Awesome Open Source Time Tracking System

Hello Folks,

I was searching for an open source time tracking system and I found this "KIMAI". It's GUI is easy to understand and to customize as well.

Kimai

Kimai is based on PHP5/MySQL5 technology. If you don’t have a web server installed on your machine you can use XAMPP (Windows and Mac). XAMPP comes with everything you need for Kimai.

Kimai is a free open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project, by action… 

It’s simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai’s web browser based interface it runs cross-platform. Likewise you can install it as a web service or as a single-user program on your local workstation. 

“While there are many programs one can use for time and project tracking, they tend to be overkill for my rather simple needs. Kimai came about because I was tired to feed lame boring excel tables …” 

Kimai does not have to run to do the recording. You can even quit your browser. Your time is still recording until you stop it from any web browser that has access to your installment. It is designed to hold lots of users but you can use it for a single user if you need to. 

Kimai is localized in English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese so far. Feel free to send your self-made language files! Not all localizations are complete – we’re still looking for translators! 

You can also send us your own skin designs (find instructions in the ‘skins’ directory). We will also have some skins available in the future.

For more information : http://www.kimai.org/en/

BACK TRACK 5 - Enhance It

Backtrack is specially designed for the security researcher and hackers. Its most awesome operating system with lots of the tools but in this operating system we have to add some of the basic application to improve the performance of the operating system. We have to installsome of the basic application to use backtrack5 daily. There are 12 basic applications to install in the backtrack5. Now just open your backtrack terminal because in this operating system we have to enter the commands to install the applications.

1. Software Center

Software Center helps you to manage the applications and to search the applications to install Software Center, enter the following command in your backtrack terminal.

apt-get install software-center

This command will install Ubuntu software center using that you can search your installed application and you can also install application with just a single click.

 

2. Messenger

To install Messenger in the backtrack enter the bellow command in the terminal and hit enter

apt-get install empathy && apt-get install pidgin

Using this messenger you can be connected with yahoo, Facebook etc.

 

3. Screen Recorder

xvidcap is best screen recorder for the backtrack I have used it for 5-6 time and I personally liked it. 

To install screen recorder just enter the following command in the terminal.

apt-get install xvidcap

 

4.Team Viewer

You have to download it from their official website and you have to add the following command to install the team viewer.

root@bt:~# cd Downloads 
root@bt:~/Downloads# dpkg -i teamviewer_linux*.deb

5. For archive extraction

Install ark archive in the backtrack5 by adding the following command in the terminal

apt-get install ark

6. FTP client

To install FTP client into the backtrack add the following command in the terminal

apt-get install filezilla

 

7. PDF Reader

Install PDF reader into the backtrack 5 add the following command in the terminal.

apt-get install xpdf

And now you have done ! now you can easily use Backtrack daily base :)

Enable TELNET in Windows

How to enable telnet in windows 7 OS ?

There are also some hidden applications in the windows 7 professional like games , telnet etc. if you have used windows 7 professional then you may found that there is no Telnet/Games option because by default its disabled by windows 7 so you need to enable the telnet manually. (if you want to enable the games in windows 7 professional then there is also options for game just follow the simple steps ) 

1.Open "Control Panel "

2.Click on "Programs and Features". 

3.Now at the left side you can see the “Turn windows features on or off ” option. (see the below snapshot.) 

4.Now just select "telnet client" and "telnet server" and hit OK and you have done ! 

If you want to enable the games then there is a first option of games just mark it and hit OK and you have Done !

Create Your Own Shortcut Key to Launch a Program in Windows

How to make your own shortcut key to open the program in faster way?

Just follow the simple steps. 

1. Go to start and "Right Click" on the program which you want to create a shortcut key. 

2. Go to "Properties" (see the below snapshot) 

3. Now Click on "Shortcut Key" and just press "ctrl" and press any key ( from a to z ). 

And hit OK and you have done !

How to Run .BAT Files Invisibly, Without Displaying the Command Prompt Window

Batch files (.BAT) and Windows NT Command Script (.CMD) files run in console window when double-clicked. This means that the Command Prompt window will be visible until the .BAT/.CMD file execution is complete. To make .BAT or .CMD file execution less intrusive, you can configure it to run minimized. Or if the .BAT or .CMD file does not require user input during run time, you can launch it in invisible mode using a Script. Both options are discussed below.

Running .BAT or .CMD files in minimized mode

1. Create a shortcut to the .BAT or .CMD file. To do so, right click on the file, click Send To,Desktop (create shortcut)

2. Right click on the shortcut and choose Properties

3. In the Run: drop down, choose Minimized

4. Click OK

5. Double-click the shortcut to run the batch file in a minimized window state.

Running .BAT or .CMD files in invisible mode

Windows Script Host’s Run Method allows you run a program or script in invisible mode.

Sample Code

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Users\bharat.s\Desktop\TestBAT.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

Copy the lines above to Notepad and save the file with .VBS extension. Edit the .BAT file name and path accordingly, and save the file. Double-click the .VBS file to run it.

Example: 

1. TestVBS.vbs - Executes the "TestBAT.bat" batch file in invisible mode.
2. TestBAT.bat -  Copies "Workflow.doc" document from D:\ to D:\Invisible.