SafeGuard Plus

Let's Talk about different modes in AFWALL + in Android. The Simple rule of thumb: White list mode = Pin point the Good apps which you want to allow. Rest will not be allowed. Blacklist mode = Pin point only the Bad Apps which you do not want to allow. Rest will be allowed. Do not forget to Enable the firewall and apply the rules once you are done.

It works the same way you do it in your PC. Get a firewall! Go to Google play and search for firewall. Install a suitable firewall of your choice like, Droidwall. From that things go self explanatory. Just open the firewall app and configure which apps can connect to the internet. Note that, your device needs to be ROOTED in order to use firewalls.

Caret Browsing is a browsing feature in Firefox, which puts up a cursor in WebPages.The cursor can be moved by the arrow keys. This feature will be very useful when you have to select portions of text in the webpage using the keyboard. To start Caret browsing, press F7. A confirmation dialog will appear, click ok. You can toggle this feature on and off, by pressing F7 alternatively.

In order to configure an ip address in windows xp go to controlpanel ->network connections and go to the local area connections and right click and open properties . In the general tab click on the internet protocol and click properties and then choose USE THE FOLLOWING IP ADDRESS  radio button and then input your ip, gateway, subnetmask, and DNS server and then give OK. Now your INTERNET connection should work fine.

A virus is a piece of software designed to create havoc in your computer . It is just like any other software but does harm.  Viruses are spread by various means such as pen drives , Internet , emails, and sometimes by Bluetooth devices. Viruses may be Trojans , worms etc Both Trojans and worms are really deadly and they really cause serious harm to the system. Each and every virus has its own way of damaging a computer. To help protect a virus, you need a software called the Antivirus. There are a lot of Antivirus softwares available, some in free edition too. Check out the Avira Antivir Free edition which is a good Antivirus.

As the name implies it is a wall between the host ,that is your computer and external resources. When someone on the Internet or a network tries to connect to your computer, it is called an "unsolicited request." When your computer gets an unsolicited request, a Firewall blocks the connection. A firewall helps to keep your computer more secure and prevents your system from being hacked. However a firewall is not equal to an antivirus program ,it has no surety that it can block viruses. You can configure your firewall in the way you want and then work on the Internet , however when a firewall blocks a connection you can always override it.

It might be good if some of our favourite sites login automatically when we open it. You can login to a website automatically by keeping its cookie permanently in your browser. But this is safe only for a protected user account and not for a shared computer. Open Firefox and then go to Tools > Options. Go to the privacy tab and then, under the cookies click the exceptions button. Then enter the URL of the sites for which you want to store the cookies permanently. From now whenever you go to that site you will be logged in automatically unless you delete the cookies in your browser( by using the clear private data).

You might have seen in a lot of websites like Wikipedia that there are a lot of links pointing to various portions of the same page. This can be done easily in HTML by use of two simple tags. First create the link using the following tag: Go here Then place the following tag just before the place, where you want to navigate: (Don’t forget to close tags appropriately) The above link will appear like this: Go here When clicked it will search for the tag with the name “link” and will go there( it will not work here though). You can use any name value in the place of the link tag as used here and the corresponding name should be used in the href tag as well. Note that in the first href tag there is a # symbol which is not present in the second name tag.

The next generation Internet The current Ip address system has around say 9 integer numbers in it and then while having a complete permutation of it we will have only 4.3 billion addresses. Soon this would result in a lot of problems for various countries and people. Because of the no of people accessing the internet keeps on increasing every day by day the current 4.3 billion ip addresses are not enough. If the current situation continues we will have to face a lot of problems with our internet as we may be forced to wait for a i-p address so that we can access the internet, even for very silly issues like blogging or checking your mail etc. This is going to be a great problem so , it is soon expected to follow the ipv6 , which is read as ip address version six which can , by permutation include around sextillion addresses and by implementing this version we will be able to pack the entire population without waiting for one person to logout of an ip address. This is also going to be a...

A Rootkit is similar to a software, only thing is that it when it is installed it logs the details on your computer. That is, it might open access to your protected files and folders , allow access to other resources and even allow a person to trace the activities in your computers like your internet history etc. Rootkits may be purposefully installed, say in a company to monitor the internet access or may be maliciously installed in your computer by hackers and malicious software to steal data from your system. Rootkits especially the harmful ones can be installed in various ways, it can be like a software, disguised to perform some other function, or through email or through even pictures and videos. Even popup from malicious websites can install Rootkits. To make sure that you do not get any Rootkits installed, make sure that your antivirus is updated regularly and there are also special Rootkit detecting tools for analyzing Rootkits.

