December 30, 2009 By 9 Comments

WinX DVD Ripper Special Edition – Free Download on 1st January 2010

As for a New Year gift to my lovely and loyal readers, I would like to share with you a great news here. On 1st January 2010, there will be a one day free download of WinX DVD Ripper Special Edition software by WinX DVD. I have put the link to the download page at the end of this post. Make sure you bookmark the link and download the software on this coming Friday.

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Before that, do you know what is WinX DVD Ripper? WinX DVD Ripper is a free DVD ripper to backup general DVD to videos on your PC. If you have a DVD and would like to copy it into your PC as .avi file for an example, you can use this wonderful DVD ripper software to rip it out. It offers fast ripping speed with best video/audio quality and also capable to customize the output video by adjusting parameters, clipping video segment and grabbing picture from DVD videos.

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December 21, 2009 By 2 Comments

SQLite Manager – Firefox Extension to View SQLite Files

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Firefox 3 using SQLite database to store all information of your website history, cookies and form history. Every websites you have visited, forms that you filled-in will be stored in their respective files.

To view these files or any files with SQLite format, use SQLite Manager, an add-on for Mozilla Firefox. The interface of the add-on is simple and not too complex. Just click the Open icon, and choose the SQLite file that you want to view.

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December 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” Released

A new version of WordPress 2.9 has been released. The codename for the release is “Carmen” in honour of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae. You can either upgrade directly from your Dashboard or download it from WordPress website.

What’s new? Yes, of course that is what you want to know right? Well, there is a Trash where we can restore back deleted comments or posts. Probably if you accidentally deleted a comment, you can restore it back by using Trash.

Another interesting new feature is the Image Editor. Although I surely will not use it much but now you can crop, edit, rotate, flip and scale the images directly from the web.

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December 19, 2009 By 2 Comments

Happy 4th Birthday CypherHackz.Net

I bought the domain on 19th December 2005 and it has been 4 years I have been blogging at CypherHackz.Net.

As usual, the main earnings for this blog is coming from Google Adsense. Although I received many emails from those who want to advertise their links but I have to decline their request. Sorry guys…

For this coming new year, maybe I will open guest posts on this blog. If you like to write articles on my blog and get some traffics, please let me know.

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November 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

Use HTTPS When Login To Social Websites

Everyday, I will login into my Facebook account to check the updates from my friends and also to reply their comments. But at the Facebook login page, I always change the protocol from HTTP to HTTPS (also known as Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Secure Socket Layer) before I login. This is to ensure when I clicked the submit button, my username and password transmitted across the network to the Facebook server are secured.

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Use HTTPS instead of HTTP

Why is it important to login using HTTPS instead of HTTP? From what I know, when you browsing using HTTP, the data sending from your browser to the server is not encrypted. A hacker with his knowledge and skills will able to capture the packets and can read the data as plain text.

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October 27, 2009 By 6 Comments

Down Or Is It Just Me? – Find Out Website Online Status

Yesterday, CypherHackz.Net and all websites under its same server were not accessible. At first, I thought it was only me having the connection problem but actually other people also having the same problem. It cause by a network interruption at Atlanta when one of the cores connecting the server farms was down.

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Based from a link given by Sam (the owner of ServerFreak), I found a website that will check websites online status. The website will help you to find out whether only you are having the website down problem or other people also having the same website inaccessibility like you.

Down Or Is It Just Me? is a useful web service to find out website online status. It will check whether the website URL you entered is online or down.

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October 15, 2009 By 7 Comments

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September 2, 2009 By 8 Comments

How to backup Mozilla Firefox bookmarks?

Whether in Windows or Ubuntu, I will use Mozilla Firefox as my primary web browser. I like using Mozilla Firefox because it is fast (fyi, Google Chrome is faster than Firefox), has thousands of useful addons, properly renders websites and also easy to familiarize even you are a new user.

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But two days back, my friend want to format his laptop. But before he proceeds, he asked me how to backup his Mozilla Firefox bookmark. He said, he has around 50 bookmarked websites and he don’t want to lose all his favourite links. So here is what I told him to do.

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August 3, 2009 By 4 Comments

Lock Folder XP – Protect Your Secrets from Others

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I am sure everyone of you have their secrets stored safely in the PC, especially for the guys. Hahaha… And it is depend on how or what you want to use to protect your secret data.

For me, just enough to hide the folder containing my monthly bills payment receipts by using Lock Folder XP.

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July 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Conficker Eye Chart – Has your PC been infected?

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It looks like my PC is clean from Conficker worm.

How to find out if your PC has been infected by Conficker worm? By browsing to Conficker Eye Chart webpage, you will get the answer.

Conficker worm blocks access to over 100 security websites and the Conficker Eye Chart displays images from several of those websites. If your browser fails to load any one of the images, then there is a good chance that your computer has been infected by Conficker.

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