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Microsoft Offering Browsers Other Than Internet Explorer

Talal Masood — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:23:55 +0000

Microsoft started offering other Internet Browsers than their own Internet Explorer in the current update for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 in Europe. This is quite amazing, that even after making MSIE 8.0, Microsoft is losing their market in the Internet Browsers industry. Mozilla Firefox and then Google Chrome took over the browser market and I can see the downfall graphs of Internet Explorer.

After installing updates in Windows Automatic Updates, you get a list of browsers to choose and install.

The full list of Web Browsers on offer:

Avant
Chrome
Firefox
Flock
Green Browser
Internet Explorer
K-meleon
Maxthon
Opera
Safari
Sleipnir
Slim

[Via: AfterDawn]

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Microsoft “Windows.Next” Coming After Windows 7

Talal Masood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:42:40 +0000

Microsoft’s project manager on 31st Jan. 2010 posted a blog post on MSDN and then removed it. In that post he mentioned about the success of Windows 7 and wrote about how Microsoft was successful in meeting the requirements and wants of their consumers through Windows 7. In my opinion Windows 7 was really a success and people actually loved the efficiency of Windows beside the awesome appearance.

Following is the blog post:

So how am I referring to the next version of Windows without saying that many words – well simple – Windows.next:) This is definitely not the official version but a version that is becoming common along my circle. So what are our plans for this next version…

The blog post titled “Whats in store for the next Windows?” was removed, but fortunately was cached by Google and for next few days will be still available to view. In the post he mentioned about the next version of Microsoft Windows and called it as “Windows.Next“. So it looks quite obvious that he leaked out the name of the next windows which is currently called as “Windows 8” by most of the people.

[Via: The Windows Club]

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First Transparent OLED Laptop by Samsung

Usman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:53:05 +0000

A year and half ago, pickmore posted an article about the Sony Vaio conceptual transparent laptop screen. After a year, Samsung became the world’s first company to introduce the transparent screen. Samsung demonstrated the transparent screen on CES 2010 in January, which amazed many people and announced the launch of the product within next 12 months.

Samsung yesterday introduced the first AMOLED (Active-matrix organic light emitting diode) screen which is actually a transparent one and demonstrated it as an actual product, not a conceptual.

“We have a lab in Korea that is currently working on developing a laptop with partially-transparent screen.” Samsung Electronics America’s Reid Sullivan told Plus Plastic Electronics. Reid further added that, “Soon, I imagine that all Samsung’s audio-visual products will feature this technology. We want to be the first in this market.”

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Why I Will Not Buy An Apple iPad

Talal Masood — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:05:30 +0000

Apple launched their new product Apple iPad on 27th January 2010 which became a hilarious thing in the world instead of being a serious thing. May be Apple wanted it that way to gain attraction from another angle. Everyone is calling it iTampon instead of iPad because it sounds more like a feminine thing. I wonder how Apple can make such a silly mistake by giving it the name ‘iPad’. It’s been almost a week now since the launch and I searched every where and read everything about the product. My final conclusion was, Apple iPad is a useless thing.

Why is Apple iPad a useless product?

Let me list down some of the key points I came up with:

Its not a Phone and its not a Laptop. Its something in between both; phone and laptop.
It does not serve my purpose of a Phone and neither of my Laptop.
Why would I carry an additional 10″ huge screen with my Laptop and a Phone?
Why shall I dump my existing Phone and Laptop/Netbook and buy just one iPad?
Oh, I cannot run the most commonly used applications of a computer system. Yes, its not Windows and even a Mac OS, its just iPhone’s enhanced OS.
A netbook runs every common application, so obviously iPad cannot replace my netbook even and the question of replacing a laptop is not a choice either.

These were just some of the points which I came up with. I mean why shall I buy it? Its a total useless thing. Apple wants me to spend $500 on a thing just to play touch-touch? Yes, that’s quite a foolish thing to do so.

