So far I’ve introduced the software method of checking for private torrents registration opening with Tracker Checker and also a web based method from BTRACS and TrackerChecker. The web based method still works but the software method Tracker Checker is no longer available. When you visit Stamcar.com, you’ll be forwarded to zda2009.fri.uni-lj.si.

If you’ve been using Tracker Checker for Stamcar, here is a replacement that is very fast and it supports liveupdate for the tracker list and program. If you know of a torrent site that is not listed in the program, you can even manually add it yourself by using keywords.



Torrents Open Registrations Checker Features:

Super Fast checking

Customizable Timing

Hotkey Support

Use Ctrl+A to Select All

Use Ctrl+Z to Deselct All

Use Delete Button to delete the selected entry

Double Click on Entry in List to Open the Websites Registration Page

Press Enter to directly start searching

Press F1 to open readme file

Press F5 to refresh/reset the list

Comprehensive Toolbar and Menubar

Press on Start Search button for manual searching or Select The Timer Button for automatic searching

Simple Text File Operations so fast in process

List Sorting

Tracker description

Custom Icons

Advanced Conditions

Filters

Grouping

Auto Tracker Adder

Opportunity to place your ads

Automatic Updates

TORC is really fast in checking for opening registrations. It took only 35 seconds to finish scanning all 182 torrent sites. Those that shows a checkmark means that the registration is open. Double click on the link and the registration page will open in your default web browser. By default TORC doesn’t auto checks for registration opening. You’ll have to go to Options > Settings and enable the Repeat Timer. You can check out FileShareFreak for more complete tutorial on how to use TORC. TORC requires .NET Framework 2.0 installed in order to run. Would be nice if TORC is able to handle automatic registration when it finds an opening for torrent tracker of your choice.

To think about it, you can even use this tool to monitor a website for downtime by setting it to check for a specific keyword that is on a page. When the keyword cannot be detected, that means something is wrong with the website and it will notify you by playing a sound and also a popup message. There are 2 types of package to download, either the portable version or the installer. I always prefer portable version over installer because it does not write extra information to registry.

[ Download Torrents Open Registrations Checker ]

Bittorrent file sharing technology has been around for many years already and it is one of the main source for computer users to get their favorite music, movies, ebooks, tv shows, software, and etc. As long as it is an intangible product, most of it can be found in bittorrent sites. There are public bittorrent tracker site such as the famous The Pirate Bay and Mininova but these public torrent sites tends to have too much fake stuff such as embedded trojans or even worst, fake torrents uploaded by Anti-Piracy Organizations to catch you red-handed for downloading pirated materials.

There are also a lot of private bittorrent trackers that are more reliable and offers faster downloading speed due to the members seeding the torrent to try to get a good ratio. The chances of being caught by anti-piracy organization also lessen compared to public torrent trackers. However, these private torrents are not easy to get in. You either have an invitation where your friend invites you in or you just have to wait until they open up the registration to public.

A year ago I introduced a small program called Tracker Checker that regularly checks the status of private BitTorrent trackers for open registrations. The only annoyance is you have to keep the program running all the time on your computer. Here is another method where you can monitor 500+ private bittorrent tracker sites for signup openings without installing or running any software on your computer.


Bittorrent TRackers Automatic Checking System aka BTRACS is an automatic information site which periodically checks closed community bittorrent trackers for being open for signup. Some closed community bittorrent trackers’ signups are closed and are “invite only” (meaning, if you have a user, you can invite your friend to join or a friend can invite you). The BTRACS main page refreshes every 10 minutes and shows a list of bittorrent private trackers open for signup. If you know of a closed community bittorrent tracker you want to share with the rest of the world, you can add it to BTRAC’s database and it will checked with the rest of the bittorrent trackers.

Currently, there is a total of 308 bittorrent trackers in the BTRACS database and 98 bittorrent trackers are open for signup. BTRACS also shows the Alexa ranking of the added bittorrent site on the list. Websites with a rank closer to the top (number 1) are so to speak more popular than others because they seemingly have more traffic, meaning more people view these websites, meaning they update frequently, meaning you WANT to go visit those websites. BTRACS website contains adult advertisements. Just thought you should know this before you visit the site. Thanks to Pablos for sharing this with us!

