It lets you cartoonize any YouTube video by giving you the ability to add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and subtitles etc.  All you need to do is register on their website, search the video you want to edit and click “Pop that video”.  From that point, you can start editing that video by customizing it with bubbles,  subtitle size, color, transparency, text size/color etc.

It’s a fun website where can you make cartoons out of those youtube videos, translate existing videos into new languages, commenting on those videos or make a story out of images by using subtitles.

Features Include

• Add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and subtitles to  YouTube  videos.
• Edit as many videos as you like.
• Customize  Bubbles and Subtitles: Color, Size,  Borders, Transparency, Font size/color,  Add pop sounds and more
• Embedding of edited videos supported.
• Search and browse videos created by others users.
• Check out  Top rated, Recently Popular, and Recently Added  videos,  rate and leave comments.

Check out this sample video.

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To use the web toolbar go to StumbleUpon and click on any of the recommended sites and the toolbar will immediately appear on top of the page. StumbleUpon’s team has tried to replicate most of the functionality of browser based toolbar to web toolbar but there is still a long way to go.

I tried using the toolbar but as strange as it may sound, web toolbar does not offer any login functionality, instead it only lets users to register with the service and precisely for this reason I was not able to stumble sites using the web toolbar.

Another feature StumbleUpon announced is its partner program with sites like Howstuffworks etc. Going forward you will start seeing Digg-like StumbleUpon badges on the article pages. Though these badges will let you vote for the article unlike Digg, it will also launch StumbleUpon web toolbar using which the user can view other similar articles on the same site.

The badge functionality is currently available only on the partner sites; however, it will be open to all the blogs and sites in the future. The functionality is currently limited only to the partner sites as it is still being fine-tuned and optimized for the larger audience.

Overall its nice to see Stumbleupon making it easier for people use its services which in turn helps Stumble gain more audiance.

This is a guest post by Syed Abbas from Technology Nerd. For more web media news and tips please visit the blog or subscribe to its RSS.

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Do you need to check email very often and find it very annoying to login to your mailbox each time just to do this?

Well another easy way to check your mail repeatedly is to use a desktop mail client like Windows Live Mail. However, if you keep surfing the web most of the time using Firefox, WebMail Notifier will do the job for you.

WebMail Notifier is a Firefox Extension which lets you check multiple email accounts simultaneously and it notify new unread emails right in the browser statusbar.

WebMail Notifier currently support GMail, Google Apps, Yahoo Mail (including Ymail.com & RocketMail.com), Hotmail (including Live.com & MSN.com), Daum.net, Naver.com, Empas.com and Nate.com, while FastMail, Orkut, Lycos Mail can also be configured using user script.

If you are well enough, you can also create userscript for your desired webmail provider. WebMail Notifier works with almost all Firefox versions.

For users with multiple email accounts, this is the dream Firefox extension. Give it a try, it will definitely help you increase your productivity and save time.

Install WebMail Notifier

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Well today I share a technique I have used for a couple of years now. The basic idea is to gain admin access to a restricted system to which you only have physical access (you can’t install programs or run scripts etc). This will be a long (but interesting) article and may have information that doesn’t apply to every case. It is also highly recommended that you have some knowledge of computers (more than just surfing the web, writing documents or playing games) and lots of patience.

Background

Disclaimer: If your purpose is just install malicious, non productive software or retrieve personal/illegal information then please do not read this. I or anyone else from Sizlopedia will not be responsible for any harm (intellectual or otherwise) caused by this information.

I would start the article with a little background of why I (or anyone else) would want full access to a system. I’m a student of computer engineering studying at Bahria University, Islamabad. We are subjected to torture worse than Guantanamo Bay, as the systems in the computer labs have no such things as Firefox, Flash Player, Windows Media Player, Photoshop/Fireworks, Messenger, or any other useful software for that matter. We only get 100 MB of a shared network drive for storage of personal files (assignments, notes etc) which also get wiped every couple of months. We are subjected to limited Internet, no social networking, video streaming or downloads (even though we have 4 and 8 Mbps servers).

