To take Ipad screenshot

Press [Home] + [Sleep/Wake] together. 

A photo is taken with a click by your ipad 

and 

automatically saved to your ipad photo gallery.

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To secure data to be leaked in IPad

If your ipad contains some confidential and valuable data, you can prevent it to get leaked. All you need to Settings → General →Passcode Lock → Erase Data. It erases all the valuable data when your passcode, set for the ipad, is wrongly typed 10 times.

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Install app on Citrix server - change user

This is mostly a reminder to myself as I seem to forget the syntax.

When installing applications on a Citrix server in production, you need to change to install mode. After installation the mode has to be changed back to 'execute'.

From CMD prompt:

Install mode:

change user /install

Execute mode:

change user /execute

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5 Threats To Your Home Wireless Connection

Keeping your wireless connection safe should be a top priority, especially if you use your wireless laptop or cell phone to login to secure financial accounts or business email. We all use the internet to access personal information, do banking, and chat in private to friends. Image if someone was watching you, browsing through your files, or recording your every move on your computer? Well don’t just sit there and think that it will not happen to you! If you have a wireless connection then you should make sure it is safe and secure by adding at least one simple security measure. Wireless network security is very important when it comes to protecting your privacy and precious data.

The Risks of a Weak Wireless Connection

Last year, the Washington Post report on a series of Facebook scams. Hackers would break into people’s Facebook accounts, claim to have been robbed in a foreign country, and ask their Facebook friends for someone to wire them money. Could this fool your family and friends into handing over hundreds or thousands of dollars?
One thing that makes this possible is that hackers can access your Facebook account, no matter how strong your password, if they can snoop on your wireless connection. They don’t need special equipment to do this—any basic wireless card lets hackers snoop on wireless connections using free software.

There are three ways to protect yourself from wireless connection hackers:

1. Don’t use a wireless connection. Always plug your computer into a blue Ethernet cord.
2. Only use a wireless connection at least 1/2 mile (about 1 kilometer) away from any hackers.
3. Secure your wireless connection from the five types of threats described in this article.

Wireless Connection Threat #1: Unencrypted Connections

Unencrypted connections are great—they’re easy to set up on your wireless router and all of your devices connect automatically. But because they’re unencrypted, hackers can eavesdrop on all of your wireless traffic. Well, almost all of your wireless traffic—anything that uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption like websites starting with HTTPS will be encrypted.
Unfortunately, although Facebook and GMail and other sites use SSL for login screens, they don’t use it for their regular connections. In these cases, hackers can still break into your accounts by reading the cookie your Web browser sends to Facebook and Google every time you connect.
If you own the wireless connection, your best solution is to enable encryption on your router. Choose WPA encryption if possible, but on older routers you’ll need to settle for WEP. See the next section for information on the risks of WEP.
If you don’t own the wireless connection, for example you’re at a library or coffee shop, then you need to protect your connection by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or by using one of the plugins for your browser which force Facebook, GMail, and other services to use SSL.

Wireless Connection Threat #2: WEP

The Wired Equivilance Privacy (WEP) system was part of the original specification for wireless Internet, but within a few years of being released, hackers figured out how to break it. In 2007, three cryptoanalysts broke into a WEP connection using a 1.7 GHz laptop in less than 1 minute. They published their technique and now any hacker can use it to eavesdrop on any WEP-protected connection.
WEP has been officially replaced by Wifi Protected Access (WPA), but many old routers only support WEP. If you have an option to use WPA, please use it. If you don’t have support for WEP on your router and you’re concerned about security, you should see if the manufacturer of your router offers a firmware upgrade. Otherwise you should buy a newer router.

Wireless Connection Threat #3: Weak Passwords

WPA lets you secure your wireless connection using a password, but this password can be hacked like any other weak password. Because this password helps keep all of your other passwords secure, you should put some extra thought into making it very secure. Besides, you’ll only have to type it once on each computer, so it won’t be much of a hassle to make it extra hard to guess.
I suggest you add a few numbers and some punctuation to your password to help keep hackers from guessing it. Also make sure it’s at least 8 characters long—and preferably 12 characters or more.

