Tor allow Access to blocked sites anonymously

Tor is a free application which is using for anonymous communication on the internet. Tor stands for The Onion Router. Tor Working with Onion routing technology. Onion routing is a technology for anonymous communication.

In this network all the users will work as a router. when you send a request to a server the Tor will encrypt the packet with many layers. Each Onion Routers removes a layer of encryption and send to another Onion Router. Tor also protect its users against traffic analysis attacks
So you can use Tor as a Anonymous Proxy, You can bypass firewall / proxy with Tor. Surf restricted sites with Tor just like Ultrasurf. go to www.torproject.org for more details.

If you are a proxy user you have to give the details in setting tab

Download Tor

How to shutdown Windows Faster ?

All versions of Windows have the same problem. It usually takes a little longer to shutdown when you have the Exit Sound enabled.

To disable this :

go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Sounds and Audio Devices->Sounds.
Scroll down and look for Exit Windows.
Click on it once and then under Sounds,
choose None.

You should see faster shutdown times

Websites to Trace People Online

In today’s Internet world of booming social networks, it’s easier to find lost friends and colleagues than it ever was before. In fact, the private world of yesterday is now an online world with open access to social networks, government databases, and public records. If you’re looking for a long lost relative or friend, consider the following free resources to trace people online.

Crawl the Internet

The Internet is essentially a giant database, overflowing with data points about individuals. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t commented on a blog entry, made a post in an online forum, or registered at Facebook or Flickr. The Internet is filled with opportunities to create a profile, and every single profile provides the Internet with additional data points about you that people can use to find you when they need to.

There are many websites that search standard social networks like MySpace or Facebook, but Piple is one resource that conducts a “deep web” dig for the name you’re looking for on “non-typical sites.” The search results from Piple are pretty impressive. You can read about how to use Piple at this article by Karl. Conducting a deep search for myself, I found that the results covered data pulled from profiles at MySpace, Facebook, and countless other sites like article directories and blogs. I was especially impressed by Piple’s efforts to dig for email addresses and content within miscellaneous web pages.

Another powerful search is Google’s Blog Search which will find anyone who has published to a blog on the Internet. The results on this search turned up my published articles at MakeUseOf, those at my three blogs, and even articles that I wrote for clients and had completely forgotten about.

Probably the most powerful tool to find someone who may have only posted to the internet a long time ago is Google Groups. Google Groups has incorporated over 800 million Usenet messages into its database, an impressive 20 year’s worth of Internet conversations dating back to 1981.

By far, one of the best search engine crawlers for finding people through searching all types of Internet content is 123people. I found that this website was able to find more accurate hits when I searched for myself than most other identity search engines.

Just a straight search without location found dozens of weblinks blogs, social network profiles and documents, most of which were an accurate hit. Needless to say, I’d recommend 123people to anyone looking to find if anyone they know has any content whatsoever published on the Internet about them.

Searching Social Networks

Social networks are very hard to avoid on the Internet. It’s impossible not to get sucked into a forum discussion, a Facebook group game, or connecting with industry leaders on LinkedIn. Because of this, the odds are very good that the person you’re looking for has registered and created a profile in at least one of those networks.

YoName is one free website that searches through a list of over thirty popular and obscure social networks including Imeem, LinkedIn, FaceBook, MySpace, Yahoo 360, Flickr, and Zorpia. We’ve examined it before at MakeUseOf. The results are displayed in tabular format so you can select which social network search to focus on. I found that YoName could only find a few of my online profiles.

Wink searches social networks such as MySpace, Reunion, LinkedIn, Friendster, and others. Wink results were somewhat limited though, with only 28 results and only one of those was an accurate “hit.”

Spokeo is a powerful social network tool that searches through a huge list of social networks and websites. It discovers things that aren’t very easy to find, like hidden Facebook profiles, posts or comments to YouTube, blogs or comments on Blogger, accounts on Flickr, Twitter, WebShots and more. The results are comprehensive and include results from over 40 major websites.

