Anas Ismail Khan

Now you can edit your FB Privacy Settings from the top bar. This is not yet available to everyone.

You might have noticed people making strange characters like “☺☻♥” on facebook e.t.c. Some of these, take the heart for example, can be Triggered using special codes, in this case, “<3”. But not every single one of them has codes known to public.

Anyways, these characters can be added by pressing Alt + (any key from the num-pad).

Examples:

1. alt + 1 = ☺
2. alt + 2 = ☻
3. alt + 3 = ♥

With this handy Web Dev Extension extension, you can totally strip down websites, and modify them. Such modifications include:

• Disabling, Deleting and addin cookies,
• Disabling, and editing css,
• Adding, creating or hiding forms, images, input fields, e.t.c.

Can’t say much here. If interested, try it!

The yahoo mail theme has been updated. This one is based on the METRO lines.

Chromium OS is an open-source, linux-based operating system, designed by google to work with web based applications. Its quite a simple one really, and not the sort everyone would like, in fact, the only application it comes with is a browser (though of course you can install more apps.)

Anyways if you feel like trying it, there are two ways to do so. The first is to download the disk image, burn a usb or dvd with it and boot with it. But if you dont wanna take any risks, you can try it on virtual box. All you need is virtual box, and the Chrome OS Virtual Disk.

The Process is simple. Start Virtual Box and create a new Machine. Select Linux Ubuntu as the OS Type, and when you come to the “Hard Drive” part, check “Use an Existing virtual hard drive file, and browse to the one you just downloaded. That’s it.

Now start the machine, the configuration process would hardly take a minute. Then just login with your google account.

Akismet is a wordpress plugin for reducing spam comments. It works by sending the info left by the commentor, to the Akismet servers, which checks whether the comment is spam or not. And it’s completely free for personal blogs.

Well, as far as i have noticed, every wordpress installation is pre-installed with akismet, You just need to configure it, which would hardly take a minute.

The process is simple, just sign up at Akismet.com, and you’ll get an API key, once you have got it, go to your dashboard, activate Akismet, and enter your key, which was mailed to you.

Once while going through the cpanel of my site i came across a tool cause RVSkin. It’s basically a tool that allows you to fully customize the cpanel theme. The only problem with it is that once you activate it, there is no option of reverting back to the original one.

Well, just copy and paste this link into your address bar:

[http://**_domain.com_**:2082/cpsess6507594894/frontend/x3/style/switchstyle.html?brandingpkg](http://anasismail.com:2082/cpsess6507594894/frontend/x3/style/switchstyle.html?brandingpkg)=

Note: Replace domain.com with your own domain, PLUS, this will only work when you are logged into your cpanel.

A DOS — stands for denial of service — attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. One common method of doing so is saturating/overloading the machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond does slowly. Such attacks usually lead to a server overload.

A few years ago, when Pakistan blocked FB, People seized the opportunity and launched their own social networking sites, and started promoting and advertising them. One of them was pakfacebook, the most popular one.

Well, what happened was that these FB addicts started signing up like anything, as a result of which, most of the sites hung, and wont respond properly.

In general terms, DOS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service, or obstructing the comm. media so that it cant communicate properly.

The first release of Microsoft’s Suface Tablet, cost about $499, comes with Pre-installed Windows RT. It is (i assure you) REAL windows, but only just; its more like a Mobile OS. Windows RT has the same interface as the one you get in windows 8 pro, and it fully supports all the windows 8 apps.

But what it does lack, is the support for Desktop apps, Means, you wont get the desktop interface in it, nor will the OS support programs that were designed for previous versions of windows(the desktop ones.) While Windows 8 Pro supports both. Another difference between the two tablets is that the RT one runs on an ARM Processor while the other one uses Intel.

So, the main difference between the two is that Windows RT supports only METRO apps, while Windows 8 PRO supports METRO+DESKTOP apps, and runs on a comparatively better processor.

The CASIO pb100 is an old computer or rather a PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATOR based on BASIC. Supports upto 1kb RAM and requires 2 CR-2032 lithium batteries which are used both as a power source and MEMORY.

It also suppports a tiny Dot Matrix Printer, and a cassette tape interface which when connected to a tape recorder, saves programs on a tape in the form of Audio tones.