Author: Rahul Bansal

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Finding Email Id of any Orkut user! GoogleTalk trick!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 24, 2007
50 Comments on Finding Email Id of any Orkut user! GoogleTalk trick!

Important Update: This script is not working anymore. You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future!

Well here comes another orkut hack by jerry to find email id of any orkut profile. Note that old trick to send friend request to view their email id on friends page is not working any more!Only thing it works for only orkut members who simultaneously use GoogleTalk. By GoogleTalk I mean you need to have GoogleTalk installed!

Here is the trick…

Go to any members profile who is not your friend. (Because you can always view your friends email id by going to friends page!)
Select ignore user option which is on left side.
Now log into GoogleTalk and go to Settings >> Blocked.
You will get all ignored peoples name and email id there!

If you need screenshot, read Gaurav’s original post!

Tags Bing, Google, Orkut, Outdated

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Hide your orkut profile name again!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 24, 2007
71 Comments on Hide your orkut profile name again!

This is for all orkut user who likes to hide their first & last name in their orkut profile. In short this for whom who used ALT+0173 trick and now find its not working anymore. Well here comes solution from

Here comes steps…

Just go to ur orkut profile. (Of course after logging in ur account)
Click edit option.
In General section; in first name & last name field just paste content of following box.

á Œ

Tags Bing, Internet Explorer, Security

Reviews

Blogger Beta: Adding Posts to 30+ Social Bookmarking Sites

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 23, 2007
18 Comments on Blogger Beta: Adding Posts to 30+ Social Bookmarking Sites

In this post I’m providing you with codes for adding more than 30 “add-to” buttons for blog post footer so visitor of ur site will be able to bookmark favorite posts on sites like delicious, technorati, digg, google, yahoo, furl, spurl, etc. There is absolutely no need to know HTML or anything else to make this work for you! Just note, this is only for blogger in beta user. For other blogs read this post.

Now lets start…

A. Get Access To Codes…

Login to your blogger in beta account.
Click on Layout link of blog in concern from dashboard.
It will open “Page Elements” tab.
There will be an option “Edit HTML”, click on that.
Now find a checkbox saying “Expand Widget Templates”, check that.

B. Editing HTML Code… (Getting Ready)

Just Search for following codes….

<!-- quickedit pencil -->
<b:include data='post' name='postQuickEdit'/>
</span> <span class='post-backlinks post-comment-link'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<b:if cond='data:post.showBacklinks'>
<a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.url + "#links"'><data:top.backlinkLabel/></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span> </p>

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<data:postLabelsLabel/>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
</span> </p>

Once you find above code, write following codes below that…

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
<!-- Add Bookmarking Code Here-->
</p>

Now you are ready to add bookmarking codes!

C. Editing HTML Code… (Final Step 🙂

You have two options now.
If u like to add all 30+ bookmarking codes in one-shot.

Just download this text file.
Copy entire codes as it is.
Paste these codes below <!– Add Bookmarking Code Here–> and before </p>.
Press “PREVIEW” button in the bottom to check if its working.
If yes, click “SAVE TEMPLATE” and u r done!

Or if u r choosy then copy codes for ur favorite bookmarking site from following listing one by one and paste them between <!– Add Bookmarking Code Here–> and </p>.

Stumbleupon (New)
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Stumble This!’><img alt=’Stumble’ height=’16’ src=’ http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico’ width=’16’/></a>

IndianPad (New)
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.indianpad.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark to IndianPad and get paid!’><img alt=’Indianpad’ height=’16’ src=’ http://www.indianpad.com/favicon.ico’ width=’16’/></a>

Digg
<a expr:href='”http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’> <img alt=’DiggIt’ height=’16’ src=’http://www.exploding-boy.com/images/logos/digg.gif’ width=’16’/> </a>

