Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life

Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life

By Unknown   22:57   No comments:

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up.  How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible?  Here are 15 easy ways to do so.

1. Defrag regularly -  The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery.  Make your hard drive as efficient as possible bydefragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.

2. Dim your screen – Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen.  Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance.  Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background.  Itunes, Desktop Search, etc.  All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life.  Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Cut down external devices – USB devices (including your mouse) & WiFi drain down your laptop battery.  Remove or shut them down when not in use.  It goes without saying that charging other devices (like your iPod) with your laptop when on battery is a surefire way of quickly wiping out the charge on your laptop battery.

5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory.  Virtual memory results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require heavy usage of virtual memory.

6. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse.  Even having one in the drive can be power consuming.  They spin, taking power, even when they?re not actively being used.  Wherever possible, try to run on virtual drives using programs like Alcohol 120% rather than optical ones.

7.  Keep the battery contacts clean:  Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol.  This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

8. Take care of your battery – Exercise the Battery.  Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time.  Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge. (Discharing is only for older batteries with memory effects)

9. Hibernate not standby – Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does.  Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.

10. Keep operating temperature down - Your laptop operates more efficiently when it’s cooler.  Clean out your air vents with a cloth or keyboard cleaner, or refer to some extra tips by LapTopMag.com.

11. Set up and optimize your power options – Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).

12. Don’t multitask – Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery.  Rather than working on a spreadsheet, letting your email client run in the background and listening to your latest set of MP3′s, set your mind to one thing only.  If you don’t you’ll only drain out your batteries before anything gets completed!

13. Go easy on the PC demands – The more you demand from your PC.  Passive activities like email and word processing consume much less power than gaming or playing a DVD.  If you’ve got a single battery charge – pick your priorities wisely.

14. Get yourself a more efficient laptop -  Laptops are getting more and more efficient in nature to the point 

where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries.  Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.

15. Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ – Keep the battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries (which most laptops have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.

Bonus Tip #1: Turn off the autosave function.  MS-Word’s and Excel’s autosave functions are great but because they keep saving regular intervals, they work your hard driver harder than it may have to. If you plan to do this, you may want to turn it back on as the battery runs low. While it saves battery life in the beginning, you will want to make sure your work is saved when your battery dies.

Bonus Tip #2: Lower the graphics use. You can do this by changing the screen resolution and shutting off fancy graphic drivers. Graphics cards (video cards) use as much or more power today as hard disks

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How to Block a Phone Number From Calling Your Android Phone

How to Block a Phone Number From Calling Your Android Phone

By Unknown   21:11   No comments:

Whether you are sick of cold calls from telemarketers, or you have an ex you never want to hear from again: fear not, there are ways to block those unwanted calls on Android. First of all we’ll take a look at how to do it without an app, and then we’ll suggest a couple of call blocking Android appsthat are worth considering.

Screening your calls can free from you from spammers forever so it’s well worth setting something up.

Block Calls on Your Android Smartphone

If you have specific numbers that you want to be blocked each time they call, then there’s a good chance you’ve turned to apps that automate this process. There is one problems with that, though:

Using Android apps to block calls

If none of the other options suits you or you just want a more user friendly way of blocking calls on your Android smartphone then a dedicated app might be your best bet. Here are three solid options.

Mr. Number Text, Call & Block (Free)

This app bills itself as a free alternative text and calling app, with free messaging between members and real-time updates on when your messages have been read. It also happens to be a powerful call and text blocking app for Android. You can block specific numbers or you can block area codes. Thanks to user submitted info on telemarketers and other spam you can create a block list that will protect you from cold calls.

Call Control – Call Blocker (Free)

Here’s another Android call blocker with a big list of user submitted spam numbers that you can automatically block. This one also ties in with the FCC Do Not Call registry. You can decide which calls get blocked and exactly how they are handled with this versatile app. You get a free 14-day trial of the full app and then it reverts to a limited “Lite” version, unless you cough up a few dollars ($8).

