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Ever wondered what would life be if there was no internet in our life? You wouldn’t even have been reading this article if there was no web. Try to ask your parents how different their lives were without internet. You will definitely find some amazing stories there. So just to let you realize that how the web has changed your life and that you should be thankful for it, read on.

1. Communication: There is no doubt that web has almost revolutionized the way we communicate. Now instead of postal addresses, E-mail IDs work and instead of post offices, internet cafes are crowded. Web has given us an enormous luxury in the way we communicate. Sitting right in our room we can communicate to a person sitting seven seas away, via net chatting and E-mails.
2. Information: The web is one huge well of information. There is possibly information on every possible topic on the web. Just go to any search engine and type whatever you want to search about. So no longer you have to spend hours into the library to make that project. If you want the map of the hospital, address of the nearest saloon or latest diet, it’s all out there on web!
3. Entertainment: With World Wide Web by your side, you don’t need a TV or radio for entertainment anymore. You can catch your favorite movies, serials and music on the internet. In fact you can even play the latest games on web. And web surfing these days is probably the best entertainment available. You can read the latest gossips, catch the international news or even date online these days!
4. Self expression: web has certainly changed the way a common man’s expression of feelings. Earlier there was no place where a common man could share his thoughts. But with web, everyone can put forward their thoughts using internet blogs. If you want to share any thoughts with people, you can simply start your own blog and get the feedback of people. With web, even a common man can voice his/her opinion.
5. Shopping: oh yes, web has been the most wonderful discovery of all time, especially for women who love to shop! Now you don’t even have to step out of your home for shopping. From groceries to dresses to gadgets, you can get all of it right at your doorstep with net shopping. There are many websites out there which lets you shop for your favorite items by making online payment.

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“123456” is the sequence of passwords mostly used by the people on the internet. A recent survey has claimed that many people uses simple passwords on the internet.

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A few days back I was discussing with few friends of mine, about the type of passwords used by people on the web. The outcome of our discussions confirmed that mostly people uses a few sequences which are too simple and really easy to break it down. It is true that mostly people prefer to use “password”, “123456”, or something like these terms as the passwords on the web.

The most interesting fact is that many people simply use their first name as the password while a few people prefer to use the name of their favorite movie star as the password. A few samples of some simple looking passwords used by people are batman, bond007, cocacola, 12345678, 1234, pussy, 12345, dragon, qwerty, football etc.

Some of the funniest looking simple passwords are xxxxxx, zzzzzz, sexy, 111111, hello, please, internet etc. These indications have a huge relief for the hackers that they will not have to work hard to break the passwords.

I still remember the early days, when I was new in the field of web, I use to use the term “qwerty” as the password for most of my accounts. Even today I prefer using some simple passwords for some specific sites, but now I as I am aware that a few websites has some urgent data so I am now using a bit tough password.

Once one of my website was hacked by one person, and from then I am using a bit complicated passwords for almost all of my sites, but for some simple looking task I still prefer the simple looking passwords.

I mostly check the strength of the passwords with the help of Microsoft by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx or with the help of The Password Meter.

Complex passwords are always required to protect the valuable data, as many people are looking to hack the information from your accounts so that they can use them. Although a complex password is not a guarantee that you’re valuable data is safe, but it helps a bit to save them from a few wrong hands.

A few tips through which you can generate complex passwords for your self:

• Don’t contain any characters from the user name.
• Try to build passwords of at least 8 characters.
• Try to use the combination of alphabets and numeric characters along with a few special characters.
• Try to mix the use of Uppercase and Lowercase letters.

I hope the above tips will help you to generate complex passwords for you. Try to use different passwords for different sites; it will make the task difficult for the hackers. Never write down your passwords on any page or save on any website, otherwise it might fell to some wrong hands. Also try to change the passwords after a gap of around 15 days or 30 days or so.

So friends enjoy the web with the help of some complex passwords generated by your self.

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Do you take your laptop when you go for a holiday with your family? If yes, avoid this habit in your future as it is warned by psychologists that these new age wireless tools are spoiling holidays and can be a reason to ruin family relationships.

“People simply should not take laptops on holiday with them. They are taking their office with them and they just shouldn’t do it,” said Cary Cooper, professor at Lancaster University management school’s department of psychology and health.

Wireless tools are the demand of today’s tech world but the same thing should be used intelligently. These tools are becoming inseparable part of life and a large mass of people take their laptops and wireless internet connections on holidays with them. The psychologist considers the laptops as a hindrance in the holiday. People find it difficult to switch off their laptops and spend most of their hard-found leisure time in working on laptops; news daily quoted a psychologist as saying.

