These days Cyber attacks have increased many folds. No one is safe on internet. Hackers, Cybererrorists or whatever you call them! Are growing and even doing the best to make malicious networks worldwide. Nowadays online threats have increased drastically. I remember, last time’s survey I read that it was found that Cyber attacks have nearly doubled in the last year. Each day user faces new viruses and Trojans in his Computic life. Each time while using Net-banking or accessing social accounts on networks such as Facebook, Twitter they get into a dilemma that whether they are safe or not. Even while purchasing stuff online they get worried about the credit card details as we fear some hacker might steal the information. Cyber attacks can be of various types such as stealing account information, credit card information, hacking computers, email accounts, etc. These attacks make us think that we are not really safe on
internet. So, is there a way to protect our self online?

Cyber Security

After listening about so many attacks, you might be thinking that only possible solution to it is that we should stop using our credit card online and should close all are accounts , but is running from these things a solution? No! If you are a daily reader of our blog, then may remember that CERT issued high alert for increasing Cyber Attacks in April. So, to help you, our Editor came up with an article “How safe a ‘link’ is?” in which he told how to check a link properly, then later on a guest came up with a post in which he gave Tips for Staying Safe when Buying Online. So, today after such a long time I managed to come online and was free enough so giving you tips to be safe on Internet! So here we go!

• Never give your full name, address, or phone number to person claiming you have won a lottery, don’t ever reply to such emails they are all fraud. You cannot win anything for free so use your brain and dont reply to such emails, they are just a part of online scam.
• Use genuine software, a Windows-cracked version of software are themselves a kind of virus so don’t use cracked software. Go for genuine, stop piracy!
• Install a good anti virus, firewall and anti-spyware so that your computer is protected from most common virus and Trojans. You can use All in one protection software which provide all these stuff. Example of such software is Kaspersky total protection or Bitdefender total protection. You can also download Site Advisor like small apps, which are free and would work well for sure in helping you to check-know if a link is safe to visit or not?
• Also keep your anti virus, other software and Windows updated as new viruses and threats are surfacing every day and these updates provide essential protection against these threats.
• Change your account password regularly, keep changing your password every month and so.
• Try not to use social services such as Facebook and Twitter and your email accounts in cybercafes, though most of you do this. So, if you even do never intentionally or by-mistake do ‘Remember me’ while providing password and after loging out/moving from cyber don’t forget to delete cookies and history from your browser (as hackers can even hack your account via cookie stealing)
• Most of the computers in cybercafe are infected with viruses and other malwares, so avoid using your accounts on those computers.
• Don’t enter your account details in front of anyone else they might see your password.
• Last, but not the least always use your brain before doing anything and try to remain
  updated about various new threats and malwares by reading online journals and magazines.

Just by following these simple rules and advices, you can remain safe on internet and do you what you want!

[Tips by Roger Rae, who managed the online marketing for Fortepromo Promotional products, a Minnesota-based promotional stress balls company, for over three years.]

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This summer seems to more boring than the month of March was, being honest I have nothing to these days not even holiday home work. I just keep on wasting my time on Internet by doing something or the other. I have made a list of  top three free Web applications that are pretty cool, different from other applications and I am sure they won’t let anyone to get bore too.

List of Applications

Me, and the Key

It’s not any place, but a nice game even better than PacMan, which has a lot of levels in it. The game is all based on a key. You will get many hurdles in the game and somehow to win you have to find the key and enter in to next level. The fast you will get the key the fast you will enter into next level. Try it!

Falling sand

It’s one of the best Web applications I have ever seen (yes you can call it a game). In this app sand of different colors flow down just like it’s raining and just like Microsoft Paint, we can easily draw anything on it and best thing is sand will continue to flow, which will give it a damn cool effect. Nice app for artists.

Virtual Girlfriend

Girls are good entertainer in many ways, best thing to not get bore is to make a girlfriend, but I’m sure if you had girlfriend you wouldn’t be here reading this. Yes it’s true that it’s hard for geeks to get girlfriend, but no tension I have come across a flash (.SWF) application is uploaded in which a girl and a search box is present. What you will type in the search box, the girl will be. Isn’t it cool?

I have also written a detailed article about it if you wish, you can check it here. Though I won’t recommend any one below 13 years should try it.