One thing which has to be considered when creating a Search engine optimized website is to have a well qualified web page, since search engines do not rank the entire web site as a whole. They rank each and every web page. So it is important that you put the SEO check in every web page you create. The first thing which is good to attract search engines is unique content. The others are only after this and they also play a crucial role. Whenever you publish a new post make sure that you deeply link to the interior of your site. When the crawlers crawl the site they also follow they links and hence they may index them as well. One thing which is very interesting to note is that when a crawler crawls a site it also looks in to the file names contained in the site. So name the pictures and videos in your site in a meaningful manner. Do not name them rubbishy for your convenience. Header and footer of your site also are crucial to Search engine optimization. Another thing is the title of yo...

Many people confuse LAN with the INTERNET. LAN (Local Area Network) is a connection of local computers in an office or within a private area where people can share files and connect to printers and other devices. One of the important aspects of LAN is that it is totally private and used within the locality only. But the INTERNET is as we all know is totally public. It is also called as WAN (Wide Area Network).It connects millions and millions of computers and it is totally public to all. However, LAN can be used to connect to the Internet as well.

A cookie is a custom file which is created in your computer when you access websites. The cookie contains sensitive data, which is used to validate you and authorize you for logging in to the website and it also contains other information which you have submitted to the site. For example, when you are logged in to your Gmail account and if you open orkut or blogger in the same browser then you will not be asked to enter user name and password again, and you will be directly logged in to the service. This is because when you signed in to Gmail, a Google cookie is already put in your browser to validate you. So if you access other Google services you will be validated automatically.

It is the script which is downloaded and run on the client side. That is, it is downloaded from the server and then run on the client computer .The client is the person who uses the web application. For example: when you download from rapid share using free user account, you will have to wait for 30 seconds. The script is downloaded from server and run in your system. After 30 seconds, the script calls the server back for the download.

Server side script is the one which is run in the server itself. For example, when you take an online quiz and when you click the submit button, the marks are evaluated on the server side and then displayed in your browser.

We all have word processors, but under some emergency conditions like system failure or word processor crashes etc we can make use of Google Docs, to make our word documents online. Google Docs, similar to other Google products is good and very much helpful under these circumstances. You need to sign in using your Gmail account to access Google docs. It provides all the basic word processing tools. It allows you to save your files in their server and download it any time you want to. This is good for people who travel often also. You can use Google docs to take care of your word documents online and download whenever you want to. You can work on them and edit them at any time logging into Google Docs. You can even grant some people permission to access your documents.

When sometimes you login to a webpage using your correct login id and password, you may get the error message “Not Accepting Cookies “. This is due to the fact that either the cookie file has been damaged or your browser setting in Internet explorer is in such a way that it does not allow the cookies to enter. To enable cookies follow the following method: Open internet explorer and then open internet options.(tools > internet options) Then go to the security tab. Now click the custom level button. In the custom level window, select Allow cookies that are stored on your computer . Now click the ok button.

It might be sometimes necessary, if a particular webpage could be made as the desktop background for easy access for that webpage from the desktop itself. Fortunately windows Xp provides a way to do this. Open the display properties in the control panel and open the desktop tab. There click on to the “customize desktop” button. Then you will be lead to another dialog box called the desktop items. In the desktop items dialog box go to the web tab and then there you can add your current home page as the webpage background in your desktop. Else you can also add other websites other than your home page by clicking the new button and adding more websites. The selected webpage will appear at the background for your desktop.

Pinging is the process of making the search engines know that your site has been updated. Especially blogs which are of course updated weekly or sometimes daily have to be pinged often. There are a lot of pinging services available in the net like www.autopinger.com, www.bloggers.com, www.pingomatic.com etc. What you have to do is to type your website URL in these websites and they will ping your website or blog for you.

When people who have slow speed broadband connections, visit WebPages that load slower they do not come to that website again. At least in most cases they will try to avoid these WebPages. This will be a great deal and will cost you a lot of traffic. So let us see the various ways by which we shall reduce the time of loading of WebPages. JavaScript: JavaScript is one thing in your WebPages which will make your page load really slower. This is because many of these scripts make use of other website servers to display stuff in your blog like dynamically changing content etc. When the server which these scripts use is down it will make the page load slower even in case of high speed connections. So avoid using too much JavaScript in your WebPages.Especially the ones from the other sites. Images: Images make the page look good and pleasing but when the page is too much populated with images then there will be a time delay to download all these pictures in the first place. So minim...