Google’s Free Proxy

The purpose of this tutorial is that ,we often use school/office/other connections, customarily those services are set to provide more security ,restrciting the access to unnecessary web sites .An example,in my school we have a blacklist of websites that our school district doesn’t want us to acess. What you can do now is use Google translator service…the language tools ..as a proxy to bypass the restrictions set for our connection.

1. Type http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.ISHOULDNTBEONTHISWEBSITE.com (ISHOULDNTBEONTHISWEBSITE stands for the website you need to go that might be black listed by this connection
   
2. Notice langpair is set to en|en” (english/english),that means that it will be translated from English....to English.
3. That is all…Bye….Have fun with this tutorial of harmless “hacking”.

Meeboooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I’ve liked meebo so much that I’ve like to put an honorable mention on my blog about Meebo. Its a awesome AJax based insttant messenging cilent. . ,its still in beta but work in progress =p.

ffdshow

This is the only codec ,basically you’ll ever need, with Real Media Player Alternative and Quicktime Player Alternative.

ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec, it decodes almost anything you want and need.

Get it at SourceForge……. Lets all hop on the open source bandwagon =p

Heres the link

First Ubuntu Billboard spotted!!!!

Boy have I waited for this. I’ll be so happy to start getting Ubuntu CD’s,rather than AOL CDs.

The above billboard was spotted near the Ralston exit in Redwood City, USA

AIM with resource Mod Tutorial

You know that logon screen when you sign onto AIM,that vexing AOL Buddy Icon guy, well it turns out that ,that image is actually supported by a .bmp. I discovered that I could use ResHack, since it’s  always been suitable resource editing and things of that nature.

http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/downloads/reshack.zip

First obtain ResHack, it’s a really useful tool if you have a clue as to what you’re doing.It allows you modify resources in 32bit Windows .exes and resource files. It also has a very neat build in sciprtiting complier to test out your hacks. A few preliminary things: Make sure you close AIM fully. Taskkill aim.exe or simply exit the program.

1. Install ResHack….blah blah extract .zip, if you don’t have a decompression program,get tugZIP, a freeware tool,or WinRAR
2. FindingAIM’s resource: namely  file AimRes.dll,-the .dll is considered a WIN32 Pe file.
3. Open the reshack executable
4. Press ctrl+O, or just File–>Open–>now go to My Computer > C Drive > Program Files > AIM ( It should be AIM ,try find variants of it ). Find AimRes.dll, and Open it. . If you still,-you in all likely hood have AIM Triton,which I don’t recommend getting,as it has a horrible user interface,the development team at AOL didn’t have time to put in advance settings in the UI.
5. Now once you open your ResHack tool it should look like this
6. 
7. Now,open GIFDATA > 103 > 1033. Make sure to write GIFDATA under resource type, 103 under name and 1033 under language
8. Then, Go to action, Replace other Resource.
9. Click on Open file with new resource.
10. Now choose the image you want by browsing. Make sure this image must is in  .GIF format and  has the dimensions of 190×150. You can customize own or chance upon one off the net and compress the dimesions  it with countless freeware programs out there.
11. Now fill in the boxes Resource Type, resource Name, . And then press Replace.

NOW!!!! MAKE SURE TO SAVE THE FILE TO THE SPECIFIC DIRECTORY AND OVERWRITE IT.

12. For all inquires about this tutorial simpy comment this post and I’ll give my best effort to reply.

Thanks for you time

This was only tested for  AIM 5.9,but theoretically it  should work for previous versions,I’m not quite sure if this will work for Triton.

-Larry