The thing
Need I explain more?
Just in case, its a dialog to add the application profile view into your Facebook profile, within Orkut.
Technical Details
Its just the Session variables screwing up, everything is fine. Although I could not resist putting up a screen shot of it. Are you an application developer? Let me know...
This post is applicable only to those laptops that are equipped with a S Video Out port (like Compaq Presario V3000 Series). The S-Video Port looks like 
S Video port can be used to connect to your TV using a S-Video to RCA Cable. The S Video end of the cable looks like this
You can buy the S-Video to RCA cable, but building it is pretty much simple and costs negligible.
All you have to do is,
connect the Pin 1 and Pin 2 of the connector in S-Video to Ground of RCA
and short the Pin 3 and Pin 4 of S-Video to the Main Pin of RCA.
Some sites recommend using a 470pF Capacitor in shorting the Pin4 to RCA, but i really don't find much of a different when skipping the capacitor. Thus its just a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) project to make your laptop a DVD/CD player or make your TV a secondary monitor screen.
Compaq Presario V3000 Settings
In order to use the S-Video port the NVidia GeForce Go Graphics Drivers must be installed and working.
Don't have an S-Video Port ?
See other options of connecting a laptop to your television
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Yahoo!
Catches up with Google and introduces the same Inbox + Messenger bundle. On the new yahoo mail beta now you can chat to your friends too. 
At first look yea it rocks. It has almost all the formatting and smilies used by messenger. (Of course the Gizmos are missing).
But still gmail is ahead because, gmail allows you to be signed in on more than one place. For eg: mail and google talk. Yahoo does not allow that when you sign in inside the mail, you get disconnected on the messenger. I donno about you but hmmm I dint like that.
Secondly the gMail client is neatly presented on top of your mails, So you can go on reading the mails while your slow friend is finding the keys on keyboard ;)
Third, I hate that advertisement on the right edge! And most importantly it refreshes too often making it a pain! Of course I know free always implies filled with ads , but I guess this is a little too much.
What do you think?
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Intro
Making of a google talk chat theme is similar to making a 4 page HTML website with a CSS file. The following assumes you are using windows XP. Please unhide hidden files and folders.
The default chat themes for google talk are located in
X:\Documents and Settings\[Profile Name; Eg: Administrator.000]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\system\chat
X:\Documents and Settings\[Profile Name; Eg: Administrator.000]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\chat
X:\Documents and Settings\[Profile Name; Eg: Administrator.000]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\chat\digitalpbk
X:\Documents and Settings\[Profile Name; Eg: Administrator.000]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\user\chat\digitalpbk\Content\Resources
Incoming \ Content.html
Incoming \ NextContent.html
Outgoing \ Content.html
Outgoing \ NextContent.html
main.css
status.html
nextstatus.html
BODY { color: #fff; background-color: #000; margin:4px; }
BODY a {text-decoration:none}
BODY a:link { color: #ccf; }
BODY a:hover { color: #ccf; text-decoration:underline;}
BODY a:active { color: #cfc; }
BODY a:visited { color: #ccf; }
DIV.send1st
{
background:url('bg.jpg');color:#fff;
}
DIV.recv1st
{
background:url('bg2.jpg');color:#fff;
}
Intro
PHP files have a ".PHP" extension and is by default the extension used to run php scripts. Thats ordinary. Now it would be cool if we could name another extension (say .do or .html) for a PHP script and get the same output. This is precisely what the following is about.
In order to map a particular extension to a particular application, apache uses handlers. Basically you can define an extension and add the corresponding handler. This can be done in 2 ways :
CPanel / Apache Handlers
Add extension html and handler application/x-httpd-php to make a new handler :
html application/x-httpd-php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php html
Intro
ANSI Escape sequences are used to perform special operations on the terminal, such as changing the output color, making it bold, printing at a specified coordinate etc.
The sequences
Wherever you see '#', that should be replaced by the appropriate number.