The only drawback is that to sign up you have to provide Spokeo with your email address and password so that it can actually access your email account and extract your contacts.

Jobs and Companies

If you know where someone works, but you don’t have their contact information, then tracing them by company or industry is your best option. There are several tools available that can help.

Jobster is a large database of job listings where you can find people not only by name, but within a certain industry or specific company. You can sift through the huge database of folks who’ve added their profile to Jobster in hopes of landing employment.

Another great industry search site is ZoomInfo, which is focused on company details. If you have a profile on the internet that lists your affiliation with a company, the odds are good that you’re in the ZoomInfo database. I even found myself listed in the database as co-owner of RealityUncovered, which is true, but it was only part of a few online profiles - meaning ZoonInfo can crawl profiles for company affiliations. Very impressive.

Online Public Records Search

Of course, if you’re conducting a full background check on someone, then you’ll want to find the following information:

• Residences over the last few years
• Criminal record check
• Driving record
• Birthday and birth location (for citizenship verification)
• Child predator check

If a person has a criminal record or any court ruling, it’s amazing how much information you can find about it online. If you know a name and birthdate of the person you’re looking for, that’s all you really need - although the location information would make the search go even more smoothly.

Zaba Search is one of the best sites for conducting free public records queries. Using Zaba Search, you can determine a person’s exact past and current addresses and phone numbers. If you want a detailed report of all past addresses, relatives, criminal history, bakrupcies, small claims judgments and more, it’ll cost about $50 through Intelius. You can also conduct a phone number search, which is nice if you receive a prank phonecall from someone you don’t know. It will give you the latitude and longitude of the location, but for specific details you need to purchase an Intelius reverse lookup.

Google Government search sets the bar high with the ability to search through government news reports and even government websites. By searching names, you’ll often discover someone involved in government research, grants, or non-profit activities.

If you suspect the person you’re looking for is in prison, then search the state or federal inmate locator directories. Just pick a state, or search through the federal system.

USA.gov provides a huge database for all state and federal agencies. Most services where you need to pay for background details on a person come from these free state and federal agency databases. You can find the data for free by searching through this website to find those agencies and conducting the search yourself. For example, digging through the state of Maine agencies I found where you can search through Maine criminal records.

Criminal Searches is one of the first truly free search websites that allow you to call up the criminal records of anyone based on name, location, birthday or age range. To test it, I searched for the record of a person in California who I know, from previous research, has a criminal record there. Sure enough, Criminal searches found it.

The results also offer the source of information (court office) where you can send for a copy of the entire case records (for a fee). Is this easy online access freedom of information or invasion of privacy? Should your criminal records be on public display on the Internet? Or is it more important for the public to know who the former criminals are and where they live? Either way, Criminal Searches is leading the way in making this information both public and very convenient.

Make it Simple

When it comes right down to it, you want to be able to find someone quickly and free. The sites above will help, but in most cases you’ll need to at least learn a few details about the person, like their birthday or the state they live in. Once you have those details, the volume of information you can find online about a person is amazing, and at times shocking.

File Renamer for Windows

Where do you go if you have several files to rename and organize? You hunt for software that will give your tired fingers a break from the sore monotony of renaming files one by one. If you are on such a lookout, then look at D-FileMU.

D-FileMU is a small, lightweight free software that belies its pocket-size with its punch. The 125 KB size download does not tax even a dial-up connection nor does it take a chunk out of your system resources. It is a relatively uncomplicated piece of software and in the same mold as another renaming utility called ‘Renamer’ covered here earlier.

The first thing I liked about the software was that it didn’t require any installation. I could run the program from any location and yes, even from my USB drive.

The file renaming operation is divided into three steps.

Step One lists the 17 different ways you can rename a file. Some of the common tasks which the software covers include

• Changing the case of the filenames.
• Changing file extensions of filenames.
• Adding strings to the beginning and end of the filenames.
• Adding numbers in sequence to the beginning or end of the filenames.
• Changing the file attributes i.e. read only (+r) or hidden (+h) or archive (+a).
• Completely renaming the files.

…and so on.

