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How to Hack and change the Start Menu Button in Windows 7

hack-windows-7-start-menuHave you ever wanted to customize your operating system just to suit your style or even to show off in front of  your buddies. Well here is a small trick that lets you change and customize the windows 7 Orb start button to the icon you want it to be.

This trick involves just the basic hack of changing the icon of the start menu using a tool called Resource hacker which some of you might be familiar with. The trick goes through the steps of replacing the icon with your own preferred icon of your choice, which could be your symbol ,button with your sign etc.
So here are the steps to go through with the process.
Step 1 : Download and install the Resource Hacker tool using the link given.
Step 2 : Keep your buttons ready with the following properties
It must be a 54 x 128 .bmp image.
Order of buttons in image
First- Default Idle button view
Second- Button on Mouse Over
Third- Button when Clicked
eg:
windowstartbutton
Step 3 : Using the Resource Hacker Tool, open the Explorer.exe file located inside the C:\Windows folder as a administrator.
Step 4 : Expand the Bitmap->6801 folder tree.
Step 5 : Right click on the 1033 file and select Replace Resource and navigate to the target image and Click Replace using Open file with new bitmap option.
Step 6 : Repeat the steps 4 and 5 for the Subtrees  Bitmap->6805 and Bitmap->6809 folders.
Step 7 : GO to File->  Save and the resource Hacker will automatically generate a backup file called  Explorer_Original.exe if anything goes wrong.
Step 8 : Restart or log in again to view the changes to your start button.
Do share your feedback in the comment section below .Cheers :D
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3 Best WordPress plugins to hide your Affiliate Links

Affiliate links don’t make the link look nice with all the question marks or sometimes even have a long string in them.So visitors don’t usually click on such links when they see a affiliate link.So the Best option is to hide the links behind a clean link that doesn’t look like a affiliate link. And hence we here found 3 wordpress plugins that will help you do just that.





Simple yet powerful redirect plugin that will help you to setup custom link for your affiliate link which will be redirected automatically on click to that link. You can even set the link to be “dofolow” or “nofollow” to be indexed or not to be indexed by the bots.

Link mask generator module is a module bundled with the WordPress SEO plugin SEO Ultimate.This will help you to create custom URL for any link in the post. Even creates multiple redirect links for single affiliate link.

So i have saved best for the last.Pretty link is a awesome WordPress plugin that has a simpler interface and easy to use. Pretty link provides as many links for your affiliate links for a given affiliate link and even sets the 301 or 307 redirects.The best part about this pretty link plugin is that it allows to track the clicks on the links created by this plugin and know the affiliate clicks for each link in the post.
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How people try to Cheat Google Adsense

Google adsense is the most profitable  revenue stream for publishers and also a reliable advertiser for its advertisers, but some people may try to earn more money by fraud clicks or many other ways that are mentioned here to finally get their  accounts banned. The post may sound good for people who came in searching for cheating tricks , but if you try these methods, you will surely end up banning your adsense account.So here are the tricks that you should not be doing just to earn some quick bucks..