ESC code sequence Function
------------------- ---------------------------
Cursor Controls:
ESC[#;#H or ESC[#;#f Moves cusor to line #, column #
ESC[#A Moves cursor up # lines
ESC[#B Moves cursor down # lines
ESC[#C Moves cursor forward # spaces
ESC[#D Moves cursor back # spaces
ESC[#;#R Reports current cursor line & column
ESC[s Saves cursor position for recall later
ESC[u Return to saved cursor position
Erase Functions:
ESC[2J Clear screen and home cursor
ESC[K Clear to end of line
Set Graphics Rendition:
ESC[#;#;....;#m Set display attributes where # is
00 for normal display (or just 0)
01 for bold on (or just 1)
02 faint (or just 2)
03 standout (or just 3)
04 underline (or just 4)
05 blink on (or just 5)
07 reverse video on (or just 7)
08 nondisplayed (invisible) (or just 8)
22 normal
23 no-standout
24 no-underline
25 no-blink
27 no-reverse
30 black foreground
31 red foreground
32 green foreground
33 yellow foreground
34 blue foreground
35 magenta foreground
36 cyan foreground
37 white foreground
39 default foreground
40 black background
41 red background
42 green background
43 yellow background
44 blue background
45 magenta background
46 cyan background
47 white background
49 default background
ESC[=#;7h or Put screen in indicated mode where # is
ESC[=h or 0 for 40 x 25 black & white
ESC[=0h or 1 for 40 x 25 color
ESC[?7h 2 for 80 x 25 b&w
3 for 80 x 25 color
4 for 320 x 200 color graphics
5 for 320 x 200 b & w graphics
6 for 640 x 200 b & w graphics
7 to wrap at end of line
ESC[=#;7l or ESC[=l or Resets mode # set with above command
ESC[=0l or ESC[?7l
Keyboard Reassignments:
ESC[#;#;...p Keyboard reassignment. The first ASCII
or ESC["string"p code defines which code is to be
or ESC[#;"string";#; changed. The remaining codes define
#;"string";#p what it is to be changed to.
E.g. Reassign the Q and q keys to the A and a keys (and vice versa).
ESC [65;81p A becomes Q
ESC [97;113p a becomes q
ESC [81;65p Q becomes A
ESC [113;97p q becomes a
E.g. Reassign the F10 key to a DIR command.
ESC [0;68;"dir";13p The 0;68 is the extended ASCII code
for the F10 key and 13 is the ASCII
code for a carriage return.
Other function key codes F1=59,F2=60,F3=61,F4=62,F5=63
F6=64,F7=65,F8=66,F9=67,F10=68
\e[31;1mPrints this in RED BOLD.
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Well you all know about file extensions and what they mean etc... But have you heard about a Folder Extension ? I suppose not. Windows has some set of pretty extraordinary extensions for folders, to mark them as something different. Read more to get what I mean...
List of extensions
How did I do it ?
Have you done this ?
If yes, comment on how you did that ...
If no, challenge .... try doing it...
Have fun :)
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Intro
Sony Ericsson mobile themes (.thm files) is simply a collection of a lot of images and an xml file that specifies the colour codes. Take a theme file rename it to .tar (use archive manager on linux or any standard compresssing utility) and unzip it using any standard unzipping utility. Just play with the files and images and you can make your self a new theme. Be it for W550i, W800i, W880i, K310i, K750i, K700i, etc ... Re-zip the contents and rename it to .thm file and you have a new theme. Copy it to the themes folder on your mobile. Set the theme !
Theme files for Sony Ericsson phones, except for the Symbian™/UIQ™ phones (P900, P910, P990, M600
and W950 series), are TAR archives with the file extension .thm. A theme file contains at least an XML file,
in which colour settings for graphical elements and optionally image file names and audio file names are
defined. If the XML file specifies image or audio file names, the specified files are also included in the
archive. To extract the individual files from THM theme files most standard archiving applications on the
market can be used.
Sony Ericsson Symbian/UIQ phone theme files are ZIP packages with file extension .utz. A package contains
an XML file specifying colour settings, images and sounds used in the theme, together with a
number of image and audio files.
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A few minutes ago one of my friends told me I was appearing offline in gmail !!!
Here is a screenshot of this 
How did it happen ?
Someone please explain ........
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Intro: ID3V2?
