Every secure free Hushmail account include these features:

• Spam filtering
• Virus scanning
• File storage and sharing with other Hushmail users
• Unlimited contacts
• POP3 access to external email accounts
• Easy encrypted communication with contacts at any email address using Hustmail Express
• Hush Messenger for secure instant messaging
• Email notification
• Read receipts, auto-responders, drafts, and templates
• Digital signatures for email and attachments
• End-to-end encryption for email and files
• Full OpenPGP support with 2048 bit encryption
• Encryption toolkit

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

• Cygwin
• RealVNC
• PuTTY
• TCP port 22 enabled at the remote computer

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

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.

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.