1. searching for music treasure - right in your mp3 player



    It might sound weird, but in fact, thats how I actually listen to my music sometimes. For a few times, I had accidentally reformatted or deleted music files in my mp3 player, and found myself panicking because I did not have any copy of the files anywhere, so I had to do data recovery on it. And to make things worst, prior to the data recovery, I copied some more music files onto it, making my effort to have a complete recovery futile. But i tried recovering it anyway, as I need to recover a long and important .wav recording from the player, and guess what, even though I've written fresh data on it, the recovery software still saw the 250mbytes REC023.wav file that I've lost, but it was listed in the lost chain and incomplete category, but I copied the whole raw data anyway. That's when the fun begins, I tried playing the .wav file, to my surprise, it did not play any recording at all, instead the whole .wav file contains all the mix of long lost mp3s which were still retaining in the flash memory, and since the files are all mp3, the recovery software actually copies the whole chain of lost mp3 together thinking that it is a one stream of .wav file. I always had the trance and house music in my mp3, and this process have somehow created a really random mix tape of it all, and actually, the random process itself have chosen some of my forgotten favourites, from Moonbeam, to Kyau & Albert, some of the bits and pieces of mp3 survived the formatting and deleting, and are together chained into the .wav file. So, instead of making a playlist, the recovery software did the whole thing for me, but sadly, not even one piece of the real .wav recording was recovered.

    The same thing also happened on my Nokia, I have an 8Gbyte microsd card which is really messy, and contains everything from videos to pictures to apps to everything, and is always filled up. I have an app called symtorrent, which I used it to download torrent straight to my phone, and once I was downloading an album which consists of all mp3 files, and I hadn't yet download it completely just at around 40%, and I tried playing the broken torrent mp3s, and to my surprise, the player jumped all around the sd card playing random bits and pieces of mp3s in the card. Whenever it reads the incomplete mp3s, it somehow got addressed to other places in the sd card, and since the incomplete mp3 is actually overwriting my past mp3 collection which was deleted, it reads the raw deleted data whenever there is a hole in the incomplete mp3. And there I go, reminiscing the past mp3s, long forgotten, and now revived by the incomplete mp3s. I thought it should've have skipped the null data, instead, it reads the data (since it's also mp3).
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  2. Create your own custom font - Illustrator




    Wanting to create your own unique font for your name or logo but does not like the ones you find online? Then create one for yourself, just like how I do, here I am going to show the steps to how I make my own font using Adobe's Illustrator CS5.

    The font here is based on techno and the text I am creating is 'la vida' which means to live life in spanish, which is also my facebook name. However, you can also create your own text based on the techniques I use below.

    First, open up a new document in Illustrator and go to view>snap to grip and show grid.

    Then, create a rectangle with the rectangle tool. We are going to make the L alphabet.

    Use the Pen tool, to dot on the points like shown in the red circles, that will create a path for shape editing.
    Then, use the direct select tool to bend the point shown in the figure below.
    Then, select the upper part of the rectangle, and delete it, the result should be the same as figure below.
    Now, make another rectangle beside the L rectangle and use the Pen Tool to dot the edges for the alphabet A.
    For the V.
    For I.
    For D.
    After creating all the individual texts, select all of them and go to effect>stylize>round corners. Make sure the stroke size for all the objects in Illustrator is zero.
    I chose to use 5 pixels, as it is adequate.
    Then, open up Photoshop and make a layer with gradient settings (or whatever you like) shown in figure below.
    Select all the objects in Illustrator and copy paste them into photoshop, with the paste settings shown in figure.
    Here are some of the styles for the 'Shape Layer', however you can do whatever you like to the 'Shape'.


    The end result.
    So there you have it, a quick way to create a simple yet stylish font.

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  3. Punkbuster Busted - Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (COD4:MW)

    I wanted to test the reliability of Punkbuster (which was to detect potential cheaters) in COD4 and this is what I get.






    A rather funny thing though, as I was expected to be greeted with "Inappropriate Software detected" or "violation detected", but instead the game continued on, even after map change, punkbuster did not seem to detect anything suspicious.

    The hacks I'm using here are the custom texture hack and the decafcoffee's dll that is injected by using Sinject. Initially, I used the texture hack due to it's undetectability, but after awhile, i wanted to up the ante because some admin banned me permanently for being funny, so i changed my cd key and ip and went back to the server. The weird thing is, PB has had detected and banned people who was using decafcoffee's hack.

    The server is an official server (202.71.97.81:28960, BolehVPN HC TDM server), and has PB enabled.

    I think it's due me using windows 7, and the security mechanism of the OS has somehow disabled the ability of PB to spy on my processes and files, plus the incompatibility of the 64bit.

    So hack as you wish as long as you are using Windows 7.




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