Step Two takes you a bit further into the selection of the files you want to rename. You can choose files individually, or by file extension or apply both the choices. Thus, files can be selected from disparate locations spread out on your hard drive or can be worked upon as a collection.

Step Three lists the files that are to be worked upon. A ‘Preview’ function to see the changes that will take place is very helpful. A click of the ‘Perform Changes’ button and the operation is complete.

With the operation complete, a box will prompt you to inform that the program has made the changes to the files. If there were any errors encountered during the process, the program will also display another box notifying you that there were errors and ask if you wish to view them or not.

A button which says ‘View Process File’ opens up a file which contains a detailed step by step account of what changes were made to which files. Similarly, a button that says ‘View Error File’ opens up a file which displays the list of errors (if any) that occurred during the renaming operation.

The user might have to take the program through a few runs to get the perfect file names with all the correct attributes in place.

Therefore, following a three step process your entire gamut of files gets new names. The program can also be used from the command line, but I guess that would be more for expert hands.

D-FileMU has all the attributes of a good freeware program – fast, light and accurate. What it slightly suffers from is a non-functioning developer website and lack of updates. But the mirror download sites allow us to get the software.

D-FileMU Version 1.7.4 is compatible with WinXP and Win2000.

Best Daily Jokes Sites

Research has shown that the mere physical act of smiling, without actually feeling like it, triggers internal biological reactions that stimulate emotions and contribute to a better mood - in you and others.

In other words, when you feel down, fake a big fat smile and you will lighten up automatically. But be careful, it also works the other way around, so remember to keep smiling.

Of course genuine smiling works a lot better, so try one of the daily joke sites below for some serious fun.

Smilezilla

“The funniest place on the web”, so they say.

The best joke of the day is featured on the front page and several more are waiting for your vote on the “all submissions” site. The site also features funny stories.

To contribute you can share your own jokes or stories. Be warned though, the site contains explicit language, like most of the sites mentioned further down in this post.

Pun Gents

“Fresh & Original Pun of the Day.”

Puns intended. Can be subscribed to by RSS and eMail. Puns can be demanded (submitted).

Funny Jokes Daily

A joke diary in blog style launched in May 2006 that features all the jokes the author has collected for his own entertainment over the years.

4. The Laughspot

Just a simple site that features a single joke of the day. No archives, no looking back. Can be subscribed to by eMail.

Daily Jokes

“One New Clean Joke Available Each Day.”

The site was launched in November 2008. It offers a feed available through RSS and eMail. Jokes are categorized and can be browsed by category.

1 Joke a Day

“Jokes, jokes, jokes…… This blog uploads a new joke on a daily basis. It’s all about making you laugh, brighten your day and cheer you up! After all, laughter is the best medicine!”

Some are long, some are short, some aren’t clean.

50Plus’s Daily Joke

In the Entertainment section of 50Plus you’ll find Daily Jokes that will make you smile mildly. Just the right thing when you can’t afford to laugh out loud.

WholeLook

“Laughter is the best medicine.”

In addition to a daily joke, WholeLook has daily quotes, riddles and puns. Good place to waste some time, enjoy yourself and get a mood boost.

How about funny jokes? Jester 4.0

“Jokes for Your Sense of Humor.”

Don’t care for daily jokes but rather want funny jokes? You should check out Jester where your sense of humor will be evaluated based on 8 different jokes. You will be asked to rate these jokes and all following, so that Jester can continuously refine the suggestions it makes.

