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There is always a threat to your computer system from viruses and trozans via Internet or USBs, so it is always recommended to use the best antivirus available. Very recently Microsoft has confirmed that a new, highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings. This exploit is extremely dangerous at all the levels.

Most Harmful Malware: Rootkit

It can enter your computer or enterprise via hidden files on the USB drive or via network through shared files. It gets triggered even when the user views the icon. No other interaction is required for it to affect the system. It propagates itself. It loads as a rootkit infection. It affects all Windows operating systems, even full-patched Windows 7 systems. It seems to target extremely sensitive information ,researchers say it seems to have been made for espionage. If all that weren’t scary enough, a researcher has already published proof-of-concept code.

All anti-malware vendors are updating their antivirus softwares to add detection functionality of this rootkit and Microsoft is among them. This rootkit needs serious attention else it may lead to system damage, so backup your computer periodically.

Google is the most widely used search engine and these days people search engines are popular and everything is searched on Google. Google’s home page is the most opened web page and due to its vast database searching the exact stuff you are looking for has became more and more difficult.

At times even I found it difficult for what I was looking for, so I compiled a list of Top 5 Google Search Tricks to make searching easier, efficient, accurate and faster.

Trick #1: Looking for Product Reviews

If you are looking for a product review then type, “product name”sucks. You’ll get the best reviews. It worked well for me.

Google Trick Product Reviews

Trick #2: Get copy of Book Electronically

If you are looking for a copy of an book electronically then type “title of book” filetype:pdf

Google Trick Book Finder

Trick #3: Mass of a substance

If you want to known the mass of Moon, then type mass of moon

Google Trick Mass Finder

Trick #4: Movie Timings

If you want to know the movie timings in your city, the type “movie title” “your zip code”. Well I searched for Inception.

Google Trick Movie Timings

Trick #5: Time Finder of a particular City

If you want to know the time of a particular city then type, time city. I searched London and got the exact time.

Google Trick Time Finder

These were the Top 5 Google search tricks. I hope these will reduce your search time and provide you accurate results.

Linux being a free OS and a very strong and secure is preferred over Windows by the Web developers and Graphic animators. One major benefit of Linux Softwares is that most of them are available free of cost, making everyone use them to create high quality graphics and designs.

Here I’ll put some light on the Top 5 Free Linux Graphics and Designer Softwares.

Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion is free software for creating high quality images and graphics. One can even create best quality animations and moving images that can be made by joining multiple still images. The software is completely made in JAVA making it platform independent.

Download user manual for Art of Illusion for all the features and how one can use them.

CinePaint

Cine Paint

Like other softwares, CinePaint is one software that most of the web developers and graphic designers use. Basically CinePaint is a collection of multiple tools that are open source. It provides the functionalit provided by Adobe Photoshop except the fact that it is free.

You can see the tutorial of CinePiant and learn more about this software.

Xaraxtreme

Xara Xtreme

Xara Xtreme is an open source and a powerful software that provides the functionality similar to CorelDraw. It can be used in Linux, Unix and OS X making it a widely acceptable software.

You can have the documentation of XaraXtreme and the technical basics here.

QCAD

Qcad

Qcad is a computer aided drafting application that is used for 2D drawings. Qcad is being used by architects for professional drawings and building designs. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often complicated to use, QCad tries to be simple.

Download Qcad latest version here.

Get all Qcad documentation.

Skencil

Skencil

Skencil is a vector drawing application that is used in illustration, diagrams and other sketching purposes. Skencil is implemented using Python. Python is an object oriented language, yet very easy to use.

Get Skencil User Guide here.

Google has come up with yet another modification in its homepage by providing every user to select its own background image. Everytime you open Google’s Home page, you can expect something new from them. Changing of Google’s logo was common and everyday users find a new one either dedicated to someone or making the world aware about some happenings.

Bing Background Image

Bing a Search Engine from Microsoft is unique and different from other with its mind blowing background images. Google has not copied their initiative but have come up with a totally different idea. According to their plan, every user will have a different background image integrated with its account.

Google Background Image Wizard

You’ll find a link on the bottom left of the Google’s home page with an anchor text “Sign in to see your background image”. After clicking on it, you’ll be asked to select an image from Google’s selected images or from your Picasa web album. You can even upload an image from your computer and you’ll find that image as the background of Google’s home page everytime you login to your account.

