Are your curious to know who some of the biggest Google Adsense earners are? I know that I was interested to know who the best are so I could check out their websites and see how I could possibly earn as much money as these people do. I realized from most of these sites that sites with user generated content usually ranked pretty highly for Google Adsense earners. It seems that these “community” type sites do tend to get a lot of traffic and we all know that traffic = money. So without any more delay here are a list of the top 8 Google Adsense earners as collected from online resources.
1. Markus Frind - PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month
If you haven’t heard of this guy yet you should check out the website plentyoffish.com. He is the person who created this free online dating website from his appartment all by himself. His website soon become one of the largest dating websites online. I have actually tried out his website myself and can see how it can be interesting and attract a lot of visitors. The graphics and layout of the website is nothing fancy at all but the functionality is all there and its fast to use.
There have been many of doubts that he wasn’t making that much money so he made those people silent by posting this on his blog. According to his blog this represented two months worth of Adsense earnings.
2. Kevin Rose - Digg.com - $250,000 per month
Kevin Rose started Digg.com in December 2004. It is a social marketing site that is mostly news, video, and pictures that are submitted by users for other users to read about and view. Basically what happens is you can signup for an account and you can submit a “news story” and other people can view it and if they like it they can “Digg it” and this boosts the rating of the post. If it gets enough Diggs it will appear on the Frontpage of the site and will get tons of traffic. Digg has both Google Adsense ads and Federated Media ads. It is estimated that he earns roughly $250k a month from Adsense alone.
3. Jeremy Schoemaker - $140,000 per month
ShoeMoney is considered to be one of the greatest Internet Marketers out there. He is very good with search engines and knows how to setup his sites to get optimal traffic to them. In one of his best months with Google Adsense ShoeMoney earned $132,994.97. You can imagine it was probably pretty difficult for him to cash a check of that size!
Unlike most of the other Google advertisers ShoeMoney makes his money from hundreds of sites and thousands of domains.
4. Jason Calacanis - Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month
Jason Calacanis is the creator of Weblogs. Weblogs is a network of blogs and it was apparently making roughly $4,000 a day from Google Adsense! He eventually sold the company to AOL for a reported $25 million. He also announced his retirement from blogging earlier this year (July 2008). He is now focusing on his email campaigns instead.
5. David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - FreeWebLayouts.net- $100,000 per month
According to a Washington Post article these 20 year old’s claim to be making $100,000 a month from their site FreeWebLayouts.net which offers free Myspace templates. That is pretty impressive for a couple of young guys that are offering free Myspace templates!
6. Tim Carter - AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month
Tim Carter is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio show. He started his website up in 1995 with his primary focus to cater to an avid following of fellow builders on the site. In April 2004, Carter learned about Adsense for content sites and he put it on his site. With minimal effort and time he optimized his website and his Adsense earnings grew from $1,500 to $7,500.
There was a Google case study done on Tim Carters earnings with Google Adsense. You should definately read it by clicking HERE. Read the results section because it gives a bunch of helpful tips on how he increased his revenue with Google Adsense.
7. Joel Comm - e-book - $24,000 per month
Joel Comm is a get rich quick guru. He wrote an e-book, What Google Never Told You About Making Money with Adsense. With his e-book and his website he earned $23,458.46 between Nov 2005 and Dec 2005. Check out his Google account stats here.
8. Shawn Hogan - DigitalPoint.com - $10,000 per month
Shawn Hogan is the creator of the forum DigitalPoint. This forum is a very usual forum with lots of information about: Search Engines, Marketing, Business, Design & Development, and Products & Tools. In a New York Times article it stated that he was making roughly $10k a month with Google Adsense.
The members of his forum speculate he is now making around double of what he was making in 2005 when this report was published in the New York Times.
So there you have it, the Top 8 Google Adsense earners. This list might be slighty out of date and there could be some new people in this list but this is the list I was able to pull from collecting information on the net. So check out these sites and see if you can strive to earn as much as these people do with your website or blog.
