Download Ubuntu 11.04 for Free

The release of Ubuntu 11.04 has seen the arrival of a new look and feel for Ubuntu. A whizzy, new launcher and dash, and a clever workspace manager are some of the biggest changes. Take a look at what’s new and then feel free to choose between the classic and new desktop experiences at login.

The launcher

It’s pretty hard to miss the new launcher that sits on the left-hand side of your screen. It’s designed to make getting to your favourite tools and applications quick and easy. You can hide and reveal it in the top-left corner of your screen, add and remove applications and bookmarks, and keep track of your open windows.

The dash

When you click on the Ubuntu logo in the top-left corner of your screen, the new dash will appear. It’s another simple way to get to your shortcuts and search for other applications and programs. So you can get fast access to your email, music, pictures and much more.

Workspaces

Ubuntu 11.04 gives you a really easy way to manage multiple windows and applications. Simply click on the Workspaces icon in the launcher and all your active spaces will pop up. You can move between your different windows easily so there’ll be no more cramping multiple apps into a small space.

Deactive update Activate Photoshop CS5/CS4/CS3

Those who are having Adobe Photoshop CS5 can disable the Online activation and Automatic Updates in their software. This procedure (not file) helps to disable internet access to photoshop CS5.If you don’t want your Photoshop automatically updates its version files,you can easily disable it.

How to turn off Automatic Updates in Adobe Photoshop ?

How to disable Internet activation in Adobe Photoshop CS5 ?

Step 1: Turn off internet during installation ?

Step 2: Goto “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”

Step: 3 Open the “host” file with Notepad

add the following lines to the file and save.

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com

127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com

::1 localhost

How to partition and format the hard disk using the Windows XP Setup program??

You can use the Windows XP Setup program to partition and format the hard disk. To do this, use the following steps:
Step 1: Partition the hard disk

   1. Insert the Windows XP CD into your CD or DVD drive, or insert the first Windows XP Setup disk into the floppy disk drive, and then restart the computer to start the Windows XP Setup program.

      Note If you are using the Windows XP Setup disks, insert each additional disk when you are prompted, and then press ENTER to continue after you insert each disk.
   2. If you are prompted, select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD or DVD drive.
   3. If your hard disk controller requires a third-party original equipment manufacturer (OEM) driver, press F6 to specify the driver. For more information about how to use F6 to supply a third-party OEM device driver while the Windows Setup program is running, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
      314859  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859/ ) Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP Setup
   4. At the Welcome to Setup page, press ENTER.

      Note If you are using the Setup disks (six bootable disks), the setup prompts you to insert the Windows XP CD.
   5. Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement.
   6. If an existing Windows XP installation is detected, you are prompted to repair it. To bypass the repair, press ESC.
   7. All existing partitions and non-partitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard disk. Use the ARROW keys to select an existing partition, or create a new partition by selecting the non-partitioned space where you want to create a new partition. You can also press C to create a new partition using non-partitioned space.

      Note If you want to create a partition where one or more partitions already exist, you must first delete the existing partition or partitions, and then create the new partition. You can press D to delete an existing partition, and then press L (or press ENTER, and then press L if it is the System partition) to confirm that you want to delete the partition. Repeat this step for each existing partition that you want to include in the new partition. When all the partitions are deleted, select the remaining non-partitioned space, and then press C to create the new partition.
   8. To create the partition with the maximum size, press ENTER. To specify the partition size, type the size in megabytes (MB) for the new partition, and then press ENTER.
   9. If you want to create additional partitions, repeat steps g. and h.
  10. To format the partition and install Windows XP, go to step 2.

      If you do not want to install Windows XP, press F3 two times to exit the Windows Setup program, and then do not follow the remaining steps in this article.

      To format the partition without installing Windows XP, use a different utility.

