What is completely black and has red all over? A ninja looking for a redbox code.

Ok, that may not have been the best riddle but this tutorial is sure to tickle a movie lovers fancy.

Redbox Automated Retail is a joint owned by McDonald’s which operates automated DVD rental kiosks. These kiosks are primarily found at McDonalds but have expanded into many other stores, including Grocery. Redbox allows you to rent DVDs for $1 per day with absolutely no late fees. Statistically, each kiosk can contain up to 500 DVDs with an average of 50 new releases.

Now if the price isn’t already right, Tutorial Ninjas is proud to present the website Insideredbox. Insideredbox gives you codes to Redbox machines for a free dvd rental for one day. “Some codes do even more - even giving up to 5 free dvd rentals at one time.” -Insideredbox.com

Get some codes!

1. Open up your browser and go to www.insideredbox.com/index.php/codes.
2. At that page, you will be presented with a long list of submitted codes, organized by Code, Last used, and Purpose.
You can also scroll further down the page and see the codes valid for your state.
3. Take your codes to your local Redbox machine and enter them in when you go to purchase your movie.

Good luck and happy movie watching!

Not really a tutorial but a woot off is going on over at woot! Check it out.  What is it? A woot off is a short term frenzied mutation of our product posting procedure. In Woot-Off mode, a new product is launched immediately after the sellout of the previous deal. There is a half-Woot-life of 12 hours maximum on any product within a Woot-Off that does not sell out. The number of Woot-Off items, sequence, and quantity will not be announced. When Woot-Off mode is over, the orange lights will disappear and our normal schedule will resume. Depending on its success, this may be a mode we would go into once or twice a month for a relatively short duration of time (24-72 hours generally.)

Its been almost a year and as we approach the very day of our anniversary, we have to show we made some kind of progress throughout the past year.

It is only in our excitement that we decided to open up a shop and sell various items that you could show your support with. Aside from the part about us getting support, you get a sweet piece of clothing / gear! Check out our main navigation (up at the top) and click on “Shop”. From that you will be brought directly to our Shop!

Currently it is in beta-display condition (not every feature is setup completely), how ever for those of you who would like to purchase items.. a shirt or hoodie or something, you can do so by clicking “BUY NOW!” underneath the item(s) of your choice.

-Tutorial Ninjas Team

Well, whats Tutorial Ninjas without some famous back to school gear? In the final stages of development, we wont hesitate to help you out and load you up with all your favorite TN logos.

Stickers, shirts, and baseball caps. Whether your ready or not, were ready to show our pride.

This posts intention is not to market our product (yet), but we need your help!
Tell us what you think of this near-final shirt design.

Tell us what you would like to see changed, removed, or added in the shirt design. Anything; shirt color or logo… front or back, you name it!

After all, were not the only ones that wear these things.

-Tutorial Ninjas Team

Edit: So you guys know… our shirts and other apparel are on sale now. Click “Shop” at the top of our web page in the navigation, or just browse to the URL: http://tutorialninjas.net/shop/.

Ever try to unmount a drive and it came back with Device is busy even with umount -f? Well that is because a process is still accessing that drive. Use the following commands to find out which process that is and kill it so you can safely unmount your drive!

• lsof (device) ex: lsof /dev/cdrom
• kill -9 (pid)

If you are confused you can run this: lsof -t ‘device here’ | xargs kill -9 . Just make sure you put the device in. After that command you should be able to unmount the drive.

Spyware, adware, malware. All of this stuff is junk, whether you find it useful or not; its not going to do your computer any good. In todays lesson I’m going to give you some tips and get you In the Know of a free and effective way to protect your computer. (Click the image to the left to enlarge).

Forms of Protection

Though it may be easiest to let programs do all the work, and maybe they can do all of it… its best that as an end-user; you take some precautions of your own when it comes to malicious software. The ultimate fight against spyware is fought by YOU. Now that you should have already figured it out, the two main forms of protection are software and YOU (end-user protection).

End-user Protection

As an end-user you must think wisely. Don’t click on stupid images that say you just won a million dollars or a free iPod. Some things in life are just too good to be true, and what made life so easy? Nothing.

Here are some things to get you In the Know of spyware:

• 99.9% of spyware and malicious software comes from the Internet. (It wont just breed on your computer)
• Internet Explorer is the best bait for spyware attraction. (If you use Internet Explorer, have no fear spyware is here!)
• Though the convenience is nice, do not save passwords or form information on your computer. (Adware and malware will feed off of your saved passwords)
• Windows operating systems are targeted at 98% of spyware. (Go switch to Linux or OSX)
• Addons and toolbars such as “MyWebSearch” and others that are packaged with other software are BIG threats to your computer. (Once these things get in your computer, its hard to remove all of their tracks.)

So now that you know whats causing most of these things to get on your computer, lets stop them from getting in your computer.

• Don’t use Internet Explorer. Its slow and unsafe. Switch to Mozilla Firefox and download “Adblock Plus”. Best of all, Firefox is free, easy to use, and has more features than Internet Explorer.
• Stop saving your passwords!
• Next time you see an ad that tells you that you won something… think again!
• Only web-surf on safe sites. Do your online-shopping through Hacker-safe and security enabled sites.
• When you go and install software, be sure to read and click “Do not install” when it comes to web toolbars and other bundled pieces of software.

When in doubt, don’t do it!

Software Protection

Today, software protection comes in various shapes and sizes. They vary in the ability to detect and remove. To make you aware of some of the software around you, these are popular and reliable pieces of software.

• Ad-Aware 2007 - Made by Lavasoft, this software has existed since 2004. The ability to detect and remove malware, spyware, adware, malicious cookies and more. A free version of the program is offered, though the Professional version has many more features.
• Spybot-Search & Destroy - A minor in the league. Spyboy-S&D is completely free and customizable. This makes me question its detection and removal ability. Spybot-S&D creates new detection updates at least once a week.
• Hijackthis - If your computer is on death-row because of spyware, then this is the program you need! Hijack this works by comparing your mainframe computer information to one with no spyware or malicious information. It will create a list of differences which can then be posted on the internet where people can tell you what you need to remove.
• Windows Defender - Watch out, its made by Microsoft! If you want to stay really basic, then go right ahead. I guess if spyware is no concern for you, then use this. Personally, I haven’t seen one thing Windows Defender has found that Ad-Aware has not. After all, it is a Microsoft product so they do allow integration between this program and their operating system. Next.

Now that we have gone over the precautions you can take towards keeping a clean PC, its up to you to defend your own computer. We have learned that its not only software that can prevent spyware from getting to you, but its also the things you do and use on your computer that lead to or prevent it.