31 October 2008
Top 8 Google Adsense Earners
6 October 2008
Activate Vista SP1 Forever with Task Scheduler
Since Launch of SP1 many cracks have been disabled by Microsoft.. But if you want to enjoy Vista / Server 2008 forever.. Here is a nifty solution you could follow to activate vista/ server 2008 with the help of Task Scheduler
On the Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 system, copy and paste the following Task code to text editor such as Notepad. In the Task, change the value of the following UserID tag (as in
Full text code for XML file is here
Or, download a copy of ReArm.xml directly (you still need to change the “UserID”.
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools (in Windows Vista, go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance), and then click Task Scheduler.
In the Task Scheduler, click Import Task on the “Action” menu.
Select the task .xml file saved from above above. For example, click Extend.xml or ReArm.xml.
Click Import.
A “Create Task” window will appear. Click the Triggers tab.
Click the One Time trigger, and then click Edit.
Change the start date of the task to a date just before the end of current evaluation period (activation grace period expiry date).
User can also customize the schedule so that the Task Scheduler automates the rearm of system license status every 30 days (for Windows Vista) or 60 days (for Windows Server 2008) for 3 times. For example, change to Daily with recurring every 30 or 60 days, and then set an Expire date for the task after 120 days or 240 days.
Click OK, and then exit the Task Scheduler.
Unlock Password Protected PDF & Excel Files
Wondered how to view those damn locked , password protected PDF , Excel files ??
Here is a best solution to unlock those files in a easy and efficient manner..
And to add to the excitement its done online and its totally free !!
PDF authors often restrict their files using PDF security features preventing users from copying, editing or printing the contents, and like every other protection this can also be easily bypassed, there exist several methods to crack or unlock PDF files, but if you are looking for a simple and fast way to just bypass the copying & printing restrictions of the PDF file Ensode online PDF Unlock Utility will be the best option, You just need to upload the file and the unlocked version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions will be displayed in a new browser window in your default PDF application, Similarly you can use "Ensode Free Excel Spreadsheet Unlock Online Utility" to unlock Microsoft Excel spreadsheet passwords.
Another worth mention handy free utility to achieve similar results is "Freeware PDF Unlocker" allowing users to remove password and restrictions on any PDF file that you can read. The utility is very simple to use, simply drag and drop the file to remove restrictions, You do not need to know the "owner" password for this to work. Removes 40 or 128 bit passwords.
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How-To Recover lost/corrupted Files from CD/DVD
Having All your Information stored on CD/DVD is the gravest thing you could ever make if you dont give enough care to the medium..
The worst nightmare for anyone could be .. when these CD/DVD gets corrupted or get scratched..Dont worry... here is the solution ..
Now recover all those lost files with this little application..
Smart Data Recovery by Smart PC Solutions is a perfect solution for rush data recovery. If you have no specialized experience in data recovery, but need your data back right away with no risk, Smart Data Recovery is an ideal tool for you.
Fixing your files and recovering your data, Smart Data Recovery is designed as a fully fool-proof solution. A simple step-by-step wizard guides you through the recovery process, asking you questions that are easy to understand and to answer, such as asking you to pick a disk that contains files to recover. To make things run even smoother, Smart Data Recovery has a U3/USB edition that runs from a flash memory card, minimizing unnecessary writes to the damaged disk.
Smart Data Recovery can often recover files even if your disk has been reformatted (on FAT formatted disks). Smart Data Recovery can recover data from disks formatted with all versions of FAT or NTFS. The pre-recovery preview demonstrates you exactly what the recovered file will look like, making you sure that the recovery is actually possible. Don't take our word on it.