[ Visit BTRACS ]

Another similar site is TrackerChecker.org.

Currently it has 500+ private bittorrent tracker sites in its database and 200+ private bittorrent trackers are open for signup. Unlike BTRACS, TrackerChecker is able to display all trackers that are in the database so you can check if the private torrent that you want to check is in the list or not. If not, you can always add the the tracker to the list using their simple form. It also supports sorting of the list based on the name, status or last updated information.

[ Visit TrackerChecker ]

Few months ago I’ve written an article on how to share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without using special hardware. It can be done using Input Director (freeware), Synergy (freeware) and Multiplicity (shareware). If you’ve used either Input Director and Multiplicity before, you’ll notice that Synergy is a bit harder to set up. I can honestly tell you that I didn’t even get to test Synergy because I couldn’t get it to work. I kept on getting the error “WARNING: a client with the name “COMPUTERNAME” is already connected.”

I gave up and didn’t put any extra effort in getting Synergy to work. Today I found a very useful tool developed by James A Kinsman on Christmas Eve Day and Christmas Day. It is a nice setup Wizard for Synergy. Sort of like “Synergy for Dummies”. I’ve tested the wizard and it took less than 1 minute to get my laptop and desktop sharing one single mouse and keyboard.


With Synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers. You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor.

In this example, the user is moving the mouse from left to right. When the cursor reaches the right edge of the left screen it jumps instantly to the left edge of the right screen.

After installing Synergy, you get to choose whether to share or use a shared keyboard and mouse. I select Share this computer’s keyboard and mouse (server) and click the Configure button. With one look, I couldn’t really understand how to configure Synergy. I don’t know what is the percentage doing there, what’s left, right, top, bottom. Totally confusing…

To simplify Synergy’s configuration and get it working, just use “Xhirl Synergy Wizard“. Just follow the few simple steps below.

On the computer that is going to be used to control other machines with its keyboard and mouse
1. Download Xhirl Synergy Wizard and extract the file to where Synergy is installed. By default Synergy is installed in C:\Program Files\Synergy.

2. Run XhirlSynergyWizard.exe, make sure Primary is selected and click Next.

3. If the computer that you will be controlling is on the left, the click on the left dropdown box to select the computer name (or you can manually enter the computer name or IP address). Do the same if you have a computer on the right. Once you’re done, click Next.

4. On the next screen, you get to configure Screen Switching and Extra Synchronization options. You can leave it blank if you are unsure and click Next.

5. Here you have Advanced Connection options. Again, if you’re unsure, just click the Next button, and click Finish.

6. You will get a confirmation window saying that this computer is set up to be the primary computer… Click OK.

7. When asked if you’d like to copy the configuration file synergy.sgc to My Documents folder, click Yes.

8. The configuration is done. Click Close and Synergy is already running in background.

On the computer that will be controlled using another machine’s keyboard and mouse.
1. Download Xhirl Synergy Wizard and extract the file to where Synergy is installed. By default Synergy is installed in C:\Program Files\Synergy.

2. Run XhirlSynergyWizard.exe, select Secondary and click Next.

3. Click the dropdown box and select the primary computer name or IP address. If it is not listed, you can manually type the computer name or IP address. Cick Next.

4. Here you have Advanced Connection options. If you’re unsure, just click the Next button, and click Finish.

5. You will get a confirmation window saying that this computer is set up to be the secondary computer… Click OK.

6. When asked if you’d like to copy the configuration file synergy.sgc to My Documents folder, click Yes.

When you’ve completed all steps above, you should see that the Synergy green circle tray icon with the “lightning bolt” connected symbol.

To control another computer, simple move your mouse right to the edge of the left and right screen and you will see your mouse cursor jumps instantly to the left edge of the right screen. I showed my girlfriend how Synergy works while testing it and she was as impressed as I am.

Nearly every computer users knows that Microsoft Word is used to create word documents and Microsoft Powerpoint to create slideshow presentation. When you have a lot of slides in powerpoint or pages in word document, the size of the file will increase accordingly. You can of course compress the file with your favorite archiving software such as WinZIP but you will need to extract before you can view the file. A good solution to reduce the size of powerpoint slides and word documents is to compress with PPTminimizer.

