Remove Facebook rotating image spam

Firstly i thought removing the cookies and cache will clear the stuff but it doesn't help. The attackers who made the JavaScript had actually utilized the email address given by Facebook which most of us don't have a idea exist even.

So we have to refresh that also after removing cookies and cache of browser. This came from the fact that when you see the status update it says via email, and thats the email they targeted.
Follow these simple steps to follow to remove the spam completely:-

1. Remove all the cookies and cache of browser + go to control panel -> network and internet ->delete browsing history and cookies. In the general tab click setting under browsing history as shown.

Click view files after the clicking settings tab. Delete all the files in there.

Now clear the cookies and cache that your browser stores from its settings.

2. After deleting all the files. Go to this link while you are logged in Facebook http://www.facebook.com/mobile/

Here you must see upload via Facebook. Click the picture above it. This is the email you can use to update status of your Facebook, post pics and much more.

Now, you have this.

Click on refresh your email, and it will ask for your permission that if you are sure to do it. Say reset and a final success message with a new email address will be given to you.

And you are done... no more rotating image spam to your Facebook wall.

Summarizing: 1. Delete all the cookies and clear browser cache.

2. Refresh the email of the Facebook.

Please comment if any problem in the steps or the spam persist.

Remove Windows Activation

Well i don't support this, as this is illegal but its useful.

Follow these simple steps and activate your windows without any key.

1. Open regedit RUN-> REGEDIT
2. Go to hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windowsNT\current version\wpa events

3. double click the string OOBETimer

4. Change its contents to FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD

5. Right click on WPAEvents and chose permissions.

6. A new window will come, click System and check all Deny boxes.

7. Restart the PC

and you are done..don't have to use any key + no windows updates after this.

Dropbox- The magic box

What is drop box? Well this video will clear this..


What else you can do with drop box?
1. Making a project with in many people working together? then dropbox is very useful for you. Install dropbox in all the project partner laptops using same id and keep sharing the latest updates about your project. You will have all the files sync on internet also.

2. No need to carry usb to anyplace..just keep the important files in your dropbox and you can access it anywhere using internet.

3. It saves version of files you have deleted or updated recently.Say if you written a code and you feel like reverting it back to the previous version, you cannot do it normally but using dropbox you can download the old file you sync with the dropbox.

Installation process:
1. Download and install it from here
2. You need to make a account.
3. Give name to the PC's you are using, its used for reverting back to previous versions of file.
4. You need to install on all the pc's you are using, from same account you created once.
5. Make the dropbox folder on your pc at desired location when prompted by installation.
Bingo!, there you have a automated sync,sharing and backup thing which works. You just need to put the files for sync in the folder made above.


Give it a try, and surely you'll find a new way its useful to you.

Image Search by TINEYE

Finally, after long wait is the Reverse Image Search. Yup, you are reading it right. Searching a image on internet and its pretty good till now.
They do comparison on based on image database they have.

As, on 19th August, 2010 they have indexed 1.7 billion images for comparions.
The TINEYE comes as a extesnions for almost all browser and its simple to use. You need a find a image just install the extension (required once) and then right click the image you need to search and click search image on tin-eye, and bingo! you will have a new tab with links of pages where the same image is there on web. Wasn't that easy.
Right now TINEYE is capable of searching image of format JPEG,GIF and PNG formats.



A powerful image search by same company is PixID which is not available for free, still for normal users TINEYE is a blessing.

Height of Validations

Recently while writing a mail, I accidently encountered a cool validation by gmail.
Lets have a demo. I'm writing a mail with text "The file is attached"
Now, without attaching a file I clicked on send and ...........
it gives a alert box that you haven't attached a file as it scanned words "is attached" !

A new Facebook BUG!

Facebook these days after millions of user are facing lot of server problems and bugs. Still the number of users are increasing per day. No one is worried about their privacy or security? There chat is worst ever and was rated very bad by many websites and blogs.

Today, I was chatting with my friend and he was just trying to annoy me with lot of messages per second, woof there opened a hundred chat box on my browser. Now was it the browser problem or the Facebook's.
The bug can be used by lot of spammer's to hang the browser or irritate the users.

Facebook: Remote Log Out.

