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Introducing Google Public DNS

[hide]YEs What is Google Public DNS?

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

To try it out:

• Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
• Read our configuration instructions.

If you decide to try Google Public DNS, your client programs will perform all DNS lookups using Google Public DNS.

Why does DNS matter?

The DNS protocol is an important part of the web's infrastructure, serving as the Internet's phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading, so your computer may be performing hundreds of lookups a day.

Internet Explorer Collection – Get All Standalone versions of IE

Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft. There are various versions of IE ranging from the old 1.0 to latest 8.0. If you want to use all the versions of Internet explorer on single PC, then below is a way to it.

Internet Explorer Collection provides multiple standalone IE versions, which can be used at the same time. You can easily choose the desired IE versions which you want to install from the pack. It is a useful utility for web designers and developers.

It contains the following versions of IE:

• Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
• Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
• Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
• Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
• Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
• Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)

Download Internet Explorer Collection (55.2 MB)

10 Worst Computer Virus Of All Time!

 

Brain, 1986
It all started here: Brain was the first "real" virus ever discovered, back in 1986. Brain didn't really hurt your PC, but it launched the malware industry with a bang and gave bad ideas to over 100,000 virus creators for the next 2 decades.

Michelangelo, 1991
The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly. After spreading quietly for months, the virus "activated" on March 6, and promptly started destroying data on tens of thousands of computers.

Melissa, 1999
Technically a worm, Melissa (named after a stripper) collapsed entire email systems by causing computers to send mountains of messages to each other. The author of the virus was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

ILOVEYOU, 2000
This was notable for being one of the first viruses to trick users into opening a file, which in this case claimed to be a love letter sent to the recipient. In reality, the file was a VBS script that sent mountains of junk mail and deleted thousands of files. The results were terribly devastating- one estimate holds that 10 percent of all computers were affected, to a cost of $5.5 billion. It remains perhaps the worst worm of all time.

Code Red, 2001
An early "blended threat" attack, Code Red targeted Web servers instead of user machines, defacing websites and later launching denial-of-service attacks on a host of IP addresses, including those of the White House.

Nimda, 2001
Built on Code Red's attack system of finding multiple avenues into machines (email, websites, network connections, and others), Nimda infected both Web servers and user machines. It found paths into computers so effectively that, 22 minutes after it was released, it became the Internet's most widespread virus at the time.

Klez, 2001
An email virus, Klez pioneered spoofing the "From" field in email messages it sent, making it impossible to tell if Bill Gates did or did not really send you that information about getting free money.

Slammer, 2003
Another fast spreader, this worm infected about 75,000 systems in just 10 minutes, slowing the Internet to a crawl (much like Code Red) and shutting down thousands of websites.

MyDoom, 2004
Notable as the fastest-spreading email virus of all time, MyDoom infected computers so they would, in turn, send even more junk mail. In a strange twist, MyDoom was also used to attack the website of SCO Group, a very unpopular company that was suing other companies over its code being used in Linux distributions.

Storm, 2007
The worst recent virus, Storm spread via email spam with a fake attachment and ultimately infected up to 10 million computers, causing them to join its zombie botnet.

Youtube Tricks simple

1) Stereo versions of youtube videos 

If you add &fmt=18 to the end of a URL on You Tube video you get 
the stereo version of it if there is a stereo version available 


2) Watching youtube video in High Definition 

If you add &fmt=22 to the end of a URL on You Tube video you 
get the stereo version of it if there is a Hi Def version available. 


3) Converting youtube video to MP3 files 

Just Go on 
http://www.listentoyoutube.com

Get the following cool Firefox tricks.

1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box. 

2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box. 

3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs): 

Spacebar (page down) 
Shift-Spacebar (page up) 
Ctrl+F (find) 
Alt-N (find next) 
Ctrl+D (bookmark page) 
Ctrl+T (new tab) 
Ctrl+K (go to search box) 
Ctrl+L (go to address bar) 
Ctrl+= (increase text size) 
Ctrl+- (decrease text size) 
Ctrl-W (close tab) 
F5 (reload) 
Alt-Home (go to home page) 

4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter. 

5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts: 

Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs) 
Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab) 
Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab) 

6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones: 

Middle click on link (opens in new tab) 
Shift-scroll down (previous page) 
Shift-scroll up (next page) 
Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size) 
Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size) 
Middle click on a tab (closes tab) 

7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.11) Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark. 

 Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how: 

Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them): 
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” 
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” 
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once. 
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. 

9) Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram. 

10) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect. 

11) Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value: 

0: Display a close button on the active tab only 
1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs 
2:Don’t display any close buttons 
3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

5-best-internet-browsers

Your Internet browser is the key the World Wide Web. It is basically a must have application on your computer. With this software, you get to access all kinds of information and hot technology. It may be sometimes overlooked, but the kind of browser you use affects your overall surfing experience. Your Internet browser enhances your web experience every day. If it is user-friendly and compatible with most operating systems, then it is probably good. 

To make things easier for you, here is a list of the best top ten browsers available in the market today. This compilation is complete with reviews on some amazing features, the trend in browsers and basically where to get them. If you are not familiar with any them, then this is good time to check them out and see if their features and functions are what you need to enhance your web surfing experience. Not all browsers are the same; some have their own positives and negatives. So be sure to click their links and try to learn more about them. Hopefully, one from the list may be the one for you and your computer. 

This list is most beneficial to those upgrading their old systems and for those that want optimum performance on the net. 

The five browsers on the market today are the following: 

phase out 

 

2. Deepnet Explorer 

 

3. Maxthon 

 

4. Safari 

 

5.Google Chrome 

Google Chrome Addons

Extensions > TabJump - Intelligent Tab Navigator

TabJump - Intelligent Tab Navigator by Visibotech

 (73) - 34,356 users - Weekly installs: 2,681

A new way to navigate your tabs. Easily access most used tabs, associated tabs, and closed tabs. Allows tab locking too.

Install

"Great tab manager" -- as featured in Lifehacker.com! 

When working with many tabs at the same time, it's hard to remember which one you want to go next. TabJump highlights frequently used tabs and related tabs so you can easily jump between them. And never worry again about closing tabs by accident, for TabJump can protect them, or even restore closed tabs!

Features
- Jump to frequently used tabs
- Jump to related tabs (tabs from the same site, etc)
- Restore recently closed tabs
- Lock a tab to prevent accidental closing (only work for tabs loaded after TabJump is installed)

Disclaimer
- Due to Chrome limitations, extensions cannot restore history from closed tabs. If you need the history from a recently closed tab, you can press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen them one by one.

Try out our other extensions too!
- Incredible StartPage http://goo.gl/he9o **NEW**
- Friends Mural for Facebook http://goo.gl/bICN
- TooManyTabs: http://goo.gl/AI2X
- FreshStart Session Manager: http://goo.gl/249h
- TwitterWatch: http://goo.gl/7AkW

Keywords: Tabs, Tabs Management, Find tabs, Tab Jump, TabKit, FoxTab, TabMixPlus, TreeStyleTabs, Too Many Tabs, Tab Menu
License: http://www.visibotech.com/license/tabjump.html
Credits: http://www.visibotech.com/chrome/credits.html

If you want a video tutorial Molly at demogirl.com has created a simple screencast on it: http://goo.gl/FcIs Thanks Molly!

Google TV

Google TV being demonstrated at the Google conference in San Francisco, Thursday, May 20, 2010.
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Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt (left), with executives from companies that are helping to bring Google TV to consumers during a presentation in San Francisco on May 20, 2010. From left: Schmidt; chief executives Shantany Narayen of Adobe Systemms; Brian Dunn of Best Buy; Charlie Ergen of Dish Network; Gerry Quindlen of Logitech; Howard Stringer of Sony; and Paul Otellini of of Intel.

Google TV at the Google conference.

Google TV is being demonstrated at the Google conference.

Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, left,speaks to Shantanu Narayen, chief executive of Adobe Systems, during a presentation at Google's annual I/O conference in San Francisco on Thursday, May 20, 2010. Google announced that it is leading a group of companies, including Sony and Intel, in an effort called Google TV.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer (left), and Intel CEO Paul Otellini smiles during a Google TV announcement at the Google conference.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about Google TV at the Google conference in San Francisco, Thursday, May 20, 2010. Google Inc. believes it has come up with the technology to unite Web surfing with channel surfing on televisions.

Firefox Add-On: Hire 7 Personal Bodyguards to Browse Internet Securely

Photo courtesy of markstrange

We see celebrities, politicians and famous people cruise around with bodyguards to protect themselves and their possessions from various threats. While most of us cannot afford such kind of protection when we cruise the streets, we can at least have that kind of protection when we cruise the internet. I have provided list of 7 powerful Firefox add-ons with screenshots that will protect you from the dangerous unknowns of the internet.

1. NoScript

Using NoScript add-on, you can allow JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by a website that you trust.  Click on the NoScript icon from the browser status bar to add a website to your trusted list. NoScript also provides protection from cross-site scripting (XSS).

