EXTEND COMPLIMENTARY INTERNET!

Hope Your summer is going just great, and hopefully you read this before going on a vacation!! Planning on taking your laptop , in the hope of using the free wi-fi your hotel is not likely to provide? Well this is the post you want to read.

There are basically 2 ways by which you can access a paid WiFi. The first is by paying them up , and using the it for the limited time, OR you can follow the following steps.

USE MAC SPOOFING:

Sitting in a coffee shop and have a time limit of just 30 minutes for free Wi-fi? Well using MAC address SPOOFING you can , well sit as long as you want! 

WHAT YOU NEED : 

A respectable Laptop, ( this particular trick is not for mobile devices) , and MAC MAKEUP.This particular tool enables you to change your WiFi fingerprint, thus resetting your timer.

GET TO WORK :

As soon as your time is coming to an end( no pun intended :P ) , Run MAC MAKEUP as an administrator. Click on generate random, and sit back and enjoy the free internet!

Changing even a number in the MAC address changes your WiFi print. 

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Top Extensions For Google Chrome

If You have been smart enough to switch off troublesome browsers and switch to Google Chrome, Google Chrome Extensions are the best way to improve your Web experience.

What are Chrome Extensions?

Chrome Extensions are browser extensions that modify the Google Chrome browser.These extensions are written using web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Over 2,200 extensions have been published by developers, and are available on the Chrome Web Store.

THE LIST

1.AdBlock:We start off the list to deal with perhaps one of the most annoying problems that we face while browsing-ADS. Adblock answers that problem.Whether it be Facebook, Hulu or even your latest mp3 download website, Adblock get rids of ALMOST all ads, creating a cleaner, faster and more enhanced browsing experience.

2.IE Tab: Some websites are optimized to run exclusively on Internet Explorer. Microsoft Applications like Microsoft Outlook are said to work best on Internet Explorer. However as we all know, Internet Explorer does NOT offer that great a browsing experience and suceeds in killing Patience( atleast they do it me).So i just disabled Internet Explorer( click here for tutorial on how  to disable IE)  and use IEtab which creates a virtual Internet Explorer browser window which enables me  to do the work.

3. Stop AutoPlay For Youtube: There are many applications which turn off auto play for youtube, which can be an annoyance while you work on Multiple tab. Hoever this extension does go the extra chipset and does what it is meant to do...but with a difference : It also buffers the video! There are few applications which do this feat flawlessly , and this extensions makes it to this list for this reason.

4. Awesome New Tab Page: Take the UI style of Windows 8, combined with dynamic widgets and bookmark rearrangement, and you have an add-on that breaks the records of browser customizaion. Must have Extension for all you custo-junkies who dont like anything the plain and simple way!

5. Session Manager: Session manager is a must have extension for those users who do multiple tab browsing and have no fixed schedule. Just save your browsing session using Session Manager and restore your tabs the next time you log on and have to continue from where you left off.

6. Turn Off The Lights: Watching videos on youtube is now much more fun thanks to this amazing extension. Click on the lightbulb that appears on the address bar  and the video is highlighted while it is being played. Click on the bulb again , and you are back to your normal youtube.


7.Chrome To Phone:If you're using an Android phone or tablet, you can use the Chrome to Phone extension to quickly send links and other content to your mobile device, either via the right-click menu or the extension icon. You'll also need to install the Chrome to Phone app on your Android device, where you can choose whether to open up links automatically.


8.TimeStats Beta: Want to know where you've spent all your time on the Web? This Extension sits quietly in the toolbar logging everything that you do and then brings up a simple yet elegant  pie chart visualising just how much time you've spent on your favorite website. Follow the Additional link to see an even more detailed breakdown of the places you've been.
AUTHORS NOTE : TEENAGERS MAKE SURE YOUR PARENTS DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON YOUR LAPTOPS ;)


9.Download Master: Download mp3 becomes simpler. Need to download all files( not just mp3...but also ZIP or ny ither files you can imagine )  from a single web page? Download Master lets you see all avaialble downlaods from a particular page and lets you start the download.  the rest is managed by your INternet connection provider and Google Chrome Download Manager.


