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  • Easily Upload to Multiple Free File Hosting Servers

    Many times when I wanted to download files from RapidShare links, I get the message “File Not Found“. This always happens when the link is old and unpopular where no one access the link for 90 days. Not everyone prefers to download from the same file host. Some hosts impose limits to countries, so hosting your file on many sites ensures the highest availability of the file. As far as I know, many uploaders are not willing to upload to other different file hosting servers mainly because there are no reward points to convert it to Premium account. It also waste time and bandwidth doing that.

    I found a solution about a year ago to solve this problem. There is a utility called FileUploader and is able to upload files or folders to 32 file hoster simultaneously. To think about it, that didn’t really solve the problem because you still need time and bandwidth to upload to other file hoster. FileUploader only SIMPLIFIES the process of uploading without you visiting other websites, browsing the file that you want to upload and waiting for the file to complete uploading.

    Today, I found a real solution to this problem. You only need to upload the file ONCE, and it will automatically create mirrors by distribute to a few file hosting servers.


    FileBerry is a free service that allows you to easily upload to multiple servers. FileBerry claims that when you upload a file to fileberry, it will upload your file to many top free file hosts (Rapidshare.com, Megaupload.com, Sendspace.com, Zshare.net, Filesend.net) for you. When a visitor clicks one of the links, they then have the option of choosing which host they prefer to download from.

    Don’t get it? Here are some graphics for you to understand better how FileBerry works.

    1. First, you select the file that you want to upload by clicking the Browse button.
    How to create mirror for megaupload

    2. When you’re done selecting the file that you want to upload, click the Start Upload button and it will upload your file.
    Upload files to FileBerry

    3. Next FileBerry will tell you that your file has been uploaded. You will get a link such as http://fileberry.com/XXXXXXXXXX
    FileBerry Download Links

    4. Visit the link given, and you will 5 links for the file that you uploaded.
    Create mirrors for Rapidshare

    I’ve made a table comparing all 5 file hoster (RapidShare, MegaUpload, SendSpace, zSHARE, FileSend). It makes sense why FileBerry has a limit of 100MB per file and it links will remain active for 60 days. As for SendSpace, I think they probably have a sendspace Max account in order to keep the file for 60 days.
    How to Mirror Files

    Whenever I complete uploading, RapidShare link will immediately be available. Looks like when I upload a file, it is actually uploaded to RapidShare and then it will distribute to MegaUpload, SendSpace, zSHARE and FileSend. Your link will remain active unless it does not receive any visits for 60 days. When a fileberry link is removed, the linked files hosted on external servers may also be removed.

    I think FileBerry can earn a lot of RapidShare points because when we upload files to them, they will upload to RapidShare using their Collector’s or Premium account. Well, it’s a win-win situation. They get to earn more points while we get mirrors for our files.

    There’s one drawback about FileBerry. Once you’ve uploaded the files, you can’t delete the links yourself. You can try contacting FileBerry to remove them or you can keep the links secret and the links will automatically expire in 60 days.

    [ Visit FileBerry ]

  • Free TuneUp Utilities 2011 Product Key for EVERYONE

    The problem with Windows is after using it for a couple of months, you would notice that the performance starts to degrade and it’s not as fast as when you first got the computer or reinstalled a clean Windows. This is when software such as TuneUp Utilities comes to play. If you haven’t heard of TuneUp Utilities, it is one of the popular and leading software to keep your PC in top shape for beginners and amateurs. In fact they have been around since 1997 which is 14 years ago! Some of the alternatives are IObit Advanced SystemCare, Uniblue PowerSuite, Glary Utilities, Norton Utilities, iolo System Mechanic and etc…

    These software suite that manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system is mainly targeted for beginners or amateurs because most computer experts would prefer to tweak their own system to the way they prefer because they know how to do it and willing to take the risk. TuneUp Corporation is currently running a promotion where everyone can request for a a free TuneUp Utilities 2011 product key that normally cost $49.95 which works on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.


    Just follow the few simple steps below:

    1. Visit http://www.tune-up.com/promo/007

    2. Enter a working email address, anything for retailer, random characters and finally click the Get Product Key button.

    3. Check your email that you specified at step 2 and you should received an email from TuneUp Promotion. Click on the link and your TuneUp Utilities 2011 product key is displayed.

    TuneUp Utilities 2011 contains a lot of features and I suggest you to visit their official feature page for a more detailed explanation.

    Free TuneUp Utilities 2011 Product Key

    The download link that is on the product key page links to an older build of TuneUp Utilities 2011 Version 10.0.3000.101. The latest version is now version 10.0.4400.20 but not to worry on that since you can click on Help & Support > Check for updates to update TuneUp Utilities to the latest version. When TuneUp Utilities 2012 is released, which I expect it to happen very soon, you can’t update for free and will have to pay $29.95 for the major version upgrade. Now you know why TuneUp Corporation is having this promotion…

    In my opinion, if you want to use these software, make sure you read the description to every setting before blindly clicking on it hoping that it would improve your PC’s performance. One example is you won’t be able to print if the software disabled the printer spooler service.

