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Cool Photo Editing

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT

Wanna make funny photo editing without knowing and program? Here, I present you 11 free online tools and software that will help you to make cool photo editing.

1)FotoSketcher 1.97

FotoSketcher 1.97 is a free application that will help you to transform a simple image into an astonishing work of art even without the knowledge and talent.

Download FotoSketcher

2) magmypic.com

magmypic.com is free website that allow you to make fake magazine covers and comics with your picture.
Here you can upload your photo and appear on a cover of 30 popular magazines. You can also make a funny joke, by putting your friend’s photo on a “SEXY” magazine.

http://www.magmypic.com/

3)Avatarize Yourself

We are excited to be part of the cutting-edge marketing campaign for James Cameron’s upcoming
blockbuster “Avatar.” Sponsored by McDonalds Europe, our “Avatar” yourself widget is being released in a handful of languages. Make your own avatar at http://www.avatarizeyourself.com!

4)Reflect effect

Picreflect is an easy web tool that will make a cool reflection of picture.
Select the options you need, and load a picture from pc or url (max 2Mb), to get a reflection. To get a reflection of picture go to http://picreflect.com/

5) Personalized Playing Cards

6)befunky.com

BeFunky Photo Effects allow everyday people to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge. These “one-click” photo effect options produce desired results effortlessly and each effect comes with the option to make simple adjustments.
http://www.befunky.com

7)Personalized Money

Create your own personalized money bill with Your own picther with just a click of a mouse button.
http://www.festisite.com/money/

8) photo505.com

Huge collection of photo templates, which will keep you busy for quite a while.

9) loonapix.com

A lot cool photo templates.

10) Funny Photo

Funny Photo! Creating photo collages from your photos online. Applying photo effects is pure joy! Create realistic photo montages and add cute frames to your photos. Write your text on this picture if you wish to get an e-card.

11) writeonit.org

Here you can easily create your photomontage, free cards, magazine cover and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Learn Programming from Google

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 05:52 AM PDT

If you really want to learn hacking then the first step for it is to learn programming well. Even more learning only one programming language doesn’t make you a hacker. Those will only expertise you in specific programming language, nothing more than that. Hacking profession requires having knowledge in all kind of programming language. C, C++, PHP, ASP, JAVA etc.

You may get tired of reading hacking tutorials found around the net for free. No matter how much depth the hacking book has you’ll still unable to do even a basic hacking. Why? Because you don’t have any programming skills to use it in practice actually.

Again, you must not call yourself a hacker if you expertise in some programming language. Better call yourself a newbie programmer rather than hacker. A hacker plays the role of attacker while the programmer remains at safe side for defensive arts.

So, when to call yourself hacker? Learn some programming language first. There is hundreds of popular website that provides large number of tutorial on several programming language. Some of them are tutorialized, w3schools, etc. Though the tutorial portals like tutorialized contain lots of programming tips and techniques, it is still not for you who are the beginners.

If you really want to learn programming for free, without going to any educational institutions, then you are on right track. Because going to some academy and acquiring programming skills does not lets you to advertise your mistakes, while mistakes leads to another success.

This time I am talking about our online friend Google, which we’ve never thought about. Do you ever knew that Google teaches lots of people several programming languages like Python, Java, C++, Linux, Ajax, Javascript, etc? Oh yes and that is for free.

Google has been providing several new tips and tricks for intermediate programmers and several courses for the newbies at Google code. Google code University is one of the services launched by Google with aim to increase the web expert in World Wide Web.

Google Code University provides several courses and innovative resources to help computer science enthusiasts. Not only text based tutorials, but you are also able to access video tutorials for free. It is easier with live examples by Google to understand the real thingy of programming. They also has a forum to discuss about your confusions.

If you really are thinking about programming, Google Code University is the site you must bookmark.

How To Install WordPress Locally On XAMP

WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms on the internet because it offers so much greater functionality as themes, plugins that can be downloaded, installed and utilized for absolutely free, auto ping functionality… In this article I’ll show you how to install and run Wordpress locally on XAMP. If you don’t know what is XAMP and how to install it , please read previous article How to install XAMP .

1) Install XAMPP lite for Windows , follow these instructions

2) Download Wordpress and unzip it under c:\xampplite\htdocs.

3) Go to xampp/htdocs/wordpress and open wp-config-sample.php with text editor as notepad and replace the default values by the ones you see under this paragraph. Save the file as wp-config.php.


// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

4) Go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and create new database called wordpress

5) Launch your browser and navigate to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php , follow the instructions, and you are done.

