INTERESTING FACTS FOR COMPUTER: What you know about COMPUTER

*The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
*Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.
*Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot
of their own power with their solar panels.
*Bill Gates house was designed Using a Macintosh computer.
*About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, only 450 million of them speak English.
*Sweden has the hightest percentage of internet users, they
are 75%.
*Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.
*There are about five porn pages for every ‘normal’ web-page.
*The prime reason the Google home page is so bare, is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact, the submit button was a later addition initially, hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
*There are approximately
1,319,872,109 people using the Internet.
*The first Apple computer built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was made by using parts they got for free from their employers. They were made to scrounge
spare parts from work.
*A program named “Rother J” was the first computer virus to
come into sight “in the wild” — that is, outside the single
computer or lab where it was created.
* Mosaic was the first popular web browser which was released
in 1993.

*Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are
pure spam.

25 People Who Changed the Internet
Forever

1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web
2. Vint Cerf And Bob Kahn – TCP/IP
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.
4. David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.
5. Bill Gates – Microsoft
6. Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.
7. Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
8. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube
9. Linus Torvalds – Linux
10. Jack Dorsey – Twitter
11. Kevin Rose – Digg
12. Bram Cohen – BitTorrent
13. Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment
14. Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
15. Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon
16. Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture
17. Pierre Omidyar – eBay
18. Jack Ma – Alibaba
19. Craig Newmark – Craigslist
20. Matt Mullenweg – WordPress
21. Thomas Anderson – MySpace
22. Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon
23. Jon Postel – Internet Pioneer
24. Caterina Fake – Flickr
25. Marc Andreessen – Netscape

How to stay anonymous online and maintain your privacy in Internet

To begin with, if you still believe that staying anonymous online is related with illegal cyber activities then you are wrong. Staying anonymous has another side too beside criminal activities. Staying hidden on Internet can help you too in many ways like it’s helping thousands of Internet users worldwide. Your location can be easily traced on a normal connection because on a normal Internet connection you have an IP address. Most of the websites today logs IP of every visitor of the website. By simple method people can know who is your ISP by knowing your IP address and if we go more further, people can also find location of your computer. So in such cases, staying anonymous has helped many times.

Today we gonna learn some techniques to stay hidden, anonymous online. There are different levels of anonymity, we will start from basics and move towards advance.

Change your browser

If you are still using Google Chrome or any other browser then STOP using them, I recommend you to start using Firefox browser. The reason why I am recommending Firefox is quite simple – First, the organization behind this wonderful browser is a non-profit organization. The community is quite big too and second, you can protect your privacy on Firefox more better than anyother browser, thanks to it’s plugins.

Change your Search Engine

If you simply don’t want someone to know what you are searching over Internet, then obviously you have to say good bye to Google. I agree it would be hard to leave Google, it’s been in the business from over a decade but if you care for your pircay then you have to let it go. So to prevent others from logging info about what you are search on Internet then use DuckDuckGo.com, it’s popular for it’s tought privacy policy.

Get a proxy

As I said earlier, you can be easily tracked by your IP address and the solution of this can be a Proxy. When you visit a website through proxy, it’s accessed from a Proxy server and therefore the IP address of proxy server is logged on the website you are visiting not your own IP address. Proxies also help in bypassing country specific restrictions, you can grab the IP of required country and visit the website and you will get the access. There are various types of proxy, many of them can reveal your IP address so be carefull with it. You can even get highly anonymous proxies from Spys.ru (http://spys.ru/en/)

Grab a VPN

Proxies help you in hiding your IPs but there is higher level too, VPNs. Simply, VPN is like opening website in someone else’s computer, it hides your IP along with entire network. It’s superior than proxies. There are many free VPN providers such as VPN Book (http://www.vpnbook.com/) but it is always recommended to purchase your own VPN server, in some other country and change the server regularly, the best way to stay anonymous online.

the last but not least
Store nothing

You can also use pre-configure JonDo live CDs (https://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondo-live-cd.html), it includes everything which can help you stay anonymous. Beside these anonymous stuff, it also includes basic tools and Libre Office office solution.

So these were some of the simple and easy ways to stay anonymous online and protect privacy but remember that there is no bulletproof service, the more comp
lex tools you use, the more difficult it becomes to track you.

HOW TO CHECK OUT LOADING TIME OF ANY WEBSITE

If you own a website, you should be curious that how much time does ur website takes to load so today we are going to learn a method to know the loading time of any website in
a matter of seconds.

Let`s start:
Open up

http://www.loads.in/

Now, you type in the website address in the column provided and select START. It will automatically start running tests and comes up with the results.
After the first test, you can test from different locations and different browsers and then optimize accordingly.

Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

This Firefox tricks will
improve the speed & load time of
firefox. And you will be able to
surf faster.
Type about:config in the address
bar, Then look for the following
entries, and make the
corresponding changes.
network.http.max-connections-
per-server =32
network.http.max-persistent-
connections-per-proxy =16
network.http.max-connections
= 64
network.http.max-persistent-
connections-per-server = 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
= 200
network.http.request.max-
start-delay = 0
network.http.proxy.pipelining
= true
network.http.proxy.version =
1.0
Lastly 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.

How to Bypass Captcha Verification in Chrome, Firefox Safari

Some web services uses Captcha image verification to restrict entry to bots for improving the security and automated registrations. But sometimes these captcha codes become hard to read even by humans and becomes more time consuming activity.

Rumola, an addon will be helpful in this situation which lets you bypass captcha verification and automatically fills the captcha codes in websites.