Call Blocker NQ-Mobile

A must have on your New Year app list-- Call Blocker, to block unwanted calls and have a Peaceful New Year!

Have you ever wondered how to block those annoyed phone calls, or quickly back up your massive contact lists or just protect your privacy by not letting others see your phone call history or SMS?

Now Call Blocker Can Help!

Call Blocker blocks unwanted calls now and protect your privacy. Now with better developed features, you don’t have to worry about privacy leakage. Protect your private info 24x7.

Other call blocking options

There are a lot of other Android call blocking apps, but make sure to check the reviews carefully and do your homework before you choose. They don’t tend to play nicely together and they can also conflict with anti-virus apps. Speaking of which, if you have avast! Mobile Security already installed there’s a call and SMS filtering option in there for blocking contacts. If there’s a specific call blocking app for Android that you’d like to suggest then please post a comment and tell us about it.

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Bluetooth Wireless Technology

Bluetooth Wireless Technology

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Bluetooth wireless technology (IEEE 802.15.1) is a short-range communications technology originally intended to replace the cables connecting portable and/or fixed devices while maintaining high levels of security. The key features of Bluetooth technology are threefold: robustness, low power, and low cost. Bluetooth has been designed in a uniform way. This way it enables a wide range of devices to connect and communicate with each other by using the Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. The Bluetooth technology has achieved global acceptance in such a way that any Bluetooth-enabled electronic device, almost everywhere in the world, is able to connect to other Bluetooth-enabled devices in its proximity. Bluetooth-enabled electronic devices connect and communicate wirelessly through short-range, ad hoc networks known as piconets. Each device can simultaneously communicate with up to seven other devices within a single piconet. Each device can also belong to several piconets simultaneously. Piconets are established dynamically and automatically as Bluetooth-enabled devices enter and leave radio proximity. One of the main strengths of the Bluetooth wireless technology is the ability to handle data and voice transmissions simultaneously. This enables users to use a hands-free headset for voice calls, printing, fax capabilities, synchronizing PDA’s, laptops, and mobile phone applications to name a few.
An important aspect of this thesis is about the scalability of Bluetooth broadcasting. Since scalability can sometimes be a rather vague concept, we give a short explanation of the term. An important aspect of software products is how they are able to cope with growth. For example, how does the system handle an increase in users or data traffic? This property of a software system is usually referred to as scalability. A more detailed specification of the concept is given by André Bondi, who defines it as follows: ‘Scalability is a desirable attribute of a network, system, or process. The concept connotes the ability of a system to accommodate an increasing number of elements or objects, to process growing volumes of work gracefully, and/or to be susceptible to enlargement.’ Whenever a system meets these requirements we can say that thesystem scales. In this thesis scalability comes down to the question if the system is capable of dealing with large groups of users equipped with Bluetooth enabled devices capable of receiving simple text messages.

Passive Broadcasting

The first type of business deals with broadcasting from a central location, which we will call passive broadcasting. Most of these companies sell both the hardware and software to enable this. For example, BlueCasting by Filter WorldWide, one of the major players in the market which made the news in August 2005 when they distributed merchandise for the British pop band Coldplay, offers a product family divided into four types of systems. They offer solutions for small retail shops, one-off events such as music festivals, and even larger areas such as airports and train stations. The latest descendant in the family is a system that provides an interactive touchscreen allowing users to interact directly with the system. BlueCasting is an example of a product that comes with both hardware (one or more BlueCast Servers) and software (BlueCast Campaign Management System) which is used to provide remote setup, maintenance and reporting.
Besides this type of companies, i.e. the ones that are selling the total package, other companies have dedicated themselves to providing just the hardware. An example is BlueGiga. According to their website their BlueGiga Access Servers are used by more than 350 Bluetooth Marketing companies in more than 65 countries. They sell two lines of products: Bluetooth Modules and Bluetooth Access Servers. The modules are described as ‘completely integrated, certified, high-performance Radio Frequency products including all needed Bluetooth profiles’. Access Servers are sold in the form of Access Points (up to 7 connections) and Access Servers (up to 21 connections). Besides this they also sell the BlueGiga Solution Manager (BSM). This is a web-based remote management and monitoring platform for BlueGiga Access Servers that can be used to simultaneously upgrade, monitor and configure a large number of BlueGiga Access Servers, instead of configuring each device one-by-one.