Convert From Any File To Any File For Free And Online

With increasing number of file formats according to software brands, having converter tool has become a must. You can even take example of your phone; most of the phone doesn’t support Windows Media Audio file. Then you might want to convert WMA to MP3 to play it in your phone. The video that you played in your friend’s phone is not playing in your phone? You need media converter again. Anybody requested your resume in PDF format instead of HTML or .DOC? Again you need document converter. Somebody requested you to send them TIFF formatted image instead of JPEG? Again you need image converter.

There are several image converter tools, audio converter, video converter, document converters found everywhere in internet. These converter tools are of such type that you use it today and forget its name next day. And consequences, your hard disk will be overloaded with loads of converter tools and who can say that they might not contain any malwares or spywares?

Well, the best method to win the fight is, using all the converter of same brand. For example, if you are using WMA to MP3 converter from Jodix then use video converter of same company as well. But the sad news is it’s hard to find all file converter tools from same company, and even you find it, it’s never free.

Now what we have other alternative for that? Yes! Using online file converter! Bookmark the side of that online converter in separate bookmarking folder so that you can easily reach them and never have to search it again. For example, keep bookmarks of online video converting website, image converting website and audio converting website in same bookmarking folder.

But wish, if all of these tools were available in one website and for free. And here is the wish granted. Online-convert.com have been providing free online file conversion service. No software installation is needed to use this tool, neither you need any extension and extra plug-in in your browser. Just upload your file and convert it in their own fastest server with high power CPUs and download them instantly. I bet that there is nothing helpful online converter tool than this in internet.

Online-convert.com provides you variety of file conversion in one page.

You can convert more than 6 audio formats using online-convert.com

Convert to any 10 video formats you want, want more? Choose the device you want to convert the video for.

They have more than 10 formats to convert your image to.

Want to create your own PDF ebook? Have a look at their document file converter.

They also supports other ebooks converter and hash converter. They all provide this service to you r for free.

Bookmark online-convert.com and you’ll never need to download any file converter again.

Disable Auto Hide Windows Taskbar Forever

This tutorial might not be very useful but whoever needs it, here it is. Sometimes some user may keep setting the auto hide and personally you may find it annoying. So in that case, you would like to set it so that it permanently stays there.

Hopefully, there is one another method, that is, making separate user account for you. But still I am going to teach you how you can disable the auto hide feature of Windows Taskbar.

Though it is possible to disable autohide feature from Registry editor, we are not going to do this. Because tweaking registry may risk your current computer status. Instead, we’ll be using Local Group Policy editor.

Open Local Group Policy Editor by going to RUN > and typing gpedit.msc.

In the left column, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar.

In the right column, look for Prevent Changes to Taskbar and Start Menu Settings under Setting column.

Double Click to Open it. By default, it is set to Not Configured and choose Enabled.

Next Click on OK, and then close Policy Editor Window.

Whenever someone wants to access the Taskbar property, he’ll be denied.

To re-enable it, follow same procedure and Click on either Not-configured or Disabled radio button and Press OK.

Hope you loved it.

This was guest post by suraj kayastha where he writes about technology in HackTweak.co.cc and Hacktutors.info.

Convert Image In To Text Using PHP Script

Ever wanted to create those text made roses and heart shapes that you see in Facebook and Myspace? You might be wondering how they create such. However there are some websites that does the job, you may still be curios to do it by yourself. They convert your image file in to a text which exactly renders as an image. If you are still unclear what I am talking about then see how this JPEG image is manipulated to text.

First view the demo here.

You might be surprised that this manipulation can be done just by PHP code not more than 30 lines.
We’ll do this just by a PHP code.

Let me show you how can you use PHP imagecreatefromjpeg() function to manipulate the pixeleted image in ASCII character form.
First of all let’s summarize what we’ll do.

First, we’ll create a variable pointing the location of the image. Now we’ll feed that image location variable to imagecreatefromjpeg() function like this:

$locate= 'http://website.com/image.jpg';
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("$locate");

Now the imagecreatefromjpeg() function manipulates the image details like RGB color coding, white pixels etc.

Since our PHP code have the details of the image, we’ll add conditional tag what to do next if the image have been manipulated by the imagecreatefromjpeg() function. In the conditional statement we’ll fetch the RGB value, get the brightness situation and finally put a ASCII character along with the brightness.

What our code needs to do is loop through each row in the image, and within each row it needs to also loop through each column. This means we’re accessing each pixel one-by-one, which is what we need. Then, for each pixel in the image, we need to grab the red, green, and blue color values of the pixel, add them all together.

By default, we’ll define the ASCII keys as array for the brightness. For example, [@#+*;:, ] we’ve increasing brightness symbol from @ which denotes the extreme dark and a white space at last which denote extreme white.

The darker part will be replaced by @ and white part will be replaced by white space, while other characters will denote the level of brightness in eight characters.

