Jul 22
Whenever the debate over the safest platform for our devices surfaces, it is usually Apple or Linux with which people come up. But due to less or almost no user friendliness of Linux, Apple’s the only alternative left. Nonetheless, Mac OS X – so long at the forefront of Apple’s safe platform queue – has …
Jun 22
We live in a technological age that has caused a superabundance of information. An ordinary person is exposed to an unimaginably vast amount of data within their lifetime, and this rate is increasing exponentially. With this phenomenon comes many benefits: we can now accurately track population trends, predict geographic changes and design efficient healthcare systems, …
Dec 26
Going through the searches and links on the email, I came across this fantastic way of viewing content that requires registration, without actually registering for these sites. Trick I use is to visit BugMeNot.com and in the search box, enter the website you want to view content from, for example NyTimes. This will then give you …
Dec 26
Intercepting keystrokes Hooking Key Events There are different ways to catch the keys as they are being typed, but one of the most efficient is to monitor system events for key events. This is done with a hook, which forces Windows to call your own functions when a certain type of event happens. First, let’s …
Dec 26
There are plenty of papers out there that go into how to obtain an IP Address from the preferred mark of your choice. So I’m not going to go into that subject. Alright so say we got the targets IP Address finally. What do we do with this IP Address. Well first ping the IP …
Dec 26
You can create a file of any size using nothing more than what’s supplied with Windows. Start by converting the desired file size into hexadecimal notation. You can use the Windows Calculator in Scientific mode do to this. Suppose you want a file of 1 million bytes. Enter 1000000 in the calculator and click on …
Dec 25
Batch file programming is nothing but the Windows version of Unix ShellProgramming. Let’s start by understanding what happens when we give aDOS command. DOS is basically a file called command.comIt is this file (command.com) which handles all DOS commands that yougive at the DOS prompt—such as COPY, DIR, DEL etc. Thesecommands are built in with …
Apr 10
You might have read my this post on getting google search results with php. This time, I have used a completely different way to get the results, and with this method, you can get top 1000 results for a query, with is the maximum google provides. Also, the order and number of results are same …