Bluetooth Core System Architecture :

The transceiver operates in the globally unlicensed ISM band at 2.4 GHz. The bit rateis 1 Megabit per second and can be boosted to 2 or 3 Mb/s with Enhanced Data Rate[EDR]. The 79 channels in the band are ordered from channel number 0-78 and arespaced 1 MHz beginning at 2402 GHz. Bluetooth-enabled devices that arecommunicating share a radio channel and are synchronized to a common clock andfrequency hopping pattern. Frequency hopping is used to make the protocol morerobust to interference from other devices operating in the same band. The physicalchannel is sub-divided into time units known as slots. Data is transmitted betweenBluetooth-enabled devices in packets. These packets are situated in the slots. Packetscan fill one or more consecutive slots, allowing larger data chunks to be transmitted ifthe circumstances admit this. Bluetooth is primarily designed for low power consumption and affordability and hasa relatively short range (1, 10 or 100 meters). It makes use of low-cost transceivermicrochips that are embedded in each device.

The Bluetooth Baseband is the part of the Bluetooth system that specifies or implements the medium access and physical layer procedures between Bluetooth devices. Several devices can be joined together in what is called a piconet. One device owns the clock and the frequency hopping pattern and is called the master. Two or more piconets can be joined in what is called a scatternet. To form a scatternet, some units, called gateways, belong to different piconets. Such a unit can be a slave unit in more than one piconet but can act as a master in only one. Besides this, it can transmit and receive data in only one piconet at a time. To visualize this, imagine the following. You are on the phone with a friend, using your Bluetooth headset, while at the same time you are uploading pictures from your computer to your phone. Your phone now acts as a gateway, being the master in the piconet with your headset and slave in the one with your computer.

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Police are using phone-hacking scandal to claw back control of information

Police are using phone-hacking scandal to claw back control of information

By Unknown   08:07   No comments:

Seminal research by Steve Chibnall more than 30 years ago on the relationship between the Metropolitan police and crime correspondents concluded that the balance of power was asymmetrically in favour of the police.
The research appeared long before 24-hour news, social media, the growth in corporate communications departments or the police's reaction to the phone-hacking scandal, which exposed overly cosy relationships between officers and News of the World executives.
Two years ago criminologist Rob Mawby revisited Chibnall's work, and warned: "There are reasons to fear for the future ability of crime reporters to provide independent critical reporting on policing and crime … The asymmetric police-media relationship identified by Chibnall therefore endures and has become more pronounced in terms of police dominance of the relationship."
Today, in the aftermath of a scandal which shook Britain's biggest police force to its core, power seems more firmly in the hands of the Met police – or, to be more precise, very senior officers and the management board – than at any time in the past.
There is no doubt that there has been a necessary examination of the framework for conducting police and media relationships as forces react – and sometimes overreact – to the phone-hacking scandal and the Leveson inquiry.
Some within the police service and outside argue that more formalisation and a tightening of control are welcome. Others, including senior police officers, see the benefits of an open and trusting relationship with specialist crime journalists for policing purposes and the public good, and warn against discarding a relationship which has worked to the benefit of the public, the police and the media for decades............

for more details go to the following link.....

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/22/scotland-yard-phone-hacking-scandal

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23 ways to speed up your computer

23 ways to speed up your computer

By Unknown   07:03   No comments:

Since defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.
1.) To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.

2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.

3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.

4.) Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.

The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.

Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.

Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.

5.) Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on my site.

6.) Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.

7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.

8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.

9.) Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.

10.) Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removing Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.

11.) Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here's how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don't want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.

12.) Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.