Boot CD on a USB Stick

Several times I’ve been called upon at a moment’s notice to troubleshoot a misbehaving PC system either at work or at a friend’s or relative’s home. Being the “go to” guy for these sorts of problems is both a curse and a blessing, but I guess that is besides the point.
One tool that I have found to be valuable beyond compare is the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD). This compilation of software has just about everything you need to diagnose hard to find low level problems, and also some other tools that every PC technician should have available.
It has been around for a long time, but I still know a lot of techs who don’t know about it. Ultimate Boot CD includes memory checkers, CPU stress testers, system information tools, boot managers and tools for hard drives, partitions, password resets, and more. For a full list, check out the UBCD page.
Typically, this is burned onto an ISO and you boot using a CD. But isn’t that so “last year”? Putting it onto a USB Drive makes it much more portable and it can sit side by side with your other portable tech tools.
The directions on how to do this are courtesy of pendrivelinux:
Download the Ultimate Boot CD iso file and place it into its own directory
Download the UBCDfix.exe file and run it, extracting into the above folder
From this folder click fixubcd.bat and follow the instructions
Move the contents of the /dir/USBUBCD folder to your USB drive
From your USB drive, run makeboot.bat to make it bootable
That’s it! You now have a bootable USB drive. Any machine you wish to boot with this drive must be set to boot from USB, so this might mean a trip into the boot menu.
After booting from the drive you’ll see the UBCD menu:


Some great things I’ve used the UBCD to do:
Fixing a system whose boot loader did not install correctly
Run Darik’s Boot and Nuke to wipe a system before recycling it
Fixed a tricky system freezing problem that was caused by a bad stick of ram
Run OEM HD tools to confirm a hard drive was indeed malfunctioning

Free Tools to Download and Take Wikipedia Offline

Wikipedia, for most of us, needs no introduction. We use it perhaps almost as frequently as we use Google for our information needs. All of us might then wonder about the need to download and use a free information resource which is available only a click away online.
But imagine that you are marooned on an island with just your rusty laptop….OK, strike out the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ scenario and look at a more realistic setting of being away from a net connection. Get the picture? Here’s where some of the offline tools for Wikipedia browsing come in handy.
The Wikimedia Foundation has set up an offline Wikipedia version themselves understanding this need. The English version with a collection of about 2000 pages can be had in the form of a CD (an ISO file). But it comes at a cost of $13.99.
The penny pinchers among us have to put in a bit more effort and megabytes. But despair not. Here are four free tools for taking the Wikipedia knowledge off the net and into an anytime, anywhere experience.
I. WikiTaxi (OS: Windows)
All downloaded pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database remains compact enough. For instance, the huge English Wikipedia easily fits on an 8 GB memory stick. WikiTaxi itself does not require an installation as it runs from an executable. The process to download the information is a bit long drawn out as you have to essentially download a XML database dump from the Wikipedia site containing the wiki content (The largest English Wiki is 3.5 GB).
An included WinTaxi importer contains this database into a WinTaxi database for you to browse offline. The database dumps are updated every few weeks. So you need to go online to get the most recent version of the information.
II. Zipedia (OS:Windows)
Zipedia is a Mozilla Add-on for Firefox enabling offline browsing. The Zipedia page describes it as the ‘poor man’s choice’. But when we don’t have access to the real thing, then it’s a worthy choice isn’t it? You will still need to download the Wikipedia database dump. Zipedia does not need any external database as this is done by the browser itself. The add-on works with Firefox v2.0-3.0+. To access the offline resource you need to just type in - wikipedia://wiki/
III. Wikislice (OS: Windows)
Wikislice is an application that allows the user to collate Wikipedia entries based on a particular topic or subtopic. Wikislice as the name suggests gives you a ’slice’ of the information in a downloadable format for easy reading offline. Wikislice comes as a web based tool as well as a desktop interface. To use Wikislice, just type the topic of your interest in the search bar provided and Wikislice will display all the applicable information for you to browse or download.
Here’s how it works -Type in your topic and click ‘Go’.You get the information and related subtopics (for more narrow searches).The Top 50 topics are displayed over 5 pages.Download the Wikislice (part of Wikipedia) offline if the number of pages is less than 2000.The downloaded pages can be used with the Webaroo software. The app will check if you have the software installed on first use. In case you don’t, it will prompt you for the download.
Here’s a simple slideshow from the main site.
IV. Pocket Wikipedia (OS:Windows/ Linux and PocketPC)
Pocket Wikipedia is a carefully compiled handpicked selection of Wikipedia information and comprises of nearly 24,000 images and 14 million words. That’s a stack of fifteen volume encyclopedias (Encyclopedia Britannica has 40 million words and 24,000 images!). All within a 180MB free download in a single zip archive. This software differs from the others in one aspect - you get pictures within the text as in the original version. But remember that it does not contain the entire gamut of Wikipedia; just the more important ones for ready reference.

