Secure your GMail mails from being viewed by your Boss or Network Administrator

Network sniffers are certain softwares that is used to intercept the network traffic to read and analyze the contents of the packets being passed in a network. In most of the offices, network administrator or managers may have access to some network sniffers to analyze the behavior of their employees through the computer network. With the help of network sniffers, one can get to the details of the data being passed through a particular network. In most of the mail service providers have SSL support (https) for login pages. But the mail contents are not encrypted, in order to reduce the overhead on mail servers and also to save bandwidth.

But, Google has introduced a provision for making the entire GMail session through encrypted channel, so that no one in the network can analyze and interpret the mails being shown to the user. This is in fact a great feature of GMail, which make sure that your private, personal and intimate mails are not being read by a man in the middle of the network. To be specifically your boss or network administrator.


In order to make the entire GMail session encrypted, just go the settings page of GMail and scroll to bottom of the General tab and in the Browser connection section select Always use https. And do not forget to click Save Changes button. Done, all your GMail communications are secured.

Also refer the article on basic computer security, if you are interested.

Dell using Hcl as adwords keyword for their Vostro's advertisement

HCL is known to be one of the popular brand in Indian computer market. And Dell is a giant in world computer market. Its quiet natural that most of the international companies wear the respective national shoes for flourishing their business in a particular country. I have a similar tactic played by Dell to share with you all.

When I happened to search in Google, with a query "hcl infosystem bangalore", I say very much interesting Google ad to the right side of my search result. The ad was titled "Hcl Bangalore" and the content was about a new Vostro laptop from Dell and also the ad is linked to www.dell.com/india.


This reveals a fact that, how big may be a company they will do anything for boosting their business. You can refer the screenshot above for more details.

Also read about another parasitic business trick from greygle and blackle, a business trick and no energy savings

Google is on the way challenging Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an indispensable part of the internet, it acts as online version of complete encyclopedia. It supports more than 23 languages and has 2461000+ articles. Also Wikipedia is listed among the top ten most visited website based on Alexa ranking. Another important thing about Wikipedia is that they doesn't have any advertisement in any of their wiki pages, even though information is wealth.

By foreseeing the importance of moderated information article providing sites like Wikipedia, Google team has came up with Knol (which stands for nothing but knowledge). They describe a Knol as an authoritative article about specific topic. You can visit the website knol.google.com for more details in this regard.

Read about an article to use Google Notebook for instant Online Notemaking needs.

Make free Online Wedding Invitations of your choice

Wedding is a very important function in human life. It is the time a couple come together and decide to spend rest of their life by sharing their happy and sorrow moments together, and bringing up their new generation.


As internet is being influenced in most of the areas of our life or better to say internet has changed most of the areas of our life to a better state, making wedding invitations online may not seem so great. But if there is a service that can provide online wedding invitations free of cost would be great news.

Firstphera.com is such website which provides facility to design your wedding invitations online at free of cost and it is secure also. You can choose from number of designs as per your taste. The service provider use to display some advertisement to support themselves. If you doesn't like ads, of course you can go for a premium ad free service. Create a wedding invitation online.

Just have look at a wedding invitation made by a couple, in orkut style.

Free alternative to Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Office is the front runner in Office Suite softwares, which is constituted by by Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel and Access. But the price of these Microsoft Office Suites may distract some of the people to adopt MS Office for their personal use. Then what could be an alternative to such fantastic Microsoft Office suite?. It is none other than OpenOffice suite. Open Office is a community driven office suite spearhead by Sun Microsystem. Openoffice provides all range of office softwares par with Microsoft counterparts like Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint. OpenOffice also supports saving and exporting to Microsoft Office document formats along with the support for exporting to PDF documents.


You can very well opt for OpenOffice, if you want to experience Microsoft Office like features at absolutely no cost. Just download OpenOffice suite and use it, and if you want it can re distributed to your friends and family members. Get latest OpenOffice suite, a Microsoft Office like software suite.
You can have a look at an article about free alternative to Microsoft OneNote.

Hide your Orkut Profile from Google Search

With the onset of Social Networking sites, gathering information about any individual became very easy through internet, to a layman's level. And nowadays Social networking sites are even exposing their users details to most of the search engines. Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Orkut etc are some of the social networking sites which are already providing their users details to search engines like, Google, Yahoo, Live etc.

In Orkut, there is an option to allow or disallow Google to index users details. By default this option will be enabled, so that Google can index the details and can be exposed in Google search results of your friends.

To hide your personal details in Orkut from Google search engine, go to the settings page of your Orkut profile and select the privacy tab, then you can find an option to show/ hide your Orkut information from Google search.

