Digital Insights: Computer Tips & Tricks

If you want to save swf files from the webpage the simplest solution might be just to select File->Save page as… and choose desktop. If the webpage you’re trying to save has pictures, flash files and other material all of these will be saves in a separate folder next to that page’s html file. So after save operation open this folder and look for the wanted swf file inside.
If you find many swf files and don’t know which is which, then I would suggest installing Firefox extension called Firebug.
Install it and run inspection tool on the site you’re interested, locate sfw file name in the html code and search for this file in the saved folder location on your desktop.
This simple solution helped me to save swf file that I needed very quickly and without additional plugins which can slow down your computer.

Finding good freeware software can be tricky sometimes, because many shareware programs position themselves in search engines as “Free to download” and you can download only trial version of the program which has limited features.

Recently I had to download a couple entire websites for offline browsing (because they were shutting down) and was searching for a decent program that can download all website html and other type of files making original file structure. I searched in Google for a bit and found “SurfOffline Professional 2” which could download entire site in a simple wizard style process. However there is a price tag from $39.95 to $120. And it’s no use spending money on software that you will use once. Read the rest of this entry »

Today various sources reports of a massive hotmail login information leakage on the web. The number of exposed hotmail accounts rise from 20.000 to even 30.000.

How to know if your hotmail account is hacked? Well there’s no universal technique to know that, but keep in mind that the infamous list contains primarily if not all accounts beginning with letters a and b. So it seems only a part of this list leaked into public.

Accounts ararat973@hotmail.com and blando2713@hotmail.com where the first and last usernames in a list.

Having in mind that it was not a hack in Hotmail system but more likely some gathered login  information via phishing or other web 2.0 applications which ask to enter your email address and password in order to do something (e.g. check who has blocked you in msn messenger and so on).

Another good thing would be to change the password to be on the safe side and not loose your privacy. Also don’t forget to check in Google your full email with quotes: “your@email.com” as it may show the locations where your email name is exposed and one of them might be that list with hacked Hotmail accounts.

Here is a nice trick to bypass Youtube comment filter and insert links into comments. As you know, commenters are not allowed to post links on the comments because of possible spamming. Hovewer not every link is a spam and sometimes your link on Youtube comments could be appropriate. Read the rest of this entry »

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Finally there is a solid Youtube MP3 player available to play songs directly from Youtube. As you may know, Youtube is the largest song database in the world.

For example if you search for Beatles, you will get 137,938 results. Quite impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

At first I thought that Hotmail developers were so lazy and didn’t bother to change the description tag on their site but further SEO investigation revealed that in fact Google decided to demean Hotmail a bit. Here’s what you can see on the SERP for the keyword “hotmail”: Read the rest of this entry »

Good news to all players who wants to legally download PC games free. Sometimes companies decide to change licence from commercial to freeware. Usually this is done for old games that are no longer in marketplaces.

While searching for ways to join several mIRC servers at the same time I found the simple answer to that question. If you are using latest version of mIRC (currently 6.35) then simply execute mirc.exe second time and you can join second server and channel. There is non option to join another server from the same instance of mIRC client. Read the rest of this entry »

When you get the momentum and keep it steady you are going to be successful. That suits WordPress blogging platform for sure. As you can see from the picture below, WordPress is leaving its closest competitors Joomla and Drupal far behind (or below).

google trends

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Some websites demonstrate their statistics for everyone by putting visible web stat counter on the sidebar or footer while others prefer to hide such information and rather use Google analytics, php scripts or other analog tracking applications. Read the rest of this entry »