Feeling Bored? 10 Interesting Things To Learn Online

Learn what you always wanted to with these websites!

We have been doing a lot of stories on online places where you can learn various things like Linux, programming, command line and others. Let's take a break and talk some non-tech things! We know how techies like to learn about everything from the web, so here we bring to you 10 places to learn the things that you always wished to learn. 1. thechesswebsite.com: Love playing Chess? This is the place to find tricks, tactics, tutorials, and puzzles. 2. cookingforengineers.com: If you're passionate about cooking but haven't quite become the Michelin star chef that you can be, then this is the place for you to learn how to cook. Have fun! 3. digital-photography-school.com They say one needs to have the eye for photography. If you were born with one then go pro through this website by learning professional tricks. 4. memrise.com: Have you always wanted to learn a foreign language but couldn't find time to since you started working? Here's where you can learn whichever language you want to. 5. justinguitar.com: Learning the guitar online has been a fad for some time now. Go on YouTube and you find a number of tutorial videos ranging from the most basic to the most advanced forms of guitaring. If you want a one stop destination, then you can check out this website too. 6. musictheory.net: If studying music theory is something that you are interested in, then this is the place to go. 7. investopedia.com: Investment and finance is a key skill today. Learn and practice investing here. 8. All Recipes: A complete guide for recipes and cooking tips. If you want to brush up on your cooking skills, this site is for you. 9. Woopid: If you still decide to resort to technology, this website bring free tech training videos, help and answer for your computer and gadget related queries. 10. DIY Network: If DIY is your thing then diynetwork is the place for you. The site offers expert answers on your majorly sought-after questions regarding creative projects.

9 Online Ethical Hacking Tools That You Can Use

A hacker may be a person with deep understanding of computers, but they still use various tools to make their lives easier. Want to be a hacker? An ethical hacker nowadays has tons of job opportunities available for him. This is a result of rising security concerns over almost all your online activities. Here are 9 good tools that you can use for your endeavours. 1. Image Metadata Parser With GPS Location: This tool can track your physical locations using the GPS on your 2. Retrieve Public Information Facebook Users: Use this to get public user information from Facebook users. 3. How to Know My Public IP Address in 4 Steps: Knowing your public IP address is an important step for a hacker. 4. Free Alexa Page Rank Checker: Use this to check the Alexa page rank of websites, yours and other websites as well. 5. Google PageRank Checker and Incoming Links Checker: This is to use the Google Page Rank check for your website. 6. Check Server Header Tool : HTTP Status Code Checker Details: This is to check the server header tool. The value returned shou. 7. Online Whois Lookup Tool: If you want to find out who owns a particular domain or IP address, this would help. 8. Reverse IP Address Domain Check Online Tools: In a reverse IP address or domain check, a particular IP or domain is picked up and other websites associated to the websrver that the IP is pointing to. 9. Website Information Lookup Beta v0.1: This service tries to find out as much information about a website as possible. Author : Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill

5 Places Where You Can Find Over 1500 Online Courses!

How do you decide which course is the best? Well, different people have different criteria. While some choose the best course to be the one that pays the most later, while others prefer to go for something that gives them the most satisfaction. Well, no matter what your criteria for courses, we're sure these five places would fulfill your needs!

1. 825 Online Courses from Universities

2. 800 Massively Open Online Courses

3. Free Courses

4. Best Computer Science Degrees

5. Online Courses that will give you high paying careers
Author : Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill

25 Free Resources To Learn Java Programming Language Online

Want to learn Java programming for free? Well, you have come to the perfect place. We bring to you 28 free and high quality java learning resources that includes e-books, websites, cheat-sheets and video channels to learn the Java online for free. So make your pick and get started!


e-Books

Official Java EE Tutorial: Official Java Tutorial from Oracle In PDF Format

Official Java Tutorial by Oracle (Sun): This is the official online Java tutorial of book from Addison-Wesley

Think Java: An introduction to java programming for beginners.

Introduction to Programming Using JavaOnline version of book "Introduction to Programming Using Java".

OSGI In Practice: Free PDF Book on Java OSGI Platform development for advanced/expert developers.

Core Servlets and JavaServer: ITs Free Online Version of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages book

Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz: A handy guide for Java development on Linux platform.

Inside the Java Virtual Machine: Free chapters of the a really good book "Inside the Java Virtual Machine" by Bill Venners.

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java: A good online book for mid level experienced Java developer to understand design pattern using Java language.

Thinking In Java: Online free Version of popular book Thinking In Java by Bruce Eckel.

Free Websites To Learn Java

Java SE Specification: This contains the Java Language and Virtual Machine Specifications for deeper understanding for Java language.

Java Lessons: Java and JSP Tutorials with Examples.

Java Generics FAQs: A really good question answer format online tutorial for common Java Generics related concepts.

Java Programming FAQs and Tutorials: This site contains many specialized and general Java Programming Topics in question answer format.

Cafeaulait: Single web page tutorial on Java by Elliotte Rusty Harold

Core Servlets Java Tutorials: A very good resource for experienced java developers.

Java Practices: This site provides presentations of Java practices, tasks, and designs, and a huge set of syntax-highlighted code examples.

Programming Notes: Simple java tutorials for beginners.

Top Cheat Sheets For Java

Java API DocsThe best cheat sheet, that I always prefer is Java official API documentation. It handy to easily browse through various classes and their documentation.

Cheatsheet by Princeton University: Summary of most commonly-used Java language features in one page.