Personalized Google Homepage Background Image

The best part about this is that you will find that background image on the Google’s homepage when you login to your Google account. It doesn’t matter you are on your personal computer or accessing web through some public computer in a cyber café. Lets see what else Google is planning to do after this.

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most widely used internet browser. Being an open source browser it is available for free with the condition that one cannot modify its code to create a new browser. It can be downloaded from the official Mozilla website. The thing that has made Mozilla Firefox one of the most trusted browsers is the huge number of plug-in it offers. These plug-in are also known as Add-ons and are small programs that run with the main program.

By default Firefox comes without any add-on and one has to install the add-ons that are required. Though there are some important add-ons that have to be installed in your Firefox browser because browsing the web can be a whole lot easy with these add-ons.

Top 5 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons are:

Adobe Reader:

There are many web pages that have content in .pdf format and viewing such content in your browser is not possible by default. So for this you need to have Adobe Reader Add-on for Mozilla Firefox.

Get Adobe Reader

Adobe Flash Player:

Adobe flash player enables you to view flash videos online like on YouTube. If you don’t have a flash player installed on your browser, it may ask you to install it just as you open the web page containing the video. After installing Flash Player add-on you can enjoy watching videos and live matches without having to download them.
Get Adobe Flash Player

JAVA Add-on:

Java is one technology that has been growing at a rapid pace and more and more websites are using Java in them. Some websites require Java plug-in or Java runtime environment installed on your system to function properly. So it is necessary to install this Java Add-on for Mozilla Firefox.

Get Java Add-on

Windows Media Player:

Windows media player is manufactured by Microsoft. As we all know there are hardly few things that Microsoft provides for free, and luckily this is one of them. Windows media player add-on will let you play streaming audio, video and multimedia presentations on the web. So this add-on is as important as any other when you need a fluent flow online.
Get Windows Media Player Plugin

QuickTime Add-on:

QuickTime player is just like Microsoft’s Windows Media player but it is manufactured by Apple Corp. Both these plug-in fulfill the same purpose, so you can choose any of these.

Get Quicktime addon

Google searching and Google search tools are considered to be the most affective searching tools today. The searching algorithms used are superb and they provide you with the most efficient results. Due to its efficiency and the accuracy of results, Google is the best search engine at present.

However there are many Google search tools that provide you with efficient local Google search. Google desktop search is one tool that helps you search the contents online as well inside your computer. If the file you are looking for is present in your PC then it’ll be returned first else Google desktop search tool will look for that file online in Google’s search file in its database.

How to use I’m Feeling Lucky Button to reduce Search time?

Almost all of us have accessed Google’s homepage and may have noted that there is a button “I’m Feeling Lucky”. Well most of you may not have used it as you don’t know the exact usage of this button. When we make a query in Google, it returns its results as a SERP. Most of the times the very first result is the best suited for our query and we select it. To reduce this search time, Google provides this “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

Enter the string you need to search in the Google text field. Now press the I’m Feeling Lucky Button. Now the next page that you’ll find in the browser is some webpage but now the result from Google. What actually happened is that Google automatically opened the first result to your query. This reduced the time to search and you get more time looking at the actual content rather than looking for actual content.

Google I'm Feeling Lucky Button

The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button automatically takes you to the first web page returned for your query.
An “I’m Feeling Lucky” search means less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.

So if you are looking for something today, use the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button and reduce your search time. If you like the post, do give your feedback and make it popular.

Every now and then a new website is created and in this competitive market there is always a doubt which Web hosting service to choose? Although there are some big web hosting giants in the industry like Hostgator and Hostmonster but there are others too that provide good hosting services but remain unknown due to lack of advertisement.

The reputation of your website relies all upon your web host. The faster the site opens the more it will attract visitors to it but even if it has all the special content or tips everyone need, being slow to load or sometimes not load at all can highly affect its visitors.

So the basic and most essential thing is to choose a good web hosting service. You may have been using some web hosting service and may not be satisfied with the response or services you are receiving from them. Planning to change a web hosting service may have major affects on the traffic you are receiving. Moving website to a new webhost needs some special care as there are chances that you may lose your data during the transfer. So create a backup and have some precautions done while you plan to transfer your website.

It is recommended to visit some review making websites and get to know the services that several webhosts provide. You must be careful to distinguish natural reviews from paid ones because web hosting providers spend huge cash on buying reviews. Choose a good host, include original content and keep adding the ingredients. You’ll surely get a wonderful recipe.

