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Microsoft Launches Online Services in India

2009-11-07T20:21:00.003+05:30

Microsoft has now launched it's cost-effective on-demand e-mail and other services for mall and medium business and enterprise customers of India.

You can visit www.microsoft.com/india/onlineservices to join, and payment is based on usage. According to certain sources, company savings are expected to increase quite significantly with this. It starts at about $2 one month (about or lesser than Rs 100).

HCL Infosystems, Infosys and Wipro will market and offer value-added services around the Microsoft's Online Services. The services will be officially launched on November 7, 2009.

Source: http://infotech.indiatimes.com/news/software-services/Microsoft-launches-on-demand-email-/articleshow/5202205.cms

Yahoo Answers Will Answer All Your Questions

2009-10-11T17:31:00.002+05:30

With the number of internet users increasing rapidly, and as the internet is in reach of almost all the sections of the common society, a situation arises, when the internet users face with several thousand of problems and get themselves twisted up in the strands of many problems or confusions about the vast internet.

Are you one among them?
Then Yahoo Answers is the place for you to go. Yahoo Answers brings together to you, the taste of knowledge, wisdom, experience and vibrancy showered on a big community of internet users who set off to help other internet users when the others are in vain and need help.

If you are an Internet expert and would like to make use of your knowledge, skill and experience for the good of the other internet users, Yahoo Answers will be the right choice for you to start helping out the internet community.

Yahoo Answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/

NoScript Keeps You On Guard Of Yourself

2009-10-11T17:21:00.002+05:30

NoScript is currently donning the region of self-guarding for internet users with the Browser Giant, Firefox. The NoScript add-on can be downloaded from the Official Add-ons site of Firefox. Or you may want to visit their webpage and look around a bit before you try NoScript on your browser. NoScript's website is : http://noscript.net/

With still more add-ons coming to your rescue, joining hands with Firefox, an internet user can now safely browse through the intrenet with lesser fear. :)

WOT releases add-on for Opera

2009-10-10T23:00:00.000+05:30

It is my pleasure to announce that a WOT add-on for Google Chrome has recently been launched which is expected to shoot up the number of Google Chrome users as well as the number of WOT users, as the internet giant, Google joins hand with the rising internet saviour, WOT, to protect internet users from online security risks.

You can read more details about this add-on here: http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/190-wot-for-google-chrome-browser

It had also recently headlined the CNET News blog: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10370777-264.html

You can find further details and Support for this add-on in the WOT forums and Google Chrome support forums available in the internet.

Firefox Security Suite

2009-10-10T21:52:00.003+05:30

This is one of the most important things that a Firefox user needs to have a look at. Firefox has a Security Suite of it's own, to help you protect your computer from malicious attacks through the internet and guards you from personal information stealers, and scammers.

As day-by-day, the number of scammers in the internet is increasing, there has been a huge effort from the 'good internet population' to make the internet safe for the internet users who unknowingly fall by themselves in the traps of the scammers, spammers and other offensive communities in the internet.

It lets you stay away from the evils of the internet andkeeps yourself fresh with fresh content only.

You can check out the Firefox Security Suite here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/securitysuite

The different add-ons listed in this Suite are NoScript, Better Privacy, Adblock Plus, and WOT.

Applied For Google Adsense

2009-10-10T21:39:00.002+05:30

After a long time f saying away from Google Adsense, I have applied back again for Google Adsense. I am hoping to get it verified atleast this time because it's been very long since I have been trying to get an Adsense account to put up ads in my different blogs and one new dear websie of mine.

With the rejection of my earlier Adsense application, I was crest-fallen. But now I am back with some courage and confidence of getting my Adsense account verified. I will just have to wait and see what happens.

Tsunami E-mail Hoax - Tsunami in Asia on July 22

2009-04-16T00:00:00.008+05:30

I have just noticed that there has been an e-mail hoax spreading all out in the internet through e-mails and forums that drastic Tsunami waves are going to hit Asian Countries, naming Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and Philippines to be the countries that are to be hit 'badly' by the waves.