PPTminimizer has been used by many world leading big corporate companies such as Porsche, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Wells Fargo, IBM, Intel, HP, Dell, McAfee, Nero, Kaspersky, Boeing, Airbus, Vodafone, Nokia, Shell, Mcdonalds, and etc.

The latest PPTminimizer 4.0 normally cost €29,95 or $42 but it’ll be FREE if you follow the steps which I am about to show you.


PPTminimizer reduces PowerPoint and Word files by up to 98% of their initial size using an intelligent compression technique. The software preserves the original file format so files can be edited without having to unzip them. The optimized files, without any quality loss, are then much smaller, safer and ideal for sharing. Mailboxes, servers and networks are relieved and loading time is accelerated.

PPTmimizer Features:

File compression by up to 98%

Compresses all PowerPoint presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2007 (PPTX)

Compresses all Word documents from Word 97 to 2003

Keeps the original file format – no unzipping required

Compresses StarOffice and OpenOffice presentations and documents provided they are saved in a Microsoft format

Compact edition runs directly from CD or USB flash drive – no installation required

Integrated search function

“Drag & Drop” files directly into PPTminimizer to optimize several files at once

4 different compression levels

Add-ins for Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Windows Explorer

Fully compatible with Windows Vista

Developer Version (SDK) available (majority of programming languages are supported: C#, C++, Delphi, Visual BASIC, VB.net, etc)

Follow the steps below to get your free genuine license key code for PPTminimizer 4.0:

1. Go to this page (Link Removed Due to Request)

2. Enter your Name, E-mail and click Request License button. You can enter false information because the serial no. will be generated and shown at the next page.

3. Download PPTminimizer 4.0 setup file and install on your computer.

4. Run PPTminimizer, and click Enter registration Code button. Enter the given Serial Number, Field #1, Field #2 and click the Register button.

5. You should see the dialog box stating “Thank you for registering, the registration was successful!!!”. Enjoy the fully licensed PPTminimizer to compress powerpoint and word document files!

I’ve tried compressing a 9.89MB .PPT file with PPTminimizer and the file size was reduced to 3.44MB. That is a total of 65.2% file size reduction! I tried zipping the PPT file with maximum compression but it was only down to 8.88MB.

In another test on 14.35MB .DOC file with PPTminimizer, the word document file size was reduced to only 11.85MB. When I tried opening the DOC file, I got the error message “A table in this document has become corrupted.” When I zip the word document file with maximum compression using PowerArchiver, the file size went down to 11.3 MB which was even better than PPTminimizer.

So make sure that you test the compressed files first before taking it for a presentation or sending the compressed PPT or DOC files to anyone because there will be times when PPTminimizer wouldn’t compress the file correctly.

Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when we’ve just downloaded a file. If you didn’t know, RapidShare is one of the largest file hosting website. Rapidshare claims to have a storage capacity of several petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes) of files and an internet connection that transfers hundreds of gigabytes simultaneously. You can imagine the amount of files that is hosted there.

Too bad RapidShare doesn’t have an official search engine for people to find files in its servers. Fortunately I found a total of 99 RapidShare search engine websites and 2 free software that can help you find files hosted in RapidShare according to the keywords. With the help of 101 rapidshare search engines, searching for files in RapidShare is no longer a problem!

