5 Awesome Tips For Freelance Programmers

A freelance programmer can enjoy a nice career. Not only that, he or she can avoid working at a large corporation where they will have to deal with company politics and an eventual ceiling. Of course, it is not all fun and games as a well-trained and hardworking programmer should follow some basic tips if he or she wants to enjoy success in this arena. With that in mind, here are eight tips for freelance programmers.

1. Constant communication:

When taking on a project, one should communicate with the business as often as possible. This means, when speaking to the client, one should mention any road blocks or any accomplishments. With an open door policy, the programmer will have an easier time keeping clients happy and informed.

2. Educating:

While most software developers possess a lot of skills and brains, it is wise to attend more computer classes. By continuing the education, a hardworking programmer can learn more and avoid getting left behind by the competition. In fact, this is extremely important as this field is ever-evolving and new coding ideas and techniques come up all the time.

3. Do not sell yourself short:

All-too-often, an independent contractor or business owner will ask for a low wage. When doing this, one will hurt their long-term chances for success. While it is not wise to ask for top dollar, it is beneficial to demand a livable wage. Believe it or not, when dealing with a confident programmer, a company is likely to give in to the financial demands.

4. Home office:

 

Whether a person works from home or at the office all the time, they should still have a home office. With this, a programmer can complete tasks without interruption from spouses, children or animals. Without a doubt, this is extremely important as a serious programmer will need to concentrate on the task at hand.

5. Have website and online presence:

Now, more than ever, a company owner or contractor should have a website and online presence. With this, a reliable software developer can reach millions of potential clients. At the same time, while making a website, one should keep it simple, straightforward and easy to understand. With this, a programmer can showcase his or her talent for the world to see.

How To View Facebook Private Profile Photo In Large Size ?

Sometime you want to see clear image of someone on facebook who might not be your friend but his/her privacy setting stop you from doing this. In this tutorial i will teach you to view facebook private  or locked profile picture in large size with very simple trick.

How To View Facebook Locked Profile Picture ?

1. Open the facebook profile of person whose profile picture is locked or is set to private.
2. Right click on the profile picture and click on Copy Image Url as shown in image below.

3. Open that image in new tab by  right clicking and selecting Paste (CTRL + V)
4. Now change the value of image size highlighted below which might be s160x160 to s720x720 (If its not clear try (s320x320)

5. The image will enlarge in size. This trick does not always work.

Fraudsters Shall Not Pass - Simple Advices On How To Avoid Scammers In Social Networks

Social networks are always great for communicative people; they make you closer to your friends, relatives and hackers. Social networks are very attractive for such kind of people. You can ask me: “Why do they need that?” All they need is your account. The fraud schemes may be different. But the main aim of them is money. They can ask your relatives for help, especially when you’re far away. Why shouldn’t they believe their own child, when he needs money?

Fraudsters do not disdain playing on the heartstrings. They can write everything, that there’s an accident, you’re in a hospital, etc. So today we’ll study to confront fraudsters and keep our nerves and money safe.

Consequences

The most people don’t think about possible risks when creating their profile on social networks. The more personal and professional information you give, the easier it is for fraudsters to rob you. Let us discuss the easiest scheme. Some criminals are simply searching for people living in the same city to plunder their houses. Why does it happen? Different people are writing perfect information, like “We’re going to visit California next weekends. Hoping it’ll be great” Of course it will be great. For the robber, because now he knows that the house will be empty during weekends and it’s the perfect opportunity for him.

The second thing is the photos. When you’re downloading images and photos on social networks not only your friends like them. It’s also the perfect resource for burglars. From home-made photos, they can receive information about your welfare and house structure. When you have a dog, the robber will be prepared, because everyone has photos with their home pets. That’s why we earnestly advise you not to put in the Internet photos of your house, and some things that can attract robbers, for instance your new car or a brilliant ring.

Advice

The next our advice – create a complicated password. We’ve just discussed what fraudsters can do with the access to your account, so try to protect yourself, your friends, and relatives as good as you can. Don’t make a password consisting of just your birth date. Remember, that it’s the first combination fraudsters try. Also, don’t put your birth date as the answer to the test question if it’s mail. 

 

Let us imagine that you have a complicated password, you don’t download the “rob-attractive” photos and one day you receive the link from your friend where he asks you to vote for him. Stop now. This can be a trap. If you’ll link, the fraudsters receive your personal data, such as login and password. Such scheme is called “fishing”. So, in this case, ask your friend something personal. The other variant is just to make him a call and ask about this. If you’ll receive the answer like “What are you talking about?” you should explain him that he was hacked and offer to change the password.

