Archive for March, 2007
Aka a simple guide to bypass ’security’ where proxies are used to block certain URL from being accessed and/or does a scanning of illegal keywords - never mind that sometimes, for some obscure reason the proxy will actually block a valid URL. Take for example the Windows Mobile Team Blog; because it contained a few forbidden words (which I have no clue what they are), Symantec Web Security feels that I cannot read content on that site. What do I do then? Simple, head to http://www.scoobidoo.net/ and use it by entering the URL of any site that has been blocked access. Scoobidoo.net is what is known as a free web proxy that will enable anonymous surfing (because visited websites will see its IP address, not yours). Also, because scoobidoo.net actually encodes your URL, your proxy won’t be able to determine which site you are visiting. This causes any sort of security measure that works by filtering URL to fail. However, proxies that scan for forbidden keywords will still take into effect but another simple click will solve this - by a click I mean click on soobidoo.net’s SSL proxy. If you do this, content will be encrypted along with the URL.
So there, you’ve just bypassed the security measure implemented via proxies. Note that these shouldn’t be used to access illegal sites yadda yadda yadda. I use it because the proxy I’m going through is being too smart resulting in too many valid sites being blocked.
Side note: Notice that proxies also try to be smart by caching file downloads. This is the case if you see that when initiating a download, nothing happens for quite a while then suddenly, usually within seconds, the download goes from 0% to 100%. While this works fine for small files, large ones usually time out before download completes. By using the SSL proxy method outlined above, this won’t happen because the proxy won’t be able to read any web traffic hence it won’t be able to know if a file download is happening.
Of course, if the proxy you’re trying to bypass is blocking scoobidoo.net in the first place, Google for other free proxies. There’s bound to be 1 or 2 that it missed 
I don’t usually post this kind of stuff but these things look very cool. Not that I would get any, I’m more of a messaging guy which means anything without a QWERTY keyboad would probably get knock off my list of must-haves. Anyway, feast your eyes on these and weep:
Sony Ericsson w660
Engadget:
“The Walkman phone’s sporty orange trim gets switched out for a classy attempt in gold on Sony Ericsson’s newest rendition, the W660. At a svelte 0.57-inches, the UMTS 2100 and GPRS 900/1800/1900 phone really packs in the goods with Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, FM radio support, a 2 megapixel camera, web browsing, RSS feeds, and a 512 MB Memory Stick Micro (upgradeable). It has a 2-inch color TFT display and totes random extras like TrackID, a music identification service, and a Picture Blogging function that allows you to send snapshots directly to your personal blog. To top off the lifestyle angle on this phone, Sony Ericsson has embellished the pants offa this one, with the aforementioned gold trim on both glossy color options, Record Black and Rose Red. The Rose Red (geez, what’s up with the cranberry hype?) model jazzes it up a bit more with its floral-themed relief pattern on the backside. For those of you who are more concerned with performance, you’ll get up to 6 hours of talk time on GSM, up to 2.5 hours with 3G, or a max of 25 hours of music listening. Expect to peep these newbies in select markets by Q2 of this year.”
Nokia 5700 Xpress Music
All About Symbian:
“Nokia today announced the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic handset. The 5700 is a 3G (WCDMA 2100) quad-band GSM phone that has the same twist design as the earlier 3250 (but is smaller and lighter). The 5700 has a 2.0 megapixel camera, microSD card slot (supports cards up to 2GB for storing around 1,000 tracks), stereo speakers, and a 2.5mm audio jack. Its runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Symbian 9.2).Key Specifications:
- 3G (WCDMA 2100) and quad-band GSM cellular connectivity.
- 108.2 x 50.5 x 17.3 mm (84cc); 115g
- 2.0 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200); video 320 x 240 @ 15fps
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR including support for the A2DP stereo audio profile
- mini USB port for PC connectivity
- 2.5 mm Nokia audio visual plug (3.5mm headphones supported via in box adaptor)
- microSD memory card slot; 35 MB of internal memory
- 2.2 inch, 16 million colour, QVGA screen
- S603rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Symbian OS 9.2)”
Saw a post in Lowyat.NET where someone is clearing old stocks of Palm SD WiFi cards. It’s really quite a bargain price but beware that the cards only works in the Zire 72, Tungsten T5, TE2 and T3 Palm PDAs. Nope, no Treo support, neither the Palm OS nor the WM models.
Guess that’s why they’re on clearance sale. But if you so happen to have any of those Palm PDAs around, these are quite a good buy. So go grab em’ while they’re hot.
By that I mean you can now use GMail as the grand-daddy of all your email accounts (rightfully so). I ranted about my webmail annoying the hell out of me lately, and the arrival of this feature in GMail couldn’t have been timed better. Sure, there was GMail for domains already and I could potentially use that but then I don’t have access to my mail MX files. I’d have to request for it to be changed in order for it to work (yeah, I’m that lazy).
So, now I just add provide GMail with my pop3 address, username and password for it to pull email into my GMail account. However, not all is nice in Google-land too. For now, it seems that I can’t specify the time interval to pull email from my other email accounts (how typical for a Netizen to complain about something that’s free…).
But still, I’m happy. So if you’re looking for a unified way to manage your email, you might wanna check this out. GMail has a great UI, tons of space and it’s by Google (yeah, I know, the fact that it’s by Google means it’s a bad thing for some folks).
TamsPalm has some news that someone is sort-of-confirming that there might be a clamshell model coming from Palm soon. I’m not sure why I’m writing about this, perhaps deep down I still wish Palm will survive and be competition for the Windows Mobile devices.