The VBScript script below shows how to intercept Win32 registry APIs such as RegOpenKey and RegQueryValue using the Deviare Interception Engine. Windows Internals’ Process Monitor, the tool most often used to monitor registry operations, cannot be customized. There is a large VBScript community that will benefit from adding intercepting options to scripts. Registry interception can […]
Controlling Playback Speed Our Deviare Hooking Engine can be used to speed up or slow down a video during playback using the code available here (github repository). This code is pretty small and clearly shows how Deviare handles the complexities of API hooking. Although this sample code deals only with video it is also possible to […]
Microsoft Outlook users who want to prevent Outlook from showing “X on behalf of Y” to the recipient can download our free Outlook add-on here, uncompress it, and run the setup.exe application. Microsoft Outlook users who want to send e-mails from different e-mail addresses have to configure each account separately with their respective e-mail services […]
You can reverse engineer binary applications but you cannot reverse engineer the cloud. When Google deprecates a web service, Facebook eliminates an API, or Twitter imposes tougher API restrictions, all dependant services fall like dominoes. The weakest link in the chain is the cloud services that you can’t run or port anywhere: we no longer […]
Dropbox is the de-facto standard for file synchronization. It is present on both desktop and mobile operating systems. Why not integrate Dropbox within applications themselves? We have developed an Outlook add-on to attach files residing on Dropbox. The sender chooses files synchronized by Dropbox from a new Outlook panel. and the recipient can open the […]
Hooking spoolsv.exe Printers in an organization are an easy target for abuse. Developing an application to log printer activity requires expertise in Microsoft Windows internals. The simple code below allows you to quickly use our Deviare Interception Engine to log printer activity. The application runs on the computer the printer is connected to and logs […]
The Outlook forms alternative Sometimes creating Outlook forms is a good alternative to developing Outlook add-ons. They can run scripts written in VBScript, an old fashioned language, but powerful enough. Another benefit of creating Outlook forms is that they do not need to be installed as extra software. Outlook forms can be deployed and shared […]
This week Mozilla launched Firefox 3 officially. It was covered in a couple of sites like: It’s Firefox 3 world record download day (techcrunch) A Few Firefox 3 Followups (slashdot) We have released a new version of Cookiepie firefox extension available for download, and we have a number of features and a long wish list […]
Back in 2001 we wrote an arcane simple perl script just for fun. The script gave you the freedom to export IMDB movies from your ranking to your web page. Now in 2008 and with business goals in mind, we need to export/interact with information from sites like LinkedIn and add it to our handcrafted […]
Cookiepie is one of the favorite Firefox extensions for web developers and users of webmail services like Google Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.Web developers use cookiepie to test their sites.In the past, if a site (e.g. home banking, community site) required extensive testing simulating many different users, the developer needed to open different browsers. Currently all […]