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Social Networking Sites Becoming Real Time Search Engines

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A very popular social networking website, twitter.com started it's search engine, search.twitter.com. People tweets their experiences and now instead of just looking at a list of tweets, you can search tweets on any topic. It's then, when Michael Arrington said: "It's Time To Thinking of Twitter as a Search Engine". But Twitter is not just a search engine like any others, it acts as a Real Time Search Engine. People share their experiences, reviews about products, services as and when they interact with them. And others can just find them in real time by searching on Twitter.

But as wise men say: "Competition creates better products", soon after twitter launched it's real time search engine, FaceBook acquired FriendFeed, one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. This step was take to rival Twitter's real time search engine. A FriendFeed would not only search status updates, but photos, notes, images, videos, and links. Users are able to search in real time about what their friends update.

We all have heard the term "Tested and Proven". Looking at the success of both of these social networking sites' real time search engines, now StumbleUpon wants to be a search engine too. They announced that they will be providing new elements through their website like, better search and better social elements from next month. StumbleUpon stats it's new features include:
  • search for sites within your own favorites
  • search your friend’s favorites
  • improved friend search capabilities
  • improved site navigation
  • improved navigation within user profiles

"There are other changes, too. The old “What’s New” page has been replaced by a “Recent Activity” page; StumbleUpon borrows from Twitter lingo by calling this a page of “nearly real-time updates.” Friend requests have been replaced by “subscription” — when you subscribe to a user, that person’s stumbles will appear in your Recent Activity page. The old “Similarity Meter”
is gone, and StumbleUpon Groups has been diminished — it’s now only available through a footer link", said Matt McGee.

To summarize the scenario, this can be very helpful for a large array of group who make real time searches. This may part the search engines into two groups: 1. Querry Relavent Search Engines & 2. Real Time Search Engines. We appreciate your views and comments.

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Google Starts Offline GMail - Access GMail Even Without Internet Connection

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Today GMail is starting to roll out an experimental feature in Gmail Labs: Offline Gmail. Now even if you're offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you're used to.

Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there's one little catch: it's inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous -- but there are still times when you can't access your webmail because of an unreliable or unavailable connection.

Now GMail has overcome these gaps. Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection.

Offline Gmail available to everyone who uses Gmail in US or UK English over the next couple of days, so if you don't see it under the Labs tab yet, it should be there soon. Once you see it, just follow these steps to get started:
  1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
  2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
  3. Click Save Changes.
  4. After your browser reloads, you'll see a new "Offline0.1" link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don't already have it.

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Move Mouse Pointer with Your Eyes Movement - Contact Lens Mouse

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New kind of Contact Lenses have been discovered that moves your mouse pointer with the movement of your eyes. Funny and interesting one!!! Well I CONTACT, designed by Eun-Gyeong Gwon & Eun-Jae Leeoriginally, is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer.

The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours.


One thing I'd like to mention here is that they didn't mention how to click. Now here is the funniest thing. May be you have to blink your eyes to click. How about double click then? I'm sure you've practiced it just now while you're reading this... Comment below how you felt it.

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Antivirus Programs Adopting New Technology

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Security products like Antivirus, Internet Security Suites are all made on the base of Virus Signature Database. This database is actually a collection of mechanism and algorithms of the malicious programs. Antivirus recognizes a malicious program depending on this database and accordingly it identifies, delete and block the malicious program. Howerver, this method of detecting and removing Virus programs have become questionable.

Since everyday new virus programs are written, it is not possible to update their algorithm in the Virus Signature Database, and so most of the Antivirus cannot deal with such threats. Such threats are referred to as Zero-Day Threats. Furthermore, even Antivirus programs have themselves become so complex enough that they can be easily exploited by hackers. It becomes easy for them to make Virus then.

To overcome this situation, a New Age Antivirus is adopting a new technology called Behavioral Engines. As name explains itself, these engines detect malicious programs by their behavior. Infact these new antivirus are going to come up with both, Virus Signature Database & Behavioral Engines. This seems a perfect solution for the new series of security products.

