Download Kinect Virtual Dressing Room - Weekend project

It was getting hot at Doha, Qatar and I was thoroughly bored. And tired.

Out of blue a creative request came by one of my seniors that if I have ever worked on Unity 3D. Though I have some experience with game engines and modeling tools, i though it would be worth a try. As an absolute beginner, I tried my hands on Unity 3D and was able to compile Virtual Dressing Room for Kinect (code courtesy Anthony heckmann - Github). I updated some code and calls (for instance  gettrianglestrip and settrianglesstrip to gettriangles and settriangles) for compatibility with latest release of Unity. As of now, have not tested it with a real Kinect although the executable works fine. Thanks to this project, I also got my hands on Kinesis.io.



You can download the executable from here . As usual, expect no support if you experience bugs as :

  1. Its my weekend project
  2. I have not tested it with a real Kinect.
  3. I have too much on my plate right now.
Password is Prohack

Ngrep–Grep patterns in Network traffic

We have got a lot of packet sniffer/analyzer software out there, I am a self confessed Wireshark & Ettercap lover, but still, when it comes to analyzing network traffic from command line in a fast manner, ngrep is my one of my favourites. Written by Jordan Ritter its used to “grep” traffic patterns from the network interfaces. As per official documentation -

ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

ngrep runs on Windows & *nix platforms alike and you need WinPCAP to run it since it relies on it. 

Ngrep–Grep patterns in Network traffic - Theprohack.com

Once you install it, it by default uses the first interface on your machine, so , make sure to check the detected interfaces by running -

C:\Users\RISHABH\Desktop>ngrep -L
idx     dev
---     ---
1:     \Device\NPF_{4D491111-D331-42BC-9A33-98EF8C40D422} (Microsoft)
2:     \Device\NPF_{ADBF6AC1-D111-463D-8D99-C58FA1BEF979} (Sun)
3:     \Device\NPF_{6F801AE0-CA61-4A6D-B5FF-DCB7CE8FC529} (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter)
4:     \Device\NPF_{930B6EC8-A5E3-4FFA-B68F-F159FDFC2064} (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter)
5:     \Device\NPF_{D1999293-A041-4C2A-B63F-5D8B4906000F} (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller)
exit

Now for example you want to check out whats going on at port 23 using interface 5

C:\Users\RISHABH\Desktop>ngrep -d 5  port 23
interface: \Device\NPF_{D1999293-A041-4C2A-B63F-5D8B4906000F} (192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0)
filter: (ip or ip6) and ( port 23 )
exit
0 received, 0 dropped

Piece of cake.. and if you want to filter any website in you are searching for keyword "password" then :

ngrep -d 5 “password” port 80

Easy aint it ? Ngrep does it all : ] With some complex grep commands , you can become a pcap ninja.

Well, you can

  1. Download Ngrep from here
  2. Check out documentation and examples here
  3. Learn about Wireshark from here

EIGRP Cheatsheet – EIGRP in 15 min

EIGRP Cheatsheet – EIGRP in 15 min

Long time folks, was busy with a lot of projects. Hope coming year gets less busier and I get to get my hands more dirty on networks and network security. In the meantime, here is an EIGRP cheat sheet which I thought will be helpful to folks who just want a quick theory review of Cisco’s EIGRP. Though I wanted to cover a lot more in cheat sheet like EIGRP technologies, planning but it would have defeated the purpose of cheatsheet. Never mind, I am preparing a more comprehensive EIGRP guide which I might publish soon depending on the feedback received. In the meantime, You can find the cheatsheet at Slideshare and Scribd.

 

Download SQL Injection tool - SQL injection automated software SQLMAP

Sqlmap is an open source command-line automatic SQL injection tool and its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities in web SQL Injection applications. Once it detects one or more SQL injections on the target host, the user can choose among a variety of options to perform an extensive back-end database management system fingerprint, retrieve DBMS session user and database, enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, databases, dump entire or user’s specified DBMS tables/columns, run his own SQL statement, read or write either text or binary files on the file system, execute arbitrary commands on the operating system, establish an out-of-band stateful connection between the attacker box and the database server via Metasploit payload stager, database stored procedure buffer overflow exploitation or SMB relay attack and more.Enthusiastics can experiment with its opotions and pwn many of the servers around,or can test their skills to secure their servers..but remember,SQL map is a tool,its might help you to find and apply vulnerabilities and injections,but in the end,you really must have a good knowledge of SQL some real pwning out there..
You Can download sqlmap 0.7 here:
Linux Source: sqlmap-0.7.tar.gz
Windows Portable: sqlmap-0.7_exe.zip