13.) Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here's how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer -- only its responsiveness.

14.) If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.

15.) Visit Microsoft's Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.

16.) Update the customer's anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.

17.) Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts -- that is, anything over 500 -- will noticeably tax the system.

18.) Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP's NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called "D drive." You'll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won't be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won't need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.

19.) Check the system's RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC's memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.

20.) If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer's Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you'll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it's free.

21.) Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.

22.) If you're sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option. You'll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.

23.) At least once a year, open the computer's cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you're in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. For more information on this leaking-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.


Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers' computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.

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How to hack a victim`s System

How to hack a victim`s System

By Unknown   08:20   1 comment:

there are various methods for hacking someone`s system. Instead of explaining them here.. I am just putting the links of some important videos of you tube from where you can learn this trick very easily. If yew find any difficulty then please share your query in comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOeUSOjSm7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sIteWh2eE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgUaJLNAlAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PohPHDwwh_k

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How to send an anonymous mail

How to send an anonymous mail

By Unknown   06:29   No comments:

Hi guys! I am back with another amazing and mind blowing tutorials for my reader. In this tutorial I am going to explain you how to send an anonymous email to someone. You must be thinking what is the purpose to send an anonymous email, I will be explaining that too in this detailed post.

What is Email Spoofing?
Email Spoofing is a process of faking source address of an Email. It means that we can show that email has been sent from someone else. This could be quite useful in various client side hacking techniques and is an important part of Social Engineering.
Using Email Spoofing techniques you can send fake emails to users to win their trust in order to execute our attack. Since the source address will be fake(Probably a mail from some famous trusted company) our victim will believe the mail and will be hacked.


Example use of Email Spoofing :
You can create a Facebook password change form having looks similar to that of Facebook, after that you send the link of the online form to the victim by spoofing the source address as of Facebook like password@facebook.com or something like that. This way user will believe that the mail is from Facebook and will surely enter his credentials.

How to send an anonymous mail :

Now let us discuss about the actual steps involved in sending anonymous or fake mails.
1) You first need an fake email sender. You could either use some online fake email sender like :
Emkei.cz
anonymailer.net
Anonymizer.in
Or You could even create your own Fake email sender.
2) To create Your own Email account Spoofer you need following things :
2.1) Fake Email Sender script : This script is a PHP mail script using which we can change the source address of an email. Download it from here.
2.2) Free hosting service : You need a hosting service in order to host the PHP mail file. There are many free hosting services which provides a free domain too. We will use some free service like x10hosting.com. Create an account there an upload your php file there. Your link will be username.x10hosting.com/mail.php.
You could also try some other free web hosting service like :
phpnet.us
0000webhost.com
zymic.com
3) So now you have your own Fake Email sender. You now have to use this script to send fake emails to your victim.
4) In receiver’s address add the email id of your victim.
5) In sender’s address add the email of some reputed company like contact@facebook.com or something like that.
6) Enter a legit looking subject and message in order to make the victim believe in our email. Just click on send button after that. Your victim will the receive a email from contact@facebook.com
Chechout the image for information :


7) You can use the same way to send fake mails from any Email ID to any other Email ID.
So far we have discussed about how to send an anonymous email. Now I will tell you how you can distinguish between original and fake emails to prevent yourself from frauds. You can check the emails you doubt using the following to check whether their source is legit or not.

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How to Crack WiFi Passwords

How to Crack WiFi Passwords

By Unknown   04:30   No comments:

An internet connection has become a basic necessity in our modern lives. Wireless hot-spots (commonly known as Wi-Fi) can be found everywhere!
If you have a PC with a wireless network card, then you must have seen many networks around you. Sadly most of these networks are secured with a network security key.
Have you ever wanted to use one of these networks? You must have desperately wanted to check your mail when you shifted to your new house. The hardest time in your life is when your internet connection is down.
Cracking those Wi-Fi passwords is your answer to temporary internet access. This is a comprehensive guide which will teach even complete beginners how to crack WEP encrypted networks, easily.

