Inspiration Blog 2011: “Block Bypass CPALead Survey Easiest way editing Host file using Proxy” plus 1 more

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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Block Bypass CPALead Survey Easiest way editing Host file using Proxy

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:22 AM PST

Some of the websites which provide premium contents for free usually prefer Compulsory survey as there source of income. Most popular publisher is CPALead. This surveys are time consuming.

One may argue that it can be done using some Ad Blocker addons on browser but These Survey companies detects that you have installed Ad Blocker and do not allow to enter the premium content area. Other solution is to use Premium blocking services like SurveyBlocker.com which costs some 10$ per month.

This kind of surveys detect ad blockers like AdBlock, Super Ad Blocker etc. So today we are going to by pass this CPAlead without using any ad blocker , just by tweaking hosts file.

Block CPA Lead Survey on Windows

Note : You must be logged in using administrator profile and may require to take ownership privilege of files before editing.

1. Go to : C:Windows\system32\drivers\etc\

2. Click on “hosts” file. Select Open with Program as “notepad”

3. And add this two lines at end of the file .

46.4.160.45 cpalead.com
46.4.160.45 www.cpalead.com

4. Save the file and close the notepad.

Block CPA Lead Survey on Ubuntu or any Linux

1. Open Terminal (Press CTRL + ALT + T in Ubuntu )

2. Pass the command : sudo gedit /etc/hosts

It will ask for your administrator password.After you enter the password editor will open.If linux returned an error “gedit command not found” use other editor which is installed on your system.

3.And add this two lines at end of the file .

46.4.160.45 cpalead.com
46.4.160.45 www.cpalead.com

4. Save the file and close the notepad.

After you save the file.

wooho! you are done.Now if you are using Firefox, disable Adblock plus(any similar) or add an exception for cpalead.comt and www.cpalead.com. Else this wont work.

Note: This trick is independent of browser you use and after applying trick, you may have to clear browser cache to take effect instantly.

How is this working ?

We are just redirecting cpalead.com to other server who’s ip is “46.4.160.45" and which will return an black script and will pass a variable named “isLoaded” as Boolean value “true” so that Ad Block protector will be fooled.

Will It get broken ?

Well as its a private server (46.4.160.45) IP may get change in future so this may get broken.You don’t have to worry. Just bookmark the page and subscribe us, we will keep updating the page.

This is a guest post contributed by Chetan Mendhe who loves tweaking and hacking. You can follow him on twitter at @chetanweb

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Go Launcher: Refreshing Combination of ADW and LauncherPro Homescreen

Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST

Go Launcher is a fresh and awesome home replacement application for your Android device. Its power packed with the functionality of two of the best Android launchers ADW Launcher, LauncherPro along with the sports features of iPhone's launcher.

Go Launcher is more or less like Samsung's TwLauncher with added tabs of Recent Used and Running application on the top.

Recent Use tab provide easy access to our recently used application and the the Running tab acts like a task manager showing all the running task along with the capability of killing them.

Features

Extremely smooth scrolling
Convenient icon pop-menu
Gesture supported
Useful app drawer to uninstall apps and kill tasks
Removable screen previews (Up to 30 screens)

Verdict

As a newbie in the home screen application Go launcher seems to be a promising but here are the list of things that lacked.

Apps is sorted by “most used” instead of alphabetical order which is confusing at times.
Resizable Widgets not supported.
Doesn't have dock background feature and lacked theme feature.

Go Launcher for Android