    Thanks to bigbigben for sharing this at our forums.

  • How To Dim or Increase The Brightness of Laptop or Notebook LCD Screen

    I’ve written about how to manually turn off notebook or laptop LCD screen using “Turn Off LCD“, and today I will share with you another tip on how to dim or brighten the LCD screen. I can easily brighten my Acer laptop’s screen by pressing the Fn + Left key simultaneously or Fn + Right key to dim it. The combination keys are different for each notebook. Some are Fn + F7 to turn it down, and Fn + F8 to turn it up. You should be able to see which one it is by looking at the Fn set of keys, and see which has a symbol for brightness. If you can’t seem to find it, just check your notebook’s manual if there is a shortcut key for this purpose.

    Shortcut key adjust LCD screen brightness

    Laptop’s LCD screen is not like our desktop LCD monitor where there are buttons for you to adjust the brightness, contracts, colors and etc… So if your laptop don’t have the combination key that can be used to adjust the brightness of the LCD screen, or if you have a broken Fn key, then you’re pretty much stuck with the either too dim or too bright screen.

    Not to worry because I have the solution on how to easily adjust the brightness of your LCD screen.


    DimScreen is part of Skrommel’s 1 hour software hosted in DonationCoder. It is small, easy to use and serves its purpose, that is to dim the whole screen.

    Download DimScreen

    DimScreen is portable and only 207KB in size. While it is running, it only takes up 3.6 MB memory. To change the brightness, you can right click on the tray icon and select the percentage of dimming. If you go to the settings, you can configure a hotkey to easily increase or decrease the dimming.

    There’s only 1 problem with this tool that is it when you are playing video on your computer. The video would only show black screen. However, I tried dimming the screen with DimScreen and played Counter Strike but with no effect at all. DimScreen was made with AutoHotKey. Can any AHK coder try taking a looking at the autohotkey script and see if it is possible to brighten the screen as well?

    [ Download DimScreen ]

    Update: I just found out that Volumouse developed by Nir Sofer can be used to adjust the screen brightness. It is originally developed for controlling the sound volume with a wheel mouse but as time goes along, a lot of features has been added to it. Volumouse is only 29.5KB, much smaller than DimScreen and can do much more. To use Volumouse to control the screen brightness, you’ll need to go to Options and set a wheel mouse rule for it. The image below is for when I press and hold the Ctrl key and scroll down the mouse wheel, the screen will dim. And when I press and hold the Ctrl key and scroll up the mouse wheel, the screen will get brighter.

    Volumouse increase screen brightness

    [ Download Volumouse ]

  • Comprehensive List of Uninstallers or Removal Tools for Antivirus Software

    Running two antivirus products on the same computer can cause system instability, degraded performance and maybe the inability to identify a virus correctly. I’ve even heard of a case where someone managed to install as many as 3 antivirus on his computer and yet no problems. I would say he is just plain lucky and one day the antivirus will conflict and give so much trouble that he won’t be able to recover Windows from the crash. It is very important that any previously installed antivirus software is uninstalled from your system before proceeding with the installation of the next antivirus that you would like to install.

    The standard method of uninstalling an antivirus is from Add or Remove Programs but sometimes the uninstallation process would hang and you won’t be able to remove the antivirus from your system. When this happen, you can try using the removal tool provided by the antivirus company to remove the installed antivirus. I always have a list of uninstallers for antivirus software on my USB flash drive. Here I am sharing with you guys my list and perhaps it could help you uninstall an antivirus program that you’re having trouble uninstalling..


    Most of the uninstallers below are very straight forward. Just download, run the file and click a button to proceed with the uninstallation. Some is a little more complicated and requires more steps which I’ve noted.

    1. avast!

    Uninstall avast!

    Special note: Boot Windows to Safe Mode and run the uninstall utility.

    [ Download avast! Uninstall Utility ]

    2. AVG

    Uninstall AVG

    [ Download AVG Remover 32-bit | 64-bit ]

    3. Avira

    Uninstall Avira

    Special Note: Avira doesn’t have a removal tool but they do provide a registry cleaner to remove traces of Avira so that you can reinstall and then uninstall. This tool is in German, you’ll have to click on the button called “Keys auslesen” to search the registry for any issues. Then place checkmarks next to the registry entries you wish to delete and click the “Löschen” button to delete the keys.

    [ Download Avira RegCleaner ]

    4. BitDefender

    Uninstall Bitdefender

    [ Download BitDefender Uninstall Tool 32-bit | 64-bit ]

    5. Computer Associates

    Uninstall Computer Associates Antivirus

    Special Notes: Computer Associates uninstaller requires internet connection to verify and download the full version of uninstaller.

