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Daily Tip 7:How To: Remove / Strip DRM off iTunes Music Tutorial

The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do.  Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct).  This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything!  It’s that simple.  Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone.  TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it.  TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).

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Utilizing Social Engineering to View Private Facebook / Myspace Profiles

Update 11/10/08:

Try this new method if the user is on Myspace profile 2.0

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/10/myspace-20-loophole/

This [laatedaa?] guide is meant to show people the steps on viewing someone else’s Facbook or Myspace profile without the need of any confusing and messy codes that may in the future be patched.  The technique used below is the oldest form of obtaining information.  It’s called social engineering.  I’ll take social engineering to the next step by applying it to be able to view private Facebook or Myspace profiles.  This method is highly effective and will 90% of the time work.

The following steps are intended for educational purposes only.

Although this may be considered time-consuming, you will definetly have all the information / pictures you want from the target person.

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Daily Tip 4:How to Bypass Brother Printer Low Toner Message

This is a guide on how to bypass Brother’s printers low toner message that blocks people from printing.  Brother has a sensor in the cartridge that communicates with the printer itself to warn when the toner is low or when it is empty.  The toner is low message showed for me for at least 6 months before dieing two weeks ago.  I was fustrated because the last page I printed out, the ink was just fine.  I went ahead and searched the internet for a way to bypass this toner out message.  Here are my findings.

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Daily Tip 3:Browse Firefox with Higher Fidelity / Quality

I bet many of you don’t know this but Firefox lowers quality of images shown on a webpage to allow quicker surfing.  To toggle this setting to make pictures “pop” with higher colors, just follow this trick.  This is very helpful in viewing perfect color pictures on Flickr or if you are a hardcore color profile fanatic and you want to get the most out of your colors.

Basically, this tip enables color management profiles so if you do not have any color management profiles enabled on your computer / monitor, don’t do the following or else your pictures may look even worse.

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How to: Play DVDs on your Wii!

These great guys at hackmii just released a lib for playing DVDs on the Wii!  Before, we were told from Nintendo that it was hardwarely impossible.  They are wrong and it is doable through software.  Why don’t they release a channel in the WiiShop menu for like $5 to allow DVD playback?  Who knows.  Read more here,

http://hackmii.com/2008/08/libdi-and-the-dvdx-installer/

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Easy Way to get Your OWN Myspace Token + Extra Code

Update 11/01/08

New code to allow to view pictures in Myspace profiles.

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/01/view-private-myspace-pictures/

Update 9/10/08:

Another guide on how to view private myspace / facebook profiles. This time, no codes needed!

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/09/10/utilizing-social-engineering-to-view-private-facebook-myspace-profiles/

Myspace Tokens are needed for viewing other peoples albums. Since Myspace fixed a loophole recently, taking out the old way of getting your token, you can get it now!  Click read more to find out…

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View Private Myspace Comments - Somewhat

Updated 11/10/08

Try this new method if the user is on Myspace profile 2.0

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/10/myspace-20-loophole/

Updated 11/01/08

New code to allow to view pictures in Myspace profiles.

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/01/view-private-myspace-pictures/

Update 9/10/08:

Another guide on how to view private myspace / facebook profiles. This time, no codes needed!

http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/09/10/utilizing-social-engineering-to-view-private-facebook-myspace-profiles/

There is a new code under the hood of the mobile version of Myspace.

Following these steps are critical to sucessfully complete this code.  I found that this code only lets you view certain comments and not all, but enough to be worthwhile.

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How To: Remove DRM from Windows Media .WMA / .WMV using FreeMe2

What is Freeme2?

FreeMe2 is free open-source software available for people to strip down DRM protection for .WMA, .WMV, and any other Windows Media file. Unfortunately, you cannot strip down iTunes DRM’ed MP3s using this program.  DRM is digital protection that only allows you to play that music file or video file on the computer or the specified device.  It also can strip DRM video and audio streams too.  Moving it to another device will enable the DRM and not allow you to playback the files.

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FLAC - A free lossless codec alternative to MP3s

These days, you can find music in many different formats. They come in many different flavors that sometimes, it may seem too confusing. Most MP3 players will play MP3 formats of your tunes.

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Search MP3’s on Google

This is a google search query method that allows you to search MP3’s on servers.  Just type in an artist in the quotes and hit search.  Make sure you stay away from those fishy sites and only on the index’s.

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “Vanilla Ice”

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