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How to know your IP address and what to do with it
When you connect to Internet you are given an IP address which basically is your Internet address, you can find out your IP address using these sites:
WhatismyIP – just visit the Website and it will show your IP address no more no less
WhatIsmyIPAddress – this also works the same way but it shows your IP and proxy if it detects one
Finding your IP address can be very useful in these scenarios:
1. you want your geek friend to guide you using some remote desktop connection program on some specific software that you just can’t figure out how to use, so you give him the IP address and he puts that IP in his RDC program and connects to you
2. you want to play any multiplayer games and want some other players to join, just create the server on your PC and tell them your IP address so that other players can join
3. you are using some anonymization software and want to know if you are really browsing anonymously
4. just for fun 
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 appears on the Official Mozilla FTP site
After Mozilla released Firefox 3 RC2 few days ago, just now when I opened the Firefox FTP site to download RC2 I came across the RC3 of Firefox which comes as a surprise release to me, , as usual first it appears on the FTP site and then in few hours the official beta page will be updated with the release
No official announcement yet but ZDNet has some info about the release that it fixes a bug in MAC OS X system which makes the system to hang, according to ZDNet if you are using windows or Linux you don’t need to update as there are no changes for these operating systems in this release and the RC2 version of the browser will be copied to the RC3 folder for these two remaining OS. it is also mentioned that the browser is ready for the final release and the developers have the fixes ready for the the remaining 17 known issues with the browser
Download RC3 from here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0rc3/
Patch your Uxtheme File in Windows XP Sp3 to enhance your systems appearance
One cant forever live with the default theme of Windows XP, it gets dull and boring after we use it everyday so to give it a refreshing feel you can patch your uxtheme.DLL file so you can install 3rd party themes for Windows XP, you can get the patcher from here.
now that you have patched the uxtheme file you need to place your new theme folder in X:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes (where X is your windows installation directory) , this folder you are copying should have the .msstyles file and the shell folder, now that you have pasted your theme folder in the resources folder the new theme will show up in the appearance tab of the display properties dialog box (right click any empty area on your desktop and click on properties to get this dialog box) , now just select the theme you just installed and press apply and enjoy the refreshing new look!
now if you wondering where to get themes from check these sites out:
The theme used for reference here is foresight and you can get it from here
Software Updates – Week 2
Stable:
Software: K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
Latest Version: 3.9.5
Description: K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and DirectShow filters. Those components are needed for encoding and decoding various audio and video formats. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files.
Release Date: June 4 2008
License: Freeware
Changelog: http://paste2.org/p/37312
Download: http://www.free-codecs.com/k_lite_Mega_Codec_Pack_download.htm
Software: Serv-U FTP Server
Description: If you want to set-up an FTP server on your windows based PC this is the best software to use for the purpose
Latest Version. 7.1.0.2
License: Shareware
Release Date: June 2 2008
Changelog: http://www.serv-u.com/releasenotes/
Download: http://www.serv-u.com/dn.asp
Beta:
Software: Mozilla Firefox
Latest Version: 3.0 RC2
Description: this software doesn’t needs a description
License: Freeware
Release Date: June 5 2008
Download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html
Download embedded videos from any site using GRAB (Orbit Downloader Extension)
One of the best download manager, Orbit downloader also has a embedded video downloader that not many people know about, the things I like most about it is that it is light weight , you don’t need to install separate software as it comes integrated with orbit downloader which is a very good download manager in itself, it works with every site that has embedded content not just Youtube and it is not only limited to video you can download music or any embedded content like swf too.
When you install orbit download the installer doesn’t creates any shortcut for grab by default so you have to manually do that, so to do that just go to to the directory where you installed orbit downloader (usually C:\\Program Files\OrbitDownloader) and right click the file Grab.exe and in the “send to” menu click on “shortcut to desktop” that’s it, this will place the shortcut to GRAB on your desktop
Now if you want to download any video just double click the shortcut you just created and open the the site that contains the video, when the video starts loading grab will automatically detect the video file (.flv), to download that video tick the checkbox near that video then click the download button and this will start the download in orbit downloader.
if it doesn’t detects any video make sure your browser is checked in grab’s preferences
Edit: by the way Grab can also be opened from inside orbit. Tools >> GRAB++ (Thanks to musafir 
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