1. RapidShare1 – Rapidshare Search Engine
2. RapidShare Searcher – Search in rapidshare.com
3. FileZ – Rapidshare Search – File Search
4. LoadingVault – RapidShare Search
5. RapidOSearch – RapidShare Search Engine
6. Rapidoogle – The RapidShare Search Engine
7. HellaFiles – Rapidshare and Megaupload Search Engine
8. RapidShare-Search-Engine – Find files on rapidshare
9. FileCrop – Find Rapidshare & Megaupload files
10. ThuVienPHP – RapidShare Search Engine from Vietnam
11. RapidZilla – Your rapidshare.com search engine
12. OplaHol – We find any file for you
13. FileSearch – Advanced Search Engine for Rapidshare Files
14. FileScoop – Makes File Searching a Snap
15. FilesBot – File Storages Search Engine
16. SearchFiles.de – The Premium File Search Engine
17. OneClickFiles – Search for files on rapidshare, megaupload, etc
18. SearchShared – Search Shared File Servers
19. FilesTube – Every search is a direct hit
20. Rapidfox – RapidShare Search Engine
21. ShareMiner – Search Files on Rapidshare, Megaupload, SendSpace, ZShare
22. ShareDigger – File Search Engine
23. Share4VN – Download Everything You Need!
24. JuSearch – File Hosting Search
25. Avun – File Hosting Search
26. FilesHunt – Rapidshare Search Engine
27. MEGAPID – Official RapidShare Search Engine
28. TotMe! – Rapidshare Search Engine
29. FileSearch – Rapidshare and megaupload file search engine
30. MegaDownload – Megaupload and Rapidshare search engine
31. RapidLibrary – RapidShare Search Engine
32. RapidAll – Rapidshare and others Web Host download Search!
33. RapidSearch.CA – RapidShare Search Engine
34. Gappon – Your Rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire search engines
35. Search4File – Free file search on RapidShare, Youtube and more
36. NewRapidHunter – The easy way to find rapidshare files
37. LoadEvery – More than Search!
38. FileField – Search for files download
39. Leecha – Get it while it’s hot
40. RapidShareIndex – Rapidshare Search Engine
41. RapidRat – RapidShare Search Engine
42. RSDown – Rapidshare links search engine
43. Search.jrfreelancer.com – File Search Engine
44. Sharech – Search for files on the best servers download
45. RapidBurner – RapidShare Search Engine
46. RapidshareDATA – RapidShare Search Engine
47. Search Rapidshare and Megaupload
48. SharingEngines – Search rapidshare megaupload torrents emule mp3 movies
49. QuickSearch – Find needed files from RapidShare Links
50. Funfail – File Search
51. InfoBind RapidSearch
52. 4Chan – RapidShares
53. MegaTao – RapidShare RssSearch
54. RapidExplorer – RapidShare Megaupload Search Engine
55. Busca-RapidShare – Buscador de Rapidshare
56. DownloadList – Download RapidShare Search Engine File
57. rsSearch – Rapidshare Search Engine
58. Rapidor – RapidShare Search Engine
59. RapidSearch.in – Rapidshare links search
60. UVRX – Internet Search
61. BioScience – Search Shared Files
62. ShowIP – RapidShare Search Engine
63. Rapidshare Meta search engine
64. Rapidwolf – RapidShare Search Engine
65. FindAnyLinks – RapidSearch and Other Hosts Download Links Finder
66. RSFilez
67. Jwagal – Rapidshare search
68. Search Rapid Share . net – RapidShare Search Engine
69. RapidSearchLinks – The easiest way to share your file around
70. Megaxo – Search RapidShare, Search MegaUpload
71. DDL Search – Rapidshare search engine
72. RapidSurfing – RapidShare Search Engine
73. Rapidsharelink – Rapidshare Search Engine
74. JamesWatt – RapidShare and Megaupload Search
75. RapidLinks – Locate Your Links Rapidly
76. FreeXFile – Your RapidShare Search Engine
77. 890m rapidshare download search
78. RapidZero – Rapidshare Search Engine
79. DiggRapidShare – Search Your RapidShare Files
80. EliteSearch – Direct Download Search Engine
81. SharingRapid – Search rapidshare megaupload and more
82. 5iles – The Best Search Engine
83. INetList.com – Your RapidShare Search Engine
84. Search-File
85. PakAdTrader – Rapid Search
86. Shared File Searcher
87. LiveThunder Files
88. ShareMinerScript – My Query Builder
89. Medianet – RapidShare Search Engine
90. RapidShareFinder
91. FNETS – Search Rapidshare Files
92. ShareYard Search
93. HuHiHo – Universal File Search
94. goinFiles
95. Yourfile.US
96. GoFileZ File Search Engine
97. RSFind – RapidShare Files Search
98. RapidSeek – Search Shared Files
99. Rapid2Share – RapidShare Search Engine
100. RapidMe – RapidShare Search Engine Software
101. RapidSeek .NET Pro 2007 – Seek links to files on RapidShare network software

There you go, 99 rapidshare search engine websites plus 2 software that searches for files in rapidshare. Since there are so many of them, it’s not possible for me test and review each and every rapidshare search engine sites. Most of them uses Google Custom Search or google search strings to look for indexed pages with rapidshare links. However, there are a few sites such as RapidZilla that uses its own method to look for files in RapidShare. Some comes with lots of ads and some no ads at all. Some can only search for files in RapidShare and some (LoadEvery) can search up to 22 file sharing websites.