    [ Download CA SupportBridge for 2008 | 2009 products ]

    6. ESET

    Uninstall NOD32

    Special Note: This is an unofficial dutch language ESET removal tool.

    [ Download NOD32Removal ]

    7. F-Secure

    Uninstall F-Secure

    Special Note: The uninstaller will automatically reboot the computer without warning.

    [ Download F-Secure Removal Tool ]

    8. Kaspersky

    Uninstall Kaspersky

    [ Download Kaspersky Anti-Virus Remover ]

    9. McAfee

    Manually Uninstall McAfee with MCPR

    [ Download McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool ]

    10. Windows Live OneCare

    Uninstall Windows Live OneCare

    [ Download Windows Live OneCare Cleanup Tool ]

    11. Norton / Symantec

    Uninstall Norton with Norton Removal Tool

    [ Download Norton Removal Tool ]

    12. G DATA

    Uninstall G DATA Antivirus

    [ Download G DATA AV-Cleaner ]

    13. Panda Security

    Uninstall Panda Security Antivirus

    [ Download Panda Security Uninstaller ]

    14. Trend Micro

    Uninstall Trend Micro PC Cillin

    Special Notes: After download, extract and run TISTOOL.exe file. Click the Uninstall tab, and then click the Uninstall button. Select the Trend Micro program that you’d like to uninstall from the drop down box and click Uninstall.

    [ Download Trend Micro Diagnostic Toolkit 32-bit | 64-bit ]

    15. AppRemover

    Uninstall antivirus and antispyware AppRemover

    Special Note: AppRemover is an unofficial tool to uninstall security applications such as antivirus and antispyware from your computer. Other than able to support removal some of the antivirus above, it can also uninstall Spy Sweeper, Trend Micro PC-Cillin, SpyCatcher, Sophos, SpyBot, Spyware Doctor, Norman, Spyware BeGone, Ad-aware, Bazooka Scanner, SpywareBlaster, eEye Blink, ClamWin, CheckPoint, BullGuard, RISING and AhnLab V3 VirusBlock.

    [ Download AppRemover ]

    Phew that was long. I had this in my WordPress draft for many many months but didn’t have the time to finish it until today 😉

  • How To Create DVD from Downloaded Movie Files

    Create DVD from movieThis is a tutorial written by SpaceGoat on creating DVDs from downloaded movies files. I found this tutorial useful and thought of sharing it out. It is for your knowledge and it doesn’t have to be pirated movie files!

    Notes from SpaceGoat:

    I have used many, many diferent programs for creating DVDs but these are the programs I aways come back to. This is by no means the only way this can be done.

    You will need the programs listed below. As the tutorial goes on, I will explain how each program plays its part.


    These two program run in the background all the time.

  • Patin-couffin: is required device I/O interface for various application.
  • AnyDVD: works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it’s inserted into the drive. (Most of the movies you download has the protection removed already)

    • ConvertXtoDVD and Movie DVD Maker are used to turn files into DVD format (VOB) so they can be burn to blank DVDs.

  • ConvertXtoDVD: With this program you can add chapters and a simple start menu. I use it because I like the results. Use this if the movie is in one part.
  • Movie DVD Maker: This is a plain jane output. No chapters. No start menu. Just movie. Can be used to join movie parts (sometimes they are in two or more parts) The thing I don’t like about this program is that it forces you to insert blank DVD before it will start the process. You can eject blank DVD after it starts. I always view final output before burning. The main thing to look for is voice sync. I don’t want to the mouth moving and nothing comes out.
  • DVD X Player 4.0 Pro: Use to view movie files
  • Nero 6 Ultra Edition: You should know what this programs does. For this tutorial it is used so you can burn your DVDs with DVD Shrink.
  • DVD Shrink 3.2: This is one of the best DVD ripping program ever made. You have to have Nero 6 installed to burn DVDs with DVD Shrink 3.2. It will not work with Nero 7 but what does?

    • The above programs are used by SpaceGoat to burn 99% of all his DVDs.

    Making DVDs
    1. Extract file, it will usually be in .avi or DivX format. If its in any other format I don’t waste my time with it. Also if the movie is watermarked, I don’t use it. I don’t want to watch a movie with some lame groups watermark on it.

    The file size should be over 700MB and up for better video quality. The idea is to get a good quality DVD so file format and size are important. I HATE wasting blank DVDs!!

    2. You want to view movie to see if its worth burning or not. Lots of Cam movies SUCK. DVD ripped are usually good quality but not always. Always check for visual and sound quality. Make sure voices go with mouth movement. Check in several different places.. For example, the starting, middle and near end of the movie.