The above reasons are enough for any technology lover to revolt and find means to get full (sometimes unauthorized) access to the systems. I just want to surf the web more securely, while streaming some tunes and interacting with my friends on Facebook. So after some time (actually my 3rd day in the university) I started looking for ways to gain access to a secure system. I met with random success and new challenges, and share my discoveries with you.

Resources

If you try to search online, there is a little chance that you would find technique that is almost 100% effective in all situations. Even after a certain limit, Microsoft suggests that you should reformat your drive and reinstall windows if you can’t remember your credentials.

The tools we would use here are available on the Internet. Actually its a combination of various techniques from various sources, some from Microsoft, some from the hacker and open source community, and some I engineered myself. This will probably be one of the most complete guides to recover your passwords.

Alternatives

Alternatives to this technique do exist but they have their limitations. Here is a quick list of some of the best tools I have used successfully to achieve a similar result:

• Emergency Recovery Disk: If you are the legitimate owner of the system then you must have an emergency recovery disk with you. Its intended for system failures but will work in this case too. Just boot from that disk and restore your system.
• Windows Password Recovery: This is the fastest recovery method I have seen to date. Provided everything goes right, you can recover your password within 10 minutes. Their limitation is that their priority service is not free and they don’t always work on all types of passwords.
• Offline NT Password & Registry Editor: Though this doesn’t recover password, its a fast dirty way to access a restricted system.  Just download and burn the Linux shell onto a disc or a flash drive and boot from it. You can do hordes of other stuff besides resetting the password. I use this, the most.

While these alternatives do work, they are usually not applicable to the core reason this article focuses on. At some other time, I will discuss techniques about how to use them with a clean operation.

What you would need

Ok now getting to the main topic. You would need to put together a few things before you can recover the passwords. Here they are:

• Full access to a good PC - At least a Pentium 4 equivalent processor, but a Core 2 is recommended. If you plan on using Celeron or Atom series then don’t. Ideally, you should have something as powerful as a Core i7. If you have full access to more than one PCs connected over a network then use them all (more on this below).
• A CD-R/CD-RW if your board can’t boot USB flash drives.
• A USB 2.0 Flash Drive, if your board supports booting from it, consider a 512 MB drive to directly boot from it.

That’s all for the hardware you need. On the software side, you will have many options, some shareware and some free. Continuing the tradition of Sizlopedia, we will be using free software only, though I would mention all the names.

• A Pre Environment, either Microsoft Windows PE (very rare) or BartPE, both would work. Even though it is recommended, you won’t need this if you can access the registry files some other way (another operating system).
• A Hash Decryptor. One powerful tool is SAMInside, but it isn’t free. The best alternative is to use LCP, a free NT and LM hash decryptor with lots of similarities with SAMInside.
• A Windows XP installation disc to build the pre environment.

It would be worthy to note here that SAMInside can ease a lot of pain in some situations due to its superior features over LCP, but they aren’t always required. Both tools can bypass SYSKEY protection as well as pause and resume attacks. SAMInside can only speed up tasks thanks to its little extras (a bonus attack, dictionary tables, and option to select which passwords to recover) but that’s nothing LCP can’t handle given a little more time.

Step 1: Building the Pre Environment

I am assuming that you have downloaded BartPE Builder, and you have a system with full admin rights and a Windows XP installation disc to work on. Making sure that your Windows XP installation files are already on your hard drive (the i386 folder) or the CD is in the CD-ROM. Start pebuilder.exe, it will ask you to search for installation files. Its a waste of time, so just choose no, and then click the button next to the Source textbox. Browse to your i386 folder (L:\i386 in my case, on the CD) and select it.

In the media output group box, select Burn to CD/DVD and choose StartBurn from the drop list. It will automatically select your burner. Click on Build to start building the PE image, which would burn to the disc. This will take some time, and if everything goes successful, you will get a success message.

You could also make a USB boot drive if you like (and are willing to risk it). Its not a 100% guarantee but it has worked for me. You would need at least a 512 MB of flash drive and a couple of files from Windows Server 2003 SP1. This USB Pre Environment builder gives more details on this.

Step 2: Getting the Registry Files

This is the hardest part of the process. Partly due to the fact that now you would be stealing user information and also because that its not easy to locate and access the registry hives. Actually depending on your operating system and settings, the registry information may be stored at a number of places. What you are looking for are three files; SAM (Security Accounts Manager), SYSTEM (Local System hive) and SECURITY (SYSKEY encryption information).

By default, in most operating systems, they are located at Windows\System32\Config. They are locked by the NT Session Manager and WinLogon so you can’t access them from within Windows. If you have System Restore active, then they would also be located in System Volume Information\(restore point image)\(restore folder) but its not always accurate.

They safest way is to boot from a non NT Operating System (which supports NTFS) and get the files from there. This is where BartPE comes into play.

• Boot from BartPE by inserting the CD or the USB drive into the target system.
• When Bart finishes loading, click on the Go button and look for the A43 Filemanager. Its location changes with different versions but its easy to find (usually in Accessories, the menu is small).



• This is like the Windows Explorer. Navigate to Windows\System32\Config and copy the files SAM, SYSTEM and SECURITY to any other folder you can access from within windows. If Bart detected your USB Flash Drive, then you can paste there.
• You are done with Bart. Quickly remove the boot medium and reboot the PC.
• If you haven’t already, retrieve the files you copied from within Windows and leave the system.

Remember if you are doing this on a public PC, then be extremely careful not get caught. This whole process may take about 10 minutes depending on the system speed.

Step 3: Hash Decryption

This is the final and longest step in our process. It would take anywhere from 30 minutes to thousands of days based on the complexity of the password. You should continue this on the most powerful computer you have access to. By that I mean a system which you can use (you don’t need full privileges to run the software). I’d advise you to at least use an Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 64 processor. Anything below that would be a waste of time. Plus you can double your performance if you use a multi core system like the Intel Core 2 or the Intel Core i7.

I’ll assume that you want to continue with the free LCP software, and not SAMInside. They are mostly similar in functionality and provide all the basic set of tools you may need. SAMInside has an added advantage of having an extra attack and some better options for decryption and password prediction. It can reduce the total time you need to crack a password, but anything you can do with SAMInside, you can do it with LCP (it will take a little longer in some cases).

Simple Attack

Start LCP by extracting/installing the files you downloaded (Note: you don’t have to install LCP in order to run it). LCP has an excellent documentation that comes with it while a little help material is also available on its website. While I will guide you for making the most straightforward attack, it may often help to know what else you can do with the configuration and this may dramatically reduce the time you need to crack a password.

There are a lot of ways to import the hashes into LCP, but we will use the Load from SAM file option. Click on Import > Import from SAM file… in the main menubar. You will be presented by the dialog depicted in the image to the right. There are a few things you should be careful of, like selecting the right files. Usually people mostly screw up in this part.

For the first textbox, click the browse button and navigate to the SAM file you retrieved earlier. Next, if SYSKEY was enabled, then you need to check Additional encryption is used checkbox. If you are unsure that whether SYSKEY was enabled or not, then a rule of thumb is that if you are using anything after Windows XP Service Pack 2, then SYSKEY would be enabled by default.

Even if you don’t know exactly, you can still provide a SYSKEY file, and the program would alert you if it couldn’t detect a SYSKEY. There are three ways you can provide the SYSKEY.

• From a SYSTEM hive of the target system.
• From a known password of the target system.
• From a recovery disk (virtually obsolete).

We will use the SYSTEM registery hive, we retrieved earlier because its our best bet to uncover the SYSKEY. So click the Browse button and choose the SYSTEM registry hive. Click Ok, and if everything went fine, you should now see the following screen.

This basically is the list of all the user accounts extracted from the files along with some account information. The most important one here is the NT and LM (LAN Manager) hashes. The passwords would appear here when they are decoded. Another interesting set of information here is the length of the password.

If the password you desire is indicated as being less than 8 characters long, then you are (usually) in luck. It would take between 30 minutes to about 2 hours to decode them on a decent system. If they are between 8 to 14 characters, it would take up to 2 days. If its anything above 14 characters, then you should stop right here and go for a distributed attack approach. Otherwise you could be waiting for a thousand years for the password to decrypt successfully.

If you know any details about the password, then its the best time to LCP in on them. By this I mean, if you know something about the length of the password or its complexity, or even if you know a part of it (some characters) then you should configure LCP to take full advantage of that knowledge. This can dramatically reduce the time required to decrypt. I’ll show this by an example:

Suppose that you want to decrypt a hash which would result in “ilovepizza”. The password has 10 UTF-8 characters, and there are a possible 1.54814008760175e+16 combinations of the UTF-8 character set. If each combination takes 1 micro second to process, then you would need 1.54814008760175e+13 seconds (that’s millions of millions of years) to get that password. Now if you know that you’re not going to need all the UTF-8 characters, and use just the lowercase English alphabet, then the total number of possibilities is reduced to 70607460 combinations and the time required to 70607.460 seconds (under 24 hours).

Of course the above figures are just an assumption and don’t reflect any actual time required. IT was just to give you an idea of importance of making the right settings. A pretty much evolved race of humans would eventually see the password coming out at a galaxy far far away, but sadly, they wont know if pizza was a religious food item or a homosexual homicidal lunatic.

Back to the topic, we are now all set to start the attack. Make sure that Hybrid attack is selected from the main toolbar, and click the blue Play button to start. Your password is now being cracked and LCP will show you how much (just an estimate) time is left until the full password is unveiled. This is pretty much it for what you could do with the simple attack. All you have to do now is to be patient.

You can pause/resume your progress anytime on any computer. This is probably the best feature  in these software and this forms the basis for the Distributed Attack technique (below).

Distributed Attack

What if you have 10 computers with similar specs at your disposal? Now if you took the above password example, and split it evenly on 10 computers, your work would have been completed in 7060.746 seconds or about a little under 2 hours. This sure beats waiting for an entire day for a simple (but long) password like that.

LCP makes it very easy to distribute your attack load on multiple computers, and you don’t have to connect them physically. They are not requred to be on a network. I basically always use the distributed attack to uncover my paswords and last time, 7 computers got the work done in three days (which would require up to weeks if I just used one PC).

To start a distributed attack, you have to follow up to the point where you loaded the registry hives into LCP. From there you just have to configure LCP as you normally would, and then do an extra step to setup the distributed attack. Click on File > Distribute Sessions and the distributed attack manager would open up.

It will automatically load your basic configuration which you had setup. Select a naming prefix for your files, and the number of distributions you want to create (the number of PCs you are going to use). Click the distribute button and the distributed files will be generated. Click Save to Folder to save them in a specific folder.

Now you have run an instance of LCP on each computer and load one of the distribution files there and simply start the process. Once the attack on each machine finishes, you will see the respective results on one of the system (one of them will have the password).

This technique can also be used on the same processor if you have a multi core architecture (best for Core 2 Quad or Core i7). Simply make distributions as you have cores (make it double for Core i7) and run that many instances of LCP on the same computer. Then start your process manager (Task Manager or Process Explorer) and right click on each instance of LCP. What you want to do here is to set the process affinity of each process to a different core. It will work as a separate process on that same system.

Conclusion

No matter which path you will take, you will get your password after some time. The process may take long but it is worth the wait. You can always use the faster (less subtle) alternatives I listed above. If you have any further questions or comments, then you can ask them below (via comments). As stated above, I or anyone else from Sizlopedia for that matter, will not be responsible for any harm/damage this may bring. So use at your own risk.

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Previously I have shared free licenses for a number of paid software and today I would like to share the deal of 100-day Free Kaspersky Internet Seucrity 2009 License originally shared by Haris.

