20 Common Mistakes To Avoid By Any Internet Surfers

Novice Internet surfers are eager to explore World Wide Web known for researching, shopping, communicating and enjoying the media. And then there are evil waiting to trap these greenhorns and make money out of it. Identity theft, Email Spamming, Chat Room etc are some of the common traps people fall in to. But that doesn’t mean one should avoid using Internet, as today most of us keep in touch with friends, family, and locate cool places or news by Internet. One only needs to be careful while surfing Internet in order to save time and to remain at the safer side. If you are someone wanting to start your web journey then make a note of these common mistakes to avoid when surfing online.

1. Avoid login on third party applications which require email logins.
2. Avoid accessing account through any email link as it can be risky. If the email turns out to be fraudulent then cyber criminal will have access to your account information.
3. Avoid having single password or PINs for accessing all your online accounts, this can again lead to identity theft.
4. Avoid using unsafe site that does not come with term ‘https‘. The “S” stands for secure and you should always make note of it before accessing any site.
5. Avoid clicking on pop-ups that says “Your Pc is Insecure”, such links can have malware automatically downloaded to your PC.
6. Avoid downloading free stuffs such as screen saver and those stupid smiley faces. Such things are very dangerous to your PC and you will soon notice it has turned slow then earlier. Sites like download.com are safe to use.
7. Be careful with those phishing mails, they may create a sense of urgency as “Your Account is in Risk” or an “Unauthorized transaction has taken place” so send your account details. Remember any bank will not ask your account detail via mail.
8. Make sure you always have updated antivirus software in place.
9. Always check with your bank if they have any additional security for your online transactions, such as IPIN’s or Zero liability card.
10. Always have your CC details save in real world. Do not share it with anybody via sending mails or over even on telephone.
11. Never forget to delete the system’s cache, passwords or history, it could easily lead to identity theft and stolen bank and email information.
12. You have won a lottery and or an IPod are the common terms used by spammers to trap you, avoid falling to such traps.
13. Always blacklist the spammers you come across in mails without just deleting the spam mails.
14. Don’t ever click on the Close window without logging of your account especially if you are at cybercafé for accessing Internet then you are more at risk.
15. Always have a back up for your emails just as how you keep a hard copy of your important docs and other things.
16. Avoid believing in those brainless “Microsoft Is Sharing Its Fortune” kind of mail, they are just spammers requiring your details to trouble you more.
17. Always have a habit of not clicking on phishing email, the goal of phisher is to fool you for entering your details into something that actually appears to be safe and secure, but in reality is just a fake site set up by the scammer.
18. Avoid giving your full name, home address, phone number, Social Security number, passwords, names of family members, credit card numbers online. Best is to remain anonymous and enjoy surfing
19. Never forget to scan the attachment you receive in your mail box. Virus attacks are mostly through such attachments.
20. Social networking sites are something we cannot avoid these days, yet it is always secure to follow known person on Twitter or to add on Facebook. Don’t forget to do security check if you tend to add unknown person.
21. This article intends to offer you basic information on how you can be safe on Internet and enjoy surfing through it. We certainly don’t deserve to face problems when using Internet, so you just require knowing where the pitfalls are, use some common sense and caution, and you are safe. Good Luck!

10 Amazing Gmail Lab features

Gmail is increasing its reach by time by time introducing lab feature out of  box. There are many lab features that make mailing extraordinary. Mailing is not supposed to be composing a mail and write few words or attach a documents. The meaning of email changing day by day because along with normal mailing feature we have lots of new features that e-mailing extraordinary. Here are 10 amazing list of Gmail lab features from the use of which you can become an extra ordinary e-mailer.  For enabling the lab you should go to Setting> Labs.

Offline You can use Gmail while your internet connection not ready to support you. You can access you Gmail inbox, preview mails and send mail also. Your outgoing mail will enter into outbox and next time whenever you will be online your mil will automatically sent.

YouTube previews in mail

If your friend send you any youtube video link then you should open it into another browser to have a preview by default. By enabling this lab feature you will preview your youtube videos directly in your mail.

Message translation

Suppose you got a client from a country like China or Russia then you should face some problem regarding language of the mail. By activating the feature you can translate the mail of any language to English, it use Google Translate to translate messages you receive in other languages

Custom keyboard shortcuts

By activating this feature you can save lots of time. You can use lots of keyboard shortcuts to save your time. A new setting tab will automatically added to your Gmail setting from the help of which  you can remap keys to various actions. Here are a keyboard shortcuts.

