The Zana Zen

Comes a time, when you wish you knew what goes in that twisted head of your best friend/worst enemy.
These people are often in your windows live messenger contact list, among their friends and relatives.

When a new message pops up from your best bud in the windows taskbar,
you don’t see much details it usually looks like “Dany - Conversa…” not much to think about besides - Dany wants to chat (:

So you open the new message window and chat away,
little that you know, it actually not Dany!

In messenger, this is so easy to achieve, you just change your :
(None require registration, and are all immediately updated)

• Display name (The name that appears in the contact list)
• Personal message (The message people see next to your display name in the contact list)
• Display picture (Just print screen and cut it from the victim’s display picture)
• Fonts and colors (Easy to obtain, not so easy to identify)

This is usually more then enough to fool the next guy.

Let’s say A B & C are all friends and have each other in their contact lists,
A Changes his own details to look like B, and sends C a message : “Hey man, What you think about A????”
C, Having harsh and repressed feeling for A, uses the chance to say everything he was hoping to say about A, to B, But B is A!!!
Be careful about what you do with this,
from my experience, it works every time, but i have only used it to trick friends and create funny events.

The only way your victim could know something is wrong is to see that he has TWO ‘B’s online at the same time,
or to check out B’s e-mail address, but people never check these things.

(Results of misuse of this trick are your responsibility and you are taking your own risks…)

Cheers,

Well, it’s all about the numbering

You start with 1.txt and ends up with 1756.txt, too many logs and they always seems unorganized on your disk, so you are arranging the file by date but this may also be a problem with asyncronous writing to log files. And either way, it still it look bad when you arrange the files by date.

So do what I do, start numbering your files from 10000, this way they’ll be arganized by their name properly.

This is silly I know

This guide provides detailed information on how to sell your own digital products by yourself, by digital products I mean: ebooks, software, graphics, etc… digital files. I’ll show you, step by step, the easy way to sell a digital file, I’ll describe to you how PayPal works and how to use PayPal’s IPN (Instant Payment Notification) service into your advantage in order to send your digital products automatically when you receive payments from your customers. Passive income, here we come

This guide is focused on absolute beginners, if you feel you can skip some of these sections, it won’t hurt my feelings

Choose Your Hosting Service

A Hosting service allows an individual to host his files (usually a website) on a server, in exchange for a monthly or a yearly payment. I’m using Hostgator as my hosting service and I’m really satisfied, you can also try to check if this coupon still works: “freetrial”.

Be sure that you get what you need from your hosting service so ask questions and read what they offer, it can be MySQL databases, PHP scripting, Python, CGI, etc…

Choose a Good Domain Name

In choosing a domain name you have 3 options:

• Going for a brand name, the advantage here is that your site will be more reliable, a brand name is a name to trust on. An example will be www.amazon.com
• Going for a more generic name, if your site is small and you do not plan to spend a lot of money on advertising then I guess this option is better for you – its advantage is that your site will be found more quickly by search engines. An example will be www.FreeWebsiteTemplates.com
• This method is just the combination of the last two, just create a brand name that contains two words or a derivative. This is the best choice of the three in my opinion

Your domain name will eventually be controlled by the DNS network protocol.

What is DNS?

DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System. It is a method of conversion between IP addresses, which are difficult to remember, to domain names, which are easier to use and remember. When your computer tries to connect to a remote computer by using a domain name, it needs first to resolve the remote computer’s IP address.

All connections throughout the Internet are done using the IP network protocol, the IP protocol identifies each computer by a unique IP address. An IP address is a 32 bit number which is represented in the following way: “aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd”, where each dotted separated bin is a number between 0 to 255.

In order to resolve the IP address from a domain name, there is a need for a DNS server. A DNS Server is a computer that is connected to the Internet and responds to DNS queries. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provides you with a DNS server, your computer probably queries it.

How To Setup the DNS Settings?

Now that you have a domain name, you should setup your DNS settings, if you don’t know how to do that, then you should contact the technical support of your domain registrar. In the settings, make sure you set the right values for the MX record of the DNS, it should be set to your hosting mail server, and it will let you receive emails to your domain name.

Also add some sub domains that will let you manage your hosting more easily:

• ftp.your-domain.com - should point to your hosting FTP server.
• mail.your-domain.com - should point to your hosting mail server.

Getting Money From Buyers using PayPal

I presume that you know what PayPal is, and that you have used it some time in your life, I won’t cover the basics here. PayPal offers some merchant tools, the one that we will talk about is the buy now button. If you sell something, your website should describe the features & benefits of your product and contain a buy now button at the bottom.

When your customers push this button, they will be redirected to PayPal for checkout, after they will pay, you will receive a payment notification from PayPal. The Buy Now Button is the most common merchant tool that PayPal has to offer, it’s simple, fast and secure. It’s easy to configure too. Actually, the button is a simple HTML form that POSTs (sends) data (like the price of the product and the name of the product, see for a list below) to PayPal. A Buy Now Button could also be encrypted with PayPal’s public key, so it prevents hackers from seeing the button details.

