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Sunday 30 December 2012

Tricks to block websites on your Computer


Many of you might be wondering to know the trick on how to block a website. If you want to block certain websites on your computer without any software then this trick can be very helpful to you. You can block any number of websites and if blocked they cannot be opened in any browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer.

Tricks to block websites on your Computer

You can block a website by following the steps below:
  • Login with Admin
  • Open My Computer/Computer
  • Navigate to your Operating system drive (Usually C drive)
  • Now go to Windows –>System32–>drivers–>etc
  • Here you will see your Hosts file. Open this file in notepad.
  • Now move to the last line in this file and add the address of the website to be blocked prefixed by 127.0.0.1


Friday 28 December 2012

Facebook Shortcuts


Facebook

Facebook is the most used social networking website by many internet users. Everyone knows Facebook, but not everyone knows Facebook very well. We can use Facebook more effectively if we know these very useful shortcuts as well as tips and tricks. Everyone wants to use some shortcuts to post status and comments with unique features. Facebook tricks will help you take charge of your Facebook activity. These tricks and tools will give help take your Facebook experience to the next level.

Here are some Facebook tricks and shortcuts for Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

FACEBOOK SHORTCUTS FOR GOOGLE CHROME:
  • ALT + 1 --- View your news feed
  • ALT + 2 --- View your own profile

Facebook Shortcuts
  • ALT + 3 --- View pop-up of friend requests
  • ALT + 4 --- View pop-up of messages
  • ALT + 5 --- View pop-up of notifications
  • ALT + 6 --- View account setting
  • ALT + 7 --- View privacy setting
  • ALT + 8 --- View Facebook’s own profile
  • ALT + 9 --- Read latest terms of service agreement
  • ALT +? --- Search
  • ALT + m --- Compose a new message

FACEBOOK SHORTCUTS FOR FIREFOX:
  • SHIFT + ALT + 1 --- View your news feed
  • SHIFT + ALT + 2 --- View your own profile
  • SHIFT + ALT + 3 --- View pop-up of friend requests
  • SHIFT + ALT + 4 --- View pop-up of messages
  • SHIFT + ALT + 5 --- View pop-up of notifications
  • SHIFT + ALT + 6 --- View account setting
  • SHIFT + ALT + 7 --- View privacy setting
  • SHIFT + ALT + 8 --- View Facebook’s own profile
  • SHIFT + ALT + 9 --- Read latest terms of service agreement
  • SHIFT + ALT + 0 --- Open Facebook help center
  • SHIFT + ALT +? --- Search
  • SHIFT + ALT + m --- Compose a new message


How to Download Movie Subtitle


How to Download Movie Subtitle

Subtitles sometimes may be the only way for you to enjoy a movie. They can be helpful if you would like to watch a foreign language movie for instance, but also for other purposes like learning a language or if you are hearing impaired.

When you start the program for the first time, you will notice that it displays subtitle search options right on the first screen. Here you can point it to a video file on the local PC, either by using the built-in file browser or drag and drop, or use the manual search option instead to find subtitles without having to select a local movie or television episode first.

Steps to download Subtitle:
  • Download Link : http://www.sublight.si/Downloads/SublightSetup.exe
  • After Installing: From settings set English as language
  • Write the movie name in manual search box & click search Subtitle
  • Sublight will automatically search the subtitle files
  • After finding subtitle files : Right click on the subtitle files & choose options
Subtitle



Wednesday 26 December 2012

Advantages of Internet Advertising


Internet Advertising is also known as online advertising or web advertising. This is one of the most effective advertising methods used as it provides the ability to target specific market. Internet ad media plays an important role in determining the success of your product or service awareness online. Online advertising is a form of promotions that uses the Internet and World Wide Web to deliver marketing messages to attract customers.

Advantages of Internet Advertising

Internet has been in great advantage to large number of peoples. Some of the advantages are listed below. 
  • It is low in cost because if the Internet ad can be displayed as very comprehensive compared to other media, it is definitely much cheaper than most. 
  • Internet advertising gives your ads a wider coverage and this helps in making your advertisements reach more audiences.
  • With the Internet, you can reach highly educated and affluent consumers who are able to purchase your products or services with a click of the mouse.
  • Customers have also advantage of knowing more about products and companies.
  • Online advertising is much faster than other Medias and you can start sending your ads to wider audiences, the moment you start advertising campaign.
  • It is easy in tracking the audiences as Internet technology allows you to measure exactly how many people saw your message and how they responded.
  • This is much affordable price when compared with the traditional advertising costs. 


Monday 24 December 2012

Tips to Keep Your Computer Virus-Free


Viruses are one the most painful and frustrating problems to confront on your computer. Even though some of them are harmless, they do have the ability to do a number of nasty things up to and including damaging or erasing sensitive data from your computer. Using a few simple and effective tips, you can greatly decrease the chances of obtaining a virus and keep your computer running like new.