These are the three applications that are helping me out in not getting bore. If you know any cool Web application do share with us, I will love to add them to my list.

Which is better Google Search or Bing Search? Some people might say Google and some might Bing? But, which one is better actually you can’t tell exactly, but yes there are be some differences between them that a normal user couldn’t point out.

Mashable, worlds most popular socialized technology blog, whose search was earlier powered by Google Custom Search, is now powered by Bing. Don’t know why they moved from Google to Bing?

Mashable did not release any reports or information why it shifted their search engine from Google to Bing. Is it because it’s better than Google? Or there is any other reason

there is a possibility that Bing has offered some sort of deal to Mashable (sponsorship) to shift from Google to Bing or maybe Adsense earning wasn’t good enough from Google Custom Search.

Who knows? Still the answer of question, which is better can’t be found out.

Keep reading further regarding this hot debate. Until drop down what to you think that why did they move from Google to Bing (may we get the answer)?

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Google, an internet giant, which is nearly in every field related to Web, has finally taken control of AdMob; AdMob is a mobile advertising platform. The acquisition deals was announced by Google six months before only, but it was delayed because of Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But now FTC has approved the deal so there is no hurdle in Google’s path to utilise AdMob.

Google can easily utilize it against Apple to gain more popularity and market share as iPhone also released iAds, which is a direct competitor to Google and AdMob. Seems Google is all ready to beat them as it is planning to quickly appoint a new integration team and integrate AdMob technology to their advertising services like Adsense, AdWords to gain an upper edge in mobile advertising.

Just as Google dominates Web advertising through AdSense and AdWords it has similar plans to dominate mobile advertising in coming two-three years, it will be clear who will be the leader in mobile advertising Google or Apple?

 What do you think about it?

Last time I told you about what updates Twitter did last month? And also about the new Retweet page that they introduced (to only some fortunate users), which is very helpful, especially for all who are using Twitter for business. These days Twitter is up to something different.

They are testing three new features and this time in the search page. They have added three new features called ‘Save this search’, ‘Top Tweet’  and added a search box in sidebar too with up and down uptions.

Save this search

This feature is quite helpful for all who keeps on searching on Twitter for something or another as it gives them an option to save what they have searched and can view it again later on!

Top Tweet

This is not of any use as I think. It just counts the number of Retweets a tweet gets and if crosses 90 or 100 it becomes a top tweet.

Search box

I think yes! It was a needed feature that was missing from Twitter and did a good job by adding it.

What do you think about these features? Drop it down!

Fed up of online frauds, scams and sites containing viruses? Look NO further McAfee has launched its site advisor software. This soft gives a rating and display an icon next before the site’s link which tells about safety details of site or in the other meaning it lets us know that how secure a page (web-page) is.

A green icon means site is safe to visit whereas red icon means site is harmful or contains potentially harmful applications. This software protects you from online frauds, browser exploits and phishing attacks. McAfee released two versions of this great utility – one is freeware with limited features on the other hand other is paid one (paid one i.e Site Advisor Plus have much more features).

For normal users I will suggest you to definitely download a copy it as nowadays nothing is safe on Web even CERT issued high alert for increasing Cyberattacks. Download a free version as for a try, it will protect you from most of the common scams and attacks and also you would get to know that how does it work, so if you will find it useful, then buy the Plus edition.

After all safety is the best policy

so it’s a must have software for all Internet users …………..

Link: Download

Yeah! One of the giants telecom company Vodafone has launched a social application, but the bizarre thing about it is, it’s not only for Mobile phones, but also available for desktops!  This application released by Vodafone called ‘The update app’ is an application that allows the users to update their social profiles’ status right from desktop only.

What’s happening right now in Twitter or facebook?? What are your friends sharing/doing? With this application you can easily get all the details all in one application, even you don’t need to visit the sites again and again. It appears as if Vodafone has finally comprehended the overwhelming power of social networking these days.

Now no need for login in your Facebook,  Twitter or MySpace account, all your accounts can be accessed via your desktop only. All updates are available on your desktop only. You can update your status or post tweets using this awesome application and uploading photos to different networks was too never such easy.

Its greatest advantage is, it is fee to download and easy to install. Looks like an awesome app isn’t it?

