Megaphone Desktop Tool is one of a kind tool that used mainly to support Israel and Jewish based online media attacks. This application is used by Jewish students and youth around the world to support Israel and attack critics of Israel in real time using online social bookmarking and comment pages. Although social bookmarking sites Digg’s TOS bans this kind of activity that would eliminate the natural way of public voice, this website has been active and working for Israel supporters to achieve their goal.

 A recent such ban came from Digg, social bookmarking website,  to a Palestine supporter who was only digging pages in favor of Palestine and burying the articles she disliked. She described this situation on her blog and explained the two sided policy of Digg by disclosing full details of Megaphone Desktop Tool.

GIYUS is acronym for Give Israel Your United Support. Here is what is displayed on the front page of GIYUS.org.
Today’s conflicts are won by public opinion.
Now is the time to be active and voice Israel’s side to the world.

Join the effort in 3 easy steps:
Download and install Megaphone desktop tool
Receive desktop alerts on key articles and surveys
Click alerts to easily voice your opinion
Help us by reporting relevant articles and surveys.

Together we can make a difference!
In case you don’t now about Megaphone, it is described in Wikipedia as “the pro-Israel lobbying software tool”. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Megaphone.
The Megaphone desktop tool is a Microsoft Windows application distributed by the World Union of Jewish Students and other pro-Israel organizations, through the Giyus.org website. Released on July 19, 2006, it delivers real-time alerts about key articles, videos, blogs, and surveys to subscribers so that they can voice their opinions and work together to support Israel on the public opinion front.

So now you can see the relationship:
IsraeliGirl->founder of GIYUS.org->distributor of Megaphone->pro-Israel lobbying software->work together to support Israel

Previously I had mentioned about enabling Multiple Session for Remote Desktop on Windows XP This time I’d like to talk about Multiple Sessions for Remote Desktop on Windows Vista.

Multiple Session for Remote Desktop on Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business Vista x86 (RTM & SP1) and x64 (RTM & SP1)

1. Download Termsrv.dll file http://rapidshare.com/files/135672441/VISTA_TERMSRV_PATCHES.zip for
2. Extract files to a folder and run setup.cmd file. Once it runs, it takes care of other details that you would have typed manually.  If you’d like to know what you would be doing manually if you were not running this command, it is listed as below:
   Type the following & hit enter: takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\termsrv.dll
   Then type this & hit enter (NOTE: Replace USERNAME with YOUR USERNAME!):
   cacls C:\Windows\System32\termsrv.dll /G USERNAME:F
   Then go to your Windows Explorer, and go to C:\Windows\System32\
   Rename the original termsrv.dll to something else, like “termsrv.dll.ORIGINAL”, just in case
   NOTE: If you are unable to do the above, try rebooting into SAFE MODE
3. Assuming you ran the setup.cmd file, in the middle of its execution it will ask you to copy Termsrv.dll file, you should copy the file from the right folder depending on your Windows Vista installation.

Then you’ll also need to create another user. Remember, this doesn’t let you connect 2 people to the same user account, so make another account & then just connect to that one & you should NOT be disconnected.

Thanks to PCTuren you can also use the exe version which supports:

Works with Windows Vista Ultimate,  Windows Vista Business,  Windows Vista Home Premium,  Windows Vista Enterprise Edition.
Works with  Windows Vista 32-bit &  Windows Vista 64-bit versions.
Works with  Windows Vista Original Release &  Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Works with Windows Vista Enterprise Edition

http://rapidshare.com/files/135675232/MRDP_-_Vista.exe

If you have premium account and setup direct download from rapidshare.com but can not download with flashget on Windows Vista. You should disable User Account Control (UAC)  by following steps below:

How to disable User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista:

1. Open Control Panel.

2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the “Add or remove user account”.

3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.

4. Under the user account click on the “Go to the main User Account page” link.

5. Under “Make changes to your user account” click on the “Change security settings” link.

6. In the “Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure” click to unselect the “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer”. Click on the Ok button.

7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

Source:  The images and guide for disable the User Account Control (UAC) is taken from http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

Gtalk, Google’s best shot in IM market. It’s been fairly successful although Yahoo’s Y! and Microsoft’s MSN is beating in most of the parts. As a Gtalk user, I’ve been looking for solutions to log in as invisible and keep my privacy against people whom I don’t want to talk at the time. Gtalk itself does not include Invisible option while you can break the rules in couple of different ways.

1- Gtalk is Jabber based IM tool. Although Gtalk supports invisible mode on server side, Gtalk team did not include this function on client side which all of us are using. If you’d like to get that option that you will need to go back to Gtalk’s ancestors which is Jabber client. Some says “use Jabber client instead of crappy Google Talk client.” So you have the option of using PSI or Pidgin (originally gaim). You can download those clients from:
PSI: http://psi-im.org/
Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.im/

Check out the video for PSI below:

Invisible In Gtalk!!! – Click here for another funny movie.

2- Invisible mod from GMail interface:
This one is very simple but not useful with Gtalk. In order to login as invisible to Gtalk, you should log out from Gtalk client application and log in to the Gmail account, and choose invisible mode from the chat window on the left. You can find invisible option from the list where you change your status message.

Good luck

Most desktop administrators quickly become familiar with the need to make adjustments to the Registry on remote computers. The free PolicyMaker™ Registry Extension is a true client side extension (CSE) to Group Policy, providing full registry management capability. The interface is simple and configurations are communicated to client computers through Group Policy. When Group Policy refreshes on a client computer, the registry is updated.

Microsoft announced October 2, 2006, that it acquired DesktopStandard Corporation, a leading developer of Group Policy-based enterprise desktop management products.

When you try to download Policy Maker from DesktopStandard website, you will be redirected to Microsoft’s website because Microsoft put this tool into their roadmap for Windows Server 2008. Good news, you can use the link that I found for Policy Maker Extension below:

http://smallvoid.orgfree.com/files/polreg.msi.zip

1. Download and install the polreg.msi file

2. Go to program files folder and copy the following file to the network share that all clients have access to. Here is the file to copy…
   C:\program files\DesktopStandard\PolicyMaker\Client\polregcl.msi

3. Open your domain group policy editor and right click on Administrative Templates

4. Now add the desktopstandard.adm file and set some policies…start with the software deployment policies.

5. Now, in the group policy editor, go to User Configuration section and expand user settings… here you will find the registry.

6. Simply right click on registry and select New–> Registry Item.