| U3 Flash Drive How to hack with it. |
Open-standard U3 platform allows users to take their applications, not just data, with them to any USB-equipped Windows PC and to launch them with as little as two clicks. True, while applications have been tweaked by users to run directly off a flash drive, applications written for U3 smart drives don't require a geek to set up, and are 100% legal to operate.
U3 drive pretends to be a CD-ROM drive, while the data partition shows up as a regular flash drive. Because Windows is led to believe that the system partition is a CD, U3 takes advantage of the AutoPlay feature in windows to automatically run the U3 LaunchPad and unlock the data partition of the drive. It should be noted that U3 will run on any Windows 2000/XP system, regardless if the user has administrative rights or not. |
 artem on August 18 2008 18:47:58 ·
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| GET MORE FROM YOUR USB FLASH DRIVE |
 If you copy applications to a USB fl ash drive, and normally run those applications when you plug the drive into a PC or copy fi les from the drive to a PC, download the free MyPendrive (www.mypendrive.org). This nifty freebie makes your USB fl ash drive do all kinds of tricks, such as starting up your portable apps as soon as you plug in your USB drive and backing up your folders when you connect your drive. |
artem on August 18 2008 17:46:07
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| SuperSpeed USB 3.0 |
Imagine uploading an entire HD movie to your laptop in just over a minute. Imagine downloading all the 100-plus MP3 files of an audiobook to your player in seconds. How about getting the latest video from your camcorder to your desktop ready to mash up almost instantaneously, so you can beat your buddies onto YouTube? Sounds great, right?
That's what the developers of the next-generation Universal Serial Bus technology are counting on when they release the spec for USB 3.0—also known as SuperSpeed USB—in the fourth quarter of this year. But that's still a ways off. Last week (some would say finally), Intel released the larger part of the specification for the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) for USB 3.0. That's 90 percent of what's needed to build silicon that will work with the USB 3.0 protocol currently being finished by the USB Implementers Forum—a group of technical giants including HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments that have banded together to create the protocols that will enable manufacturers and software companies to produce cameras, smartphones, music players, and other stuff that can talk to computers. "It's going to have over ten times the performance," claims Jeff Ravencraft, president and chair of the USB-IF and a technology strategist at Intel. |
artem on August 18 2008 14:05:10
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| Set Up a Virtual Private Network |
 If you need to connect to your home machine from work or while traveling, making your home machine a virtual private network (VPN) server is a secure way to accomplish this.
If you’ve ever taken fi les home so that you can work on them on your personal computer, you’ve probably had the experience of arriving to work the next day only to realize you’ve forgotten to bring the files back with you. If the fi les were important enough, you probably had to drive all the way back home to get them, or you’re had to make a lame excuse to your boss as to why you don’t have the TPS report ready yet. Perhaps you’re a road warrior who has found yourself stranded in a hotel room on a Monday morning, just hours before a big meeting, without that copy of the presentation you thought you had copied from your home machine. If either of these sounds like a situation you’ve been in, this is the hack for you.
Both Windows XP and Windows Vista have VPN clients and VPN servers built into them, allowing you, or others you designate to make secure connections into your PC or PC on your home network. While you have an established VPN session with your home machine, you can access files from its
hard drive or other machines on the network that have file sharing enabled. All you need is a local Internet connection and a VPN client that supports the Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), which the client for all versions of Windows does. |
artem on August 12 2008 18:22:46
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| Run 16-Bit DOS and 32bit Windows Applications on Vista. |
Unfortunately, the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista do not support 16-bit DOS or Windows applications at all. Even in 32-bit Vista, there are signifi cant limitations: if you’re running a WDDM driver, you can’t put 16-bit DOS programs into full-screen mode (Microsoft KB article 926657 has
detailed information on this).
And you can’t rule out the possibility that some day down the road, after you’re rich and famous and being sued by the IRS for back taxes, you’ll come across a floppy disk with those short stories you wrote in Word 5.5 decades before your career took off—which your fans would pay anything to read
today!
The simplest workaround is to use some kind of emulation to run these old applications. Although you could use VMware, Virtual PC, or Parallels to run DOS, that’s overkill, and may in fact, run too fast for comfort, especially with older games. Instead, your best bet is DOSBox, which simulates an x86 computer running DOS, and is optimized for retro games. When you run DOSBox, it pops up a window that looks like the command prompt, but is in fact a graphical application
that can be run full screen if needed. It can also run graphical programs in a window without going full screen, which is something you couldn’t do with the command prompt. |
artem on August 12 2008 15:36:55
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| Impersonate Another Computer on the Network |
 If you’re looking to test your wireless security, a good way is to change your adapter’s MAC address, which is a kind of serial number. Here’s how to do it.
Every piece of networking equipment has a unique identifying number, called a Media Access Control (MAC) address. This MAC address is used for a variety of different purposes, but primarily as a globally unique identifier. For example, DHCP servers use the MAC address as a way of keeping track of devices before they’ve been assigned an IP address. |
artem on August 11 2008 16:51:59
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| Troubleshoot Wireless Interference |
 The efficiency and throughput of Wi-Fi networks can vary dramatically. Make sure you get maximum throughput from your wireless network.
Setting up a wireless network sounds so simple: buy a router, do a little basic configuration for it and your wireless PCs, turn everything on, and you’re done. Everyone in your house gets full access to the network and high-speed Internet.
Ah, if life were only that simple. |
artem on August 11 2008 15:52:10
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| Turn Windows into a 3D Virtual Desktop |
 Think Windows Flip 3D is cool? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
This freebie lets you turn Windows Vista and Windows XP into
virtual 3D desktops.
The program DeskSpace (previously named, oddly, Yod’m 3D) gives you the best of both worlds. It lets you create four virtual desktops, and places each desktop on a virtual 3D cube that you can rotate through space to switch among them. You can zoom in and out of the cube, and even move windows between desktops. And you can even move windows between your virtual desktops. Download a beta of this program from www.otakusoftware.com/deskspace/index.html. It’s a .zip file, and the program requires installation. Unzip it to a folder, and then doubleclick the executable fi le, and the program runs. The first screen you’ll see is a confi guration screen. |
artem on August 08 2008 18:55:45
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| Bypass the Windows Vista Logon Screen |
 Having to type in your logon information on a system with two
or more user accounts can be a pain. This hack shows you how to tell Windows Vista to log on to your primary account immediately. |
artem on August 08 2008 18:41:13
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| BackTrack |
 BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.
It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions - Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.
Visit this web page for downloads and more info: http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.html |
artem on August 06 2008 15:17:59
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| Surf Anonymously, Without a Trace—For Free |
Feel like people are watching you? On the Web, they
probably are. Follow this advice for protecting your online privacy.
The punchline to an old cartoon is “On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog,” but these days,
that’s no longer true. It’s easier than ever for the government, web sites, and private businesses
to track exactly what you do online, know where you’ve visited, and build up comprehensive
profi les about your likes, dislikes, and private habits. And with the federal government increasingly
demanding online records from sites such as Google and others, your online privacy is even more
endangered.
But you don’t need to be a victim; there are things you can do to keep your surfi ng habits
anonymous and protect your online privacy. In this hack, you’ll fi nd out how to keep your privacy to
yourself when you use the Internet, without spending a penny. |
artem on August 06 2008 13:29:26
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