Send message in Windows Vista by Daniel Petri
May 1, 2010 Tips and Tricks
When using Windows XP and previous operating systems one could easily send messages from one computer to another by using the “Net Send” command from the command prompt. Typing a command like this:
Net send Daniel "Please contact help desk immediately!"
Would result in the computer searching for the location where the user Daniel has last logged on, or in case of a computer, where the computer called Daniel is listed, and would send that message to that user or computer. You should note that this method of sending messages was made available by the Messenger service running on the target machine. Without it, there could be no messages transmitted to that computer. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Command, Message, Net Send, tips, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Find and Replace with a MySQL Query
Feb 17, 2010 Tips and Tricks
There are times when you have a lot of data in a database (let’s say wp_posts for a WordPress blog like Ariejan.net). When you need to find and replace certain strings, this can be a very tedious task. Find all posts containing the “needle” string and manually replace all these occurrences with “chocolate”. With about 200 posts, you can imagine how long this would take to do manually.
But, as I always say: “You’re a programmer! You should script the hell out of everything!”
So, I found this: MySQL has built-in support to find and replace! Just a simple query will do:
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Save and Restore Your Microsoft Office Settings
Jul 30, 2009 Tips and Tricks
How many times have you migrated to a new computer and lost all the little settings in Word or Excel that you had finally tweaked perfectly?
The good news is that you can easily save and restore your Microsoft Office settings and even transfer them to another computer.
To open the wizard, go to Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Office \ Microsoft Office Tools \ Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard.
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Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsofts, MS Excel, MS Word, tips
Find a Forgotten Password Saved in Firefox
Jul 23, 2009 Tips and Tricks
Firefox, like many popular browsers, includes a built-in functionality to save your password. Often we’ll use the saved password feature so often that we’ve completely forgotten our password when we need to login to the same website on another computer. Here’s how to locate your saved password.
In Firefox, navigate to the Tools \ Options menu item. Select the Privacy button, the Passwords tab, and then click on View Saved Passwords. You’ll be presented with this screen:
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Full SQL Injection Tutorial (MySQL) – Marezzi
May 5, 2009 Tips and Tricks
In this tutorial i will describe how sql injection works and how to use it to get some useful information.
First of all: What is SQL injection?
It’s one of the most common vulnerability in web applications today. It allows attacker to execute database query in url and gain access to some confidential information etc…(in shortly).
1.SQL Injection (classic or error based or whatever you call it) 
2.Blind SQL Injection (the harder part)
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Tags: milw0rm.com, MySQL, SQL Injection
Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition
May 5, 2009 Tips and Tricks
Last time we compiled our must-have Firefox extensions, it was two years (and one browser version) ago. Our new list keeps some, tosses others, and remains our go-to, Grandmaster list of the best Firefox add-ons.
All four of the editors you see posting here daily were asked to name the extensions they think have the most day-to-day value while also adding something new and unique to the open-source browser. It was reassuring to see that more than half of the extensions we featured last time ’round are still on the list, as they obviously kept their value. But four newcomers cropped up in the two years since then, and were innovative enough, or showed enough potential, to make it on our new compendium.
Each Top 10 entrant is linked to the page where Firefox users can install them from. See if you can’t find something new for your browsing routine below.
10. AutoCopy
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We like it because we’re bloggers, having to quote and copy links and code every day, but anyone who does a fair amount of copying to and from the web will dig AutoCopy. The basic use: It copies anyt text you select on the web as soon as you select it—no Ctrl+C necessary. For pasting into text forms, you simply hit the middle mouse button rather than Control+V. If that’s all it did, hey, we’d recommend it to anyone who writes, copies, or pastes a lot, but we also have to point out that it fixes really long, wrap-broken URLs automatically. Three cheers for fewer pinky-finger stretches!
Tags: Firefox, Firefox Add-ons, Firefox Extensions, Must-Have
Easily Burn Optical Discs With BurnAware Free Edition
Apr 17, 2009 Software, Tips and Tricks
Windows Vista and XP have built in disc burning functionality but they are lacking in features. Today we will take a look at BurnAware Free Edition which – as the name implies – is free and feature rich.
One thing to mention during installation is that the Ask Toolbar will be checked by default. If you don’t want another toolbar make sure and uncheck this.
The user interface of BurnAware is very clean and easy to navigate. Just click the type of media you would like to create on the left. Also worth pointing out is the ability to create ISO and DVD images, new in Windows 7 is a utility that will allow you to burn ISO images.
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Tags: BurnAware, Disc burning, Optical disc
Encrypt Confidential Data in Documents with ScrambleOnClick
Apr 17, 2009 Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you have a document with private information that needs to stay confidential but the rest of the document needs to be seen. Today we will take a look at ScrambleOnClick which encrypts selected parts of a document.
When first setting up Scramble On Click you will need to set up a password to protect the encryption keys.
When creating the password you can select to show the password and a strength meter which comes in handy for 28 character strong passwords.
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Tags: Confidential Data, ScrambleOnclick
How to Download Mp3s from Imeem, Last FM, Myspace Music and Pandora for FREE?
Apr 16, 2009 Tips and Tricks
Imeem, Last FM, MySpace Music and Pandora are probably four of the most popular music streaming sites that enable their users to listen to their user-uploaded music for free. However, most of these sites does not allow you to download the tracks directly. This becomes a frustration to many.
Imagine this scenario: You have just listened to a good, but rare music from Imeem, which instantly become your favorite. You search all over it over Google, Yahoo, file-sharing sites like 4shared.com, Rapidshare, and P2P programs like Limewire. But all of the searches returned “No Results”. Imagine how frustrating it is. I personally experience the frustration especially when I am listening to a playlist in Imeem. The only possible way to get the track is to pay for it in iTunes or Amazon. But who does want to pay when he/she can acquire it for free?
So to end up my frustrations, I looked for ways to download the mp3s or tacks from Imeem, Last FM, MySpace, Pandora, and the like. Here are a step by step procedure to do this.
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Tags: Download Mp3, Imeem, Last FM, Myspace, Pandora
Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Turn Off the Monitor
Apr 13, 2009 Tips and Tricks
Have you ever wanted to hit a shortcut key to turn off the monitor? Sure, you can use the Win+L combination to lock the screen, but that leaves your monitor on… and those of us with multiple monitors find it a pain to hunt down the power buttons all the time.
First we’ll show you how to simply power off the monitor, and then how to both lock and power it off.
Create a Shortcut to Turn Off the Monitor
To create this shortcut, we’ll first need to grab a tiny multi-purpose utility called NirCmd from the great folks over at NirSoft. This Swiss-army knife tool can do an amazing array of tasks, including powering off the monitor. All we really need to do is create a shortcut to it.
Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut:
Then you’ll want to browse to the location where you saved the nircmd.exe file, and add the following arguments:
“C:\path\to\nircmd.exe” cmdwait 1000 monitor off
Make sure the path has quotes around it, and then you add the extra arguments, which will wait 1 second before powering off the monitor (otherwise Windows might misinterpret your last keystroke and wake back up).
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Tags: Command line, Hotkey, shortcut, Turn off monitor