Online Learning Tools for Students

When I was in elementary school I was very annoyed by all this studying. But my idea and hope was that once I was done with school, I would also be done learning. I couldn’t wait.

Thus I was rather irritated when I heard that my dad had to complete training for his job to learn new things. I remember I asked him when one would be done learning and the essence of what he said was of course never. Bummer!

Some 20 years later I’m still a student and I know I’ll never get done learning. So hang in there and enjoy it!

1. Chemistry

Dynamic Periodic Table

This periodic table helps in keeping elements apart. You can highlight them by their aggregate state (solid, liquid, gas, unknown) or group (nonmetals with subgroups and metals with subgroups). Clicking on an element or group will launch a separate window with the matching Wikipedia article.

Periodic Table of the Elements

This periodic table is more compact than the previous one and it’s great for a quick summary for each element. As can be seen in the screenshot below, all elements are represented by a matching image and clicking on it launches a small information window.

2. Biology

Foldit

Foldit is not really a tool you’ll need for your everyday biology class. BUT it can help you understand something about proteins AND help scientists at the same time. Basically it’s a game and it’s your task to build protein molecules based on previously described structures.

Simon has reviewed the tool in detail in his article Foldit - Solve Puzzles for Science.

3. Mathematics

Mathway

This is an online tool that will help solve your maths challenges. Just enter the “problem statement”, select a subject and hit solve for the solution including the steps taken to get there.

Varun previously wrote about Mathway - A Step By Step Mathematics Problems Solver.

SpeedCrunch (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Unlike Mathway, this is a very powerful desktop calculator that contains a ton of helpful libraries for various maths problems.

Damien just recently introduced this tool in all its depth, so check out his piece SpeedCrunch - High Precision Freeware Desktop Calculator.

4. Languages

LiveMocha

This is a social network for learning languages. While you are helping others to improve their skills in your native language, they may help you improve a foreign language you are struggling with. They may even help you with your French homework.

Saikat wrote a thorough review of LiveMocha - Small The Coffee & Learn The Lingo.

VerbaLearn

With VerbaLearn you can improve your English vocabulary with online study sessions. The tool learns with you, keeping a record of your progress and weaknesses. You can listen to your study list offline to better memorize the words and practice the pronunciation and online you can read examples of how the word is being used.

The tool was recently introduced by Tim: Practice Your Vocabulary With VerbaLearn.

Bullfighter (MS Word and Powerpoint plugin)

Similar To VerbaLearn, this tool is designed to improve your use of the English language. The tool will analyze your texts for jargon. The higher your Bull Composite score, the higher the chance people will actually understand what you are trying to say.

James has written about Bullfighter - Simplify Your Writing & Gain Results.

5. Literature

wePapers

On this website people can share and expand their knowledge for free. You can read the material others have provided and upload your own papers to contribute to the community.

Zotero (Firefox extension)

When composing an assignment or a thesis you have to reveal your sources. Zotero is a Firefox extension that can help you keep track of your references and organize a citation bibliography for Open Office or MS Word documents.