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1 Clicking your own Ads
This is the most dumbest method and is mainly used by  noobs who don’t understand web technology and the internet . These fraud clicks may range from few clicks to even hundreds of clicks, just to make money faster. But the end result is no mystery.
2 Click through rate manipulation
Click Through Rate(CTR) of a page is usually considered to be 7% or less on an average.If there are more fraud clicks on your site, resulting in CTR of more than 10%, will surely raise Google’s flag. So some people try to adjust the click through rate by displaying the ads in junk low keyword density pages generating high traffic visits onto those pages. This then lowers the CTR below 10% and they even use the low CPC ads on those junk pages.
3 Fool the Visitors
When the site Admin puts the ads on the section of  ‘Sponsors’ or any other boxes with weird messages like ‘Support Us’ or ‘Click Here’, will raise flags to Google about these high clicked and low  value Ads and get their Account Banned soon enough.Only box title’s mentioned in the Google Adsense TOS policy can be used. So let your Ads look like Ads and don’t try to fool the visitors.
4 No Content , Only Ads in Page
If you insert all Adsense codes on a single page without content, then the user has no choice but to click on the Ads expecting to see some results or information that he came for, but this will lead to more Ad clicks which are closed instantly after the user discovers it as an Ad.So the Google has to protect its Advertisers and provide the value for what they are paying to Google.So google has no other choice but to terminate your account.
5 Ask Friends Or Family to Click your Ads
Here is another trick that’s used by noobs.  The Blogger might ask his friends living far off or abroad to click through his ads. But Google has enough Data from search engines or your profile across the internet to know how the clicks are generated and how that IP is related to your Address and find out if you have any friends or family in that place.So stop asking your relatives or friends to click your ads just because they live in far places.Multiple clicks from that friends IP location will get your Adsense account Banned.
6 The Popular Click Ring Network Cheat
The bloggers organize ring networks using the forums and social networking sites and plan the fraud clicks ,among their mutual website ads and click through each others ads.Once google finds out about this trick, you are sure to get banned from the program.
7 Proxy to Click Ads
Another popular trick among the publishers, for which they use proxy websites like the tor “onion routers” or any other anonymizer to click on their ads on their website.This trick is well known and might land your adsense account into big trouble.
8 Paid Ad Click Cheat
Paid Click Cheaters are often available for around $50 and mainly are people employed from developing countries like China,Phillipines,India or Pakistan. This lets the owner of the site to earn some money until his account gets banned from Google Adsense.
9 Automated Software ClickBots for Advertisements
The ClickBots are smart programs written in order to generate good CTR by browsing multiple pages on the site and then clicking on the ads, and stay for a few minutes to avoid suspicion. Some ClickBots even change their IP address , so that the Ads appear Genuine to Google.
10 Multiple Computers Click Fraud
This user Doesn’t have much knowledge about IP address or internet technology for that instance.The person tries to click on the ads from multiple computers from home ,Internet Centers, or any other internet spots.
Disclaimer: These methods mentioned here are solely to warn you about the consequences of your account getting banned if you try any of these methods listed here.And i do not recommend you to try any of these unethical tricks and even i don’t use these tricks myself. So this post is mainly to help you be aware of the reasons for Google adsense accounts getting banned and help you to prevent your account from getting banned …CHEERS..!!
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How to Hide any file inside a Photo or any Image File

Hiding files inside an image file was never easy with all the nuisance encrypting and password protection by a software just to hide a file.But here is a simple trick to demonstrate how to hide any kind of file like .Exe or .flv or .txt inside a image file.
The art of hiding any file inside an image is called steganography and you can refer this link for more details.The trick uses a JPEG image file to store a any kind of file in it.So follow up these simple steps to hide a file inside the image..


Step 1 :
Get an JPEG image file and a txt file for this trick as in the screenshot, here i have used a text file and a JPG format file PS: Thats my cat with ma cellphone :P

Step 2 : Now select the files/files you want to hide and compress them in a ZIP or a RAR archive to get a compressed File.

Step 3 : Now open up your command prompt by going to Start->Run->Type ‘Cmd’ and Hit Enter. You will see the command prompt current folder set to Documents Directory. Now change to root directory C:\ by typing “cd \” where your files are located.
Step 4 : Now what you will need to do is combine both te image and RAR file to create a new image file that will look he same. Type in copy /b SAM_0573.JPG+FileToHide.rar NewImage.JPG in the command prompt and it will create a new image file of same format with the RAR file inside it.Here is the screenshot

Now you will notice that the image file size has increased as a result of the copied file inside it.
Now just compressing the file inside the image wont do, we need to get the file back.So the simple trick is to Open the Image file with WinRAR using Open With..
An alternate way to open the image file to get the file is to change the extension of the image file from .JPG to .RAR and open it as a compressed file.
Well there you have it, this is a simple trick to hide your files in an image and you can even use this trick to brag with your friends and show off your geeky side. Leave your comments or suggestions that you would like to share with us…Cheers.!!..:D..
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How to identify and stay safe from phishing scams

