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 Looking back at the graphical user interface of EaseUS ToDo v1 and they looked so outdated.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.

[ Download RunScanner ]

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.

[ Download Plax Network Suite ]

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! 😉

[ Download RapidKill 5.6 Pro ]

A week ago Kino, a member of the forum from China shared a tip on how to obtain a free 6 months Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 key. Honestly I didn’t know how I missed that thread but I got to know about it when someone posted a comment on this blog. The deal is Kaspersky is giving out 50000 license key everyday and you’ll have to activate the license before 1st of April 2009.

The steps to get the activation code is very simple. Just enter your email address in the form, click submit and the code will be instantly delivered to your email. Problem is the code can only be used on Chinese version of Kaspersky AntiVirus 2009 (kav8.0.0.506sch.exe or KAV8.0.0.506sch.zip). If you try to activate the code on the English version of KAV 2009, you’ll get an error saying “Activation code is not compatible with this application. It is impossible to activate Kaspersky Anti-Virus using the activation code for another application. Please, check your product.”

You can of course download the Chinese language of Kaspersky and hit Shift + F12 to change the interface to English (which will be reverted back to Chinese after reboot) but today I will show you how to get the genuine kaspersky key, and how easy it is to do the “impossible” by activating any language of KAV 2009 using the activation code that is meant for Chinese version.


Follow the steps below to get your free 6 months Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 activation code:

1. Go to http://li.kaba365.com/

2. Enter your email at the form and click the button.

3. Type the exact verification code that you see and click the button on the bottom left.

4. Click Cancel if you receive a popup that looks like the image below.

5. Check your email address that you’ve entered in step 2. You should receive an email from noreply@pcstars.com.cn with the subject 赠送给您的卡巴斯基反病毒2009（半年卡）‏. Note down the 25 digit Kaspersky activation code.

If you haven’t install Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, you download it from here. After installation, make sure you select “Activate later” when asked to activate the application. Finish up the configuration and restart your computer.

To activate the chinese activation code on English version of Kaspersky Antivirus 2009.

1. Right click at Kaspersky icon at the icon at the notification area and select Settings.

2. Go to Options and “uncheck” Enable Self-Defense. Click OK to close the settings window.

3. Right click at Kaspersky icon at the notification area and select Exit.

4. Go to C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009\Skin\loc and rename the folder from en to sch.

5. Go to Start > Run , type regedit and click OK.

6. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\KasperskyLab\protected\AVP8\environment

7. Look for the Localization name and double click on it. Change the value data from en to sch. Close the Registry Editor.

8. Run Kaspersky Antivirus either from desktop or start menu and you’ll be prompted to activate the application.

9. Select Activate online and enter the 25 digit activation code that you got earlier.

10. Voila! You should see that it’s sending the data to Kaspersky server and will then tell you that the key is successfully installed with the expiration date 6 months ahead.

Well, it is amazing that Kaspersky is giving out 50,000 activation codes everyday but unfortunately those keys are “trial” keys and not commercial. There is one drawback on trial key which is IF you’ve previously activated the 30 days trial or other promotional trial license, you won’t be able to use this license. Kaspersky application only allows you to activate the trial license ONCE. Uninstalling and reinstalling won’t allow you to activate trial license more than once unless you know how to do kaspersky trial reset by deleting some registry keys which won’t be discussed here.

Windows Vista includes a new feature called ReadyBoost that allows you to use a USB key as virtual memory in order to enhance performance. Most of the new desktop today comes with a lot of RAM and also a standard 7200RPM hard drive and you wouldn’t really see any speed improvements after enabling ReadyBoost. However for laptops, the laptop memory are being priced relatively higher than the for desktop systems and many laptops are still using the slow 4200RPM or 5200RPM hard drives. I’ve also read that ReadyBoost can increase laptop battery life by reducing hard drive access, allowing the hard drive to spin down.