Have a look at the PHP code below:

echo '

';
 
$asciichars = array("@", "#", "+", "*", ";", ":", ",", ".", "`", " ");
 
$width = imagesx($image);
 
$height = imagesy($image);
 
for($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y) {
 
for($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x) {
 
$thiscol = imagecolorat($image, $x, $y);
 
$rgb = imagecolorsforindex($image, $thiscol);
 
$brightness = $rgb['red'] + $rgb['green'] + $rgb['blue'];
 
$brightness = round($brightness / 85);
 
$char = $asciichars[$brightness];
 
echo $char;
 
}
 
echo "\n";
 
}

echo '

';

}

And finally we’ll print the result.

The final code will be like this:

$locate= ‘http://website.com/image.jpg’;

$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("$locate");

if ($image) {

echo '

';
 
$asciichars = array("@", "#", "+", "*", ";", ":", ",", ".", "`", " ");
 
$width = imagesx($image);
 
$height = imagesy($image);
 
for($y = 0; $y < $height; ++$y) {
 
for($x = 0; $x < $width; ++$x) {
 
$thiscol = imagecolorat($image, $x, $y);
 
$rgb = imagecolorsforindex($image, $thiscol);
 
$brightness = $rgb['red'] + $rgb['green'] + $rgb['blue'];
 
$brightness = round($brightness / 85);
 
$char = $asciichars[$brightness];
 
echo $char;
 
}
 
echo "\n";
 
}
 
echo '

';

}

?>


Just copy it to your notepad and save it as image.php. Before saving define the location of picture.
You can also create a form to specify the location of the image and input the form value in $locate variable.
Posibilities are endless, who knows one can start his own website only with this script.
Again, view the demo here.

Learn Real Hacking With Real Hacking Game

If you are very new in hacking world, before going to the article, I suggest you to read Learn How To Hack With The Hacker’s Underground Handbook before reading further article.

If you are already known to the hacking world then, welcome to the virtual simulation world of hacking environment.

If you really need some easy platform to practice hacking then I think this article will be a great help for you. Yes I am talking about the real hacking game, Hack The Game.

HackTheGame is a free 1MB file game which will introduce you to the real hacking word.

The real hack able DOS environment makes you feel like that you have finally accessed to US Defense system.

The game becomes much more interesting and fun because of the addition of sounds. The sounds includes typing and several warning announcement.

The user interface of HackTheGame is very friendly and easy. Just open the program and select your language, input any ID you may like.

There are several missions of this game. You’ll get the briefing of each mission in your inbox.

The mail itself includes several hints and processes.

If you find sounds irritating then, you can go to settings menu and disable sounds. But I bet you, enabling sounds makes your game play experience very easy.

I bet you’ll love this game.

No installation is needed to run this game and it is obviously safe to use because it utilizes local files which in game play acts as a remote files. You don’t have to worry about your security. If you doubt it, then play it offline.

This game can be downloaded from here, HackTheGame.

Login to Windows Live Messenger using any email account

Everybody has hotmail account, don’t they? I created my first email account in Hotmail 9 Years ago. MSN Hotmail and Yahoo were the heroes of free web mail system at that time, and still they are. Later in 2004, Gmail showed up with large email space capability. The only famous messenger was ICQ. Later Hotmail introduced MSN messenger, now they’ve named it Windows Live Messenger which we are using at the current date.

Since you have lots of email account in several domains, it is necessary to run their own messenger. Try to log in using your Gmail or Yahoo account, messenger will return with 80048821 error saying, Windows Live ID or Password is incorrect, because Gmail is not domain of MSN.

But after following this trick, you won’t have to open install multiple web messengers. Let met guide you how you can access Windows Live Messenger using your own email account which is not a domain of MSN. You’ll be able to login using Gmail, Yahoo or any email account you have.

Go to http://www.passport.net, after the page is loaded scroll down to Sign up today. As shown in figure, click on Get Started Now link of Use an e-mail address you already have.

Now fill up the form with the email address you want to sign up using Windows Live Messenger and other necessary information and click on Continue button.

In next page, retype the email address as shown in the left.

Now, it will inform you to confirm your account in next page. Click on Continue button.

Now you may close the page.

Next, we’ll need to confirm our mail. They’ll send you a confirmation link in the email address that you’ve specified earlier during form fill up.

Login to your Gmail or any email account using respective domain and look for Verification mail from Windows Live Team.

Read the mail properly and click on the confirmation link

Wait a minute! Confirmation is not over yet, you’ll have to login with the new email address and password that you’ve filled up earlier in the form.

For the successful confirmation, you’ll be welcomed to this page.

Now try to login using your Gmail or any email account from Windows Live messenger.

Note: If you have not confirmed properly you’ll be notified.

If you see this screen at the top of your Windows Live Messenger, make sure that you’ve confirmed properly.