Phishing is a type of social engineering form of hacking a persons private data like passwords or credit card details or any other private data by faking the identity of any legitimate trustworthy company or individual.Phishing is a basic form of hacking,to steal any sensitive data and due to the less complexity involved in carrying out this hack, it is one of the most widely used method of stealing ones sensitive data. Hence this kind of attack is mainly carried out by noobs who try to steal any sensitive data and the people who are  less conscious about these kinds of  scam usually fall as a victim.

So it is well advised to properly know the kind of  phishing tricks used by these hackers in order to avoid it and hence stay safe.So here we try to create awareness about the phishing techniques used by the hackers and also educate you on how to stay safe from these kinds of security risks.
  • Use a good email filter ,antivirus software and anti spyware to stay away from any phishing scams.Its advisable to use a internet browser that has phishing filters in it. eg:Firefox,chrome,Internet Explorer or Opera.
  • Avoid mails or any links that say you have won some fabulous prizes or a lottery of any kind.These are mainly phishing scams.
  • Visit the site by going through the address bar ,rather clicking on any shortcut link from untrusted websites.
  • Check the site name when visiting a site.It may have the same design logo and interface as a genuine site but the site name may contain names with slight alterations,like in case of paypal.com..it may be papyal.com or paypal-verification.com etc
  • The highest probability of phishing attacks are carried out through email’s.So be careful about the mails in your inbox that ask for your sensitive data.
  • Use popular email services like Gmail or YahooMail that offer the best spam filters from any kind of  spam or phishing emails.
  • Report any Phishing attack or any Spam as soon as possible to spam@uce.gov reportphishing@antiphishing.org ,so that the spam is contained as soon as possible and doesn’t spread across the internet.
  • Check any website that don’t use https:// while gathering sensitive data. If it is not in https:// then double check if the site is legitimate or not.
Well these points will help you stay safe on the internet and prevent you from any type of phishing attacks that harm you in any way.
If you would like to share any tip with us, then let us know by your comments.And keep visiting back for more interesting and useful topics ..Cheers,,:)
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How to Browse and get Linux Partition files in Windows

What if you wanted to get some files from the linux partition while in windows and you don not find a way to get it.Or what if your linux boot failed and you need to get some important files from the linux partition.Well here is a solution.Many of the linux distributions use the ext4 partition during the installation and  the older versions used the ext2 and ext3 partitions.
While separate tools are available to access these kind of partitions.A simple yet powerful tool can combine this feature to access any kind of linux partitions.
This software is called Ext2explore which is a open source and free software that lets you browse through the linux partition from your windows operating system.You can run this software in windows XP3, Windows Vista ad Windows 7. Just download the software from the sourceforge website and unzip in any folder and this doesn’t require any kind of installation.
After you unzip it you will need to set up some compatibility issues.So Right click on  ext2explorer.exe file and go to properties.Under compatibility tab ,select windows xp (service pack 3) and under privilege level check the Run this program as an administrator option.

Now double click on the .exe file to run it and you will see the linux partitions in the disk scanned and listed.And remember to run this software as a administrator to view the files.
To save any file just browse to the file and right click to select save option and it will ask for the location to save the file on the disk outside the linux partition.
So there you have it, and easy and a free way to get your files from the linux partition from windows.Cheers..:)
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How to Hack and change the Start Menu Button in Windows 7


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Have you ever wanted to customize your operating system just to suit your style or even to show off in front of  your buddies. Well here is a small trick that lets you change and customize the windows 7 Orb start button to the icon you want it to be.


