email. Messages can be assigned any number of tags. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.
  • Visual Theme:Thunderbird 2′s theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability.
  • Session History Navigation: Back and Forward buttons allow navigation through message history.
  • Folder Views: Customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders.
  • Improved Support For Extensions: Extensions can now add custom columns to the message list pane in addition to storing custom message data in the mail database.
  • Improved Offline Management: Thunderbird (Linux and Windows) automatically adjusts the offline state based on current network connectivity.
  • Improved New Mail Notification Alerts:New mail alerts include information such as the subject, sender and message text.
  • Folder Summary Popups: Mouse over a folder with new messages to see a summary of the new messages in that folder.
  • Saved Search Folder Performance: Search results for saved search folders are now cached, improving folder loading performance.
  • Find As You Type
  • Improved Filing Tools: Recent folder menu items for moving and copying folders to recently used folders. Move / Copy again functionality.
  • Updates to the extension system: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
  • New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.
  • MacOS X Universal Binaries

I’m still using the nightly builds of Thunderbird and have honestly never experienced a single problem. In fact, I would have to say this is the most stable pre-release application that I have ever used. Now I am just waiting for them to implement the tabbed messages feature and I’ll be really happy.

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Oct 07

CyberNotes: Shortcut to Change Resolutions

Posted in: CyberNotes, Freeware, Software, Tips and Tricks, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on February 07, 2008 by CyberNet.

CyberNotes
Tutorial Thursday

Have you ever wanted to change the resolution of your computer in a single click? There are various reasons that you may want to do that, such as playing a game that requires a certain resolution or developing a program that needs to be tested in various conditions. Today we’re going to show you how to create a simple shortcut that can be used to switch between multiple resolutions.

This trick is going to require a third-party application called Resolution Changer, but it requires absolutely no installation and will eat up a mere 150KB of your hard drive. With it you’ll be able to adjust the resolution, color depth, and refresh rate with the shortcuts you create. It even has support for multiple monitors!

–Instructions–

Setting up a shortcut to use Resolution Changer is a quick process, but there are a ton of different options that you can configure. Be sure to checkout a list of some other options available at the end of this article.

  1. Download Resolution Changer (the console version), and put it in a location you’ll know how to access from the command line. The easiest spot for it would probably be at the root of the C:\ drive, which is where I’ve placed it on my system.
  2. Now we need to create the shortcut to the application. Right-click on your Desktop and choose New -> Shortcut. You’ll need to enter in the location of the shortcut followed by the width and height that you want the resolution set to. Here’s my example where I’m changing the resolution of the screen to 800×600:

    C:\reschangecon.exe -width=800 -height=600

    In Vista it should look something like this (Click to Enlarge):
    Resolution Changer Shortcut

  3. Now specify a name for the shortcut, and finish the wizard. Double-clicking on the new shortcut will set the resolution to whatever value you specified.

–Other Options Available–

There is a lot more that you can do with Resolution Changer, and if you’re feeling ambitious you might want to tinker with some of the other settings:

  • Multiple Monitor Support
    This does support multiple monitors, and more information on that can be found here. To sum it up you can change the resolution of a specific monitor by providing the monitor number in this format:

    reschangecon.exe -monitor="\\.\DISPLAY1" -width=800 -height=600

  • Launch an Application
    After the resolution has been changed you can have an application or document opened immediately afterwards:

    reschangecon.exe -width=800 -height=600 "c:\test.exe"

    What’s cool about that is after the program or document is closed the resolution will revert back to what it was like before it was executed.

  • Adjust the Color Depth and Refresh Rate
    There are two other options that can be used to adjust the color depth and refresh rate of the monitor. Accepted values for the color depth are: “4″ = 16 colors, “8″ = 8-bit, “16″ = 16-bit, “24″ = 24-bit, and “32″ = 32-bit. Here’s how you can adjust the depth and/or refresh rate:

    reschangecon.exe -width=640 -height=480 -depth=8 -refresh=72

–Extra Credit–

You can also assign an icon to the shortcut that you just created and/or establish a keyboard hotkey for quickly switching between resolutions. Just right-click on the shortcut and choose the Properties option. From there you can configure the shortcut key or change the icon:

Resolution Changer Shortcut Icon

I’m sure this is going to spark some discussion about alternative ways to changing resolutions on your computer, and there are all kinds of apps that run in the System Tray doing the same kind of thing. The reason why I prefer this shortcut method is that the program only runs when I need it to, which saves on both processing and memory. It’s just my personal preference, but I like to minimize the number of applications I have running at a time.

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Oct 07

New Poll: When will you Upgrade to Vista?

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili, Windows, Windows Vista

This article was written on January 29, 2007 by CyberNet.

Last week we wanted to know which game system you played the most, or wish you owned. There are a variety of systems available, so which are your favorites? Well, in first place was Xbox 360 with 28% of the votes, and in second was the Nintendo Wii with 20%.  Not far behind was the Playstation 3 with 15% of the votes, and ’None of the Above’ with 14% of the votes.

This week, we’re wondering when or if you plan to upgrade to Windows Vista:

  • Within the next few months
  • After Service Pack 1
  • After Service Pack 2
  • When it’s time for a new computer
  • Never

You can vote and see the results to the Poll in the left column. With that… when will you upgrade, if ever?

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