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Weather Location ID for Rainmeter Apps

If you need to generate a location code for your Rainmeter config file (i.e. Taipei is TWXX0021), the link below will help you do so.

http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/locid.aspx

The easy way to Take Screenshots

If you find your self taking screenshots and adding boxes and lines in mspaint, then check this program out its called Jing its a free tool from the screenshot masters at TechSmith. Jing has the ability to take full video or still captures of your screen, you can choose to select an area or the whole screen. When your finished capturing it lets you then edit the shot with Arrows and boxes to make spots more noticeable.

Block quizzes from showing up in your Facebook Newsfeed

If you are as annoyed as I am with quizzes showing up in in your Facebook feed, there is a simple solution (aside from hide or blocking contacts). This only works in Firefox (I'm guessing that if you're still using Internet Explorer you're probably the person posting the quizzes anyway... so this doesn't apply).

Here are the steps:

1. Download the Greasemonkey Firefox Add-on
2. Download FB Purity by going to this page and clicking on the 'Install' button
3. Restart your browser and open Facebook
4. The quizzes should now be blocked

Defcon Media Archives

The great hacker archives:

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/defcon-media-archives.html

Bypass URL Redirects with MAC Spoofing

It's not difficult to bypass a URL redirect by spoofing the MAC address of an authorized computer. All you need is a laptop and Wireshark.

Here are the steps:

1. Boot to Linux and verify that your eth0 connection is enabled and connected to the network. You can check this my running: ifconfig
2. Next run wireshark
3. Click on the Start Capture button and then select the configuration button for you eth0 device
4. Create a filter that only captures Ethernet ARP packets
5. Start the capture
6. Wait until another computer connects to the network (this may take some time to get a machine that is authorized)
7. When they communicate with the server an ARP packet will be sent with that computers MAC address
8. Record the MAC address and stop the capture
9. Open a terminal
10. Type: macchanger --mac <copy the new MAC address here> eth0
11. Check that your MAC address is now the same as the other computer: ifconfig
12. Type: /etc/init.d/networking stop
13. Type: /etc/init.d/networking start
14. Open a browser and verify to that you now bypass the URL redirect and can now browse the internet