Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
I found the Full Speed software in the Internet yesterday that advertised itself to be able increase your Internet broadband speed. The software tweaks nd optimizes the Windows Operating System’s Internet and network settings for best performance possible.
I installed and tested it yesterday and noticed there was a significant increase in web browsing and file downloading speed.
The Full Speed software has free and paid versions. The free version is fully functional without time limitation.
Test your Internet broadband speed at SpeedTest.net before and after installing the Full Speed software.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Firefox 3 set a Guinness World Record on June 17, 2008, for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. More than 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3 that offers safer, smarter and better web browsing experience.
I’ve got my very own personalized Firefox 3 Download Day certificate as seen below.
Create your personalized Firefox 3 Download Day certificate with your name embedded in it at the Spread Firefox Download Day 2008 web site.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
SEOQuake is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is a must-have Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web site promotions tool for webmasters.
The tool can be used to retrieve and investigate SEO parameters of web pages on the fly. User can use SEOQuake to study other web sites SEO parameters so that his or her own web site can follow the best practise of other web site SEO configurations in order to achieve higher ranking in the search engine results.
When a web page is loaded in the web browser, SEOQuake will retrieve and display the results such as, Google PageRank, Google, Yahoo and MSN indexes, and Alexa rank, and etc. in the toolbar.
I like the built-in Keyword Density tool which will analyze and tell you the density of every word found in a web page being queried. Within the Keyword Density tool, you can also load Google keywords data that coresponds to the keywords it has analyzed.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
After I installed and ran the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) for the first time, the first thing I noticed was the address bar located above the menu bar, while the menu bar was located below it.
IE7 layout is shifted from the stardard user interface found in most of other Microsoft applications.
I found that many people posted methods to move the menu bar back to its original location by editing the Windows Registry.
Editing the Windows Registry is not recommended for a novice because if someone accidentally edited the wrong setting, it might cause the operating system to crash.
I was searching around the Internet and stumbled upon IE7Pro. IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer which can move the menu bar back to its origincal position.
IE7Pro also has lots of sleek features and extras that make your browsing faster, more responsive and customizable.
Visit IE7Pro web site for more information and download the add-on.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
A lapse in security for Facebook discovered by Byron Ng, a computer technician from Vancouver, Canada, allowed him to sneak through Facebook’s newly improved privacy controls deployed last week.
The security loophole allowed him to view private photos of celebrities, along with other access restricted photos posted by other Facebook users.
The Associated Press verified Ng’s claim by accessing and viewing a private photo posted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
According to a Facebook spokeperson, the security hole was fixed immediately after it was reported.
Posted in Internet, Security | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Streamyx issued a notice in its web site informing its users about an anti-spam exercise to mitigate spam in its network.
The action taken was by blocking outgoing SMTP port 25 for all outgoing e-mails from dynamic IP addresses to non-Streamyx mail servers.
In other words, if your company hosts its own mail server, the employees will not be able to send outgoing e-mails if they are connected from home to the office mail server via Streamyx.
SMTP port 25 is a standard outgoing port for most e-mail client software such as, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and etc.
Streamyx offered several alternative configuration options. Users may either relay their mail server to Streamyx’s SMTP or use port 587 for all outgoing e-mails.
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is a remote control computing software that allows you to view and control another PC desktop remotely over the Internet.
Once the VNC session is established, all VNC data exchange between the client and the remote computers is unencrypted. A malicious user might be able to spoof your VNC data, thus allowing the person to gain access to your computer. VNC software usually contains a VNC server and a VNC viewer program.
Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged between two computers over an encrypted secure channel. PuTTY is a popular and easy to use free SSH client.
Cygwin is an emulation of the Linux/UNIX-like environment and OpenSSH for Windows.
There are free software available for you to download from the Internet to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH connection.
You will need:
Install Cygwin on the remote computer
Login as Administrator.
Create a folder called c:\cygwin
Download the Cygwin setup file and save it in c:\cygwin folder.
Double click and run the Cygwin setup file.
Type c:\cygwin for the “Local Package Directory”.
Click the little View button for “Full” view.
Find the package “openssh“, click on the word “Skip” so that an “X” appears in the column.
Find the package “tcp_wrappers“, click on the word “Skip” so that an “X” appears in the column.
Find the package “zlib“, click on the word “Skip” (should be selected already) so that an “X” appears in the column.
Click “Next” to begin installing Cygwin and SSH.
Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Click the “New” button to add a new entry to System Variables:
Variable name: cygwin
Variable value: ntsec
Click the “OK” button.
Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
Select the “PATH” variable and click the “Edit” button.
Append ;c:\cygwin\bin to the end of the Variable value.
Click the “OK” button.
Double click the Cygwin icon to open a cygwin window.
At the prompt, type ssh-host-config -y (the “-y” option automatically answers “yes” to the three questions below)
If the script asks about “privilege separation”, answer yes
If the script asks about “create local user sshd”, answer yes
If the script asks about “install sshd as a service”, answer yes
When the script asks about “CYGWIN=”, answer ntsec
To start the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands:
net start sshd
cygrunsrv ––start sshd
To stop the sshd service, open a Cygwin window and type either one of the following commands:
net stop sshd
cygrunsrv ––stop sshd
To harmonize Windows user information with Cygwin, open a Cygwin window and type the following commands, one line at a time:
mkpasswd ––local > /etc/passwd
mkgroup ––local > /etc/group
To test your sshd installation, open a Cygwin window and type the following command:
whoami
The current username should be displayed.
ls -h /cygdrive/c
You should see a directory listing.
Type exit at the command prompt to exit the Cygwin SSH session.
Install the VNC Server program
Download the RealVNC setup file on the computer to be controlled remotely.
Double click and run the RealVNC setup file.