So go ahead and explore all 101 rapidshare search engine sites and tell me which is your favorite and if possible, why.

Seeing that many of you mentioned about EaseUS ToDo Backup Free on the backup strategy that I used with Acronis True Image Home, I’ve decided to test it out. In fact I’ve written a review on EaseUS ToDo Backup Free when they were at their first version 2 years ago. Looking back at the graphical user interface of EaseUS ToDo v1 and they looked so outdated. At least it didn’t them very long to switch to a new user interface after v1.

If you haven’t heard of EaseUS ToDo Backup and don’t know what it does, it is a software that backs up entire system state including the operating system and installed applications and save it to an image file. The image file can be saved to a CD, DVD, external hard drive, a different partition, or even a network drive and be used to restore back to the state when the image was created. It works like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image.

EaseUS ToDo Backup Free 3.5 User Interface


I always think that the emergency disk or bootable rescue media is an important feature, more important than EaseUS ToDo’s PreOS, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager or Norton Ghost’s LightsOut because if Windows cannot be booted up or the MBR has been erased, you can use the rescue media as a final resort to boot up the dead computer and perform the restoration. So this is the first feature that I put ToDo Backup to test.

EaseUS ToDo Backup Free 3.5 is able to create 2 different types of bootable disk which is Linux and WinPE. To create the WinPE bootable recovery disk, EaseUS ToDo Backup requires Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) to be installed where the KB3AIK_EN.iso file is 1.7GB in size. From Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, I wasn’t able to to create a working bootable emergency disk to an empty USB flash drive. Creating the WinPE bootable disk to USB seemed successful with any errors but booting up the USB shows the error “BOOTMGR is missing. Press any key to restart“. The Linux version failed with the error “Failed to read sector” during creation itself.

I did not give up so I re-image my test system to Windows 7 32bit, reinstalled EaseUS ToDo Backup Free 3.5 and Windows AIK. No problems in creating a linux bootable disk and booting it up. However do note that the Linux version of bootable disk can only be used to restore while the backup feature is disabled. When tried creating the WinPE, this time it failed with the message “Failed to create a bootable disk, please export ISO file and burn it with third party burning software, such as BurnAware.”

Finally, I tested the Export ISO option where EaseUS ToDo Backup creates the emergency disk and saves it to an ISO file which can be used to burn to a CD/DVD. I am able to burn the WinPE ISO to a CD and boot up the computer with it to perform a backup. Remember that Linux emergency disk can only restore while the WinPE emergency disk supports backup.

As for backup, normally you cannot create the backup archive file on the same partition that you are going to backup because you are taking a huge risk in overwriting the files that you want to backup. Symantec Ghost and Acronis has this restriction but weirdly EaseUS ToDo allows this. Meaning you can create a backup image of C drive and save it to C drive. Either ToDo is smart enough to detect that there is enough free space to store the backup image on the same partition OR they forgotten to include this restriction. Either way, I think this is a risky decision.

Mounting a backup image is easy and fast. Simply double click on the .PDB image file and you can access the backup files with the option of opening the file, recover or copy.

I also tried enabling the PreOS startup item but it failed with the error “Disk or partition space not enough, please change destination or clear useless data to try again”.

If I open My Computer, C drive shows 286GB free of 305GB while the D drive shows 240GB free of 290GB. There are still a lot of free space left so what went wrong? This problem has got to do with the hidden System Reserved partition not having enough space. Simply follow the instructions from this article and you will be able to enable the PreOS option after that.

I have not tested the “Recover to dissimilar hardware” feature or in another words Universal Restore as found in Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack but I read from EaseUS forum that there are limitations such as if the source boot partition and system partition locates on two different hard disks then you won’t be able to restore to dissimilar hardware.

EaseUS ToDo Backup Free offers a good alternative to commercial paid imaging software but the stability is no where near Acronis which has a solid 10 years background. Don’t get me wrong, EaseUS ToDo Backup works and can still do image backup with restoration but it comes together with a few hiccups.