Cheatsheet by mindprod.comOne page simple online handy cheat sheet.

DZone Cheatsheets: Best Resource for Java and related technology cheat sheets and good articles.

Quick Reference By Digilife: Contains simple quick notes to use variety of java programming constructs.

Java Reference (By Dream In Code):A simple cheat sheet for java beginners.

Free Video Tutorials

Tutorials for Java Development with Eclipse

Video Tutorials By Java9s

Java Tutorial for Beginners

Java Videos and Screencasts


Author : Shivam Kotwalia, Code

Top 10 Free Online Courses From Top Universities

If you also desire to obtain free education from an elite university, CodeKill presents top 10 sites with detailed Information about MOOCs... 

        Though online courses have been on the Internet for past many years, the quality and quantity of courses have undergone a change from time to time. Students now have access to free courses which brings them at par with others who obtained the same certification from a regular school/university. In fact, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have significantly changed the face of education.

As mentioned in The New York Times article, author Tamar Lewin states, “In the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree.”


1. Udemy Free Courses– Udemy is an example of an elite site that allows anyone to construct or take online courses. If you go to Udemy’s site, it exclaims, “Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.” As reported by The New York Times, Udemy has, “recently announced a new Faculty Project, in which award-winning professors from universities like Dartmouth, the University of Virginia and Northwestern offer free online courses. Its co-founder, Gagen Biyani, said the site has more than 100,000 students enrolled in its courses, including several, outside the Faculty Project, that charge fees.”

2. ITunesU Free Courses–A free app site from Apple that gives students access to entire course material at a single place. They can play video or audio lectures in the app and also read books and view presentations.

3. Stanford Free Courses - Here, you can get courses ranging from Quantum Mechanics to The Future of the Internet, and all for free! Stanford’s – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence was extremely popular. As per Pontydysgu.org has “160000 students from 190 countries signed up to Stanford’s Introduction to AI” course, with 23000 reportedly completing.” Do check out Engineering Everywhere link of Standford.

4. UC Berkeley Free Courses– Here, you can get courses on General Biology to Human Emotion. Check out: Berkeley Webcasts and Berkeley RSS Feeds.

5. MIT Free Courses– Explore MIT’s RSS MOOC feed. Also check out: MIT’s Open Courseware.

6. Duke Free Courses– Duke presents a range of courses on ITunesU. Check out!

7. Harvard Free Courses– Another elite university site offering you education from Computer Science to Shakespeare that too free. Students can even take a class for professional development, enhancement, and degree credit. The university runs courses in the fall, spring, or intensive January session. You need not fill any application form.

8. UCLA Free Courses– Check out the link for viewing the free courses including their writing program with more than 220 online writing courses every year.

9. Yale Free Courses– Another significant and elite web link that offers free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by eminent teachers and scholars at Yale University.

10. Carnegie Mellon Free Courses– Carnegie Mellon says “No instructors, no credits, no charge.” Visit the link to check out free courses. 

Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill

50 Best Hacking Tools!

Hacking tools can be dangerous in the wrong hands. But, they can be just as useful for a good ethical hacker too!

Hacking tools have been said to make hacking quite easy as compared to the old days. But, there is still more to being a hacker than just that. Yes, these tools have made it simple, but that is nothing unless you have the knowledge about other aspects of hacking as well. We present tp you a set of must-have hacking tools. Wireless Hacking: These are tools that help you hack into wireless networks. Wireless hacking tools though useful, do not make you a complete hacker. In order to achieve that, you must learn the different ways in which a secure network can be accessed. Also, you should work on making your own network as secure as possible. 1. Aircrack-ng 2. Kismet 3. inSSIDer 4. KisMAC Intrusion Detection Systems: Intrusion detection tools are one of the most important part of any security arrangement. They allow you to detect those threats that are potentially dangerous for your system. 1. Snort 2. NetCop Port Scanners 1. Nmap 2. Superscan 3. Angry IP Scanner Encryption Tools: In an age where more and more governments are being found spying on their own citizens, encryption is the word of the day. These tools allow you to encrypt your data so that even if someone does get through, they can’t get to the data easily. 1. TrueCrypt 2. OpenSSH 3. Putty 4. OpenSSL 5. Tor 6. OpenVPN 7. Stunnel 8. KeePass Password Crackers: The name is pretty self explanatory in this case. These tools help you recover passwords from the data that a computer system is storing or transmitting over a network. 1. Ophcrack 2. Medusa 3. RainbowCrack 4. Wfuzz 5. Brutus 6. L0phtCrack 7. fgdump 8. THC Hydra 9. John The Ripper 10. Aircrack - Aircrack is 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program. 11. Cain and Abel Packet Crafting: Packet crafting is the technique through which an attacker finds vulnerabilities or entry points within your firewall. These tools help you achieve that more easily. 1. Hping 2. Scapy 3. Netcat 4. Yersinia 5. Nemesis 6. Socat Traffic Monitoring: These are tools that let you monitor what websites your employees or children are monitoring. 1. Splunk 2. Nagios 3. P0f 4. Ngrep Packet Sniffers: These are tools that can allow you to capture and visualise the traffic that is coming on your website. 1. Wireshark 2. Tcpdump 3. Ettercap 4. dsniff 5. EtherApe Vulnerability Exploitation: These are the tools that you would use in order to gain access to various places. 1. Metasploit 2. sqlmap 3. sqlninja 4. Social Engineer Toolkit 5. NetSparker 6. BeEF 7. Dradis

 Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill