Export From RoboForm to KeePass

RoboForm is a fantastic program, but the fact that it doesn’t run on Linux is a major problem for me. KeePass seems like the best alternative, but it does not currently support a direct import from RoboForm. I have almost 140 passwords, many of which consist of 10-30 random characters. Typing these in manually would be a major headache, so here’s the best hack that I found.

• Download the trial version of PassCrypt
• Import your RoboForm data to PassCrypt
• Export your newly imported data from PassCrypt to a CSV file. You don’t need the headings.
• Download a CSV file editor - I recommend CSVed
• Once you’ve installed CSVed - go to Tools, Options, Double Quotes. Click the box next to “Save CSV File With Double Quotes”. If you don’t select this, your import will fail. KeePass requires that the data is between double quotes. If you try to use Excel it will strip the quotes from the file and the import will fail. Believe me on this one - I’m saving you a lot of time and trouble.
• Open the CSV file you exported from PassCrypt in CSVed to modify the file.
• Put your columns in the following order: “Account”,”Login Name”,”Password”,”Web Site”,”Comments”. You don’t need these column headings in your CSV file - you just need the columns in this order.
• If you have any ampersands (&) in you passwords - do a find and replace in CSVed to replace all instances of & with &. It appears as if PassCrypt did this during the export to CSV.
  • Update 8/6/2007: At some point the WordPress WYSIWYG mangled my post in regards to HTML special characters. The bullet point above may have problems with the display of ampersands. The idea is that during the process of moving passwords from one program to another, the ampersands in your passwords may be replaced by the html character code. This will obviously cause your passwords to not work. Thanks to skibum mark for the heads-up.
• You may notice that many of your usernames or passwords are missing from the exported file. This is because RoboForm captures these values from websites that use different terms to identify them. One may be “username” while one may be “logonid”. You’ll have to manually enter these missing values in CSVed or wait until the file is imported into KeePass.

I told you it was a hack. Someone needs to write a plugin to import passwords directly from RoboForm into KeePass. Until then - use the steps above. If there is enough interest I’ll put together a better tutorial with screenshots.

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Iphone - Cant stay logged in to Gmail chat?!

Found a great fix for this for Iphone 3G users. Worked for me :)

Using WinSCP, nav to the following folder and make the change.

ssh and paste this : chmod 4755 /Applications/MobileSafari.app/MobileSafari

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Wedding

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage. Well here are a couple of great examples...

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Itunes - Make a Ringtone

1. Click on iTunes – Library
2. Click the song you’d like to edit
3. Locate the start and end times of the selection you want. To do this, move the iTunes playback head (at the top of iTunes) to the start of the selection and note the start time. Then move the playback head to the end of the selection and note the end (stop) time.
4. Click on File > Get Info > Options
5. Click on Start Time and enter the start time you noted
6. Click on Stop Time and enter the end time you noted
7. Click on OK
8. Click on Advanced > Convert Selection to AAC
9. File will be created and will start playing
10. Click on File > Show in Windows Explorer
11. Rename the file as one word. The extension is already correct (.m4a)
12. Rename the extension to = (.m4r)
13. Open itunes again > Click on File > Add File to Library > Locate the file and press OK.
14. The ringtone should have gone to your ringtones section on itunes.
15. Sync your iphone to itunes
16. Done

Palin Rap Video SNL

To funny not to post!

Disable and Remove Yahoo! Messenger 9 Ads

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 in beta version is available for free public download to install and use. As with any previous versions of Yahoo Messenger, there are various ads blocks display advertisements in messenger or message and chat windows. The banner ad and text ad units can be disabled or turned off by using a simple registry hack.

To remove and disable ads display on Yahoo Messenger 9, follow the trick below:

1. Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the following registry key:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\Locale

3. In the right pane, locate a value named Enable Messenger Ad with default value as 1. Set the value to 0.
4. Restart Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

The ads will be disappeared from Yahoo Messenger after restarting.

Itunes Mp3 Audiobooks

"Before you begin

For best results, you should not upload audiobooks that are larger than 320MB or longer than 5 hours. This can cause playback and stability problems. If you have files larger than this, splitting them up into smaller parts is recommended.

Most audiobooks that you download will be in multiple files. I personally like combining these into a single file so I do not have to remember which file I am listening to. It also keeps the audiobooks menu on my iPod much easier to read. I simply let the iPod remember my position in the audiobook when I come back to it. It is just personal preference.

Most audiobooks will be far less than 320MB and 5 hours long, so if you want, you can combine your MP3s into a single file before you begin. MP3 Merger is a great freeware program.
Configuring iTunes

Before you convert the files, iTunes must be set properly. You should only have to do this once. In the iTunes menu (I am using version 6), select the following:

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing

Make sure “Import Using” is set as “AAC Encoder“.

Change “Setting” to “Custom” and set the following options:

Bit Rate: 64kbs (this is a nice average setting for most audiobooks)
Channels: Stereo (fixes an issue with homemade mono files on some iPods)
Check “Optimize for Voice“

Instructions

Add the files you want to convert to your library. Once they are there, select the file(s), right-click, and select “Convert Selection to AAC“. This will add the newly converted files to your library.