When you view a website that is not added to NoScript trusted website, it displays a status bar at the bottom as shown below. In this example, it shows 3 scripts were allowed out of 8 scripts in the website that you are currently viewing.

Fig - NoScript status bar displayed at browser bottom

You can allow all or selective scripts from a website by clicking on the NoScript icon in the status bar as shown below.

Fig - Display NoScript menu by clicking on “S” icon on status bar

From the NoScript options menu, specify whether you want to block Java, Flash, Silverlight or IFRAME as shown below.

Fig - NoScript Configuration Options

2. WOT (Web Of Trust)

The concept behind WOT is good. Before you click on a link, WOT will give you an idea about the site by displaying colored ring icon next to the link – green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid dangerous sites. If the colored ring next to the link is confusing, an option to enable color blind accessible version is available from WOT menu.

In the example below, it displays the WOT ring icon next to the link. Moving mouse over the ring icon displays the WOT rating in four different categories – Trustworthiness, Vendor reliability, Privacy and Child Safety. The ratings of different sites relies on the user input. If you choose to contribute to the rating, you can create an account at myWOT to rate different sites yourself.  Since the rating is driven by user input, the quality of the rating depends on more user involvement. According to mywot.com, they currently have ratings for more than 20 million websites, with more than 1 million dangerous website in their list.

If you visit a website considered as dangerous by WOT, it will give you a nice warning message with an option to continue or exit from the website.  Also, if you don’t like the ring next to the link on search results, you can turn them off from the WOT option menu. But, you’ll still be warned when you enter a dangerous site.

Fig - Web of Trust ring icon next to a link

3. Flash Block

While browsing internet, animated flash contents can be very annoying sometimes. Flash Blockblocks all the flash contents by default. To allow flash from a trusted website, add it to the white list as shown below. When a flash is blocked on a website, it will display an icon with “F”. When you move mouse over the “F” icon, it will turn into “Play” icon, which will let you play the flash on demand. If you use NoScript, you don’t need to install flash block, as NoScript blocks flash content.

Fig - Flash Block option to add whitelist

4. LocationBar

Location Bar add-on puts emphasis only on the domain name in the address bar for any page that you are viewing. This will help you to easily spot the domain name of the website to avoid any spoofing. In the example below, mozilla.org is emphasized in the address bar. In my opinion, this should’ve been the default behavior of Firefox like Google Chrome browser.

Fig - Location Bar with domain name (mozilla.org) emphasized

Move the mouse to any part of the URL in the location bar and press + click, which will open the URL until that point in a new tab. In the example below, + click on “firefox” on the URL will open the URL until Firefox in a new tab.

Fig - Location Bar with partial URL highlighted for opening

5. InterClue

Using InterClue you can view the content of a website from the link without opening the website. Just move the mouse over the icon that is displayed next to the link, which will open a pop-up to display the content of the website and some other vital statistics of the website as shown below.  I prefer InterClue over other preview website add-ons, as InterClue strips down unnecessary formatting of the target website and displays the content in a very nice readable format.

Fig – InterClue pop-up window showing NagiosExchange website

From the InterClue option menu, you can configure the link to open only when you click on the icon. I really like this feature, as I don’t like pop-up automatically show up when you accidentally move the mouse over a link. InterClue has lot of options for you to play around and tweak it as shown below.

Fig - InterClue Advanced Options

6. Distrust

Distrust is very simple and easy to use add-on to browse the internet without leaving a trace on your laptop. Click on the eye icon in the status bar to enable secure browsing mode, where distrust will monitor Firefox for its activities. After turning off distrust, it will remove history, cache and cookies that were used during the distrust session.

Following are the different items monitored during the distress session, which can be configured from the options menu as shown below.

Fig - Distrust Options

7. KeyScrambler Personal

Hackers use Keylogging technique to monitor and capture the keystrokes you type to obtain sensitive information like your password. KeyScrambler add-on encrypts all the keystroke that you type anywhere in the browser. In the example below, as I typed ramesh in the username field, KeyScrambler encrypts it to 5-qm\0. So, if a hacker is using key-logger to monitor your keystroke, he’ll only see the encrypted keystrokes and not the original sensitive information. From the KeyScrambler options menu, you can also hide the keystroke overlay window that is displaying the encrypted keys as you type. KeyScambler Personal Firefox add-on will only encrypt the keystrokes that you type on Firefox browser and not the keystrokes that you type on different applications.

Fig - KeyScambler encrypts the username and password as you type

What Firefox add-ons do you use to browse internet securely? Please leave your comment.