Mobile phones are used almost everywhere and every time, even when we drive. Though we violate the driving rules, but also put our life in danger by accessing mobile phones while driving. Here is a mobile phone application named Drivesafe to avoid accidents, I mean this application can speak out text messages that you receive, ensuring that you didn’t had to read them. Drivesafe is currently available for Blackberry Mobiles, Windows Mobile, Android Mobiles and iPhones. It can be downloaded for free.

The major cause of accidents is the distraction caused by the mobile phones and to be specific it’s the messages that takes the attention of the driver from the road to the mobile screen. SMS have even caused some accidents in the past too and applications like Drivesafe are perfect to avoid such situations. Drivesafe speaks out both SMS and Emails you receive.

Features
* Reads your text messages and emails out loud in real time
* Hands Free – No need to touch the phone while driving
* One-touch activation – no complicated setup
* Bluetooth and radio transmitter compatible
* Reads text message shorthand (lol, brb)
* Optional customizable auto-responder

Most of the times you may have to reinstall Operating System on your PC and then you may have found some of the drivers missing on your system. You need to install drivers like VGA Graphics Driver, Audio Sound Driver, USB Drivers and many other hardware devices. If you are using an Intel based computer you may have faced problems with Graphics after reinstallation of OS as the Video driver may not be properly installed and people keep on blaming the LCD.

Well instead of looking into your System > Device Manager you should directly check out the Online Drivers Checkup Utility at Intel.com which will automatically scan your computer for Installed drivers and what should be downloaded which can be a perfect tool if you feel your PC is missing something.

Intel Driver Update Utility

You can check your system’s status by clicking on button that says: “Check your system for Latest updates”.  Your graphics need to be updated and Intel Driver Update Utility does that job. It automatically detects all the relevant graphics drivers and helps you install the drivers easily and quickly. You may also be asked to install Active X as an add-on in IE but it may work only in IE. Then this Utility will scan your system for the Video drivers and then will give you the option to download and install them.

Intel’s Anti-theft technology can help you recover your stolen laptop.

Everyone uses a computer or a laptop these days and rely on it for all the work and documents stored in it. There may be cases of data losses due to virus infections or hard disc damages. Virus attacks can be prevented by using a really good antivirus program and for hard disc damages you may need to create a backup somewhere other than your PC. There are other backup programs that will provide you with all the data like images, songs, documents but after that you still need to recover the PC back in place as it was before. You may have to set up your browsers for bookmarks, settings for some softwares like Photoshop and general user interface settings.

To get rid of this kind of work, you can use Handy Backup. This application is more advanced and its extensible due to the plug-ins it has that enable the complete backup of your PC including data, personal settings, skins, playlists, bookmarks and a whole lot more. Handy Backup has plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live and you can even create your plug-ins for various other applications in a simple XML file.

Handy Backup Software

Using Handy Backup you can create complete backup of your complete hard drive or some selected directories and store it in some local media like a CD/DVD or Some external hard drive. You may even have the freedom to store your backup on some external safe servers using FTP. Handy Backup lets you can have run-once or scheduled backups of your complete hard drive or specific directories.

All those who face the situation of making backups and then have to restore all the settings manually, Handy Backup is the solution for them. So get this Handy Backup to make your backup really handy for you.

Getting a new mobile phone deal is really difficult if you have some bad credit history. Mobile Phones have become a major part of our daily living and its really impossible to imagine a life without mobile phones in future.

Various mobile phone service providers offer different schemes and offers to attract large number of customers, but this is not always good for customers as they may choose some plan which was not suited to them but lack of knowledge caused it to happen.

Some of the major mobile phone operators like Orange, T-Mobile, O2 are famous for providing credit offers to the users but its not that easy to get the deals done with these operators if you have a bad mobile credit history. You may require some tips to get Bad credit contracts.

Students also face problems in getting these kind of mobile phone credit deals approved by the mobile phone service providers as they don’t earn much and they don’t have any mobile phone credit history as they are not paying any credit card bills. Still after following some easy tips students can also get the mobile phone credit deals accepted by the mobile phone operators.

In this world of technology, there are things happening all over the world all the time. You may not be knowing but millions of people like you are browsing websites on this ultimate WEB.

Some like to enjoy and others looking for some useful stuff like study material, books or some stuff that can help them to be prepared for some interview skills. Well as far as I feel the recession did hit the world but now the conditions are improving but till date there is huge cut-throat competition in the market for the jobs.

As I belong to Information Technology field, I know this very well that you need to be strong in your technical knowledge to clear written exams and interviews to get a good job but this isn’t easy to get. Everyone wonders that how will they be able to get good technical interview knowledge and good tips to do well in Technical Interviews.

