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First a quick note. I have removed a great many posts from being visible on this blog. They were more personal or quirky posts that I don’t think anyone wanted to read anyways I just removed them. Hey I said it would be quick didn’t I?! Anyways…

If you like seeing your profile view number go up there are a number of ways to actually do it. Most involve you basically whoring yourself by adding friends, posting comments, posting on the forums, joining groups, etc. This probably the fastest way.

However if you wanted a more low key approach, wanted to add a couple more views to your profile to reach some magic number, or simply wanted to see if this works you can use a website called Browsershots.org.

Browsershots actually has several uses. It’s primary function is as a web designer tool to show you how your website looks across various browsers, this way you can make sure your website looks the same and works for everyone. You to submit websites and in roughly 15-30 min it will return screenshots for you to look at. This in itself is pretty cool for myspace because you can check to see how your page looks for everyone. All that layout code doesn’t always work for everyone.

It uses computers around the world to take these screenshots. You enter the URL for your website and these computers will try and visit the site. This is where those profile views come from. Just enter your myspace (example, www.myspace.com/iamsonson) and shortly after they will visit. Each of them will add to your profile views. The more browsers you select the better (just select them all, most are selected by default). Remember that they can’t actually see your page if it’s set to private though.

I don’t actually care about my profile views so I don’t do this, but it’s an interesting by product of the website. Basically you have a website that sends out drones for you. I am sure you can use it for more sinister things too. I imagine you can use it to trigger google impressions, flickr views, etc.

First of all, what is this post about? It’s a MySpace tip. I use it myself. It helps me keep track of when certain people update their profiles precisely without having to visit the profile as often wondering if anything changed. It’s very simple, nice to know, and under used.

Ok so let’s face it. Most of us are nosey, snoops, like to know things, may be obsessed, crushing, or infatuated at times. I like to call it snooping or in the more serious cases…all out stalking. Now I certainly don’t encourage stalking people, however being nosey or curious is human nature so that is ok to me.

I’m gonna show you a great yet under used MySpace feature. The “Add To Favorites” button on a users contact table.

That feature is always available even if a users profile is private. Most people never notice it.

A few things it’s good for :

• Keeping track of someone who’s profile is private. You still can’t see their profile, however you’ll know when they update it even though you can’t see it. That way if you have a way to view the profile, such as a friends login who is their friend or other work arounds, you can just check your Favorites to see if there was any change without having to log out of your regular account.
• Keeping track of friends without visiting their profile or by spending MUCH less time on their profile.

Draw backs:

• This will not tell you when pictures were updated, however this is an easy and quick check if you have access to the profile. If you do not have access and the “Default Picture” was changed. I have another tutorial on how to snag it. Check it out.

So anyways… here is what the Favorites page looks like. I’ll explain what you see below it.

To get to the favorites, simply click the “Favorites” link on the top of the page.

You have a drop down combo box with two options. Look at people you added, or look at people that added you. Since this feature is so underused, it is unlikely anyone will have shown you they were added (more explaination on this below).

Each time you add someone to your favorites, it is left as private by default. What this means is THEY CANNOT SEE THAT YOU ADDED THEM. Which is excellent when stealth and secrecy is of importance.

You can however make it known that you added them by clicking the “Make Public” button for that user. This is on a profile to profile basis, meaning you can keep some private and some publicly known. I recommend leaving them the default always (private).

Do not confuse the above option for whether a profile is public or private in the sense that anyone can see it, or anyone cannot see it. That is an entirely seperate thing. Don’t get confused! If you got confused, just ignore the last few paragraphs and continue!

As you probably saw by now, there is a “Profile Updated:” line next to each profile. This tells you when a person last updated their profile. THIS WORKS EVEN WHEN THE PROFILE IS SET TO PRIVATE AND YOU CANNOT SEE IT.

I find this feature very handy personally. I like to know things >:)

comment me! seriously! please?

Here are some quick yet handy Monk tips for EverQuest.

Fast Sneaking ability - Currently you can bug sneak so that you can sneak while running full speed. All you have to do is hit sneak then target anything else (an npc or player or object) then hit clawstrike, dragon fang, or one of the pacify abilities. You MUST get an “out of range” message. Once you do this, you will act as if you are sneaking yet at full speed because the sneak button is no longer in use. To test it out just /consider an npc from behind like you would normal sneak. This is handy for pulling, corpse recover, basically anything sneak would be handy for except that you are now at full speed. Very useful.

