Did you loose your Warcraft III CD key but have still got an installed copy on your hard disc? Then I  gonna show you how to aquire your Warcraft 3 CD Key within a few seconds. It’s really easy!

First of all, download the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne CD Key Grabber package.

Extract the file wc3_tft_CDKeyGrabber11800.exe from the RAR archieve and launch it. You will see a black and white window for around 5 seconds, then it will change to a black window that looks like this:

Now launch Warcraft 3 (Frozen Throne) and click on Local Area Network, as the program suggests. Now you can minimize Warcraft 3 by pressing either the Windows Key or ALT + TAB or just exit it. The CD key grabber will show your Reign of Chaos (and Frozen Throne) key in the fields that were blank before.

That’s it basically.

For the ones who are interested in the science behind that tool:

For Warcraft 3 it’s not as easy as for other games where you can just read out the Windows Registry. Warcraft 3 saves its key in the war3.mpg file which is kinda harder to access. You won’t be able to get the key from the file itself because it is encrypted in there. But in order to play online or LAN, Warcraft 3 sends a request either to the Battle.Net servers or to active LAN servers. This request also contains the CD key in order to get authorization from the server. The CD key Grabber tool launches a TCP listener that waits for the request from Warcraft 3. When going to the Local Area Network lobby, Warcraft 3 scans your LAN environment, detects the “server” hosted by the CD key Grabber and sends a request (usually done to get the game name and map). Now the application is able to get the key from that request and will display it.

Avira AntiVir Personal is probably the best free anti virus software. It is free of charge, updates daily, detects almost every virus, troyan, worm or whatever, and is not as annoying as other software as Kaspersky with lots of security warnings, extra firewalls, ect…

The only bad thing is that after every update a popup containing advertisement is shown. This banner is always the same and shown almost every day since AntiVir updates as often as once a day. Here I will show you how to disable the annoying ad banner without having to hack/crack/patch AntiVir.

This works only with Windows XP, perhaps I will find a way for Vista or Windows 7 some time!

Click on Start -> Run… -> type “secpol.msc” (without the quotes) and press enter to open the local security settings.

If you never created any security policies before, you have to set them up first. In order to do that, right-click the “Software Restriction Policies” entry on the left and choose “Create New Policies”. If you did anything in that section before, you can skip this step.

Now the folders “Security Levels” and “Additional Rules” should be there. Navigate to “Additional Rules”, right-click and choose “New Path Rule…”. In the window popping up click browse and navigate to your AntiVir folder (usually C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic) and select the “avnotify.exe” file. Set “Security level” to “Disallowed” if it isn’t already and hit OK.

This tweak forbids the execution of the “avnotify.exe” file which is responsible for the popups. Deleting the file is not possible, AntiVir will crash when trying to access it. This works as long as the filename of “avnotify.exe” is not changed through an update, and if it is, you can do the same thing for the new file.

Thanks to ghacks.net

This tutorial will show you how to shrink your copy of Windows 7 so that it will be as small as 3.8GB and will fit on the 4GB SDD of the Asus Eee PC 700 and 900!

Now follow the steps below to make your own customized version of Windows 7 for your Netbook. This is quite complicated compared to a normal installation of Windows 7, and perhaps there will be an easier way in the future, but until now, this is better than nothing, and you can have the other SDD for all the stuff you want to have on your netbook.

Thanks to Basti756 for this awesome tutorial! See the proof that it is working below:

Get Windows 7

You can download Windows 7 Beta 1 either from the official  Microsoft Windows 7 download site or via Torrent, which should be 100% legal since the official version has been released for public testing. Download torrent file.

Required software:

Today I installed the newer version of Windows 7 on my Asus Eee PC 900 using the tutorial to install Windows 7 on netbooks using USB memory sticks. The installation was fine and went slightly faster than the installation of Build 6956, after around 1 hour I could see the desktop.

You can download Windows 7 Beta 1 either from the official Microsoft Windows 7 download site or via Torrent, which should be 100% legal since the official version has been released for public testing. Download torrent file.

I will test out whether I can get Aero running on this version, see if it’s more stable than the old release and stuff like that.

New functions/issues and changes to the previous version (Build 6956):

• Graphics driver for “Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS” included, so full screen resolution (1024×600) now possible without driver installation
• Keyboard function buttons (volume up, volume down, mute, …) still not working without installation of Asus ACPI
• Even after installation of Asus ACPI drivers the buttons are not working… the volume up/down window shows up, but nothing happens, and a window pops up saying “Missing Audio Driver, disable Fn+F7,8,9. Please install Audio Driver” but the audio driver is installed.
• Internet Explorer 8 has now a “InPrivate” mode like Google Chrome’s “Incognito Mode”
• When trying to watch HD videos on Youtube with Internet Explorer 8/Flash Player 10 Windows completely freezes. Only restart helps
• After this Youtube HD crash, the whole Windows 7 system is fucked. Automatic system restore took 10 minutes to fix it, then I could finally reboot. So HD videos can destroy your Windows installation? Interesting…
• The Desktop Gadget Gallery is finally working! In Build 6956 nothing happened when you tried to access it.
• Windows 7 doesn’t recognize the other SDD with Windows XP installed on it. The explorer just shows the Win7 SDD as C:\ and nothing else
• When you click at the images in the task bar that replace the old image and text there, even tabs inside Internet Explorer are shown so you can go directly to the tab you want
• Everything runs much faster and smoother than before. Now you can have multiple applications running in the same time without them crashing all the time.
• Shutdown is still awful slow (takes around 3 minutes, that’s longer than starting up!)
• Windows still crashes when trying to run the Windows Performance Assessment Tool (WinSAT), at “Running: Media Foundation Playback Assessment v1.0.0.0 ‘-input C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.wmv -nopmp”, thus you can’t get a rating for your computer and Aero won’t be able to run.
• The built-in microphone is still not really working. It can hear something, but is soo silent, when you scream into it, the bar goes up only 0.5%. Something is wrong there.
• When one tab in Internet Explorer 8 crashes, Windows 7 will terminate it, but all the other tabs are still working (like in Chrome). After a few seconds, the tab is restored. This feature is actually not that bad.
• Reactivation from Stand-By is not working, the screen just stays black all the time.

More stuff will follow…

FriendMap is my first Facebook Application. It creates a zoomable world map for all your friends. Now you can see who lives where, who moved currently and how big the distance between you and a friend actually is!

The application features complete profile integration with boxes, tabs and feed stories and fully supports the Facebook user interface with invitations, notifications and so on. Thus it feels as if it were part of Facebook and not an external application.

Go to the FriendMap Facebook Application

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