There are many websites available to provide you with Technical Interview Questions and some even provide solved technical papers of previous years which were held by good MNCs, one among these is http://latestexams.com. You can get job opportunities, skills required in various jobs and many technical interview questions to improve your technical knowledge. The site also provides knowledge related to computers like various programming languages, networking, hardware, database and many more. I have personally found this website good, so wanted to share this with you.

So be prepared for the technical interviews, job opportunities and keep yourself above from the rest.

Most of us use Laptops with Windows XP or Windows Vista and have found our Laptops hanging or slowing down as we try to access multiple tasks simultaneously. Well there are ways by which you can speed up your computer or laptop, you just need to follow these simple tips and all will be done.

Firstly it is suggested to increase your RAM if you find your PC slowing down and hanging once in a while. There must be good amount of free space on your hard disk and unused videos, programs, and unnecessary files must be removed. Try to mage one-fifth of your hard disk free, this really improves some speed.

You must use low graphics wallpapers and screensavers as they use a large amount of your laptop’s memory and you always feel like speeding up your laptop. You will have to compromise in terms of graphics to get a better performance out of your ordinary laptop. In Windows Vista you can adjust the vistal settings for best performance.

In windows XP you can lower the Display resolution and not to use dazzling and high resolution wallpapers, this saves a large amount of CPU and RAM consumpion. It is also advised to minimize some programs when you are running multiple programs simultaneously. You can make your windows laptop to boot faster by managing startup programs, as useless startup programs need to be removed to provide you with effecient performance.

If you still feel you can’t compromise with your graphics then I recommend buying a good quality ATI or NVIDIA Graphics Card to boost your laptop’s or computer’s performance. If you like to play games then you should prefer Windows XP over Windows Vista as games requires larges graphics and consume lots of RAM.

Follow these simple steps and I feel you will be really happy with your Windows XP and Windows Vista’s Performance and your laptop will be cruzing smoothly.

From most of the people using internet do use some chatting softwares like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and lot more. These softwares allow you to chat, send files, call and even have a Video Chat with people all over the globe.

You have the option to show yourself or hide yourself from others as your status. In Yahoo Messenger you can become invisible to others by selecting “invisible” as your status. But you can still be caught that you are online or you can catch others trying to hide themselves from you by using this tool.

Yahoo Invisible Detector is a tool that lets you know who is online but pretending to be offline or being invisible. You just need to type their YIM Id in the bar and press enter. It’ll return the result as either “Online“, “Invisible” or “Offline“.

Yahoo Invisible Detector Result

Try Yahoo invisible detector

All those who used Windows XP and then had to use Windows Vista as it is pre-installed in their Laptop or computer know that Windows Vista is not that good as Windows XP. Some also tried to install Windows XP along with Windows Vista in a Dual-boot manner but had problems.

Most people have their computer dual boot with windows and Linux, as it gives the freedom to work. You can browse internet in Linux without the fear of getting affected by viruses, and play games on windows.

If you have tried installing Windows XP with Windows Vista already running then you must have faced problems as only one operating system is displayed at a time. After installing Windows XP, you don’t find Windows Vista at start-up. Now you need to repair the boot sector with Vista DVD. After you have done that you find only Vista at start-up and no windows XP.

You need to downlaod a Software Vista Boot Pro and run it in Windows Vista. It will detect all the operating systems installed on your computer and gives you the options to select an option by default. All the operating systems will be visible at start-up.

Vista Boot Pro BCD Screen

There is a difference in multi-boot with all windows operating systems and multi-boot with Linux and windows, as in all windows multi-boot if you hibernate an OS then that OS will resume by default where as you have the right to choose a different one with Linux-windows multi-boot.

About Author: The article is submitted by webmaster guest author Joel. He provides some useful computer optimization tips on his blog. You can fix speed of your computer by downloading best registry cleaner available online.

There are times when we want to block website at home or office for some purpose or the other. At home you may want to block websites that are not for children to watch or at some institutions which are to be restricted to be used.

Mozilla Firefox is simply the best browser as it offer multiple Add-ons like Image block and take complete Screen shots and it also has an Adblock. Adblock is a content filter extension. This Adblock is for Mozilla Firefox and Mozila application Suite based web browsers.

This Adblock is mainly used to block advertisements. It also lets users to prevent page elements from being downloaded and displayed. An improved version of the Adblock of Mozilla Firefox is Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus has grown to replace the old Adblock.