Facebook has been going through many problems regarding security and now they are bolstering the security of the user accounts with the new release of the Remote Logout feature this Sunday.

The same concept has been launched by Google since august 2008. Using this feature you can remotely log out from a computer if you left logged in there.

In the unlikely case that someone accesses your account without your permission, you can shut down the unauthorized login before resetting your password and taking other steps to secure your account and computer.

Facebook ask computer name to add it your secure list.

How to access Facebook Remote Logout Feature:-

1. Go to account settings in account(at top right corner of your Facebook page).

2. Go to settings tab.

3. Click account security and there you are.

You can add sms facility if someone else log into your account.

One PC login looks something like this

If logged into multiple computer simultaneously then:

This is a welcome security update from the world's largest social network. This certainly does not fix everything, but certainly more control over the user's security and some piece of mind.

Music Track playing in Foobar as Gtalk status

Foobar is widely used as the default music player, its open source, fast and GUI is simple to use.

A problem people faced after installing foobar is that their gtalk stauts do not get updated with it. So many people while online preferred to use winamp instead of Foobar.

But by following simple steps you can make it work:

1. Download the winamp API emulator plugin from here.

2. Extract the files and copy the foo_winamp_spam.dll file to foobar2000's component directory commonly located in program files.

3. Now go to the foobar2000 directory and create a new file with the name winamp.m3u.

4. Now download this registry modifying file from here.

Open the file and click yes.

5. Play in foobar and set your gmail status in gtalk to current music track. Now you can see the current track as your status.

Note: If your foobar2000 installation is not in c:\Program Files\Foobar2000 then open the reg file in notepad and change the path.

How to Install XP/Win7 using USB/pen-drive.

Recently, i met with this problem. My dad got a new dell inspiron 10z and the laptop due to some reasons had to be formatted completely that means a new XP(on that machine).But fooom! laptop has got no CD-ROM. They provided original OS with the laptop in CD which i cannot use.

So here i found the way to install OS in computers with no CD-ROM, using a Pen-Drive.

Its a small application which has to be used to the pen-drive bootable.

It is called as WINSetupFromUSB. I tried many more methods available on internet but this one worked perfect for me.

Click here to download the software.

Follow these simple steps to make USB bootable-

1. Install the software downloaded from above link.

2. Format the pen-drive(it must be at least 2GB for XP and 4GB for win7 or vista) from windows.

3. Extract the ISO containing the setup of the OS, use 7zip or winrar for the same.

4. For eg. in case of XP extract files with contain I386 folder,the software needs that, so you just have to extract the image of the OS and provide link of the folder which has the unzip files.

5. Click go in the software we are using, and you are done. Remove safely the pen-drive, it has now the OS you have just booted.

6. Now in the BIOS change the priority of the USB in the boot section to highest.

7. Restart your computer and you'll see before your OS starts it asks to boot from USB, press any key to do so.

8. The XP installation i did was in two parts. The 1st part copies all the files necessary for the installation.

9. After this your computer restarts and then you again have to boot from USB i.e step7 and install part two. Thats it, OS installation takes it time as usual and you are done. Keep this USB for any further use.

9 simple steps and you can install a OS using Pen-drive.

Got any problem feel free to mail me @ amitchhajer@thecolloquium.info or leave a comment here.

Firefox- The Internet Browser for Human Beings

Firefox

To start with who don’t know about Firefox? I guess no one at least all those who are reading this post.

In short, Firefox was launched in 2002 with Codename as Pescadero and browser name as Phoenix.

Currently it is in stable version of 3.6 released a month ago and work is going on 3.7 which is in Alpha 4.

Most of us might be using Firefox but I tell you the power of open source is not limited. Thousands of add-on’s everyday makes Firefox great among list of browsers.

Add-on’s, as its name suggest it is add on to Firefox. Add on are small extensions

which are made by developers all round the world. Ad-Block is one such extension is which blocks the advertisements on websites and thus makes the loading faster. One latest add on is Archive View, I found it damn interesting it makes you see the contents of zip or rar file you downloading and you can download the specific file from the archive.