How to Bypass Captcha verification using Rumola

Open an account at Rumola. (you’ll get 10 free trials at registration)
Register Rumola At http://skipinput.com/
Install the addon
For Chrome :
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjjgbdlbgjeoankjijbmheneoekbghcg

For Firefox :
http://skipinput.com/files/mozilla.htm

For Safari :
http://safariaddons.com/addon/134/

After installing the addon, restart your browser if required and once the plugin is activated, it will automatically start filling captchas for you.Once you start to fill other fields or double click captcha field, Rumola will initiate captcha recognition and read the numbers & letters and puts them in the box for you.

How to make sure that the link you open are not harmful, contain virus and malware

This is an obvious question, while surfing Internet, daily we come to links which point to a website which we never visited earlier. Though we can prevent us clicking on the new ‘suspicious’ link, but what if my friend had sent me and it’s urgent to access it, in this case how you would make sure your computer will stay safe ?

In this article we will learn how we can find whether the link contains virus, malware or trojan and is harmful or not.The best way to find whether the URL which you want to access is harmful or not is to scan it and check whether it contains malware, virus, trojan, keylogger or any such harmful program which may get installed in your computer automatically and harm your PC and steal your data.

Don’t worry, it’s not so difficult to scan a URL for malware, there are many of the online service which provide user option to scan any suspicious website and that too for Free. Suppose someone gave you any suspicious link such as www.example.com/abc/phis/hck.php then how would you find it’s safe or not ? You can make sure that URL is not harmful by first using free Comodo Web Inspector, visit siteinspector.comodo.com, enter the suspicious URL and click on START THE SCAN button, wait for few seconds for scan to complete and results will be in front of you, it will let you know whether it found any malware on site or not, if it says the link is harmful, don’t open the link, but if it says it’s safe then you can open the link.

Second free service to scan suspicious URL is Zulu URL Risk Analyzer, visit zulu.zscaler.com, enter the suspicious URL, click on Submit URL button, wait for some time, it will scan the website and give it a score from 0 to 100, where 0 means completely safe and 100 means completely harmful. This website scans all the elements and tells whether they are Belign, Suspicious or Malicious. Though this service is helpful in advance thorough scanning, it has also reported false positive on safe site.

Third free service which will help you to find whether URL is safe or not is VirusTotal, visit www.virustotal.com/en/#url and enter your URL and click on Scan it! button. Wait for few seconds and it will check the reputation of website from various directories and will check whether it was ever marked as suspicious or malicious or not. It will give you test results, and if you find that it’s not malicious then you can access the URL

Amazing Windows Command Line Tricks

Whatever eye candy the graphical interface of windows may offer but it could never match the functionality that could be achieved with command line. Here is the list 10 useful commands and tricks for Windows command line.

1. Super Hide your files
I have posted detailed post regarding this before also . Besides normal hidden files, windows file system provides another attribute for files that makes them super hidden so that they aren’t visible form explorer or with normal dir command. Use the command
attrib +s +h pathtofile to super hide a file. Replace + symbol with - to remove super hidden attribute from file.You can also use this command to show hidden files in usb drives, simply use
attrib -s -h *.* c command.

2. Join multiple mp3 files
Here’s a nice trick that otherwise would require some software to perform. You can join multiple mp3 files to form a single mp3 file. Simply move to the folder in command line where mp3 files are stored that you want to combine and run the command
copy /b *.mp3 newfile.mp3
The wildcard *.mp3 will combine all mp3 files to form a newfile.mp3 file. You can control which files are combined using wildcard parameters.

3. Map a Drive Letter to a Folder
Most of the time, our hard drives get filled with huge amount of data folder, files etc that moving to a folder you occasionally use becomes a heck. However, there’s a dos command that lets you map a drive letter to a folder. e.g. to map the folder C:\windows to M drive use the command:
subst M: C:\Windows
However the mapped drive gets lost once you restart your pc, you can then create a batch file including the above command and schedule it to run at system startup.

4. Change colors of command Window
Perhaps you need to take a print out of dos window and don’t want to waste ink on black background of dos window. Windows command line provides a command to change background and text color of dos window in a snap.Simply use color bf to change colors. b is the code for background color and f is code for text color. To know color codes type color /? at command line.

5. Use previously entered Command
Just typed a long command moments ago and need to run that again but the effort involved to type again is making you sick! But don’t worry as command line keeps track of your previously entered commands which are accessible by pressing F7 key.
Command History
Alternatively you can use Up Arrow key to use earlier commands you used.F1 & F2 also offer similar kind of functionality but in a different way, try them out.

6. Run Multiple commands at once
Multiple commands can be concatenated using && and run at once with single press of Enter. Simply type in your commands and concatenate them with && at once.
e.g. color f8 && dir && time
would run all the three commands one after another with a single press of Enter.

7. Filter output of commands
Some commands like systeminfo provide a whole bunch of information about your pc but what if you need info only about updates installed or Processor or Virtual Memory. You can filter the output using find. Here’s how to get only updates list from systeminfo.
systeminfo | find "Update"
This will only show updates installed on your system.

8. Drag Drop Folder paths
No need to type in long folder paths at command line, simply drag n drop that file or folder from explorer onto command line window to copy its path.

9. Move selected files to another folder
If you need to move only doc files to another folder or project documents created this month to another folder from a folder containing large number of files, you would rather end up using Ctrl+click to select individual file in Windows Explorer. But thanks to command line, you can use wildcards to move selected files.
Use move *.doc newfolderpath
to move only doc files to new folder. Any wildcard combination can be used here.

10. Take screenshots of webpages
To take screenshots of web pages, you would need a tiny utility called IEcapt.exe and then place it in c:\Windows directory, now go to command line and type in
iecapt urltocapture pathofoutputimage
to get a screenshot of the webpage.