[ Download EaseUS ToDo Backup Free 3.5 ]

Toolbars are best known for adding functionality and ease-of-use options to the end user. While the browser itself handles basic browsing navigation (Back, Stop, Reload, etc), toolbars often add additional functionality to browsers (additional search fields, form-fill, links back to popular sites. etc) Having a lot of toolbars installed is not very good because it slows down your computer. I recommend to install only 1 toolbar. Let’s say you use Yahoo services very often, then install Yahoo toolbar. As for me, I always use Google services, so I only have Google toolbar installed.

I’ve seen one of my friend’s computer that has 5 toolbars installed. When I asked my friend whether he uses all the toolbar functions, he said he didn’t know how did it even get there! Usually toolbar is bundled together with a software. Most of the time when installing software, we’ll blindly click on the “AGREE” button. That allows the software to install the toolbar before installing the software. So take an extra second to look carefully on what you’re agreeing. An example is when installing Nero Burning Rom. Just after running the setup file, you’ll be presented with a screen asking whether you’d like to install Ask toolbar. Will you immediately click the “Next” button or will you be very careful and select the non-default option “Install Nero Software without the Ask Toolbar“? Sometimes it’s tricky and we can be careless…

The best thing to do is to uninstall and remove the toolbar from computer if you don’t use it. Here’s how to do it.


You can uninstall a toolbar by using Add or Remove Programs from Control Panel. If you’re unable to remove toolbar from Add or Remove Programs, try using this free tool.

The Toolbar Uninstaller is a freeware program to get rid of unwanted toolbars. As time progresses, there are now more then 10000 different toolbars and counting. Toolbar Uninstaller (TbU for short) will be able to find some of them to be able to remove them.

The following is a list (could be outdated) of the toolbars that TbU is able to detect:

Internet Explorer
* Google Toolbar
* FearFM Toolbar
* MyWebSearch

Firefox
* Google Toolbar
* Yahoo Toolbar
* Alexa Toolbar
* Skype Toolbar
* Groowebar
* Coolstreaming Toolbar
* Stumbleupon Toolbar
* MX5 Club Toolbar
* Facebook Toolbar
* NetCraft Toolbar
* FearFM Toolbar
* McAfee SiteAdvisor
* eBay Toolbar
* Firefox Companion for eBay
* Clustybar
* ChaCha Toolbar
* Ask Toolbar
* IMVU Toolbar
* Oracle DBA Toolbar
* RankQuest SEO Toolbar
* RPoints Toolbar for Firefox
* Okapiland Search Toolbar
* Sheetmusicdirect.com Search Toolbar
* BigSite Toolbar
* Metawishlist Toolbar
* H*R Toolbar
* Kai3 Toolbar
* Bibleserver.com Toolbar
* The Music Hutch Toolbar
* Slavehack Toolbar
* PimpFish Basic Toolbar
* Quiz Addicts’ Toolbar
* Vertippdich Search Toolbar
* BlinkList Toolbar
* BanglaCricket Toolbar
* Faved Toolbar
* Neopets Toolbar
* Radio Paradise Toolbar
* AOL Toolbar
* [Unofficial] MySpace Toolbar
* Renkoo Toolbar
* WordLearner Toolbar
* ToolbarMS (The MySpace) Toolbar
* Calorie-Count.com Toolbar
* BzPower Toolbar
* Shaastra Toolbar
* Monalo Toolbar
* MyCountry.co.uk Toolbar
* The AustLII Toolbar
* eMusic Toolbar
* Cypher Toolbar
* Torrent Finder Toolbar

Toolbar Uninstaller has a very useful feature which is able to update the detection signature file. So make sure you check for latest detection signature file before using it to uninstall toolbars.

It is free, small and very useful tool to easily remove multiple toolbar. Although it requires installation, you can copy the Toolbar Uninstaller folder from Program Files to your USB flash drive and bring it everywhere with you.