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How to Automatically Start Downloading During RapidShare Happy Hours
You will get a message that says The RapidShare Happy Hours, we can use Cryptload, RSDownloader and USDownloader to automate inputting rapidshare captcha code with CATS and he is unaware of any method that can download from RapidShare without limitations using those third party tools. Next, I want to talk about the RapidShare Happy Hours. Some are Dogs which is dog and can only get it right after a few tries. Please enter all letters having a CAT below.” If you look carefully, you will find all the animalsare not Cats.
It says No premium user. As for (E)lephant, it hasn’t been updated since 16th March 2008 and it ask you to enter all letters having a cat. I had to wait till RapidShare Happy Hours. When you are not many people spending their points but many trying to earn points. CaptchaExchangeServer is not a software, but a service.
Accourding to Apokalypser, the creator of Cryptload, he mentioned that it is tough to crack this current CAPTCHA code with cats. It says No premium user. Please enter all letters having a cat. It says No premium user.
As for (E)lephant, it hasn’t been updated since 16th March 2008 and it ask you to enter all letters having a cat. As for (E)lephant, it hasn’t been updated since 16th March 2008 and it doesn’t work with Happy Hours. RapidShare has again updated their program to support RapidShare Happy Hours.
Instead of manually checking for RapidShare Happy Hours, I found a small tool which automatically checks for RapidShare Happy Hours. If the tool detected that the RapidShare Happy Hours is active, it will notify you via popup and you can configure it to run Cryptload, RSDownloader or USDownloader and start downloading. Very useful so you can go to sleep and let everything run by itself.
The tool is called
RapidShare Happy-Hour Checker
I couldn’t find any information about this tool. I don’t know who created it nor where is the official website. I scanned it with 31 types of antivirus in VirusTotal and it detected nothing at all.
Download RapidShare Happy-Hour Checker ]
Another tool I found is called HappyCat by Perrin and 20lives.
I couldn’t find the official website for this tool as well. Tried it but it doesn’t work as it reports “Not a Happy Hour” during Happy Hours. Another thing I don’t like about this tool is it requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. I’ve included the download link in case you’d like to try it yourself.
Download HappyCat ]
Cryptload can automatically start downloading when it is launched provided if you set it to start Immediately when adding the links.
In short, it means you add the links and set it to start Immediately and then close Cryptload. Then open up RapidShare Happy-Hour Checker and set it to run CryptLoad.exe when it detects rapidshare happy hours. There’s a small bug in CryptLoad which is there must be more than 1 files in queue. If you only have 1 file queued in Cryptload, it won’t automatically start downloading when it is launched.
RS Downloader too can start downloading immediately when launched but it is not configured as default. You’ll need to go to Einstellungen tab > Sonstiges, CHECK Downloads beim RSD start starten and click Speichern button to save the setting.
As for USDownloader, it will automatically start downloading the links when it is launched. No configuration needed. I will update you all again if there are new methods to recognize cats inside RapidShare CAPTCHA images.
Now run Windows Vista On PS3
you can install Windows Vista on PS3( Through Emulation )
PS3 is really showing good progress in gaming and also in becoming the best console/PC like system.. and not to forget .. its multimedia capability ( Read .. Only bluray player at present to support all BLU-RAY profiles )
Now recently mopx0 has found a way to run Windows Vista..
This is not new .. i mean installing a OS onto PS3 .. where at present you can install ubuntu ( a modified version indeed ) and yellow dog ( a dedicated OS for PS3 from FOSS community )..
But now with the ability to install Windows Vista onto PS3 .. makes PS3 a far more beter option to buy and own one..
More inside information on installation of Vista
* Takes nearly a Day to install
* Takes nearly 25 minutes to startup
* This isn't exactly like installing Vista .. It is a just a emulation
Video On how to install Vista...
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Finally, the PERFECT Way to UNLIMITED RapidShare Downloading
Previously I’ve shared with you a free service I found called which lets you generate direct links to download from RapidShare. Problem with RapidGrab nowadays is there are too many people using it and they’re short of premium accounts to generate links. There is a countdown time telling you how long you have to wait until their accounts renew for them to start generating RapidShare download links again. For those that never get to use RapidGrab, I have found another solution for you.