Another thing I love about Firefox is its configuration which you can change to any extension. Remember its open source, but you need to be careful while doing it, you may end up with something crap, don’t blame about this to anyone, I guess Mozilla just wanted to give developers full powers to play with their browser, that’s why its most developing browser from its release till now.

In my next post I will tell you how you can extend the capabilities of Firefox.

In my small observation I compared Google Chrome and Firefox (I love both the browser). I opened same website in both the browsers and none of the browser had any extension running same time. The Chrome was using 131,990k while Firefox was using 97,420k memory in total (data from task manager by Chrome and cross checked from task manager).

I love the start page of Google Chrome, for geeks who have many pages open in the tabs of browsers the Firefox is damn low on memory. Recently, checked a page which was using HTML-5 drag and drop API, it wasn’t working on Chrome and perfectly fine in Firefox, my love to open source forced me to add the website link to Google Bug Report, hope they correct it fast :)

Not to miss are the add-on’s like web-developer and Firebug a necessary tool for a Web-Developer. Also, check the master password thing in Firefox, it helps to remember all the passwords on websites secured using a single password.

If you are not using Firefox you can download it from here: GET FIREFOX.

Will be posting in few days about how to configure your Firefox to get best from it.

Entering the era of "SURFACE" computing : MICROSOFT SURFACE

Well folks every year IIT techfest exhibits latest tech-products. But this year saw a very different tech-baby from Microsoft. It was called Microsoft Surface. Imagine a hotel wherein you check in and see a normal table with a screen on it and you see the menu on the table can just drag fingers and select the menu items, moreover just place the credit card and automatically the payment is made.Stop imagining, because its all done in MICROSOFT SURFACE. Not only in hotels but many places just drag things with fingers and your work is done.
Microsoft Surface is a multi touch device from microsoft to manipulate the digital content using gesture recognition. Isn't that cool ! A whooping 52 different touches are recorded by the device at a moment. Such a surface computing device was very unique and I decided to know more about it .
Surface was codenamed 'Milan' and was launched on April 17, 2008. It was used in 2008 US presidential elections, CSI : Miami series and many more sci-fi series. Now, I came to know what type of technology Steven Spielberg or James Cameroon etc. used. Now it is used in AT&T stores, Disneylands future home exhibits, chain of sheraton hotels etc. Surface showcases the kind of technology and devices we can come across in very near future. I totally see automated homes, marts, hospitals in near future.
The technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices. In one example, a normal paint brush was used to create a digital painting in the software.This is made possible by the fact that, in using cameras for input, the system does not rely on restrictive properties required of conventional touchscreen or touchpad devices such as the capacitance, electrical resistance, or temperature of the tool used.The computer's "vision" is created by a near-infrared, 850-nanometer-wavelength LED light source aimed at the surface. When an object touches the tabletop, the light is reflected to multiple infrared cameras with a net resolution of 1024 x 768, allowing it to sense, and react to items touching the tabletop.
Coming to some of its technical details. Surface has a special edition of Windows Vista operating system. Currently it has 1) Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.13GHz (normal motherboard)
2) 2GB DDR2 RAM 3)250GB SATA Hard Drive and soon microsoft promises to upgrade it to 1) Intel Core Quad Xeon "WoodCrest" @ 2.66GHz with a custom motherboard form factor about the size of two ATX motherboards.2) 4GB DDR2-1066 RAM 3)1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive. Surface is a 30-inch (76 cm) display in a table-like form factor, 22 inches (56 cm) high, 21 inches (53 cm) deep, and 42 inches (107 cm) wide. The Surface tabletop is acrylic, and its interior frame is powder-coated steel. The software platform runs on a custom version of Windows Vista and has wired Ethernet 10/100, wireless 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. Hmm, coming to the price issue, its a bit costly. A commercial Microsoft surface costs about $12500 (5,62,500 INR (exchange rate 45)) whereas a developer Surface costs $15000(6,75,000INR(exchange rate 45)).Microsoft promises to decrease the prices but how much is an issue :P
Even if the device is new, the development tools are the one's used previously. Yes, the development of Surface applications is done on WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) and
XNA. Soon developers will have an altogether different cup of tea to develop. I think developing Surface applications will be fun because even if its reel, surely it is going to be very close to real.
Hope to see Surfaces all around !