The trick here is to actually make use of a promotional campaign being supported by Computer Shopper Magazine. Basically this promotion holds for Computer Shopper readers only but a little walkthrough can allow any user to grab a free Kaspersky Internet 2009 License for 100-Days.

Here is how to get it:

1. Follow the link below:
   http://www.coverdisc.co.uk/cs249/kis/index.php
2. Enter all details and click Submit
3. Now it will ask you to enter the fifth word of the sixth step from issue 249, enter “also” without quotes and hit Submit.

You should now receive a Free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 License in your mailbox. Thank me! and love Kaspersky.

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Haris has discovered two good old techniques to get the old Facebook layout back. This will help users switch to the old Facebook design and navigate in the same old-school fashion as before.

Method#1 involved two steps:

1. Add the Developer application from here.
2. After adding that application, click the following link to get the old Facebook back.
   http://apps.new.facebook.com/?fbnew_opt_out=1

Method#2 involves making use of a Greasemonkey script which can be downloaded from here. For those of you who don’t know, Greasemonkey is a browser extension for Firefox that allows you to install custom scripts for enhanced functionality on various web services.

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Though services like TinyURL help in reducing the mess and do a really good job in shrinking some really really long URLs, they also cloak the destination URLs which makes the user unaware of where he or she might be heading to.

LongURL Mobile Expander for Firefox simply does the opposite. Just like TinyURL takes a long URL and encodes it into a small one, LongURL for Firefox decodes the already encoded TinyURL and displays the actual destination as a tooltip.

This way users can preview the destination URLs without even clicking on them and decide whether they want to follow it or not. This not only helps them know the real location of the short URL but also saves them from shit load of Internet hoaxes, Rick Rolling videos, and who knows (even viruses and trojans?).

LongURL currently supports a number of URL shortening services e.g. TinyURL, Is.gd, Ping.fm etc.

LongURL for Firefox

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Though the bad part is that Apple is still requiring old iPod Touch owners to purchase the new firmware for $9.95 which is utterly evil. However following the following tips you might be able to upgrade from an old firmware to the latest 2.1 without even paying a penny.

Here is how it goes:

1. Follow our famous guide on How to Update iPod Touch to 2.0 for Free.
2. Once your iPod Touch is on 2.0, open iTunes click update.
3. This will automatically update your iPod Touch to 2.1 for Free.

The new iPod Touch 2.1 Firmware is free for users who have already upgraded their iPod Touch to 2.0. Users waiting to get their hands on the new iPod Touch 2nd Gen don’t need to worry as it will be shipped with iPod Touch 2.1 out of the box.

This new firmware brings a million new bug fixes and takes care of problems such as keyboard tapping lag, slow updates from app store etc.

The Jailbreak for this new firmware is not out or has not yet been tested. However, it will be posted here as soon as it is dicsovered. Watch out for links to the iPhone 2.1 Firmware being released tomorrow.

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There are some things in nature which can’t be changed and one of them is the difficulty we PC users face in switching to a totally new operating system like Mac OS X. Mac OS is no doubt very flexible and efficient but a nightmare for new Windows users.

Below is a list of all those tips and tricks which I learned in time to get myself used to the Mac OS. Mac newbies and beginners will definitely find these tips helpful.

1. Take an Instant Screenshot

The easiest and fastest way is to use a combination of the keys: Command + Shift + 3.

There is also a utility called Grab which can be found in Applications → Utilities → Grab. It even allows you to set a timer or take screenshot of a select portion of your screen.

2. Forcefully Eject a CD/DVD

You will need to use this trick when you accidentally inserted a blank disc or ejected while the disc was being used and the disc icon disappeared from desktop.

Just Go to Applications → Utilities → Disk Utilities, select your CD/DVD and click Eject or restart your Mac and while it reboots, hold down the mouse or mousepad button.

3. Setup a Proxy for your Network

Open System Preferences and look for Network under Internet & Network. Then select your network device from the menu (AirPort for WiFi, Ethernet for LAN) and click Advanced button.

In the menu that splashes in, select the Proxies tab, define your settings and hit OK.