According to Network World, “AVG has completed a deal to acquire Sana Security, which specializes in detecting malicious software based on its behavior. The behavioral technology will be integrated into AVG’s antivirus and Internet security products by the end of June, Smith said. The new feature will not be included into AVG’s free product, but the company could consider doing that in the future”

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iPhone G is Unlocked - Use Carrier of Your Choice Other Than AT&T

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Hackers have gifted a great gift to all iPhone Owners who don't wish to be connected with AT&T. Now you are free to use the iPhone with the carrier of your choice. It's a relief for all those who wish to use an iPhone, but there's no AT&T coverage in their area. Well T-Mobile is a favorite of the expatriates, with a lower data cost per month, but then they don't get Apple's gorgeous Visual Voice Mail.

But then it's a new year and a new gift for all from iPhone Hackers. The iPhone G has finally been unlocked. Just a couple of hours back, the unlocking software called Yellowsn0w, created by a group of hackers calling themselves the iPhone Dev Team, is now available as a free download.

Unlocking is different from "jailbreaking," which has been possible with the iPhone 3G for a few months now. That gives you the ability to load software applications not approved by Apple, such as an app that lets you use the iPhone's 3G connectivity as a modem for your PC, hundreds of games, extensive customization of backgrounds and sounds, new ways to organize all those apps, and a whole lot more.

But Unlocking is already done and you can now follow step by step instructions to get your iPhone work for a carrier of your choice. YellowSn0w is out and it’s ready to rock. Click Here to learn step by step on how to unlock your iPhone G.

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60+ USA University Courses for Web Designers - FREE

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The Internet being what it is, web designers do not have a hard time finding resources. However, there are times when you have to call in the big guns. Courses for Web Designers from Universities like MIT, Indiana, British Columbia, Washington, Stanford, Alberta, Berkeley and many other prestegious universities are made available for everyone.

You can access more than 60 different courses, which cover everything to become a successful Web Designer - From Design Theory to Internet Culture. All of these, available to you completely free of cost. These courses follow exactly the same pattern as that of in the actual university. You'll actually access the resources from the University Website. Many of the courses are available in 3 different mediums - Book - Voice (Sound) - Video.

Some of the sections available are listed below:
  • Introductory Courses
  • Visuals
  • User Design
  • Design
  • Programming
  • E-Commerce
  • Content
  • History & Culture
  • Supplemental Courses
Access all these material from College Degree. Special thanks to Jessica Hupp. Comments are appreciated!!!

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Port Scanners - Know Which Software Uses Which Port on Your Computer

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Each software or even service running on your computer has been associated with certain port on your computer. A simple example is, port:80 which is fairly used by HTTP, i.e. the websites you access on internet starting from HTTP, use port:80 on your computer. Due to security reasons, it is very important to know and scan all ports on your computer. Most often Hackers attack through an Open Port on your computer.

Free Port Scanner is a small, fast, easy-to-use and robust port scanner for the Win32 platform. You can scan ports on fast machines in a few seconds and can perform scan on predefined port ranges. This tool uses TCP packets to determine available hosts and open ports, service associated with port and other important characteristics. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use.

This software is completely free of cost. You can download this Free Port Scanner from Here. There also is a Pro version of this software that allows to audit and monitor remote network computers for possible vulnerabilities, checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack it. You can find more about it here.



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Right Computer Choice for Your Children - Laptop OR Desktop

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Many people are buying Laptops as their primary computer. Laptop is very convenient and is available with larger screen, wireless internet connectivity these days. These qualities make it mobile and so more and more people are using it. But is it right for a children?

What if your child leaves a laptop on the floor or spill a cup of coffee off on it. The choice is very subjective, but there are few reasons which must be noted to get a laptop for your child. The laptop would prove a good choice if your child is allowed to use computer at school. Also, if you're short of space at home, laptops require very less space. If you have no internet connectivity at home, you or your child can get a laptop where it's available. In short, your child can work from anywhere.

