I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these could be done.

1. Delete visited URL’s

When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But what if you want to remove one URL from that list? Maybe you’ve been looking at a naughty site and you don’t want your girfriend to know? Or maybe you’ve been shopping for your loved one online and you want to keep it a secret?

Just drop down the URL box, highlight the URL you want to zap then press the “delete” button on your keyboard. The URL will then be removed from the list.

2. Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard

Instead of using the mouse to click on a tab, why not use the keyboard instead? Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you from tab to tab, starting from the one in the far left and working its way along. Or if you want to go to a specifc tab straight away, you can do that too. CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to the fifth tab from the left.

3. Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages

Have you ever wanted a picture, file or video off a webpage but you can’t, because it’s been protected? Just right-click on the page, choose “View Page Info” then the “media” tab. Find the file you’re looking for from the list and click on “save”. (note : this doesn’t work for everything but I have still had a pretty high success rate nonetheless).

I’m sure you’ve had to deal with this. It pops up every ten minutes after a major system update. Fortunately, it can be turned off. I’m going to help you to create a shortcut that will turn this nag off when double-clicked.

So, how to stop automatic updates from restarting your PC

Step 1

Your first step is to open Notepad. (Start > Run > “Notepad” > OK)

In Notepad, just type the command “net stop wuauserv” (no quotes, as in above). Then close the window, and select “Yes” to save changes.

Step 2

What we’re doing is creating an executable batch file which will run a command when double-clicked, to stop the Windows Automatic Updates Service. Make sure that your “Save as type” is set to “All Files” so that you don’t accidently create a text file. Save your file with an extension of “.bat” for example “stop this.bat” as shown above.

Step 3

This cute little batch file is what you’re left with.

When Windows starts nagging you to restart, just double click this to run it and stop the service. You won’t be bothered again. The service will restart when you reboot, which is needed to install the updates in the first place.

Is there anything that Windows does that annoys you? Maybe we can find a fix for it. Are you aware of any easier way to stop automatic updates from restarting your Windows. Please give us some ideas in the comments.

• inurl:”CgiStart?page=”
• inurl:/view.shtml
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS
• inurl:view/view.shtml
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
• inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
• inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG) (disconnected)
• inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
• inurl:view/index.shtml
• inurl:view/view.shtml
• liveapplet
• intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
• intitle:liveapplet
• allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera” (disconnected)
• intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
• intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
• intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
• intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206M”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206W”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 210″
• inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
• inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion” (disconnected)
• intitle:start inurl:cgistart
• intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
• intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
• intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
• intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
• intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
• intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
• site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
• intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
• intitle:”netcam live image” (disconnected)
• intitle:”i-Catcher Console – Web Monitor”

So happy spying.

Here is a list of 50+ FTP sites that will allow you download content for free. Don’t forget to share and bookmark this page so that everyone can take advantage of it.

1. ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/
2. ftp://193.43.36.131/Radio/MP3/
3. ftp://195.216.160.175/
4. ftp://207.71.8.54:21/games/
5. ftp://194.44.214.3/pub/music/
6. ftp://202.118.66.15/pub/books
7. ftp://129.241.210.42/pub/games/
8. ftp://clubmusic:clubmusic@217.172.16.3:8778/
9. ftp://212.174.160.21/games
10. ftp://ftp.uar.net/pub/e-books/
11. ftp://129.241.210.42/pub/games/
12. ftp://193.231.238.4/pub/
13. ftp://207.71.8.54/games/
14. ftp://194.187.207.98/video/
15. ftp://194.187.207.98/music/
16. ftp://194.187.207.98/soft/
17. ftp://194.187.207.98/games/
18. ftp://ftp.uglan.ck.ua/
19. ftp://159.153.197.74/pub
20. ftp://leech:l33ch@61.145.123.141:5632/
21. ftp://psy:psy@ftp.cybersky.ru
22. ftp://130.89.175.1/pub/games/
23. ftp://194.44.214.3/pub/
24. ftp://195.116.114.144:21/
25. ftp://64.17.191.56:21/
26. ftp://80.255.128.148:21/pub/
27. ftp://83.149.236.35:21/packages/
28. ftp://129.241.56.118/
29. ftp://81.198.60.10:21/
30. ftp://128.10.252.10/pub/
31. ftp://129.241.210.42/pub/
32. ftp://137.189.4.14/pub
33. ftp://139.174.2.36/pub/
34. ftp://147.178.1.101/
35. ftp://156.17.62.99/
36. ftp://159.153.197.74/pub/
37. ftp://193.140.54.18/pub/
38. ftp://192.67.63.35/
39. ftp://166.70.161.34/
40. ftp://195.161.112.15/musik/
41. ftp://195.161.112.15/
42. ftp://195.131.10.164/software
43. ftp://195.146.65.20/pub/win/
44. ftp://199.166.210.164/
45. ftp://195.46.96.194/pub/
46. ftp://61.136.76.236/
47. ftp://61.154.14.248/
48. ftp://62.210.158.81/
49. ftp://62.232.57.61/
50. ftp://212.122.1.85/pub/software/
51. ftp://193.125.152.110/pub/.1/misc/sounds/mp3/murray/

How long will this continue?