Now you can use Cryptload to automate RapidShare downloading. Here is how I do it.
If your Internet doesn’t gets connected before 15 seconds, increase it to 30 seconds and so on… To know your router’s manual if you are using a modem. IP Address: The IP Address of your router. Here are the settings you must configure correctly. Waittime after reconnect in sec: This is the Router button to configure your router model in the list.
To know your router’s manual if you don’t know the default login data. IP Address: The IP Address of your router. Here are the settings you must configure correctly. How do you know if you’re using a router, click on the dropbox and search for your router model in the list.
Many people bypass the download-limit for free users by disconnecting the internet and reconnect to the internet, select the Modem button. If you’ve previously downloaded 100MB file, you’re required to wait for nearly 3 hours before you can download the next file! Wait for XX minutes, and go back to step number1. Click the FREE button .
Visit the rapidshare link. All this is done automatically and continually download files from RapidShare is: 1. We all know that getting a new IP address from ISP allows us to download the first file automatically without you entering the CAPTCHA code, and when it finished downloading, it will try to download the second file. Visit the next file from RapidShare.
The normal free way to download from RapidShare is: 1. Start downloading file To download the first file automatically without you entering the CAPTCHA code, and when it finished downloading, it will try to download from RapidShare without a RapidShare Premium account. Enter CAPTCHA code 5. Wait for download ticket 4. Click the FREE button 3.
But before you get to automate RapidShare downloading, I’ll show you what you need to do because I was stuck for a few days I’ve been playing around with a new IP address from ISP allows us to download the next rapidshare link 2. How easy is that? Finally, there is nothing else you need to add the RapidShare links to Cryptload. Once it detects “You have reached the download-limit for free users by disconnecting the internet and reconnect your Internet to get a new software I found that is able to download from RapidShare, it is going to be a very painful experience.
Then it’ll continue downloading the second file. Please check your router’s IP address, run command prompt, type ipconfig and the Default Gateway is your router’s IP address. Username and Password: The username and password used to login to your router. Please check your router’s IP address, run command prompt, type ipconfig and the Default Gateway is your router’s IP address.
Username and Password: The username and password used to login to your router. These past few days I’ve been playing around with a new IP address.
1. Collect all RapidShare links that I want to download and paste them into a text file.
2. Run Cryptload
3. On the text file, press CTRL+A to select all, and then press CTRL+C. Link collector will appear and it will automatically decrypt the links.
4. Press Add button and press OK at Package settings. You can change the downloaded files location if you want.
What if your router’s model is not in the list? Not to worry at all because the people who created Cryptload are very nice people and they are very willing to help you to create CLR file to support your router. Here’s what you need to do.
1. Firefox browser.
2. Run Firefox, go to Tools -> Live HTTP Headers. Make sure capture checkbox is checked.
3. Go to Firefox window, login to your router, manually disconnect and then reconnect to the internet.
4. Go back to the Live HTTP headers, click Save all button and save it as router.txt
5. Click close to close Live HTTP headers.
6. Go to www.nopaste.com, enter your name in Nick, Description as your router brand with model and firmware version if possible. Make sure Plain is selected for language. Click on the Browse button and look for the router.txt file. Finally click Paste.
7. Wait for a few seconds, and you’ll be forwarded to a new page with the URL something like http://nopaste.com/p/xXXxxXxxX.
8. Go to www.cryptload.info website, at Live-Support, enter your username (your name), E-mail and click Los button. If cryptload staff is available, you can give them the nopaste URL to create your router’s CLR file. If not, you can fill up the form to send an email to them. I am sure they’ll get back to you with your CLR file.
Another way is to join Cryptload IRC channel and try getting help there. The person that patiently helped me from the beginning till the end was Apokalypser.