[ Download Toolbar Uninstaller ]

I’ve been using two service (Feedburner and Feedblit) as email subscription for this blog site. Actually both of it does the same thing which is to email my subscribers whenever I posted something for the day but I can’t really remember how did I ended up with two. All this while Feedblitz has one advantage over Feedburner that is to use the article’s topic as the email subject and it is enabled by default. However for Feedburner, I can only set a static subject which is “The Latest from Raymond.CC Blog”.

Feedburner is something that I set and forget so I don’t really log in to check what’s new. Thanks to PrinceOfAndalus, he informed me that I can now configure my Feedburner account to use today’s topic as the subject. This is certainly a good news to over 80,000 subscribers who has been putting up with the crappy subject for years.


I remembered emailing to Feedburner many years ago requesting them to improve the subject on the newsletter but they wasn’t able to do it. Then Google bought over Feedburner and slowly improved until we can now insert our latest post’s title into the Subject/Title of email.

To make the changes, here’s what you need to do:

1. Login to your Feedburner account.
2. Click on the Feed Title to access the Feed Stats Dashboard
3. Click the Publicize tab
4. Click the Email Subscriptions
5. Click Email Branding
6. At the Email Subject/Title, use the tag ${latestItemTitle}. Do take note that there are no spaces in between the 3 words. You can insert anything before and after the tag.

7. Click Save button.

I posted an article yesterday regarding the free PC Tools File Recover license and got an email an hour later with the subject “Raymond.CC Blog – Free File Recover 7.5 License Key To Restore Deleted Files Worth $29.95″.

Good job Google!

Spywares, virus and trojans that has infected a computer must have an autostartup entry somewhere either on the registry, Windows services, startup folder and etc… There are far too many places that a malware can plant on so that it can be ran whenever Windows is starting up. Manually analyzing all startup methods is nearly impossible. That’s why there is HiJackThis and also HiJackFree, both with similar powerful capabilities for analyzing, detecting and removing malwares.

What if I tell you there’s an even better tool that covers everything that HiJackFree, HiJackThis, Autoruns and Silentrunners has to offer? That’s why it’s being rated as TOP free malware cleaner!


RunScanner is a completely free windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs.

You can use RunScanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems.

RunScanner Features
1. Scanning of 80+ hijack locations
2. HOSTS file editor
3. Process Killer
4. Online Malware/Whitelist Analysis.
5. FREE

I know that startup analyzer utilities are hard to use for novice computer users but this one is easier because it has online malware analysis, MD5 hash calculation of files + online file rating and online lookup of scanned entries. All this makes RunScanner easier to determine which entries are likely to be malicious. Unlike HiJackThis, when I newly used it, I accidentally removed an important file and I wasn’t able to boot in to Windows the next time.

RunScanner can be used in Beginner or Expert mode. Expert mode is for advanced users for tweaking startups, scanning, reporting, filtering and delete features are made available. As for Beginner mode, it is for users with little computer knowledge that want to do scan and upload their results to a forum or send their results to a malware specialist.

If you don’t know which forum to go to, RunScanner has round up a list of English, Français, Nederlands and Deutch forums that is able to help you analyze your results.

Another great feature that can be found in RunScanner is, you can scan your computer, export it to .run file and then send it to a malware specialist. The specialist can MARK certain items that need review and send the .run file back to the user. Marking of files does not fix the items, it only changes the color in the .run file.

In my opinion, RunScanner is the most powerful startup analyzer compared to the rest. Use it with care and do not simply uncheck and remove anything you don’t know.

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You’re having problem connecting to a computer in a network, first thing you should do is to PING the computer. Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. It is also used to self test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test. It works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets to the target host and listening for ICMP “echo response” replies.

Although Ping is useful for network administrators, computer hackers also use Ping to find potential victims on the Internet. By pinging a specific IP address and receiving a response from the IP address, a hacker can determine that something of interest might be there. If you can configure your computer to block ping response, it should heightens the level of security for your computer. I’ve researched on this before but never posted it because thinking that no one would be interested. Yesterday one of our forum member cybercop asked how to block ping, so here it is.


Some routers can be configured not to respond to an ICMP Ping (ping to the WAN port). Like my Belkin N1 Wireless router, it can be set up so it will not respond to an ICMP Ping from the outside. Simply checking the “Block ICMP Ping” checkbox would turn off the ping response.