What is an NPCs True Name and how do you get it? - Simply put it’s the npcs full name, “an_orc_pawn09″ for example versus what you see in game which is only “an orc pawn”. This can be useful for using /target on a specific npc or for telling different npcs apart that are close together. Or just to show off and pretend you are a cheat. This only works with feign death. Simple feign in close proximity to the npc you want the information for then attempt to trade a no trade item to it. The npc will say something along the lines of “an_orc_pawn28 is too busy to trade”.

Want to have more fun in EverQuest? Read on!

This guide will try and walk you through using the free open source MySEQ with EverQuest on a 1 PC setup.

Some Basic Info

• I do not use this program but believe anything that doesn’t grief other players directly and will make the game enjoyable and less fustrating for players is acceptable.
• This program is against the Sony EverQuest EULA and can get your accounts banned.
• This program is 99.9% safe to use as long as you keep it to yourself and avoid letting other players know that you use it either directly by telling them or indirectly by showing off.
• This program is known by a few names. ShowEQ is the linux version, MySEQ is the WINDOWS version. All references to this program under windows will be under the “MySEQ” name only. Do not refer to it by any other name unless you intend to mean that you are using something not in windows.
• You can run this program on the same PC you play everquest or on a seperate PC/Monitor.
• The main website for this program is www.showeq.net. Any other website is an imitation.

What it does

• Passively(doesn’t alter the data at all) reads the EverQuest memory while the game is running, then displays the information on a map similar to the in-game map but with all available information such as npc or player location, true names, movement, level, etc. Anything the client receives that can be translated into useful information.
• Information such as item drops is not sent to the client and thus not available.

What you need

• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0: which can be found here
• the MySEQ program: it is divided into two parts. the “Server” and the “Client”. The server transmits the data to the client. The client displays the information. Both need to be running even if you use the one PC setup.
• Maps: they can be found at www.mapfiend.net or just use the ones in your /EverQuest/maps directory
• Offsets: Offsets are the location of where the information is in the memory, aka the memory address for the information. You need new offsets usually everytime the game is patched and the eqgame.exe file is changed. To get new offsets after a patch you will need to visit the MySEQ section of the forums here

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This are more of a trick or workaround than actual hacks or exploits of the system. But they are not always obvious to beginner level users.

Updated: August 29, 2007

Advanced Users can skip past the basics to Step 1

Some Basics
Q: What is a URL?

A: a URL is the address or link to the information you are viewing or looking for on the web. For example www.google.com is a URL. So are longer more complicated URLs such as http://www.google.com/search?q=URL&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Q: What is the address bar?

A: the address bar is almost always located at the top of your web browser, it is where the URL goes into.

Like this…

Q: What is a profile ID/number?

A: it’s a number given to a user to identify their individual profile. Person A could have the profile number 1234, while person B could have the profile number 5678. These numbers clearly distinguish those individuals from each other. On sites like MySpace, Facebook, or similar sites these numbers come inside or at the end of pretty much every URL because it is meant to identify you as the user doing these actions. Most sites have protection against fiddling with this mechanism, however not always and in many cases a loophole is missed somewhere in the system or left open because it’s so minor allowing you access by changing the URL and/or these numbers. This is what this post covers.

Getting the large version of someones default picture when their profile is set to private

The default picture is the picture you see next to someones name on MySpace pretty much everywhere you see them. Messages, Posts, Searches, On someones friends list, etc. MySpace warns that your default picture is visible to everyone, and it’s true! Even if someones profile is set to private or they have disabled viewing of their pictures to only friends. Sometimes you come across a profile that is private but they have a really cool picture and you want to see the larger version. It’s very easy.

Step 1

Find one of those annoyingly small/medium pictures you want to have a large version of, any picture at all on any myspace page. For this example we will just use everyones default friend Tom.

Step 2

Right click the image and a sub menu appears. If using Firefox click View Image. If using Internet Explorer click Properties then copy the Address: URL and paste it into the address bar. Make sure you copied everything from http:// to the end which should be .gif or .jpg See images below for your specific browser if necessary!

Firefox Users:

Internet Explorer Users:

note, this also works in Firefox

Step 3

Once you have the image URL in the address bar, change the letter s or m (whichever is there depends on the size of the photo) to the letter l in the filename all the way near the end of the URL. That’s l as in a lower case L. The s stands for small, m stands for medium, l stands for large. See image below for example.

Now all you have to do is press Enter or hit Go to go to the new URL and you will arrive at the large sized version of the picture.

I do this all the time, not for malicious reasons, but just because I genuinely find lots of pictures on Myspace interesting/creative or just because I don’t want to visit someones profile and sort through 200 pictures to find their default.

Feel free to comment if something is unclear, or if you found this useful… or not. =)