How to bypass T-Mobile’s anti-tethering policy

T-Mobile instituted a hotspot plan in 2010, but many users were never charged because of technical limitations with the software. Recently T-Mo has been blocking users, after receiving Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades, and redirecting them to a sales page telling them that they can purchase the feature for an additional $14.95 per month. If you’re a T-Mobile user and experiencing this, you can bypass it, and it’s not too difficult.

First of all this is what’s happening now:

Their filtering is based on HTTP user-agents. If your user-agent matches a known user-agent that is not android it
will reject the traffic. Now there are two problems with this,

A.) If an unknown userAgent is passed or No user agent, your traffic is accepted.
B.) There are a bazillion TCP protocols that do not have user-agents.

So off the bat with no user-agent spoofing, all protocols work except HTTP, including HTTPS, HTTPS works out of
box because of its encryption.

So how do you get around this? All you have to do is change your user agent profile. If you’re using Chrome, you can download this add on or this one for Firefox users. These will allow you to spoof your user-agent profile. If you’re using another Browser, just search for an appropriate plugin. After you’ve installed the plugin, just change your user-agent to Android XOOM for example and enjoy free tethering.

Tether T-mobile prepaid plan

I have the T-mobile $30 unlimited prepaid plan and I ran into the tethering block after getting my Nexus 5.

I was able to work around the issue by modifying the following sqlite database (you'll need root):
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

You need to add a new entry to the global table called "tether_dun_required" with a value of 0.

It looks like you need to do this because some configuration data was added to Android for T-mobile that forwards tethered data to this APN: pcweb.tmobile.com
T-mobile is probably checking to see if your account has tethering enabled when you go through this APN.

After I made this change I also needed to change my APN settings so that it uses ipv4 instead of ipv6. It seems like tethering with ipv6 does not work 100% yet.

I hope this helps.

Borderless Fullscreen Window Skip Valve Video Enable Console DOTA2: Defense of the Ancients 2

I wanted to browse the internet while DOTA2 was searching for a server. I found out that since the game is made in the source engine that you can do the same launch options as any other source game, Like TF2.

Enter this into launch options under prefrences of DOTA2.
-windowed -fullscreen -noborder -novid -console

 This makes the game a borderless fullscreen window that you can just scroll your mouse off to the side and interact with other windows. It also enables the developer console button ~ and allows you to input quick commands like quit

Here is an image of where to input the options.

How to use Thunderbird with a Cardmail Account / Office365 email account

General instructions for other POP or IMAP email programs

If the program you're using isn't listed above, use the following information to help you set up your email.

• Email address: This is your full email address (for example, tony@contoso.com).
• User name: Your user name is your full email address (for example, tony@contoso.com).
• Password: This is the password for your email account.
• Incoming mail server settings: These are your incoming (POP3 or IMAP4) server settings.
• If you’re connecting to your Office 365 email, use the following settings.

	SERVER NAME	PORT	ENCRYPTION METHOD
POP3	outlook.office365.com	995	SSL
IMAP4	outlook.office365.com	993	SSL

• If you’re not using Office 365, see Find your server settings later in this article.

How to delete a mail account in Thunderbird

Go to Edit->Properties and select the Account. Then Click on Account Action at the left bottom of the current Window and delete your Account.

How To Disable Restart Your Computer To Finish Installing Important Updates Prompt

We have all been there and seen it. Whenever updates are installed in Windows that require a reboot, you are prompted in regular intervals to do so. These messages appear shortly after installing the updates, and then regularly until you do so. The Restart Your Computer To Finish Installing Important Updates prompt offers to postpone the update for 10 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours. The prompt is then displayed again if the computer has not been rebooted in the meantime.

Many Windows users dislike the nagging prompt, especially if they are currently running tasks that would be interrupted by a reboot. This includes video rendering, an important download or upload, or a document that needs to be finished in the next hour or so.

While you could select 4 hours from the menu to see the reboot prompt after 4 hours, you may still like to disable the display of the update prompt for a longer period of time. This can be useful if you are currently in a day long presentation that requires the computer.
There are two options to deal with the issue. You could first stop the Windows Update service for the current session. This basically blocks the prompt and any attempt to install new updates until the computer is rebooted.
The following steps are needed for this:

• Open up an elevated command prompt window. You can do that by clicking on the Start button of the operating system, entering cmd in the search form and using the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Enter to open it with administrative privileges. A user account control prompt may be displayed.
• Run the command net stop "windows update" to stop the Windows Update service for the current session.

You can restart the service with the command net start "windows update". The service will also be started normally on the next start of the system.
The second option lets you disable the auto reboot option when users are logged on. This requires some Registry hacking and is only suggested for advanced users. You may also want to backup the Registry first before you make those changes.

• Use Windows-r to bring up the run box. Enter regedit and hit enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.
• Navigate to the following Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update
• Locate the ForcedReboot key there and change its value from whatever it is set to to 0.

Please note that this works only under Vista, Windows 7 and newer operating systems.
The third and final option is the Local Group Policy Editor which is only available in some versions of the Windows operating system. Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update and locate the following two parameters:

• No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations
• Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations

Enable the first parameter to block automatic restarts after update installations, and set the second to a high enough period to receive the reboot prompt less often.

Internet Download Manager IDM Chrome Browser Integration

How to install the "IDM Integration" extension from Chrome if the Installer does not work correctly.

You need to open IDM installation folder ("C:\Program Files\Internet Download Manager" by default, arrow 1 on the image), then rename "IDMGCExt.crx" to "IDMGCExt.zip". (arrow 1 on the image) extract the zip into a folder such as /idm plugin/  (arrow 2 on the image). Then go to chrome's Extensions options by going to select "Settings" menu item. Then select"Extensions" tab and click on Load unpacked extension (arrow 3 on the image) and select the folder /idm plugin/. It should add the plugin to installed extensions.

2. How to configure IDM extension for Chrome?

You need to press on Chrome menu (arrow 1 on the image), and select "Settings" menu item (arrow 2 on the image). Then select"Extensions" tab (arrow 3 on the image).



Check that "IDM Integration Module" extension is enabled (arrow 4 on the image). If you use incognito mode in Chrome, you need to enable "Allow in incognito" checkbox (arrow 5 on the image).