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Google Chrome OS Tablet PC, Video

Talal Masood — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:36:17 +0000

Just after few days of the launch of Apple iPad which is Apple’s tablet PC, Google Chromium – the developer team of Google Chrome OS launched a conceptual video of their Tablet PC. Things seems to be quite rising up in the market. But frankly I don’t see any point of buying Apple iPad, then why would I wait for Google Tablet PC? Its not a PC, its not a Mobile Phone, Its not a Laptop. Its something in between and does not fulfill any of my needs. So, here is the video of the conceptual Google Tablet which appears to be very much the same as Apple iPad.

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The major features of Google Chrome OS Table:

X86 Processor, so no more ARM.
Touchscreen Keyboard
Quick shortcuts which makes easy to access Internet.
Tabs on the side screen helps you navigate fast.
Multi-Touch screen

The last thing, Multi-Touch Screen, Google is not yet good enough with it. Google’s Andriod 2.0 is also missing things with the multi-touch. Though Google’s Nexus One is multi-touch but still not as good as of Apple.

[Via: DigitalTrends]

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Comparison of Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo

Talal Masood — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:38:40 +0000

There are currently four giants in the IT Industry which are competing with each other in one or an other way. One starts to work on something and the other markets something else but much more attractive for the consumers. Sometimes I see all of them going on different directions to attract as many users as they can. For instance, Apple started to attract consumers with their Music gadget iPod and then came into the competition with a bigger and better version of the operating system to compete Microsoft, and Microsoft already holding the biggest market of operating system with Windows now jumps in with Microsoft Zune for music lovers.

Similarly Yahoo started as a search engine and became the biggest online instant messenger service with the most widely used web-based email service. Later Google came and started directly competing with Yahoo! in the search engine market and took the lead in all the aspects of search engine and later became the pioneer in giving the biggest inbox space for web-based email services with Gmail. Microsoft was famous for its operating system ‘Windows’ and then started many more things, including the online web-based services like hotmail, online instant messenger ‘MSN’, search engine and so on. Microsoft initially had the search engine named MSN, then renamed it to ‘Live.com‘ and now the final step is ‘Bing‘. Oh yea, and not to forget Microsoft was sued for using the name ‘Bing’ by a company named ‘Bing Information Designs‘.

Nick Bilton from New York Times made a very good report on all these four competitors and shared which company is interest in which field in the IT Industry. The above chart exactly shows the interest of each company. Yahoo lags behind according to this chart and the news which we hear since quite a long time that Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo is still there.

Coming back to the Google and Microsoft, Google seems to be working on their operating system which many people have also unleashed on different blogs. But I don’t think that Google OS will be a threat to Microsoft at least for next upcoming 10 years. So Google is lagging behind, still because of no operating system and no gaming console or games.

Conclusion:

Microsoft seems to be the most powerful player of the IT Industry right now with everything except any Microsoft Phone, but they are still having the best Windows Mobile operating system which is the most common OS for the HTC and i-Mate mobile phones. Google ranks the second according to this chart, and strangely they are not yet into Gaming and Music. Apple ranks the third and I guess they don’t even need MAPS or Social Networking right now. They are going pretty good in their current field. At the last, its Yahoo! Inc. which is specific to the Web technologies and is not moving out of there.

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How to Run World of Warcraft (WoW) on Ubuntu Linux

Talal Masood — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:54:57 +0000

World of Warcraft also known as WoW is the most widely played online multi-player network game. According to my little knowledge there are over 4 million players registered on the Blizzard network who play WoW. The game is developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is only available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS operating system. The users of Linux are quite dejected with that. But now I can give you a solution to run WoW on Ubuntu Linux.

I came across an application called “Wine HQ” which enables Linux users to run Windows applications. Obviously not as good as you can run in Windows, but still you can play a little with your windows apps in linux with Wine. Wine was developed back in 1993 but due to the limitations on the Windows API the developer team could not do more. The latest version of Wine is released on 22nd January 2010 which had alot of bug fixes and allows you to run a lot of more Windows Apps.

World of Warcraft running in uBuntu Linux(Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)

How To Run WoW on Ubuntu:

Install Ubuntu Linux
Install Wine from Ubuntu Software Center (Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center). OR you can download it from http://www.winehq.org
You cannot install WoW in uBuntu so you need a preinstalled WoW in any of your partition.
Simple locate the WoW.exe file, which is the main executable file of WoW, right-click on it and choose the option “Open With Wine Windows Program Loader”.
There you go, enjoy!