Project 64 – The best Nintendo 64 emulator

Project64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator which at first seemed to have popped up out of nowhere.Project64 is a Nintendo 64 Project 64 – The best Nintendo 64 emulator - More emulator articles @ PROHACKemulator for the Windows platform that was first released in 2001. It employs a plug-in system to allow other developers to implement their own software.It is a great, free Nintendo 64 emulator which can emulate a lot of the commercial n64 roms out there. Emulator meaning that Project64 creates an environment on your PC under which real N64 software can run and be played in much the same way as it would be on the original hardware system. Yep,that means you can play Nintendo 64 games on your PC at the comfort of your home. Of course you have to obtain the rom images of games,either dump them yourself,or remember,google is your best friend [;)] .
Project 64 is a very good emulator, probably the best Nintendo 64 emulator available, plays nearly every N64 game, every game I've tried has worked with a few errors.There are a couple of games with some emulation glitches, but this does not makes them unplayable.The Project 64 emulator promises to replicate directly the graphics that you would obtain when running an actual N64 with a television.
Download Project 64 – The best Nintendo 64 emulator
The emulator also comes with a built in cheat editor , which can help increase the longevity of games (obviously by cheating :P ,also it includes inbuilt cheats for many games.. how cool is that ?).Project64 is the closest thing you’ll get to the N64 without actually buying the console itself and it performs better than other Nintendo emulators.
Project64 is currently still under constant development and the last official release was on 1 April 2005 . Since then we are eagerly waiting for a new release.
You can download the version 1.6 from Project 64 Site  or by clicking here .

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Mousezahn - Open source free fast traffic generator and packet crafter tool

Mausezahn is a free fast traffic generator written in C which allows you to send nearly every possible and impossible  packet. It is mainly used to test VoIP or multicast networks but also for security audits to check whether your systems are hardened enough for specific attacks.mztitle

Mausezahn can be used for example:

  • As traffic generator (e. g. to stress multicast networks)
  • To precisely measure jitter (delay variations) between two hosts (e. g. for VoIP-SLA verification)
  • As didactical tool during a datacom lecture or for lab exercises
  • For penetration testing of firewalls and IDS
  • For DoS attacks on networks (for audit purposes of course)
  • To find bugs in network software or appliances
  • For reconnaissance attacks using ping sweeps and port scans
  • To test network behavior under strange circumstances (stress test, malformed packets)

Mausezahn is basically a versatile packet creation tool on the command line with a simple syntax and context help. It could also be used within (bash-) scripts to perform combination of tests. By the way, Mausezahn is quite fast; when started on my old PIII-Laptop (1.4 GHz, Gigabit Ethernet) I measured 755 Mbit/s using the interface packet counters of an HP ProCurve 5400 switch.

Currently Mausezahn is only available for Linux platforms. Please do NOT PORT Mausezahn to Windows! (Here is a nice explanation why; I really share Felix von Leitner’s point of view.)

Yoiu can download Mausezahn here:

mz-0.40.tar.gz

Or read more here.

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Game Modding tools – the Collection

Everybody likes videogames, and the best ones have a fair share of creative geniuses who want to develop their games or just want to mod their favorite one for a richer gaming experience. This time, I will be specifying some great tools and which you can use for modifying your favorite videogames.
Counter strike 1.6
One of the most played games on this planet, counter strike has a dedicated community for modding. You can modify just anything in this game, and various scripting tools are available for it.
Counter Strike 1.6 - theprohack.com
Download counter strike 1.6 tools

Halo
Microsoft’s shooting gem redefined action fps genre and tons of mods exists for it.
HALO 1 mod - theprohack.com
Download HALO modding tools

Call of Duty 2
Infinity ward’s COD2 redefined the WW2 shooter genre, now you can put your genius in by modding it.
Call of duty 2 - theprohack.com
Download Call of Duty 2 modding tools