The e-mail that is going all around the internet is quoted here:

"REMOVED DUE TO SOME ISSUES”

There are many simple points to prove this right. Let me just spread some light on some I have noticed just now:

The e-mail is not backed with any trustable/creditable source.

The bad formatting of the message ,also leads us to think about it's trustworthiness. The e-mail of-course therefore originated from an unofficial source.

If we have have had any such prediction, then the News channels and other media would have been reporting it's details as soon as they received any announcement.

There is no connection between an eclipse and an earthquake.

These points are what I have found out, and there might be still many and more flaws. even if they were just trying to spam all over the world, they could have made it much better than this. Anyway, this has only been beneficial for us, to easily identify what it was.

So, regarding all these, anyone can easily understand that this was a hoax, and that they shouldn't be going around again spreading the hoax, and sending mails which should be flagged as 'Spam' based on it's content.

And anyway, above everything else, ther has been no official announcement about this.

Do You Hate A Site? -Then Bring It Down

2009-04-10T00:00:00.000+05:30

Have you been really wanting to burn down a site that you have been getting irritated by now for a long time? Or, have you ever hated a site so much that you wanted to do whatever you could on the site?

Then, the time has now come for you to get your revenge on your enemy site. A cool site named Netdisaster used to be there, till just some days/weeks back, but it is no more online now, probably due to some of the big guns of the internet getting afraid that they will loose their dignity if everyone is going to use this.

But, that would have been absurd of them to do so. Anyway, there is yet another interesting site that offers you the joy of seeing your most hated website getting destroy. You can find the Website Destroyer here: Destroy Websites

It not only allows you to 'burn', but there are lots of other ways of 'destroying' a website.

But, you are requested not to express your anger or hatred publicly here or any other place for your own good, and do be careful that you use it the right way.

Conficker Eye Chart

2009-04-09T00:00:00.005+05:30

Conficker Eye Chart has been devised out to be the best tool or method to check whether you have been affected by the Conficker. It simply tries to download and show images hosted on some anti-virus and computer security sites. When you are not able to see any or all of the images, then it shows that you are not able to access those domains.

Conficker blocks you from accessing hundreds of domains related to computer security, and this is being used to identify whether you are affected by the Conficker. You can check out the Conficker Eye Chart in many sites, all of which originated from the Conficker Working Group site.

Check out the Conficker Eye Chart here: Conficker Eye Chart

You may also want to download the McAfee AVERT Stinger Conficker to keep it as a precautionary tool so that you yourself could use it, or give it to others when you or anyone else is affected by the Conficker. And, please note that the tool is kept upto date, and so you don't need to worry about the description talking about the coming of April 1st.

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Symptoms And Detection Of Conficker

2009-04-08T00:00:00.002+05:30

It is actually not so easy to find out whether a system is affected by Conficker or not. But, there are some symptoms that you can easily check upon to identify whether you are affected by Conficker.

One of the most handy and easy to use tools to check whether you are affected by Conficker is just trying out the Conficker Eye Chart. The next post explains the working of the conficker Eye Chart, and how and where you can find it.

The most important thing to do, to keep yourself safe from Conficker is updating your Operating System with all the security patches, and make sure that your anti-virus software is updated. Regular updating of your anti-virus software, whichever it maybe, is one of the best things to do, to keep yourself safe from any of these kind of threats in the future also.

If you still haven't taken any precautions yet, check the Microsoft Support page to see what all you need to do to protect yourself from the Conficker.

Conficker - It's Still Out There

2009-04-07T00:00:00.006+05:30

Conficker, a computer worm which is also known famously as Downup, Downadup and Kido, with lots of other names also contributing to it's fame, has been given the title of the largest computer worm the SQL Slammer of year 2003. Conficker was first detected in October 2008 with Microsoft Windows Operating systems set as it's target.

Even after Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch in late October to close the vulnerability which paved the way for Conficker, a large sector of the internet/computer population, that were left unpatched allowed the Conficker to attain the first position in the list of the most dangerous worms at the present.