Also see, how you can remove facebook, orkut and myspace profiles

Recover your corrupted Microsoft Access Data

Data plays a crucial role in the progress and survival of any business. The data could be important financial reports, statistics or it could even day to day shipping and stock management data. Most of the small and medium companies rely on the database provided with Microsoft Office suite, none other than Microsoft Access Database. In some cases you may have to struggle with some panic messages from Microsoft Access saying your valid database is in unrecognized database format, or it may throw an error message saying "The Microsoft Jet Database Engine cannot open the file" and some time it could be a Microsoft database crash.

As data is very important for your business it is also important to have Microsoft access data recovery software for your data in Microsoft access, to survive database corruption and errors.

There is a fantastic software from Stellar Phoenix for recovering corrupted Microsoft access database files. This software can help you recover data which is not accessible due to corruption in Microsoft Access databases, Tables, Queries, Forms, or Reports. The Stellar Phoenix access data recovering software also supports the recovery of all the Microsoft access versions ranging from Microsoft Access 97, 2000, 2003 and 2007.


They are also giving a free trial version for interested users to experience the features of Stellar Phoenix Microsoft Access data recovering software. Download one access data recovery software for you.

Transfer All your iPod data to and from your computer

MediaWidget is a very useful software utility to transfers all of your  iPod contents to your PC and into iTunes. MediaWidget will be very much helpful if  your want to share your iPod data to any of your friend's PC.

MediaWidget  is also capable of transferring data from your computer back onto any iPod. This allows you to share your iPod music, photos, videos. In fact MediaWidget can also be used as backup and restore software utility for Apple iPod.

Download MediaWidget and share all your iPod contents with your friends and relatives.

Also checkout thearticle about playing Piano with iPhone and iPod Touch.

Download free Flight Simulator X Trial from Microsoft

Flying big birds across sky could be one of the dream that needs to be satisfied for individuals with passion for driving as well as flying. But, being a pilot is not so easy task, either you have to be a part of defense corps or need to have millions to shell out.


But there is an easy way without shelling out millions and even without joining the defense corps. Thanks to the flight simulation software team. The software can help you get the feeling of sitting in the cockpit using your desktop PC and making a trip across the sky. Microsoft Flight Simulator X is one of them. And even you don't have to pay for making the test drives!!!. Just download the trial version and enjoy flying.

Also download free games for your Apple iPhone.

Twitter is Getting Over loaded with tweets

When I entered the Twitter home page to publish my blog update status in my twitter page, I was greeted with a nice banner from Twitter, which says Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets, please wait a moment and try again.


Even though, I could not publish my tweets, I was very much impressed with their banner which showed a big whale is being carried by twitter icon birds. This can be underscored as a very good way of presenting things when your online service is unable to serve user requests.

Have look at the article which tells about backing up and restoration of blog posts in Blogger Platform.

Easy way to track your email, recipient location and time of reading

If you are sending some info through email to any suspected person, you will be very much interested to track the place and time when the recipient read your email. Or if you want to know about the exact location and time when your friend read your email.

There is a very good service available in the internet to track the email. This service can be even used by a person without much technical knowledge about the scripting and tracking. The service from ReadNotify.com is such an easy to use and limited period free email tracking service. When the recipient opens the email you sent, ReadNotify service will send you an email which will contain the information about the recipient's location and time when the email message opened.

In order to track your email with ReadNotify, first of all you need to register for a free account with readnotify and you need to send the mail to user@mailprovider.readnotify.com ie; if the email address is user@yahoo.com you need to send it to user@yahoo.readnotify.com to track your email.

For experts, the same tracking can be achieved by placing the statcounter invisible tracking code in email and send it directly to the recipient, so that the location of the recipient and time of reading can be reflected in Statcounter tracking area. Its always better to use a new project for each tracking activity with Statcounter.

If you have any other easy way to track emails, please let us know.
Get geared to track your emails with ReadNotify.com.

Also read about way to find out if someone is copying your website or blog - Detect Plagiarism

Secure your sensitive online data with Passpack

Even though your sensitive data is transmitted through an encrypted and secure channel, those data may be available at the server side without any encryption. In order to ensure the security even at the host side, PassPack.com provides a service based on Host-proof hosting. Its nothing but keeping an encrypting key on the client or browser side, which will not be sent to the server, is used to encrypt the sensitive data. And only encrypted data will be available at the server side.

With this technology, Passpack.com is able to provide a service for keeping track of all your passwords and other sensitive information safe and secure online. In fact this is a very useful service for those who want to manage number of passwords for mail, ecommerce sites, social networking sites etc.

Now the Passpack service is even available as desktop application with the help of Adobe AIR. Get your Passpack account now.