Now lets talk about the drawbacks of a laptop. You'll be required to take extra measures to monitor your child's activities. As I said earlier, it can be dropped and damaged. Working on laptops without power cable can be frustrating sometimes since, the battery life is very short on laptops (Up to 2 to 4 hours). Large screen laptops consume more battery power.

So lets see how desktop computers can be beneficial. You always get more computing power as compare to laptops of the same value. Desktop computers are less expensive too. You can easily monitor your child's activity. You can get your choice of size of the display screen.

As with laptop, there also are few drawbacks of desktop computers. It takes up space. It can be troublesome while connecting to internet, as you'll have to place your computer near to internet modem, or expand the cable to your desktop computer.

Overhaul it's very subjective to decide whether you should go for a laptop or a desktop computer for your child, since both of them have pros and cons. But above are few factors which should help you choose better option for your child.

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Cassettes - CDs - DVDs - Now Blu-Ray Discs

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Blu-Ray Discs is a next generation optical disc format. This has been developed by Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA). This technology is made to enable recording, rewriting and play back of High Definition Videos (HD), as well as storing large amount of data. The storage capacity of Blu-Ray disc is 5 times more than the storage capacity of traditional DVDs.

You can store total of 25 GB on a single layer disc and 50 GB on a dual-layer disc. This extra space and the advanced Audio & Video Codecs the High Definition (HD) experience.

Usual optical disc technology such as DVD, DVD-R and DVD-RW use Red Laser to read and write data, while Blu-Ray technology uses Blue-Violet Laser and so, given the name Blu-Ray. Even though both discs use different technologies, Blu-Ray products can be played on BD/DVD/CD compatible players.

The main benefit of using Blue-Violet laser is that it has short wavelength than Red laser has. This provides with a greater precision in reading and writing data. Further more, data gets stored in more compressed manner and in less space. Though the physical size of the Blu-Ray disc is the same as of DVDs.

Blu-Ray discs are supported by more than 200 world's leading consumer electronics, personal computers, recording media, video games & music companies. This technology has also acquired support from all Hollywood studios. Many local studios have accepted Blu-Ray as successor of DVDs.

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Split Screen Technology - First Time in Mercedes Benz

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World known brand Mercedes Benz is now equipping it's luxurious card with a display screen that allows to view two different programs at the same time on the same screen. A driver gets the traffic updates while at the same time a person sitting on the front passenger seat can view news or movies of choice.

This has been made possible by SplitView Technology. This is going to be introduced in Mercedes Benz's S-Class for the first time ever. This technology has been developed by Mercedes Benz and Bosch, which is placed in the innovative control and display system COMAND which is in the center of the Dash Board.

The screen is dimensioned 8 inch and with TFT-LCD display. The two different images are shown simultaneously by placing pixel adjacent to each other, so that two images can be seen from two different positions on the same screen . A Filter masking display divides the image.

All the access is given to the driver control panel COMAND, and the front passenger is given a Remote Control to view his/her choice of DVDs, T.V. Program or Music Discs etc. To avoid distraction, driver is given a headphone as well. Mercedes Benz is planning to Launch this S-Class in Summer 2009.

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Video Conferencing - Elite Technology used in Business Communication

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Video Conferencing Technology used in Business is bringing powerful and immediate benifits to various companies these days. It provides face to face interaction with anyone, anywhere, anytime. It is pretty fast and cost saving as it provides with enhanced productivity, increased staff rapport and job satisfaction too. Few other benifits are reduced paper work and no margin for typo or any other communicational mistakes.

Formerly, the technology was too complex and expensive. It was called a "Bandwidth Stealer". There were few technical and security flaws as well. Because of these, only large scale business companies were able to use it and small scale businesses had to manage with phone calls. All in all it wasn't as reliable in early days as it's now.