10. TinEye: If you're looking for a bigger version of a certain image or want to find out where a picture originated from, then TinEye can help -- this reverse image search takes your source picture and looks for other matching instances of it on the Web. There's no icon added to the Chrome interface, just an extra option on the right-click context menu.



So here was the Top 10 list for Google Chrome Extensions! Need more? There is a huge list which 

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Windows Tweaks

Sorry for our not so short absence from the cyberspace, The authors got tied up with a little too many things!Hopefully you will forgive us for this!!Any ways our first post for this summer is for all those tired Windows users who are not happy with the way windows 7 is working?We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more.

Use hidden international wallpapers and themes

You  probably remember that when you open Windows 7 for the very first time, you chose a language and your time zone. According to those choices ,Windows installed custom themes for your particular area.To open up more themes that can be installed...just follow the following steps..: 

1. In the search box in the Start menu, typeC:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press Enter. (Note: If Windows 7 is installed in a drive other than C:, use that letter instead.)
2. Under this folder, you will find a 5 folders , namely : 

• MCT-AU: Australia 
• MCT-CA: Canada
• MCT-GB: Great Britain
• MCT-US: United States
• MCT-ZA: South Africa

    3.Doube click on the theme file, and enjoy! 

Set a new Windows Explorer launch folder

When you run Windows Explorer, it always opens to the Libraries folder. Dont want to access your Computer via Libraries. Well You have 2 options.....1. Get rid of Library( Watch out for tutorial) OR  you can easily change the target path of the Windows Explorer taskbutton.Just follow the following steps:

1. Right Click on the Windows explorer button on the task bar.
2. Right Click on Windows Explorer..and Click on Properties.
3. Here , in the Target field copy and paste the following , And YOUR DONE!:  

• Computer: %windir%\explorer.exe ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
• My Documents:%windir%\explorer.exe ::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
• Network: %windir%\explorer.exe ::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

Turn Off Unwanted Applications

Tired of Microsoft applications clouding your options? Well here is the tweak to turn off such unwanted applications and options , provided by Microsoft and trumped up by other third party softwares!

Things like

►Windows Media Player

►Windows DVD maker

►Windows Media Player

►Windows Media Center

►Internet Explorer 8( Which was a relief to me!! ) 

►Windows Search

►Handwriting Recognition (through the Tablet PC Components option)

►Windows Gadget Platform

►Fax and Scan

►XPS Viewer and Services (including the Virtual Print Driver)

Well you can do much more by following these simple enough steps

1. Go to Control Panel → Windows Update

2. On the left side, click on Turn Windows features ON & Off.

3.There Uncheck the options you dont want...Something like this should take place! 

4. And Now you are done!

Set up an Administrative Account

Windows 7, unlinke previous Windows version, does not enable the administrative account at all times.You need to grant access each time a task which requires Special Access or permissions is run.

Well, This fact is Not completely True. Windows 7 does have a Administrative Account which can be activated a all times, but which is disabled due to security reasons.But if you are sure that everything is fine or you are tweaking your laptop/PC and getting tired of clicking yes every time, Well here is what YOU can Do :)

1. Go to start menu and type cmd.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
3. type the following and You are good to go : 

net user administrator /active:yes

NOTE : ADVISABLE ONLY WHEN YOU ARE DOING SOME SPECIAL WORK AND NEED TO CLOSE THOSE ANNOYING POP-UPS. THIS FEATURE SHOULD BE LEFT DISABLED TO REALLY STAY SAFE( THE PEOPLE AT MICROSOFT ARE NOT COMPLETE IDIOTS YOU KNOW :P ) 

When you are done just repeat the above steps and type 'no' instead of yes to disable the administrative account.

Well tha ends our list for today!..Want more? Let us know! We do have much more!

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