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Protect Your Wireless Network with WEP

Editor — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:29:22 +0000

Most of the wireless networks installed at homes and offices are password protected, but there are plenty which are not. Probably the owners of the wireless networks don’t even know that they can password protect their network. If you are thinking… ‘what is the need to password protect my network? ‘ Its almost like leaving your house doors open to everyone.

Very soon most of the major countries are going to implement a law which will prohibit unprotected wireless network. Before you are caught and fined for leaving your wireless network unprotected, lets’s get to know a bit about WEP.

WEP stands for ‘Wired Equivalent Privacy’. Don’t get overwhelmed by the technical jargon… its nothing but a simple password.

If you use a phone number or a name of a person as a password, its possible that your neighbor might crack it. By using an online WEP key generator you can generate hard to crack keys(password).

Here are some of the online WEP key generators which allow you to generate 64, 128, 152 and 256 bits WEP Keys.

Andrews WEP key generator

YellowPipe WEP key generator

Install Wordpress on PC

Editor — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:46:08 +0000

Want to install Wordpress on your PC? You might ask : why do I need to install locally when I could install on my online server? To put it simple, its easier to test your site without your visitors knowing anything. Sounds cool, right?

You could check for plug-in conflicts, theme compatibility, coding issues, image display problems… without even touching your online site. Once you decide that everything is fine, you can upload your shiny site to your web server.

But installing Wordpress on your PC is not that simple, but if you know some ‘ABC’ of computing, you can easily do it. First you need to download XAMPP, which is an Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. Probably you don’t even know what Apache is because your web host does everything for you. Don’t panic. Just go to this link, it has a step-by-step instructions on how to install Wordpress on your PC.

Download Bing Ringtones for your Mobile

Editor — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:44:03 +0000

I don’t know about the availability of google or yahoo’s official ringtones, but Microsoft’s new shiny baby, Bing, certainly has few. If you are not following the recent developments in the web world, here is the news: Bing is the new search engine from Microsoft which is set to rival the big daddy google.

It certainly looks trendy with colors and cool Ajax effects, but I don’t think it can compete with google.
Anyways, here are 3 Bing ringtones for your mobile which you can showoff to your friends and colleagues.

Download Bing Ringtones

Free Online OCR

Editor — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:50:15 +0000

It seems that we no longer need any software in our computers other than a Browser. We all know that there are plenty of softwares which can extract text from an image, but how about an online service for that?

Free-OCR is a website which takes your image and extracts the text in it, and lets you to save it as any format you desire such as PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG.

Click here to visit Free-OCR to extract the text from that scanned magazine page.

Add Colors to Gmail with Themes Feature

Editor — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:18:23 +0000

For those of you who think that Gmail’s interface looks dull, here comes Gmail themes. With this new feature, you can customize your Gmail to your likes.
Gmail now gives you the option of selecting from its collection of themes such as New Blue, Steel, Green Sky, Shiny, Beach, Mountains and many more.

To enable this feature, go to ‘settings’, and choose ‘themes’ from the tabbed menu. Then just click on the theme you desire ….as simple as that.
There are many more functionalities of Gmail that are in beta stage like mouse gestures and pictures in chat, and if you like to test them out, go to ‘Labs’ from the ‘settings’ page.

Make your Blog Mobile Friendly

Editor — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:46:33 +0000

If you visit Yahoo or Google through your mobile phone, you can notice that they have a mobile friendly interface. But Wordpress blogs are not out-of-the-box mobile friendly, so with a help of a simple plug-in called MobilePress, your blog can be made mobile browser compatible.

MobilePress converts your blog to a mobile friendly version without you touching anything. Just upload the plug-in and activate. Whenever anyone visits your blog from a mobile phone (iphone, nokia, sony ericsson, samsung or any brand), he/she will see a clutter free version which is rightly suited for mobile viewing.
It comes with just 3 themes, but you can customize them just like a normal Wordpress theme.
Visit www.technoi.com from your mobile browser to know how well the MobilePress plug-in works.

Click here to download MobilePress

Make Your RSS Feed Talk

Editor — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:31:50 +0000

This is especially for the bloggers who would like to Podcast, but are shy that their voice is not good enough.
Dixero, a web services company, converts your RSS feed into voice. It lets you to choose from wide variety of voices and create channels of your choice.

It even gives you the code so that you can embed podcast player in your blog or website.
The podcast can also be downloaded in Mp3 format, and played in your PC, mobile or iPod.
All you shy bloggers, happy podcasting!

Click here to visit Dixero

Carry FireFox With You

Editor — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:26:57 +0000

I always get frustrated when I see my favorite Firefox browser not installed at Internet cafes or friend’s place, so what I do? I simply carry a USB flash drive with Firefox Portable version in it.
You just have to plug in the drive and click the Firefox icon in it.

Even the Bookmarks are stored in the Flash drive, so no matter where you are, you always have access to them.

You can download Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.0.4 here.

Chat in Video and Audio within Gmail

Editor — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:38 +0000

Google adds another feature to their popular mail application, Gmail, in the form of Video and Audio chat.
Now you no longer have to open an Instant Messenger program to Voice or Audio chat with your friends and colleagues. You just need to download a small one-time-auto-install plug-in, and the rest is taken care by Gmail.

To start a Video/Audio chat, you just have to click the ‘Video & more’ menu at the bottom of your chat window and select ‘Start Video Chat’.

Currently, only PCs and Macs are supported.

More information can be found at Gmail’s official blog.
Download the Gmail Video/Audio chat plug-in here.

Search Rapidshare in Real Time

Editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:58:38 +0000

We all know that Rapidshare contains files ranging from videos, music, eBooks to software. But the problem with Rapidshare is that they don’t have a search feature nor do they provide an index to the files hosted on their servers.

There are several sites that index the files stored in Rapidshare servers and lets us to search them. The problem is that most of them search from the database they have archived. But Crawl Rapidshare goes a step further and searches Rapidshare in real time.
It means more accurate and up-to minute search results.

Click here to visit Crawl Rapidshare.