Digg
<a expr:href='”http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’<em>blank’> <img alt=’DiggIt’ height=’16’ src=’http://www.exploding-boy.com/images/logos/digg.gif’ width=’16’/> </a>
Delicious
<a expr:href='”http://del.icio.us/post?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title’ target=’_blank’> <img alt=’Add to Del.icio.us’ height=’16’ src=’http://www.exploding-boy.com/images/logos/delicious.gif’ width=’16’/> </a>
Technorati
<a expr:href=’ “http://technorati.com/faves?add=” + data:post.url ‘ title=’Add this page to Technorati Favorites’><img alt=’Technorati’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/78708502.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Spurl
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Spurl This!’><img alt=’Spurl’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/83344081.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Google
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark to Google’><img alt=’Google’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/35814433.png’ width=’16’/></a>
BlinkList
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=” + data:post.url + “&Title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add To BlinkList’><img alt=’BlinkList’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/89442389.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Blogmarks
<a expr:href=’ ” http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php?mini=1&title=” + data:post.title + “&url=”+ data:post.url ‘ title=’Bookmark This to Blogmarks’><img alt=’Blogmarks’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/7577931.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Askjeeves
<a expr:href=’ ” http://myjeeves.ask.com/mysearch/BookmarkIt?v=1.2&t=webpages&title=” + data:post.title + “&url=” + data:post.url ‘ title=’bookmark to Jeeves’><img alt=’askjeeves’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/96479491.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Wink
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.wink.com/</em>/tag?url=” + data:post.url + “&doctitle=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Wink This!’><img alt=’Wink’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/95672969.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Feedmarker
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.feedmarker.com/admin.php?do=bookmarklet_mark&url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add to feedmarker’><img alt=’Feedmarker’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/95971882.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Rojo
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.rojo.com/submit/?title=” + data:post.title + “&url=” + data:post.url ‘ title=’Bookmark This to Blogmarks’><img alt=’Mojo this page at Rojo’ src=’ http://www.rojo.com/rojo-static/images/favicon.ico’/></a>
Buddymarks
<a expr:href=’ “http://buddymarks.com/add_bookmark.php?bookmark_title=” + data:post.title + “&bookmark_url=”+ data:post.url ‘ title=’bookmark to Buddymarks’><img alt=’Buddymarks’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/69894407.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Diggo
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.diigo.com/post?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Diigo’><img alt=’diigo’ height=’16’ src=’http://www.diigo.com/images/ii_blue.gif’ width=’16’/></a>
Ma.galina
<a expr:href=’ “http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title’ title=’Add to ma.gnolia’><img alt=’ma.gnolia’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/44917000.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Netvouz
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.netvouz.com/action/submitBookmark?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title + “&popup=yes” ‘ title=’Bookmark to Netvouz’><img height=’16’ src=’http://www.netvouz.com/web/images/netvouz16.gif’ width=’16’/></a>
Newsvine
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=” + data:post.url + “&h=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark to Newsvine’><img alt=’Newsvine’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/61968867.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Nextaris
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.nextaris.com/servlet/com.surfwax.Nextaris.Bookmarkletscmd=addurlrequest&v=1&url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘> <img alt=’Nextaris’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/92909732.png’ width=’16’/> </a>
Nowpublic
<a expr:href=’ “http://view.nowpublic.com/?src=” + data:post.url + “&t=” + data:post.title ‘><img alt=’Nowpublic’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/38451081.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Reddit
<a expr:href=’ “http://reddit.com/submit?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add to reddit’><img alt=’reddit’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/33092456.png’ width=’16’/></a>
RawSugar
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.rawsugar.com/pages/tagger.faces?turl=” + data:post.url + “&tttl=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark to RawSugar’><img alt=’rawsugar’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/56440303.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
HOLM
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com/lm2/add.html?LinkTitle=” + data:post.title + “&LinkUrl=” + data:post.url ‘ title=’Add to HLOM’><img alt=’HOLM’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/67303319.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Scuttle
<a expr:href=’ “http://scuttle.org/bookmarks.php/pass?action=add&address= ” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark to Scuttle’><img alt=’Scuttle’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/50964829.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
Shadows
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.shadows.com/features/tcr.htm?url= ” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Tag to Shadows’><img alt=’Shadows’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/30177473.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
Simpy
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href= ” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add to Simpy’><img alt=’Simpy’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/70286063.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
Smarking
<a expr:href=’ “http://smarking.com/editbookmark/?url=” + data:post.url + “&description=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark This to Smarking’><img alt=’Smarking’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/21598036.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
Yahoo
<a expr:href=’ “http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t= ” + data:post.title + “&u=” + data:post.url ‘ title=’Bookmark To Yahoo! MyWeb’><img alt=’Yahoo! Myweb’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/41626225.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
AddToAny
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.addtoany.com/?linkname=” + data:post.title + “&linkurl=” + data:post.url + “&type=page” ‘><img alt=’Addtoany’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/10418375.png’ width=’16’/></a>
OnlyWire
<a expr:href=’ ” http://www.onlywire.com/b/?u=” + data:post.url + “&t=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark with Onlywire’><img alt=’onlywire’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/2315000.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Socializer
<a expr:href=’ ” http://ekstreme.com/socializer/?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark with Socializer:If your buttons not there try this’><img alt=’Socializer’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/67456207.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Squidoo
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?” + data:post.url ‘><img alt=’Squidoo’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/53248495.png ‘ width=’16’/></a>
Tailrank
<a expr:href=’ “http://tailrank.com/share/?text=&link_href=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add to TailRank’><img alt=’Tailrank’ height=’16’ src=’http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/47382617.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Unalog
<a expr:href=’ “http://unalog.com/my/stack/link?url=” + data:post.url + “&title=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Add to Unalog’><img alt=’Unalog’ height=’16’ src=’ http://img2.imagepile.net/images/ycc2106/19300886.png’ width=’16’/></a>
Furl
<a expr:href=’ “http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=” + data:post.url + “&t=” + data:post.title ‘ title=’Bookmark To Furl’><img alt=’Furl button’ height=’16’ src=’http://www.furl.net/i/favicon.gif’ width=’16’/></a>