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HTC Smartphone Prices Reduced upto US$280

Talal Masood — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:48:09 +0000

HTC today announced the new prices of their smartphones and have reduced the prices to a great number. The prices of HTC handsets are reduced by US$150 to $280. It might be because of the launch of Google Nexus One that is costing US$529 (unlocked).

Google Nexus One is also developed by HTC and the price reduction in the HTC smartphones are strange. Following are the new prices of the HTC Smartphones:

HTC Magic – US$458 (US$741)
HTC Hero – US$494 (US$635)
HTC Tattoo – US$331 (US$422)
HTC Touch2 – US$331 (S$437)
HTC Touch Diamond2 – US$480 (US$770)
HTC Touch Pro2 – US$557 (US$940)
HTC Touch HD2 – US$649 (US$840)
HTC Snap – US$352 (US$486)
HTC Snap (without camera) – US$295 (US$423)

The price reduction in the prices is confirmed from the Asian market (Singapore).

Via [CNET]

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Apple iPad Launch Keynote Video, 27th January 2010

Talal Masood — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:23:54 +0000

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple launched the new product – A tablet PC called Apple iPad (which obviously is a funny name) on 27th January 2010. With a 1GHz processor and 9.7″ multi-touch screen users can enjoy the fantasy of iPhone and iPod on a bigger screen now. In addition to all the existing features and apps which work on iPod and iPhone, iPad has its own SDK too, which allow the developers to make their own new apps for iPad. Apple iPad has the former iTunes and iStore plus the new iBook app which allow the users to purchase books online and read them on their iPad. Here is the video of the keynote of Apple iPad:

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Why Apple called iPad as iPad?

Talal Masood — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:05 +0000

Apple had always made all the rumors in the market go wrong as per traditions. Everyone was hoping the name of the new Apple Tablet PC to be called as ‘iTablet’ but yesterday at the launch of that tablet pc millions around the world were simply surprised by the name they gave it, an Apple ‘iPad’. Yes, it sounds funny and strange. I was thinking may be Steve’s Windows Shut Downed and he couldnt think of a better name

Apple yesterday at the launch of Apple iPad demonstrated a new slim and smart tablet PC named as ‘Apple iPad’ which has a multi touch screen, a 1GHz processor and many more. The best part of the product was it will be available in both ‘only WiFi’ and ‘WiFi + 3G’ models. Apple had always made things very expensive, but this time they changed their moto and iPad’s price is just starting from $499.

But the question remains still there, that why apple called iPad an iPad? I guess, they were so much impressed by their iPod name that they didnt want change it. lol or may be they want to trick the customer. A customer asks for an iPod and the store delivers in iPad. The trendy topic on twitter instead of being iPad was actually and amazingly ‘iTampon‘. Yes, everyone was calling it Apple iTampon. I mean why didn’t Steve thought of that coming? Everyone on Facebook and Twitter were suggesting so much better names for the apple tablet pc like - iTablet, iPC, iMini or whatever but still Apple strangely chose the name iPad.

Following are the Technical Specifications of Apple iPad:

Processor: 1GHz Apple A4
RAM: Uknown (Apple didn’t mention about it’s ram)
Camera: NO
Screen Size: 9.7 inches
Display: 1024 x 768 pixels resolution
Touch Screen: Multi Touch
Capacity: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB flash drive
Connectivity: Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G
Video Playback: upto 720p high definition H.264
Audio: Built-in Speakers and Microphone. 3.5mm Stereo Audio Headphone Jack
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Battery Life: upto 10 hours of using Wi-Fi, playing videos and listening music.

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Google is not safe for children

tAALz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:32:13 +0000

I was waiting for my Pizza and didn’t had anything to do, so decided to check out google. I started searching for different things. First I tried searching my name and found out that Talal Masood appears on the top of google search suggestion result. Later, I was searching the Internet and came across a blog about the google search suggestions and found out that Google is not save for children anymore.

It was quite bad what I read on blogoscoped. I tried it myself too and found out that Google is not safe for work and even after applying the “Strict Filtering” from Search Settings it is showing strange search suggestion results. So, end result was, if you have children at home, even Google is not safe for them anymore.