This depends on your participation in this Lucky Draw. If we get enough participation every week we will continue to give away Kaspersky keys every week.

How can you participate in the Lucky Draw?

To participate in the Lucky Draw you need to perform the following steps. Don’t worry they are very easy.

1) You need to be a subscriber of Hungry Hacker’s Feed via a Reader or Email. If you are not a Subscriber of Hungry Hacker’s feed still it is not Late yet. You can Subscribe to Hungry Hacker’s Feed via any Reader or via Email:

2) Write a comment to this article. Please mention your email address in the comment.

3) If you are a blog owner then you may write a post about this article on your blog and link it back to this article.

4) Digg or Stumble this article so that more and more people can know about this and  participate in this lucky draw. If you have digged or stumbled it please mention your digg or stumble upon user ids in the comment.

Note: The 3rd and 4th steps are not compulsory but if you do it then it may increase your chances of being selected in the Lucky Draw.

When will the winners be announced?

The winners will be announced on the last day of every week i.e. Sunday.For this week the wineers will be announced on 5th of July2009. All the users who have completed all the steps given above before Saturday Midnight will be considered in the Lucky Draw.

Here is how to make your own Zip Bomb of Death -

1. Create a new text file,name it a.txt
2. Open and type the null character (alt + 255) in it.
3. Now press Ctrl + A then Ctrl + V a couple times to make some null bytes.
4. Open Command prompt and navigate to the folder containing a.txt . Type the following command:
   

   copy /b *.txt b.txt

This will write all the contents of a.text and its copies into a new text file called b.txt,hence making every copy is a super copy. Repeat the above steps from the beginning again and again to make a really big text file.

Once u have a nice empty big text file like 1gb or more,then compress it using Winrar or Winzip into a zip file.

You will find that it will be compressed to very small size (about 1MB ). It is because of the simple construction of the file as the text file contains 1gb of null bytes.

Make sure that YOU DONT OPEN THIS afterwards.

You can make the same file in Linux by typing -

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 count=1000000 | gzip > test.gz

Send it to your friends (or foes) and it will definitely annoy them . Use some creativity and rename the text file into some thing like Angelina Jolie.jpg and compress it and email to your friends. Once they download it,they will never be able to download again (sarcasm..sarcasm).More disastrous combinations can be made by experimenting with it.I mean..you get the idea

If you are too lazy like me and you don’t want to do all this then you can download the most dangerous zip bombs of all time from here. This size of this zip is only 42 KB which will uncompress to about 4 Petabytes (1 Peta byte = 1024 TB and 1 TB = 1024 GB ) of file size. Dangerous huh..?

You can slash Firefox’s slow load time by compressing the DLLs and executables. There are many choices for compression but I suggest you use UPX which is free, efficient and time proven.

1. Download UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download
2. Unzip upx.exe into your Firefox installation folder which is normally C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.

3. Make sure Firefox is not running then shell to a command prompt in the Firefox installation directory.

4. Type in the following command in a single line and hit return:

for %v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\%v”

5. If on some later occasion you want to unpack the files, just type in the command above but add the decompression switch “-d” after “do upx.”

That’s it; enjoy the difference!

Today I am going to list out some of the useful proxy tools that I have collected in the past few years. These tools are really effective and I assume that they will be useful to you all.

Elite Proxy Switcher (Download)

Elite Proxy Switcher (EPS) is a professional proxy tester and proxy switcher. It can check the details of the proxies and automatically change the proxy of your browsers (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox).

Forum Proxy Leecher (Download)

Forum Proxy Leecher (FPL) can scan topics in different types of proxy forums and extract the proxies from them and even from the accessories.

Charon (Download)

Charon is a free tool to check proxy servers. It can also get proxies from Google and filter dangerous proxies.

Dragon Proxy (Download)

Dragon Proxy is tool used to scan all the proxies present in a Text File and Filters them into Good, Slow and Bad Proxies. The input to this tool can be the list of proxies generated by Forum Proxy Leecher or any other proxy tool.