    3. You have to turn the files into VOB format to burn to DVD. Use either ConvertXtoDVD or Movie DVD Maker. Both of them will create a folder with the converted files.

    4. Now you use DVD Shrink to burn DVD. Select Open Files, select folder where the converted files were placed. Be sure to burn at the SLOWEST speed your DVD burner will burn. It helps with the final quality of DVD.

    Ripping DVDs
    1. You should have patin-couffin and AnyDVD running

    2. Open DVD Shrink and select Open Disc. You can try to back up the whole DVD if you want to. Look at the compression level. If it is less than 60%, it will not be a good copy. To backup Movie only, select Re-Author. Drag the movie from right window side to the window on left. Select Backup / Select Region Free / Quality Settings- Select both options if not grayed out / Options- Select what you want here / Burn Settings – Enter Volume Name, Select slowest burn speed to help with quality / Click OK.

    The above article is the same as the tutorial file which you can download below. The tutorial doesn’t have the download links to the files. So I’ve gone an extra mile to search the download links for you. If you still want to have the tutorial file, you can download below.

    [ Download Create DVDs from Downloaded Movies Tutorial ]

  • Easily Upload and Distribute Videos to Multiple Video Websites

    I personally never like to upload files because the upload speed that I get from my Internet Service Provider is terribly slow. Mirroring files USED to be a big problem and something that I NEVER do because uploading to a file sharing website already takes forever, not to mention uploading to a few more file sharing sites. Thanks to a few useful websites that I found which is able to easily upload to multiple free file hosting servers by just uploading once. It is really useful and simple. You are only required to upload your file to a website, then the website will help you distribute your file to other file hosting websites. This saves me a lot of time and bandwidth.

    That is for file sharing. What about videos? Videos are quite big in file size and there are so many video sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and a lot more! What if you have a very interesting video that you want to share with everyone? If you’ve read this article, you no longer need to waste your time and bandwidth to upload your videos site by site. It is also the same concept as the above file sharing method. You only need to upload your video once and it will automatically distribute or syndicate to more than 10 video sites. The more video websites that your video appears in, the more exposures you will get!
    Distribute video to video website


    Before using the free services below to upload your videos to multiple video websites, you need to have an account at the destination first. For example, you want to the service to upload to YouTube and Google Video, you need to have an account there which you can sign up for free.

    1. Vidmetrix
    Vidmetrix upload multiple video websites
    – Vidmetrix supports uploading to 9 video sites which is YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Yahoo, Myspace, Revver, Veoh and AOL Uncut.

    2. TubeMogul
    TubeMogul distribute video website
    – TubeMogul is the most popular video distribution site because it has video analytic tracking. TubeMogul supports uploading to 11 video sites which is YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Yahoo, Myspace, Revver, Veoh, Blip, Craggle, and StupidVideos.

    3. Hey!Spread
    – This site started charging money for every site that it helps you to upload. 1 credit allows you to upload one video to one site. For instance: you want to upload one video to YouTube, Dailymotion and Google at the same time, it will cost you 3 credits (USD $0.15) Hey!Spread supports uploading to 17 video sites which is YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Yahoo, Myspace, Revver, Veoh, Blip, Sclipo, Sumo, Sevenload, Facebook, Vimeo, Vsocial, Photobucket and Putfile.

    4. Veoh
    – Veoh is a video sharing website itself and they are not specialize in uploading your videos to other video sites. However, it can help you syndicate your video to YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video. Before you can use this feature, you must be a Veoh PRO first by providing a valid credit card for address verification. They will do a one-time $1.01 authorization (This is not a charge to your credit card) to confirm your mailing address. Troublesome…

    There are software that can automate uploading to multiple video sites but I decide not to write about it because you still need to waste time and bandwidth in uploading the videos. The only good thing about the software is it simplifies the process by doing it automatically. If you still want to know, you can try to look for Video Post Robot which supports uploading to 21 video sites and Video Upload Pro which supports 18 video sites. Nope, couldn’t find any serial number, crack or retail versions for Video Post Robot and Video Upload Pro, so don’t ask me.

    Enjoy uploading your videos to more video sites with any of the free service above and get more exposures!

  • Updated KING of All-In-One Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v4

    4 days ago I posted the KING of All-In-One RapidShare Premium Pack 2006 v1.0. Now, I would like to be one of the first to update you again that there is a new version of Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v4 by Mangasearcher! It contains even more new programs and a few updated programs.

    This new updated version has two screens instead of one because there are too many RapidShare tools to list in 1 page.