IRC Server: irc.german-elite.net
Channel: #cryptload
Once you got the CLR file from Cryptload staff, copy it to Cryptload’s router folder and it’ll be included in the router list when you run Cryptload the next time.
Cryptload is a perfect way to unlimited rapidshare downloading. Well, only perfect for those with dynamic IP address. It is developed by shira, bocka and apokalypser. For those with static IP address, RapidGrab may be the best way for you.
NOTE: Cryptload requires at least Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0and above.
[ Download Cryptload | Cryptload Website ]RapidGrab - Unlimited RapidShare Downloading
Usually after downloading
Thank God you can stop doing that for now. From the creators of The Grabber, comes a great new unlimited RapidShare downloading method. Team CodeMasters has developed a new free service called RapidGrab which allows you keep downloading from RapidShare without waiting.
Download
All you need to do is copy the RapidShare link to RapidGrab and click the GO! button. You will need to enter a 4 random character captcha code at the next page. If the code is right, you’ll get a 
With RapidGrab, you can now conveniently download a few parts with your favorite
This tip which I am going to share with you is no where documented or taught in RapidGrab’s website. Let’s say you want to download a
1. Generate direct link for the first part.
2. Add the direct link to your favorite download manager. Start downloading it and once it has downloaded a few KBs, immediately pause the download.
3. Do the same for part 2 and so on until part 7.
4. Finally, set your download manager to download one file at a time, start the download and go to sleep.
When you wake up the next day, you’ll find that all 7 parts has been automatically downloaded from RapidShare WITHOUT using RapidShare Premium account! Thanks to Team CMS for this free service and let’s hope it will continue to be free after the Beta period is over.
Download and Install Windows Vista MUI Language Packs on Vista Home Basic, Home Premium and Business
Up to Windows XP, MUI packs for a product are applied on top of an English version to provide a localized user experience. Windows Vista further advances MUI technology with support for single, language-neutral, language-independent binary files supporting multiple language skins, with the language-specific resources contained in separate binaries. The MUI architecture separates the language resources for the user interface from the binary code of the 
If you bought a second hand computer that is in another language, you don’t need to worry about formatting the drive, reinstalling windows vista, looking for the vista installation disc and genuine product key. Just download and
There are a total of 35 languages that Windows Vista can support and they are Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.
There are 2 ways to install languages in Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise. First method is to go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, Keyboards and Languages tab . The second method is though Windows Update which is sometimes not working.
As for Windows
I found 2 third party tools that is able to override the limit of one language on non-Ultimate Vista editions. Please use either ONE because if you install the second one, it will result in both programs unusable and you won’t be able to revert back to the original language. You should also turn off UAC User Account Control.
1. Vistalizator
Here is how you can change your Vista language using Vistalizator. First you need to manually download the language pack that you want to install. Currently there are 2 versions of Vista which is RTM and SP1. If you are using Vista SP1, please download the MUI language pack that is meant for SP1.
After finished downloading Vista language pack, you can now download Vistalizator from the link below. Extract and run Vistalizator.exe. Click Add Language button and browse for the language file that you’ve downloaded earlier and it will automatically extract and process the file. Once Vistalizator has finished processing the file, click Install button. Now click the drop down box at Installed Languages and you will see that the language that you want to install is in the list. Select the language, click the Change language button and restart your computer.
2. Windows Vista Multi-language User Interface Hacker v3.0
This tool has 2 methods of installing Vista MUI language packs. The first method is to install the Vista language packs on non genuine Windows Vista and the second method uses the MUI installation program built into Vista by Microsoft. The steps needed to install Vista MUI language packs is the same as Vistalizator. You can download the language packs by clicking the Windows Vista MUIs Download button where a help file with all the direct download links to the MUI will be there. After testing Windows Vista Multi-language User Interface Hacker v3.0 and Vistalizator, I’d say that Vistalizator is a much more stable tool.
source: digg
6 Must Have Replacement Tools when Fixing a Computer Infected by Virus
When a good and powerful virus infects a computer, most likely it will disable you from running Task Manager (taskmgr.exe), Registry Editor (regedit.exe), Command Prompt (cmd.exe), System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe), configuring Folder Options and hide the Run from Start Menu. Reason the virus does that is because most of the time it is “possible” for computer experts to remove the virus by using the built-in Windows programs without any third party tools.