What Is Spam?

2009-04-06T00:00:00.000+05:30

All of us must have often heard or seen people saying the word "spam", and some of you might have already dug around a lot about it. But, most of the internet population, even after coming across this word, might have still not understood clearly what the word means. Actually, spam has different forms.

Among all the different forms of spam, the widely recognized form is e-mail spam, which is one of the worst things that haunt an ordinary internet user.

Even after e-mail spam had been declared illegal in 'some' jurisdictions, there are still many countries where the spammers take advantage of their locality, where spamming does not lead to legal trouble for them.

An industry of e-mail address harvesting is dedicated to collecting email addresses and selling compiled databases. Some of these address harvesting approaches rely on users not reading the fine print of agreements, resulting in them agreeing to send messages indiscriminately to their contacts.

The term "spam" is applied to similar abuses in other media with different nicknames for ease, instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, and file sharing network spam.

This is the most simple and common definition for the word "Spam", as accepted by the majority of the internet world.

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast mediums, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Google - The Internet Giant

2009-04-05T00:00:00.003+05:30

Google, a word that has become a part of every internet user's daily life, is beyond a mere description, and it would take me ages to tell the whole story about it. Anyway, I just thought that I need to thanks Google, atleast with a post in my blog for everything Google has done for us, internet users. Even the blogging platform I am now using to share my knowledge to you, Blogger, is one of Google's children.

"Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies."

The story of Google began with Larry Page, joined later by Sergey Brin, starting it as a research project on January 1996, while they were doing Ph.D.

"They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page."

The search engine, which was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system determined the importance of a site by checking the backlinks, later grew beyond the restricted walls of a project and enslaved the internet with it standing out a long way ahead of it's nearest competitors.

Blogger Vs Wordpress

2009-04-04T00:00:00.006+05:30

At the present time, there are lots of Blogging platforms available for an ordinary internet user to choose from, most of which are free. Undoubtedly, Blogger and Wordpress take-up the top two positions with all other blogging platforms way behind them. Both of them are famous for their simplicity, stability, and user-friendly nature.

Majority of the common as well as experienced internet users choose Blogger because of its ease of setting-up, customizability-factor and many other features specially represented by Blogger. Wordpress shoulders with Blogger, with its own definition of tools, which tempt another set of internet users to select it as their blogging platform.

You may also find lots of other blogging platforms that might be of interest to you. You can view a list of some good platforms and have a comparison between them, to choose one for you. Just go through all the sections, and you will come across one in which you will find the list. You can also start by viewing the index by clicking on the small icon on the top-left corner of this widget/side article.

Introduction To Blogging

2009-04-03T00:00:00.009+05:30

I have seen that many who have been using the internet for a long time are unaware about blogs and blogging even now. So, I have decided to start off with an introduction to blogging, and to have more informative posts following this. I believe that after reading this you will get a fair idea about blogs and blogging.

After you have got yourself clear with what a blog means and what it can be used for, you may want to start a blog of your own, and it will be great if you are feeling encouraged to start a blog. Please feel free to ask for more as I am always happy to help.

Introduction To Lance Quest's Blog

2009-04-02T00:00:00.001+05:30

I just thought that a small introduction would be the best thing to start with. So, let me first start with myself and this blog.

I had just decided to bring myself into blogging after wandering about a lot of time (months) in the internet, searching for the right place to start my journey. And now, I have decided to choose Blogger as the starting point for my coming online days.

Unlike the most, who get their own top-level domain name registered, and start along with premium hosting, I have chosen to start with the good old Blogger of Google. There are many reasons for this decision of mine, which I shall be covering soon, nowhere else other than this blog.

First of all, I would like to convey my special thanks to everyone who has inspired me into starting this blog. I had not taken blogging much seriously as a way for me to go on, until now. I am looking forward to give out as much as I can into this blog so as to keep this alive and running.

I hope to see you coming back here soon!