Today, I will cover the last part of Preferences configurations. That is to talk about how to configure your connection, miscellaneous setup and also how to configure BMD to use Visual Aid.

Connection Settings

In this screen, you can either choose:

• I do not want to use any proxy server
  This option simply means that I will be using my real IP for submission.
• I want to use the same proxy setting as Internet Explorer
  This option will instruct BMD to use the proxy server settings stored within their Internet Explorer.
• Let me define my own proxy server
  This is the place which you list down the proxy servers that BMD will randomly pick for it’s submission tasks.

Using proxy servers is a good way to camouflage your account creations and bookmark submissions.

Why? Because bookmarking sites generally check the IP (not limited to) of the connections established. If the same IP is creating tons of accounts in a short time in the same day, OR if the same IP is submitting huge amount of bookmarks using the same/different accounts in the same day, bookmarking site owners will ban and remove these accounts and bookmarks.

How does it help? Proxy servers help to mask your actual IP address from bookmarking sites.

When do I need to use proxy servers?

• If you spam, you will need to use proxy
• If you create a lot of accounts on the same bookmarking site on the same day
• If you submit a lot of bookmarks to the same bookmarking site on the same day

If you fit any of the above criterias, you will need to use proxy servers. You can fill up the list of proxy servers in the following formats:

• ipaddress:port (Public proxy servers)
• username:password@ipaddress:port (Private proxy servers)
• “email@address.com”:password@ipaddress:port (Private proxy servers that uses email address to login)

Personally I prefer private proxy servers over public proxy servers. Public proxy servers as mentioned on @EdwinSoft, are like taking public buses while private proxy servers are like taking a cab ride home. The latter is faster, but both can be caught in traffic jams.

You can refer to my previous post TIPS: The Safer Way to Create Accounts Using BookmarkingDemon on some proxy server usage tips.

There is also an option that allows you to instruct BMD to continue or stop if all your specified proxy servers are dead during the submission process.

What does it mean by “Continue without proxy server”? When none of the proxy servers in BMD is tested to be working, this option will instruct BMD to use your real IP for submission.

Remember to perform a proxy health check before you proceed to confirm the connection setup.

BMD will test all listed proxy servers. If it passes the health check, BMD will keep them in the list for future submissions. If it failed, they will be removed.

Tip: For those who use public proxy servers, I advise you to perform the proxy health check BEFORE any submissions. This will clean up your list and speed up the submission process.

Miscellaneous Settings

Here’s a list of Miscellaneous setup.

Transparent effect

One of the pretty useless option in BMD. What this option does is allow you to adjust the transparency of BMD using the mouse wheel (by scroll up and down of the mouse wheel). I advice you to keep it off.

Audio Alert

This is generally used for Captcha input. Especially useful for people who does NOT make use of Visual Aid and needs a reminder when a Captcha input is required. Remember to turn the volume up on your PC speakers so that you won’t miss the door bell.

Create Shortcut

This simply tell BMD to create a shortcut on your Desktop.

If you move around and don’t have a fix PC that you use BMD (Yes, BMD is portable!) on, you can turn this option off so that it does not create a shortcut on each of the PC that you use.

Minimize to Systray

With this option on, BMD will minimize to the system tray when you hit the Minimize button.

Tip: If you are using Windows 7, turn it off so that you get to enjoy the cool new task bar that comes with it.

Disguising BMD as a Browser

Purpose: This is basically to fool bookmarking sites to think that you are using Mozilla Firefox browser (I chose Mozilla in the screenshot) to bookmark which in actual fact, I am using BMD to bookmark.

Keep Those Sites Off My List!

Deleted sites that are part of BMD’s list are automatically restored into the current project every time you start the software. This is irritating especially when you have cleaned up those default sites and BMD is still adding them back in.

What do you mean? For example, I am currently working on Project Pancake. And, I deleted a1-webmarks.com from my “Social Bookmarking Sites” section. I then proceed to restart BMD. What do I see? Holy, a1-webmarks.com is automatically restored back into Project Pancake! BUT NO! I don’t want it inside my project!

To stop this from happening, turn this option on.

Okay, Delete Those Accounts For Me

Purpose: To automatically delete user accounts and bookmarks that have unsuccessful login returned from bookmark submission.

This is especially useful when you wish to get BMD to automatically cleanup your banned or orphaned (accounts that you have created and have not used them) accounts. By the way, read that note in the above screen shot. It’s useful.

Visual Aid Settings

Many times I have seen in forums posted by uninformed people who has no clue that BMD now support full automation. So what is this Visual Aid thing? It’s basically a fancy name given to auto-Captcha breakers. BMD supports the following provider:

• http://decaptcher.com ($4 per 1000 images)
• http://bypasscaptcha.com ($7 per 1000 images)

How Do I Enable It? Via Set Priority Tab.

To enable visual aid, you will need to change the priority setting from “Disabled” to “1st Priority” or “2nd Priority”.

Having 2 visual aid providers is a good thing. Decaptcher.com has a good reputation in failing when it is not supposed to. With Bypasscaptcha as backup, you can ensure a smoother automation ride.

Giving Up

There will be times when no matter how many times the visual aid provider have returned the answer to the Captcha, the bookmarking sites will still refuse to accept them (for god knows what reason), you will want BMD to stop the submission. You can use this option. I prefer to set it at 2.

To Visual Aid Providers: You Can Keep My Credits

Facts:

• Real human beings are behind those Visual Aid providers that answers the Captcha.
• Human beings make mistakes.

Disable this option when bookmarking site rejected a Captcha answer from the providers so that they will not deduct the credit from your account. However, it has the tendency to get your visual aid accounts banned.

Why will Visual Aid provider ban my account for reclaiming bad images? In the case that this option is turned OFF, and Visual Aid provider happens to repeatedly enter the “wrong” Captcha input, BMD will attempt to reclaim your credit from them. These providers don’t like too many reclamation (due to fraud) made, Visual Aid provider will think that you are trying to cheat them and they will ban your account.

Decaptcher.com

There are two modes of Decaptcher.com that you can use. They are HTTP POST API and DLL (provided by Decaptcher.com).

To use the Decaptcher.com in HTTP POST API mode, simply fill up the login credentials in BMD.

To use the Decaptcher.com in DLL mode, you will need to download the DLL from Decaptcher.com and extract the DLL into the folder that you installed BMD in. Restart BMD to start using the Decaptcher DLL mode.

Hit “Check Balance” to check your credits balance of Decaptcher.com.

Bypasscaptcha.com

To use Bypasscaptcha.com in BMD, simply fill up your User Key.

Hit “Check Balance” to check your credits balance of Bypasscaptcha.

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Finally, we are done with setting up of Preferences in BMD.

In my next post, I will put up a summary on Preferences in BMD. Expect some useful tips on how to make use of the Preferences settings to avoid being spammy and also increase the percentage of success rate in bookmarking.

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