So what are you waiting for? Go and check out the app at Vodafone!

Almost all of us have heard about Paypal, right? It is the online money transfer system. Paypal has 153 million accounts worldwide, it’s the biggest online money transfer system. It’s definitely the best  medium to send money online, but the thing which I hate most is logging in again and again to check all the transaction details.

Being a proffesional writer,  to check my balance that how much money did I get I have to login again and again on their website, which I, even many users too find time-consuming. So what’s the solution for this problem?

Putler ya you read it right Putler! While reading some articles on Paypal details I came to know about this small application. It is an Adobe air based application which shows your Paypal balance on your desktop, keep details of all your transactions and much more….. All you have to do is to download it from here.

After downloading it, just provide your Paypal details to the application (you might find it a bit difficult cause for that you need to provide your Paypal API credentials, but don’t worry there’s a tutorial to do so), don’t worry it is not a fraud application, then after successful configuration it will notify you whenever your balance changes.

This application certain advantages which are listed below:

• You don’t have to login on PayPal website to check balance and other details
• Auto update of balance no timeouts.

All you should have to use this wonderful application no matter whether you have Paypal business or premier account! , I suggest you to give a try to this great application for sure.

A new facebook scam has started on facebook. It’s a video spam named Candid Camera prank! [HQ] has been circulating. Actually this is not a video and it links to an application which will take you to download a file named vlcplayer.exe (a software to play VIDEO & MP3 files) and running this will post this message on your friends’ wall. So it will keep spreading as the users keep on clicking on the scam link.

Here’s the message it displays on Facebook wall: Name, This is without doubt the sexiest video ever!. The length is shown to be 3:17.

When you click on the link, you will be taken to http://apps.facebook.com/nadq_sdas/, then it will ask to continue and says that your video player is out of date. It then brings to another page to download a file. Don’t click these links when you see these types on posts on your wall on your Friends’ wall. Simply remove these posts from your walls.

I personally tried this so that I can know how it worked, thankfully while downloading the file my anti virus deleted that file because it contained a virus. So now I know it contains virus…So guys stop clicking on such scam links and don’t download such files though precaution is the best policy.

If you have already clicked on the application and allowed access to that application you can go to application settings under your facebook settings and can remove access of that application.

Do share your comments about this dangerous scam….

Credits: TechNnot

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple (not the fruit ) in year 1976. Apple recently introduced the iPad, a breakthrough Internet and digital media device just like their Mac, plus the iBookstore, alongside iTunes and the App Store. Steve also co-found and was CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which created some of most successful animated movies in the World.

Ever thought how much Steve gets paid per month? Huh ever? This morning while reading The Times of India, came through a list of lowest paid CEOs and Steve was one of them. So what’s his salary? One dollar! Yeah! Shocked? Even I was too, then I thought how can one make living from 1$ per month? So Googled it and found that it’s just a ploy.

Ploy? Yeah! It’s just a ploy to save taxes. If Steve used to get the normal salary that a CEO gets, then he would have to pay 35% of the salary as tax.

So how he earns?

He too lives a luxurious life just as other CEO do. Disney Pixar is his main source of income, being one of the boards of the directors he is owning 138 million shares and Disney pays $.35 per share. So you can imagine how much does he make.

This proves that smart work is always better than hard work! Isn’t it? ;-P

Also Check: Bill Gates Vs Steve Jobs: the Game!

Again a small, but good news for Facebook lovers. A man in Britain was united with his long-lost father after 37 years with the help of Facebook. Andy Spiers-Corbett, 39, who had lost contact with his father Graham Corbett when his parents separated, typed his father’s name in search box of Facebook and instantly picked out his photo from a long list of Graham Corbetts.

Seems even oldies are too addicted to Facebook.

Sometimes it become hard to visit some sites  or remain anonymous on the Internet. The usage of social networks and  blogs have become too much and nothing is now private. It’s OK to share what you like, but tell me if we continue doing like this, then what would be the difference between a virtual life and a real life? I am going to share with you the three top most IP hiding software.  These software are used to hide your IP from outside world thereby protecting your real identity up to a certain extent.