    Screen 1 of RapidShare Premium Pack 2006 v4
    RapidShare Premium

    Screen 2 of RapidShare Premium Pack 2006 v4
    RapidShare Premium

    What’s new in RapidShare Premium Pack 2006 v4:


    1. Four New Programs
    ● ProxyGrab v0.5 – Grabs Proxies
    ● Proxessor – Grabs Proxies
    ● Z-Leecher – Grabs Proxy Lists from Forums
    ● Charon v0.6 – Searches for Proxies

    2.New Backgrounds

    3.Updated Programs
    ● RapidUp v1.3 to RapidUp v1.3a
    ● RS FAN v1.0 to RS FAN v1.1

    Note: If you’re prompted for password when extracting the RAR, try entering “www.2baksa.net” without the quotes.

    [ Download Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v4 ]

  • All-In-One Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v1.0

    I know that there are lots of RapidShare tools out there and searching sites after sites for them can be quite tiring.
    How nice if all the free RapidShare tools are combined into one and call it All-In-One RapidShare pack like the picture below…
    RapidShare Premium All In One Premium Pack
    Thankfully there is! Read on to download All-In-One Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v1.0!


    Rapidshare Premium Pack 2006 v1.0 is created by Mangasearcher and the pack contains:
    – RapGet 1.11
    – Rapidshare Buster
    – RapidUp 1.3
    – RapidCheck 0.4
    – RS DeCoder 0.2
    – Rapidshare ByPasser
    – RapidGet 1.2
    – RS FAN 1.0
    – Renew IP
    – RapidHarvest 1.2.0.5
    – RS Grabber 1.4.4a
    – Link Grabber 3.0.2
    – RapidLeecher 4.5 Beta
    – RS Instant Downloader
    – BC-Leecha 2.42
    – RapidSearch 0.2
    – Rapidshare Hacking 1
    – 28,000 Proxies List
    – Rapidshare 0′s
    – RS Premium Grabber 1.0
    – Delete Cookies
    – More Rapid
    – RS Source Code
    – RS & MU Speeder
    – Rapidshare Unlocker

    [ Download RapidShare Premium Pack 2006 v1.0 ]

  • Latest CMS The Grabber 1.4.4 – Bypass Rapidshare Download Limit

    Why is RapidShare so popular and everyone is using it despite the restrictions in free account? In my opinion, RapidShare can claim that they are “The world’s biggest 1-Click Webhoster” is because of their reliable download and upload speed. Whenever I download any files from RapidShare, I get to download in maximum speed. I am willing to wait for minutes or even hours to download the next files from RapidShare because whenever it starts to download, I know it will finish very soon. As for some other file hosting such as Megaupload, the download slot limit sucks, download speed is unbearably slow and I even get timeout when in the midst of downloading half way.

    Since the only drawback of using RapidShare is the limited download-limit, why not we think or find a way to beat that restriction?


    As far as I know, RapidShare recognizes your IP address. For example, you download a file that is 100MB from RapidShare, and when you try to download the next file no matter what file size, you’ll most probably have to wait for an hour to download the next file. If your ISP assigns dynamic IP address to you whenever you connect to the internet, you can just disconnect, reconnect and start downloading the second file. It’s still a bit troublesome to do that if you have quite a lot of files to download from RapidShare.

    Team Codemasters or CMS in short has developed their own private software called The Grabber 1.4.4 that is able to bypass the download limit using proxies and embedded with many other useful features.
    RapidShare CMS The Grabber 1.4.4

    If you visit their forum, there are a lot of restrictions in order to download the latest The Grabber. You must register and join their forum and must have at least 5 posts in Downloads Zone (Software/Multimedia/e-Books/Games) to access and download the CMS tools thread.

    With CMS The Grabber 1.4.4, you are able to simultaneously download multiple files using proxies. You can even prioritize your downloads with advanced built-in downloader Speed Limiter. Other built-in tools in CMS The Grabber 1.4.4 is:

  • Link Collector (My Link Store)
  • Proxy Checker (ESSENTIAL)
  • Link Checker (Check your links before downloading!)
  • IP Renew option (for those with dynamic IPs)
  • Rapidshare explorer (search files on Rapidshare via Google)

    • The Grabber 1.4.4 is so easy to you and it only requires 5 steps from you to start downloading from RapidShare without limits.
    1. Type your RapidShare download link to the first text box “RapidShare link”
    2. Type in alive proxy address with port separated by a column (IP.IP.IP.IP:PORT) in Proxy text box. If you have more than 1 alive proxy address, click on the Edit button and enter your proxy address in the text file that appears.
    3. Click on GRAB! button.
    4. Type in the captcha code that you see. It is usually 3 characters(Sometimes I get 2).
    5. Click on Download button to start downloading from RapidShare. I’ve tried sending the file to Download Manager FlashGet, and it doesn’t work. Perhaps RapidShare fixed this bug?

    First of all, getting the latest version of The Grabber is quite difficult. I’ve tried very hard to search for the latest version of The Grabber which is 1.4.4 and I finally found it. It is not widely available.
    Second, the original archive file for The Grabber is password protected.
    Third, when you first run latest The Grabber 1.4.4, you are prompted to activate the product by entering Login and Password.
    The Grabber 1.4.4 activation crack
    As you can see, to use this software, you need to go through so restrictions also. Good thing is you only need to go through the 3 restrictions ONCE. The second time you use it, you won’t be prompted to enter any password or activation.

