Remove the Ads from Yahoo Messenger

If you install Yahoo Messenger 8.0, you'll notice a very annoying animated ad at the bottom of the main window.

How to get rid of the ads?

1. Close Yahoo Messenger.

2. Save this .bat file and execute it.

You won't be able to enter the chat rooms, so if you use this feature, don't run the patch.

The .bat file you've just downloaded edits most registry values related to the ads in Yahoo Messenger from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Yahoo\pager\YUrl, replacing the data with a dummy asterisk. Here's the list of string values:

Messenger Ad
Webcam Upload Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad
Webcam Viewer Ad Big
Webcam Viewer Ad Medium
Change Room Banner
Conf Adurl
Chat Adurl

This fix doesn't work for Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta. Here's a way to disable the ads in Yahoo Messenger 9.0.0.907 (note that this approach breaks Yahoo Messenger's terms of service):

* close Yahoo Messenger

* backup the file C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe (create a new copy)

* download a hex editor like HxD

* open C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe in the hex editor

* go to the offset 295928 (in HxD: Search/GoTo)

* look at the right column and replace y from "y.m.s.g.r.a.d.s" with p

* save the file and close HxD.

If you know a better way that doesn't involve editing the exe file, post it in the comments.

Send SMS through email for FREE

Over at del.icio.us, the buzz is all about rediscovering how to send SMS messages from E-Mail clients. This may be an oldie, but it's sure a goodie, and well worth repeating. Here are the addresses for the top six US carriers. Substitute an actual phone number, send the e-mail and it will arrive as a text message.If you know the correct email address, sending SMS through email is simple.

where phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number

Maxis: phonenumber@mail.maxis.net.my

US Cellular: phonenumber@email.uscc.net

SunCom: phonenumber@tms.suncom.com

Powertel: phonenumber@ptel.net

AT&T: phonenumber@txt.att.net

Alltel: phonenumber@message.alltel.com

T-Mobile:phonenumber@tmomail.net

Virgin Mobile:phonenumber@vmobl.com

Cingular:phonenumber@cingularme.com

Sprint:phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com

Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

for more others telcos sms gateaways visit email-unlimited and view the "sms gateaways" section at the middle of the pages

Ways to access ‘Must Sign Up to View’ Sites

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BugMeNot helps you instantly get disposable logins details for huge number of popular websites that force you to register. In other words, it lets you bypass compulsory registration processes on thousands of websites.

Ex: Say you clicked on a link that points to an article on some popular reviews or news website. Usually instead of landing straight on an article page you’re asked to signin or register. Maybe there is a good reason behind it, but what’s the point of signing up if that is your first and only visit to that website. Using BugMeNot, you can instantly access disposable login details and login to desired website without signing-up. It’s fast and convenient.

Features:

• Firefox Extension: Add BugMeNot to your Firefox toolbar.
• Bugmenot Bookmarklet: Lookup disposable login details directly from the target website.
• Contribute: Submit a missing or alternative login details.
• Report non-working accounts.

Check out BugMeNot @ www.bugmenot.com

ALTERNATIVE

Google Cache

If the snippet near the result seemed to talk about the problem you’re having, there are high chances that Google Cache should have a copy of the website you landed on. One of the sites where it works quite well is ‘Experts Exchange’. Instead of clicking on the direct link, just click the ‘Cached’ link near the search result. View the page. Go till the end of it. You might end up finding the information there.

Be the Bot

In a rare case when you’re not able to view the solution even by accessing the Google Cache, you can use Be The Bot.

Be The Bot fools the site to thinking that Google Crawler Bot is accessing it. And hence, you’ll get a view of the ‘real’ site via Be The Bot.

What other ways can you think of to bypass compulsory registration forms in sites, especially forums?

How to unregister yahoo messenger mobile device?

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How Do I Unregister My Mobile Device From Yahoo! Messenger?

