Real time video capturing and benchmarking with FRAPS

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. This application software can be used for real time video capturing and benchmarking.

In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 1 to 120 frames per second!

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Resizing Virtual Disk Size Under Virtualbox 4 and Higher

In the earlier versions(< 4), there was not any direct method of resizing the size of virtual box disk however with the release of Virtualbox 4 and higher, the VBoxManage tool can be easily used to resize the vbox disks.

Open the terminal and navigate to the folder that contains your Vbox disk and just type the following command and in few secs, you are done.

VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi --resize 30720

The above command will resize the filename.vdi disk to 30 GB(30GB = 30*1024 = 30720).

If you are running virtualbox version less than 4, then you will have to create a bigger virtual disk and then clone the content from the existing virtual disk. You can freely download the disk cloning/backup tools for cloning. I hope this helps.


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Anonymous and Secure Web Surfing With JonDoFox

JonDoFox is a firefox profile that has been optimized for anonymous and secure web surfing. The profile requires a proxy changer such as Tor. However JonDoFox makers have also developed JonDo as the proxy changer.

JonDoFox is available for all major platforms and debian/ubuntu users can download the .deb package for easy installation. For downloads and installation instructions, visit the JonDoFox page.





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Web Server[HTTP] Fingerprinting With httprint

Earlier I posted about web server fingerprinting using telnet however more sophisticated tools have been developed out there and one of them is httprint. httprint is a web server fingerprinting tool. It relies on web server characteristics to accurately identify web servers, despite the fact that they may have been obfuscated by changing the server banner strings, or by plug-ins such as mod_security or servermask. httprint can also be used to detect web enabled devices which do not have a server banner string, such as wireless access points, routers, switches, cable modems, etc. httprint uses text signature strings and it is very easy to add signatures to the signature database.

Features

-Identification of web servers despite the banner string and any other obfuscation. httprint can successfully identify the underlying web servers when their headers are mangled by either patching the binary, by modules such as mod_security.c or by commercial products such as ServerMask. Click here to see an example of how httprint detects disguised servers.

-Inventorying of web enabled devices such as printers, routers, switches, wireless access points, etc. Click on the sample HTML report.

-Customisable web server signature database. To add new signatures, simply cut and paste the httprint output against unknown servers into the signatures text file.

-Confidence Ratings. httprint now picks the best matches based on confidence ratings, derived using a fuzzy logic technique, instead of going by the highest weight. More details on the significance of confidence ratings can be found in section 8.4 of the Introduction to HTTP fingerprinting paper.

-Multi-threaded engine. httprint v301 is a complete re-write, featuring a multi-threaded scanner, to process multiple hosts in parallel. This greatly saves scanning time. *multi-threading is not yet supported in the FreeBSD version.

-SSL information gathering. httprint now gathers SSL certificate information, which helps you identify expired SSL certificates, ciphers used, certificate issuer, and other such SSL related details.

-Automatic SSL detection. httprint can detect if a port is SSL enabled or not, and can automatically switch to SSL connections when needed.

-Automatic traversal of HTTP 301 and 302 redirects. Many servers who have transferred their content to other servers send a default redirect response towards all HTTP requests. httprint now follows the redirection and fingerprints the new server pointed to. This feature is enabled by default and can be turned off, if needed.

-Ability to import web servers from nmap network scans. httprint can import nmap's xml output files.

-Reports in HTML, CSV and XML formats.

-Available on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD (command line only) and Win32 (command line and GUI)

For more information and downloads, Check this link.

Also, if you want to learn more about webserver fingerprinting, I would highly recommend you to read this paper.



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Basic Web Server Version Fingerprinting Using Telnet Client

Hi this time I am presenting you a simple quick tip that can be used to fingerprint the web servers. This can be quite handy for basic fingerprinting to determine web server version.

At first, open your command prompt/terminal and then type:

telnet

If everything is working fine, type either of the below in the terminal(as per the protocol version) and then press ENTER twice to get result from the server:

HEAD/ HTTP/1.1

or

HEAD/ HTTP/1.0

It will output some HTML content with the basic web server information at the end. Sample output would like below:

Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at ds01.nepallink.net Port 80

Note that this method works only if the web server provides the HEAD method as one of its methods(Other methods you might have commonly heard are GET, and POST).



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Open Source Anti-theft Solution For MAC, PCs and Phones

Prey is an open source application that helps us track the lost laptops or phones. Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use.

In order to understand more about the project, visit the Official website.

Also try this video tutorial for configuring the Prey application.

I hope it becomes useful for you. :)



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Wally: Advanced Utility To Change Wallpaper

Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. It is available in many languages. Supported Linux window managers are GNOME, KDE 3, KDE 4, Xfce 4, BlackBox, FluxBox, Window Maker, and FVWM.

Features
· Runs on Win32, Linux and MacOSX platforms
· History support
· Many wallpaper layouts available on all platforms
· EXIF data available over picture and in system tray tooltip
· Save downloaded photos
· Proxy support

Wally Download Page

It is available in ubuntu repository so you can install easily from ubuntu software center.



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Anonymous and Encrypted Torrent Download With Anomos

Anomos is a free and open source standalone anonymous and encrypted torrent client so if you are too concerned about anonymity, why not try this torrent client. Anomos is available for all major platforms including windows, linux and OSX.

Anomos Quote:


Anomos is a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added benefit of end-to-end encryption. By combining these technologies, we have created a platform where by no party outside of the trusted tracker will have any information about who a peer is or what they are downloading.
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Anomos is designed to be easy to use – you won’t even be aware of the security that it provides. Anybody who is already familiar with BitTorrent won’t have to do anything differently, other than use ‘atorrent’ files rather than ‘torrent’ files.


For more technical details, please see this blog post.

For downloads and more information, visit the Anomos Official Site.



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