Mozilla Firefox also allows you to block websites using the Block site plugin. There are some parental control softwares available on the internet to block websites. You can download such softwares and block websites.

Download Website Add-on Plugin

For all those who are using DATA Cards or Mobiles to use Internet will be worried about the Slow speed they get and the amount of Data they have downloaded and has it exceeded their downloading limit as not many Internet Service Providers offer Unlimited Downloading Plans.

So if you want to Increase your Browsing speed then Firstly block the Images to be loaded in your browser. There are times when we visit blogs or websites for the content but it takes time to load due to the images in the background or along with the text. This consumes lots of time and bandwidth and reduces the loading speed.

To increase internet browsing speed you need to block un-necessary material like background images, audio files, videos etc that consumes large bandwidth.

This can be done within the browser itself by adjusting the options or the same job through a Firefox Add-on called Image Block 3.5. Image Block Add-on displays a button which would allow you to block/allow loading of images on websites.

So follow this and speed up dial up connection and enjoy fast speed internet connection.

Download Firefox Image Block Add-on.

Apple iPhone is the largest selling GSM handset in the world but by default it comes locked with the Telecomm service provider like AT&T in US and Airtel or Vodafone in India. iPhone needs to be unlocked to be used with other service providers then the default.

These are instructions on how to software unlock the iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0 for use with any GSM cell phone carrier. Before you can follow these instructions you must have a jailbroken iPhone if you haven’t jailbreaked your iPhone 3G then follow our Guide to Jailbreak iPhone 3G OS 3.0 With RedSn0w on Windows Mac For unlocking your iPhone UltraSn0w, a soft unlock payload from iPhone Dev Team is using.

UltraSn0w is a small daemon that is launched on boot.  It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset.  You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. Once you have a Jailbreaked iPhone then you can use these easy steps to Unlock your iPhone.

Step One : Press to launch Cydia Installer from your SpringBoard.

Step Two : Press to select the Manage tab at the bottom of the screen.

Step Three : Press to select the large Sources button

Step Four : Press the Edit button at the top right of the screen.

Step Five : Press the Add button at the top left of the screen.

Step Six : Enter http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com/ as the source url and press the Add Source button.

Step Seven : Once the source has been added press the large Return to Cydia button.

Step Eight : Press the Done button at the top right of the screen.

Step Nine : Press to select http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com/ from the list of user entered sources.

Step Ten: Press to select ultrasn0w from the list of packages.

Step Eleven : Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.

Step Twelve : Press the Confirm button at the top right of the screen.

Step Thirteen : After installation completes successfully press the large Return to Cydia button.

Step Fourteen : Now press the Home button then power off and power on the iPhone. You do this by holding down the power button for 3 seconds then moving the power slider that appears to the right. Press the power button again to turn on the phone.

Step Fifteen : You should now be able to insert the SIM of your choice!

Almost everyone have accessed Google Earth to view a site on Earth but it has gone too far now. Now you can even visit moon, mars and outer space from Google Earth. The toolbar on top of Google Earth Allows you to select various options and you can even select the option among Earth, Moon, Sky and Mars.

So now you can even make a tour, not just a world tour but even outside our world with the help of Google Earth just by sitting at your home. So download the latest version of Google earth and enjoy this amazing experience.

Surface of Moon in Google Earth

Landmarks on Moon

Day and Night on Moon

Sky view

Constellations in Space

Sun Signs

View of Mars

Surface and Landmarks on Mars

Spot on Mars's Surface

Nowadays everyone has a mobile phone and most people access or surf internet with their mobile phones by either Pay per use plan or some monthly plan with fix charges but now you can use free internet with your Airtel connection.

For using Free Internet with Airtel GPRS we make use of two mobile browser softwares,Teashark and UCweb . Teashrk is Sony Ericsson’s native mobile browser , but can be used in almost all Java supported mobile devices . UCweb is another popular mobile browser .

How to use Free GPRS on Airtel

• Now you need to download and install Teashark and Ucweb browsers.
• Now on settings , select access point as Airtel live.
• The normal rates of GPRS through Airtel live is 30pisa/50 kb. But amazing thing is that when browsed through these browsers, Airtel GPRS is completely free and you won’t be charged.

If there is any problem with Teashark browser, use UCweb. Airtel GPRS works perfectly on UCweb browser . If you experience any difficulties on page load , clear you browser cache and try again. But do check the balance after few mins as a precaution.