Chrome Use ScriptNo To Block Ads And Speed Up Browsing

Ever browse any site that always pop out many advertisements? Flash ads, pop up windows, Google Ads, Baidu Ads (China)... In the other way, it slows down the browsing speed of the website.
Feel very annoying? I bet many of you have the same feeling as I did.

I used to install an Addon/Extension named AdBlock Plus in both Google Chrome and Firefox to avoid the ads. But sometimes we need to manually create the filter to block the ads and that is a lot of work to do for me.

Ads pop up in browser are control by javascript. Therefore, I was thinking why don't I just disabled the scripts which controlling the ads.

I try to search in the Google Extension for something like "no script". Eventually I found ScriptNo and I decided to give it a try.

First, go to Chrome Web Store and search for ScriptNo and click Add To Chrome to install it. It is very easy to use, by default it will try to block all script in the site which you browse.

The website I used for testing purposes was Raymond's Blog , a famous information sharing website I used to visit.

There are some ads in between of his blog post. (In this post I have already allowed the ads scripts to run for demo purposes)

How to Use ScriptNo:
1. Simply click on the ScriptNo button on the top right of your chrome browser and the blocked scripts and trusted scripts will be shown.
2. Click Trust under the domain name of the website will allow all the scripts under this domain name like example in this post is Raymond's Blog. We can see that a lot of scripts were blocked.

3. Now just select "Deny" to block the script or select "Distrust" to block the whole domain of the script.

(I would suggest to just Deny the script to ensure the other contents of the same domain can be displayed)

4. After the configuration has been done, the webpage will be refreshed automatically and you will not see the ads anymore. Same thing will happens on the flash ads if you have blocked the correct scripts.

5. The browsing speed now is significantly faster because advertisements are not loaded now.

You can also add your trusted websites into the whitelist or add your blacklisted website into ScriptNo. Simply click on Options and scroll down for to check your whitelisted and blacklisted sites.

Enjoy faster and ad-free browsing experience. Cheers!

For Firefox Users, kindly refer to this post HERE

Written By  Charles@CR

Simple Ways To Find Your IP Address

Sometimes, we want to know what is the IP address that we are using. There are several ways to know it.

The First method is the most simplest one to me:

Go to Google and Type "IP" in the search bar. Your IP address will show up in few mili seconds.

 The Second method are pretty easy as well:

Go to Whatismyip and you can see your IP address directly from the web page.

Now, which one do you prefer? Leave your comments. :)

Written by Eddy@CR

Adobe SendNow - An Alternative Way to Send Big File Sizes Files

Ever encountered the problem when you trying to attach a file in your email but the file size was too big? Every email clients has its email attachment limits, such as Google and Hotmail offer maximum 25MB file size of attachment in a single email.

Usually we can use some famous online file sharing service websites such as Media Fire, Mega Upload, Rapid Share and etc. We can upload our files and just include the file links in the email. Our email recipients just need to click on the link and download the files we share.

There are pros and cons of using free online file sharing services:
Pros:
1. Free account is allow to upload files
2. Download links can be shared

Cons:
1. Free account always come with ads
2. Upload speed and download speed limitation
3. Waiting time for free account
4. And more

Here is an alternative: Adobe SendNow

It offers:
1. 500MB space for free accounts
2. Maximum 100MB file size
3. Audio and Video files supported
4. Constant download speed from server (around 255KB/s when I try to download file)


How to use it? It is very simple. Simply sign up for a free account by clicking on "Try for free" button.

Then select "Try now" and fill everything to sign up yourself to a free account. Verify your account and then you are ready to use Adobe Sendnow.

To use Adobe Sendnow, you can choose to log in from web browser at https://sendnow.acrobat.com/SignIn.html
OR
Download the Outlook Plugin to enable it in your Outlook email client.
OR

Download its Desktop Application at
https://www.acrobat.com/sendnow/en/desktop-download.html


Besides, with desktop app, you can:

• Get direct access to SendNow without a browser.
• Transfer large files with drag and drop.
• Save the settings you last used.
• Available at no extra charge.

Moreover, large document you received or sent, can be convert into pdf by just one-click.

However, the are some limitations for free account:
- Only one file can be uploaded or downloaded per transaction
- File expiration at 7 days

To have full features, simply sign up the Basic Plan at $9.99 per month and Plus Plan at $15.83 per month.

But it has one constraint that it doesn't support compressed files, and many file types.

.7z .cpl .hlp .jse .pif .sit .ws
.bash .crt .hta .ksh .rar .tcsh .zsh
.bat .csh .inf .lnk .retg .tgz
.cab .dat .ins .mdb .scr .ttf
.chm .dfont .isp .ms .sct .vb
.cmd .dll .jar .otf .sh .vy1
.com .exe .js .pcd .shs .war

Written by:
Eddy@CRs

How to Add Persistent Route in Linux (Centos)

Ever met any situation that when you have two machines in 2 different Private Virtual LANs (VLAN), and you wish to allow them to communicate to each other?

We know we can always make these 2 machines communicate using Public IP Address, but we are not encourage to do so because it is not secure.

Instead of going through public connection, we would prefer them to communicate privately via Private network. Machines in different VLAN are usually not allow to communicate for security purposes. For example:

Therefore, there are some extra little works to let these 2 machines able to communicate.

Route Add. We add another route in 2 machines manually by using route add command in linux. (For route adding in Windows, please refer to How to Add Persistent Route in Windows )

Here is the scenario and steps:

Machine X in VLAN A with netmask 255.255.255.240, gateway 192.168.8.209
Machine Y in VLAN B with netmask 255.255.255.224, gateway 192.168.9.1

Machine X:
1) Open terminal and go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

2) Edit file route-eth1 ( In this scenario, private vlan are using 2nd network card ), or create a new file name route-eth1 if the file is not exists.

nano route-eth1

3)  Type in your command with the following format:

Destination-Network/cidr via Source-Gateway dev Network-Card

     To calculate cidr value, refer to this online calculator:  http://www.subnet-calculator.com/cidr.php
   
      In this scenario it will be:

192.168.9.0/27 via 192.168.8.209 dev eth1

4) Save and exit the editor. Restart the network service by typing the following command:

service network restart

5) Type in route and you can see the route is already there!

6) Repeat same step in Machine Y but change the command to:

192.168.7.208/28 via 192.168.9.1 dev eth1

 7) Now Machine X can ping to Machine Y~

Guide written by Eddy@CRs

How to Add Persistent Route in Windows

Many people would wants their machines in differnt VLAN to communicate. To do that, machines in 2 different VLAN must manually configure a persistent route.

Why persistent route? The answer is very simple, a non-persistent route will disappear after a machine's reboot.

Non persistent route add command:

route add “Destination-Network-IP” mask 255.255.255.255 “Source-gateway”

Persistent route add command , simple add another parameter:

route add “Destination-Network-IP” mask 255.255.255.255 “Source-gateway” -p

 Example:
A machine X (Gateway 192.168.8.209) wants to add a persistent route to destination host at VLAN X with netmask 255.255.255.240 gateway 192.168.2.177.

Command:

route add 192.168.8.176 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.8.209

Result:

Route added!

Guide Written by Eddy@CRs

A very First Post - Cyborg Repairs

Good day, Cyborg Repairs was launched in November 2011.

Welcome! Currently there are limited resources and information that we able to shares with folks who visits our blog, but please do not worry, more are coming right on the way. Stay tune.

Cyborg Repairs Team

Eddy