But if you can’t run Task Manager, you cannot end the suspicious process. You could use the taskkill command in command prompt to kill the process but again you won’t be able to do that if CMD has been disabled. Perhaps you can run msconfig to stop the virus from auto startup but also cannot because of the virus. For advance computer users who has knowledge in registry and thought that they could manually remove the virus auto startup entries there, they too can’t do anything about it if regedit has been disabled. Disabling of Folder Options is to stop you from setting your computer to display hidden and system files. This way you can’t see the virus file and hence you won’t be able to delete them.
1. Task Manager taskmgr.exe Replacement
- Task Manager is very important because that is where you get to see all the running processes and also the amount of memory and CPU usage. If you find anything suspicious there, you can try terminating it. If you cannot run Task Manager and get the error message “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator”, you can try using Process Explorer. It is portable and you can save it in your USB flash drive.
[ Download Process Explorer, a task manager alternative ]
2. Registry Editor regedit.exe Replacement
- Without the ability to access Windows registry, you cannot manually make any changes at all. You can however, import registry REG files. When a virus has disabled regedit, you should see the message “Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator” when you try to run it. A good regedit alternative is RegAlyzer, developed by the author of the famous SpyBot. RegAlyzer requires installation but you can copy the whole RegAlyzer folder to your USB flash drive and run it as portable application.
[ Download RegAlyzer, a regedit alternative ]
3. Command Prompt cmd.exe Replacement
- Command Prompt is a very powerful command line tool which supports a lot of commands when you find it impossible to do it in Windows. If you try to run cmd and get the following message “The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator. Press any key to continue”, you can try using GS. GS is a cmd replacement but it is a little old, dated back in year 2005. We’re not looking for a permanent replacement, so it is good enough as long as it can support some important command lines. Do take note that “Console2″, is an EXTENSION for command prompt. If cmd is disabled, Console2 won’t work. GS is small, free and portable.
[ Download GS, a command prompt alternative ]
4. Run Dialog Box Replacement
- Some virus will also remove the run command from your Start Menu and it is not easy to restore it back. Although this is not really important, but it could easily allow you to run important commands. Run dialog replacement v1.0 is small, only 48KB in size and portable. If you have Process Explorer, you can also access the run command from File > Run, or just hit CTRL+R.
[ Download Run Dialog Replacement 1.0 ]
5. System Configuration Utility msconfig.exe Replacement
- MSCONFIG is the first place that I will go to check if a computer has a virus. If you run msconfig and go to the Startup tab, it will list all programs that will start when Windows is booted up using the common startup method. Virus makers are aware of this and usually they will either delete your original msconfig.exe file or change the reference location in registry. You should get this message “Windows cannot find ‘msconfig’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.” when type msconfig at the run dialog box. One very good msconfig alternative is definitely Autoruns, which is from the same author as Process Explorer. Autoruns has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login.
[ Download Autoruns, a msconfig alternative ]
6. Enable Show hidden files and protected
- I’ve tried many File Managers and most of them inherits the Show Hidden Files and Folders or Hide protected operating system files from Folder Options settings in Windows. If a virus is still active in memory, it will keep on changing the settings to disable you from viewing hidden and system files. I found one free file manager called FreeCommander which is able to show you all hidden files and folders as well as protected operating system files no matter what is the settings in Folder Options. It actually ignores the permission in Folder Options! It is portable, so you can also copy the whole extracted folder to your USB flash drive.