    The Login and Password to activate The Grabber 1.4.4 is.
    Login: CODEMASTERS
    Password: I LOVE GRABBER!

    Or another method to crack it is to run The Grabber 1.4.4 for the first time, close it. You will now see a new file called grabber.ini in the same location as Grabber.exe. Open it with notepad, and in [General], you will see setting. Replace the settings line with the code below and save grabber.ini.
    Settings=02B7F38941448952D84C5F5B99F94CCD010CF408C908044C0D
    08838120154252DD6C4AAE8C8F4B4D5A1CFCC905F44C09F4BCCD0408
    9E54D91CF7F77BB97FC8E32A0EF72B48044C0D088D8DE2DF3D
    Important Note: Make sure the 3 lines above is merged into ONE line when copied to grabber.ini

    You should now be able to use latest The Grabber 1.4.4. Enjoy no limit download at RapidShare! Oh, to look for proxy address, just search in Google for “free proxy list” and you should get quite a lot from there.

    [ Download CMS The Grabber 1.4.4 ]

  • Backup Windows Live Messenger Standalone Installer Downloaded from Microsoft

    Ever since Microsoft officially launched their Live products, they no longer provide standalone installer for Windows Live Messenger. This has become quite a pain for some people like me because every time I format my customer’s computer to reinstall Windows, I have to spend an extra 30 minutes just to download Windows Live Messenger using Windows Live Installer. It’s a waste of time and bandwidth!

    Although Windows Live Messenger requires an internet connection, Microsoft should understand that not everyone has fast internet connection and some even have limited amount of bandwidth to use per month. There are Windows Live Messenger standalone installers hosted in free file hosting sites such as RapidShare and DepositFiles but I tell you honestly, I wouldn’t even trust those external links.

    The best is to download Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft and backup the standalone installer for future installation. Here’s how to do it.


    At first I thought it is going to be easy. Just use a packet sniffer to get the link of the Windows Live Mesenger setup file but I was wrong. It is much more complicated than that. Using a packet sniffer will give me a link to download a 16.4MB mu_wlmessenger_random_codes executable (.exe) file. When I tried to run the exe file, nothing appears. It seems like there’s a special way to extract the mu_wlmessenger. After many hours of trying, I still couldn’t figure it out. All I know is it make use of WLSetupSvc.exe to do convert mu_wlmessenger.exe to MSI installation file. (If you know how, please share it with me)

    Since I couldn’t find the direct link to download Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft, I will use Windows Live Installation to download and I am sure the standalone setup file will be cached somewhere in my hard drive.

    1. Download and run Windows Live Installer

    2. Accept the agreement, you can uncheck MSN Home and Help improve Windows Live checkboxes and click Install.

    3. Select Messenger (17 MB) and click Add to installation button. Wait for Windows Live Installer to finish download and install Messenger.

    4. Once Windows Live Installer has finished downloading and installing Messenger, use Windows Explorer and browse to C:\Program Files\Common Files\WindowsLiveInstaller\MsiSources
    Windows Installer MSI Sources

    5. You might see a few filenames Install_{random-numbers-letters}.msi. One of it is the standalone installer for Windows Live Messenger and here’s how to check. The file size is around 16MB. You can right click on the file, select Properties, go to Summary tab. At the Subject, it will state very clearly that it is a Windows Live Messenger setup package. You can backup and rename that file to a name that easily identifies it as Windows Live Messenger installer.
    How to get Windows Live Messenger standalone setup

    No more wasting time and bandwidth redownloading Windows Live Messenger or even downloading from untrusted/unknown source! This method will work for all products (Windows Live Sign-In Assistant, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail ,Windows Live Toolbar, Windows, Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Family Safety) at Windows Live Installer.

  • NodEnabler vs NodLogin – Which is Better?

    I got an email today from Joseph asking me about NodEnabler and NodLogin. Frankly speaking, I have no idea what are they because I’ve never used ESET products until recently when I found 2 methods to legally get free NOD32 username and passwords. Out of curiosity, I checked out both of the tools and found that it is able to automatically apply licenses on NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security without patching any files. The best part is the username and password that are being used are real trial licenses. Basically NodEnabler and NodLogin are similar to Kaspersky Key Finder. It connects to a website that contains a database of usable license and then automatically apply it to your registry.
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    Unlike Kaspersky and other antivirus software where it only allows you to activate the trial license once and after that it only accepts commercial paid license. ESET NOD32 Antivirus and Smart Security works differently. Although ESET allows you to apply for a normal 30 days trial license to use it on the installed ESET products, when it expires, you can use another email to re-apply for another 30 day trial license and continue using ESET products with the new username and password. If you purchase a commercial 1 year license, you will also get a set of username and password that is valid for 1 year. NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security users are really lucky because the licensing system used by ESET are very very lenient.

