Lock Your Computer With USB Flash Drive

Securities of laptops and notebooks have been evolving with new technologies like fingerprint readers, eye scanners, face recognition etc but what about the personal computers?

Using this trick you will be able to lock your computer with an USB. The computer will work only when the USB is plugged in. Once the USB is removed keyboard and mouse will automatically get disabled and your screen will get dark. Moreover your computer will get automatically locked. To unlock the computer you will need to insert the USB again.

This trick will work on all versions of windows including both windows 32 bit and 64 bit. 

You Should Need:
1. USB Flash Drive
2. 'Predator' Software [Download free from bellow]

Let’s see, How to lock a Computer with USB Using Predator ! 

1. Download ‘Predator’ software from Here. [it’s free] 

2. Extract the zip folder and run application file to install the program on your computer. 

3. Predator will get launched automatically after completing installation. If not, you can run it from Start/Programs/Predator. 

4. Now insert your USB flash Drive. You will get a message to define your new password. [This process will not format your pendrive and your pendrive data will not be affected by this at all] 

5. Click on Ok and Enter your new password in next dialog box. 

6. Check that the drive letter displayed under “USB key drive” actually matches your flash drive or choose the correct letter from the dropdown list. 

7. And Finally click on Create Key button and then on OK button. 

Restart the program by clicking the icon on desktop, Predator will take few seconds for initialization. Once the icon in the taskbar turns green then your software has initialized itself. 

Note: Never install PREDATOR on removable media.

SOURCE

http://topone2u.blogspot.in

Turn Firefox to Always Auto Save Password Without Showing Notification Bar

1. Close Firefox
2. Edit nsLoginManagerPrompter.js with notepad which is normally located in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\
3. Replace the entire lines 642 to 711 with the code below:

   var pwmgr = this._pwmgr;
   pwmgr.addLogin(aLogin);
   

Now whenever you login to any website, Firefox will auto save the site, username and password to the login manager WITHOUT showing the notification bar.

Note: even when you enter the wrong username or password, it will still be saved.

Source

http://www.superuser.com

Windows-8 OS Will Ban Firefox and Chrome Browsers

                                                                            A new version of the Windows 8 operating system could shut out browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, according to Mozilla. Microsoft has been saying all along that x86 apps wouldn't run on Windows on ARM and it explicitly said there would be no third-party code on Windows RT when it announced the details of the platform back in February.

 

                                                                            That's no plugins for IE on the Windows RT desktop as well as no desktop Firefox and Chrome. According to Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, Microsoft is planning to allow only one fully-functioning browser on Windows RT: Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. Writing on the Mozilla blog, Harvey Anderson, general counsel for the company, lashed out at Microsoft for the slight, and called the alleged move "an unwelcome return to the digital dark ages where users and developers didn't have browser choices."

Why is Mozilla focused on Microsoft? Anderson's answer: Microsoft is a different beast. "The difference here is that Microsoft is using its Windows monopoly power in the OS market to exclude competition in the browser market," Anderson said, possibly referring to Microsoft's dominance of the entire operating system space, not only mobile.

The fully featured version of Firefox will be allowed to run on Intel-based Windows 8 tablets. It's only Windows RT where there will be a problem. Microsoft also declined to comment on Mozilla's accusations.

SOURCE

The Hacker News