 

Phones are really helpful things. Explain to your friends and relatives that you can be hacked and if they receive messages with money requests, they must call you at first and ask about that. Remember that your security is in your hands and be careful.

 

How To Run WhatsApp On Your Desktop Computer?

WhatsApp is a really cool messaging app that lets you send messages and chat with your buddies absolutely free of charge! It is the most popular messaging app for Android and iOS smartphones, and rightly so! It connects people from around the world. But the problem is, it's only made for smartphones. You can't use it well on older/feature phones. And even if you do own a smartphone, it drains away your precious battery time, since it needs internet connectivity to do its thing. Well if you're like me and don't want to let battery timing get in the way, there's a solution! You can install and use the app right from your desktop computer!

What is WhatsApp?

WhatsApp is a free messenger designed to be used on smartphones. It works over the internet and allows you to talk to any person living anywhere on planet Earth provided that you know their cellphone number. The app is designed for Nokia Symbian, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone devices and it’s completely free to use for the first year. Don’t let that last line bother you, since there are ways to get it for an unlimited time.

I did not mention PC or Mac in the supported platforms because this app is not officially available on them. But the title wasn’t misleading since we got it running on a PC and Mac.

What will I need?

The tools or rather software that you need is a simple Android emulator for PC/Mac. The one we’ll be using is the well-known Bluestacks App Player you can download from the link provided below.

• Download Bluestacks App Player!

And yes, WhatsApp will need your cell-number so you better make sure you have one.

Your system must have a 1GB+ RAM for running the emulator. Good graphics card and processor will obviously result in better rendering but a simple one would also do. Mac OS X or PC with XP SP3, Vista, 7 and 8 are supported.

 

Let’s Begin…

The steps shown below work for both PC and Mac. Just make sure you download the correct version of Bluestacks.

 

• First up, download and install Bluestacks app player. It’s a straight forward installation. However it might want to download extra stuff so your internet connection better be working
• Run the player from the desktop icon. You’ll get to a screen similar to the one shown below

 

• Click on the Search icon and enter WhatsApp
• Select WhatsApp Messenger from the list and proceed to the installation. It might also ask you for a Google account, just provide that right away. Since it is an Android emulator, you’ll be navigated to Google Play. Click Install and it’ll start the download.

 

 

 

• And that’s it! WhatsApp will ask you to enter a valid phone number. The verification will also work through that number so you better enter it correctly.
• Great! Now you can use WhatsApp the way you do it on a smartphone. You can customize your profile, contact all your friends regardless of which platform they are running the app on and also get live notifications of new messages from the emulator.

 

 

You can open up the app form the My Apps category in the main screen.

 

So why WhatsApp?

There are several other such messenger services available on the same platforms. You have Viber, Wechat, Kik and whatnot. Firstly, WhatsApp is the most popular app of the lot. Secondly, WhatsApp has got everything - you can communicate text, images or even high quality videos with friends. Plus, it’s simple and easy to use. And if your one-year free license expires, you can always reinstall the app to get it back.
WhatsApp is not officially released for PC/Mac but there are ways like the one mentioned above that make that happen. The methodology is simple but works quite well. WhatsApp is also the best of its kind which makes it a must-have. Just in case you were wondering throughout this tutorial, YES you can run any android app/game on the software mentioned. Guess your life just got better, much better!

Got any questions? Feel free to shoot 'em in the comments section below. Cheers :)

Top 3 Black Hat Hackers In The World

There are two types of hackers. First one are good hackers who are known as "white hat" hackers and another one which we will be talking about today are called "black hat" hackers. In this article, we will be talking about six famous black hat hackers and their hacks which made them famous or wanted.

George Hotz

Young and talented and what is the most important bored teenager, George Hotz wanted to have fun one summer night and  as a result he hacked the Sony’s company Iphone. It happened in June of 2007, by that time George was 17. It was a bit of a challenge, because how to hack device with assistant things?  The secret is to figure out how “to speak to the device”.He also mentioned that what he did was completely legal.It seems people can be dangerous in certain way when they are bored. Who knows what may happen if crazy smart geek will find thy way of his ideas.

Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick is well-known as the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States. He was in high school when he started hacking. For several years he hacked dozens of companies.What interesting, for those “services” he was finally arrested in 1995 at his apartment for hacking. Kevin also has served 5 years in prison, nevertheless despite of his experience he runs his own security firm named Mitnick Security Consulting. The other side of the coin is, however Mitnick published a book that calls “Ghost in Wires”, which is about his upps-and-downs, victories and crushes. He shared that every hack was like a climbing to mountain and he reached the Everest. This is one more proof how talent have pined, because of a boredom.