Google Search You don’t need to go to other tab to search on Google. By activating the feature a search box will appear inside your mail window and it will displays Google search results inside your mail window, letting you quickly find things and use them when you’re writing an email.

Right-side chat
Want some fun with Gmail chat box. You chat box will move to the right side of the inbox.

Inserting images

You can insert image directly in you mail. You don’t need to attach image file. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs.

Undo Send

This is called as panic button of Gmail. After sending the mail if you realize your mistake in your mail, you don’t need to worry, after enabling this Gmail lab feature an option of undo will appeared on the upper side of mail window. You will get some extra seconds from Gmail to edit the sent mail.

Tasks adds a to-do list to Gmail. After adding the lab, click the Tasks link above the chat box on the left-hand-side of the page. Your task list will appear on the right – click anywhere in the list and start typing to add a task.

Email Addict
If you are Gmail addict then this feature is specially made for you. After particular time interval your screen will block. You can take a break from email and chat for 15 minutes.

If you like any other lab feature, you can explore it via comments.

Top 10 White Hat Ways to Promote Your Site

I’ve compiled a little list that will help you to get your site exposed to online population and help your site index faster, get your PR higher. The list is not in any particular order, some strategies may work better for others than you so pick what you like and use it, but it would be best if you can do them all.

1. StumbleUpon and Digg – very popular sites among online community, a great place to submit your site to.

2. Propeller, OnlyWire and SocialMarker – sites whole sole purpose in my eyes is to improve indexing and ranking of websites

3. Submit articles to Ezine and Associated Content with your link attached to them. Associated content will even pay you for submitting articles to them, up to $20 per article if you know how to write good.

4. Submit comments to blogs with your link attached, see “How to find .edu and .gov websites” for better ranked blogs

5. Personal profiles on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace can prove heavily beneficial to circulate your site’s information and backlinks.

6. Use Twitter to direct traffic, use automation software to add followers. Twitter is very popular right now; use it to your advantage.

7. Add valuable articles to forums in your niche and have a link in your signature.

8. If a competitor with high traffic-site uses Ad Sense, then you can use Google’s Site Targeting Program to get your ad directly to your competitor’s site, evading hassles of contacting the owner. Kinda black hat but it costs a little money.

9. Offering free items on your site, such as free courses, affiliate products or e-books will help gain a higher number of subscribers and repeat traffic.

10. Create a video containing informative footage regarding your site and upload on common video hosting sites such as YouTube. The link to your site must be included primarily in the About Video/Information section of the clip.

Bonus Step:

11. GET TO WORK

10 WAYS TO ACCESS BLOCKED WEBSITES

Websites like facebook , twitter  and other social networking sites are generally blocked in schools, colleges and offices . There exist some tricks by which you can bypass  the restrictions and access blocked sites , the most obvious is the use of proxies or Anonymizer websites . But using proxies doesn’t always works as they gets blocked by firewall as well . Here I am listing some other methods to access blocked contents .

1. Use IP instead of URL

Each website has its equivalent ip address . This method works best when blocked sites are stored as a list of URLs  .You can use  ip address  to access blocked contents . For example to access facebook you can use  ip address 69.63.189.11 in your address bar . You can use ip-address.com to find the ip address of other websites .

2. Use Google Cache

All major search engines like Google yahoo and Bing stores cached pages of websites themselves . You can access blocked websites by viewing their  cached copy on search engines  .

3. Translations services

Translation services like Google Translate , translate a website from one language to another and  display the translated results on their own page .You can access the blocked website by re-translating  blocked url using such online translation services .

4. Retrieve web pages via Email

Web2Mail is a free service that sends any websites  into your inbox. All you need to do is send an email to www@web2mail.com with the URL as subject title.

5. WayBack Machine

Wayback machine periodically keeps a copy of almost all websites on the internet  from the date they have started . You can access your blocked site by fetching its latest copy from archives .

6. Screen-Resolution.com

Screen-Resolution.com allows you to view any website in a different resolution . This could be an interesting tool to access blocked websites .

7. Google Mobile Search

Google Mobile Search displays a web page as if you are viewing it on a mobile  phone .You can use it to access blocked websites but javascript and css will be disabled .

8. Redirect with Short URL service

Short URL service are used for converting a long URL in a shorter one . You can convert your blocked url into a shorter one and use  it to access blocked websites . This trick dont always works . The two popular url shortening service are bit.ly and adf.ly

9. USB Browsing

You can use this method if you have access to usb port  ,you can load usb with your own portable Firefox, with the  portable Tor plugin  or you can directly use  tor-firefox .