This is one of the most asked questions by Yahoo! msgr users...
so I thought you may find this information helpful...
You have two options.. You can disable the SMS messages for yahoo messenger only, or you can unregister your mobile device for all yahoo services.

If you are wanting to disable the SMS from yahoo messenger only, then:

1. Click on 'Messenger' then 'Preferences' (or CTRL + SHIFT + P)

2. Click on the 'General' Tab

3. Uncheck the box that says 'Always sign in to my mobile device when I exit messenger'

If you would rather unregister your mobile device so you can't receive SMS for any yahoo services then:

1. Go here: http://sites.mobile.yahoo.com/wireless/mymobile

2. Sign in and where you see your registered mobile devices, click on 'delete'

Disabling File Sharing in P2P programs

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While you download a file using P2P it will not only download the file but also will upload a portion of the downloaded file causing more bandwidth usage, thus slow down your internet network connection. Peer-to-peer file sharing software (like Kazaa) turn users' computers into servers that allow other users to connect to your computer and download any files you share. Many of the file sharing programs install with the file sharing feature enabled to use the maximum bandwidth available.

When you disabling file sharing, you will still be able to download files and use other features of your P2P software. Disabling file sharing only limits the ability of other Internet users to download content you share. This will, in effect, slightly improve speed of your Internet connection as you will no longer compete over bandwidth with anonymous users around the world.

How To Disable File Sharing
The process is very easy though different for various programs. Instructions for some of the most popular software are detailed below.

Ares

1. Select Control Panel.
2. In the General tab clear "Load Ares when windows starts" and check "Exit Ares when I click on close button" options.
3. In the Transfer tab under "Bandwidth" change the "Upload bandwidth" value from "0" (zero) to "1".

Bearshare

1. Select Setup and then Options.
2. In the Options tab clear the "Launch BearShare on System Startup" and set the "When I click close" to "Close Immediately".
3. In the Connection tab set "Bandwidth Capacity" to "Asymmetric" and then set the "Kbps Out" value to "0" (zero).
4. In the Uploads tab clear everything under "Sharing" and set the minimum and maximum "Connections" values to "1".

eDonkey

1. Select Options.
2. In the General section clear the "Launch on Startup" and "Close to System Tray" options.
3. In the Network section check "Limit Uploads Speed" option and set the value to "1" KB/s.

Gnotella

1. Select Setup and then "Shared Files" tab.
2. Clear all entries under "Shared Files".
3. Set the "Maximum number of search results sent" value to "0" (zero).
4. Clear the "Web Interface" option.
5. Remove all entries from "Extentions".

Kazaa

1. Select Tools and then Options from the menu.
2. In the My Kazaa tab clear "Launch Kazaa automatically" option.
3. In the Sharing tab clear "Share files in 'My Shared Folder'".
4. In the Advanced tab use the arrows to set the "Maximum bandwidth in kilobits to b used for transferring files to other Kazaa users" to the lowest allowable value ("24").
5. Check "Do not function as a Supermode".
6. Set the "Maximum simultaneous uploads to" value to "1" (Kazaa won't allow a "0" here).
7. In the Firewall tab clear the "Use port 80 as alternative for incoming connections".

LimeWire

1. Select Tools and then Options from the menu.
2. In the Sharing section clear the "Share Finished Downloads" option.
3. In the Uploads (Basic) section use the slider to set "Upload Bandwidth" to the lowest setting possible.
4. In the System Tray section set the "Shutdown Behavior" to "Shutdown Immediately".

Morpheus

1. Select Preferences or Setup (depending on what skin/version you're using).
2. In the File Transfer section set all the upload limits to "1" and "Maximum simultaneous upload" to "1".

Shareaza

1. Select Tools and then "Shareaza Settings".
2. In the General section clear "Start Shareaza at Windows startup" option.
3. In the Connection section for Inbound Address set the "Speed" value to "3 KB/s".
4. Set the "Can accept incoming connections" to "No".
5. In the Uploads section set the "Bandwidth" limit to "1 kb/s".
6. If, on Exit, Shareaza prompts you to select shut down action, choose "Shut down Shareaza immediately".