After typing the word ‘how to‘ if you just put the next letter, say, ‘F‘ then you get a list of suggested searches. The following shows the top 3 results of such suggestions which appear on Google (with Strict Filtering ON).

A
how to ask a girl out
how to apply eyeshadow
how to add fractions

B
how to bake a potato
how to bake pumpkin seeds
how to brine a turkey

C
how to cook a turkey
how to cite a website
how to cook pumpkin seeds

D
how to download youtube video
how to draw
how to draw cartoons

E
how to eat a pomegranate
how to eat a girls out
how to enable cookies

F
how to french kiss
how to flirt
how to fry a turkey

G
how to get pregnant
how to get a girl to like you
how to get rid of fruit flies

H
how to have sex’
how to hack a myspace account
how to hard boil eggs

I
how to impress a girl
how to install laminate flooring
how to induce labor

J
how to jailbreak ipod touch
how to jerk
how to jump start a car

K
how to kiss
how to knit
how to know if a guy likes you

L
how to lose weight fast
how to lose weight
how to lose 10 pounds in a week

M
how to make a website
how to make your hair grow faster
how to make a paper airplane

N
how to negotiate salary
how to not be shy
how to network

O
how to open rar files
how to open a coconut
how to open a pomegranate

P
how to play guitar
how to play poker
how to pick a lock

Q
how to quit smoking
how to quilt
how to quote in an essay

R
how to roll a joint
how to roast pumpkin seeds
how to read guitar tabs

S
how to solve a rubix cube
how to save a life lyrics
how to solve a rubik’s cube

T
how to tie a tie
how to tell if a guy likes you
how to tie a scarf

U
how to unlock iphone 3g
how to upload photos on facebook
how to unclog a toilet

V
how to view private myspace profiles
how to videos
how to view private facebook profiles

W
how to write a resume
how to write a cover letter
how to wear a scarf

X
how to xray in photoshop
how to xray in gimp
how to xbox live

Y
how to yodel
how to yarn over
how to yoyo

Z
how to zip a file
how to zip a folder
how to zest a lemon

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YouTube Introduced New Features, 1080p Video

tAALz — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:52:25 +0000

The most popular, and the most widely used online video sharing and viewing website YouTube owned by Google has introduced amazingly new features today at the start of year 2010. The old age of online streaming video has just passed away today with the new version of YouTube. The most prominent thing that is introduced is the High Definition video. Oh, not that previous ‘HD’ button. Now it has a new button – 360p – 480p – 720p and 1080p.

Yes, YouTube is not a fully high definition streaming video sharing website. YouTube changed the following things in the new layout:

Player/Video Size, now you can play the videos in SD, and HD (360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p)
The new “Like/Don’t Like” button.
Description and Stats of the video are merged together.
News/Similar Videos outlook changed.
Search Result will appear on the right side of the page on run-time without reloading the whole page. It means you will never have to leave your video to see the searched result.
Action bar is now pretty tidy. Easy to use!

The two things that I think users will love are the High Definition movie and the search result on same page. These two new features are really amazing and won my heart.

[Via YouTube]

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What are the responsibilities of a SQA Engineer?

Ayesha — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:45:18 +0000

SQA stands for Software Quality Assurance and is a very important part of Software Development Life Cycle. SQA is a process to test and verify each piece (module) of software according to the ‘requirements’. A person who performs testing is known as a SQA Engineer.

The responsibilities of a SQA Engineer start right from the very first development process of the software. Basic work flow starts when requirements are being gathered from the client. It is the responsibility of a SQA engineer to point out all the functional and non functional requirements. When a module is developed by the development team (Developers), it is given to the SQA team to test and verify it according to the requirements.

The SQA Engineer then make test cases corresponding to the requirements and performs testing. It is also the responsibility of the SQA Engineer to test the application against the requirements in order to check the application response. An SQA Engineer should have the ability to test the application in such a way that application fails, because it actually maximizes the product quality and hence minimizes the risk of product failure. The issues (if any) are then sending back to the development team for correction. This is the way SQA process continues till the complete development of the software application.