Well if u like my work, spread it… buttons are below 🙂
If you have ANY kind of difficulty, feel free to post a comment or mail me!

Tags Blogger, Delicious, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Security, Social Bookmarking

News

Gmail: Google brought extra Disks!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 18, 2007

Yep… It looks like Google brought extra disks for GMail!
After making orkut open to all around 6 months back, Google made GMail open to all! Now no needs to get invitation for having 2.8+ GB free email service!

Well if your already have Google Account without Gmail Account then follow this link to add Gmail to your account! Note every Gmail account is a Google account but reverse may not be true!

Finally the question remains what to do with 61 Gmail invitation that still in my account! Well let Google take care of that, till then you enjoi Gmail!

#Related Link: Click here to Sign-Up for Gmail Account!

Tags Bing, Gmail, Google

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Top 10 Hacks for flickr Addicts!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 12, 2007
1 Comment on Top 10 Hacks for flickr Addicts!

Thomas Hawk’s at his Digital Connection posted about Top 10 Hacks on flickr. Though I am not aflickr addict, I like this collection. Thanks Thomas for making it available with screenshots!

Solution: "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 12, 2007
42 Comments on Solution: "Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator"

If you ever encountered above error, i.e. “Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator” on Windows XP or any other Windows NT Operating system, this may help you!

I have encountered the above error while patching registry. Even regedit command was not working!

Here is a simple solution which worked for me!

Click “Start >> Run” or press “[window key + R ]” and type or paste following command exactly as given below. An hit ENTER.

REG add HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

#Screenshot:

Tags Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

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Hacking Windows NT 5.x (i.e. Windows 2000/XP/2003)

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 9, 2007
12 Comments on Hacking Windows NT 5.x (i.e. Windows 2000/XP/2003)

In this post I’m writing about some Windows NT 5.x series (i.e. windows 2000/XP/2003) hack which I have gathered from various sources! Well due to lack of time I could not try all of the following hacks; but again whether a particular hack should work or not depends on security of that system! As security measure varies from system to system some of these may not work! Well that is for what comments facility is provided!

#1. Opening command or cmd prompt from where it is Banned!
Normally we start command or cmd prompt by executing “Start>Run>Command.com” or “Start>Run>Command.exe” respectively!

If this is not working, then u can try…
1. Open Notepad (or any text editor).
2. Type just command.com or cmd.exe (depending on what u want to open!).
3. Without doing anything else, just save this file with whatever name u like (e.g. devil, rahul, etc) but extension must be “bat”. e.g. filename cud be “devil.bat”, “rahul.bat”
Then save it as Something.bat.

Now all u need to do is click on this file to start commanding!

