Security has been the buzz word ever since the world has been taking a digital shape. Don’t we need security, yes we do, in some way or the other we are conscious about our security and privacy. We are all aware of spywares, keyloggers and general spy tools. But most of us don’t know the criticality of this issue, we always want to secure our privacy but usually don’t know the ways to implement it and sometimes we just ignore it saying that we have hell lot of other works. We need to remain updated about latest spytools around so that we could upgrade our system as the time passes by.
Today, while random stumbling i found Spy Review which seems to be a good resource for all these spy related things. The cool part is that this blog not only covers the technical aspects of spy but it also talks about spy relates movies, security and surveillance books and entertainment. From time to time they review cool gadgets and gizmos which will be additional information for you.
If you want to just surf out the whole archives you can try out their spy review archives where you will find all the information uptill now which you have missed in the past. So, all you security conscious people just go through this blog. Stay tuned to tricks4fun.com, i’ll be back with latest tips and tricks.
A proxy server is system that hides the identuty of the other computers on its network. Which means that only the information of proxy server is available to world not yours own. There are tons of good working proxy sites on internet which can be used free of cost. These sites are very helpful if you want to access sites like orkut, hi5 and other such soial bookmarking sites which are genmerally blocked by the system administrtor on offices, schools and especially in colleges.
Following are some tested proxy servers : OurProxy, Anonr, InvisibleSurfing, HideMyAss, Grab, Kproxy. Search these terms on Google.
Yahoo has released a security update for yahoo messenger 8.1 version for windows. You may recieve a prompt to install this latest security update. When you are prompted to do so, click on update now button to install it
Yahoo! recently identified a security issue, commonly referred to as a buffer overflow in an ActiveX control. This control is part of the Yahoo! Messenger audio conferencing code.
You must upgrade to newer version if
- You installed your yahoo messenger before 13th march, 2007
- You are experiencing some problems in logging in or logging out of the messenger
- You get involuntarily logged out of the yahoo chat or IM session.
Now you can access orkut from those place where it is generally blocked by the system administrator. You must have seen “access denied” message that come up whenever you try to access orkut in your offices or colleges or even schools,
I have found some working orkut proxies that will you to login into your orkut account. Proxut.com is the latest working proxy for orkut
Working Orkut Proxy :-
- OrkutWeb.info
- OrkutLive.info
- EasyOrkut.info
- OrkutProxy.in
- Proxy4orkut.com
- Proxut.com
- A proxy by orkut itself http://images.orkut.com
- Also try http://images3.orkut.com
- http://www.atunnel.com
- http://www.kproxy.com or http://62.193.235.46/
- http://calculatepie.com
- http://bravebadger.com
- http://www.torperkut.com/
Please tell me about other proxies that worked well in your case. 
I’ll update the list whenever i find any other alternative for accessing orkut.
1: ORKUT IS DELETING PROFILES
- Orkut is NOT deleting profiles
- Orkut is run by google which is having a 300% growth in terms of revenue for this
fiscal year
- They can handle any abysmal requirement of processing power or space
- They are NOT experiencing any information processing or storage problems as yet.
2: YOU CAN GET PAID BY FORWARDING AN E-MAIL
- There is no way to keep track of where a mail
gets forwarded.
- Microsoft will not know if I send a mail from google server to my friend (EVEN IF
IT IS A FORWARDED MAIL) unless you explicitly execute some code or click some link.
3. Crush List
- the only way of knowing your crush is if both the people add each other to their own crush list.
- there is no way of knowing anyone else’s crush’s or your own.
contents from a forward mail.. author unknown
The latest version of firefox has been released and is available for public download at their ftp site:-
it has a great interface (even the default theme looks good) and has an integrated spell check. though it does not support all the extensions from 1.5.0.7, they will be updated soon. The tabbing has been enhanced a bit. Mozilla firefox 2 is fast, more secured. I have experienced that it is consuming a little more RAM than its old versions. Aneways, it is okay to have great internet experience at the expense of a bit more resources.
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.
Check out the things that you can do with it:
1. The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.If you findyourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is anemergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
2. Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys?
This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and Continue reading ‘Things you never knew your cellphone could do ..’
If you use Gaim messenger, then check this out :
Open
C:\Documents and Settings\’user’\Application Data\.gaim
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\.gaim (in most of the cases)
There are two files named prefs.xml & accounts.xml
Right click the accounts.xml file and open it with notepad or any other text editor. Here you will easily find your usernames & passwords in simple text. So, never share these two files with anyone.
Don’t you get irritated when your pc takes years in booting, if that so then this cool little trick can help you out. By using this trick you can decrease the startup time of your pc. So lets do it step by step:-
1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type msconfig
4. Click Services Tab
5. Check on - Hide all Microsoft services
6. Disable all
7. Press Ok
8. Click Startup Tab
9. Disable All
10. Apply And you are done with it…!!
Comment : What this trick actually does is, it disables all the unessential programs and processes which loadup in the main memory (RAM) and make bootup quite slow.
Caution : Never disable any antivirus program from the list.