“The rise in mobile phone and Internet technology has already affected our weekends and now it is invading annual holidays. Sensible bosses and workers should insist that holidays are computer free,” he suggested.

Cooper warned the problem as “mushroomed with the spread of wireless hot spots”.

People used to monitor their e-mails during vacations and instead of spending time with family they feel insecure about their jobs and keep stick to their systems for a long time during free hours. All this is possible because of existence of wireless tools. Hence the later can be considered as a hindrance in a relaxing vacation of a family.

“People worry about a backlog and that things will be missed while they are away. They feel a need to be constantly online and checking their emails. This insecurity is endemic to the service-based industries,” said Cooper.

Survey reports also agree with us. According to a survey by IT security company Credant Technologies, almost two-thirds of brokers in London said they were contacting their offices through phone or emails while on vacation. A whopping 83 % admitted to taking their office mobile phone or Blackberry with them while they are away. The survey said that more than a quarter said they check emails daily and 14 % admitted to doing so more than once a day.

“I can understand why people take mobile phones, but they should only be used sparingly, as a ’security blanket’. They should be kept switched off most of the time,” he stated.

According to him, taking work on holidays could deprive people of “much needed rest and recuperation” from demanding jobs and it could also lead to family break-ups.

He also said those who show that they can work for their organization even on holidays are actually cheating themselves. It may lead to exploitation as they are showing that they are available for the organization 24*7.

People should understand the needs of their family and should remember that a vacation is not just a resting time but to attach more closely with the family and your kids. Work should be done honestly but do not make it over to avoid your family.

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Internet presence is the need in today’s tech world. For registering your presence through a website on internet, you will need a reliable and user friendly hosting service. There are lots of companies available on internet which provides these kinds of services and help but the basic need is its technical reliability and proper services.

Triple.com is one of the companies which ensures all your requirements and can be categorized as the best site to register domain name. Triple.com provides high quality services on domain name registration, hosting providing services and SSL certificates sales.

Active since 2003, the company was at the top of professional Internet business team’s lists within a year due to its own original developments and effective activity. It aims at client’s satisfaction, individual problems solution, 24*7 customers and partners support.

The main advantages of registering the domain name at triple.com is its reliability, User friendly control panel, Useful domains management tools, security, free features for every domains along with advance features and at last but not least is the customer’s satisfaction.

Triple.com offers an affiliate program to connect you with the best internet business company. Also with this partnership you can add pretty good money in your account. You have to only advertise its services and earn up to 30% of all the payments made by the customers that come to the company through the use of your referral link.

By participating in the Triple.com affiliate program and advertising the services you can also earn up to 15% of the earnings of the webmasters that you invited. The program is open for anyone and registration is absolutely free.

The main points of the program are as follow:

- When the partner invites a customer, he/she will earn 25% (30% after the accreditation) of all the payments that this customer will make.
- When the partner invites a webmaster, he/she will earn 10% (15% after the accreditation) of all the earnings received by this webmaster.
- The money is transferred automatically via PayPal.
- The payments are made every month (every week after the accreditation).
- The minimum sum for payment is 20 US Dollars.

Main policies of Triple.com policy are to ensure Maximum user friendly principles and Absolute technical reliability of our solutions. As domain registration, hosting service, internet security digital certificates are to be supplied with powerful technical platform, it provides:

- Reliable registrar software solutions based on the newest technologies and best users’ interface.
- Servers in one of the best world’s data centers with uptime of 99.99
- SSL certificated from Thawte.com

After being a partner of such an active and successful company you can earn handsome and easy money. Register for free today and enjoy the services, also register a domain and get the best services.

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Google’s ex-employees have unveiled a new search engine named ‘Cuil’ (pronounced as cool) on Sunday to challenge the world’s leading search engine, Google. ‘Cuil’ will outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

Founded by Tom Costello, a former employee at IBM, and his wife Anna Patterson, who worked for Google for three years is named after the mythical Irish hero Fin McCuil. The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Monier also used to work at AltaVista, where he got the automated machine translator Babel Fish going. He later went to eBay to oversee a redesign.

Cuil (www.cuil.com) covers more web sites than any other search engine – three times more than Google and 10 times more than Microsoft.

“Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,” Tom Costello said.

Cuil Inc claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index. Estimates have shown Google Index at around 30 to 50 billion web sites while Cuil claims it has already indexed 120 billion.

Google saves user data while Cuil doesn’t. Cuil says it wants to analyze the web, not users. Also Cuil does not display search hits as in columns with a brief text and an image unlike Goggle which shows a list of links and short key words. The operators called this new way of presenting hits “organized results” and claim that the hits are more easily readable this way.