But if your router doesn’t support blocking ping, there is nothing you can do on your computer because your router automatically respond to ping request.

If you have a direct connection, there are a few ways to block PING. Third party firewall should help you to block ping. I remembered I wasn’t able to ping the computer on a local network when the McAfee Firewall is enabled. As for the built in Windows Firewall, enabling it doesn’t block PING.

Another method to block PING on a single computer is to use IPSec by creating a policy element that will tell the computer to block all the specific IP traffic. The step is pretty long, you can refer to the article written by Petri IT Knowledgebase.

Finally, if you want a simple way to block PING with a click, you should check out Plax Network Suite. Plax Network Suite is an easy to use collection of network tools which give you full control over the internet activity of your computer. You can easily enable or disable Windows Firewall, block all internet traffic and block ping with ONE click.

It even have a port scanner and a visual report of all open TCP/IP and UDP ports and the mapping to the owning application. This can be used to quickly identify unknown open ports and their associated applications.

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RapidShare is definately one of the best and biggest free unlimited file hosting around the internet today.
There are others which offers bigger file uploads but the download speed is slow, or some even offer to keep the uploaded files for more than 6 months if there’s no downloaders, but their download speed is also slow…

RapidShare has the best in download speed as they have two mirrors that is very fast, Berlin and Zephyr. RapidShare offers the best “tweaked” limitations and the only downside I can think of is hourly-based traffic-limitations. After you’ve downloaded an amount of MB from RapidShare, you’ll have to wait for nearly an hour or more to download the next files.
Of course, this can be easily bypassed by disconnect and reconnect your internet IF your ISP offers you dynamic IP address.
Sometimes it’s just too troublesome to do that all the time just to download a few files.

A lot of RapidShare hack programs available today are mostly using Proxy address to download more files from RapidShare. If you do not have a fast Proxy address, your download is going to be slow and if the connection is unstable, your download will stop in the middle of download where you’ll have to start all over again!

I’ve found another method where you can download from RapidShare using proxy address to bypass the download limitations and also a lot of other features.


The concept is the same as what you can do on your computer when you use any RapidShare hack program but it runs on your UNIX based webserver. You can use a RapidShare hack PHP script to download unlimited files from RapidShare automatically for you using proxy and the files will be available on your UNIX webserver for you to download whenever you want to.
The best part is you don’t even need to enter the random CAPTCHA code and the download starts immediately without waiting.
You can also perform a lot of other commands such as:
• FTP the downloaded files from RapidShare to another webserver
• Renaming the downloaded files from RapidShare
• Deleting the downloaded files from RapidShare
• Email the downloaded files form RapidShare to another person without configuration
• Mass Email the downloaded files to multiple users
• Split files
• Puck files
Imagine all the features above are done in your UNIX webserver and not on your computer.

The RapidShare hack PHP script name used to be Rapidget Pro but now the author, Checkmate and Pramod has renamed it to RapidKill Pro starting from version 5.5 because the core version has been updated a lot to support other sites rather than just Rapidshare.
RapidKill is a PHP based application, primarily used to get the files on Rapidshare.de. It is also work with: filefactory.com, rapidupload.com, momoshare.com, megaupload.com, sexuploader.com, upload2.net, mytempdir.com, sendspace.com, getfile.biz, webfile.ru, slil.ru, zalil.ru, turboupload.com, up-file.com, depositfiles.com and ultrashare.net.

RapidKill Pro installation
1. Download RapidKill Pro from the link at the end of this post
2. Extract the RAR file with WinRAR or PowerArchiver
3. Create a folder in your UNIX webserver such as RapidKill folder and upload all the files.
4. Open your browser and type the link to the RapidKill folder (eg: http://www.rapidshare.com/rapidkill)

This is the main page of RapidKill.

The options of RapidKill. You can use Proxy to have unlimited download from RapidShare.

When downloading from RapidShare using RapidKill, there is a status bar that shows the progress of the download. After completed downloading from RapidShare, RapidKill also shows the average speed and total time used to download the file.

Click on RapidKill’s Files, it will show you the list of files that RapidKill has downloaded from RapidShare.

From here, you will be presented with the options to email, mass submits, split files, FTP file, puck files, rename and delete files.

Have fun RapidKilling RapidShare! 😉

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