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Infinity ward’s another take on tactical shooting in modern shooting and war scenario was a superb take. You can mod it using the official developer kit.
COD4:MW - theprohack.com
Download Call of Duty 4 : modern warfare tools / developer kit

StarCraft
One of the most played real time strategy games of all time, Starcraft has a huge fanbase of gamers and modders alike.
starcraft - theprohack.com
Download Starcraft modding tools

Metal Gear Solid 2
Highly acclaimed tactical espionage action 2.0 from Konami can be modded easily by using Solidus 1.9 and Milkshape.
Metal Gear Solid 2 - theprohack.com
Download Metal Gear Solid 2 modding tools

Prince of Persia Trilogy
Highly acclaimed Prince of Persia trilogy has been repacked and ripped by multiple cracking groups. Wonder how do they do so ? using unpacking tools to rip movie files and audio. You can use these tools for rather creative use..
Prince of Persia - theprohack.com
Download Prince of Persia modding tools

Assassins Creed and New Prince of Persia
Ubisoft’s acclaimed “sandbox stealth” game, Assassins creed has quite a following with it and it can be further customized as per your whims. These tools work equally good for Prince of Persia 4.
Assassins creed - theprohack.com
Download Assassins creed modding tools / Prince of Persia 4 tools
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RHEL 6 beta impressions – Better, stable and worth the wait.

RHEL 6.0 was long overdue for release and when the beta finally hit the community, the download and the traffic ratesRHEL 6.0 - theprohack.com proved it. There has been quite new releases in Linux camp this year,with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx being released last month. When it comes to RHEL, version 5.0 was released in 2007 with Linux 2.6.18 kernel and despite a barrage of incremental patches,it was beginning to show its age. The major release sports a Linux 2.6.32 kernel, a hybrid of several kernels with a strong emphasis on virtualization. That means that bulk of new features are found in the KVM (created by Qurmanet,purchased by Red Hat in 2008), which allows for managing virtual machines as easily as physical machines. KVM has been upgraded by adding a lot of performance and hardware support based upgrades.XEN has gone and it might be hard for some to make a move towards KVM.
RHEL 6.0 formatting options - theprohack.com
Another addition on board is the addition of SELinux Sandbox which allows you to run any kind of arbitrary or untrusted code on your virtual machine, and is pretty handy with virtual hosts and allows to run guest machines in isolated environments.
Better multi-core support is the buzzword with RHEL 6.0 supporting new chip architectures including Intel's Xeon 5600 and 7500 and the Power7 from IBM. Also RHEL offers a plethora of disk formatting options when it comes to choosing a file system, with native support to ext4 and support being added for XFS file system.Added support for Nvidia display drivers has been added.
RHEL 6 splash screen - theprohack.com
When it comes to installation, the familiar Anaconda installer offers preconfigured software packages to suit your needs. Pre-configured options include basic server configuration,web server packages, the desktop setup or the bare “minimal” install, however you can customize your installation as per your whims by selecting individual packages.
However, upon installing the basic desktop setup, I found out that RHEL is not the place to look for the latest in the GNOME developments (it was already expected as GNOME 2.30 was released early this year and so far its not a part of RHEL 6.0), the beta is stuck at GNOME 2.28 and several other prominent software offerings like Firefox and open office are showcased in their older versions. However on the server front, everything was close to their latest stable version;with Perl 5.10, PHP 5.3, Apache 2 and MySQL 5 bundled for web admins.

RHEL is targeted at enterprise deployment and development and you are better off with light weight linux distros for casual desktop use. But its worth a try if you are just curious.

You can download beta from here (redirects to red hat ftp server),RHEL is available for these architectures, choose your pick from there :)

  • i386
  • AMD64/Intel64
  • System z
  • IBM Power (64-bit)

Download RHEL



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Ubuntu updated with Lucid Lynx

Hi folks..sorry for a late update , I was busy with my internal vivas and exams. In the mean time one of my favorite Linux distro’s, Ubuntu has been updated withUbuntu - theprohack.com its latest release; Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu version 10.04,a long time support release) . Ubuntu has a 6 month release cycle and I will be updating my virtual rig from Karmic Koala to Lucid Lynx. Ubuntu is a fantastic Linux distribution which focuses on usability, and comes preinstalled with a wide range of software that includes OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Empathy, Transmission, and several lightweight games (such as Sudoku and chess). Additional software that is not installed by default can be downloaded using the package manager. My Recco –