4. Completely Quit an Application

In a Mac, applications don’t completely shut down by clicking the [x] button like they do in Windows. They just move out of focus but keep running in the background.

To completely shut down or quit an application, select it and use the combination: Command + Q. If the application is stuck or is not responding, make use of the Applications → Utilities → Activity Monitor.

5. Install an Application

Download the Apple Disk Image (.dmg) of the application to be installed and extract to your desktop (this will make a virtual drive). Open the virtual drive and copy the application file and paste into the Applications folder.

To cleanup, simply move the virtual drive and the downloaded .dmg file to the trash bin.

6. Arrange the Icons on Desktop

Lets say you have been playing around with the icons on your desktop and you jumbled them all by mistake.

The easiest solution is to use the combination: Control + Mouse Button to open a context menu and select Clean up to make all icons align properly in the grid.

7. Search for a File or Folder

Use Spotlight, built-in search assistant. It can be located on the top right corner of the task bar.

8. Change Icon Size

If you are on a Macbook Pro, you can use the mousepad gestures (pinch/expand) to change the icon size on the desktop, in a folder or virtuall anywhere.

However if you want to do it manually, use the combination: Control + Mouse Button to open the context menu, click Show View Options and choose your settings.

9. View all Open Applications and Folders

Suppose you opened a dozen applications and folders and do not know how to switch to a particular one instantly, don’t worry!

Just press F3 command key on the keyboard and it will show you a grid view of all open applications and folders, then you can switch to any application or folder by clicking on it. Easy eh?

10. Change Startup Disk Options

This is one reason I love a Mac. You can change the startup disk options from a GUI instead of a BIOS like in Windows.

Just go to System Preferences and look for Startup Disk in the System tab. Here you can change which OS/Disk you would like to boot at startup.

I am still a Mac newbiew so if I missed any important Mac tips please share in the comments below. Suggestions are also welcome.

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Another useful tool called Twitbin allows you to use Twitter right inside your Firefox sidebar.

Twitbin is a Firefox extension which brings the power of Twitter right in your browser sidebar.

You can view public or friends timeline and update your status instantly.

More amazingly it lets you do nothing extraordinary. The only plus point about Twitbin is that it is multi-platform (As its a Firefox extension) and that it runs in the sidebar silently without obstructing your browsing activities.

TwitterFox (reviewed by us) is another cool Firefox Extension for Twitter. Also if you are a linux user, don’t forget to check out our list of Twitter Clients for Ubuntu.

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My favorite feature so far is the Incognito window which enables the user to surf and browse in a private mode. The feature is much similar to that in Internet Explorer 8 called InPrivate browsing.

To enable private browsing mode in Google Chrome, just click on the file menu and select New Incognito Window or simply use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N.

Once the new Incognito window opens, all your surfing activities (history, cache, other data etc) is kept hidden in a bubble and is cleared as soon as you leave the window.

To open a link directly in a private mode, right click it and select Open link in Incognito window. Enjoy private surfing!

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Business cards are very useful for sharing contact information with people in the social life. They enhance communication and public relations. Bloggers can use business cards to show off their blogs and share their interests with other people.

Atomic Business Card is basically a very simple Business card generator. It allows you to upload a logo and put some basic information on the card such as your name, title, address, phone number, email etc.

The card can then be downloaded in a PDF and can be printed. Like this, you can create and print a free business card in less than a minute.

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Unlike YouTube, the videos on Veoh do not have a limited length and users can watch all videos in full high quality. The only problem is that most of the TV Shows on Veoh are limited to users from the US only and users from the rest of the world can’t watch them directly.

The simple solution is to download videos from Veoh directly to your PC.

Veoh Downloder is a simple tool which downloads high quality Veoh.com videos i.e. the originally uploaded version, not the FLV-compressed version with low quality. This program functions regardless of your IP location which means you can download videos even if you are not from the US.

Alternatively you can try OrbitDownloader to download videos from Veoh and other social video sites. If you are looking for an online service to do the same job, check out Clipnabber.