Once the conversion is complete, remove the original files from your library. They will no longer be needed for this process.

You can also remove the newly created files from your library, but when you are asked, be sure to select “Keep Files“, so they are not deleted off your hard drive.

The files are created under “My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music” (unless you told iTunes otherwise), so open up that folder.

You will notice that the new files have the .m4a extension. They must be renamed to .m4b.

Now that the files are renamed, you can add them to your iTunes library once again.

Right-click on the new file(s) in your library and select “Get Info“.

You can change the name of the file(s) on this screen. If you like, you can clear out the “artist” and “album” fields, so that they do not show up with the rest of your music on the iPod (when you are looking at albums or artists). They will still show up under “audiobooks” of course.

You can also change the genre of the files to “Audiobooks” using the iTunes tag editor, to make the files easier to find when looking through iTunes.

All you have to do now is add the files to your iPod. They should work just like any iTunes audiobook. They will show up under the “Audiobooks” menu on your iPod, your playback position will be remembered, and they will not get played during song shuffles."
(Article source: Dagondesign)

Convert multiple files to 1 audio book:

iTunes 8, lets you convert single files within the app now.

Right click on the MP3, select Get Info, Click the Options tab, then change the Media Kind value to Audiobook.

RDC XP Reboot

The Shutdown command is not available on the Start menu to shut down and restart, when you are using Remote Desktop. To shut down a remote computer when you are using Remote Desktop, press CTRL+ALT+END, and then click Shutdown. Or, use the shutdown command at a command prompt.

Cheers!

Greatest Fire Fox Extensions

SaveinFolder

BBcode

Torrent Search Bar

Firefox Google Bookmarks

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Color Picker

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Ie Tab

*Testing but looks cool!
Sxipper - Alternative to Roboform

Top 25 Linux Games

Rangit.com 25 Linux Games selection. It has some pretty games.

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Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software

It may be the year 2008, but a whole lot of sucktacular software still rears its ugly head on PC's everywhere, even when better-behaved options are freely available. Whether it's molasses-slow bloatware, shameless adware, anemic default apps, or "trial period expired!" nagware, it's time to replace stinky Win software with its superior alternatives

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Whats New Now - WNN

Weekly or Bi Weekly web clip of hot topics around the world.

Whats New Now

This weeks topics: "Apple Updates iMac, Grand Theft Auto IV hits stores, Nokia's "Beautiful to use" Phones, Google's VisualRank and Falcon Northwest's Fragbox 8500 "

1337! 5 Killer PC Games playable on Ubuntu: Hardy Heron

Is hell officially freezing over? Can it be that its actually being easy to game on Linux?! Here are 5 PC games that you can EASILY play on the upcoming Ubuntu release: Hardy Heron. Links to some valuable Ubuntu gaming resources are given at the end.

Read up on Kubuntu Hardy Heron


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Ultra-Long-Endurance Aircraft to Stay Aloft for Years

Boeing has unveiled concept art for an ultra-long-endurance aircraft that could stay aloft in the stratosphere for several years. Boeing has received a $3.8m (£2m) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) contract for Phase 1 of the Vulture programme.

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10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu

10 great, simple, and easy to follow tips with instructions for new and old Ubuntu users!

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Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3

Microsoft has officially announced the availability of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. The languages are now available via the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update.

Wonder what issues we are gonna have this go round? Odd that Windows XP is no longer going to be sold under its own name but rather Vista after June yet in May that release a final Service Pack. Wouldnt it be ironic if they added a peice of software that made you upgrade in XX amount of months to Vista LMAO!

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Excel Merge

Formula: =""&E4&", "&LEFT(D4,3)

Merges Row D and E to Choosen Row.

http://www.mrexcel.com/tip023.shtml

SharePoint KB articles

"Service Unavailable" error message when you browse a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Web site

Using Shared Networking (NAT) with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine

"Virtual PC has a convenient feature called 'Shared Networking'. What this is is a small virtual NAT (network address translation) router - which is quite similar to the cheap hardware broadband routers that a lot of people use (myself included). The advantage of Shared Networking is that your virtual machine can access the external network with needing to be directly connected to it*. This is handy if you don't want to have to worry about whether your virtual machine has all the latest security patches, or if you regularly move your physical machine between different network configurations (e.g. moving a laptop from you work network to your home network).

Normally using Shared Networking is very simple. You just enable it and set the guest operating system to use DHCP - and everything works. This is not the case with a Windows Server 2003 guest though. The problem is that Shared Networking configures the guest operating system to use the same DNS servers as are used by the physical computer. However - all DNS packets are actually returned from '192.168.131.254' - which is the virtual gateway used by Shared Networking.

Windows Server 2003 looks at the DNS packet, sees that it is coming from a source other than the DNS server it requested the information from, and rejects it. A simple fix for this is to manually assign the DNS server inside the virtual machine to 192.168.131.254 - then everything will work just fine.

Cheers,
Ben"

Quoted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/01/06/347965.aspx

Thanks Ben for the great write up!