These days, Video Communication Technology has been so evolved that, Reliability and Quality are no longer an issue. Recent development in video technology has resolved all of these issues.

With a little effort new video communication tools can be installed in any I.T. infrastructure as well as your small business office or even home. High level security is achieved and assured by the providers. No drains on your corporate bandwidth - High speed broadband connectivity is an add on for fast communication.

Lot of companies online, provide with High Defination Video Conferencing with pretty less expensive setup fee. You can simply make a google search with keyword "Video Conferencing providers" and there are bunch of them.

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Most Hyped iPhone isn't Really a Smart Phone

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I was talking to one of my cousins yesterday about iPhone and he told me the three shocking drawbacks of an Apple's Smart Phone, iPhone. I was shocked and decided myself to do more search on this and I found a bunch of drawback of an iPhone. Here is a list and it's a big one.

Lets first talk about technical drawbacks -
  • iPhone does have many of the latest stuff but the Camara. Even though it's main rival Nokia N95 sports a 5 Megapixel camara, Apple decided to have only 2 Megapixel Camara in it's iPhone. In addition to this, there's no Zoom in the Camara. And surprisingly There's No Video Recording.
  • It's quite obvious that when you have the slimmest smartphone with a huge touchscreen, battery life is going to be a problem. It provides 5 hours of a talk time, which is not bad but surely going to be a turn off for heavy users.
  • Upto 8 GB worth of video, music, audio, documents, contacts, email, etc is not enough for a smartphone like this, that's when a Memory Card comes in the picture. Woe... There's No Expansion Slot.
  • Apple's tradition of non-removable battery continues with the iPhone. Well, Mac OS X might be pretty stable but it is definitely not perfect, so what do we do if the phone freezes or gets hanged? The only usual option is to remove the battery and get it started again, but with iPhone!!! Smartphone like this are bound to be filled with lot of contents, and with only 8 GB, it's likely to get freeze when it's memory is full.
  • In addition to that, the expected life of battery is 300-400 charges, then you'll have to ship it to Apple to replace the battery every year or two. Now you'll be separated from such a smartphone for a week time at least every year or two just to get your battery replaced.
Read on if you wanna know some more exciting features missing in iPhone.

  • Most of the websites these days use Flash as part of their pages. Apple claims to have a real internet with a real browser installed in iPhone, it doesn't support Flash.
  • Although you can watch up to 10,000 videos on YouTube, you cannot watch all or any videos on YouTube.
  • You cannot use voice commands or voice recognition or voice dialing. Also, the voice recorder available on iPhone cannot be used to record voice on call.
  • Even though it has a 2 Megapixel camara, you cannot send pics to other cell phones via MMS picture messaging.
  • You cannot freely use the iPhone on other continents with sim cards. You're restricted to our Operator's International Roaming networks only. The iPhone doesn't even recognize Sim Card Contacts.
  • The iPhone cannot get real-time GPS Mapping like you can on the Blackberry 8800 because it is not GPS Enabled.
  • No third party softwares can be installed. Classic Apple DNA, only proprietary, approved applications may be released by Apply.
  • SMS Forwarding simply NOT POSSIBLE. Also, cannot send SMS to multiple contacts.
  • The intelligent KeyBoard, but you cannot copy/paste texts.
  • You cannot transfer music through BlueTooth. Bluetooth can only be used to pair with headset.
  • Cannot customize your rigntones with the MP3 stored on the iPhone.
Personally, I'd say iPhone isn't really a Smart Phone, after paying around $500 to $600.

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Fix Your Slow Running Computer

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There are number of possible reasons for a computer to run slow. Even latest configuration computers with huge amounts of RAM and fast processors could run slower than it's usual speed. This mainly happens due to the vast use of Internet and easily available free softwares and trial versions of paid softwares.

