HOW TO SAVE SWF FILES FROM MOZILLA FIREFOX

For so many months I wasn't able to save some cute swf files from my Mozilla FireFox. I could save it easily from Tools -> Page Info earlier, but due to some unknow reasons I was unable to save that method. I got that golden days back again with the help or the following site:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/save-flash-from-firefox-and-ie.html
Their method is simple very simple to geeks and Power Users. Just have a look:

a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose "Save link as"

GET YOUR DOMAIN DETAILS

If you are a domain owner, it’s very important that you keep the domain record up-to-date. It’s really important. There are lots of tools available in internet. You can check your MX Record, CNAME entries, A Record NS Record and everything. Here is some useful list of URLs: Have a look at them:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/
http://www.bigbiz.com/domain.html
http://www.mailenable.com/dnstools
Have fun. Go!

FREE FILE HOSTING @ FILE LODGE

Want to upload your favourite files to shaer with outhers even without paying? Yes, there is solutions. Just register @ http://filelodge.bolt.com/main.php

Its FILELODGE. A true lodge for your files. May it be light or huge, they lodge your files.
File Lodge is a free file hosting provider especially designed to look after you and your files. They offer a huge 500MB of file storage and support almost all file extensions, such as jpg, gif, mpg, avi, wmv, doc, pdf, mp3 etc. Bandwidth is unlimited.

What is a file host? A file host is a website that allows you to upload files to its servers, you are then provided with links for you to post on your favourite forums / webpages / blogs / auctions / in emails, anywhere you wish!

Perfect for sharing photos/images, music, and video with friends and family. They also provide hyperlinks of the uploaded files too. This allows you to quickly and easily get your files live wherever you are using them.A detailed FAQ is availabe in the site and if your questions remain un-answered, you can email them too.

Here, in this blog I used their services to host some of the pdf files for downloads. [But still I am reviewing the site and their services.]

MAZHA - SACHIDANANDAN

Mazhayude Nanartham can be translated in English as Synonyms of Rain.
Mazha - thats the most nostalgic word in Malayalam. How many mazhas do you know? Perumazha, podimazha, chattalmazha, etc. Local names are numerous. How many songs are there about Mazha in Malayalam? Impossible to count. Almost all the poets described mazha in their works.
The poem Mazhayude Nanartham, written by Sachidanandan is the notable one about mazha. Wide range of metophers and similies are used abundantly in this poem. After completely read this poem, you will feel that you are wet in a rain. You will feel its cold. Read. Download the Pdf file. To download the file, just right click and choose 'Save Link as' and show a location to save. Enjoy. Have a nice time.

RAJALAKSHMI - MALAYALAM WRITER

Rajalakshmi (1930-3965) Born on 2nd June 1930, Amayankod family at Cherpulassery, Palakkad. Father Mararth Achutha Menon. Mother Kutty Malu Amma. She committed suicide on on 18th January 1965. As a notable writer she got Kerala Sahithya Academy Award on 1960 for her work “Oru Vazhiyum Kure Nizhalukalum”. Here is her famous poem “Ninne Njan Snehikkunnu”

ASCII TEXT

Do these crazy characters say something? Can you ever imagine that I have such patience in keying in such crazy characters to form such a self portrait? Probably no. Then how did I create it? There is some online software to convert an image to ASCII formatted text! All you need to do is to create a 60 x 50 pixel file and upload to the following site:

http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/
It will transform the image to ASCII text. Wanna try?

ETTERCAP - POWERFUL ARP SPOOFER

As I always say, you can never rely your privacy on your system. Anybody can access your data without your knowledge. Especially when you chat, when you send an email, anything you upload to a server. In your LAN, if there is any poisoners, s/he can sniff all your privacy. What is the result, loss of your passwords, loss of your peace of mind, loss of your money. Just watch the following article on ettercap - one of the hot ARP Spoofer.

EtterCap is a multipurpose sniffer / interceptor / logger for a switched LAN. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many features for network and host analysis.
These features include
1. Characters injection in an established connection: You can inject character to server (emulating commands) or to client (emulating replies) maintaining the connection alive! 2. SSH1 support: you can sniff User and Pass, and even the data of an SSH1 connection. 3. HTTPS support: you can sniff http SSL secured data... and even if the connection is made through a PROXY 4. Remote traffic through GRE tunnel: you can sniff remote traffic through a GRE tunnel from a remote Cisco router and make mitm attack on it 5. PPTP broker: you can perform man in the middle attack against PPTP tunnels 6. Password collector for: TELNET, FTP, POP, RLOGIN, SSH1, ICQ, SMB, MySQL, HTTP, NNTP, X11, NAPSTER, IRC, RIP, BGP, SOCKS 5, IMAP 4, VNC, LDAP, NFS, SNMP, HALF LIFE, QUAKE 3, MSN, YMSG. 7. Packet filtering/dropping: You can set up a filter that search for a particular string (even hex) in the TCP or UDP payload and replace it with yours or drop the entire packet. 8. OS fingerprint: you can fingerprint the OS of the victim host and even its network adapter 9. Kill a connection: from the connections list you can kill all the connections you want 10. Passive scanning of the LAN: you can retrieve info about: hosts in the LAN, open ports, services version, type of the host (gateway, router or simple host) and estimated distance in hop. 11. Check for other poisoners: EtterCap has the ability to actively or passively find other poisoners on the LAN.
Yes. Next time when you get lost into your machine, think about this. Somebody may watching you. Caution! Thats all!