If you are not a Linux convert yet, Be one then with Lynx :)

Anyways..for the skeptics,here are some features of Lucid Lynx or Ubuntu in general (shamelessly ripped form official site :P , I dont have much due to my final exams)

 

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx - theprohack.com

Browse the web faster

Ubuntu includes Mozilla Firefox – for fast, safe web browsing. You can also choose alternative open-source browsers from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Browse web faster using Firefox - theprohack.com

Create professional documents and presentations

OpenOffice.org is fully compatible with Microsoft Office and has everything you need to create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations. OpenOffice.org is easy to use, packed with the features you need and completely free.

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Get free software

The Ubuntu Software Centre gives you instant access to thousands of free open-source applications. Browse software in categories including: education, games, sound and video, graphics, programming and office. Software is easy to find, easy to install and easy to remove.

Get free software with Ubuntu - theprohack.com

Email and chat

Get chatting with Empathy. Quickly integrate your chat accounts from Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL, QQ and many more. Evolution Mail provides easy, intuitive email.

Email and chat  - theprohack.com

Social from the start

New in 10.04. Read and update your social networks instantly. Ubuntu's new Me Menu lets you access your Facebook and Twitter accounts (and more) straight away. Connect to your chat channels and make updates through a single window. Being sociable has never been so easy.

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Buy music while you listen

Ubuntu's new music player includes an integrated store, so you can buy and download new tracks with just a few clicks. And thanks to Ubuntu One's file-sharing magic you can store your music online and listen to it from other computers and music players. Ubuntu works with most music and media players.

Buy music while you listen - theprohack.com

View, store and edit photos

Ubuntu is ready for all your gadgets. Connect your phones and cameras to download your pictures. You can organise your photos with F-Spot and use popular tools like Picasa, Facebook and Flickr. For advanced photo editing, find a free application from the Ubuntu Software Centre.

View, store and edit photos - theprohack.com

Mobilise your digital life!

All Ubuntu users get a free Ubuntu One account. Ubuntu One allows you to store all kinds of files online so you can access them anywhere. Store bookmarks, contacts, music and pictures. Take everything everywhere with Ubuntu One.

Mobilise your digital life! - theprohack.com

Make, play and edit video

Watch all your favourite content from YouTube, iPlayer, and MSN Player. Play your own videos with Movie Player or use Pitivi to edit your videos.

Make, play and edit video - theprohack.com

Start fast with Ubuntu

Ubuntu loads quickly on any computer, but it's super-fast on newer machines. After loading, opening a browser takes seconds, unlike other operating systems that leave you staring at the screen, waiting to get online.

Start fast with Ubuntu - theprohack.com

Choose from hundreds of free games

The Ubuntu Software Centre offers hundreds of games, including puzzles, adventures, tactical challenges and more. All free to choose and free to use.

Choose from hundreds of free games - theprohack.com

Accessibility

At the core of the Ubuntu philosophy is the belief that computing is for everyone and access should be free and complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.

Accessibility - theprohack.com

Guess thats enough to entice you :)

you can download Ubuntu from here

 

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Oracle VM Virtual Box

VirtualBox (now called as ORACLE VM Virtualbox) is an extremely feature rich, high performance powerful x86 and Oracle Virtual Box - theprohack.comAMD64/Intel64 virtualization software for enterprise as well as home use.Exaggeratingly,it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Developed by virtualization pioneers Innotek limited (later acquired by SUN Microsystems, now owned by ORACLE),Virtualbox is cross platform and extremely easy to use. Even a true novice can get a hold on VirtualBox due to its intuitive interface and rapid configuration wizards.

VirtualBox supports a wide array of platforms including Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox running Fedora 10 on Ubuntu 8.10 - theprohack.com

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. I guess with VirtualBox on board with ORACLE, VBox has got a quite bright future (unless Oracle doesn't starts proprietary shit with it).