Command Prompt

Ø ANSI.SYS Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.
Ø APPEND Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
Ø ARP Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices.
Ø ASSIGN Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter.
Ø ASSOC View the file associations.
Ø AT Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
Ø ATMADM Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.
Ø ATTRIB Display and change file attributes.
Ø BATCH Recovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
Ø BOOTCFG Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
Ø BREAK Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.
Ø CACLS View and modify file ACL's.
Ø CALL Calls a batch file from another batch file.
Ø CD Changes directories.
Ø CHCP Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
Ø CHDIR Changes directories.
Ø CHKDSK Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.
Ø CHKNTFS Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
Ø CHOICE Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
Ø CLS Clears the screen.
Ø CMD Opens the command interpreter.
Ø COLOR Easily change the foreground and background color of the MS-DOS window.
Ø COMP Compares files.
Ø COMPACT Compresses and uncompress files.
Ø CONTROL Open control panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
Ø CONVERT Convert FAT to NTFS.
Ø COPY Copy one or more files to an alternate location.
Ø CTTY Change the computers input/output devices.
Ø DATE View or change the systems date.
Ø DEBUG Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
Ø DEFRAG Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
Ø DEL Deletes one or more files.
Ø DELETE Recovery console command that deletes a file.
Ø DELTREE Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
Ø DIR List the contents of one or more directory.
Ø DISABLE Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
Ø DISKCOMP Compare a disk with another disk.
Ø DISKCOPY Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.
Ø DOSKEY Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
Ø DOSSHELL A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
Ø DRIVPARM Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
Ø ECHO Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
Ø EDIT View and edit files.
Ø EDLIN View and edit files.
Ø EMM386 Load extended Memory Manager.
Ø ENABLE Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.
Ø ENDLOCAL Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command.
Ø ERASE Erase files from computer.
Ø EXIT Exit from the command interpreter.
Ø EXPAND Expand a M*cros*ft Windows file back to it's original format.
Ø EXTRACT Extract files from the M*cros*ft Windows cabinets.
Ø FASTHELP Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them.
Ø FC Compare files.
Ø FDISK Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.
Ø FIND Search for text within a file.
Ø FINDSTR Searches for a string of text within a file.
Ø FIXBOOT Writes a new boot sector.
Ø FIXMBR Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
Ø FOR Boolean used in batch files.
Ø FORMAT Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
Ø FTP Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
Ø FTYPE Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.
Ø GOTO Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
Ø GRAFTABL Show extended characters in graphics mode.
Ø HELP Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
Ø IF Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
Ø IFSHLP.SYS 32-bit file manager.
Ø IPCONFIG Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.
Ø KEYB Change layout of keyboard.
Ø LABEL Change the label of a disk drive.
Ø LH Load a device driver in to high memory.
Ø LISTSVC Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
Ø LOADFIX Load a program above the first 64k.
Ø LOADHIGH Load a device driver in to high memory.
Ø LOCK Lock the hard disk drive.
Ø LOGON Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.
Ø MAP Displays the device name of a drive.
Ø MD Command to create a new directory.
Ø MEM Display memory on system.
Ø MKDIR Command to create a new directory.
Ø MODE Modify the port or display settings.
Ø MORE Display one page at a time.
Ø MOVE Move one or more files from one directory to another directory.
Ø MSAV Early M*cros*ft Virus scanner.
Ø MSD Diagnostics utility.
Ø MSCDEX Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
Ø NBTSTAT Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
Ø NET Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
Ø NETSH Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
Ø NETSTAT Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
Ø NLSFUNC Load country specific information.
Ø NSLOOKUP Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
Ø PATH View and modify the computers path location.
Ø PATHPING View and locate locations of network latency.
Ø PAUSE Command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.
Ø PING Test / send information to another network computer or network device.
Ø POPD Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
Ø POWER Conserve power with computer portables.
Ø PRINT Prints data to a printer port.
Ø PROMPT View and change the MS-DOS prompt.
Ø PUSHD Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.
Ø QBASIC Open the QBasic.
Ø RD Removes an empty directory.
Ø REN Renames a file or directory.
Ø RENAME Renames a file or directory.
Ø RMDIR Removes an empty directory.
Ø ROUTE View and configure windows network route tables.
Ø RUNAS Enables a user to execute a program on another computer.
Ø SCANDISK Run the scandisk utility.
Ø SCANREG Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
Ø SET Change one variable or string to another.
Ø SETLOCAL Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
Ø SETVER Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
Ø SHARE Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.
Ø SHIFT Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
Ø SHUTDOWN Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
Ø SMARTDRV Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
Ø SORT Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.
Ø START Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
Ø SUBST Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
Ø SWITCHES Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
Ø SYS Transfer system files to disk drive.
Ø TELNET Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.
Ø TIME View or modify the system time.
Ø TITLE Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
Ø TRACERT Visually view a network packets route across a network.
Ø TREE View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
Ø TYPE Display the contents of a file.
Ø UNDELETE Undelete a file that has been deleted.
Ø UNFORMAT Unformat a hard disk drive.
Ø UNLOCK Unlock a disk drive.
Ø VER Display the version information.
Ø VERIFY Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
Ø VOL Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
Ø XCOPY Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.
Ø TRUENAME When placed before a file, will display the whole directory in which it exists
Ø TASKKILL It allows you to kill those unneeded or locked up applications

