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AdBlock is one of the most popular browser extension that prevents ads or annoying page elements those are usually displayed in any webpage. It works by matching the pattern of unwanted elements in the page with what is available in its database and filters them.

Adblock can be made more efficient by adding custom patterns for the elements to be filtered.. This feature of AdBlock can be extended to block not only the ads but also the malicious content those are injected in seemingly genuine sites. This is done by adding MalwareDomains subscription to our Adblock preferences. MalwareDomain contains a list of domains that are known to be used to propagate malware and spyware. Adblock verifies whether there are any cross domain content loaded from any of malicious websites present in that list and if there is, then it blocks those elements.

Note: Subscribing to this list can increase the load time of the site. Increase in security at the cost of slight reduction in performance.

Here, we illustrate the steps to add the MalwareDomain list to our Adblock addon available for Chrome and Firefox browsers.

I. Adding MalwareDomain Subscription in Chrome

Download Adblock for Chrome here.

1. Access the AdBlock Options from the Chrome Extensions page and add MalwareDomains URL (http://malwaredomains.lanik.us/malwaredomains_full.txt)

2. Entered URL will now display in the subscriptions list. Make sure that its checked.

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We can extract the images or any media content present in the word document by opening it as an archive and extracting the files with the help of un-archival tools like 7zip.

1. A word document containing images to be extracted.

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There might be times when you are accessing your code snippets saved online from your friends PC or from a new workstation. Chances are less that you can get hold of WinMerge or any similar file comparison tool. But we have a simple dual file comparison tool online which gives us the comparison results on click of a button.

Features

• Ability to upload 2 versions of the files to be compared
• Code can even be pasted to the text boxes for comparison
• Automatic Wordwrap

Checkout Diffchecker

DiffChecker Info
App Name	DiffChecker
License	free
Type	online
App URL
More Info	link

AutoVer is a configurable automatic or real time backup and personal versioning system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex, but transparent version control system (like a realtime incremental backup). The beauty of this system is that once you set it up (which is extremely simple) it does everything. No remembering to backup or to check in or check out files. Every time you save a file it is copied to your backup folder, drive or FTP server.

You can include and exclude certain files and browse the backups with the Backup Explorer. Great for backing up (or one way synchronising) your work or home documents to flash memory or saving every change you make to your source code or image files.

Making it Portable

Use the tool Uniextract to make this application portable. Check this article to know how.
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WobZIP is a free online tool that allows you to uncompress your files online. It displays the list of files present in that zip file and it allows you to download only the needed files from the archive . If you get hold of any suspicious zip file, instead of downloading to your PC and extracting it to view the contents, you can enter the file URL in WobZip to ensure that its free from any executables. This also has an antivirus scanner which scans the files in the zip on the fly during decompression.

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