Wireless Connection Threat #4: Snooping Users

No matter how secure you make your wireless network using WPA and strong passwords, you still must trust every user you let onto your network. Once users have access to your network, they can snoop on every packet sent on your wireless connection.
For example, if you’re at a hotel which uses WPA and you log into Facebook, any hacker who’s in a nearby room can also use his WPA-protected connection to snoop on your packets. At an office, employees can snoop on the boss’s WPA connection to get access to confidential information.
High-end routers can give each user their own secure connection, or you can just buy separate cheap routers for each class of user—for example, one router for managers and one router for employees.

Wireless Connection Threat #5: Traffic Analysis

One of the most advanced hacker techniques which is probably not used much in the real world is called traffic analysis. It lets hackers snoop on certain communication even when it’s encrypted.

For example, researchers from John Hopkins University in Maryland, US, were able to decode encrypted voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone calls by looking at the size of the encrypted packets. The sound “c” produced small packets, but the sound “ow” produced a big packet, so a small packet followed immediately by a large packet might mean someone said, “cow”.

Other researchers and possibly hackers can use traffic analysis to figure out all sorts of interesting things about your communication. There’s no easy solution to traffic analysis—you have to hope the people who make your software read the security journals. However, you can try to avoid sending highly-sensitive information on the same wireless communication network hackers use. 

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Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

If you have a home network and are running Windows 7 and have XP on other PC(s) you might want to share files between them.  Today we will look at the steps to share files and hardware devices like a printer.

Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XP

Sharing folders between two Windows 7 machines with the new HomeGroup feature is an easy process, but the HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Vista or XP.  For this tutorial we are using Windows 7 x64 RC1 and XP Professional SP3 connected through a basic Linksys home wireless router.

First make sure both machines are members of the same Workgroup which by default is named Workgroup.

On the Windows 7 machine go into Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Network and Sharing Center then click on Change advanced sharing settings.

You will want to verify the following settings under Advanced Sharing Settings for the Home or Work and Public profile.

If you want any user to have access the public shares turn off password protection.  This is located in Advanced Sharing Settings toward the bottom of the list.

If you want to keep it enabled make sure there is a log in account for the other XP machines and they have a password.

Now if you go into Network in Windows 7 you should see your XP machine and the Windows 7 as well which in this case is Mysticgeek-PC.

To share the printer on the Windows 7 machine go into Devices and Printers from the Start menu and double click on the printer icon.

Next double click on “Customize your printer”.

In the Properties screen click on the Sharing Tab and check the box to share the printer and type in its share name.

If your XP machine is an x86 OS you can install Additional Drivers before setting up the XP machine.

To find the shared folders and devices double click on the Windows 7 machine icon under Network.  Here you can see the printer connected to my Windows 7 machine is shared and also the Users Folder.

Continue into the Users folder and Public to see the shared folders, here I also created a folder called XP Share just to keep everything in central location.

Over on your XP machine open up My Network Places to find the Windows 7 (mysticgeek-pc) shared folder.

Double click on the Share folder to find a list of shared folders in the Public folder on Windows 7.  If you have password protection enabled you will need to type in the username and password of the user account on the Windows 7 machine first.

Setup XP With Shared Printer

To set up the shared printer in XP you will need to go into Printers and Faxes from the Start menu and kick off the Add Printer Wizard.

Now select “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer” then hit Next.

Next select “Connect to this printer…” and type in the path for the printer connected to the Windows 7 machine and click next.  

Now click Yes to the confirmation message.

Then click Finish the printer to install and complete the Wizard.

In some cases you will need to install the x86 XP drivers for the shared printer because the Windows 7 drivers are not compatible with XP.  When everything is installed open up Printers and Faxes to find the shared printer.

This should help you get started with sharing your files and other devices with your Windows 7 machine.  When I first started I was able to see the printer on XP right away because I had a HomeGroup set up, but once I deleted it I needed to share the printer like you would for a workgroup.  You might also have to do a couple restarts of the XP machine for it to see the shared resources on Windows 7.  If you have had any experiences with sharing between Windows 7 and XP leave us a comment!

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Windows 7 Tricks

Windows 7 is the most updated and an excellent operating system. But to work well with windows 7, you must know some tricks. I am discussing some of the windows 7 tricks here.