ID3 tags are blocks of data in mp3 that stores information about the song. It can be used to store anything from album names, performing artists, movie/album, genre, to jpg pictures containing the CD covers. ID3V2 is the second version of the ID3 tag on mp3. The following is about the ID3V2 structure.
ID3 Tags can be found anywhere in the mp3 file and there is no typical standard for its location. So how do we find it ?
ID3 Tags start with the 3 letters ID3 (what else?). All data in the ID3 Tags are BigEndian
ID3 Tag General Structure (ID3V2.4)
ID3 Tags can be imagines as a book, which contains many pages (called frames). Like any book, ID3 tag has a preface/intro about the tags that follows as a 10 byte header.
| Header (10 bytes) |
| Extended Header (Variable) (optional) |
| Frames (Variable) |
| Padding (Variable) (optional) |
| Footer (10 bytes) (optional) |
ID:
Byte1 : I 0x49
Byte2 : D 0x44
Byte3 : 3 0x33
Byte4 : Major Version , Typically 2
Byte5 : Minor Version , (Latest 4)
Byte6 : Flag Byte [ABCD 0000]
Size:
Byte7 : Length of the ID3 Frames.
Byte8 :
Byte9 :
Byte10: 4 x 8 = 32 Bit Unsigned Long Integer.
struct id3v2header
{
char id[3];
unsigned char majVer;
unsigned char minVer;
unsigned char flags;
unsigned long size;
};
Frame ID : (4 characters long)
Byte1 : 0xXX
Byte2 : 0xXX
Byte3 : 0xXX
Byte4 : 0xXX
Size: (32 bit SynchSafe Integer)
Byte5 : MSB
Byte6 :
Byte7 :
Byte8 : LSB
Flags:
Byte9 :
Byte10:
struct id3v2frameheader
{
char frameid[4];
unsigned long size;
unsigned char flag1;
unsigned char flag2;
};
AENC Audio encryption
APIC Attached picture
ASPI Audio seek point index
COMM Comments
COMR Commercial frame
ENCR Encryption method registration
EQU2 Equalisation
ETCO Event timing codes
GEOB General encapsulated object
GRID Group identification registration
LINK Linked information
MCDI Music CD identifier
MLLT MPEG location lookup table
OWNE Ownership frame
PRIV Private frame
PCNT Play counter
POPM Popularimeter
POSS Position synchronisation frame
RBUF Recommended buffer size
RVA2 Relative volume adjustment (2)
RVRB Reverb
SEEK Seek frame
SIGN Signature frame
SYLT Synchronised lyric/text
SYTC Synchronised tempo codes
TALB Album/Movie/Show title
TBPM BPM (beats per minute)
TCOM Composer
TCON Content type
TCOP Copyright message
TDEN Encoding time
TDLY Playlist delay
TDOR Original release time
TDRC Recording time
TDRL Release time
TDTG Tagging time
TENC Encoded by
TEXT Lyricist/Text writer
TFLT File type
TIPL Involved people list
TIT1 Content group description
TIT2 Title/songname/content description
TIT3 Subtitle/Description refinement
TKEY Initial key
TLAN Language(s)
TLEN Length
TMCL Musician credits list
TMED Media type
TMOO Mood
TOAL Original album/movie/show title
TOFN Original filename
TOLY Original lyricist(s)/text writer(s)
TOPE Original artist(s)/performer(s)
TOWN File owner/licensee
TPE1 Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)
TPE2 Band/orchestra/accompaniment
TPE3 Conductor/performer refinement
TPE4 Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified by
TPOS Part of a set
TPRO Produced notice
TPUB Publisher
TRCK Track number/Position in set
TRSN Internet radio station name
TRSO Internet radio station owner
TSOA Album sort order
TSOP Performer sort order
TSOT Title sort order
TSRC ISRC (international standard recording code)
TSSE Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding
TSST Set subtitle
TXXX User defined text information frame
UFID Unique file identifier
USER Terms of use
USLT Unsynchronised lyric/text transcription
WCOM Commercial information
WCOP Copyright/Legal information
WOAF Official audio file webpage
WOAR Official artist/performer webpage
WOAS Official audio source webpage
WORS Official Internet radio station homepage
WPAY Payment
WPUB Publishers official webpage
WXXX User defined URL link frame
Reference from id3v2.4.0-frames.txt from id3.org
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This is the log of the war against the worm.
