How To Watch Age Restricted Youtube Videos

Hey, there. How many of you went to Youtube and saw this

I know, it is very annoying. You know, I just wanna watch one video and don't want the hassle of logging in every time something like this pops up.

So, the question is HOW DO YOU REMOVE THIS?

It's basically simple, all you have to do is:

• Look at the address bar, it is something like

youtube.com/watch?v=something_here

• Change that to

youtube.com/v/something_here

And now you can watch, most restricted videos. If this does not work for you or I have made some mistake, then please comment.

NOTE: To pull this off, I used Mozilla Firefox and it worked.

As always thanks for reading and please comment. 

Wget How-To

Well, most Windows users know and use apps like download managers. There are some of these apps for linux as well. But, most of the time (I being at the terminal) use a small utility known as wget.

It comes with most linux systems pre-installed. Yeah, it's a command line download manager.

NOTE: For the website (websitenamehere), I have typed everything including the "http://" and it works.


Mirror an entire website

To do that type:

wget -m websitenamehere

 
and that will basically mirror or make a copy of the website on your system with the same name.
You could also do:

wget -H -r --level=1 -k -p websitenamehere

What this baby does is:

• -r tells to download pages recursively
• --level=1 tells wget to download other websites that link to it but just upto one level. Simply, let's say website A links to your website and website B links to website A. Then, this command says download website A but not B
• -H is for spanning hosts
• -k for converting the links so that both websites point to each other on the hard drive and not to the real thing
• -p tells to download all materials to properly display the page (like images, animations, you get the idea)

Resume downloads

Well, if you are on flaky connection, and the download keeps breaking off, then

wget -c fullfilenamehere

fullfilenamehere means the entire address to that file




Specify output document

At times the link don't precisely tell the document name or it could be lengthy, then you could use

wget --output-document=filename

NOTE: filename has to be the full filename with extensions




Download music automatically

First create a file with the list of your mp3 music sources (URLs) but mention them one per line, then

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i filename.txt

Bulk downloads

Make a file with the list of URLs of the stuff that you want to download, then

wget -i filename.txt

Generate a log for checking broken links

For this, simply type

wget --spider -o wget.log -e robots=off --wait 1 -r -p websitenamehere

There are many more uses for this versatile tool. If I have not mentioned your trick or there is some mistake in mine, then please comment.

As always thanks for reading and please comment.

No Sound in Linux

This is the most common problem, I have come across. Basically it boils down to this. No matter what I do, I cannot get the sound to work.

So, in this scenario, here's what to do:

• Install pavucontrol (I am not gonna tell you how! Linux has many flavors and each one can use multiple methods)
• Start pavucontrol (Basically done through terminal)
• Check the sliders and increase them to the level you want but keep them below 90%.

 
I know most of you will say, been there done that. But wait, there is more.
Here are couple of links, if the above mentioned does not work:

• Linux Journal Trouble Shooting Audio Part 1 
• Troubleshooters Troubleshooting Linux Sound
• Ubuntu Forums Comprehensive Sound Problems Solutions

I hope this helps.

As Always thanks for reading and please comment.

Add user to sudoers file

This concerns Linux users. Well, you guys installed this savvy flavor, you opened up the terminal to update so you typed the usual sudo command. But, got something on the lines

User is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported

Let's face it, most of the system functions can be accessed with sudo. So, you need to add the user to this monstrosity. Now, you just need to:

• Change to root (Don't ask me how! This how-to covers something else)
• Type vim /etc/sudoers and press Enter. Here instead of vim you could use anything you want like gedit, nano, and the rest.
• Under User Privilege Specification section add the line

Yourusername ALL = (ALL) ALL

• Press Esc (Escape key)
• Type :wq and press Enter. (Well basically, this is saving the file, so if you have used anything other than vim, you know which steps to follow to save the file.)
• Restart the system

And that's that. After this try sudo again and I am pretty sure, this time around you not get that nagging message.

This is one of the methods to add your username. If your preferred method is not here, then please comment.

As Always thanks for reading and please comment.

How to set a video as a desktop wallpaper on Windows XP

Everyone has a wallpaper, even the dweeb who aces the exams. I have tried find most of the coolest wallpapers on the net. Someone finds even better than I did and all goes to waste.Then, a friend of mine asked me if you can put a video of a movie or a clip as a wallpaper.

This idea was awesome. Nobody knew about it (If they had, I would have seen it) and so nobody tried. I searched and finally found it (No, it's not a software, it's a trick). So for all you guys, here it is:

• Before you go ahead, you need to have VLC. you can get it here.
• Start VLC
• Click on Tools and then choose Preferences.
• On the Preferences Window, select Video (It's on the left)
• In Video Settings, for Output choose DirectX video output instead of Default/Automatic
  
  


• Click Save and restart VLC
• Start any movie or clip
• Right click on the screen, under Video choose DirectX Wallpaper/Set As Wallpaper. or Choose Video from the top menu and then choose DirectX Wallpaper/Set As Wallpaper.