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Windows 7 will have six versions

External USB SATA Drive Dock

Ayesha — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:39:04 +0000

Being professionals we usually have more than one harddrive for our use. We need to keep them safe as we have a lot of data in it. But the problem is when we have to get some data from any old harddrive then we have to plug it each time to the computer. To change a hard drive again and again is actually a time taking process.

In order to ease this difficulty, use of Dual External USB SATA Drive Dock is certainly a wise decision to capture data from old harddrives or use them as backup without facing any further problems. Vantec NexStar introduced the Dual External USB SATA Drive Dock lets you to tie up two harddrives with computer by either a USB cable or eSATA connector.

The docking element enables hard drives to be exchanged by pushing the button on the bottom. There are two docks available but a single dock is capable of holding 1 hard drive at a time. It makes the storage inexpensive. By using External USB SATA Drive Dock, harddrives are being upgraded constantly. It has a few remarkable features such as it connects to one or two 2.5″ or 3.5″ internal SATA harddrives, allows USB or eSATA connectivity, its transfer rates are up to 480Mbps with USB and up to 3Gb/s with eSATA.

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Create 3D Buildings Using Google SketchUp

Ayesha — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:18 +0000

Google SketchUp is software that can be used to assemble 3D illustration of anything like a house, a building or other equipments. Google SketchUp facilitate its users by making them able to design their own houses, rooms, kitchens or a company can use it to design and construct its own building and its overall arrangements. It also has the facility to create simulations and then users can share them with their friends.

The latest version of Google SketchUp Pro 7 is a collection of powerful features and purposes for streamlining any professional 3D work-flow.

Google Sketchup enable the users to use enhanced features like vector representation of images with fine quality in a more reliable and efficent way. The elaborated freehand tool let the users draw curvature and maintain each piece of information in form of a sorted list. Bullets have been introduced to format the file properly which makes the overall usage of Google SketchUp easy and comprehensive in making 3D structures.

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PiixL EdgeCenter Super Slim Media Center PC For Flat Panel

Usman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:20:33 +0000

This is the first of its kind the super slim media center pc form Piixl, The UK based brand that has come with its unique design of media center pc EdgeCenter 3770 that fits perfect behind your flat panel TV “LED, LCD or Plasma”. You can have unlimited entertainment with this pc, It is equipped with Intel Core2Due, Core2Quard, Corei5, Corei7, and dual-Xeon configurations.

It also has integrated Nvidia 9300 graphics, 2 or 4GB Ultra Low Profile DDR2 RAM, Enterprise Class 500GB, 1TB or 2TB HDD, It has built-in PiixL HDMI Audio or PiixL Audiophile Asus Xonar 7.1 Sound Card – Analog 8 Out / 2 In – 2 SPDIF I/O – All Neutrik RCA Connectors, DVD Reader-Writer or Blu-Ray & DVD Reader-Writer, up to 2 TV Tuners, Wireless N USB Mini Adapter, Zyxel 200Mbps Integrated Powerline Networking or Belkin 1Gbps Integrated Powerline Networking, and Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate.

Its Also comes with:

Gyration Media Centre Vista RF Remote

Logitech DiNovo Edge Key Board

Logitech Webcam Pro 9000

Via : PiixL

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Capture Screenshot, Edit and Share using SnagIt

Ayesha — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:24:26 +0000

Techsmith SnagIt is a very easy and comprehensive tool to capture anything you see on the screen. You can then amend and combine the taken screen shots. The best part of this application is the option to directly share the screenshots with your friends, buddies, family members via email, IM, etc. In old days, first we used to take the screenshot, save it, edit it and then share it. SnagIt made it easier by simply taking a screenshot, edit it and sharing it.

SnagIt 9.1.3 is the latest version which contains the following new features for its users:

Mini Toolbar
Live Preview
Fluid workflow
Sleek editing interface
Auto-store
Auto-store Export
Open captures tray
Visual search pane
Tags & flags
Stamps

Click Here To Download Free (30-Days Trial) of SnagIT 9.1.3 – Cost $49.95
Visit the official website of Techsmith SnagIt

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Here is a quick tour video of SnagIt which tells you exactly what you can do with this flexible software and how useful it is for your to taking a screenshot and sharing it with your friends.

