Win7 Performance tweak

Hey everyone I've been tweaking with my machine lately testing a lot of different thing's/setting's and I thought I would share this with the my readers.
It tweaks your performance by turning off useless thing's like screen slowly coming up when you click on a tab. With my setting's it's immediately faster than "stock" if you have a low end computer.

You can find it by going to Control Panel >System >Performance Information and Tools >Adjust Visual Effect's. This may be one of the oldest thing's you could use but im simply posting this as a "noob" tutorial.
Once you get the the screen adjust the setting's so everything look's like mine.

Once these setting's are applied your computer will be much faster with page loading and will be a less hog on your processor. This will still be able to run Aero if your machine is applicable to do so. It's very handy and work's like normal with little to no difference. I know this isn't the best "tutorial" but I know it will help some people out at least.

Find Font Names from Images with WhatTheFont

Have you ever found a picture containing pretty fonts and you don't know its name, WhatTheFont will help you identify the name of the fonts used in the picture.

All you have to do is submit the image url and it will be processed. Alternatively, you can even uploade images that are stored on your computer.

After uploading is done, WhatTheFont tries to find the closest matches from their database. I find this a very useful tool for Web Designers. They also have iPhone application available. Hopefully we will see the Android application soon.

[WhatTheFont Website]

URL Snooper

URL Snooper allows you to extract links that are masked or hidden behind scripts and/or server redirection. It uses WinPcap and acts as a small network sniffer, that automatically filters all URL requests that it encounters. You can further filter the list to only show multimedia links.

For example when user tries to download Adobe Flash Player, by default they will be asked to download the Adobe Download Manager first and then the download manager will then automatically download the Flash Player without showing the URL to the user. So let's give URLSnooper a try to identify those hidden URLs.

Look for http exe file and you should see a few of them. It is pretty obvious that the Adobe Flash Player installer setup file is http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe while the other two is the McAfee Security Scan and Google Toolbar.

Note: This program is donationware. It is free to try, but the author accepts and encourages donations towards further development.

[Download URLSnooper]



Configuring an SSH tunnel using PuTTY for Windows

SSH tunneling permits you to establish an encrypted network tunnel between your home machine and remote site. This how-to will help you establish an SSH tunnel with Putty, a free software client. We will be connecting to the computer at 130.225.220.38 (port 80) through the server at tech-globe.net (port 22), using the local port of 8088.

1. Start Putty by double-clicking the Putty icon or opening it through the Start menu.

2. Click "Session." Here you will enter the details of the forwarding server you are connecting to.

3. Enter the address of the server that is running SSH in the Host Name field and the port number in the Port field. In our example, the address is tech-globe.net and the port is 22.

4. Select "SSH." Click "Connection" in the left pane, then "SSH," then "Tunnels." Here you will enter the information regarding the computer you are ultimately connecting to.

5. Enter the port number you wish to use as the local port into the Source Port field. This is the port that you will connect to using the program you wish to tunnel with, and cannot be in use by any other application. In our example this port is 8088.

6. Enter the address of the computer you wish to ultimately connect to followed by a colon and the port number into the Destination text field. In our example, this is 130.225.220.38:80

7. Select "Local," then click "Add."

8. Click "Open" to begin your SSH session. You will be prompted for your username and password.

How to Extract from/Fix corrupted zip files tutorial

It is very uncommon that a zip archive gets corrupted but when it happens it is impossible to extract any content from zip files not even those uncorrupted files inside zip or self-extracting archives. If you are in such situation where you need to fix or repair corrupted zip files then here is freeware tool Zip2Fix which can help you in extracting partial content from corrupted zip or sfx files.

I'm going toshow you how you can extract files from a corrupted zip archive. I also consider this to be a "fix" because it creates a new archive with the files that aren't corrupted.

1. Download zip2fix. You can get it here.

2. Now that you downloaded it, extract the file and then run it . No need to install It's portable ;)

3. Now, just click "Open", and browse to the corrupted .zip file you want to extract from.

4. As soon as you open the corrupted zip file, zip2fix will automatically start scanning the archive and detect which files are actually corrupted.

5. It will also make a seperate zip file with the files that aren't corrupted so you can extract those later.

Thas it. Now, just extract your files from the new archive that was created.

Security Safety Tip: Disable Root SSH Login on Linux

One of the major security holes you could open on your server is to allow directly logging in as root through ssh, because any cracker can attempt to brute force your root password and potentially get access to your system if they can figure out your password

It’s much safer to have a separate account that you regularly use and simply sudo to root when necessary. Before we start, you should make sure that you have a regular user account and that you can su or sudo to root from it.

To fix this problem, we’ll need to edit the sshd_config file, which is the main configuration file for the sshd service. The location will sometimes be different, but it’s usually in /etc/ssh/. Open the file up while logged on as root.

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find this section in the file, containing the line with “PermitRootLogin” in it.

#LoginGraceTime 2m
#PermitRootLogin no
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6

Make the line look like this to disable logging in through ssh as root.

PermitRootLogin no

Now you’ll need to restart the sshd service:

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

Now nobody can brute force your root login, at least.

Solution to Erase Login History from CuteFTP Quick Connect Bar

Solution to delete the connection history individually for CuteFTP quick connect bar. It’s either you had to keep it or delete everything on the list, but not anymore.

1. Click on Tools at the menu bar and select Global Options. Alternatively you can use the hotkey Alt+F7.
2. Click on Security tree at the left hand window.
3. Check “Remove Quick Connect & Connect to URL history upon program exit“.

4. Click OK.

Once you close Cute FTP, the quick connect history will automatically be removed. It seemed easy but not easy enough since we have to do that in options and not from the quick connect bar itself. By the way, only the Professional and Home version has the quick connect bar. The Home version of Cute FTP doesn’t have that.