Meanwhile, you can download it from here

 

 

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Cheatbook Database 2010

You need to admit,a die hard gamer would get pissed if they saw someone using cheats and walkthroughs in games, butCheatbook Database 2010  you have to agree, sometimes little hint or the "God Mode" becomes necessary to beat a particularly hard part of the game. If you're an avid gamer and want a few extra weapons and tools the survive the game, CheatBook DataBase is exactly the resource you would want. 

Touted as the encyclopedia of game cheats,Cheatbook Database is a freeware cheats code tracker that makes hints, tips and cheats (for PC, Walkthroughs, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Sega, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, DVD, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Color, N-Gage, Nintendo DS, Xbox, XBox 360, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Super Nintendo, Wii, Sony PSP) easily accessible from one central location.

Cheatbook database 2010

Download it from here

 

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LYNX - Surfing Internet the Old School way

Internet Browsing has changed a great deal in the past 15-20 years,I remember getting my hands on Internet Explorer 4.0 in late 90’s when I was a small kid (I was a not-so-stupid kid :P) .I was in retro mood last week,and being a LYNX - Surfing Internet the Old School way - rdhacker.blogspot.com dedicated netizen,I spent hours and hours on reading wikis and researching about the web browsers. Being curious, I later installed Windows 95 to get an authentic look and feel of web browsing in retro way and got my hands on Internet Explorer 1.0 and Netscape Navigator. It was fun..but I got bored soon :P

Sill later while I was surfing on Backtrack 3 through Mozilla Firefox, I became quite curious about the text based browsers,and voila,I got my hands on Lynx – the great grand father of all the web browsers available today. The brainchild of the folks at University of Kansas,Lynx became publicly available in 1993, around the same time browsers such as Mosiac and Cello were released.

The most popular browsers today include Firefox 3, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome,Internet Explorer (?) but Lynx has retained a solid share.Google tests and certifies its webs pages and results LYNX compatible and experienced SEO guru’s will tell you to test your website on Lynx for checking its visibility and usability online.Basically, if you want to make sure your high tech website can be fully crawled by very basic search engine bots and crawlers, Lynx does an excellent job. Website designers often fire up a Lynx browser to make sure that people who surf the web with images turned off can still navigate their sites.

here is PROHACK running on lynx -

Yep..Thats PROHACK on Lynx :) pretty cool huh ?

However..Because lynx does not support graphics, web bugs that track user information are not sent, and emails can be read without the invasion of privacy of HTML enabled web browsers. So that means lynx offers better security if you run it under a good environment ( and if you are nerd enough to use it :P ).

Lynx does support HTTP cookies, which can be used to track user information. But like most browsers, cookie support can be disabled.

The best part..Yep..You guessed it right - Lynx is free under GNU GPL. What else a geek want..

You can get retro too and Download Lynx from here -

Download Lynx

 

K33p L34rning

 

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Learn Web hacking using DVWA

With lots of curious readers asking me how to practice hacking and from where to start,Damn Vulnerable Web App Untitled-1(DVWA) is great application to plunge yourself in.DVWA is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn  vulnerable..literally. Its main goals are to be light weight, easy to use and full of vulnerabilities to exploit and it successfully achieves those :P . And frankly it can be used to learn or teach the art of web application security.
The DVWA is bundled with the following  type of vulnerabilities-
  • SQL Injection
  • XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
  • LFI (Local File Inclusion)
  • RFI (Remote File Inclusion)
  • Command Execution
  • Upload Script
  • Login Brute Force
WARNING !!
(Shamelessly ripped off from official statement :P )
It should come as no shock..but this application is damn vulnerable! Do not upload it to your hosting provider’s public html folder or any working web server as it will be hacked. It’s recommend that you download and install XAMP onto a local machine inside your LAN which is used solely for testing.
You can download DVWA 1.0.4 here:
Download DVWA

Keep learning..

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Browse WAP Sites in Firefox

It suddenly happened to me whilst visiting a mobile site that I was not able to browse it using my vanilla Firefox at my college PC.A quick look at the wild wild  FireFoxweb got me an acceptable solution,and I got WMLBROWSER extension for Firefox.This addon simulates WAP browsing by viewing WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages.Its a must for guys like me who are not happy with the WAP emulators.Although Firefox allows for minimalistic WAP browsing,but some stubborn pages need special addons like WMLBROWSER for proper WAP display.