ULTRASHOCK.COM - FLASH DESIGN ENGINE

www.ultrashock.com
See. One of my favourite web site in flash technology.
Just see the bottom of this blog now. Its a ticker from ultrashock. A very sexy flash ticker I ever saw. The most sexiest. Do you want to have this ticker in your website? Just add the iframe in the appopriate place. Get the page source and copy the iframe code in your site. From now on the latest Ultrashock News Headlines, Hot Forum Topics & Ultra Statistics are available inside this banner. All headlines are clickable and go directly to the corresponding url on Ultrashock.com. This banner is mainly a result of the hard work by Peter Elst (killer coding dude of Ultrashock) and Peter Van den Wyngaert (graphics) and the mySQL headaches cleared by some Miko.
AND YOU SAY HOWZ IT :-)
From Ultrashock.com, you can download uncountable fla sourse files and some killer tutorials. If you are a flash developer, ultrashock is your final resourse. The forum @ ultrashock will clear most of your doubt and will make you confident.

WIKIMAPIA - A NEW MILESTONE IN EARTH MAPING

Wikimapia. A fantastic projects using google maps API. As they describe themselves it's really "a project to describe the whole planet Earth."You can create hotspots on your favourate landmarks in wikimapia maps. But they humbly request you to avoid adding hotspots like "This my house" stuff marks. The site got attention of the global internet community's attention without making any ad campaigns or any propoganda hypes. Its because of only quality in the stuff. You need using it for only once to understand its userfriendliness. Even any beginner can use that very instantly.

In the early times no search engines brought me any sites with the keyword "wikimapia". But after a couple of days, I got about 47,400 pages with the same keyword. It's growth is really amazing.

The founders of Wikimapia are Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, "inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia."

KNOPPIX - WONDERFUL OS

Ever used Knoppix? Or heard about it. It's a wonderful tool for your system. Its a well known OS in the line of Linux Tradition, which you need not to install in your computer's hard drive. Just insert Knoppix into your CD Drive and boot your system. Amazing? Knoppix will load all the drivers automatically. Knoppix is advised, when hard drive crashes, when a test is needed for your entire system or just for a trial. It has a wonderful scintillating Grafik User Interface too. :-)

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

Knoppix is developed by Klaus Knopper (b. 1968 in Ingelheim) is a German electrical engineer and Linux developer. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

KNOPPIX can be downloaded from http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

TEMPORARY INBOX & ANONYMOUS OUTBOX

Once there was a world. An internetless world! A googleless world! A boring world! Very slow world... A world without fun... A world without information... We are lucky today. We have all the fun. We have all we wanted. What’s more, whatever we wish for, we will get that from net. These days I had been searching in Mozilla Firefox's extensions. I got a hell of stuff more than I expected. The most interesting extensions I got were something amazing.

TEMPORARY INBOX

If you are a regular internet user, you may have troubled in sometimes to give your own email address to some sites because you fear of spam attack or your privacy Those times, I bet, you would be praying for another email address to submit. You may probably had one, but the usage of it would be very rare so that you forget passwords regularly. Isn't it? So the solution is a temporary inbox. Without logging in to get your inbox. An inbox without password. A handy inbox anybody can use. Easy inbox. A good disposable inbox. yourname@temporaryinbox.com.
Directly go to the site:[Click on the button below]

One of the main drawbacks of this service is, it does not support attachments. And you cannot send a mail from it.

ANONYMOUS OUTBOX

I said earlier that you cannot send mail from temporaryinbox.com. So what should you do for an anonymous sending? You wish to send an anonymous mail sending to some of your friends. And there is site for anonymous mail sending. https://www.anonymousspeech.com. As a matter of fact, it is not possible completely, because anybody can trace your ISP's IP address and track you down. But if you are sending anonymous mail just for a fun, nothing will happen. IP address tracking and such tracking will be done only by advanced users and Intelligence agencies. But you will get basic anonymity. And that’s all. After sending a mail in this site, you will get a note like this: This email was sent without our Anonymity Guarantee! AnonymousSpeech.com receives daily inquiries from people, requesting information about sent emails. If you need complete anonymity, please upgrade your account. I dont know what they will give additional options in paid service. I think for basic use free service is enough. Thats all. So, whats the moral? If you have a wish, submit it to google, it will tell you who will satisfy you, irrespective of subjects.

