World Of Tricks

Dan Moren of Uneasy Silence first posted about the apparent data sniffing on Wednesday night. Using a program for Mac OS called Little Snitch, he was able to discover Adobe's hidden practice.

The data transmission was discovered in Adobe InDesign CS3 for Mac.In any case, at first glance the address may look like a IP address, and a local one if that. In many routers, 192.168.xxx.xxx is used for internal networking. However this address looks different.Data is sent to 192.168.112.2O7.net.

Two things would appear immediately awry to the experienced eye: first, no IP address includes any alphabetic characters in it, this address includes the letter 'O' in place of a zero. Second, it ends in '.net,' and no IP address ends in any kind of DNS suffix.

So where does this data apparently go? Loading up the address itself in a web browser takes the surfer to a page owned by Ominture, a large web analytics company."Yes, Adobe is watching how many times you open your programs. Adobe is spying on users application habits," Moren wrote.

Apparently, Adobe has already addressed this through an article on its Devnet site. It says it uses Omniture to track usage of an application to 'create better user experiences.'

Everyone knows that adobe flash is spyware,google toolbar is spyware, free firewalls and antivirals are spywares too. I see we're back on the privacy kick once again. If you're connected to the net you don't have any privacy. If you think you do, you're exceedingly naive. Slashdot had an article about cable and DSL suppliers monitoring their customers use of bit torrent for file sharing and shutting down those who do. That means you are being watched. If that scares you, you need to stop using your computer. There are way too many people on the net anyway.

Following three simple steps now you can get rid of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications:

1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then:

2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and search for wgalogon folder and delete it. You should backup up the registry beforehand, in case somethiong goes wrong.

3. In your windows directory search for files wga* and delete them.
You are done!

Now reboot back normally and continue your work. Windows Genuine Advantage will not bother you anymore.

Warning: Use at your own risk. Backup everything before you do.

This trick will help you to make your own Run Command (program shortcut) to run a program or a document directly. No more need to navigate the location of a program or document to run it, simply click on Start button to open Run box and type the programs shortcut name to open it directly.

Follow the given steps to disable the save settings functionality for desktop:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.


Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.



Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App paths

Now right click on App Paths and select New > Key, title the key and name it whatever you want your run command to be. In this case, we will try to create a run command for SecueCRT application.



New > Key > SecureCRT.exe

Now select the SecureCRT.exe folder and click right on (Default) string value then click Modify at the right hand side panel.



Here enter the path of the program that you want to execute in the value data field. In our case, the path of SecueCRT application will be C:\Program Files\VanDyke Software\SecureCRT \SecureCRT.exe.



Now again in right side panel, click right to create a new String value with the name SecureCRT and its values as C:\Program Files\VanDyke Software\SecureCRT\SecureCRT.exe.



Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

It will give four options ‘Yes’ ‘Yes to All’ ‘No’ and ‘Cancel’. But what about No to All??
There is no such option given. You can perform ‘No to All by’ simple trick. Just hold the Shift and press No. It will perform No to All operation.

This is the easiest one but for those who don’t know…

* Click on Start.
* Open Control Panel.
* Go to Folder Options.
* Click on view tab.
* Check “Hidden files and folders: Show all files and folders”.
* Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”.
* Click “Apply” and then “OK”.

.nbu files are the backup files created when you create the backup for your Nokia Mobile. It is created using Nokia PC suite and later can be restored to your phone. Only problem is we can’t open the .nbu files without any nokia device.

To overcome this problem we have one software called NOKI. From their site:

Noki is a utility to explore and extract Phone book, SMS, Calendar, Memo, Bookmark and other user files from the backup file of Nokia phone (using Nokia PC Suite).

Features:

* Supports .nbu, .nfb and .nfc.
* contacts.cdb: Symbian Contacts Database for all Symbian phones (include Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson etc.).
* backup.arc: mass storage/SD card backup file.
* Softpedia security certified.

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HERE IS A TRICK TO PUT ur web PAGE ON OUR DESKTOP

To put a Web page on your desktop, start by right-clicking on an empty space on the desktop. THEN
Click on "Properties" to open the display properties dialog box.

To add a Web page to ur desktop:

1. Click on the desktop tab in the display properties dialog box

2. Click the "Customize Desktop." button

In the desktop items dialog box, click on the Web tab

The settings on the Web tab allow you to add new Web pages to ur desktop & customize their settings.From this screen, u can add a Web page to your desktop and customize its settings.