Tips/Tricks
My laptop display is turned to the right, to the left, up or down… Quick Fix
Dec 24th
If you or a little one flipped your laptop display chances are you are freaking out. Stop… Don’t worry you can flip it right back to where it is supposed to be with the following hot keys:
- Ctrl-Alt-Up – right side up
- Ctrl-Alt-Right – 90 degrees
- Ctrl-Alt-Down – 180 degrees
- Ctrl-Alt-Left – 270 degrees (If that doesn’t work try Ctrl-Shift-R)
Four Applications That Will Get You More Youtube Views
Dec 1st
Image via CrunchBase
A while back I mentioned some applications and or plugins I found that will help boost the views you have on a particular Youtube video on Bauer-Power. These methods might be considered by some as shady. I say, if by shady you mean helpful, then yes… Very shady!
All of these tools are fully automated. You can simply set them, and forget them to earn credits which in turn you can trade in for more views. With some of them, not only can you get more views, but you can also get comments, likes, favorites and subscribers! Basically everything you need to be the next Justin Bieber.
Here’s my list:
- Vagex – Terrible name I know. Sounds like something your girlfriend might use when she’s feeling not so fresh. Trust me though, it’s the best one out there. Not only can you get more views, but you can specify key words that you want to rank for in Youtube’s search. Plus you can get likes, favs, comments and subs as well.
- U2BViews – This is number two on my list. This is available as a desktop application as well as a Firefox extension. They are getting ready to add likes, favs and subs, but they do not have it yet. I’ve also chatted with the developer and talked them into adding Google Plus One’s as well.
- Viewet – This one is pretty much just like U2BViews, except it’s really only good for more views in my opinion. The thing I like about it is you can manage your credits easier. You can withdraw from one video to deposit on another video.
- Enhanceviews – This one runs as a browser plugin only. This one is great for comments and likes. You can even submit your Youtube account to them to use as they see fit, and earn credits that way. The only thing I don’t like about it though is their credit to view ratio. The ones above are all one to one, but Enhanceviews is something like 38 to one. Still, you can rack up credits pretty fast.
So why would you want to use this I hear you mumbling to yourself, all creepy like. This can best be answered from the Viewet page:
YouTube video views benefit your videos in many different ways. Viewet [and the other tools] increase your video’s ranking for your keywords and tags, increases the chances of your video being featured on a Google search for the keywords on your video, and also can get you video honors and even featured on the YouTube homepage.
If you can make it to the front page of Youtube, you are two clicks away from Bieberdom! Woot!
The best thing about these tools is they are 100% free to use. They all have paid features, but the free versions are robust enough that you don’t need to use them. I find it’s best to set these up on a computer in the corner over the weekend with the sound off, and walk away. The next time you have a video of you cats doing something super cute, use your new secret weapons to push them to the front page.
Got questions about these? Know of any other similar tools? Let’s chat in the comments!
-=El Di Pablo=-
How To Spoof Email in Linux, iPhone and Android
Nov 23rd
Greetings fellow Admins! It’s me, El Di Pablo from Bauer-Power and Tech Chop taking the reigns here at AskTheAdmin for a little while. I was chatting with Karl, and apparently he is working 70 hour work weeks lately, and hasn’t had time to keep up with the posts here. Me being the nice virtual online friend that I am, I volunteered to write up some posts for a week or two to give you guys some original content.
Now, today isn’t going to be one of those days though. Today, I am going to post my latest video from my monthly video show Tech Chop. In this episode I show you three ways you can send spoof emails using your iPhone, Android, and also from Linux. Spoiler alert! Sending spoofs from your iPhone or Android phone is way easier than Linux. However, since you are using the terminal to do it in Linux, that automatically boosts your geek cred by +5 and in turn makes you look cooler.
Here’s the video:
Links for the apps and commands used can be found here: (Spoofing Email For Dummies)
Sending out these spoofs is actually a pretty funny prank you can play on someone. In the video I mentioned sending one to the desktop tech that works for me, and he almost had a heart attack. He says he is saving it for blackmail purposes now, so maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. Anyway, still funny if you ask me.