Step 2: Format the hard disk and install Windows XP

   1. Use the ARROW keys to select the partition where you want to install Windows XP, and then press ENTER.
   2. Select the format option that you want to use to format the partition. You can select from the following options:
          * Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick)
          * Format the partition by using the FAT file system (Quick)
          * Format the partition by using the NTFS file system
          * Format the partition by using the FAT file system
          * Leave the current file system intact (no changes)

      Notes
          * If the selected partition is a new partition, the option to leave the current file system intact is not available.
          * If the selected partition is larger than 32 gigabytes (GB), the FAT file system option is not available.
          * If the selected partition is larger than 2 GB, the Windows Setup program uses the FAT32 file system (you must press ENTER to confirm).
          * If the partition is smaller than 2 GB, the Windows Setup program uses the FAT16 file system.
          * If you deleted and created a new System partition, but you are installing Windows XP on a different partition, you are prompted to select a file system for both the System and Startup partitions.
   3. Press ENTER.
   4. After the Windows Setup program formats the partition, follow the instructions that appear on the screen to install Windows XP. After the Windows Setup program is finished and you have restarted the computer, you can use the Disk Management tools in Windows XP to create or format more partitions. For additional information about how to use the Windows XP Disk Management tools to partition and format your hard disk, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
      309000  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/ ) How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

How To Create A Partition In Windows 7

1.You will then be brought to the Computer Management Program, click on Disk Management

2.Then select the Drive you want to partition, In this example I will select the Drive D: “Vista”
Now right click on the drive and select Shrink Volume

3.You will then be presented with a Window showing you the Size of the Hard drive and the total amount available to Shrink. Since my hard drive is quite full I have a smaller amount available to Shrink.Enter in the amount you would like to shrink ( This will be the size of the new partition ) It can’t be more than the amount available to you and remember that Approx 1000 Mb = 1 GB

4.After you have entered your values, click shrink and let it do it’s thing. Depending on the size of the drive and amount to shrink this could take a while. Just be patient and once it’s done you will see an unallocated space which is the size you just shrunk the volume by. Select it and right click and then select New Simple Volume

5.Follow the Wizard that appears and fill in the Size of the Partition, Generally the size you just shrunk the drive by.
6.Assign a drive letter, Pick one of your choice it doesn’t make a difference
7.Then on the Format page, Ensure NTFS is selected and then Enter a name for your Drive – ie. “Music” and click next followed by finish

There you have it, A new partition on your hard drive to do what you like with it

Get Old Facebook Profile Page Look Back

Finalists in SHA-3 encryption hash contest announced

The final five entrants in the SHA-3 encryption hash run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been made public.

The NIST competition is part of a long-term project to develop the next generation of encryption technology. In the announcement BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein all made it through.

The NIST project started the search for SHA-3 in 2007 and has been whittling down the list for the past two years, excluding 53 entrants from some of the biggest names in the business, including IBM, France Telecom and Sandia National Laboratories.

The long test period is important considering the essential nature of secure SHA-3 methodology.

“What they are trying to do is produce a hash function that the community internationally will think is good and will be a stand for the next 20 years,” Jon Callas, PGP fellow and member of the team behind Skein, told V3.co.uk.

“Getting an extra couple of years for people to study things is to the benefit of everyone right now.”

The competition has, however, thrown up worrying questions about the level of security research in the US. The finalists are dominated by European and Asian consortia but nationality is not an issue, Callas said.

“Our team is an international one that includes a couple of Europeans. We’re motivated by the best security solution.”

SHA-2 is still secure, Callas said. Early reports of attacks had been shown to have no practical application.

Security guru Bruce Schneier is also one of the team members working on the Skein hash. He has expressed confidence in the security of the final list.


Read more: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2273888/nist-encryption-hash-sha#ixzz18HwyC77I
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Sign into Multiple accounts in Gmail with in the same Browser!

Google introduced a new feature which lets you sign in and access two  different Gmail / Google accounts at once on the same browser.  Most of us have more than one email Id which we use for different purposes. Previously , one can login to only one account at a time through one browser. This new feature eliminates the need of signing out or using a different browser for using other account. Here is the procedure to use multiple accounts in the same browser at the same time..

  * Go to google.com/accounts
  * Navigate to Multiple sign-in option – “Use multiple Google Accounts in the same web browse”

       and turn it on.
   * Sign into your first account.