Search results are not sorted by popularity, but rather by content in Cuil. Madrone Capital, Greylock and Tugboat Ventures have already invested $33m in the project. Madrone alone has put in $25m.

Tags: Cuil, Google, Internet, search engine

Web 2.0 becomes the need of today as there is emerging a new generation of potential employees and customers that are accustomed to a variety of technologies being available. These employees expect to see and use the technologies in the corporate world.

These technologies are not only interesting for personal use but they also help the corporate world to search better employees for them. Whether and how we deploy these technologies likely will have an impact on our ability to attract new talent to our companies and to find and retain customers. All these technologies fall into the loosely defined category of “Enterprise 2.0.”

Rather than dismissing these technologies right out of the gate, these techniques can be best use in the right way. If neglected, it can lead you to a competitive disadvantage.

Here’s a sampling of these technologies:

1) RSS (Really Simple Syndication): It automatically feeds you information you want. RSS can be used to push order-status information directly to a customer’s company intranet.

2) Social networks: Facebook and MySpace like networks help the employees to introduce themselves to the company. These can also be a resource to help employees find a potential car-pool mate, someone with a background in product design or specific experience on a product you are thinking about launching. It extends your network to a wider zone and can be helpful to reach your target place.

3) Quick Messaging technology, Twitter: A quick messaging technology, such as Twitter, provides a wider reach of the message (a “tweet”) as compared to e-mails. It lets people know what you are doing at an instant. For example, if someone putting out a Twitter message that says, “I’m updating the marketing plan; does anyone have any info on X?” The tweet may have a wider reach and generate a better response rather than sending out an e-mail that gets lost in everyone’s inbox. Twitter and FriendFeed are communication and collaboration tools. And when your research project is done, share it via FriendFeed.

4) Social networking: Social networking technologies such as FriendFeed can be used to share a variety of information. The technology lets users share Web pages, photos, videos and music with friends and family. This is an easy way to exchange the data.

5) Instant messaging: Instant messages are exchanged for quick replies.  E-mail is so “last decade.” Instant messengers are available to give a better solution. This technique not only provides a better way of communication but reduces the wastage of space in Inbox on the e-mail server.

6) Wikis, blogs and mash-ups to share, collect and edit information: Wikis and blogs can be used for training and collaboration on large projects while Mashups provide a good overview of the operations. It can bring together production and operations data from a variety of sources, allowing a production manager to get a good overview of the operations.

7) YouTube-style videos: These videos can be used for training or distributing important messages such as the CEO announcing a new product launch or Joe, the IT help desk guy, receiving an award. This technique is providing visual trainings which is much better than textual one.

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The very plain textual chat on Google is now going to be a fun by embodying a cartoon style online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The company announced this new online tool on Tuesday.

Google unveiled the new product in a post on its official blog and can be reached at www.lively.com which is officially part of Google Labs, an area of the company’s site where it showcases projects that remain in the beta, or experimental, phase.

‘Lively’ will make the conversation more interactive and fun. You can create your own Chat rooms. These chat rooms can be added to any blog or Web site and are two-dimensional — they include text, and sometimes voice and video. Up to 20 people can occupy a room and chat with one another.

Users can design their own virtual environments, hanging on the walls videos from YouTube and photos from Picasa, Google’s photo service, as if they were pieces of art.

The new product was headed by Niniane Wang, an engineering manager. Students at the University of Arizona have been testing ‘Lively’ for several months.

Ms. Wang wrote in the blog post that she developed ‘Lively’ as a “20 percent project,” referring to Google’s philosophy that employees should spend one day a week working on projects outside of their day-to-day responsibilities.

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According to a prediction by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), it is reported that more than 85 per cent of the available addresses on the internet have been allocated and the remaining will run out by 2011. Thus internet world may face this doomsday inn exactly 1,273 day.

The web addresses I am talking about refer to the numerical Internet protocol (IP) addresses that denote individual devices connected to the Internet. They are unique to every system and are basic for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.

Whenever you type the web address of any website, the browser actually search the IP address for that site from a big telephone book, commonly called a “Domain Name Server” (DNS). Say if you type www.google.com your browser will ask DNS the IP address for it and in return 216.239.39.99 will be sent by DNS to your browser. Your browser then heads off to Google’s website using the IP address as a map.

This doomsday can lead to a slower internet speeds and new connections and services (such as Internet phone calling) will either be expensive or simply impossible to obtain. The solution to the shortage is to upgrade to a new address protocol.