Firefox Extension to browse WAP sites - rdhacker.blogspot.com

Download WMLBROWSER

 

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Using 3D Analyzer to play games without graphic Card

Graphics card must have pixel shader ability of 1.1 or greater for program to run.”I ran Devil May Cry 3 using 3D analyzer

or

The brand new game you just bought launches,but gives you a black screen and nothing else ? Or maybe you can hear some sounds but no video ?

have this ever happened to You ? Ah Well If Yes,then you are stuck like me (period) ,just like you I too don't have a proper graphics solution (read:onboard graphics) or if you do have,you are having a primitive card. Well,here comes our savior from Tommti systems - The 3D Analyzer Tool. 3D analyzer was created and refined to overcome limitations posed by modern 3D Games and other Applications on several current mainstream 3D Cards.

Using 3D Analyzer Run Next gen games without graphic Card

3D Analyzer sort of "Tricks" your system into thinking it has a Nvidia, or even ATI graphics card! Of course, your games and applications will run in the mode they usually will (with the default graphics and such). If you have an Intel like me, you can now play games like "Devil May Cry 3", “The Witcher”, “Resident Evil 4” and  or any new gen games which earlier demanded of graphics card.I played my Favorites using it and I m thoroughly satisfied with this tool. You can fiddle with various options to mess with it,and get different games to work with.

Re4 running on 3D analyser on my PC

I played “Prince Of Persia-Sands of Time” which earlier never ran on my PC,and thrashed some demons in “Devil may Cry 3”,killed ganados in RE4 and even ran Hitman Blood and money with it. In all forms, I m thoroughly satisfied with it and recommended it to you,If you are low on money like me (sarcasm again..).

So..you can download it from here – 3DANALYZER

 

Keep gaming..

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WireShark – Ultimate network Sniffer

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many wireshark logoindustries and educational institutions. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications,protocol development, and education. You can interactively browse the capture data and view summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.

Wireshark was written by networking experts around the world, and is an example of the power of open source. It runs on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and other platforms. Wireshark running on Win XP in VMWARE Wireshark can read live data from Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, serial (PPP and SLIP) (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so), 802.11 wireless LAN (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so) and ATM connections (if the OS on which it's running allows Wireshark to do so).

Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal. The name might be new, but the software is the same. Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.

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Download WireShark – Ultimate network Sniffer

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Get Vista like Taskbar Thumbnail Previews in XP

It was only a matter of time when people started cloning Windows Vista features and modding Windows XP with them. Windows Vista do sports some good features my favorite being is the live thumbnail previews that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And now I can use them in XP as well..period.

I achieved this by using Visual Tooltip, which is a hybrid dock / thumbnail application. With a few tweaks to the settings, we can make it work just like Vista thumbnails.

Here's how it looks like on my desktop… pretty cool huh?!

Vista style thumbnail previews on my desktop

To make your thumbnails look the same as mine, just follow these couple of steps. Download and start the application, and open the options from the tray icon.

Visual tooltips allow you to preview your programs like in Vista

To make thumbnails bigger,Increase the size of the sliders, and then uncheck the option for "Size proportional to the target window".

Then Click on the Display tab, and then uncheck the "Show window title"

Congrats..You now have Vista like thumbnail previews :)

Download Visual Tooltips

 

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How to create PDF files for free

PDF is the de facto standard for online reading and publishing and various softwares like Adobe reader and Foxit reader PDF is the new standard for online publishingallow you to read PDF files. But PDF creation comes under shady areas and the same softwares either allow for minor PDF modification with watermarked results (Foxit) or constitute a whole new different software package for PDF creation for a premium fee (Adobe PDF creator).However,for professionals,this software may be worth its price tag,general users can create excellent looking PDF’s by the method described before.
What you need -
About DoPDF (shamelessly taken from official website :P) -Create PDF's easily with DoPDF
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or  PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.
Steps to create PDF -
  • Download DoPDF and install it.
  • Open your word processor/text editor and create your document.
  • Press Ctrl + P or go to File menu and print the document.
  • The Print menu will open,choose DoPDF as virtual Printer and click on Print.
choose DoPDF as virtual Printer and click on Print.
  • Choose the location for your document to save and click OK.Your PDF file will be created.
Choose the location for saving your document
  • Congratulations..you have created your PDF file for free .

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