Run Commands to access the control panel

Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl
Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl
Display Properties control desk.cpl
FindFast control findfast.cpl
Fonts Folder control fonts
Internet Properties control inetcpl.cpl
Keyboard Properties control main.cpl keyboard
Mouse Properties control main.cpl
Multimedia Properties control mmsys.cpl
Network Properties control netcpl.cpl
Password Properties control password.cpl
Printers Folder control printers
Sound Properties control mmsys.cpl sounds
System Properties control sysdm.cpl

RUN COMMANDS

compmgmt.msc - Computer management
devmgmt.msc - Device manager
diskmgmt.msc - Disk management
dfrg.msc - Disk defrag
eventvwr.msc - Event viewer
fsmgmt.msc - Shared folders
gpedit.msc - Group policies
lusrmgr.msc - Local users and groups
perfmon.msc - Performance monitor
rsop.msc - Resultant set of policies
secpol.msc - Local security settings
services.msc - Various Services
msconfig - System Configuration Utility
regedit - Registry Editor
msinfo32 _ System Information
sysedit _ System Edit
win.ini _ windows loading information(also system.ini)
winver _ Shows current version of windows
mailto: _ Opens default email client
command _ Opens command prompt

Vertor: Stay Away From Infected & Fake Torrents

With thousands and thousands of new torrents each day, it’s impossible to be sure that the torrent you are downloading is safe. The people at VERTOR (VERified TORrents) are trying to change that for you, by downloading everything themselves and scanning to see if there are any infected or fake torrents. It’s like a fake torrent checker app where torrents are checked by real people. The safe torrents are then uploaded to the site from where you can search and download them.

VERTOR is still relatively new, so there aren’t as many torrents to search through as you may like. Nonetheless, it’s still a great place to find torrents that aren’t fake or full of spam.

The folks at VERTOR also provide lots of information about the torrent you’re downloading to make sure you download what you wanted.

• If there is an archive in a torrent file, we decompress it and make a filelist. If there is an error in the process, we mark the file “protected” and do not not place it in the overall database.
• If there is a video file in a torrent, we make screenshots of it. If the video is protected by DRM, screenshots will be blank.
• If there is an audio file in a torrent, we cut out small pieces of it for users to make sure the file has prescribed qualities.
• If there is a text description in a torrent file, we save it so users can read it before downloading.

Features:

• Safe torrent website to search and download torrents that aren’t fake or filled with spam.
• Files all checked for DRM and viruses.
• View screenshots of video files.
• Hear a 20 second preview of audio files.
• Read reviews of the latest stuff at VERTOR.
• Search over 100,000+ scanned torrents.
• Browse torrents by category and sort them by size, seeds and leechs.

Check out VERTOR @ www.vertor.com via (TorrentFreak)

noSPM: Send Anonymous Email Messages

Ever need send someone an email and stay anonymous? Enter noSPM.org. This simple anonymous mailer lets you send anonymous email messages to any email address for free. The application has a web 2.0ish look and very friendly interface. To send an anonymous message all you need to do is enter recipient’s email address, type in your text and then click on “Send” button.

The registration is not required, however registered users are also able to track sent messages in their account.

Features:

• Anonymous mailer.
• Send as many emails as you like.
• No registration necessary
• More features are to be added in the future.

Check out noSPM @ www.noSPM.org

Iterasi: Web Tool For Saving Web Pages Online

Iterasi is a web based application that lets you permanently save web pages online. Even if the site or the webpage goes down at a later stage, you will have a working copy of the saved web page within your secured iterasi account forever. Iterasi works even with websites that require authentication and saves pages as they are.