To speed up Vista system using ReadyBoost, all you need to do is to plug in your USB flash drive that is ReadyBoost capable, select “Speed up my system using Windows ReadyBoost” from the autoplay window and you’re all set. You can then go to the drive’s properties where a ReadyBoost tab will be made available for you to configure the available space to use for ReadyBoost. Matt Ayers, who is the Program Manager in the Microsoft Windows Client Performance group and basically owns the ReadyBoost feature recommends a 1:1 ratio of flash to system memory at the low end and as high as 2.5:1 flash to system memory. Higher than that and you won’t see much benefit.

After enabling ReadyBoost, all we see is the LED light at USB flash drive blinking all the time and how do you know if it is working or not? Well here are 2 tools that you can use to monitor the read and write cache which gives you an idea of how well ReadyBoost is working.


The first one that I found was ReadyBoost Monitor by Area 71.

It is only a 56KB free portable tool that you can use to monitor the ReadyBoost read and write speed, the cache and compressed size. This tool can be minimized to the notification area (system tray) and moving your mouse cursor over the icon will conveniently show you a popup on the current read and write speed. It also has a nice small graph to show you the activity of the ReadyBoost.

[ Download ReadyBoost Monitor ]

The second one is also called ReadyBoost Monitor and it is created by the developers of popular “The Cleaner”.

About 10 years ago when antivirus could only detect virus but not trojans, The Cleaner was very popular and is the only tool that could detect and clean trojans. Their free ReadyBoost monitoring tool is able to show ReadyBoost Hits, ReadyBoost Reads, Physical disk and the efficiency in percentage. This tool is free, portable, only 24KB and they even provide the complete source code for the ReadyBoost Monitor.

[ Download ReadyBoost Monitor by MooSoft ]

After enabling ReadyBoost on my laptop running Vista Business for about 10 minutes, I could already feel that the USB flash drive is getting pretty hot and thought that this could shorten the life span of my pen drive. Microsoft is aware of the lifecycle issues with flash drives and are smart about how and when they do their writes to the device. According to Microsoft, the drive should be able to operate for at least ten years. I guess I will be using ReadyBoost from today onwards until I add in another 2GB DDR3 RAM.

If you have any questions regarding ReadyBoost or to know more about it, please read the Q&A interview with Matt Ayers.

This How-To will teach you how to use Google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings. This info is taken from a website hosted in Geocities. I really liked the knowledge and information being shared. Since it is hosted on Geocities for free, I’m just afraid that one day this website will be gone and the whole article won’t exist for reference anymore! Moreover, free Geocities account only allow 3GB transfer per month. So if the website exceeds 3GB data transfer, the website will be inaccessible.

Note: This info works just great for ebooks as well just change mp3 to pdf, djvu, ps, etc…


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= Index
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0) Key
1) Directories
2) Xitami Servers
3) Directory Listing
4) Andromeda Servers (depricated)
5) Zina Artists (depricated)
6) Apache mp3 Servers
7) Individual Songs
8 ) Saving Shoutcasts
9) Social Bookmarking

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= Section 0 – KEY
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This are just some definitions I will use below.

[Directory String] can be any of the following :
1) “index of”
2) “last modified”
3) “parent of”

[file type] can be any of the following :
1) “mp3″
2) “shn”
3) “wma”

[mp3 name] can be any of the following :
1) the name of the album in quotes
2) the name of the artist in quotes
3) be daring and leave it blank and have lots of links
4) be creative!

[limitors]
1) -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls

(inurl:) is optional and may be omitted and in fact most be omitted if not using a search tool other than google.

(intitle:) can be used in place of (inurl:) and has a similar effect again you must be useing google.

(-filetype:txt) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.

(-playlist) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.

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= Section 1 – Directories
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These are the most common way that mp3s are stored on the www, you should try these strings first.