   * After that, you can sign in with up to two additional accounts using the new accounts menu.

 

After enabling it, You can open  and use multiple Gmail / Google accounts in different tabs of the same browser. The feature can also be disabled by going to the above path and turning it off.

Although the multiple account sign-in feature is available for users, it doesn’t support all Google services like like Blogger and Picasa Web Albums, etc. For these services, the default account will be the first account you signed into. As of now, This feature is supported App Engine, Code, Calendar, Gmail, Reader, Sites and Voice and is restricted to desktop browsers and cannot be enabled on your mobile phones.

free download backtrack Operating system.

 

 BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions - Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

BackTrack has a long history and was based on many different linux distributions until it is now based on a Slackware linux distribution and the corresponding live-CD scripts by Tomas M. (www.slax.org) . Every package, kernel configuration and script is optimized to be used by security penetration testers. Patches and automation have been added, applied or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment.

After coming into a stable development procedure during the last releases and consolidating feedbacks and addition, the team was focused to support more and newer hardware as well as provide more flexibility and modularity by restructuring the build and maintenance processes. With the current version, most applications are built as individual modules which help to speed up the maintenance releases and fixes.

Because Metasploit is one of the key tools for most analysts it is tightly integrated into BackTrack and both projects collaborate together to always provide an on-the-edge implementation of Metasploit within the BackTrack CD-Rom images or the upcoming remote-exploit.org distributed and maintained virtualization images (like VMWare images appliances).

Being superior while staying easy to use is key to a good security live cd. We took things a step further and aligned BackTrack to penetration testing methodologies and assessment frameworks (ISSAF and OSSTMM). This will help our professional users during their daily reporting nightmares.

Currently BackTrack consists of more than 300 different up-to-date tools which are logically structured according to the work flow of security professionals. This structure allows even newcomers to find the related tools to a certain task to be accomplished. New technologies and testing techniques are merged into BackTrack as soon as possible to keep it up-to-date.

No other commercial or freely available analysis platform offers an equivalent level of usability with automatic configuration and focus on penetration testing.
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BackTrack Clean Hard Drive Install

This method of installation is the simplest available. The assumption is that the whole hard drive is going to be used for BackTrack.

1. Boot BackTrack on the machine to be installed. Once booted, type in “startx” to get to the KDE graphical interface.
2. Double click the “install.sh” script on the desktop, or run the command “ubiquity” in console.
3. Select your geographical location and click “forward”.  Same for the Keyboard layout.
4. The next screen allows you to configure the partitioning layout. The assumption is that we are deleting the whole drive and installing BackTrack on it.
5. Accept the installation summary and client “Install”. Allow the installation to run and complete. Restart when done.
6. Log into BackTrack with the default username and password root / toor. Change root password.
7. Fix the framebuffer splash by typing “fix-splash” ( or “fix-splash800″ if you wish a 800×600 framebuffer), reboot.
8.   BackTrack 4 R2 Release ISO
9.  BackTrack 4 R2 Release VMware Image 

Sony Playstation phone aka Zeus leaked again

                         In the past few weeks, we talked a lot about the Sony Ericsson Playstation phone a.k.a Zeus, and we also saw some shots of it, and we heard that the phone will be launch officially this month. Now a video of the Playstation phone is rolling around the internet, and the video quality is very clear, in which we can see the SE Playstation phone clearly and almost in any angle. SE Playstation phone is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which we all know is going to be the next version of Android OS, and it’s expected to be out soon. It looks like this is the prototype version of the SE Playstation phone, but still we have an idea on how the phones looks like. SE Playstation phone is going to be a very desirable device for people who love portable gaming, and especially for PSP fans. PSP fans always wanted to have calling ability in their PSP, and soon their dream will come true. The name of the phone is not confirmed yet, so you can call it Zeus, Playstation Phone, or Z1. So folks, check out the video after the break, and tell us what do you think about it?

