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Not many of you know that it’s possible to capture screenshots with Windows Media Player. Sure those who use more advanced players, like Bsplayer for instance, they have this option in their player menu.
Let me explain how to do it in Windows Media Player:
1) First of all open Windows Media Player
2) Then go to Now Playing menu and Select More Options.
3) Go to the Performance Tab, then chose Advanced
4) In the newly opened menu tick off the Use Overlay setting.

Now you’ll be able to capture screenshots using the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard, and then just paste it in your favorite image editor and save it as whatever you want.

Tags: how to, tutorial, screenshot, print screen, windows media player

There are some weird webmasters that think that they can protect there online content by disabling the right click of the mouse.

I guess you all find those “cool sites” where you want it to copy a text or an image and you couldn’t because the right click was disabled.

Here are 3 simple methods that requires no advanced knowledge at all:

1. Select the text with the cursor of the mouse and use drag&drop (drag and drop it in you favorite text editor). The same you can do with the images. Drag the image in the address bar and than you can save it. Or drag it in you paint.

2. Select the text and hit ctrl+c and than ctrl+v (copy / paste isn’t it simple?). If you have a image select it with the cursor till you see it’s blueish and ctrl+c/ctrl +v.

3. Hit print screen and paste it in your graphic editor or paint.

In the worst case scenery just hit file>save page as and save the page than go check the directory for images and text.

So these are the simplest methods to save images and text from a webpage when right click is disabled

I really enjoy surfing the web with Firefox. Here are my top 10 reasons why you should start downloading Firefox and start using it.

1. Firefox is safer
You are able to browse safer with Firefox because of it capacity to be configured. You got phishing protection (now embedded in Internet Explorer 7 too), automated update (with out the need to restart your computer) protection from spyware (in all the years I have used Firefox I had no problems with spywares).

2. Firefox is open source
So this means if you know to code or you know some one to code you can put anything on this browser. Being open source a large community of experts are testing it and upgrade it. Even you can do that if you know to program.

3. Firefox supports thousands of add ons

The browser has an add on manager and you can put any plugin/add on you wish. (I will talk about this in another post). You can have a mail, ftp client in it. You can do almost anything you want with out opening other programs.

4. You have a search engine manager
Why go to your favorite search engines when you can use the built in ones.

5. You have a powerful pop-up blocker

6. Live Titles – keep up to date

Keep an eye on that auction or the status of a delivery using the new Live Titles feature in Firefox 2. Compact enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly updated summaries of the most important information on a Web page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does your Live Title. Try one out in Firefox 2 by bookmarking www.woot.com.

7. Session Restore
This is a great future. Think you have all the sorts of pages opened and something happens: a crash, an electricity shut down and so on. And you got all your favorite pages opened but you hadn’t saved them. Firefox has the power and the ability to restore your session even if crash or a forced shout down happened.

Bonus: My 8 reasons and for sure not my last
It has a built in dictionaries so you will never make a mistake when you are writing (or in the most cases…).

So go ahead and download this baby from here.

It’s really annoying when Windows XP shows that bubble message saying: You are running out of disk space on C: (or any other drive). To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.

I really hate it so this is one of the first things I do when I do a clean install of Windows XP.
I go to Start -> Run -> type regedit, press OK.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.
There, create a new DWORD value and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.
Double click the newly created value and enter the value 1 and press ok. Reboot and that message will never appear again.

Today I found quite an interesting “data center” of Google and this is http://ggoogle.com.

The first thing that stunned me is that ggoogle.com doesn’t redirect to google.com. All the pages remain with the domain ggoogle.com including the advertising program and so on. We could say Google could be accused by their own rules – duplicate content.

I’m wondering what Matt Cutts thinks about that.

Further more I’ve conducted some searches and it seams that the main index is updated but the images index isn’t.

Here is an example with Digg.com.

The Google Images Index Results 1 – 20 of about 3,930 for site:digg.com. (0.04 seconds)
The Ggogle Images Index Results 1 – 20 of about 725 for site:.digg.com. (0.02 seconds)

With MSN

Google Images Index Results 1 – 20 of about 396,000 for site:msn.com. (0.04 seconds)
Ggoogle Images Index Results 1 – 20 of about 192,000 for site:msn.com. (0.07 seconds)

Very big differences in the “relevant results”.

The domain ggoogle.com is registered by google.com and has their nameservers:

Registrar: MARKMONITOR, INC.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Dates: Created 04-jul-2000 Updated 06-nov-2006 Expires 04-jul-2007
DNS Servers: NS2.GOOGLE.COM NS1.GOOGLE.COM NS3.GOOGLE.COM NS4.GOOGLE.COM

I’m wondering what marketing specialists Wolf Howl and Shoemoney have to say about this.
Is this a forgotten data center? Is this duplicate content? How is a mistake like this possible?

What’s your opinion?

later update

Thanks to a digg user utcursch

Google owns most of their typos (gogle, gogole, gooogle etc)

Some of these will redirect you to google. For eg. the following redirect me to http://www.google.co.in/

http://gewgle.com/

http://googlecom.com/

Some others don’t redirect to google. For eg.

http://www.gppgle.com/

http://gewgol.com/

GGoogle.com belongs to the second category.