This trick involves just the basic hack of changing the icon of the start menu using a tool called Resource hacker which some of you might be familiar with. The trick goes through the steps of replacing the icon with your own preferred icon of your choice, which could be your symbol ,button with your sign etc.
So here are the steps to go through with the process.
Step 1 : Download and install the Resource Hacker tool using the link given.
Step 2 : Keep your buttons ready with the following properties
It must be a 54 x 128 .bmp image.
Order of buttons in image
First- Default Idle button view
Second- Button on Mouse Over
Third- Button when Clicked
eg:
windowstartbutton
Step 3 : Using the Resource Hacker Tool, open the Explorer.exe file located inside the C:\Windows folder as a administrator.
Step 4 : Expand the Bitmap->6801 folder tree.
Step 5 : Right click on the 1033 file and select Replace Resource and navigate to the target image and Click Replace using Open file with new bitmap option.
Step 6 : Repeat the steps 4 and 5 for the Subtrees  Bitmap->6805 and Bitmap->6809 folders.
Step 7 : GO to File->  Save and the resource Hacker will automatically generate a backup file called  Explorer_Original.exe if anything goes wrong.
Step 8 : Restart or log in again to view the changes to your start button.
Do share your feedback in the comment section below .Cheers :D
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11 Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts For Facebook

Facebook provides some useful keyboard shortcuts that could save you some extra time from reaching out to your mouse for all the clicks. Facebook shortcuts not only help you save some time of your regular facebook usage but can also help you navigate your favorite social network easily :D. So is a list of useful keyboard shortcuts that could really help you save some time.



Google Chrome

  • Alt+M Send new message,Opens up facebook new message box
  • Alt+/ Move Cursor to Search Box
  • Alt+1 View Home Page(News Feed)
  • Alt+2 View Profile Page
  • Alt+3 Accept or Decline Friend Requests
  • Alt+4 Open Message Page
  • Alt+5 Open Notification Bar
  • Alt+6 View Account Settings
  • Alt+7 View Privacy Settings
  • Alt+8 View Facebook Fan Page
  • Alt+9 Read the Facebook Terms of Service Agreement

Firefox
  • Shift+Alt+M Send new message,Opens up Facebook new message box
  • Shift+Alt+/ Move Cursor to Search Box
  • Shift+Alt+1 View Home Page(News Feed)
  • Shift+Alt+2 View Profile Page
  • Shift+Alt+3 Accept or Decline Friend Requests
  • Shift+Alt+4 Open Message Page
  • Shift+Alt+5 Open Notification Bar
  • Shift+Alt+6 View Account Settings
  • Shift+Alt+7 View Privacy Settings
  • Shift+Alt+8 View Facebook Fan Page
  • Shift+Alt+9 Read the Facebook Terms of Service Agreement
Well there are your time saving shortcuts for you to try out. If you know any other Facebook shortcuts ,lets us know by sharing with us by your comments..:D
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Researchers Release tool that can take down Secure Websites

The THC-SSL-DOS tool released on Monday exploits a flaw in SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) renegotiation protocol by flooding the web service with multiple renegotiation requests over a  already established SSL connection for a new key. This works in same way as more common DOS(Denial of service) attacks , except the fact that this flaw in SSL renegotiation takes up more resources than a single HTTP request, hence leading to taking down a large webserver with a single computer.

The tool was released by a group of German Researchers called the Hackers Choice to exploit the flaw in SSL, which is used in many of the secure web services like Email, Banking etc, to transfer secure data across the network between user and a website without interception by a third person.
The Researchers said in a blog post- “We are hoping that the fishy security in SSL does not go unnoticed. The industry should step in to fix the problem so that citizens are safe and secure again. SSL is using an aging method of protecting private data which is complex, unnecessary and not fit for the 21st century,”.
This exploit can allow a single laptop to take down an average server with a greater Bandwidth over a standard DSL connection . It can also take down multiple larger Webservers with few computers. The group claims that the attack would also work on non SSL enabled websites with few modifications on the tool.
For more info-The Hackers Choice
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