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Advantages of Google Public DNS

Ayesha — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:11:00 +0000

Google has introduced its own new free public DNS server service to all the users on internet. The system is named as Google Public DNS. The basic reason for the development of Google Public DNS server is to design a server that can provide comfort to all users for web-surfing practices more rapidly, safer and trustworthy.

Speed: Server-side cache is sometimes neglected which is one of the primary reasons to slow down the speed of DNS reaction. This problem can be removed by introducing clever caching practice that helps add to the speed-up DNS reactions. Same clever caching practice has been introduced in Google Public DNS. It outfits pre-fetching process i.e. before the TTL on a user request expires; the system refreshes the record consistently for a large number of trendy domains. This allows Google Public DNS to serve many DNS requests in the round trip time it takes a packet to travel to the servers and back.
Security: Google Public DNS server provides the maximum security to all the users by implementing a new security protocol named as Domain Name System Security Extensions Protocol (DNSSEC). Using this protocol makes the service providers need to take additional measures to keep their caches protected. Overall this makes a user request more difficult for hackers and attackers to spoof valid responses by randomizing the case of query names. Also Google Public DNS includes additional data in its DNS messages.
Validity: Google Public DNS acts in accordance with with the DNS standards and gives the user an accurate and to the point results a user expects without blocking any piece of information or filtering the searched information, and provides no redirection that may slow down a user’s browsing experience.
Performance. Google Public DNS outfits “smart” caching to increase the speed of responses. It separately resolves the domain names and keeps the resolutions in the cache until their time-to-live (TTL) expires, at which point they are automatically refreshed. The cycle of caching and refreshing is performed offline, asynchronously with user requests, so that responses are almost always available directly from cache.

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How to Configure Google Public DNS?

Ayesha — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:46:12 +0000

The Google Public DNS IP addresses required for DNS settings are as:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Any of the about IP address can be chosen as a primary address, and the other as a secondary address.

Open the Control Panel, click on Network and Internet. Now, click on Network and Sharing Center, and then select “Change adapter settings”.

In the next screen, select the connection that you want to configure for Google Public DNS.

If you want to change the settings for an Ethernet connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties. Or else, if you want to change the settings for a wireless connection, right-click the icon/link for the wireless network connection that you’re using, and then click Properties.

The Local Area Connection Properties dialog box will appear on the screen. Select the Networking tab. Now, under “This connection uses the following items”, click on the “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” and then click on the Properties button.

A new dialog box with the title of “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties” will appear on the screen. Now, select the radio box “Use the following DNS Server addresses”, and in the Preferred DNS Server text box, enter “8.8.8.8” and in the Alternate DNS Server, enter “8.8.4.4”.

Now, click OK on this dialog box to close it.

Click on Close button of the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box to close it.

Testing the changed DNS settings:
Once you’ve made the changes to your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS, you must test it to check whether the Google DNS resolver is working. For its confirmation just follows a very short and simple step: In the address bar of your browser, type a web address http://www.google.com/. If it resolves correctly and takes you to that website, bookmark the page, and then try to access the same web address again from the bookmark. If both of these tests work properly and the desired website opens properly, then it means that Google Public DNS is working correctly. If these tests do not work properly, then you must configure it again from the start.

How to switch back to the old DNS settings?
In some cases, it may also be possible to switch back to old DNS settings by using the automatic settings. For doing so, go back to the window in which you had specified the Google IP addresses, and select the option to enable obtaining DNS server addresses automatically, and/or delete the Google IP addresses. This will slip back your settings to using your ISP’s default servers.

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How Google Public DNS is Different from OpenDNS?

Ayesha — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:40:00 +0000

Google recently introduced the Google Public DNS for everyone. No matter where you live, you can simply use their IP addresses for your server.

Google IP addresses are really much easier to remember than OpenDNS.
Google Public DNS implements pre-fetching, thereby increase DNS response. Ping time (Google DNS Server) – 116ms , Resolving time (Google DNS Server) -262 msec
Google Public DNS provides more security by preventing DNS spoofing attacks.
Google Open DNS gets the valid Website contents; it further provides no Content Blocking, no Redirection of invalid pages and no Filtering.

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