String Format :
Type 1 : [Directory String] + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : [Directory String] + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : [Directory String] + [file type] + [mp3 name] + [limitors]

Example Strings :
– intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
– “index of” + “mp3″ + “radiohead” -html -htm -php
– “index of” + mp3 + “grandaddy”
– “index of” + inurl:mp3 + “beatles” -txt -pls
– “index of” + intitle:mp3 + beatles
– “last modified” + “shn” + “dylan”
– “last modified” + inurl:shn + “bob dylan”
– “parent of” + inurl:wma + “grandaddy”

Suggestions :
– Try (intitle:index.of + “mp3″ + “band name” -htm -html -php -asp) first it is usually the most effective.

Another Little Trick:
– If you have been getting alot of results on google but the pages don’t seem to be there try adding dates and the “apache” string to your search i.e.

– intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp apache feb-2005
– intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp apache 2005

or if you just want a big list of mp3′ doing a search like this every month
– intitle:index.of + mp3 + -html -htm -php -asp apache mar

or if you want to condense the search try
– intitle:index.of + (mp3|ogg) + “grandaddy” -(html|php|asp) +apache mar-2007

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= Section 2 – Xitami Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “xitami web server” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “xitami web server” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]

Example Strings :
– “xitami web server” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
– “xitami web server” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
– “xitami web server” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”

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= Section 3 – Directory Listing
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String Format :
Type 1 : “directory listings” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “directory listings” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : “directory listings of” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “directory listings of” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]

Example Strings
– “directory listings” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
– “directory listings” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
– “directory listings” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”
– “directory listings of” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
– “directory listings of” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
– “directory listings of” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”

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= Section 4 – Andromeda Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “scott matthews” + andromeda + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “scott matthews” + andromeda + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : “powered by andromeda” + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “powered by andromeda” + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 5 : inurl:andromeda.php + [mp3 name]
Type 6 : inurl:anromeda.php + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 7 : “scott matthews”
Type 8 : “powered by andromeda”
Type 9 : inurl:andromeda.php

Examples :
– “scott matthews” + andromeda + “radiohead”
– “scott matthews” + andromeda + “mp3″ + “fitter”
– “powered by andromeda” + “gradaddy”
– “powered by andromeda” + “mp3″ + “just like women”
– inurl:andromeda.php + “shn”
– inurl:anromeda.php + “wma” + “dylan”
– “scott matthews”
– “powered by andromeda”
– inurl:andromeda.php

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= Section 5 – Zina Artists
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String Format :
Type 1 : “zina artists”

Examples :
– “zina artists”

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= Section 6 – Apache mp3 Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “stream all” + apache + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “stream all” + apache
Type 3 : “shuffle all” + apache + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “shuffle all” + apache

Examples :
– “stream all” + apache
– “stream all” “shuffle all” mp3
– “stream all” + apache + radiohead
– “shuffle all” + beatles

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= Section 7 – Individual Songs
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Format : [mp3 name].mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt

Examples :
– “ok_computer_live.mp3″ -playlist -filetype:txt
– “*ok_computer*.mp3″ -playlist -filetype:txt
– kid*a.mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt

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= Section 8 – Shoutcasts
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0) Streamripper is a free shoutcast recorder

1) Find a shoutcast that you would like to save.

2) Download and open the .pls file, to discover the stream url
File1=http://example.site:80/stream/1074

3) Open up a terminal (DOS or xterm)

4) break up the url into its parts (site,port,locations) so here we have
site: example.com
port: 80
location: /stream/1074

5) Uset telnet to Send HTTP GET message and redirect output. The request is

prompt$ telnet site port > output.mp3
GET location HTTP/1.0
PRESS_ENTER_KEY PRESS_ENTER_KEY

so in the example above

prompt$ telnet example.site 80 > output.mp3
GET /stream/1074 HTTP/1.0

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= Section 9 – Social Bookmarking
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Social Bookmarks sites, are site where people can leave links to other interesting sites given a certain “tag.” Tags are sort of like search terms and categories combined. Searching anyone of these bookmark sites for the type or music or band you like is almost sure to bring up lots of links to free mp3s. There are two links at the top of this page digg and del.ici.us, I use and there are others. If you do join a site make sure to give me a thanks by adding a link to this site!

Source: http://www.geocities.com/my_haz_runs/

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