The Internet protocols are prepared by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers working for the smooth operation of the Internet. The current IP address scheme, called Internet Protocol Version 4 (Ipv4), was introduced in 1981. At that time there were hardly 500 computers connected to the Internet. The address makers at that time allowed for four billion addresses, thinking they would last forever. But they have been nearly gobbled up in just under 30 years!

But no worries…..as the IETF are already prepared for the doomsday. A replacement system, called IPv6, had been devised as a solution more than a decade ago, providing enough addresses for billions upon billions of devices as well as improving Internet phone and video calls, and possibly even helping to end e-mail spam.

But still the problem doesn’t end with it. It was reported that the new system is not really compatible with the Internet of today. Taking the same example of Google, if it wants to support the new system IPv6, a whole new IPv6 web service will be needed to build, complete with new domain names, servers and bandwidth. The costs run into billions.

The OECD was quoted “immediate costs are associated with deployment of IPv6, whereas many benefits are long-term and depend on a critical mass adopting it”.

You can have a look at the countdown clock for the doomsday at penrose.uk6x.com.

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The Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) is going to provide free local calls whereas STD calls can be as cheap as 15 paisa per minute if and only if the government allows unrestricted domestic internet telephony.

ISPAI claims that the telephone bills will be drastically trimmed all because of the ubiquitous internet. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will decide on this matter within a couple of months.

The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) explained that the within the network of a particular ISP, local calls will be free and it will cost 10 paisa per minute for inter ISP network. The ISPAI also revealed that if one makes a call on a mobile or a fixed land line from an IP phone, the STD call rates can be offered at a mere 50 paisa per minute.

Moreover, ISD call rates can come down to 50 paisa per minute on the same IP network and 75 paisa on other IP networks. The ISPAI consists of members such as Net4, HCL, Sify, Tulip IT services among others.

Through the IP telephony, a call to foreign countries like America or Europe costs much cheaper at 95 paisa per minute.

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After every activity of our life is getting an electronic touch and life style getting tech savvy then why not smoking? Yes! The concept of e-smoking is helping people to avoid health hazards of smoking and to quit the bad habit.

An Indian company in Chennai has introduced e-smoking based on Nicotine replacement therapy. These electronic cigarettes were start marketing first time by the company on May 31, the ‘World No Tobacco Day’.

Sunil Praveen Kumar of SPK Company that has brought the product to India said: “These cigarettes are called electronic cigarettes or super cig. And, for the first time these have been introduced in Chennai. We are getting this from Hong Kong and this particular product is used to quit smoking using nicotine replacement therapy.”

These cigarettes have been recently introduced in China, Israel and European countries and now have now made a mark in Chennai.

Looking like a normal cigarette, the whiter part is actually the battery and the filter part is the cartridge which can be replaced. Diluted nicotine is kept in the gadget which the atomizing chamber converts into vapor to satisfy the smoker.

The best part is that puffing these cigarettes does not compromise on the stimulation aspect of smoking, as it lends the same stimulation sans carcinogenic elements. The vapor evaporates soon, causing no irritation to people near the smoker.

“Normally, a traditional cigarette has got around 4,000 chemicals among which 24 are cancer-causing chemicals. But in the e-ciggies, using nicotine replacement therapy we just give a diluted nicotine, water, glycol and tobacco perfume to give the smokers a real feel of smoking and this can be smoked anywhere indoor outdoor anywhere,“ told Praveen Kumar.

Legally, you can smoke this everywhere because smoking refers to possession of lit tobacco and in this device there is no tobacco and you need not light it. You can just put it in your mouth and inhale like a regular cigarette without the dangers of cancer causing chemicals,” he added.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labs have certified the cigarettes after testing for toxic content and by The European body called Restriction of Hazardous Substances (ROHS).

The product has already appealed the smokers, who even after being aware of the ill-effects of smoking find it difficult to kick the habit.

Specialists from the medical fraternity too have showed their faith on this product. Dr Benedict Aruldas, member, Indian Medical Association, Tamil Nadu chapter said, “Mainly people get addicted to smoking because of stress for office-goers, from school, from friends they learn how to smoke. So, using that patient can reduce himself from smoking level to non-smoking level by using this device.”

There are two varieties of e-cigarettes. The first meant for those keen to quit smoking is priced rupees 3,600 for a packet of 900 cigarettes, costing rupees Rs 4 per cigarette. The other one is priced rupees 2,000 for beginners for the same quantity, costing just over Rs 2 a piece.

It can be a good option for smokers and ultimately help to quit this bad habit.

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