Also read about the web tool from Microsoft to create unbreakable passwords. Have look at the Sign-in seal from Yahoo accounts.

Easy ways to save lot of Gas and to reduce fuel price

The world is being moved by the frequent increase in the fuel price. As the consumption of the fuel is not getting reduced remarkably even with increase in price, it may take more time to get the oil price restored. The best way to arrest the oil price hike is by taking initiatives to reduce the consumption of fuels, especially by automobiles.

So in this hour of need, it worth a many to mention about the article from retrevo.com which highlights eight ways to save lot of Gas. The tips may look funny, but its quiet effective. In a nutshell they are trying to suggest ways to reduce travel. Read more...

Also read the article about tracking your car mileage online.

Bounce rate - an important concern of bloggers and webmasters

There are lot of sites across the internet which solely concentrate on a particular topic and some other spanning over multiple topics without any clear niche boundaries.

The bounce rate is differ for both these types of websites. In the first case the website which regularly publishes very good content will be referred by search engines for the specific queries in the niche. This would result in more frequent visitors turned from search engine referrals.

In the case of websites which concentrates on multiple niche, may not able to satisfy all the visitors equally with respect to the interesting contents. The only way out to retain those visitors is to properly group important articles in each niche such that it can be accesses from most of all the pages.

And, do not worry if your bounce rate even if its is too high, here is a very good blog post from kichus which tells, how you can use bounce rate as a metric to improve website performance.

Checkout the article about the ways to become number one in Google search results.

Adobe Photoshop free Online Edition

Every one knows that Adobe Photoshop is the most popular and trusted photo editing and formatting software available for desktops. Its perfection in image handling and easy and flexible user interface has done a lot to make it the popular Photo Editing Software.

Still the cost of the Adobe Photoshop is the only factor, that forces some of the freelancers to choose the second best ones. By understanding the feelings of the Photoshop fans who are deprived of Adobe Photoshop features because of the price tag, Adobe has launched an online version of Photoshop named Adobe Photoshop Express. Using Adobe Photoshop Express you can access, edit and format your images through a web browser with internet connection. Its absolutely free of cost, only thing you need to do is to sign up for an account.

Get you online version of Adobe Photoshop now itself. Also read about flauntR, an ultimate online photo editing service like Photoshop Express.

One way linking is the best way to improve your page rank

Traffic to your blog or website from search engines are primarily driven by the number of one way links to your website, the backlinks. Especially Google does matter this very much, compared to two-way links. With this idea in mind there came a lot of websites which actually started selling one way links to other websites, just for the sake of faking the search engine bots. Eventually, search engines started blacklisting some of the prominent link sellers.

Now better approach is to follow true way of links by partnering with 3 or more sites which forms a triangular or more link topologies


The best way is to put good contents in your niche, the links will come automatically on a period of time.
Also read about successful ways of blog and website promotion strategies.

Download the Ghostbusters Game Official Trailer

If you are not afraid of Ghosts, then here is nice video game to play. Ghostbusters video game is a video game based on the Ghostbusters film franchise. The first film was titled Ghostbusters, was released on June 8, 1984 by Columbia Pictures. Now Terminal Reality, Red Fly Studio along with Sierra Entertainment has planned the release of the video game GhostBusters for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS etc. The game is expected to be released in September or October 2008.


But there is an official trailer for those who all interested to get a first feel of its interface and features. Just download the Ghostbusters Official Trailer and experience it.

Also checkout the Ghost Rider images.

Watch Apple iPhone 3G guided tour video

After achieving the success of the hyped Apple iPhone in US, Apple is set to launch its new version of iPhone with 3G support, world wide. And like the original iPhone, the new iPhone 3G combines three products in one a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with email and a desktop class web browser. But this time the price tag is much lesser than its yelder model. The tagged starting price is 199 USD, but the price may differ for different countries, other than just the conversion rate, because of the import taxes.

Apple is going to unveil its youngest iPhone on July 11, world wide. Just watch the guided tour video of iPhone 3G, if you are interested to get more details before its formal release.




Also read about the specifications and features of yelder iPhone.

What is the net worth of your blog or website in Dollars?

The worth of a blog or website may be an important concern for all bloggers and webmasters. Most of them are keen to know the net worth of their own blog or website in dollars also. There is a simple tool from Sootle.com to evaluate the net worth of your website or blog. They will calculate the estimate of the blog or website by checking the backlinks of the website. So and its very easy to get the estimate worth of your blog or website. And, of course you can use this estimate, if you are planning to sell or buy any blog or website.

They are also providing a html code to paste in to your blog to display the updated worth estimate every time. Checkout the worth of your blog or website now.

Also read about the successful and easy ways of blog promotion strategies.