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.

Main Window:

To trace the route to the sever, we just have to enter the target’s URL and click on the Trace Button. The 3D Trace View is continuosly refreshed and is displayed on the main window. We have options to zoom, rotate and move around the display as per our requirement.

3D TraceRoute Main Window

Whois Details Window :

We can view the query options in the ‘Query’ navigation present in the left handside bar. Just click on the query to obtain the whois details of the server.

Whois Details Window

HTTP Spy :

One cool feature in this app is HTTP Spy which allows us to quickly obtain the details like name and version of the Server in which this target application is hosted. This is obtained by analysing the Response headers of the Request message sent by the server.

HTTP Spy Window

Email Header Analysis :

To trace down the source or details of the email message we have received we should see the raw email message and manually go through it. For example in Gmail we have an Option ‘show original’ to view the raw message. 3D TraceRoute has a email header analyzer which process the raw data and displays the IP address of the sender and whether it has been listed as Spam before.

Email Headers Analysis

Video Demo :

Features

• 3d traceroute display: multiple graphics modification options
• Statistics window: min, max, average, standard deviation and history window with destination ping time
• AS list: the usual data view with lots of features
• Long period Ping and HTTP monitor
• Whois query: everything with only one click
• Record and playback: record any trace and playback step by step
• Built-in Browser: and the browser is already built in.
• ASN inspector
• NSLookup: with UDP and TCP. And zone transfer capability.
• Day and Night trace: Admins beloved toy
• Command-line execution mode: full replacement for good old buddy tracert.
• Passive OS fingerprinting
• Portscanner (knows 3,612 well known ports)
• eMail headers Analyzer: against RBLs
• Connection viewer: TCP, IP, UDP etc. statistics
• HTTP Spy: query HTTP-headers and webpages
• Atomic Clock Sync
• Built-in TELNET client
• And lot more….

Download 3D TraceRoute :

BumpTop released its Beta tag recently and is up and running in full- fledge.

Video Demo

BumpTop is available both in free as well as commercial versions (29$). Free versions includes many of the ‘worth to try’ features that a normal user never have to think of pro version.

Features (Free version)

• Powerful Physics Engine
• 3D Visualization
• Ability to Pile our files
• Intuitive Gestures
• Themes
• Widgets (Facebook, Twitter, email and printer)
• Zooming Photo Slideshows

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Xtranormal is an online application which turns your imagination to life. Creating animations with Xtranormal is very easy and can be accompolished in four simple steps.

1. Pick your scene (Backgrounds, Music, Actor Skin etc)
2. Type the script (Not the ‘scripts’ in programming terms, here we mean dialogues)
3. Add actions and sounds (Just drag-n-drop)
4. Publish & Share ( In video sharing sites like YouTube or in Xtranormal catalog)

Xtranormal Editor

Sample Video

[Alternate Link : High Quality Version]

Check out more videos at Xtranormal YouTube Channel & Video Catlog

Publishing Video to Youtube

Once you create your animations, it can be easily published in YouTube easily.

Check these videos to understand more…

Xtranormal Version

Video Version

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Note: This post is moved from my site previous site http://31nst31n-in-me.com (decommissioned now) hence the screenshots are also taken from that site.

From this…

To this…

Step 1 – PrintScreen

Capture the required screen. We will be cropping this image at the later steps, so make sure that the region captured is more than what is required.

1. Screen Capture

Step 2 – Arrange the layers

Open this image in Gimp and duplicate the background layer clicking the ‘Duplicate Layer’ at the bottom of the Layers window. Also create a ‘New Layer’ and select ‘White’ in the ‘Layer Fill Type’ options. Order and rearrange the layers as shown below.

2. Arrange Layers

Step 3 – Apply Video Filter

Select the top layer and apply the ‘Video’ effect from [Filters - Distorts - Video]. Select ‘Striped’ in the Video pattern.

3. Apply Video Filter

Step 4 – Change the Perspective

The actual story begins here… Use the ‘Perspective Tool’ (Shift+P) change top layer to a 3D like image. Click the transform button once you are satisfied with the perspective.

4. Change Perspective

Step 5 – Crop the Image

We can notice the background white layer visible beneath the top layer. No crop the image so that most of the white layer portion is removed.

5. Crop Image

Step 6 – Duplicate Layer

We wont be concerned about the top layer in the subsequent steps. Duplicate the top layer and lets us apply some effects on the new top layer.

6. Duplicate Layer

Step 7 – Blur Layer

Apply ‘Gaussian Blur’ from [Filters - Blur- Gaussian] menu and set the blur radius as shown below.

7. Blur Layer

Step 8 – Layer Mask

Add a Layer Mask on the top layer and select ‘White (full opacity’ option as shown below.

8. Add Layer Mask

Step 9 – Gradient Opacity

Select the White Layer Mask found next to the top layer in the Layers window and click the ‘Blend Tool’.  Select gradient FG to BG and make sure you have selected the foreground and background colors as white and black. Click and drag your mouse from the bottom left corner to the center of the image as shown.

9. Gradient Blend

Step 10 – Blend Overlay

We are almost done. To make the image look more realistic we have to apply gradient again but on a new layer. Change the opacity of the top layer to about 20%. This will create an ‘shade’ found while clicking pic of the LCD display.

10. Gradient Overlay

Practice with different variations and try adding detail to make more realistic.

And here is the final image…

The Final Screen Capture

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