Download Free Music from Social Music Service

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Download Free Music Zilla Here

Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free music from IMEEM™, Last.fm™, Pandora™, Myspace, eSnips™, Mog™, iJigg™, Radio.blog.club™ and almost all social music services.
Free music zilla, the first tool specialized for social music downloading, enables you download free mp3/music/song from imeem,last.fm,pandora,myspace and almost all social music services.
Free Music Zilla - enables you to get free music from the huge music libraries in social music service. It's easy to operate and a really hear-and-get tool, from which you can obtain unlimited mount of mp3/music/songs.

Example
Start Free Music Zilla and open your favorite browser and point it to myspace.com. Once there open a bands homepage and play one of the songs in the Myspace music player. Bring Free Music Zilla back to the front and notice that the mp3 that is currently playing on the Myspace website is listed there.

Just check the box in front of that mp3 and click on download. The default download location for mp3 that you download is c:\download, you might want to change that in the options.

You notice several other values in the listing. The filename has to be changed manually unfortunately because Myspace is using that random mp3 name script to avoid direct links to their mp3 songs. The Leech Timeout displays the time that you have to start the mp3 download. You need to play the mp3 again on Myspace if you did not make it in that time.

The Myspace mp3 download were incredibly fast. I hit the download button and it said completed almost immediately. Not sure how fast it is on slower connections though. The music needs to be playing during the download, make sure it is because the download will fail otherwise.

Google guide

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Find out secrets about google search tips here

Change the text in Internet Explorers title bar to anything you want

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In regedit navigate to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain

change the value of the string "Window Title" to whatever you want on the title bar of Internet Explorer - to have no title except the title of the web pages you are browsing do not enter anything for a value.

Speed up Mozilla Firefox

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If you are a user of mozilla firefox, then you must have experienced that it takes too much time in startup. Now you can make your firefox to open “instantly” by using this small peice of software which is named Firefox Preloader. It loads parts of Mozilla Firefox into main memory before it is used, it improves the speed of the startup time.

Download Firefox Preloader

Run Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger

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You can run multiple yahoo messenger with different ids at the same time. Just follow the steps.

Download this file - A plug-in By Sahil

The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/messenger/plugins/

Please unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases.

• Click start then run
• Write regedit, press enter
• Goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test”
• Create a DWORD registry value named “Plural” by right clicking the right hand side window.
• Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1

Now you remain online with two or more different yahoo ids at the same time.

How to use this plugin ?

This is a very useful plugin. You can install it by clicking
“action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

With this plugin you can easily check whether someone is invisible to you or not.

Saving youtube videos

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Haven’t you always wanted to save those video files on Youtube / Google videos and metacafe?
It’s truly boring/tiring to save those url’s for your favourite videos, and everytime copy-pasting it to see them.

Here’s an easy way to get out of the loop and start saving the video streams into your hard disk.

Install this small firefox extension

here

Saving Flash files from websites

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• Visit the webpage (here i’m using http://www.anyweb.com, just for an example)
• Select Source( View > Source )
• Now it would show up the HTML code for the site.
• Now click CTRL+F buttons together or go to the Edit menu and select Find( Edit > Find )
• In the search bar type swf and click find.
• It will take you to something similar to EMBED xsrc=”abcd.swf”
• Now select the file path. Example if it is EMBED xsrc=”/files/flash/abcd.swf” , copy the entire file path starting from the forward slash(/)
• Now goto the address bar and paste the path next to the end of the current address.
• It wouldd look like - www.anyweb.com/files/flash/abcd.swf
• Now click go or hit Enter and the same flash file will load for you but without the HTML - only the file.
• Goto File > Save as and save the file in a safe place.

This may not work with some websites that has the files protected / also with some sites that use frames.

Chat with robots

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Now you can chatting with robot and it is absolutely free of cost. It is really fun chatting with them, they often surprise you with their intelligence. Sometimes they can even make fun of you.
Visit this site to chat with the robot.

Other site ALICE chat
Other site Oliverbot

Search Rapidshare with Rapidshare Search Engines

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Search Rapidshare using Google

When we talk about search, Google can never be avoided. Yes, we can do Rapidshare search with the help of some tricky google queries too. So, what all you need to do is just put some standard search operators like inurl:pdf avi|wmv|mpg|nva inurl:mp3
for example if you are searching for xyz software in zip format then Google,
site:

rapidshare.de inurl:zip xyz or site:rapidshare.com inurl:zip xyz

Best Rapidshare Search Engines

Ok, if you don’t want to use those complex looking operators, then you can use following search engines which are made specifically for doing rapidshare. There are hundreds of rapidshare search tools, here are some...

funfail.com
rapidshared.org.
rapidsharer.org
rapidsharelinks.org
rapidsharefiles.net
rapidsearch.org
rapidshare-search.com
megadownload.net
eatpaper.com/rapidshare
rapidshare-search-engine.com
rapidfox.net
rapidosearch.com
rapidexplorer.net
searchshared.com
RapidSharing.net
linkosearch.com

Download Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta

-New Application Update-

Download Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta

What is new in Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta?

The new version comes with whole new look and feel and a hell lot of features which make it worth the upgrade. The contact section has been revamped and now it looks cool with large avatar images besides the contact details. The contact view can always be switched back to the classic compact view.

All new Skins and Emoticons

They have incorporated many new skins and emoticons, that will be fun to use. The emoticons list has been extended, though the previous emoticons have been kept intact. The new emoticons have been suggested and created by users themselves through a contest organised by Yahoo earliar this year.

Flickr Images

You can easily import and save photos from/to your flickr account. Image management was never so easy in Yahoo Messenger. The user interface looks impressive too. Flickr integration makes sharing and saving of pictures easy, conveniet and loveable.

Inline Youtube Videos

So, the next time you paste a youtube link in an IM window, the link will be parsed to an inline video, provided you switch to the beta 9 version before you log into yahoo messenger again.

Enhanced Voice Call features

You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached, it is a similar feature that Gtalk is providing from many days.

Yahoo messenger invisible status

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You can check if your yahoo buddy is invisible to you or not. Just install this plugin
-Yahoo messenger invisible status plugin By Sahil

The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/messenger/plugins/

Please unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases.

You can actvate it by clicking “action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

Faster loading Gmail

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For low speed connections logging in to gmail could becomes an irritating task. You must have experienced gmail login problem especially on a dial up connection. Login in to gmail is comparatively slower because of its rich user interface, because of that sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error. And in orkut also sometimes the login box does not appears and says “connection timed out” or “server not responding” kind of messages. Following are some tips and tricks to login into gmail and orkut faster even with low speed internet connections.

Gmail login tricks
Use this url http://mail.google.com/mail/h/
-Use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version
or http://m.gmail.com
-gmail mobile version

I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE… --virus

If you find this message “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…” when you launch Firefox or this” ORKUT IS BANNED, Orkut is banned you fool`, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did?? ” when you try to launch Orkut Or “youtube IS BANNED,youtube is banned you fool`, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did??`r`r MUHAHAHA!!,30″, then you are system is infected with w32.USBworm.

This virus spreads through USB drives. It will not let you install Firefox and if it’s already installed in your PC, it won’t let you use Firefox!

The virus is known as heap41a W32.USBWorm.

-Solution-

Guide for removing the virus from your computer, click here

Download Worm Remover Here

For USB drives, But be sure to delete the autorun.inf file and any folder which ends with .exe in the USB drive, backup your files and format the USB drive to rid it of the worm.