Adrian Lamo

Adrian was called as the most effective and controversial hacker of the 21st century. That is very flattering status.He was famous for breaking into several high-profile computer networks. Lamo might use his gift to help people to consult, what is actually he did, but as exception and compromise.His baby steps in hacking, Adrian Lamo made pretty early and became known for the first time for operating AOL watchdog site.As many others, he was arrested in 2003 and had to correspond for each and every computer crime.Thus, even if Lamo now works as a threat analyst and public speaker, his glory will always follow him, because our past if the part of our “present”  and a part of who we are.

Hackbook Review - Beginner's Guide to Hacking with Tools

The Hack Book is awesome eBook for beginners who wants to dive into the field of hacking. It contains guides to hacking tools and scripts along with underground hacking websites with awesome stuff. I would recommend this book if you are newbie in the field of hacking. You must check out Free Sample of this eBook by Clicking Here. Check out complete article to know more about this book.

Topics Covered In The Hack Book

• Learn various Hacking Techniques.
• Learn To Secure Your Computer From Various Hacking Attacks
• Learn How to Tap Computers. (12+ Tools Included!)
• How to use Malware's (30+ Tools Included!) and also Protect yourself against it.
• Learn To Be Anonymous On The Internet
• Few ways of Hacking Facebook, Yahoo and Email Accounts. (Scripts Included!)
• Make Destructive Viruses. (2 Programs Included)
• Network Hacking
• Website Hacking.
• Access to the latest Hacking Tools and Underground Communities.

Features

Non Technical Writing - First off, the writing. The writing isn't technical at start for the readers convenience. But the usage of technical words is important later on in the eBook is something you will find. The upside is that, he explained EVERY single technical keyword at some point of time in the eBook.

Hacking Tools – The best part about the eBook is that the author gives you a handful of POWERFUL hacking tools to kick start your hacking adventures. And unlike the other websites on the web, we give tools such as these : Learn How to Hack | Hacking eBook 

Coding -  Though coding isn’t required for implementing the whole of this eBook.Also,he doesn't teach you the whole of coding in the book (which is near impossible for any writer). He stressed well on the importance of learning coding after reading this book to become a successful and professional Hacker. The more coding you learn, the better you get at it.

Very Descriptive – The book has many pictures. As you can see for yourself in the sample book, you will see that he has given a thorough explanation with pictures for EXTREMELY easy understanding.

I would say this is a MUST READ for any budding hacker.

 

DOWNLOAD HERE

Hacking Window 7 Password Using Ophcrack

In this tutorial i will teach you to hack Window 7 password using free open source software called ophcrack. This hack also works on Windows XP and Windows Vista. So let get started.

What Is Ophcrack ?

Opcrack is an open source windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It comes with Graphical user interface(GUI) and runs on multiple platform such windows, linux and mac.  It allows you to recover or hack windows password.

How To Crack Windows 7 Password Using Ophcrack ?

Before you start doing this you will need a blank CD or DVD to burn the live image of ophcrack.
  1. Download Opcrack Live Cd by Clicking Here.
  2. Download windows xp or windows 7 live cd depending on platform you are wishing to hack. For example:

• Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Click on ophcrack Vista/7 LiveCD.
• Windows XP: Click on ophcrack XP LiveCD.

  2. Now burn the live image on to the cd.
  3. Insert the disc into drive and restart you computer.
  4. If everything goes right you will see screen like below.

 

5. After you see screen like above wait for ophcrack to boot automatically or you may press Enter to advance.

6. Now you will see several lines of code printed on screen or they might disappear very quickly (you dont need to worry about that).

7. Then you will see screen like below it is ophcrack password recovering software. At the Ophcrack screen it shows the Administrator and Guest account. Notice the word “empty”. This means that if the account is enabled you could log in without a password. 

8. Ophcrack WILL NOT CRACK THE PASSWORD because the hash table which it needs is not available for free. But it does show the NTLM hash.
  9. Copy this hash value which is under NT Hash field.
 10. Navigate to http://crackstation.net which is an online hash cracking tool.
 11. Type in the hash value you copied down in Step 9, Enter the captche and click on Crack Hashes.

New Awesome Youtube Missile Game Trick

Today i will share an amazing trick that i came across we will call it youtube missile trick. Since google is celebrating geek week it introduced this trick.

How To Do ?

1. Open youtube and click on any video you would like to play
   2. Pause the videol
   3. Now type 1980 and see the magic

Once you start this game missile will start coming from the top. The job of missile is to destroy the video. You can protect the video by firing back using your mouse.