10.Proxy Websites

This is the generally known method to access blocked websites . There are thousands of online proxies you can use to surf anonymously or to access blocked websites . Here is 90+ Proxy Websites To Access Blocked Websites

18 IMPRESSIVE COMPUTER TRICKS

1. Set Processes Priority

Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritization of processes using the CPU.

CTRL-SHIFT-ESC1.Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option

2.For example, your Run your CD writer program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s

2. Shutdown Trick !

Immediate rapid shut down window  while shutting down window. open task manager (Ctr+Alt+Del),

Select shut down tab. and press ‘ Ctrl ‘ key while select Turn Off from dis tab.

Count 5 4 3 2 1 Voila!!! U r window will rapidly shut down.

Speed Up Ur Shut down !!

Start Regedit.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.

Click on the “Control” Folder.

Select “WaitToKillServiceTimeout”

Right click on it and select Modify.

Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows xp when the “Exit Windows” sound is enabled. to solve this problem you

must disable this useless sound. click start button then go to settings -> control panel -> Sound,speech and Audio devices -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds, then under program events and windows menu click on “Exit Windows” sub-menu and highlight it.now from sounds you can select,choose “none” and then click apply and ok. now you can see some improvements when shutting down your system.

3. Hide your folders.. never known trick! Disguise them to “Recycle Bin”

Rename any folder with extension {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

eg,

if u’ve a folder games

press F2,

then type, “games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}”

c the magic….

then 2 get to original form,

remove the extension using

“ren games.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} games” in dos or as a bat file

Now you are ready to roll!

4. System information

system up time only for xp professional editionIt boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous

versions of Windows were coy about how long they went

between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina.

Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from

the All Programs start button option, and then type

‘systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of

useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep

these, type ‘systeminfo > info.txt’. This creates a

file called info.txt you can look at later with

Notepad. (Professional Edition only).

5. lock PC just by double clicking mouse

You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of

the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using

a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe

user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ in the location field.

Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just

double click on it and your computer will be locked.

And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do

the same.

6. SPEED UP UR ACROBAT READER (ALMOST LIKE NOTEPAD)

Do u get irritated when acrobat reader takes 5/10 seconds to load when you want to open a pdf document. There is a way to speed up the loading.

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader

(C:program filesadobeacrobatreader.. whatever)

2. Move all the files and folders from the “plugins” directory to the “Optional” directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste).

Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files).

Now your acrobat reader will load very fast

and almost as good as notepad..

7. Remove Stored username and Passwords !

To remove the Stored User Names and Passwords from your system, try this:

Click Start, Run and type Control keymgr.dll

Remove the entries from the list.

The other ways to access this dialog are:

Type Control Userpasswords2 in RUN box, click Advanced, Manage Passwords

-or-

From Control Panel, select your User Account, click Manage your network passwords

It Works

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8. Remove the Username and picture from Windows XP New Start Menu

The User account picture can be removed by turning off the Welcome Screen. Or, by switching to Windows Classic theme. Follow the method described in this article if you want to remove the username and picture from the Start Menu, without disabling the Welcome Screen and Windows  XP theme

For those who want to remove the user name and user account picture from Start Menu, in order to have a blank blue panel at the top, try this:

Start Windows Explorer and go to this folder:

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftUser Account Pictures

From that folder, rename the BMP file which corresponds to your user account.

( For example, if your username is Robert, rename Robert.bmp to old_Robert.bmp )

Next, rename the following folder:

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftUser Account PicturesDefault Pictures

to something else, say…

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftUser Account PicturesNo_Default Pictures

To remove the user name, follow these steps

Start regedit.exe and navigate to the this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer

In the right-pane, set NoUserNameInStartMenu value-data to 1

Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows.

You’ll end up with a blue space at the top of the Start Menu.

9. To get back the username and the picture, reverse the above procedure.

For the New Start Menu, Windows XP looks for the <username>.bmp file in the folder

C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftUser Account Pictures

If the file is not found, it takes a picture from the “Default Pictures” sub-folder. By renaming the <username>.bmp and the “Default Pictures” folder, you’re giving no chance for Windows to fetch an image for the Start Menu

10. Notepad Tricks.

Well quite old but here is d complete collection

Step 1: Open Notepad

Step 2: Write following line in the notepad.

this app can break

Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt

Step 4: Close the notepad.