How did the enemy get it ?
It came along a couple of folders which was copied from a pen drive. It had the same folder name and looked exactly like a windows folder. In a hurry double clicked it, and the war began...
Battle 1: End Task
I immediately realized it was a virus because it opened the My Documents folder, which was unusual. Then soon I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Del to end task the program. But the battle was won by the virus, it restarted the computer ! But I got the exe name "eksplorasi.exe".
Battle 2: Regedit
In an effort to save my system, after rebooting tried to run the "regedit" registry editor where most viruses register in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
DisableRegistryTools = "dword:00000001"
Browser within Browser ? 
This effect is only for Mozilla Firefox. Paste
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
into your address bar and press Enter.
What? How?
All interfaces on firefox are made on XUL's. The browser window you see is browser.xul, accessing that simply displays the browser window again as the content.
Quoted from mozilla.org
XUL is an XML grammar that provides user interface widgets like buttons, menus, toolbars, trees etc. User actions are bound to functionality using JavaScript.
To extend the browser, we modify parts of the browser UI by adding or modifying widgets. We add widgets by inserting new XUL DOM elements into the browser window, and modify them by using script and attaching event handlers.
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Recently analyzing the traffic to my site I found that some wanted to know how to insert special characters in Orkut, yeah the fancy one's... So here is the info for them ...
Method 1
If you are on windows, take the character map from Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > System tools > Character Map.
You will find all the special characters you need in there.
Double clicking a character adds it to the text box below and when you have made your text in fancy just press Copy, and then paste wherever you want. Those having info about other OS please leave a comment ...
Method 2
You can enter special characters by :
Hold Down ALT
Type a number on the numeric keypad (1-255)
Release ALT
Now you will see a character appearing, enter different codes for different characters.
This was for windows, know about other OS? lemme know ...
Method 3
Just browse through profiles and you will find many characters, copy and paste. ;)
Here are some characters for you ...
Select | Copy | Paste
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ā Ă Ą à á â ã ä
å æ ā ă ą Ć ć Ĉ ĉ Ċ ċ Č č Ď ď
Đ đ Ē ē Ĕ ĕ Ė ė Ę ę Ě ě Ĝ ĝ Ğ
ğ Ġ ġ Ģ ģ Ĥ ĥ Ħ ħ Ĩ ĩ Ī ī Ĭ ĭ
Į į İ ı IJ ij Ĵ ĵ Ķ ķ ĸ Ĺ ĺ Ļ ļ
Ľ ľ Ŀ ŀ Ł ł Ń ń Ņ ņ Ň ň ʼn Ŋ ŋ
Ō ō Ŏ ŏ Ő ő Œ œ Ŕ ŕ Ŗ ŗ Ř ř Ś
ś Ŝ ŝ Ş ş Š š Ţ ţ Ť ť Ŧ ŧ Ũ ũ
Ū ū Ŭ ŭ Ů ů Ű ű Ų ų Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ Ÿ
Ź ź Ż ż Ž ž ſ Ə ƒ Ơ ơ Ư ư Ǎ ǎ
Ǐ ǐ Ǒ ǒ Ǔ ǔ Ǖ ǖ Ǘ ǘ Ǚ ǚ Ǜ ǜ Ǻ
ǻ Ǽ ǽ Ǿ ǿ ə ˆ ˇ ˉ ˘ ˙ ˚ ˛ ˜ ˝
̀ ́ ̃ ̉ ̣ ; ΄ ΅ Ά · Έ Ή Ί Ό Ύ
Ώ ΐ Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν
Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω Ϊ Ϋ ά έ
ή ί ΰ α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ
ν ξ ο π ρ ς σ τ υ φ χ ψ ω ϊ ϋ
ό ύ ώ Ё Ѓ Ђ Ѓ Є Ѕ І Þ ß
☺ ☻ ♥ ♪ ♫ ۞ © ™ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ◙
♂ ♀ ♪ ☼ ► ◄ ↕ ‼ ¶ § ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ →
← ∟ ↔ ▲ ▼ ô ö ò û ¢ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╚ ╥
╔ ╟ ╞ ┼ ─ ├ ┬ ┴ └ ┐ ╛ ▒ ░ » «
¡ ¼ ½ ¬ ⌐ ¿ ª ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧ ╨ ╤
╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀ α
ß Γ π Σ σ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩ ≡
± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° √ ⁿ ² ■
This one is for those using Mozilla Firefox, if you are using take a new page or new tab and on the address bar type in about:config. You can do all the tweaking of Firefox from this page. about:config
You can edit the values by double clicking and changing the value on the dialog box or Right Click to Add/Modify etc.