Windows 7 Trick 1:

In general, when you want to create the zipped version of any file or folder, you just right click on that file and use the send option from the drop down list. But in the case of Windows7, you do not able to get options in the ‘send to’ menu. Here you have to use this trick to get the option in ‘send to’ menu, which is hidden in Windows7. To get them, simply press the Shift key on your computer keyboard and hold it. Now, right click on that file or folder; go to ‘send to’ option, you can get those option.

Windows 7 Trick 2:

If you want to open any command prompt from any folder, just press the Shift key on your keyboard and hold it. Then right click on any folders from anywhere in your commuter; then you get an option from the dropdown list “Open command window here”, select this option and you will get a command prompt with that folder as the default path.

Windows 7 Trick 3:

In Windows7, if you want to cascade two or three opened windows in the task bar or tile them and view side by side, you should know this trick. To do this, at first you have to open the task manager. Then simply press the Ctrl key on your keyboard and hold it. Then select the open windows, you will get a pop up list; from that, just choose “cascade/show windows stacked” option from there.

Windows 7 Trick 4:

There are some shortcut keyboard tricks for Windows7:-

• Magnifier:- “Windows” + “+” or “Windows” + “-“

This shortcut key zooms in or zooms out your computer screen and activates ‘Windows Magnifier’.

• “Windows”+ “SHIFT” + “1” through “Windows” + “SHIFT” + “9”

This is used to start new instances of the respective taskbar icons.

• “Windows” + “B”

By this you can focus on the “show hidden icons” on the system tray.

• “Windows” + “1” through “Windows” + “9”

This launches 1st through 9th icon on the taskbar.

• “Windows” + “Ctrl” + “1” through “Windows” + “Ctrl” + “9”

This toggles through the multiple instances of the icons.

• “Windows” + “SHIFT” + “right arrow” or “Windows” + “SHIFT” + “left arrow”

This can be used to move any selected icon, from one monitor to another.

• “Windows” + “P”

This is used to select “presentation display mode”.

• “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “D”

This switches to “docked mode”.

• “Windows” + “T” or “Windows” + “SHIFT” + “T”

This will help you to move focus to front/back on the taskbar.

• “Windows” + “Esc”

The magnifier view can be exit by this.

• “Windows” + “Alt” + “1” through “Windows” + “Alt” + “9”

This is used to open jump list for respective icons.

• “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “L”

This is used to switch to “lens mode”.

• “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “F”

This can be used to switch from ‘Docked’/’lens’ mode back to ‘Full Screen’ mode.

• “Windows” + “G”

This toggles through desktop gadgets.

• “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “I”

You can invert colors by this.

• “Windows” + “X”

This shortcut key is used to launch ‘Windows Mobility Center’ especially useful for laptop.

Windows 7 Trick 5:

If you want to add any folder to the start menu, you can follow this trick. To do this, simply right click on them and select the ‘pin to start menu’ option. Or you can also drag that folder to the location you want.

Windows 7 Trick 6:

In Windows7, if you want to see the Alt-Tab prompt like XP, just press one Alt key on your keyboard and hold it, simultaneously press and release the other Alt key on your keyboard; then press the tab key. By using this trick you can able to see the XP Alt-Tab prompt in your Windows7.

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How to Enable God Mode in Windows 7

Windows 7 is the smarter and faster operating system developed by Microsoft. There are many setting options available in the Control Panel of Windows 7, but sometimes it is difficult to find the perfect setting option. If you have to change a lot of settings in your Windows 7, then it will take a lot of time in Control Panel, so here I am sharing a trick in which you can do all the settings of Windows 7 like you do in the Control Panel directly from a single window. The trick is very easy, you just have to create a folder and that folder will work as Settings pane. People call this trick as Windows 7 God Mode.

The trick begins here:

1. Create a new folder and name it anything.
2. Now, rename the folder by pressing F2 or Right-click>>Rename and give it this new name: Settings.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
3. After renaming the folder, its icon will be changed. Double click the folder to open it.

Now, you will see a screen like below. Here, you can change all the settings of your Windows 7 OS.

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