Archive for April, 2009

Introducing Failed Section

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 26 - 2009

I’m introducing a new category and is termed as ‘Failed’. Here I’ll flag certain posts, where apps are being reviewed, as failed, if I can find a better alternative for the same app.

Failed

Proper justifications/comparisons for why a particular app is ‘Failed’ will be mentioned. If you find that the failed app is still better than its alternative, mention that in comments.

Quickly Create and Compile Batch Files With Portable BatchRun

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 26 - 2009

Windows Batch files can be used to automate or to run a sequence of operations. This includes starting multiple applications when windows starts up, clearing temp folder when a shortcut key is clicked, Ending certain unwanted processes etc

Batch Run

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Status Bar Scientific Calculator [Firefox]

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 26 - 2009

A tiny calculator in the firefox status bar. Evaluate any mathematical expressions on the fly from firefox itself. Different modes like hex,dec, bin or complex are available. There are options to change the bases between 2 and 24.

Status Calc

This can be very useful for students and engineers who get the math problems from the internet and trying to use windows calc while finding out the solution.

RightClickOptions

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Bits Monitor – A Simple Portable Download Manager

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 25 - 2009

BitsMonitor is simple app that uses ‘BITS’ to download files from web. This app has features like resume support, queuing, scheduling, shutdown aft complete etc.

Preview

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USB SafelyRemove – Full Fledged USB Device Manager

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 19 - 2009

USBSafeRemove is a very powerful USB Device Manager which has lots of unique features including reconnect the disconnected device, display locked process, stop with hotkey and many useful options.

Note : This is NOT a freeware and is a 30 Day trial product.

TrayMenu

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This post talks about utilizing faviconize tab extension with other greasemonkey scripts and addons to effectively reduce the cluttering due to too many tabs in your firefox. Free yourselves from the tabs panic.

Note : You need to install Faviconize Tab before you proceed with following the below mentioned addons.

If you have faviconize tabs installed and know about it, then skip to Faviconize All Tabs Section

Faviconize Tabs

Faviconize Tab is a wonderful addon which can be helpful for the users who browse heavily with firefox. This addon provides an option to reduce the size of the tab to the favicon of the site reducing clutter.

Before Faviconize

Before Faviconize

After Faviconize

After Faviconize

Download page for Faviconize Tab : Download

Faviconize All Tabs

I love using Faviconize Tabs and was thinking why is this not a default firefox feature and why in the world would I need to see ‘Site Name – Some Crap Text‘ (Like ‘Gmail – Inbox(3123) – xxx@gmail.com‘) in the tab title to know that its gmail’s tab, if I can simply understand that it is the tab for gmail from the favicon displayed in the tab.

So we can faviconize each tab and keep it simple. But the prob is, every time I have to faviconize any tab, I need to right click and select faviconize and I have to repeat for all the tabs… Is it so? Not really..

Go to Faviconize Preferences and in the Auto Faviconize, put ‘*’ as wildcard. Now every tab you open will be faviconized :)

autofaviconize

Gmail FavIcon Alerts 3

But now you might ask me that the long title in the tab, Gmail – Inbox (No of Unread Messages), is very useful. Atleast you can get to know if you get a new mail, which is not possible with a faviconized tab. But there is an useful greasemonkey script which displays unread count in the tab and also the incoming chat indication in the tab…

Unread Messages

Gmail Unread

No Unread Message

Gmail Read

Incoming Chat

Gmail Chat

Download Page : Download

GReader FavIcon Alerts

So what about Google Reader? Fortunately we have something for that too…

Unread Message Count

Greader Unread

Unread Message greater than 1K

Greader Over 1k

Download Page : Download

NOTE: You need GreaseMonkey installed to setup the above to scripts

Tree tabs

So you dont like the tabs on the top or do you think that you need to know from whether you opened this page (Parent page)? Then treetabs is there for you…  Its self explanatory, check the screenshot.

TreeTabs

Download page : Download

Faviconize tabs +(Gmail +Greader) Favicon Alerts +Tree Tabs =  Ultimate Clutter Reduction in Firefox…

Amazing Shadow Show @ Pilobolus

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 16 - 2009

Dont miss this amazing shadow dance

If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe.

Enhance Your Google Search Results in Firefox [GreaseMonkey]

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 16 - 2009

GoogleMonkeyR is a nice greasemonkey script which totally revamps the google search results. There are tons of features, which are customizable, in this tiny script. Some noticable features like multicolumn results, autoload next page (ajax), site preview etc are present.

GoogleMonkeyR

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Disabling default XSS filtering in IE8 – For Security Testers

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 16 - 2009

If you are a security tester and forced to use IE for testing, make sure that you know about IE8 built-in security features before you upgrade your current IE. Some of the security features will stop us from revealing the vulnerabilities in the website. This post talks about the XSS Filter in IE8, which is enabled by default, and how to disable it for security testing.

NOTE: This post is intended only for the security testers/analysts and not for a normal internet user. Please do not mess up the default security settings in IE8, unless you know what you are doing.

XSS Filtering

XSS Filter Enabled

XSS Filter Enabled

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Calculator Acts as a Safe For Your Confidential Files

Posted by rajivvishwa On April - 15 - 2009

SafeCalculator is a tiny file encryption application which disguises as windows calculator and acts as a digital keypad for your locker. Windows calc would definelty be a perfect hideout for our confidential files and might not be suspicious enough so as to be guessed by unintended users.

Safe Calc
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