With advancing technologies, high speed braod band internet connection is very common these days. Number of internet users are increase everyday and they download such softwares quite often. There are numerous software directories which offer free downloads of various softwares. These softwares aren't harmful to computers but installing too many softwares slow down your computer. Many of these softwares automatically set themselves to start up directory and everytime you start your PC, they start running even though you do not need to use them at moment. All you can do is find a decent Registry Cleaner from google and install it. Most registry cleaners will provide a list of programs which start as soon as windws boots up, unused registry entries, uninstall entries and numerous other computer problems. A good registry cleaner program will clean them too.

One more problem your system to run slow could be installing some softwares that contain Adware OR Spyware. These softwares use lot of computer resources ending up with slowing down the computer. If you're having this problem, a good Anti-Spyware would help. It detects and removes if any existing softwares contain adware or spyware. It also protects your system getting infected again in future.

The last and the most common cause of slow system is, system being infected with VIRUS. Virus is a computer program written with malicious intentions. Viruses are of many types, some are harmless while others damage the full system severely. Most viruses slow down the computer as it uses full system resources. The important thing here is to install a good branded Antivirus and a Firewall. Make sure you update your Antivirus regularly since Virus programs are written daily.

Deleting cache and cookies and clearing history on a regular basis would help too. All in all, a good registry cleaner, anti-pyware and an antivirus is must for a smooth computer system, if you're a regular internet user.

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Open docx Files in Firefox without Office 2007

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A good news for all those who do not wish to download a converter for converting .docx, .xlsx, .pptx etc. files to .doc, .xls, .ppt respectively. There's a new Firefox extension from Microsoft that will help view all .*x extension files to be displayed as normal html pages in FireFox.

Called OpenXML viewer, this plug-in (download link) lets you read docx files inside the Firefox browser just like any other HTML web page while retaining all the text formatting and layout.

There’s a command-line version of OpenXML viewer (download link) available as well for converting docx documents into HTML files that you may then open in any other web browser. Thanks to Amit Agarwal.


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How To Pronounce Foreign Names Correctly

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If you're in a situation where you're about to meet a foreign person and you don't know how to pronounce his/her name correctly, if you've read a name somewhere but have no clue how to say it, here is a nice tool which will help you pronounce a foreign name correctly - How To Say That Name.

This site will let you learn how to pronounce names as a native speaker would say them. For example, "Nguyen" - Confused how to pronounce it? Go to How To Say That Name and listen to a native Vietnamese speaker pronounce it. They've got a huge dtabase of people's names in various languages.

The database has pronunciations of all popular names and surnames from languages like English, German, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Hindi. If you can't find a name, kindly let them know as they're constantly adding names to their database.

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One Click Shut Down

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There are many things you can play with in Windows Operating System. The normal process to shut down the system is: To click Start - Turn off Computer - Turn Off. However this is not the only way to shut the system down. You can shut down your system with only one click. Here's how:

Navigate to your desktop. On the desktop, right-click and go to New, then to Shortcut (in other words, create a new shortcut). You should now see a pop-up window instructing you to enter a command line path. Use the following path in "Type Location of the Item"

SHUTDOWN -s -t 01

If the C: drive is not your local hard drive, then replace "C" with the correct letter of the hard drive. Click the "Next" button. Name the shortcut and click the "Finish" button. Now whenever you want to shut down, just click on this shortcut and you're done.

You can also setup a TIMER for shutting down the system. Here's how:

Method 1:

Right click on your desktop and choose "New=>shortcuts". In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut", type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" without the quotation marks and click next. Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So, 60secs*60mins=3600secs.

Make up a name for the shortcut and you're done. You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse

To Abort This Process:

To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make the "location of the shortcut" to " shutdown -a" without the quotes.

Method 2: EASIER THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE

Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 11:35am. Type this in

start=>Run

Type: at 11:35 shutdown -s

TO ABORT:

Type: shutdown -a

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Online Terminology of Most Popular KeyWords

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Anti-spyware program
This is a program that protects your PC against spyware and helps to keep your computer and personal details secure.

Anti-virus software
This is software that is designed to detect viruses and prevent them from infecting your machine. Often these viruses are transmitted via email.