Yahoo mail has just made a little change in their sign in process. They took the example of gmail and now the user has the option to remain signed in for two weeks. It’s a step that Yahoo could have made a long time ago, but chosed for many years to remember only the username, I think for security reasons.
I’ve tried to navigate to mail.yahoo.com with various browsers but the new options is not always showing, so I’ve made a screenshot of it.

Yahoo mail keeps you signed in for 2 weeks

Yahoo mail keeps you signed in for 2 weeks

This is a tutorial on how to use a proxy, because we received some questions about that.

Let’s take for example the following proxy from the list of proxies provided by us earlyer this month.

62.7.244.105:80 62.7.244.103 HTTP anon 30266 ms

The first part, 62.7.244.105:80 it’s the part we’ll need. What follows means what Ip will we have after we start using the proxy, HTTP it’s the type of proxy, anon means it’s anonymous (your real IP won’t be visible) and 30266 ms it’s the ping of the proxy. I know some of the terms may not be familiar but you don’t need to understand them. Just remember, the lowest the ping is, the better the proxy is, and you should mainly use anonymous proxies.

Now let’s look at the first part, 62.7.244.105:80. The part before the colon it’s the proxy IP and the part after the colon it’s the port used by the proxy. Now depending on your browser, use the following instructions.

How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0

Open an Internet Explorer window, go to Tools menu, then to Internet Options. Choose the Connections Tab, then press the button labeled “LAN Settings …”. In the new dialog box check the “Use a proxy server …” option, and put the Ip of the proxy (that is 62.7.244.105 in our case) in the Address textbox and the port of the proxy (80 in our case) in the Port textbox. Press Ok, then Ok and you’re done. Check your new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.

How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0

How to use a proxy with Internet Explorer 6.0

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x

This is the tutorial for all Mozilla Firefox versions lower than 2.0.
First of all, open a new instance of Mozilla Firefox. Go to Tools menu, choose Options, then press the button labeled “Connection Settings…”. In the newly opened dialog select the option “Manual proxy configuration”, then put in the textbox HTTP Proxy the IP of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in our case) and in the Port textbox, the port of the proxy (80 here). Check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” option, press Ok and then Ok again and that’s it. Check the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 1.x

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x

This is the tutorial for all Mozilla Firefox versions newer (but including) 2.0.
Open a new instance of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Go to Tools menu, choose Options. On the newly opened dialog box choose Advance from the top row, and then Network from the lower
tabs, and then the “Settings…” button. In the next dialog select the option “Manual proxy configuration”, then put in the textbox HTTP Proxy the IP of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in our case) and in the Port textbox, the port of the proxy (80 here). Check the “Use this proxy server for all protocols” option, press Ok and then Ok again and that’s it. Check the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x

How to use a proxy with Mozilla Firefox 2.x

How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0

Open a new instance of Opera 9.0, go to Tools menu and choose “Preferences…”, or after you open Opera, just press Ctrl+F12. In the new dialog box choose Advanced from the top tabs, and then Network from the left sidebar. Press on the “Proxy Servers” button, and complete the left side textboxes in the newly opened dialog box with the Ip of the proxy (62.7.244.105 in this case) and the port textboxes with the port (that’s 80), just like in the pictures. Press Ok, then Ok again and test the new Ip with the Ip Info utility provided by us.

How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0

How to use a proxy with Opera 9.0

Now just get your hands on a list of proxies and surf the net anonymously.

Hi there my “noob” friend. (actually this is for the more advanced users, but a short tutorial on how to use the proxies, will come very soon, just stay tuned)

Ever been concern about your privacy over the Internet? I bet you were.

I compiled a list (a few hours ago) of proxies. I’ve tested 20322 proxies found on the net.
I bet you are also tired of long lists that don’t work.
I will try every month or maybe every week to publish a list of fresh and valid proxies.

From the 20322 proxies tested only 613 valid proxies found.
The proxies are labeled with the following information:
- anon -> anonymous proxy
- elite -> elite proxy
- fakeip -> proxies that will fake your ip
- the one not labeled are transparent proxies

Also in the list you have the response time of the proxy the domain and indication if the proxy supports HTTP or HTTPS.

A little preview of the proxy list:

168.215.123.44:8080 168.215.123.44 HTTP 907 ms
201.228.15.158:3128 201.228.15.158 HTTP 4516 ms
212.138.64.150:80 212.138.64.180 HTTP 1219 ms

You can download the proxy list from here: 21 feb 2007 613 fresh valid and live proxies.

I will show you how to make google.com make crazy. With a simple javascript code you’ll make the logo fly on the page. This works on many other sites though. It’s fun to try it on pages with lots of images, like google images search, flickr.com or even news.bbc.co.uk.
How does it work ?
You just go to the desired homepagee copy/paste the following code in the navigation bar of your browser and hit ‘Enter’. That’s all

Here’s a video to show the power of this javascript:

How To Make Google Go Crazy – video powered by Metacafe

The javascript code is:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

*update: you must replace the inverted commas from DIS.position=’absolute’; and setInterval(‘A()’,5); with real apostrophes (Shift+quotation marks on Windows)

Today I was reading Marketing Pilgrim and I found a great resources by Pete Abilla that could interest you.

Here is a nice timeline with all time acquisitions made by Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.