In one of my earlier post esnips - Download songs 'Hack',  I have mentioned an easy way to download songs from esnips with nsdoc. Actuallly that was an easier approach to download the desired song by just appending 'ns' to the song play link url.

Well, the old method of NSDOC will not work anymore as ESnips have changed their Player and the new player follows a bit different approach to play a file. Here is the new way of downloading. I have tried this new hack and it only works with Firefox browser and it won't work in any of the other browsers like IE, Safari etc You can download Google's Firefox web browser here Well, Hope you all a bit happy now !

Just go to play any of the files in esnips, if for e.g if the song URL that you want to play is http://www.esnips.com/doc/91481567-a2e5-4fff-a8e2-63522f335956/[aR]-Classically-Mild---01---Sochta-Hoon-Main then follow the below steps to download any file including the above: 1. change doc to nsdoc in the URL. 2. Remove the song name completely from URL, in above case this would be [aR]-Classically-Mild---01---Sochta-Hoon-Main 3. Replace the Song name with /ts_id/1205795172796/ns_flash/file1.mp3 4. Now just copy paste the new URL into the address bar and press enter.. and that's it all about. Your download will start automatically In above case the new URL will be - http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/91481567-a2e5-4fff-a8e2-63522f335956//ts_id/1205795172796/ns_flash/file1.mp3 Only disadvantage of this method is, the file that downloads will not have the actual filename, rather will have file1.mp3 as it’s filename. Howz that folks !

eSnips ! as you know is a kind a social networking where people can share and download almost any kind of songs. But now eSnips has blocked the users from downloading the songs (even for the registered users).

But my colleague and a good friend Shan found out an easy way (can say Hack) to do it by making a small kind of change in the URL of the song that you would like to download.

Here is the way to do it... | Go to esnips, browse for the songs and select a song that you would like to download | Go to the URL of the song and just add 'ns' after 'http://www.esnips.com/' e.g initial URL: http://www.esnips.com/doc/c0859acc-82ef-40b0-a095-a8d8f5782c44/Minchagi-Neenu final URL (for download): http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/c0859acc-82ef-40b0-a095-a8d8f5782c44/Minchagi-Neenu Click on Enter, you are done.. Really Cool na !

Windows XP has a user friendly feature to play with the network settings, I mean the most common operations like enabling and disabling network can be easily done by right clicking on the network icon in the system tray

But whenever I started testing on Vista platforms initially I used to have a tough time in doing the network related things  since it  takes a lengthy process (have to go through Network and Sharing Center screen first, then from there have to go through Manage Network Connections again)

So here is a user friendly steps that you need to make the things easier in Windows Vista.. and here it goes...

Right click on the desktop and select New and then Shortcut.

Paste explorer.exe ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}      

Type in Network Connections as the name and Finish.

Hope you get better use from it...

Sometimes it happens that you have to hide your secure data  hmm....whatever it may be but there should be an easy and a professional way to do it.  YES the sensitive and the important data stored on a particular volume of your disk drive can be hided in a much more professional passion through Command Line.

Please follow the below commands to see how it works ! All it will do is, just removes the drive letter assigned to a particular mounted volume when viewed through Windows Explorer Successfully works for both Windows XP and Vista.

To HIDE: Click Start -> Run and type cmd to bring Command Prompt Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter In the Diskpart utility that puts up within the Command Prompt window and then type list volume to list all the mounted volumes and their associated drive letters Now if you like to hide the drive X from Volume A, just type select volume A and then press Enter and then type remove letter X (this sometimes requires a Cold Boot)

To UNHIDE: Suppose you want the display back the hidden volume then, Repeat the above process, but instead of typing remove letter X, type assign letter X

 

NOTE: Since many third party applications are available for this task, but I have been trying this technique through command line which I prefer the best way of doing it. Hope you enjoyed and might felt yourself in secured way.