If you want to check out more videos from Tech Chop, visit TechChop.com. If you want to watch the videos on your TV using a set-top box like Boxee, or Roku, you can catch Tech Chop on the Tech Podcast Network!
Know of other tools that will allow you to send spoofs? Are they easier to use? Let us know about them in the comments!
Cant open the task manager on your Windows machine? I can help!
Jul 9th
I was dealing with some nasty infections over the last few days and the malware authors are getting better and sneakier on a daily basis. I was unable to reverse their shenanigans that blocked me from using task manager to kill the bad tasks. I was working crippled from the command line using taskkill /IM but once I found this little application that gave me back my task manager I was back in business.
It is called RRT and can be downloaded from here. Once you run it you will see a screen that looks like this:
Simply check Task Manager and hit Remove. That’s it! Happy Hunting Guys!
Use OfficeTab to give Office applications Firefox like tabs.
Jul 8th
I got a hot tip today on a piece of Chinese software that will make my life MUCH easier. Have you heard of OfficeTab?
OfficeTab gives your office applications tabs like Firefox introduced to the web way back when. (If you haven’t checked out Firefox 4 yet check out this post on where to find it as a portable application.)
Well if you are not into finding the latest and greatest software you probably never heard of it. But I am hear to show you what it is, how it works and how to grab it. Interested?
Good, I thought that would spark some interest!
Feel free to download OfficeTab from this link here http://hi.baidu.com/officecm/
BUT WAIT – the catch is that the site is NOT in English.
So you do not have to go through what I went through trying to figure out how to download this bad boy the direct download link lives here:http://files.cnblogs.com/wangminbai/OfficeTabv1.20.zip.
Which incidentally if you scroll down to the bottom of the product page it is the only link there. So no need for Google Translations today. The actual application IS multilingual so there are no issues there. Let’s take a look at how it works.
After downloading the application you have to install it. You will see a screen that looks like this after the initial next…
Simply check the Microsoft Office Applications you want OfficeTab to work with. I left the only three that showed up checked. I guess you wouldn’t have a real need for it in Access or Outlook… (or would you??)
Finish your install and then check out the settings:
These are the Excel settings which start with the check box to enable the Tabs inside Excel. I left the rest of the settings alone until I really get into using the application.
Recover your lost Windows 7, XP, Vista or 2000 Passwords.
Jul 7th
I orginally wrote about this way back when in 2006 when AskTheAdmin was just born. Now here I am 4 years later writing about the same tool! This is not just any tool though this is the Offline NT Password Recovery Boot CD. By downloading this ISO and burning it to a cd – you can then boot to this CD and change or blank out passwords by loading the SAM database offline hence the name offline password recovery.
It is as simple as booting to the CD, choosing the account and doing the deed. You write your changes back to the drive and reboot.
When you are back at the Windows login screen you will now be able to use the password you enetered or a blank password (just hit enter)
Here are the links to download the image:
- cd100627.zip (~4MB) – Bootable CD image. (md5sum: 6d80cdfbba97457e413f95a3554d9524 cd100627.zip)
- cd080802.zip (~3MB) – Previous version CD image. (md5sum: 33ecd38263f935b82e7b2e3e9f5de563)
and there is even a Floppy Disk release that is no longer updated:
Floppy release (not updated anymore), see below on how to use them
- bd080526.zip (~1.4M) – Bootdisk image (md5sum: 37889e4c540504e59132bdcdfe7f9bb7)
- drivers1-080526.zip (~310K) – Disk drivers (mostly PATA/SATA) (md5sum: 72ac1731c6ba735d0ac2746a30dbc3ee)
- drivers2-080526.zip (~1.2M) – Disk drivers (mostly SCSI) (md5sum: 30172bec657c85a5f1a0b43601452fb7)
This CD has saved my ass a number of times! Do you have another method of recovering lost passwords? We would love to hear about them in the comments! You can also check out their website for FAQ’s and other helpful hints here.
Have you seen this post on opening a command prompt during a windows install? Using this you can start a recovery install jump to a command prompt and run:
control userpasswords2
and bingo bango you can change your passwords!