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Though such clients are good and useful but updating Twitter status through Pidgin has its own ease and fun.

IceHot shares a very useful plugin for Pidgin known as Pidgin-Microblog which allows user to post updates to Twitter even without using the Jabber service. This way you can stay connected to your followers anywhere, anytime on Ubuntu.

The plugin also works for Pidgin on Windows. To download and install for Ubuntu Linux, simply use the deb package.

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For this they have developed some tools and techniques using which any user can bypass the great firewall of China and can surf the web without any restriction.

Technique 1: Use a Proxy

The first technique they recommend is of using a Proxy. Here on Sizlopedia we have a couple of posts on how to use proxies to bypass firewalls:

• Access Blocked Websites Using Proxies
• Access Blocked Websites Using Email
• Access Blocked Websites without Using a Proxy

The proxy method of bypassing Internet censorship works as long as the proxy itself is not blocked by the ISP of Government.

Technique 2: Use Freedom USB Stick

The second technique recommended by the Chaos Computer Club is to use the Freedom USB Stick.

The FreedomStick is an ordinary USB stick with the TorBrowser and Torprojects software preinstalled. These software can be downloaded in EXE and ZIP and can be installed on any USB flash drive to help you bypass Firewall restrictions in China.

Apart from making use of the Tor project, you can take a look at our 10 Free Tools to Bypass Internet Firewalls.

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It basically allows you to play videos from your favorite video sites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, MySpace right from within your Firefox sidebar.

Users can make a playlist of videos and watch them while surfing the web. The reason I love this extension is because it kills the limitation of staying on a browser window to watch a video and allows you to enjoy it virtually anywhere you go.

Once you install this extension (link provided at the end of this post), simply click the red YP button on the bottom right section of Firefox to bring up the YouPlayer sidebar. To start watching videos, all you have to do is drag the video link from your browser to the playlist section and double click it.

And if you still think YouPlayer is not cool enough, let me tell you that YouPlayer also allows you to even drag local files from hard drive into playlist and if you want you can download videos from YouTube by right clicking their link in the playlist and selecting Download.

Install YouPlayer Firefox Extension

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This Firefox addon is recommended for users who download files very often and using this addon they will be able to view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar instead of the download window.

The fully customizable interface of this Firefox addon auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.

Users can pause/resume a file download with single-click and can open or run a completed file with double-click. Other interesting feature of this addon is the in-line preview of percent done, speed in KBs, KBs downloaded so far and remaining time. A virus scanner can also be configured to auto-scan a file when it completes.

Install Download Statusbar

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Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your PC but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print a list of all chosen drivers.

After downloading and installing the application, simply hit Scan and it will generate a list of all drivers currently installed on your PC. It gives detailed statistics about your drivers such as their version, provider, class, setup information etc and also allows sorting.

Download Double Driver

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The method I used makes use of QuickPwn which is quite an easy and quick tool to Jailbreak iPhone.

Just follow the steps below:

1. Download the QuickPwn binaries archive and extract to a folder (link provided at end of this post).
2. Get a copy of iPhone 2.0.1 for your specific iPhone model from here.
3. Put your phone to DFU mode (video tutorial) and then restore to the latest iPhone 2.0.2 Firmware.
4. Copy the iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware, you downloaded in Step 2, to QuickPwn folder.
5. Run the iPhone_2G.bat
6. Enjoy and thank me!

Thats it! now you will have a Jailbroken iPhone. For iPhone 3G and iPod Touch simply use their corresponding .bat files as provided in the QuickPwn archive.

Use the following link to download QuickPwn binaries archive.

Download QuickPwn

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It is a very simple addon and not only decorates your favorite browser but also pleases your eyes.

It gives user many options such as:

• Generate tab color randomly
• Generate a custom tab color
• Keep a background image for a tab
• Generate tab color based on URL in address bar

I am most of my readers who use Firefox must have already tested out this sweet Firefox extension but those who haven’t, you should definitely try it out.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368

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