Hacking Manual

Are you looking for a piece of software similar to PhotoShop or Microsoft Word or anything else? Maybe your looking for a free alternative, or something easier to use?

AlternativeTo.Net is a website that allows you to do just that. Find alternatives to software. You can filter applications to search for free alternatives, or by platform. You can view users comments on the software to see if it’s a good match as well as filter the software alternatives by rank or by how many people like it.

This article will show you how to easily identify whats using up all of your hard drive storage.

So your hard drive is getting full and you want to find up what’s taking up so much space but where do you start?

WinDirStat is a free application that quickly identity’s your hard drive usage in an easy to visualize way. You can see which folders and sub folders are taking up the most space. You can also see below which file types are taking up the most space which is color coded with a key to easily identify those file types.

If you are in a tech support position then this article might save you some hassle and save you some time by allowing you to quickly know your client’s operating system, public ip address, web browser, and whether or not cookies, flash, or java-script is enabled.

Sure you might have figured out an easy way to ask whether they are using Windows XP/Vista/7 but how about do you know what version of flash your running, or do you have java script or cookies enabled. Yes those are much trickier.

Instead simply direct them to go to supportdetails.com they can even quickly email you the details with a form or just read you what you are looking to find out.

This article will show you how to save some serious cash on video games. Video games are pretty expensive but it’s possible to save up to 90% or more when buying them and I’ll show you how.

Half.com is a company owned by Ebay and allows sellers to set their own price for video games, books, music, and movies. The difference is the sellers are forced to sell at low prices in order to make a sale. The sellers usually compete for the lowest price in order to get their item sold.The longer the video game has been out the cheaper it is.

The beauty of Half.com is once your done playing the video game you can sell it back for about the same price you paid. This gives you much more money than selling at Gamestop or a similar store because those stores don’t give you anything near what they are going to sell it for. If you finish with the game in a short period of time like a week or two or decide you don’t like it you can sell it back for pretty much the same price you paid for it. Almost like getting the video game for almost free.

Say you buy a $60 video game for $10. Then you sell it back for $8. You just got a $60 video game for $2.

Looking for the best, quickest, easiest way to speed up your computer? Look no further.

Your probably already know your computer is slowed down by all of the multiple running applications running at once.

You can disable the hidden programs and services that silently start up with your computer without your knowledge.

Click Start—Run–msconfig
Or if your running Vista/7 Type msconfig in the “start search” bar
Click the startup tab
Pretty much everything here can be disabled without worry.
You’ll want to keep your anti-virus and anything else you knowingly use daily.
For example the only two items I have enabled are My Antivirus and DropBox.
If you have any problems you can always re-enable
Click Apply–Tell it to restart later

Next click the services tab, and click hide all microsoft services.
Now this section you should be a bit more careful with and only disable software you have uninstalled or know for a fact you’ll never use again.

Now restart your computer and enjoy the additional speed.

Many websites require registration and a valid email address in order to read content or download items.  This results in excess email, spam, and just being annoyed because you have to register and create a username and password.

The good news is you can avoid all of that and access many websites without registering or giving your email address.

Using Community/Shared user names and passwords
Bugmenot.com and bypass.rd.to are websites that allow you to search for community or shared usernames/passwords to access these registration only websites. You will be surprised at all the websites this will let you access.

Using a disposable email address provider.
If this is a website you would like to register for but want to avoid proving your email address you can use a disposable provider such as Mailinator.com When asked for your email address just type in anything@mailinator.com  you can replace anything with well anything it could be example@mailinator.com then when they send you an email for activation you can check the email at mailinator.com  This is not password protected anyone can check this inbox but if it’s disposable it probably means you don’t care anyways.

Create your own disposable email account
Stop giving out your main email address. Create a separate email address specifically for registration and spam at gmail or yahoo.  This provides you the protection of you being the only person who can access this email while still protecting your main email account from spam.

When viewing pictures on facebook you are now forced to use facebook theater to view the images. Luckily there are a few easy ways to disable the facebook theater.

F5 – When facebook theater comes up hit F5 and the browser will refresh and you will be taken back to normal picture view mode.

Facebook/Chrome Add-On – There is an Add-On available for Firefox and chrome called Facebook Lightbox Killer which disables by default the Facebook theater.

I prefer to F5 method but it you want it permanently disabled try the Firefox/Chrome Add-On.

Adobe reader will read your PDF’s outloud for you so you don’t have to.  This makes it simple to listen to your long PDF’s instead of reading them. If you have an audio recorder you can even record these PDF’s to an MP3 file to listen to later on your iPod. 

Open your PDF with adobe reader
Click View
Then Read outloud and activate read outloud
Click View again, Read outloud, and then read to the end of the document.
Now if you want to skip the introduction or a couple pages just click on the paragraph you want to skip to and it will skip and start reading from that paragraph or page.

The computer voice is a little rough around the edges but it’s still a very neat feauture and I hope they improve upon this and maybe even add a feature to convert the pdf into an audio book built in. So you could just convert it and transfer it to your iPod.