Table of Contents

1. How are Wireless networks secured?
2. What you'll need
3. Setting up CommView for Wi-Fi
4. Selecting the target network and capturing packets
5. Waiting...
6. Now the interesting part... CRACKING!
7. Are you a visual learner?

How Are Wireless Networks Secured?

In a secured wireless connection, internet data is sent in the form of encrypted packets. These packets are encrypted with network security keys. If you somehow manage to get hold of the key for a particular wireless network you virtually have access to the wireless internet connection
Broadly speaking there are two main types of encryptions used:
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy):
This is the most basic form of encryption. This has become an unsafe option as it is vulnerable and can be cracked with relative ease. Although this is the case many people still use this encryption.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access):
This is the more secure alternative. Efficient cracking of the passphrase of such a network requires the use of a wordlist with the common passwords. In other words you use the old fashioned method of trial and error to gain access. Variations include WPA-2 which is the most secure encryption alternative till date. Although this can also be cracked using a wordlist if the password is common, this is virtually uncrackable with a strong password. That is, unless the WPA PIN is still enabled (as is the default on many routers).
Hacking WEP passwords is relatively fast, so we'll focus on how to crack them for this guide. If the only networks around you use WPA passwords, you'll want to follow this guide on how to crack WPA WiFi passwords instead.

What You'll Need...

• A compatible wireless adapter:

This is by far the biggest requirement.The wireless card of your computer has to be compatible with the software CommVIew. This ensures that the wireless card can go into monitor mode which is essential for capturing packets.Click here to check if your wireless card is compatible

• CommView for Wi-Fi :

This software will be used to capture the packets from the desired network adapter.Click here and download the software from the website.

• Aircrack-ng GUI:

After capturing the packets this software does the actual cracking.Click here-Click here and download the software from the website.

• A little patience is vital!!

Step 1: Setting Up CommView for Wi-Fi

• Download the zip file of CommView for Wi-Fi from the website. Extract the file and run setup.exe to install CommView for Wi-Fi. When CommView opens for the first time it has a driver installation guide. Follow the prompts to install the driver for your wireless card.
• Run CommView for Wi-Fi.
• Click the play icon on the top left of the application window.

Start scanning for wireless networks.
CommView now starts scanning for wireless networks channel by channel. After a few minutes you will have a long list of wireless networks with their security type and signal. Now it is time to choose your target network

Step 2: Selecting the Target Network and Capturing Packets

A few things to keep in mind before choosing the target wireless network

• This tutorial is only for WEP encrypted networks.

So make sure you select a network with WEP next to its name

• Choose a network with the highest signal.
• Each network will have its details in the right column.
• Make sure the WEP network you are choosing has the least the least dB (decibel) value.

Once you have chosen your target network,select it and click Capture to start capturing packets from the desired channel.
Now you might notice that packets are being captured from all the networks in the particular channel. To capture packets only from the desired network follow the given steps.

• Right click the desired network and click on copy MAC Address.
• Switch to the Rules tab on the top.
• On the left hand side choose MAC Addresses
• Enable MAC Address rules
• For 'Action' select 'capture' and for 'Add record' select 'both'.
• Now paste the mac address copied earlier in the box below.

We need to capture only data packets for cracking. Hence select D on the bar at the top of the window and deselect M (Management packets) and C (Control packets).
Now you have to save the packets so that they can be cracked later. To do this-

• Go to the logging tab on top and enable auto saving.
• Set Maximum Directory Size to 2000
• Set Average Log File Size to 20.

Step 3: Waiting...

Now the boring part- WAITING!
NOTE: The amount of time taken to capture enough data packets depends on the signal and the networks usage. The minimum number of packets you should capture should be 100,000 for a decent signal.
After you think you have enough packets (at least 100,000 packets)

• Go to the log tab and click on concatenate logs.
• Select all the logs that have been saved.
• Do not close CommView for Wi-Fi
• Now navigate to the folder where the concatenated logs have been saved
• Open the log file
• Select File- Export -Wire shark tcpdump format and choose any suitable destination.
• This will save the logs with a .cap extension to that location

Now the Interesting Part... CRACKING!