Browser
Browser software provides you with the means to view a web page. Without browser software, you would not be able to surf the Internet.

Computer virus A computer virus is a piece of code that is secretly introduced into a system in order to corrupt it or destroy data. Often viruses are hidden in other programs or documents and when opened, the virus is let loose.

Cookies
This is a collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the Internet. It is used by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.

Encryption
Encryption converts data into an encoded form before it is sent over the Internet. This prevents unauthorised access to the information. At FNB, we use 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to secure your information.

Firewall
Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorised users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitors transfers of information to and from the network or personal computer.

Identity theft
This is the crime of obtaining the personal or financial information of another person for the purpose of assuming that person's name to make transactions or purchases.

Keystroke logging
This involves the capturing of information that you type on the keyboard by installed hardware. This is often used by fraudsters to capture personal details including passwords.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
This is a protocol that provides a high level of security for communication over the Internet.

Spam
Unsolicited email, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists or individuals.

Spyware
This is software that secretly gathers information about a user while he/she navigates the Internet. This information is normally used for advertising purposes. Spyware can also gather information about email addresses and even passwords and credit card numbers.

Trojan horse
This is a program that disguises itself as another program. Similar to a virus, these programs are hidden and cause an unwanted effect. They differ from viruses because they are normally not designed to replicate like a virus.

Virus
A computer virus is a piece of code that is secretly introduced into a system in order to corrupt it or destroy data. Often viruses are hidden in other programs or documents and when opened, the virus is let loose.

Worm
This is a special type of virus that spreads without any user interaction, typically by exploiting a flaw in popular software.

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Clear Search Terms You Made on Google Search Box

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You can clear your Google search history from the Google search box by following simple steps given below.

The search history that displays in the search box on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. Below are given instructions for clearing search history in the browser you're using. If your browser isn't listed, we suggest consulting its help resources.

Internet Explorer:


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Login with Multiple IDs on Yahoo Messenger Without Any Software

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A week back I went to one my friends home. He was chatting with his college mate. His college mate was teasing him by login into Yahoo Messenger with his three different IDs at the same time. My friend was confused. Then I showed him how his college mate was able to do that. You can do it too, by Playing a little bit with Windows Registry.

Here's what you've got to do:

1. Go to Start ----> Run . Type regedit, then enter.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_ USER --------> Software --->yahoo ----->pager---->Test
3. On the right page , right-click and choose new Dword value .
4. Rename it as Plural.
5. Double click and assign a decimal value of 1.

Its done!!

Now open Yahoo Messenger and login with your ID. Once you're logged in, again open Yahoo Messenger. This time it won't show you the one you previously logged in[as earlier], instead, it'll open another blank Yahoo Messenger where in, you can login with you another Yahoo Messenger ID. This way, you can login to Yahoo Messenger with multiple IDs. By the way, you must own all those IDs you wish to login.

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You Can Edit Google Search Results

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There are many topics which are hard to find on internet, only because such topics are not so popular or widely used by general public round the world. And so there are quite a few websites on those topics. If you are searching on Google on some topics which come in this category and you get useless search results, you can edit/delete them and they won't appear ever again.

Google Inc has developed a new system to give its search engine a more personal touch. Google lets users edit results so that, the websites they wanted to appear on search results get a top position, and the ones they disliked get discarded the next time they enter the same request.

The reason behind this new system is, Google simply wants to make specific sets of results for each individual. So, users will have to have a personal login to take advantage of the editing feature. It's important to note that, it's first time in the history that, Google the most widely used search engine has given access to users to edit search results.

This new system has been given a name "SearchWiKi". Here's how this new system works. If you're logged into Google when doing a search, you'll get results with a series of buttons below the links. Clicking on arrow pointing upward moves a result higher on the results page. That link will come back in that new spot the next time you search on the same term. Clicking on an "X" will delete the link so it doesn't appear the next time you make the same search.

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