Ramblings by Anurag Arora

Downloading videos from Facebook

Anurag — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:29:52 +0000

With this trick, that I am going to tell you here , you can download videos of any of your friends.
Best of all you can do it without any plugin or software. We are going to fetch it directly from the code.

Follow the simple steps below to know how :

1.) Go to the profile of any of you friend.

2.) Click on ‘ view videos of .

3.) From the list of videos, click on the video you want to download.

4.) when the video opens, view the source of the page (Ctrl + U on Firefox) . By source i mean source code of the page.

5.) press Ctrl + F , search for .mp4 , yes Facebook saves its videos in .mp4 format by the way.

6.) Copy the url from http to .mp4, it would look something like this :
http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fcfs-ak-ash2%**********************_****.mp4

7.) Paste the url in a new tab of your browser.

8.) Now replace %3A with :
& %2F with /

9.) You have the link to the video , just press enter to download.

Note:

I take no responsibility for content of other owners that you may find, access, download and/or upload. Any such material may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries.The terms of use that are posted by the respective owners of those materials, govern your use of that material.You are responsible for complying with all laws and regulations applicable to the material that are made available or download.

You explicitly acknowledge that downloading some files may require authorization and may be subject to restrictions.

It is your responsibility to determine what restrictions apply, to comply with all applicable restrictions and to obtain all necessary authorizations.

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Anurag — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:16:03 +0000

This section is dedicated to people who see no boundaries and love problems.

To start with this section i would like you people to check out this awesome article by
Eric Steven Raymond.

You can also read the most famous ‘HACKER-E-ZINE’ phrack OR/AND
take a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them.

Now Lay down your ass somewhere and start reading. .. . as there is no substitute of Hard work.

Craziest way to boost your mobile broadband signal

Anurag — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:21:37 +0000

I was stumbling the world wide web when i found this very useful and crazy way to boost the mobile broadband signal of you network adaptor at http://mobilebroadbandblog.co.uk

This is easiest way to boost the signal (you can check out the increased signal strength in the video below) with some simple kitchen equipment.
Check it out :

Sixth Sense Reinvented

Anurag — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:52:54 +0000

LONG BEACH, California — Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.

Pranav Mistry , the genious behind the invention says ” ‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.” The research is aimed a new digital sixth sense for humans.
The prototype was built from an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, with an attached mirror — all connected to an internet-enabled mobile phone. The setup, which costs less than $350, allows the user to project information from the phone onto any surface — walls, the body of another person or even your hand.

Pranav Mistry the brain behind the project trying the demonstrate the working of the innovation.

Mistry wore the device around his neck, and colored Magic Marker caps on four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) helped the camera distinguish the four fingers and recognize his hand gestures with software that Mistry created.These gestures can be used to click a pic which is then saved in his mobile and then be projected on any surface and can be scaled just as done on any multi touch phone.
The device can be used to extract any type of info from the web , like knowing the rating of your favourite book, or knowing the review of an upcoming movie just by giving the camera a look of it .
Imaging talking to a stranger and information about him like his blogs, his pics from all over the web and other info making a word cloud on him. He won’t be a stranger anymore.

When Mistry folds his hands in “namaste” fashion, the system opens a menu to allow him to choose an application. If he wants to read e-mail on his phone, he draws an @ symbol in the air with his finger. He can project a phone pad onto his palm and dial a number without removing the phone from his pocket. As he reads the newspaper on the subway he can project a video onto the page that provides more information about the topic he’s reading.
Imaging yourself in a supermarket picking up a packet of macaroni,the ring would glow red or green to tell you if the product is Vegetarian or non veg — whatever criteria you program into the system.

The MIT group, which includes seven graduate students, were thinking about how a person could be more integrated into the world around them and access information without having to do something like take out a phone. The group is working from 4-months,day and night for making this dream a reality!

MOREOVER THEY WOULD RELEASE THE SOFTWARE CODE AS OPEN SOURCE TO FURTHER EXPAND ITS GROWTH AND REACH !!

The future like minority report seems near … waiting for it !

Check your usage offline Trick

Anurag — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:30:22 +0000

With high speed broadband, 10gb is too small a task to finish off…
so one must keep track of their usage …

Here is a nifty little trick that would help you manage your monthly usage.

Basically,the downloads and uploads are logged in file \Reliance Netconnect\userdata\NetInfo.dat
It can be opened in notepad to view the log.

It can also be viewd via a NetInfoUIExPlugin which is disbaled. It can be enabled by changing
Reliance Netconnect\config\PluginsConfig.xml

Uncomment line 57
i.e. Change line from ‘’

‘’
Quit application and restart. The application will have a new tab now that will show all records.