    Since NodEnabler and NodLogin does the same, have you ever wondered which one works better? Here’s my simple research on both of these tools.


    I will not go into too detail on the sites that it connects to grab the licenses. If you’ve read my article on Kaspersky Key Finder, you should know what tool to use to find out where it connects to.

    Download NodLogin NodEnabler
    The latest version of NodLogin is v9.7. It is created by UlisesSoft. NodLogin is able to detect whether NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security installed on your system, then grabs a list of working username and passwords from his own website at ulisessoft.info and automatically insert it to the ESET product via registry. When scanned with 37 types of antivirus, 18 of them including NOD32 itself detects NodLogin as a Autoit threat.
    Download NodLogin 9.7

    As for NodEnabler, the latest version is 2.81 and it is created by Damian666 and Nodster under The Damned Crew nick. It is also able to detect whether NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart Security is installed on your system, and then connects to a well known 3rd party website called nod321 that is updated daily with fresh username and password. It grabs the username and password, verifies them and auto insert it to the installed ESET product via registry. When scanned with 37 types of antivirus, only 4 antivirus detects NodEnabler as a threat. Installation is simple, just run the setup and click Just Do It! button.
    Download NodEnabler 2.81

    To me, both works perfectly but if you ask me which is better, I’d say NodEnabler because it doesn’t rely on a self maintained NOD32 username and password database. If one day the creator of NodEnabler decides to stop this project, this tool could still work if NOD321 website is still around and ESET software still reads the username and password from the same registry location. As for NodLogin, it connects to its own server which needs to be manually updated and maintained by UlisesSoft. I’ve checked the database that is used by UlisesSoft and the username & password data are dated 9 days ago. If the database is not updated, NodLogin will only download old and expired NOD32 username and password.

    There you have it Joseph, my reviews on NodEnabler and NodLogin. The original untouched NodEnabler or NodEnabler is not a threat and doesn’t damage your computer IF you got it from the right source.

  • Website Changes and Deus Ex Human Revolution Giveaway

    The last time I changed the design of this website was on January 1st 2008 which was more than 3 years ago. It was based on the free Illacrimo theme but modified to suit what I wanted to display. Having the same design for such a long time can get a little boring and unproductive for me. Moreover I have also been getting comments on the fonts being too small and hard to read especially when the computer monitors today is more than 20″ in size.

    Few months back I’ve changed the forum design from the default vBulletin skin to a new skin called Aesthetica and gotten a lot of positive comments. So I went ahead and quietly developed a very similar design for the blog. It was ready for quite some time but did not want to switch to the new theme because I was having the busiest time during that period. I thought that there is no point switching to a new design that may dazzle some of you but end up with no new articles. So I waited….


    Now that I am pretty sure that I have more time to be on the computer learning new stuff and sharing with you, I’ve decided to activate the new theme for this blog. Here are the changes:

    1. New theme
    – Theme is custom made and still requires optimization such as CSS sprites so that it loads faster. Fonts are bigger and more readable. Need to sort out the category because last time I grouped all articles into Computers.

    2. Social bar
    – Some of you that want to +1, Like or Tweet the articles that you find interesting, you can now easily do so from the social bar that is located at the left hand side.

    3. Disqus comment system
    – I switched to Disqus because I wanted only logged in users to post comments. Allowing guest to comment will only bring in spammers and trolls which are a waste of time reading and deleting them.

    I hope you all like this new design and appreciate any comments on how to improve it further.

    Other than the on-going Advanced SystemCare PRO 4 giveaway, I will be giving out one copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution game worth $49.99 today and the lucky winner will be randomly picked after 2 days (48 hours). All you need to do is be a “verified member” in our forum to participate in the draw.

    About Deus Ex: Human Revolution Game
    You play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America’s most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team uses a plan you designed to break in and kill the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.

    Deux Ex Human Revolution giveaway

    Key features:

  • The long-awaited return of the award winning franchise that blends the best of Action and RPG: the perfect mix of combat, stealth, hacking, and social gameplay.
  • Play as Adam Jensen, a mechanically augmented agent: customize and upgrade your character with more than 50 unique augmentations that support your style of play.
  • Deadly weapons: Over 20 available weapons, each with their own customizable elements.
  • Fight enemies including dangerous thugs, augmented special operations soldiers, advanced robots; and engage in epic boss battles.
  • Live the reactive and dangerous world: your choices will have consequences in the game’s world.
  • Play in an open-ended world: there are always multiple solutions to every challenge.
  • Engage the unique Cyber Renaissance setting: discover a unique world that blends near future and Renaissance elements.
  • Travel the world: visit multiple unique locations across the globe each with their own design, story and gameplay elements.
  • Become involved in vast global conspiracy: unravel the story — discover who you can really trust.
  • Decide humanity’s future: the decision you make and the actions you take will lead to an ultimate decision on mankind’s future.