• Download Aircrack-ng and extract the zip file.
• Open the folder and navigate to 'bin'.
• Run Aircrack-ng GUI
• Choose WEP
• Open your .cap file that you had saved earlier.
• Click Launch.
• In the command prompt type in the index number of your target wireless network.
• Wait for a while .If everything goes fine the wireless key will be shown.

You may also receive a request to try with more packets. In this case wait until more packets have been captured and repeat the steps to be performed after capturing packets
BEST OF LUCK

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How to make money through Internet

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How to get fast approved by Google Adsense?

How to get fast approved by Google Adsense?

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Once it was very easy to get approved by Google Adsense by opening a blogspot blog . But these daysGoogle Adsense are rejecting blogspot blogs as well. So getting approved byAdsense became a great headache for the new ones, interested in Adsense business. 

Why google adsense rejects blogspot blogs or other new sites? 

Many reasons can be listed. 

The first one that I regularly heard form theAdsensese rejected’s is “Your site must be at least 6 month aged”. Subdomain isanother main issue. Moreover , duplicate contents,  site navigation,traffic, broken links etc are the common reason to be rejected from GoogleAdsense.

Here I don’t want to describe thereasons why people get rejected from Google Adsense. I will discuss it onanother post. Now I want to share a new way to apply for Adsense and get approved fast. In this way you don’t need to have any website and don’tneed to wait 6 month to be aged.

You may hard aboutdocstoc.com.It is much like scribd.com where you can upload documents and share documentswith the world. It is free.

www.docstoc.com is a website that is partnering with Google Adsense.DocCashis  Docstoc.com’s money sharing program by which you can earn money by sharing and promoting your media files such as .PDF,. DOC and .DOCX,Spreadsheets (.XLS and .XLSX), .PPT and .PPTX and even Text files (.TXT and.RTF).

After uploading the document, youwill get a download link which contains Google AdSense ads. If any ofthe ads present on the download page are clicked then you will earn money andit will accumulate in your Google AdSense account.

Now the opportunity is who do not have a adsense account they can apply to Adsense using docstoc.com’saccount/profile. When you sign up for docstoc account you have an option tojoin Adsense through their website if you don’t have Adsense account.

Join on  http://www.docstoc.com

Or have a docstoc account? Apply forAdsense http://www.docstoc.com/doccash/join/

I think applying for Google Adsense via docstoc.com is now more effective than applying using ablogspot blog or other subdomains. But somepeople also claimed that they gotrejected from adsense  after applying via docstoc. Yes, it’s true. If youdon’t care about some issue you can get rejected from adsense too. Followingare the things you should care about.

1. Make sure that your Google Adsense accountinformation like email, Name, Address, Phoneall are exactly same in docstoc.com.that means if you previously registeredon Adsense then give the same informations during sign up on docstoc.

2. If you don’t have a Google AdSense account, apply for oneduring Sign up on docstoc.com & maintain all the information same.

3. Upload Copyright violation free documents. Upload at least 5files.

4. Don’t remain your docstoc profile incomplete. Fully fill upall the information.

5. Write perfectly the Title, Description & Tags for youruploaded files.

6. Be sure to allow docstoc.com  access to your Adsenseaccount  when applying to adsense.

If you maintain the above factors,you will surely get approved by Adsense within 3-4 days. Somepeople claimed to get approved following this way within only 6 hours.

DocCash is built around a revenuesharing program. The Google AdSense revenue generated on your download pagewill be shared in the ratio of 50/50.

However , after getting approval,you can use your adsense anywhere you want. Don’t think that this adsenseaccount is only for docstocl.com. You can use this adsense account also on yourblog or web sites.And the revenue you will earn from Google adsense form yourown site will be 100% yours. Docstoc will only share the revenues that you willearn on docstoc.

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