Every one using a computer or a mobile phone uses an operating system and even advanced cars and machines have a special purpose operating system built into them. But the question arises “How many of us actually know what an operating system is?”. Here goes a layman version of definition of operating system.

Operating System

Operating system is a software that controls the hardware and its communication and utilization with the application programs used by an end user.

Off course there are many details about the operating but in this I am going to discuss why there was a need to program an operating system. Every individual program could have been made to communicate with hardware it self. Just imagine, If people were left on their own to look for resources to fulfill their need and there was no government to manage them and law enforcement to correct them, what a havoc would it be. In the same way an operating system is made to manage the limited resources of a computer that are memory, storage, cpu time and so on and more over an operating system distributes these resources efficiently to multiple application programs and input/output devices.

One more reason to build an operating system is that if operating systems were not developed, every application program would have to be made to communicate to hardware. It is a wise choice to use operating system as interpreter between hardware and application programs instead of teaching each program to communicate to hardware itself.

Operating system have made the work of programmers easier because they now have to only focus on the functionality of their programs rather than going in the details of how to make it communicate with hardware.

Most common operating systems used by common people are

• Microsoft Windows
• Linux
• Apple’s Macintosh

Most common operating systems used in mobile phones

•  IOS (used in Apple smart phones)
• Symbian (used in Nokia)
• Android (Used in HTC, New Samsung sets etc)

In internet marketing there are only two things that people rely on for the success of their businesses

1. Search Engines
2. Social Media

Social media does get huge amount of traffic to websites but it is not as huge as the traffic sent by search engines and also not as targetted as the traffic sent by search engines. Many idle people just wandering here and there on a social website may find a link to website and just givee it a visit and end up in profit but a person who really needs a specific information searches for it and lands on your website, will definitely spend more time and may be beneficial for you. So therefore I wanted to share some basic SEO terminologies with my readers.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

The one and the only best traffic generating source SEO needs to be explained before anything else.

Search Engine Optimization comprises of all the acts, tricks and techniques that one uses to improve a website’s rank in search engines. If a website ranks well as compared to others it will get more visits.

Website Traffic

Website traffic simply means visits or visitors. Increasing or decreasing the website traffic means increasing or decreasing the number of visits. More is the traffic, better is the profit generated by the website.

Keyword

When you enter the word “car” in a search engine it returns thousands of results. Search engine brings all the websites that have the word “car” in it. So in all those pages word “car” is used in more frequency than most of other words or we can say that word “car” was the topic of that page so naturally it was used more than any other word. In this example word car is the keyword of the websites that appear in the results.

Backlinks

Backlinks are the links of a website on other websites. If you put a link to my website on your own website then that link acts as a backlink for my website.

One-Way Backlink

In the above example the link we discussed is a one way baklink because it only coming from your website to my website.

Reciprocal Backlink

If in above scenario I also add a link of your website on my own website then there is a link pointing to my site from your site and vice versa. This kind of linking is called a two way or a Reciprocal Link.

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What is a virtual machine?

A virtual machine is a logical environment residing inside a computer that allows an operating system to run as if it is a separate computer inside that computer.

A virtual machine uses a specific amount of hard disk and memory to run as a separate machine. In such scenarios the main operating system on which virtual machine is running is called Host Operating System and the virtual operating system is called Guest Operating System. A virtual machine runs in a window on your desktop which you can minimize any time to use your host operating system.

The virtual machine can use all the hardware your host OS is using therefore it works as a full fledged computer. Some good points of using a virtual machine is that:

• If they are attacked by a virus your Host OS is not affected. Which means you can freely use your VM for any thing at all.
• You can run multiple computers which means you can do more work and people who need more than one lappies for themselves can use this to save some amount.
• You can work with a totally different IP
• You can even change MAC address of your VM to access internet.
• There is still much that you have to explore.

What software are available for Virtual Machine?

• VMware Player
• Virtual Box by Oracle
• Windows virtual pc

I have used both 1 and 2. VM ware player is quite easy to use and configure. Virtual Box though is not easy but it gives more configuration options, perhaps that is why noobs like me find it difficult to use and setup.

I normally use virtual machine for running bots and imacros. I run a bot or an imacro script and minimize the window and do my other things on my own host OS. I just do it to reduce mess from my host desktop and to keep my botting and imacro things hidden from people who use my computer. For example if you have firefox in both host and guest machines, you can run only one instance of imacros on one machine so you can use your VM to run one more instance. Similarly you can install any number of virtual machines depending upon the performance of your hardware. You can find it of any use that is suitable to you.

As described in my previous article Imacros is a tool or you can say a web browser add-on that can automate lots of your work. This article is intended to tell how to install and configure and how to start using Imacros.

Installing Imacro

• If you haven’t already downloaded Imacros you can find the download link in my previous article.
• Once you have downloaded the appropriate Imacro add-on the browser it will automatically prompt you to install.
• Once you install the add-on following simple and self defining steps you can start the add-on from top right part where wrench appears (in google chrome) and by pressing F8 button (in forefox) or besides the next and previous page buttons.

How To Record Your Own Imacro Script

• To open imacros interface in google chrome click on the button on the top right. The button resembles the image in this article’s top.
• In firefox just press F8 once to open the add-on
• Now to record in chrome add-on hit the record button on the front interface of tool and for firefox click on the “REC” tab and there click on “record” button.
• Now the recording has started. What ever actions you do will be recorded as they are.
• For example: open a new tab write in a website address and hit enter. Now close the tab.
• Now stop the recording by hitting the record button.
• Go to the “Play” tab and in the loop section set the “max” field to 10 and click on the play loop button.
• You will see that the action of opening a tab, entering a website and then closing that tab will be repeated ten times.

You can set the max limit of loop to what ever number you want to run the loop that many times. This tool can help you automate many things as described in the previous article.  To keep learning about imacro subscribe to us.

In today’s fast internet world speed is the only thing that can keep you ahead of others unlike the manual work that used be the only way of living a few years back. Now almost every work online can be automated using some tools and techniques and this article shares with you a great and free tool that is quite handy and can make your daily internet activities automated so that you are not required to do that again and again. Imacros is the tool I am talking about.

torrent

Torrent world has been a hit since it came into being. You can get almost any virtual product you want from there. No matter what song you want, what movie you plan to see, what software application you want to install and benefit from, you can get all from torrent downloads. This has been made possible by the collaboration of people from all around the world that allow P2P downloads

The only problem you can face downloading from it is when you are behind a proxy server. Like many other application that require internet connectivity, torrent client applications also refuse to download even a single bit from a proxy server. No matter what setting you do you won’t succeed. But don’t worry we have got a solution of this problem. Following is a step by step solution that enables you to download torrent from a proxy server.

• From any torrent website locate the file you want to download.
• right click on the torrent download link and copy the link address.
• On a new tab of browser go to website www.zbigz.com
• On the main page enter the link address in the field and hit “Go Free”
• You will be taken to a new page where you will have to wait untill the progress finishes.
• Then click on the green arrow button to download your desired file.
• This download won’t require torrent client but will be taken over by any download accelerator or manager you have in your computer.

This way you will be able to download torrent from a proxy server.