    • Do take note of the minimum system requirements to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

    OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
    Processor: 2 GHz dual core
    Memory: 1 GB RAM (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
    Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better
    DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
    Hard Drive: 8.5 GB

    I already have the Deus Ex: Human Revolution game as gift in my steam account. Once the winner has been drawn, I will send the gift over either to your email or steam account if you already have one. You can get more information about the game from the official Deus Ex website.
    Free Deus Ex Human Revolution Game Giveaway

  • X-Ray 2.0: Auto Submit Suspicious Files to Antivirus Analyst

    An antivirus software cannot detect all viruses which is why they also depend on users to submit samples to their virus analyst for manual analysis through various methods. It can be either through a web form, email or a special tool which makes it very troublesome to submit samples because every web form is not the same and they have different prerequisites.

    For example, some wants the file to be sent in raw format and some wants you to compress the file to ZIP or 7z. Some requires you to use a specific password for the ZIP file and some don’t. Other than that, submitting samples to SUPERAntiSpyware requires a special tool called SUPERSampleSubmit. It is nearly impossible for an individual to submit samples to multiple antivirus companies because it is just way too troublesome, until X-Ray has been created.
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  • One of the Best Image Compression Software FILEminimizer Pictures is Now Free

    Received an email from balesio a few days ago that FILEminimizer Pictures is now free for personal and home use! It used to cost €24.95 for a single user license but now anyone can just download the software, install it and start reducing the size of huge photos. A cheap camera for beginner nowadays can already go up to 10MP which will result in the photo size being really huge. For a user that doesn’t know much about computers, they would obviously waste time and bandwidth in uploading the original uncompressed photo to Facebook.

    With FILEminimizer Pictures, I believe anyone would be able to reduce the size of photos on their computer because all it takes is just a few clicks. Run the software, add the photos that you want to compress and click the optimize files button. Can’t get any easier than that. It is also very effective in the sense that it is able to make a photo size 98% smaller and still look beautiful without even knowing what values to use for Bits Per Pixel, quality factor and etc on some image editing software.

    This latest version of FILEminizer Pictures 3.0 comes with an integrated uploading of optimized images directly to Facebook. This saves you the trouble of manually running your web browser, log in to Facebook and then upload the photos.

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    If you didn’t know, you can also compress images by right clicking on the image files and select FILEminimizer from the context menu. Currently it shows 2.x which I think the programmers at balesio forgotten to update it to show 3.x instead.

    Although the website just said it’s free, but during the installation, the License Agreement window clearly stated that it is intended exclusively for private use on a single workstation and may not be used for commercial or professional purposes. To be honest, FILEminimizer Pictures is what me and my wife normally use to make photo files smaller.

    [ Download FILEminimizer Pictures ]

  • BIOS Master Password Keygenerator for Locked Out BIOS

    I used to work in a educational facility where there are hundreds of HP computers to manage. One of the biggest headache I face there was preventing the computer hardware such as RAM from being stolen. The computer case has a small hole where I can use a small padlock to prevent the case from being opened by unauthorized person but for some reason the management didn’t want to buy the locks. Fortunately there is a built-in function where I can lock the casing from the BIOS and logically I have to set a password on the BIOS to prevent the users from accessing the BIOS to unlock the case.

    One problem solved but another problem surfaced which is the HP machine only allow the user up to 3 chances to enter the correct BIOS password before the BIOS itself is locked out, preventing the password which I’ve set earlier. The only way that I can get the BIOS unlocked is to call HP to schedule an on-site service and that cost money. If you searched in ebay, there are people selling service in bios password removal for a fee and I thought that surely there are keygenerators for that. I searched harder and found Dogbert’s article on BIOS password backdoors in laptops.


    When a computer or laptop is locked out, you will be presented with a scary “System Disabled“, “Password check failed. Fatal Error. System Halted” message with numbers. Take note of the number because that piece of information is very important to generate the BIOS backdoor password.

    System Disabled

    All you need to do is to note down the numbers and then go to this page to download the correct key generator based on the brand of your computer or laptop. Enter the numbers on the program, hit enter and the master password will be displayed. Then boot up the computer that is locked out and just type in the password which will instantly unlock the computer.

    BIOS master password keygenerator

    Obviously you have to run the keygenerator on a computer that you can boot in to Windows. If you don’t know which pwgen to use, it is also safe to try all of them until you find the one that matches your laptop. Recently Dogber has even included a python script to generate master password for Sony laptops. You can get that by going to the main page of Dogber’s blog. This guy is a genius!