Archive for January, 2009

I was listening to Security Now podcast, and kept hearing uberkey uberkey on i think it was episode 175. The concept of ubery key was pretty interesting, a usb device that can generate a long static password without you entering it. This can be in entering WEP or WPA keys, your normal login password etc.
I [...]

While clearing up my backlog of videocast, revision 3 system ep 083 was talking about camera os.
chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Do check this above link if you are a canon powershot use.
Extracted from the site
* RAW – CHDK can record raw files, giving you access to every bit of data the sensor saw, without compression or processing. Raw [...]

My first screencast, took about 1 day plus of fiddling and trying out different software.
1. In the end i used wink for the screen capture and annotation
www.debugmode.com/wink/
2. Camstudio use to capture the output from the swf
camstudio.org/
3. Audicity for trimming and fade out of MP3
audacity.sourceforge.net/
4. Virtualdub for encoding and putting the mp3 together
www.virtualdub.org/
Hope everyone enjoys it, [...]

Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T, Ctrl T.
Bang, we got 4 tabs in firefox. Tabs are so addictive in firefox. Normally i would have like 20 tabs or so at any one time.
Lifehacker recently reviewed another tab management extension.
lifehacker.com/5123708/tabhunter-adds-faster-tab-switching-to-firefox
I say, nar, not good enough.
I’m using vimperator. vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator
It is my favourite firefox extension which i think [...]

What’s the video player that you use?
VLC? www.videolan.org/vlc/
Windows Media Classic? www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm
I say SMPlayer, frontend of MPlayer. smplayer.sourceforge.net/
Two major reasons.
1. Playback speed, variable playback rate, by just pressing [ and ] . This is critical if you have backlog of videocast to watch. Basically saves about 33% of the time required to clear them. I’m using [...]

Scouring the internet for the most suitable plugin as stated before was quite a pain. Somehow there are not much quality control in plugins, there is just a huge torrent of plugins probably as many iphone apps there are around as well.
But i did managed to sift out tantan-flickr, it was one of the better [...]

Side jacking…

05Jan09

This is one episode that everyone should watch or listen to
revision3.com/hak5/SessionHijackingAndVirtualizing/
Session hijacking. In short, by using tools available now, you can effectively
1. Use Jasager [www.digininja.org/jasager/index.php] to let people think that they are on their default wifi network. Meaning, i go to a starbucks, i turn on my wifi, and my laptop automatically tries to connect [...]

Listening to hak5 ep 0414,
Some interesting stuff i came across.
Keeping your pc “steady” instead of using ghost or vm.
www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx
Some other applications that keeps things clean and neat
Sandboxie www.sandboxie.com/
Was discussed in-depth in episode of 172 of the Security Now podcast as well, when steve gibson interviewed the creator.
twit.tv/sn172
Unetbootin
Allows “burning” of iso to usb thumbdrive, suitable for [...]

Last i looked at wordpress probably was for version 2.3?
Seems that there is lots of changes since then and lots of new plugins and tools for wordpress. I had lots of problem searching for plugins, there were just too many of them all of which had quite reasonable ratings. Had quite a lot of fun [...]


 

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