Faster and Easily Upload Suspicious Files to Threat Expert for Analyzing
Whenever I have downloaded a suspicious file from an untrusted location, I do not count on one
Sad to say for some
For VirusTotal, it already has a desktop version where you can right click on the suspicious file using your mouse and send it for scanning with 36 antiviruses. ThreatExpert also has one.
The ThreatExpert Submission Applet is a stand-alone tool that provides you with an quick easy way to submit your samples to ThreatExpert.
The submission applet produces reports identical to the alternative online submission but instead of requiring you to upload the sample through a browser, you can upload samples using a Windows application. I’ve tested the upload speed between using the online web version and desktop applet. Weirdly, the desktop applet tool has slightly faster upload speed than the online web version. The traffic monitoring tool (NetLimiter) which I use shows that ThreatExpert Submission Applet (teapplet.exe) uploads at 25KBps steadily. As for the online submission, the upload speed fluctuates and the most it can go up to 21.8KBps.
ThreatExpert Submission Applet saves me the trouble of launching my browser, wait for ThreatExpert’s website to load, go to the Submit Sample page and then upload. Now I can just run the applet from my desktop, browse for the suspicious file and upload. It is recommended that you sign up for a free account with ThreatExpert before you submit any files with the submission applet so you can easily access your own reports online.
This submission tool is only 931 KB in size and doesn’t require installation. Can run on Windows Vista 32/64-bit, XP and 2000. I wish that they could improve this tool and make it even easier for us to upload files to ThreatExpert by adding a function in right click context menu (Right click > Send To > ThreatExpert).
[ Download ThreatExpert Submission Applet ]source:pcworld
How to Terminate Full Screen Game or Software Process when Hang
The only computer game that I play is Counter-Strike Source, commonly shortened to CS:S or simply CSS. My desktop computer is powerful enough to handle the game but once in a while when I am playing the game half way, the game would just hang, sound is looping and nothing happens when I move the mouse or type anything on the keyboard. Weirdly, only the Counter Strike game hangs but my computer is still working fine. I know that my computer didn’t hang because when I press either the Num Lock, Caps Lock, or Scroll Lock keys at my keyboard, the LED light for the following keys would turn on and off.
I’ve tried pressing Alt+Tab to switch between Windows, Alt+F4 to close the active program, Ctrl+Shift+Esc to launch Windows Task Manager, Ctrl+Alt+Del to launch Windows Security dialog box, but NOTHING worked! The only way is to hard reboot the computer by pressing the reset button at the computer case. Hard resetting a computer is never good because it can damage the hard drive and cause data corruption.
Now I’ve figured a way to automatically terminate the game by pressing a shortcut key when it hangs.
Actually it is pretty simple and doesn’t require any advance level of computer knowledge. First you need to know what is the process name used by the game. Let’s take Counter Strike Source as an example. You can check the process name for the game by right clicking the CSS shortcut and select Properties. Go to the Shortcut tab to view the Target. As you can see, CSS process is actually hl2.exe (
Now you need to create a batch file that will kill the hl2.exe process when you simultaneously hit a combination of shortcut keys. Open Notepad (Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad), and type the command line shown below.
taskkill /IM hl2.exe
You should replace the hl2.exe with the target of your game that you want to kill. Save the text file as killcss.bat or whatever you want to call it as long as the extension is .bat and not .txt. When you run the killcss.bat file, it should be able to close the game. Now we will assign a shortcut key to run the batch file.
Right click the killcss.bat file and select “Create Shortcut”. A new file named “Shortcut to killcss.bat” will appear. Right click at “Shortcut to killcss.bat” file and select Properties. Click at the Shortcut Key blank area and type any key of your choice. If you type the letter “L”, it will automatically assign Ctrl + Alt + L as the shortcut key to run the killcss.bat file.
One very more important rule is that the .bat file MUST be placed at desktop for the shortcut key to take effect.
When the game hangs in future, I just need to hit Ctrl + Alt + L key to kill the game so I can restart the game without hard resetting my computer.