If you are using Window's Aero theme, you will get a warning

• Minimize VLC (Yep! Don't close it) and voila!

If you want to get your wallpaper back, then

• Resize VLC
• Choose Video from top menu and select DirectX Wallpaper.
• Now sometimes it will not work, so just get a new wallpaper (Sorry, this post is about setting a video as a wallpaper, I am not gonna tell you about setting you wallpaper)

Now there might be other methods that I have not mentioned. Please feel free to share.

That's that and enjoy as well as impress other people.

Thanks for reading and as always please comment.

Free Windows 7 Keys

Hey, there. You have Windows 7 installed right. Now, tell me is this the original deal or did you find a crack or a serial key or used RemoveWAT utility. Now, come on tell me.

Okay, you got where I am going with this. But did you know that when you downloaded the ISO for Windows 7, you already had the key (Seriously I mean it). I am gonna show you where it is:

• Extract the ISO using any tool you like
• Go to Sources Folder and open it
• Search for a configuration file named PRODUCT or a file named PRODUCT.ini
  
  


• Open it in notepad and scroll down.
• You will get all the keys for different Windows.

I haven't used any of these keys. If you do, let us know if it works.

As always thanks for reading and please comment.

How to make a file of the size you choose?

Hey, I have thought several times How do I make a file with size 15 GB or more. Being a technical person, the solution to the problem was either it should be a massive program or a BRRip movie. What if I want to make a file and when I make that file it lets me choose it's size. Now that idea was awesome. I read a lot and finally came to following method:

• Choose the file size you want.
• Start Windows Calculator. Now, it should look like this

Now click on View and choose Scientific (in Windows XP) and Programmer (in Windows 7/Vista).

Type in your number and then select Hex (it's on the left side along with Dec, Oct and Bin)

• Check if your converted number has 8 digits (like F457 has 4 digits) then pad with zeroes on the left (Then my number becomes 0000F457).
• Start command prompt.

          For Windows XP, click Start and then click Run. Type cmd and press Enter.
          For Windows Vista and 7, Click Start and then in Start Search Box type cmd and press Enter.

• Enter the command debug filename.dat and press Enter. Ignore the file not found message.
• Type RCX and press Enter.
• Enter the last four hexadecimal digits and press Enter.
• Type RBX and press Enter.
• Enter the first four digits of the hex number and press Enter.
• Enter W and press Enter.
• Enter Q and press Enter.

There you have it, a file with the size you told the computer to be. And as for what the file contains or is made up of. The answer is pretty simple: JUNK .

Update: The file size in step 1 has to be in bytes.

How to see blocked sites

Well, you are working at your office and want to see some site but can't because your ISP is blocking it or your firewall won't allow it. No matter what the cause be, there are a couple of ways of getting what you want:

• Use IP instead of URL

          Some times, the blocking software uses names instead of IP numbers, so doing so you maybe able to  bypass the censorship.  So, instead of typing http://www.facebook.com, you could type something like http://123.234.345 (Note: The IP address here is for example and is not the correct one).

• Use short URL service

          There are services available on the internet like MooURL or SnipURL that shorten the URL. It might work.

• Proxy

         There are several proxy websites available that might get you there. You can get a list here and here. There are others but I won't mention them here.

• Translate Sites

          You can search your websites using Google or any other search engine but in different language. You can something like instead of typing your common URL of www.google.com, type www.google.fr or something like that.

• Tor Browser bundle

          This is a free software available at here . One thing before you go all out, when you use this software, each time you open Google, it would be in a different language and each website may take sometime to load.

• HTTPS instead of HTTP

         Just change the HTTP to HTTPS and just maybe you could access it.

• VPN software

          There are paid and unpaid services available like OpenVPN, among others.

• Setup proxy in your browser

           There are always some way for setting up proxy in your browser. Since this is just a list, I can't tell how to do so for each browser. 

• Registry Hack

         Just open up notepad and copy-paste the following:

regsvr32 SOFTPUB.DLL
regsvr32 WINTRUST.DLL
regsvr32 INITPKI.DLL
regsvr32 dssenh.dll
regsvr32 Rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 sccbase.dll
regsvr32 slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 Cryptdlg.dll

         Change file type to All Files and save it as something like internetsecure.bat.
         Then, just double click on it.

I know, this list may not be complete. If you find a method that works for you, please let us know. If you still can't access your website, then still comment, perhaps we can work something out.