Tips to Keep Your Computer Virus-Free

These below steps can be taken to make your computer more secure:
  • Email is one of the common ways by which your computer can catch a virus. So, it is always recommended to stay away from SPAM. 
  • Always make backups of important information and store in a safe place separate from your computer.
  • You should be careful about using MS Outlook because they are more susceptible to worms than other e-mail programs, unless you have an efficient antivirus programs running. 
  • Install antivirus software and set for automatic updates so that you receive the most current versions.
  • Turn off your computer and disconnect from the network when not using the computer. A hacker can not attack your computer when you are disconnected from the network or the computer is off.
  • Be sure your email program doesn't automatically download attachments. This will ensure that you can examine and scan attachments before they run.
  • USB thumb/pen drives are another common way by which viruses spread rapidly. So, it is always a good habit to perform a virus scan before copying any data onto your computer.


Saturday 22 December 2012

General Keyboard Shortcuts


Keyboard

Many of them suffers saying that they feel less pain when typing compared to when using mouse.  Thus, many desire to avoid mouse as much as possible. Getting familiar with keyboard shortcuts not only help you get the work done faster, but also more efficient.


Below are some general shortcuts for keyboards:

  • CTRL + C --- Copy
  • CTRL + Z --- Undo
  • CTRL + X --- Cut
  • CTRL + V --- Paste
  • CTRL + S --- Save
  • CTRL + Shift --- with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
  • CTRL+ALT+DEL --- reboots the computer – eventually. First, it'll tell you what's hung up.

Keyboard Shortcuts
  • CTRL + Right Arrow --- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word
  • CTRL + Left Arrow --- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word
  • CTRL + Home --- to the top
  • CTRL + End --- to the bottom
  • CTRL --- while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
  • ALT+F4 --- shuts down the selected program.
  • ALT +Enter --- View the properties for the selected item
  • ALT + Tab --- Switch between the open items
  • ALT + Space bar --- Display the system menu for the active window
  • F10 --- Activate the menu bar in the active program
  • F5 --- Update the active window
  • F6 --- Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop
  • F4 --- Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer

Friday 21 December 2012

Internet and its advantages



Internet and its advantages

Internet is such a huge network of several different interlinked networks relating to the business, government, and academic and therefore internet is known as the network of all the other networks. Since the internet has become very popular, it is been used for many purposes. Today internet has brought a globe in a single room. For the students and educational purposes the internet is used to gather information so as to do research of any sort of subject.
Internet


 By using internet now we can communicate in a fraction of seconds with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. There are plenty messenger services and email services offering this service for free. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts. The biggest advantage that internet is offering is information. Any kind of information on any kind of topic is available in internet. Internet makes life easy for both employers and job seekers as there are plenty of job sites which connect employers and job seekers.

Internet is useful in providing funs as well these days as it has all the games, online movies, songs, dramas and quizzes. Many consumers prefer to shop from home so people use internet for shopping as well. The above are some of the very few common uses of the internet. 

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Useful tips on securing your Email account


Email is the most invaluable asset of anyone’s identity on the web. Email is used everyday and we have lots of valuable information in our inbox. So that Email protection is every important and it measures a lot. Victims are increasing but intelligence levels are decreasing to crack a Email account. Choosing a strong password is not enough; you should be well aware how people try to gain access to other people’s email accounts by unfair means.

securing Email account

There are certain rules to be followed in order to keep your account safe from Hackers:
  • Use a strong password with combination of alphanumeric and symbols to make it really hard to guess, at the same time you should not forget the password.
  • Avoid checking Email at public places.
  • Change the password at regular intervals.
  • Regularly check your login activity record at the bottom of the page.
  • Never reveal your password to anyone. Keep it confidential.
  • Never access your account from a compromised PC.
  • Add your mobile number to Google account; it will allow you to SMS-based account recovery. 

Tips to speed up your computer



Tips to speed up your computer

Computers will not be running in the same speed always. It will not be in the same speed that is used to run when you first used it. When PC performance slows to a crawl, a few simple techniques can make a huge difference. There are many reasons for this so you can try fixing up a few things on your slow PC.

To speed up your computer you can delete unwanted files and unwanted programs. Even you can delete the hidden junk files without the user knowing. This so much happening in the background that most people are unaware of and do not know that this area exists. You can cleanup the disk this will help to free up space on your hard disk to improve the performance of the computer.

Every program on your computer must be updated regularly. If you do not do this, you will find that you will get problems. In addition to running disk cleanup and disk derangement to optimize the performance of your computer, you can check the integrity of the files stored on your hard disk by running the error checking utility.