#2. Adding/Deleting a user to your network
1. Open command prompt!
2. To add user, type : “Net user Devil /ADD”
2. To delete user, type : “Net user Devil /DELETE”

Well this may fail! Does it said access denied?
Lets try to make this work by some nasty commands! (otherwise u r free to break into system by breaking windows password!!!)

so now, type: “net localgroup”

following is the output of this command in my college…

Aliases for \COEP——————————————-
*Administrators
*Backup Operators
*Guests
*HelpServicesGroup
*Network Configuration Operators
*ORA_DBA
*Power Users
*Remote Desktop Users
*Replicator
*Users
The command completed successfully.

Yep admin is there with name Administrators

so to add, type: “net localgroup Administrator Devil /ADD”
similarly so to add, type: “net localgroup Administrator Devil /DELETE”

#3. Opening blocked sites (orkut, myspace, etc.) with the help of command prompt!
Say orkut, myspace, etc is blocked in ur college/office. Well my college is kool in this regard!
Lets try it for orkut!

Type (at command prompt): “ping orkut.com”
Here is the output…

Pinging orkut.com [72.14.209.85] with 32 bytes of data:Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 72.14.209.85:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Does it look like failure to u??? All requests gotta time-out! Well as I said earlier my college is quite liberal so this has nothing to do with network admin!

Actually orkut, myspace, google and many well-known site does not allow pinging as it increased load on their servers! So does this mean no donut for u??

Well all we needed was IP address and we got it! 🙂

so open up your browser and type following in address bar/navigation bar/url bar…

For orkut, http://72.14.209.85
For myspace, http://216.178.32.52
For google, (wat??? google is blocked! R u on earth???) wel try http://72.14.207.99

Well if u r orkut or myspace addict, then there is another article u may like to read!

Tags Bing, Blogging, Google, Hacking, Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

Tips

Google Talk Emotions!

As of now GoogleTalk is gaining lots of attention! And I found many people wondering about emotions GoogleTalk supports! While GoogleTalk does not support gif images as emotions like yahoo or msn.

Instead GoogleTalk makes animate emotions as they are with bold-blue color formatting. As many people like this kinda emotions, I tried to found other emotions which GoogleTalk supports (or better say animates).

Here is list… (updated after ashwins comment)

Emoticon	Key Combination
	<3
It’s a monkey!	:(\|)
Rock out.	m/
	😮
	😀
	🙁
	x-(
	B-)
	:'(
	=D
	😉
	😐
	=)
	😀
	;^)
	😉
	🙂
	:-/
	😛

If u can figure out more or find any of the above not working, please feel free to comment!

Tags Google, GoogleTalk

News

Updates: Orkut is on ur Time!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date February 3, 2007

Long time back me n Vijay tried to make a greasemonkey script which will show orkut in local time. That means if it worked successfully u could see scraps, community posts in local time n not in PST Timezone which orkut is was following! Well such script was there on userscripts.org but stopped working after orkuts last big code change around August 2007.

So am I giving u that script today? Well if u think so then u have not noticed that orkut has made this change alongwith new video integration in orkut! So u can see scraps, community posts all in ur time! Now u will get to know ur friends birthday at midnight!

This is already done for everyone. If u r accidentally or purposefully changed ur country on orkuts settings page, then all u need to do select ur right country!

Well I don’t think this will make any difference to most of the people as punctuality is rare quality now-a-dayz!

Happy Orkutting!

Tags Bing, Google, Orkut, Software

Tips

Downloading free music from napster using loophole in winamp plugin!

Post author By Rahul Bansal
Post date January 31, 2007

Using a loophole in a winamp plugin, you can download and burn music from Napster for free.

Steps:

Download and install Napster, sign up for 14 day free trial.
Download and install Winamp
Download and install the Winamp Plug-in Output Stacker
Open Winamp Options->Plug-ins->Output->Dietmar’s Output Stacker->Configure
Add out_ds.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
Add out_disk.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
Select out_disk.dll in the Output Stacker->Configure
Set the output directory and output file mode to Force WAV file
Exit preferences
Load downloaded Napster protected WMAs into your Winamp playlist
Press play and each file will be converted to WAV as it plays
Burn WAVs to CD with your favorite burning programs.

Note:

This is not tested (due to lack of time)
Found this in a text file on a public PC. (so email me if u know its real source)

Tags Internet Explorer, plugin, Security