A standard Buy Now Button’s form contains these fields:

• business – who to pay for. This is the seller’s email address, your email address that you use to login to PayPal.
• item_name – the product’s name. When the customer clicks the Buy Now button, he will be redirected to PayPal to purchase your product, item_name is the name of the product that will be displayed at PayPal.
• amount – the product’s price.
• currency_code – states what currency to use, where “USD” identifies US Dollars.
• return – the URL that the customer will return to when he is done paying.
• cancel_return – the URL that the customer will be redirected to if he presses cancel after he is redirected to PayPal.
• notify_url – this is optional, it states the URL that receives a payment notifications from Paypal using the IPN service, read more below.

How Paypal’s IPN (Instant Payment Notification) Works?

1. When a user are pressing on your buy now button, he will be redirected to PayPal.
2. PayPal receives the payments and POSTs the payment details to your IPN URL you specified in the notify_url parameter.
3. Your notification url should be a web script that will validate the request against PayPal (security measurement).
4. PayPal IPN responds and verifies the payment or denies it. The IPN script should processes only valid payment requests.
5. The PayPal IPN script should send your digital product by email to your customers automatically, unless passive income doesn’t interest you and you wish to send it manually every time by yourself

EasyIPN

EasyIPN is a script that lets you automate online orders, protect your products from distribution and manage everything from a simple admin panel. You may wish to you use it if you don’t want to mess with the PayPal settings by yourself. EasyIPN’s responsibility is to offload the work you need to do in order to integrate with PayPal IPN.

EasyIPN will send your digital product to the purchaser without your intervention, thus making your website a true passive income source.

So I used remote desktop to control the computer in the 2nd floor of my house,
and I want to restart it!!!! But where is the restart button??

For some reason windows xp and vista think restarting your computer over remote dekstop should be forbidden!
So either start using “net use… and shutdown -m…” or just use a simple command on the remote computer to restart the computer.

Start > Run > shutdown -r -f -t 10
(Restart , Force application exit , in 10 seconds…)

Hello folks,
Recently I bought a dell inspiron 1520 laptop, Life was good, everything was working great!!!
Till one day - My room mate, bought a Dell XPS 1530M laptop,
If it was not enough that he has GDDR3 memory and I have GDDR2, he also received a little dell remote that fits inside the
express card socket on the side - This remote also worked on my computer.
So I went to ebay and got me a remote as well!
But I still had to top the GDDR3 superiority his laptop had, in one way or another.
So I decided i want to be able to control my winamp from my N95 via bluetooth.

The result was pretty nice (:

A Server program written in TCL which listens for tcp connections and bluetooth serial connections,
the server generates playlists when it starts according to the music folder structure on the computer,
and allows the user to load playlists and control winamp from the phone over internet, WiFi and bluetooth.

A Client python program sitting on your phone that acts as a remote.

The program requires a few steps to get going so if you really want it to work on your phone
(symbian s60 v3) you will need to put some effort in preparing the needed prerequisites.

1. Install TCL on your computer from Activestate
2. Extract twapi.zip to your c:/tcl/lib/twapi (or any other /tcl/lib/twapi folder)
3. Install python for s60, and python shell for s60 on your phone.
4. On your phone, Create a folder in your memory card called IMG inside Python
   This will look like /memorycard/Python/IMG
   Extract all these Images to this folder, so they will all be inside /python/IMG/
5. Copy this python file to your phone.
6. On your computer, Create a bluetooth com (serial port)
   consult your bluetooth manual on doing so.
7. Put this inside a folder, extract it and run hotkeys.tcl - This is the server side application that should always run on your computer.
   (Run it with wish/wish84/wish85)
8. If an error message pops, read it - and follow the instructions until they stop popping - they do not pop for no reason!!!
9. After all is set, run the remotebt3.py in the interactive python interpeter on your s60 phone.
10. Choose a connection method, if you choose Bluetooth, be sure to have a paring to your computer already set.
11. If you choose TCP, make sure you have a wifi with DHCP and no firewall is blocking hotkeys.tcl which on default listenes on tcp port 9090 for new connections.
12. If you get connected a green box will appear with the connection method, now for a few stuff you can do :
    • Press 2 for a menu of things you can do.
      They are pretty easy to understand - the only one which needs some clearing is :
      Rebuild m3u list - this one recreates your m3u files from your music folder configured inside hotkeys.conf
    • press 8 to select a playlist from the ones generated by hotkeys on your computer.
    • press SEND to connect in a different connection way (bluetooth/wireless/internet)
    • Pressing 3 times on W will open/close winamp.

Feel free to change / Distribute / do anything with the tcl and python code,
“Clamp” is a free tool downloaded from the internet, and all right about this cool tool is kept for it’s original creator
I am just using it - I did not create it.

I know the install prcedure is not fun,
but i did not have time to study nokia .sis creation and making a nice installer for windows
if you feel these are lacking - Create them!
For questions, contact me at eitamaa (at) gmail (dot) com.

(Have I topped the GDDR3 or not??)

Cheers,