Multi Proxy (Download)

It can completely hide your IP by simultaneously using several anonymous proxy servers to fetch the web pages and pictures for you.

Proxy Hunter (Download)

Proxy Hunter is a classical and powerful tool for scanning proxies by IP ranges. It’s a good tool for those who prefer creating their own proxy lists rather sharing others.

SocksChain (Download)

A program that allows to work with any Internet service through a chain of SOCKS or HTTP proxies to hide the real IP-address.

JAP (JavaAnonProxy) (Download)

JAP uses a single static address which is shared by many JAP users. That way neither the visited website, nor an eavesdropper can determine which user visited which website. Java Runtime Environment is required.

Update

I got some requests from users that it takes lot of time to download all the files from easy-share.com as the waiting time between 2 files is very large. So I have uploaded all the tools in one download link. The download link is:

http://www.easy-share.com/1905498557/Proxy Tools.rar
password : hungry-hackers.com

I will be adding more tools later so keep visiting this page. If you have more proxy tools that you would like to share with other you may post it as comments.

The reason behind this is that Google uses a Bot called GoogleBot and most of websites which force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the GoogleBot because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure. Examples of such sites are Expert-Exchange, Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many other sites around the globe.

What if you could disguise as GoogleBot then you can also see what GoogleBot can.

How to Disguise as GoogleBot?

It is Quite simple. You just need to change your browser’s User Agent. To change your Browser’s User Agent follow the steps given below:

• Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Useragent.reg or you may also download it.
  

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
  @=”Googlebot/2.1″
  “Compatible”=”+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html”

• Now Double-Click on the file Useragent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry.
• Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.
• Voila! You’re done! Now you have become GoogleBot.

How Revert back to Normal Agent?

• For IE users : To restore the IE User Agent, Follow the Given Steps Below:
  • Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Normalagent.reg or you may also download it:
    

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
    @=”Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)”

  • Now Double-Click on the file Normalagent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry.
  • Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.
• For Opera Users : Opera allows on-the-fly for switching of User Agents through its “Browser Identification” function.
• For Firefox users : Just download User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox.
  • Now Goto Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options.
  • Click “User Agents”
  • Click ” Add” and fill the following information  in the form
    • Description: Googlebot
    • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
    • App Name: Googlebot
    • App Version: 5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
    • Platform: +http://www.google.com/bot.html
    • Vendor:
    • Vendor Sub:
  • Click “OK”.
  • Now you may change the user agent on the fly.

From Desktop

1. Windows Key + Tab : Aero [press Tab to cycle between Windows]
2. Windows Key + E : Windows Explorer is launched.
3. Windows Key + R : Run Command is launched.
4. Windows Key + F : Search (which is there in previous Windows versions too)
5. Windows Key + X : Mobility Center
6. Windows Key + L : Lock Computer (It is there from the earlier versions as well)
7. Windows Key + U : Launches Ease of Access
8. Windows Key + P : Projector
9. Windows Key + T : Cycle Super Taskbar Items
10. Windows Key + S : OneNote Screen Clipping Tool [requires OneNote]
11. Windows Key + M : Minimize All Windows
12. Windows Key + D : Show/Hide Desktop
13. Windows Key + Up : Maximize Current Window
14. Windows Key + Down : Restore Down / Minimize Current Windows
15. Windows Key + Left : Tile Current Window to the Left
16. Windows Key + Right : Tile Current Windows to the Right
    [Continue pressing the Left and Right keys to rotate the window as well]
17. Windows Key + # (# is any number) : Quickly Launch a new instance of the application in the Nth slot on the taskbar. Example Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win+2 launches second, etc.
18. Windows Key + = : Launches the Magnifier
19. Windows Key + Plus : Zoom in
    
20. Windows Key + Minus : Zooms out
21. Windows Key + Space : Peek at the desktop

From Windows Explorer

22. Alt + Up : Go up one level
23. Alt + Left/ Right : Back/ Forward
24. Alt + P : Show/hide Preview Pane

Taskbar modifiers

25. Shift + Click on icon : Open a new instance
26. Middle click on icon : Open a new instance
27. Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon : Open a new instance with Admin privileges
28. Shift + Right-click on icon : Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc). Note: Normally you can just right-click on the window thumbnail to get this menu.
29. Shift + Right-click on grouped icon : Menu with Restore All / Minimize All / Close All, etc.
30. Ctrl + Click on grouped icon : Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the group

Though some of them are there in previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 has incorporated many of them and have started many afresh.