A minimal registration is required in this site. After the registration, you will get access to send mails from a temporary mail id. Bet, you will love it. Start anonymous sending. But never use this service for illegal purpose. That is very important

Do you hate spam? Yes? So do I!

But sometimes you have to give away your own email address for example at registrations just to activate your account. Now, that's no more a problem! Just enter a temporary email address from temporaryinbox.com and check the inbox on the site to read the mails. After 6 hours the mail will be deleted. Get your free temporary spam email address NOW and you will never have spam in your private account again.

Temporary Inbox 1.2, by pascal, released on Jul 2, 2006

This extension generates random disposable email addresses. Use those email addresses for registration at forums, adult sites or whatever. The email addresses don't need registration. This is an easy way to avoid spam, because the spamer never knows your private email address .. only the temporaryinbox.com email address. And there the mails will be deleted after 6 hours.
Avoiding spam is sooo easy!

Here is a small instruction:



FIRST! There is no registration required!!

1. The situation: You want to signup at a website or whatever. You are at the registration formular and you have to enter your private email address. 2. You don't want to give away your private email address. So you choose to use an email address from temporaryinbox.com. 3. Now click the "random email" button at the temporaryinbox firefox extension toolbar. 4. A random temporary email address has been generated now. 5. Copy it from the toolbar to the email address field in the registration formular. 6. Enter the other things and submit. 7. Now you can check the inbox of your email address on temporaryinbox.com. But it's easier to use the firefox extension. Just enter the email account name you used before and press "Check" 8. Now you were redirected directly to the inbox of your temporaryinbox account. 9. Open the email and click the activation link or copy the password... or whatever. 10. Delete the mail or let it be. However the mail will be deleted after 6 hours.
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Nearly every content site on the Web requires “free” registration these days, which usually means you need to supply a working email address. All too often, that email address begins to attract spam as companies sell mailing lists to each other or crackers help themselves to poorly guarded customer information.

You can’t protect an inbox completely, but you can reduce your chances of facing a spamfest by being a little selective in handing out your email address. Many users keep an alternate email account on hand for throwaway registrations and other situations where privacy protection looks a little murky.

A free account at a Web-based email service such as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail does the trick by protecting your “real” email address from unnecessary exposure. However, logging in and navigating through full-blown email sites can be a tiresome way to pick up a new password or confirm a registration; a more efficient method is using a fully disposable email address - Dive into http://www.temporaryinbox.com. And have a nice time

NEED OF NETWORK SECURITY - AN INTRO

Network security is a complicated subject, historically only tackled by well-trained and experienced experts. However, as more and more people become digital, an increasing number of people need to understand the basics of security in a networked world. This document was written with the basic computer user and information systems manager in mind, explaining the concepts needed to read through the hype in the marketplace and understand risks and how to deal with them.

Most of the common people are not aware about even some simple security measures. They haven’t even heard about it! Most of the people today have a user id and a valid password to open their own emails (mostly free email ids.) Do we really think about its security matters ever? When you open your inbox, or when you chat with an IM program like yahoo or MSN, or when you type your credit card details in an input text field of a particular site to buy something... Your privacy, your security... sometimes security and privacy both gets in danger. You are watched. You are always watched. Always. You hit by a dragon hacker. You die. But you still don’t know that. You are already a dead man. But the matter is you are not aware about it yet.

You may have some simple instructions from this blogspot. It gives you some simple precautions to the right way towards uncompromised security (Oh! Not that! I can only give you some simple instructions only; the rest is your destiny!) Which site you can trust... and what browser you can fearlessly use and what browser you have to avoid. What precautions you have to take when you get into a Wi-fi network.

Watch on
http://www.hackingtom.blogspot.com

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You will be interested to know who am I.

Networking Security Wizard? Not at all. I just want to share the security issues I encounter day-to-day in my life. See, one day one of my friends told me that he can sniff any messages through the router which I am using and get into our privacy. But I didn’t believe that for the first time. So he gave me a tiny application which was developed under GNU Public. I experienced the reality very soon. That nothing is safe in electronic communication. Especially your privacy. You are being watched. Even in this very moment. But you will never know that. I wanted to tell about it to my friends and colleagues. But nobody found interested. Then I decided to start a blog to express my own experiences to make others aware about it.

Hacking and Security Precautions

Hacking and security. The main issue a digital being suffer today. I am going to write something about this issue in this blogspot in the coming days. Just wait for it....