It’s easy to save a site to your iterasi account the site provides you  with a simple  to use bookmarklet and browser extension.

Feature overview:

• Save web pages and websites permanently.
• Feature rich browser extension and bookmarklet available.
• Works even with sites that requires authentication.
• Check out public archives and search.
• Option to import bookmarks from IE and Firefox.
• Easy to use scheduler to auto save highly dynamic websites like blogs, retail sites etc.
• Make your saved webpages  public or keep them private.
• Pages can be easily shared with friends via mail, rss or by embed code.

   Check out iterasi @ www.iterasi.net

XSketch : Online Multiplayer Pictionary Game

Got some time to kill? Check out this addictive multiplayer game. The idea behind XSketch is similar to Pictionary, a word guessing board game where you sketch a picture with the goal of helping other players guess the word behind it. Same on XSketch, one player gets a word and tries to help others guess it by drawing clues. The sketcher gets points when someone names the word. The player who guessed the word gets some points as well.

Additional Features

• Play Pictionary against other users in real-time.
• Stats: Top 100 gamers, Quickest Average Guessing/Sketching, Most Winning Sketches/Guesses etc.
• Option to become premium member. See membership details here

Go to XSketch @ [ www.xsketch.com ]

SketchSwap: Online Drawing Board

Web based drawing board where you can draw something on the screen and receive one random SketchSwap-approved user drawing in return.

SketchSwap: “Draw cartoons, art, brainstorms, anything. If you add text, please use English so we can approve it. A graphic tablet helps sketching.”

SketchSwap Features:

• Draw one picture and receive one in return. (You can draw anything you want, even a simple line.)
• Each drawing comes with video showing how the person on the other end actually drew the picture.
• Over 25,000 user-submitted and approved sketches.

Visit SketchSwap [www.sketchswap.com]

FlashPaint: Online Drawing Tool

FlashPaint is an online drawing tool that lets you paint pictures online. It runs on Flash and provides you with a quick and responsive online editor that has pretty much everything you would need. Created drawings can be saved on FlashPaint and optionally published in online gallery for others to see.

You can browse paintings created by other users, check out  most viewed and the very best. There is no registration or sign up needed.

Features:

• Draw paintings online.
• Simple and easy to use drawing editor.
• Browse images created by others and leave comments.
• Check out most viewed and the very best.

Check out FlashPaint @ www.flashpaint.com

GreatSummary: Get A Quick Summary For Any Long Article

GreatSummary is an online summarizer that can take any text you provide and give you quick summary of the content. It can summarize articles, web pages and basic text pasted from any text document. Copy, paste (link or text), get your summary.

One really handy feature is the ability to specify the number of sentences you want to see in the summary (from 1 to 100). Pretty cool.

Do not expect outstanding results, the summaries are algorithm generated and thus there is always a chance that some “important” points will be missed. Nonetheless it is a good bookmark to have in your arsenal.

Features:

• Get a short overview for any submitted text.
• Get summaries for webpages and  basic  text.
• Select number of sentences you want to see in the summary (from 1 to 100).
• No sign-up needed.

Check out GreatSummary @ www.greatsummary.com (via lifehacker.com)

Automatic Text Summarizer: Text Summarization Tool

As the name suggests it is an online text summarization tool that lets you quickly get a summary of some long text. This can come in quite useful in cases when you do not feel like reading long and boring articles but still want to have a basic idea what they are all about.

To summarize an article simply copy and paste the text into provided field, select how many sentences you want in the summary and click on the “summarize” button.

Do not expect results to be perfect, the summaries are auto-generated and obviously there is always a chance that some important points might be missed by the software. So keep it mind.

Features:

• Summarize text online.
• Customize the number of sentences you want to see in the summary.
• No registration is required.
• Another text summarizer tool you may check out is GreatSummary

Go to Automatic Text Summarizer @ www.search.iiit.net/~jags/summarizer