Making a autorun in Pen[USB] drive [autorun.inf]

In this post, I shall be writing about creating autorun file in order to run or execute any program from your pendrive. Autorun.inf is a special file that can contain the information regarding the icon for drive, autorun programs, etc.

Using autorun.inf can also be useful for running the virii and worms automatically from the USB drive.

How to:
1) Open notepad
2) Type the following:

[autorun]
Icon=default
label=[YourLabelHere]
open=targetprogramname.exe

This autorun.inf file now should be saved in the root directory of your USB drive and you'll have your autorun file... :)

Now let me say the way of changing icon of the drive. In order to change the icon of your USB drive, type the following in autorun.inf file.

[autorun]
icon=[youricon.ico]
label=[YourLabelHere]

That's all. :)

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Funny Google Tricks

In this post, I'm listing few funny google tricks I have learnt in the recent days. Though not so useful, they are something cool to know...

1) Hidden game from google:
- Go to http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html
You'll be able to play the hidden game offered by google. :)

2) Google reversed
- Go to Google homepage
On the search box, type google reverse or elgoog and press on I am feeling lucky button.
You'll see reversed google. :)

3) Find Chuck Noris
- Go to Google homepage
On the search box, type find Chuck Noris and press on I am feeling lucky button. See the result.. :p

4) Answer to life the universe and everything
- On the google homepage search box, type answer to life the universe and everything. You'll see the google's calculation of the answer to life the universe and everything.

5) Who's the cutest
- Go to google homepage
On the search box, type who's the cutest and press on I am feeling lucky button. You'll be so happy with the result... :P

6) Google epic
- Go to google homepage
On the search box, type google epic and press on I am feeling lucky button. Wait for a while and you'll see everything expanding in the page.

7) Google rainbow
- Go to google homepage
On the search box, type google rainbow and press on I am feeling lucky button. You'll reach the page with colourful texts.

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Replacing All Instances of a Word in string [PHP]

PHP offers a useful function called str_replace() that can be used to replace every instance of a word in a string. This function takes three compulsory arguments and one optional argument.

The first argument represents the string to be replaced, the second the replacement value and the third the target string. The function returns the modified string.

Example:

<?php
function replace($string)
{
    return str_replace("dog", "samar", $string);
}

$str = "I am dog so you call me dog";
echo $str;
echo "
".replace($str); //call replace function
?>

Output:
I am dog so you call me dog
I am samar so you call me samar

Now, what if you want to work with arrays of words to replace with, for instance, in the censoring tasks. You can write some PHP stuff as below to perform the task.

<?php
function badword_censor($string)
{
    $string = strtolower($string);
    $badwords = array("fuck","bitch","cunt","faggot","penis","vagina","dick","pussy");
// add as per your requirement
    $string = str_replace($badwords,"*censored*",$string);
    return $string;
}
$str = "Fuck you bitch.";
//echo $str;
echo "
".badword_censor($str);
?>

Output:
*censored* you *censored*.

Also, refer to the str_ireplace(), the case insensitive version of this function.
Hope this helps. :)

Edit: Thanks to cr4ck3r for the comments. Updated the post... :)

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EmailTrackerPro - Email tracking software for tracking the sender

eMailTrackerPro is the tool that can help you track down the email senders by analyzing the email headers. This tool is a product from the VisualWare Inc. which works in network assessment and connection analysis solutions.

eMailTrackerPro asks for the email header and all the tasks is done by this tool. eMailTrackerPro analyzes the email header to find the route or path of the email. And hence it helps to track down the email sender's IP address which can be very useful for dealing with spam emails.

In order to find the email header, you'll have to open the email in your inbox and there should be some location from where you can view the email header. For instance, Yahoo mail has the option called view full header in Actions tab when you're viewing the email(See the screenshot below).

Now, all you've to do is copy these email headers and let the eMailTrackerPro analyze the headers and provide you the IP address of the originating location.

The software will generate the report in HTML format too.

Go to eMailTrackerPro home

Have fun... :)

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Working with text case of PHP string

PHP provides number of functions to work with the case of the string. All these functions take the source string as their argument and return the modified string. The original source string will not be modified by any of these functions.

The PHP functions for working on case are:
strtolower() - Converts the entire string to lowercase

strtoupper() - Converts the entire string to uppercase

ucfirst() - Converts the first letter of the sentence to uppercase

ucwords() - Converts the first letter of every word in string to uppercase

<?php
//usage of ucfirst() function
$str = "i am samar";
$str = ucfirst($str);
echo $str;
?>

Output: I am samar

<?php
//usage of ucwords() function
$str = "i am samar";
$str = ucwords($str);
echo $str;
?>

Output: I Am Samar

<?php
//usage of strtoupper() function
//similarly use strtolower() function
$str = "i am samar";
$str = strtoupper($str);
echo $str;
?>

Output: I AM SAMAR

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Online Photo Editor - Lightweight web-based Alternatives to Desktop Photo Editors

With the ease in web access, internet users are using more and more online photo editing services available at different sites. And, I am also one of the regular users of the online photo editing service.

Though there exists several sites providing the free photo editing software, I have been using a single service available at www.pixlr.com.

The photo editing interface it provides is so similar to photoshop that it seems to be the lightweight version of the Adobe Photoshop.

Go to Pixlr.com Photo Editor

Hope this helps you. :)

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Online Hex Color Value Picker

For my raw HTML designs and other similar tasks, I do not keep on opening adobe photoshop or even the tiny color picker programs. Instead I depend upon the online color picking site in order to get the hex values of the colors I choose for my works.

ColorPicker.Com works perfectly fine for me for getting the hex color codes of the useful colours for me.

Go to ColorPicker.Com

Have fun with the online color picker. Hope this helps. :)

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GPRS/WAP Setting for Ncell

NCELL, the second biggest telecommunication company in Nepal is providing GPRS, EDGE and WAP services so that it users can surf the net easily using their capable handsets. This post is about how to activate and make setting of GPRS for NCELL provider.

By default, all the NCELL users have GPRS activated(that's what NCELL says). In case, your handset doesn't have the GPRS data transfer service activated, do one of the following:
1) Type A in message box and send the SMS to 900224. (note that you can type R and send the SMS to same number to deactivate the GPRS service.)

2) Dial *100# and follow the instructions

In order to get settings for your phone, type ALL and send SMS to 9595. Save the settings.

General settings for NCELL:
Access point name(APN): web
IP/Proxy IP: 192.168.19.15
Port: 9201 (For WAP1)/ 8080 (For HTTP or WAP2)

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