Warning!
You can mess up firefox if you do editing. So always backup the values before tweaking.
Take File > Save Page.
Some examples:
browser.startup.homepage [String]
Sets your home page.
security.dialog_enable_delay [Integer] [in milliseconds]
Specifies the number of milliseconds till the button is enabled. You see this normally in download dialog boxes, in which the download button is enabled only sometime after. This is a security measure.
view_source.editor.external [True/False]
True enables another external editor to view the source.
view_source.editor.path [String]
External editor path.
browser.cache.memory.capacity [Integer]
This saves memory usage, by limiting the memory, and fixes memory leak.
Something you tweaked? Please leave a comment...
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Howz it?
What is UNICODE?
Everything you see on your computer is represented by 0's and 1's. Characters are also encoded in the form of 0's and 1's. In this method each character is represented by a number. A common method of encoding is called ASCII (American Standard for Information Interchange). In this method each character is represented by 8 bits. Therefore 256 different characters can be represented using this method. But 256 characters is not enough to mention all characters in all languages. Here comes UNICODE, in which each character is represented by 16 bits. Therefore in this method of encoding, 65536 characters can be represented.
For more information about UNICODE and its applictions visit Unicode.org
Whats interesting?
Unicode is capable of representing many languages, including those written from left to right and those written from right to left. There are special characters in UNICODE to achieve the RTL. One such character is the Mirroring character. The property of mirroring character is that it makes Left to Right Text, Right to Left just by pasting the character, all text after it becomes RTL. So it can be used on sites which use UNICODE character encoding format (like orkut). The property of the mirroring character is that it reverses whatever you paste after it. So "[mirror char]hello, how are you?" becomes "?ouy era woh ,olleh".
Mirror character has nothing to display, so you cant see a mirror character.
One thing to note that is the mirroring character is not rendered on all browsers. It is supported on Firefox, Opera, IE7 (partially). If anyone has any info about other browsers please leave a comment.
Effect of using a mirroring character on orkut with the profile name is shown below:
Note that the word "scrapbook" is inversed. There is more of it left for you to explore and find out ...
Mirroring character also works on some Instant Messengers like Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger, on which you can send reversed sentences very easily, making a feeling that you can type reversed.
See for yourself
If your are using a browser such as Firefox which renders the unicode mirroring character the following text(in the gray box) will appear reversed:
The unicode mirroring character was used to
reverse this text. If it still appears normal
then, your browser does not render mirroring
character or worse do not support UNICODE!
If you are seeing this normally then there
is no point in continuing. Get a browser like firefox that
supports unicode.
Want the mirroring character?
The mirroring character cannot be seen and I couldnot find the HEX or Numeric Code. If anyone has found out leave a comment.
The mirroring character is within these braces ((
Inorder to get the mirroring character, try copying the content between the braces and paste it somewhere to see the magic! ...
What can it be used for?
Suppose you paste a link like this and if someone clicks he/she goes to mysite.com instead of google.com. This could be used on sites like orkut.com which doesn't allow you to hide the url of the link you are giving.
http://www.mysite.com/fol/file.html?site/moc.elgoog.www://ptth
So it could be potentially used for phishing !Inorder to protect yourself from such methods always look at the url beofre you give away senstitive information about yourself.
Other potential uses are left for you to explore. If you find anything interesting please let me know..
Guess you can take care of it from here on ...
Thats all folks.
Thanks to
Vineeth Mohan for giving me the mirroring character.
Caution!
This trick can potentially be used for phishing! So please always look at the Address Bar for the URL of the page and verify it is the right site you want to visit! Please warn everyone you know about this risk.
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