Ever lost a password? I did today, and I found a “free password reveal tool”. Actually, what happenned was that I had a password saved in my browser, but I didn’t know what it was anymore and I wanted to change it. When I tried to change the password, it wanted the old one before I could enter a new one…and well, that was the start of a way to figure my password out.

Back in the day (like 10 years ago) I remember when we used to download all kinds of Windows utilities to do handy things, and there was this thing called a “password revealer” that I used to have. When you ran a small executable file it would open a “loupe” (fancy word for jewelers maginifying glass). When you moved the “loupe” over a password field it would turn the dots or asteriks into their real letters, numbers, and characters revealing the real password. w00t!

Now today I wanted to find this utility or a very good reason – I wanted to figure my own password out. Unfortuantely there are people out there who would want to use this tool for ill gotten gains, like hacking your myspace password, breaking into your hotmail account, or for an easy way to steal your yahoo password. What I’m saying is, I’m going to give you a tool you can use to reveal most saved password, but it would be in your best interest to uninstall when you were done to keep prying eyes from getting into your business! Like I said – there’s a reason that less than 100 people per month search for “password revealer”, but more than 2,000 each search for “hacking myspace password”, and “hotmail password stealer”?!?

When your dealing something like looking for a “password revealer” tool – a lot of the search results are spammy or trying to get you to buy some piece of software to solve your problem. I was lucky enough that Lifehacker saved the day (again) with their post Recover Lost Passwords. They linked to a site and post I forgot about – Snadboy’s Revelation 2.0, which is course is a freeware password revealer. It worked for me! If it doesn’t work for you, try some of the other tools on the Lifehacker page, and report back here what works and what doesn’t!

Is there a google shell, a google command line, or a google operating system?

There is a version of Linux supposedly used within google called Goobuntu, or google on “Ubuntu” linux. Many have speculated for years that google intends to market this, but they have repeatedly denied it. I myself have installed “gOS” which stands for “green OS” – many mistakenly call “google OS” because it such an insanely web based version of linux. Their new catch phrase is “Linux meets MySpace”. I can attest it works well because I replaced relatives Windows XP with this install and they are fine with it. They still don’t understand that they don’t have Windows – and they don’t even know what Linux means. Despite this, they’ve had no problems using their computer for the last year, and I’ve not received one single phone call regarding a virus, trojan, or other crippling PC problems like they used to have.

Get a live preview of gOS here (I’m not sure which version it is):

I found something cool today that calls itself the “unofficial google shell“. Really it’s just an ajax app that allows you to do a cool “command line like” web search. Check it out – I think you’ll really dig it!

The Ultimate Guide to Customize Your Myspace Profile

A lot of people have asked me how to setup their own myspace profile, and even more have asked me how to customize, hack, and pimp out their myspace with custom layouts, backgrounds, slideshows, and more! You know you’ve see some really cool myspace profiles that you were really jealous of. Now it’s time to learn how to do it yourself! This is the ultimate tutorial guide to customize your own myspace!

The first thing everybody wants to do is to change the basic look of their myspace profile – what we call the “layout”. There are many sites all over the Internet with free myspace layout generators. A layout generator will allow you to mock-up how your profile will look in real time, and then it ‘generates’ the HTML code you’ll need to put in your profile to make it look that way.

Best mySpace Layout Generators

myspace Layout “Customyzer”

You can customize your myspace layout at customyzer.com. They have a myspace layout interactive editor, a classic editor, and myspace add-ons.

Freesourcecode.com mySpace Layout Generator

This layout generator / profile editor is really nice because it loads up a real time preview of your (current) myspace profile, and then you work on a mock up of it live. Drawbacks are – you don’t know some HTML and image editing you might be a little lost because you don’t have all point and click options, you have to enter in some of the values you want yourself (like background image URL). If you know a little code, this is a handy editor.

myGen mySpace Profile Creator

At mygen you can create an awesome looking profile, a music playlist, visitor polls, text generators, additional content tables, banner creator, and more! You should be able to customize just about anything you want with this profile creator, but it has all kinds of additional features and things you can do with it too! This is one of the few places that also has a hidden stuff generator, in other words, it will generate the code to hide anything in your profile you want.

mySpace Hacks

How to resize pictures for your myspace profile

A lot of people want to pimp their myspace, but don’t have any graphics knowledge at all. The cool people over at shrink pictures dot com have created an online picture resizer that’s easy to use and quick! Shrink all your pictures and avatars down to just the picture you need!

How to add Live Video Chat to your myspace profile

Add live video chat to your myspace profile with Stickam!. It’s 100% free and easy to use. You can do live video chat or video talk, you can upload and play videos, you can upload photos and create slideshows, you can upload audio and music, and you can even upload pictures and video directly with your camera cell phone.

myspace Tracker

If you want to see how many people have been visiting your mySpace profile – you should get MS Tracker. The code tracks the current number of visitors reading your profile, and the pictures and nicknames of your visitors can be displayed live in your profile as well. It also displays the referring page where they came from. Oh, and Trakzor does the same thing.

myspace Favorite Thingz

mySpace Favorite Thingz is a widget you can get to display the favorite things you like. The cool thing about it is that when people click on things you like – you make cash! That’s right, just for referring people to the things that you like – if they check them out and buy them, you’ll get a percentage of each sale! If you are popular on mySpace – this widget may be your cash cow!

mySpace Text Generators

mySpace PIMP Text Generator

Here’s a cool myspace pimp text generator.

mySpace Glitter Text Generator

A nice glitter text generator for your myspace.

mySpace Graffiti text Generator

Cool way to create graffiti text for your myspace profile

mySpace Trippy Text Generator

Be a hippie and add some trippy text to your myspace layout.

mySpace Animal Text Generator

Add some leopard or zebra spots to your myspace layout with this animal text generator.

Most Unique mySpace Layouts

These are some of the most unique myspace layouts I’ve seen…

Flash mySpace Profile

David’s Space is one of the most pimped out myspace layouts I’ve ever seen. It’s created in flash, so it is one of the most original profiles you’ll see, overriding all of the general defaults.

Custom Unique mySpace Profile

JC Hysteriahas a crazy customized and very unique myspace profile. Custom graphics highlight this very tight and very readable and usable layout. Very cool.

Tools for Browsing mySpace

So you’ve pimped out your mySpace, and now you’re surfing other people’s myspace profiles for friends and cool stuff. You should have some cool tools for getting around myspace – check this out!

mySpaceHax or myspace HAX

MyspaceHax is a cool firefox greasemonkey script that will give you back the controls in myspace layouts…or rather – when people have hidden certain controls on their myspace layout like profile, blog, pictures, videos, and comments.

mySpace Toolbar

So – you surf myspace so much that you lose sleep? Just can’t get enough? If you are always on mySpace – you should save yourself some time and get the Firefox mySpace toolbar.

originally posted: 2006-10-30 01:23:45 -0400