Select the checkbox for VNC Server.
Click “Next” to begin the installation.
Type a VNC password when asked so that you will be prompted to enter a password every time you establish a VNC session.
Install the VNC Viewer program
Double click and run the RealVNC setup file on the computer you are using to control the remote computer desktop.
Select the checkbox for VNC Viewer.
Click “Next” to begin the installation.
Configure and run the PuTTY program
Double click and run the PuTTY program file on the computer you are using to control the remote computer desktop.
At the “Session” category in the tree menu, Type the Host Name or IP Address of the remote computer.
The Port should be default to 22 and the Connection type should be default to SSH.
Click the “SSH” category to expand the tree menu, and select “Tunnels”.
Add these entry below the “Add new forwarded port”:
Source port: 5900
Destination: 127.0.0.1:5900
Select the default values as “Local” and “Auto“.
Click the “Session” category in the tree menu.
Type a name at the “Saved Sessions” and click the “Save” button.
Click the “Open” button to establish a new SSH session to the remote computer.
Type the Windows username and password to login.
Leave the PuTTY program window open.
Run the VNC Viewer program
Double click and run the VNC Viewer program.
Type localhost or 127.0.0.1 and click “OK” to connect.
The VNC session should be tunelling through the SSH connection by now.
You can verify it by closing the SSH session. The VNC connection will be disconnected immediately too.
SSH, The Secure Shell
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I am always looking out for new ways to make more money online with less effort.
Recently I came across a new innovation that you need to hear about because it may affect the way you earn with your website in the very near future.
Pay-Per-Play (PPP) is the newest and fastest growing form of online advertising. It is an online media channel that plays audio advertisements on websites that place the PPP code on their web pages.
You will get a guaranteed 100% conversion rate on your website visitors, no clicks is necessary! You may be thinking about how is this possible?
PPP audio ads will begin playing automatically as soon as your visitor arrives on the web page that is installed with the PPP code. PPP audio ads will play ads contextually that are related to the text content of any web page.
You make money every time a PPP audio ad is played on your web site. The best thing is you still get paid even if your visitors do not turn on their speakers.
Get full details here.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Everyone was trying their best to get a Gmail account when Gmail was first introduced. Gmail account registration was by invitation only. Gmail users were selling Gmail account invitations on Ebay. Now, Gmail has open up its account registration, allowing everyone to create Gmail account from its web site.
Nowadays, spam e-mails are accounted for more than 95 percent of total e-mails that arrive in your inbox. Unless your mail server has spam filtering protection in place, else you will end up having to retrieve all the spams to your e-mail client software and delete them one by one.
In the early days, Gmail spam filter was unable to catch spams effectively. Over the period of time, Gmail spam filter system has improved significantly. Most of the spams that reach your Gmail account will end up in the spam folder.
You will now ask about how to use the Gmail account to filter your personal POP3 e-mail account at your ISP or web hosting provider?
The answer is simple, that is e-mail forwarding.
Gmail allows you to retrieve e-mails to your e-mail clients software (eg. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora) via POP3, and send e-mails from your e-mail client software via SMTP.
Step 1
Setup e-mail forwarding in your existing POP3 account to forward all incoming e-mails to your Gmail account. If your POP3 e-mail account is hosted with a web hosting provider, most of the hosting packages include a control panel, such as Cpanel, HSphere, and etc. that allows you to setup e-mail forwarding yourself.
If you don’t have the privilege to setup e-mail forwarding, you should ask your ISP administrator or web hosting provider to setup the e-mail forwarding for you.
Step 2
Setup your e-mail client software to connect to Gmail via POP3. For information about configuring your e-mail client software, please refer to this link.
If you are unable to connect to Gmail because your company firewall is blocking traffic from going through non-standard ports, I will show you a way to overcome this problem at this link.
Step 3
Check the box to leave a copy of the e-mails in the mail server. This is optional if you wish to have a copy of the e-mails save in your Gmail account.
Step 4
Save your settings.
It’s time to check for e-mails by connecting to your Gmail account via POP3. All incoming e-mails that arrive at your ISP or web hosting e-mail account to be automatically forwarded to your Gmail account.
You should now be able to download e-mails minus all those spam e-mails that are filtered by Gmail to your e-mail client software.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Many web mail hosting providers such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo allow users to send and receive e-mails using e-mail client software (eg. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora) via standard POP3 and SMTP ports.
Gmail uses different ports for its POP3 and SMTP connections. Gmail requires users to connect to POP3 via port 995 and SMTP via port 587.
However, many companies firewall block traffic from accessing through non-standard ports. The standard ports for POP3 is port 110 and SMTP is port 25.
WebMail is an Mozilla Thunderbird extension that allows users to integrate web-based e-mail accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and many others into Thunderbird. It uses standard HTTP protocol to
connect and access your web mail account. Most companies enable HTTP traffic to pass through the firewall.
WebMail is the solution for you to connect to Gmail account to send and receive e-mails if your company firewall blocks those non-standard ports.
Follow these steps to setup WebMail extension in Mozilla Thunderbird.
Step 1
Download and install the latest Webmail add-on extension for Thunderbird at http://webmail.mozdev.org.
Restart Thunderbird after the installation is completed. The WebMail extension must be installed first before proceeding to step 2.
Step 2
Download and install the Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and etc. extension components at http://webmail.mozdev.org.
Restart Thunderbird after the installation is completed.
Step 3
Setup new account in Thunderbird. Enter localhost for both POP3 and SMTP server setting. For information about the settings, please refer to this link.
Step 4
Check the box to leave a copy of the e-mails in the mail server. This is optional if you wish to have a copy of the e-mails save in your Gmail account.
Step 5
Save your settings.
Happy e-mailing!
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