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web designer's analysis: how YUI-net.com works

 × × × Thursday, 31 December 2009



As a YUILover and also an amateur web designer, I have always been fascinated by how YUI's official website (referred to as YUI-net hereafter) is designed to keep out unwanted ripping. After managing to gain 'access' to YUI-net's system, I will now list all the security blocks currently working on YUI-net.

To start off, I must say the security blocks are very well done. A person with no knowledge of HTML/CSS will not be able to figure out just how Sony Japan create this miraculous website.

Security blocks:

#1 Masked web-forwarding.
The URL, YUI-net.com, is in reality a secondary URL. I will not reveal the primary URL here as I want to keep it to myself.

Basically, for non-web-designers, masked web forwarding means a particular URL will redirect to a particular web page BUT the URL of the particular web page is 'masked', i.e. not shown.

In the case of YUI-net, http://yui-net.com/ will redirect to http://.../ (I'm not going to reveal it to protect Sony Japan - ironic much?) BUT the URL in the address bar will still be displayed as http://yui-net.com/

An example of masked web-forwarding in use is my secondary URL http://ping-gd.net/. Try clicking on a link and be amazed the URL in the address bar remain displayed as http://ping-gd.net/
Click here to see it in action.

#2 Hidden within and within and within another hosted folder.
Sorry to disappoint but this is no adabracadabra trick. It's relatively simple - hide a particular hosted folder deep within a few others. Too bad my hosting agent won't let me try this, otherwise you will be confronted with a high-tech and professional-looking layout the next time you visit my website.

A neat little trick that is a must for this hiding technique is a 404 error page. To do this, create a 404 page, name it as index.html and place it within a hosted folder. The hosted folder will then be displayed as 'access denied' to all but clever you, who knows how to get around to this.

Although I can't go all Grande Desseins like Sony Japan, I can still throw around a few 404 error pages. To the retards who tried to steal the pictures on my blog, I present you this.

And that's all! Run along, now!

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Jolene Wong blogged @ 12:31 PM  |  0 Comments


how to sign up for an account on me2DAY

 × × × Sunday, 11 November 2001

I do not claim proficiency in the Korean language, mainly because I am not even proficient with it to start with.

UPDATED: DEC 09

Step 1: Go to this link. You will see a page that looks like this:


Step 2: Click on the button under the heading Me2day, as show in the picture below:


Step 3: You will be taken to a page which, hopefully, will look like this:


Fill in the form, below is an annotated picture to help you if you don't understand Korean!


This is an example:


Warning: Do not attempt to look for this account on me2DAY because it DOES NOT exist!

Step 4: Hopefully, you will be taken to the me2DAY homepage after sign up. Click on the blue button on the top right of the page:


If you somehow landed on another page, don't worry! Just click on the me2day logo that is always on the top left corner of the page, and you will be taken to the me2day homepage.

Step 5: You will be taken to your own update page! Now you can update your status and start following people!

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Jolene Wong blogged @ 11:11 AM  |  0 Comments


how to install Windows Media Player 11

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Windows Media Player 11.0 is the latest Media Player by Microsoft. It offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video and pictures along with its new cool look. You must have Windows XP Service Pack-2 (SP2) in order to install Windows Media Player 11.0. You will face a problem while installing this new Windows Media Player if your copy of Windows XP is not a genuine (non-pirated) one, since WMP 11.0 installation requires genuine windows validation.

There are some tricky steps through which you can install WMP 11.0 even in your pirated copy of windows XP bypassing the genuine windows validation. You just have to follow the following steps one by one:
  1. Download Windows Media Player 11.0 (make sure its the final and latest version, not beta) from the Microsoft website. Alternatively, you can download the installer file directly from here. Remember you can’t install Windows Media Player 11.0 if service pack 2.0 is not installed in your operating system.
  2. Extract the downloaded Windows Media Player setup file (wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe) using WinRAR to a directory (wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu). Now make sure you have a "LegitLibM.dll" file in the extracted "wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu" folder.
  3. Download the patched LegitLibM.dll and then copy-paste it to the "wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu" folder and click yes when asked to overwrite.
  4. Now run “setup_wm.exe” file in the "wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu" folder.
  5. Restart your PC, then run your Windows Media Player and you are done!

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Jolene Wong blogged @ 11:11 AM  |  0 Comments


How to remove Pyzam advertising bar

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For new Blogger users, Blogger will offer you the choice of several layout of their own. But if you find them boring and unattractive, you might want to try using Pyzam's many Blogger layouts. With so many to choose from, you will be spoilt for choice.

Many of you will hate the orange Pyzam advertising bar hovering just below the Blogger search bar. Here is how to remove it:

1. Log into your Blogger account

2. On the Blogger Dashboard, select 'Layout' under your blog name.

3. You will now be on the 'Page Elements' subtab. Select the subtab 'Edit HTML'.

4. Under 'Edit Template, scroll down until you saw this code:

<div class='bloggerPyBar' style='cursor:pointer;'><div class='pylogo'><span style='position:relative;top:-1px;left:0px'>«</span>
<a href='http://www.pyzam.com'>PYZAM.COM</a></div>
<a href='http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates'>BLOGGER TEMPLATES</a> AND <a href='http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com'>TWITTER BACKGROUNDS</a>
<span style='position:relative;top:-1px;left:0px;'>»</span> </div>

It should be just under the <body> tag.

5. Remove the above code from the page. BE VERY CAREFUL WHILE REMOVING! If you remove other codes just below it, it can cause drastic (and unwanted) changes to your layout. If you accidentally did so, just hit the 'clear edits' button and start over again.

I hope the above information is useful!

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Jolene Wong blogged @ 11:11 AM  |  0 Comments


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