Step 5: Open the file again.

or

1> Open Notepad

2> Enter four words separated by spaces, wherein the first  word has 4 letters,the next two have three letters, and the last word has five letters

3> DON’T hit enter at the end of the line.

4> Save the file.

5> Close Notepad.

6> Reopen Notepad.

7> Open the file you just saved.

or

Open a note pad

type Bush hid the facts

save that file,

close it

again open and see…

11. NOTEPAD “world trade centre trick”.. :Rahul

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit WTC …on

9/11 was Q33N ….Open your Notepad in ur computer and type the flight

number i.e Q33N… Increase the Font Size to 72, Change the Font to

Wingdings. U will be amazed by the findings.

12. log trick !! make ur Notepad a diary !!

Sometimes we want to insert current data and time, whenever we open the file in the notepad. If you are a lazy person like me, who don’t like to press F5 whenever you open a notepad. Then here is a trick to avoid this. Just add a .LOG in the first line of your text file and close it.

Whenever you open the file with that text in the first line in the notepad, it will insert the current date and time at the end of the file. You can start entering your text after that.

WHY?

The reason this happens:

In notepad, any other 4-3-3-5 letter word combo will have the same results.

It is all to do with a limitation in Windows. Text files containing Unicode UTF-16-encoded Unicode are supposed to start with a “Byte-Order Mark” (BOM), which is a two-byte flag that tells a reader how the following UTF-16 data is encoded.

1) You are saving to 8-bit Extended ASCII (Look at the Save As / Encoding format)

2) You are reading from 16-bit UNICODE (You guessed it, look at the Save As / Encoding format)

This is why the 18 8-bit characters are being displayed as 9 (obviously not supported by your codepage) 16-bit UNICODE characters

13. SPEED UP MENU DISPLAY.!!

When using the start menu the you will notice a delay between different tiers of the menu hierarchy. For the fastest computer experience possible I recommend changing this value to zero. This will allow the different tiers to appear instantly.

Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop

Select MenuShowDelay from the list on the right.

Right on it and select Modify.

Change the value to 0.

Reboot your computer.

14. CLICKING * .AVI FILES ON EXPLORER CAUSING 100% CPU USAGE.!!

Well windows seem to have a REALLY big problem when it comes to reading AVI files. It seems that when you click on an AVI file in explorer, it’ll try to read the entire AVI file to determine the width,height, etc. of the AVI file (this is displayed in the Properties window). Now the problem with Windows is that if you have a broken/not fully downloaded AVI file that doesnt contain this info, Windows will scan the entire AVI file trying to figure out all these properties which in the process will probably cause 100% CPU usage and heavy memory usage. To solve this problem all you have to do is the following:

1. Open up regedit

2. Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations.avishellexPropertyHandler

3. Delete the “Default” value which should be “{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}”

Voila! Please not that this will no longer provide you with the windows properties displaying the AVI file information such as width, height, bitrate etc. But its a small price to pay for saving you resources.

NOTE: Please use caution when using regedit. Improper usage may cause windows to behave imcorrectly. Also, I cannot be held resposible. Backup your registry first.

CD ROM STOPS AUTOPLAYING/AUTORUN.!!

And the AutoPlay Tab has disappeared in My Computer, Devices With Removable Storage, Right Click on CDROM, Properties.

Solution: The service: “Shell Hardware Detection” has been set to Manual or Disabled. Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services. Return this service to “Automatic”.

15. How to make your Desktop Icons Transparent

Go to Control Panel > System, > Advanced > Performance area > Settings button Visual Effects tab “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop”

16. DISPLAY MESSAGE ON STARTUP.

Start regedit, if you are unfamiliar with regedit please see our FAQ.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon

Modify the key legalnoticecaption with what you want to name the window.

Modify the key legalnoticetext with what you want the window to say. Restart

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17. AUTO DELETE TEMPORARY FOLDER.!!

ll what i prefer is %temp% ” without quotes.. at Start -> Run..

this opens ur temp folder n den u cal erase it neatly// still try dis one too..

First go into gpedit.msc

Next select -> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services/Temporary Folder

Then right click “Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit”

Go to properties and hit disable. Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will automatically delete it when its done! Note from Forum Admin: Remember, GPEDIT (Group Policy Editor) is only available in XP Pro.

18. Make your PDF files to speak (Auto prompt)

make ur pdf files to speak

here r the shortcuts for hearing pdf files in abobe reader 6.0 or higherctrl+shift+b —->to hear the whole topic

ctrl+shift+v —->to hear the page

Have fun!