7 Best Web Sites To Download Free eBooks Legally

With number of eBooks readers in the market, eBooks are popular more than ever. And if you are looking for best web sites to download free eBooks legally, then we have a good list for you. These free eBooks or digital books can be read on desktops, laptops or any e-book readers.

Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

      This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster.


Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes.

 
network.http.max-connections-per-server =32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16
network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0
Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser
waits before it acts on information it receives. Enjoy!!

New Features In First Windows Phone 7 Update [Rumor]

So there are rumors that the first update is ready for Windows 7 phone. I would certainly believe if someone tells me that there is an update ready for windows 7 phone but If someone tells me that there is a new generation mobile phone device that could not be updated, I will call it a rumor. Well the thing is that all the latest devices are manufactured in a way so that they can be updated easily and the glitches and bugs can be fixed without any hassles, at the same time with the facility to update a mobile device it becomes very easy for a person to get updated with the technology without changing a phone. It helps save a lot of money and environment as well.

Now talking about the windows 7 mobile phone, I am sure most of us would have had heard about it but still, like always I am going to give you some more facts. Windows phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to their Windows Mobile Platform. It is aimed towards the consumer market instead of the enterprise market and that means that the latest technology is used to lure all the age group of customers. With Windows 7 phone Microsoft offers a new Metro user interface, and it integrates Microsoft’s other services into the mobile platform.

According to Microsoft documentation , software updates will be delivered to Windows Mobile phone users via Microsoft update. Microsoft has intentions to directly update any phone directly instead of relying on OEMs or Wireless Carriers. And it is also confirmed that update infrastructure system for windows 7 phone is already in place to effectively and reliably deliver updates. So there is no question in calling an upcoming update for Windows 7 phone a rumor and it was already confirmed that features like cut, copy, paste and full multi tasking will be arriving real soon. Some more features like hot swapping SD cards and custom ringtones, video calling and turn by turn navigation are not currently available on Windows 7 phone and will be most probably included in the upcoming update.

Increase your RAM and so system speed

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.

NO MORE PRIVATE E-MAILS Indian Police can now track your E-mails

The police can now read your e-mails without prior permission from the home department.
The Parliament recently cleared an amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Act, allowing the police to intercept or decrypt online information without seeking the home department’s nod.

Hide Folders in Nokia / Java phones without software

Have you ever wanted to hide folders in your phone? If yes,there here is very interesting solution for you to hide folders in your phone without the need of any software.This trick can be used for phone from Nokia,Samsung,Motorola,LG or any other company.The only requirement is that your phone should support java which almost all mobile phones support now .

So,If your phone support java then here is the Trick Hide Folders in Nokia / Java phones without software

   1. Create any new folder or you can use any existing folder that is to be hidden.
   2. Rename the folder to any name but with the extension of .jad like if I want to hide my images folder then I will name it as images.jad
   3. Now create a new folder with the same name in the same directory but with the extension of .jar So, I would create the folder with the name images.jar
   4. And thats it!! My orignal images folder which has been renamed with .jad gets hidden and only folder with.jar extension is visible which is empty.So,my data is protected/hidden from unwanted eyes.

Now ,we have to learn how to open these hidden folders.So here is the trick to open these hidden folders in Mobile phones

To unhide the orignal folder you have to remove the .jar extension from the new folder and your orignal folder with all the files and with .jad will become visible.

AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!

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How Terrorist Hide Messages in Images

It’s a very cool trick but I believe that terrorist must have used this method to convey messages across the world. I just found out that it is possible to hide TEXT messages in any images file. It can be encrypted and the text can’t be viewed easily. Hiding text in images is called Stegnography is NOT something new. There are freeware that is capable of doing this and the release date is year 2005. Looks like I am a little outdated to know this technique! Continue reading if you’re interested to know how to hide text messages in images.

Now Trace Any IP Address BY ur OWN

2007'S BIGGEST PROBLEM - THE TRUSTED INSIDER

This has not been a banner year for insider hacks, and insider data loss across the board. In many ways we can most likely call this the year of the insider.

CAN U CHANGE YOUR IP IN LESS THEN 1 MINUTE?