a4apphack

XSRF is an exploit where malicious scripts are transmitted from one trusted site to trigger undesirable operations in some other user authenticated trusted site. The user-website trust is broken and this is exploited.

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We can carry our favorite portable apps in USB sticks and external harddisks which can be used anywhere without even leaving a trace in the guest PC. There are few sites which allow us to download those for free. But their repository is limited and that might not include the apps we wanted in portable version.

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Want to display thumbnails/previews of any website in your website? There are many online thumbnail generators which offers that service for free. Which means, you don’t have to use your favorite image editor re-size the screenshot of the webpage and upload it in the web. This can also help you in making sure that the thumbnails are also updated with any change in the target site.

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With the help of batch programming we can enable or disable USB device in a single click.ACL permissions are also set during the process.

The script will enable the security permissions which will help us to modify certain registry keys, then modifies the required keys and reverts back the permissions.

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If you feel bored with the default icons set which comes with your application or if you use any dock apps like rocket/object docks, and want to match all the icons with your theme set, search for icons online with various sites mentioned in this post.These icon search engines provide free download of icons in various formats.
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There are various sites which offers free sound loops/fx which can be downloaded and added in our website. These can also be used to while editing your music with any sound studio apps like Fruity Loops and SoundForge or to add background music to your favorite videos.

Try downloading few and create your own song remixes

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Some of the applications registers its default hotkey globally, which means it can be invoked any time by pressing the specified key combination. Many a times different apps uses same hotkey and ultimately results in conflict. Take Launchy for instance, it registers ‘Alt+Space’ hotkey by default. But if any new application installed uses the same hotkey, Lauchy will end up in popping a warning saying that it is not able to register its hotkey so configure an alternate one. This might sometimes be annoying because you might be using that hotkey for years and suddenly you are asked to change it just because who don’t know which is the other application creating the conflict Another scenario is while writing your own AutoHotKey scripts. You might want to assign a shortcut for the application you have created but have to make sure that it is not taken by any of the others. To resolve all these we have something called as Hotkey detector. Read the rest of this entry »

“Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking about Time and Space by Rob Bryanton”

There is one good feature in RTM which allows us to submit any tasks via email. This serves very useful for few who can use corporate mails but cant access internet.

Sending tasks in a particular format to your RTMId will do this job, but the bottleneck here is to remember the format of the mail. I’ve written an AHK script which displays a GUI interface to accepts the task details, formats the mail as required by RTM and invoke your default email client. (You need AutoHotKey to run the source code)

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If you need the color code corresponding to any color you don’t need to have any color picking software installed in your PC. You can use online color pickers to get the color codes in HEX and other formats so that it can be used in our templates/CSS, HTML and anywhere the color code equivalent is required to be entered.
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