3D TraceRoute is an all-in-one networking tool which has traceroute, whois, ping, nslookup, server header analyser, portscanner, telnet client and hell lot of tools coupled together in a single package.
This is a free portable tool and can run on almost any Windows operating systems (Pro commercial version with enhanced is also available)
Here I’ve documented few of the main features of the free version of this tool; download and experiment with 3D traceroute to get the complete picture of it.
Note: This article is targeted for the readers who have basic understanding or experience with using various networking tools.
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.
Previously [intlink id="515" type="post"]mentioned[/intlink], free file sharing and syncing application Dropbox is now available in portable version (Only for windows). So no more installation required to sync our files across PC’s, just run Dropbox from your thumb drive…
This attracts more people to try and test dropbox. Nice move…
Its very important to ensure that all the pages you have linked in your site are reachable. But its impossible to manually crawl each page and check the status of the links and update accordingly.
In this post I’m listing down 3 types of broken link checkers and its features, a portable one, as a wordpress plugin and an online app. Read this article, choose your link checker and do mention in the comments.
1. Portable Tool – Xenu’s Link Sleuth
Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a free tool which can be used to verify the status of the links in your site. This tool is a must have for any web master/blogger who uses a good amount of external/internal links in their sites.
Dapper helps you to extract data from any website and create customized feeds. This is different from a normal feed since it allows you to select the data and also to modify the presentation of data. The dapps created can be used in formats like RSS, XML, Google Gadgets, Facebook application, HTML etc.
Quick look at dapper
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You can set variable inputs to customize your feeds as shown below.
Alerts can also be set so that a specified action (like notification by email) is performed when the value in the variable input matches the value specified by us.
DapperFox is a Firefox extension that sits next to the RSS icon in your browser.
Whenever you visit a website DapperFox will show you RSS feeds that other people have created, as well as allow you to create a new feed to share with the community. This is perfect when a site does not have its own RSS feed, or when the default feed settings are not convincing enough.
Dropbox allows users to store, share and sync their files across multiple computers via multiple sources. The sync is transparent and continuous. The best part is the process runs in the background and it consumes very less amount of RAM.
Dropbox download is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Setting up Dropbox is very easy. We need to install dropbox, then
Create a Dropbox account.
Specify the Dropbox location in your PC (All the files and folders are sync’d with your online dropbox)
Subject line in a mail is a key for identifying and digging the required mails from the mail archives. So we have to be careful not to miss it at any chance but unfortunately we do miss by accident. Another possible mistake we do is to miss the attachments mentioned in the mail.
Get snapshots of the internet pages you cannot access to, by just sending an email. If you don’t have access to internet but can use your corporate email; these service serves its best. This might also be helpful for those who want to take a peek at the sites blocked by their network admins.