• Easy hide IP: It is really a good software to hide your IP address, it comes with many features such as location hiding, privacy protection etc. You can try this software for three days. Download it from here.
• Hide my IP: This software has many unique features such as auto IP changing, Anonymous Emails and much more. You can download it from here.
• Ultra Surf: I think it is too common software. This software has one advantage its user interface is simple, and all other features are similar to above software. You can download it from here.

In short all three perform same task of hiding IP, I tried all three of them and personally and feel Hide my IP is best software among these three in terms of cost, IP hiding and ease of usage. Have ever use any other software to hide your IP?

No doubt that Facebook is addictive social networking site, but yeah it also helps to get a great business and money; especially for bloggers. Though for an addicted user working at office it becomes hard to even open it and update his status because in most of the offices, social networks are blocked by firewalls and proxies even don’t work there. So you too are one of addicted facebook users working at office where it is blocked? Not able to surf it? Don’t worry! I have found a great plug-in for Microsoft Outlook (I think every office has its copy) using which you can easily access it, FBLook (Facebook + Outlook).

Now you can update your status message on facebook, can see your friends’ status & see the number of new requests without having to open Facebook in any of the browser or application. FbLook merges with your outlook and provide all above-mentioned things within outlook itself.

Features:

• Update your Facebook status directly from Outlook.
• Set your status to the name of the song you’re playing in itunes
• See your friend statuses.
• See notifications of new Friend Requests, Messages, Invites, Pokes, etc..

Configure [How]:

FB Look is supported by all windows versions with outlook 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2. It’s not supported by outlook express. Download it from here. After you have installed it, just open your Outlook add-ons click on login in Facebook option after that several messages will be displayed to guide you through the process. There are four steps, but they need to be followed only once.

It took me about four minutes to download and install it and I must say for people like me who use Outlook it is a great utility. Share your views about it.

Link: FB Look.

Being a Twitter user I was never happy with it, though I was a regular user, but I didn’t like it too much may be because of silly updates and tweaks in the site that Twitter used to without even announcing them on the official blog or might because of their slow and irresponsible sever, but these days I’m quite happy with them not because their server issues are very less as compared to the last month, but because they are improving. Seems April was a lucky month for Twitter, Twitter had done a lot of changes, even bought some companies too, which made me a great fan of them. Tonight I’m going to share with you what did Twitter do last month (evening going to share some more updates that only a few of readers know.)

Friday, April 09, 2010

This day Twitter acquired the most used Twitter iPhone application by Loren Brichter – Tweetie, which was later on renamed to Twitter for iPhone and made available for free (previously it was available at  a cost of 2.99$ at iTunes store.)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

At this day @anywhere feature of Twitter was made live for all its users, using which they could easily engage with existing Twitter features from all of their favorite sites.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

I’m sure most of Twitter mobile users won’t forget this day as this day Twitter acquired Cloud Hopper, messaging infrastructure company that enables Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks. Twitter welcomed both Joe and Kristin of Cloudhopper to their Mobile team.

Friday, April 30, 2010

After signing a deal with Loren Brichter and Cloudhopper, Twitter moved their hands on Android phones too. This day Twitter launched it’s first ever application for Google Andriod phones powered by 2.1 or above version of the Operating System.

These were the changes that Twitter did (officially did) in the month of April, but I have also noticed some more changes which were not announced on official blog (may be they are testing them), which I would like share too.

ReTweet Page

Remember Twitter added retweet feature using which one can easily retweet someone’s shared thing? Now they have added something similar to that – A RT page! This page has three tabs available and they are:

1. Retweets By Others: This tab covers the status shared and Retweeted of the famous celebreties (as you can also see in the picture).
2. Retweets By You: This one covers the Tweets, which has been Retweeted by you.
3. Your Tweets, Retweeted!: This page will show you the status of your profile which has been Retweeted by others with their profile link and image too.

The changes that Twitter made especially in their servers are really appreciable (appreciate it!) and all these changes made me a great fan of it. Now I don’t have anything bad to say about them. Just two words – ‘Keep Rocking’. You too can say something if you want, just drop it down!

Are you a Facebook user who is too addicted to it? Want to start a blog, but don’t have time to manage it? If yes, then today what I am going to share with you would definitely help you out! Facebook’s designer Rob Goodlatte with his team of geeks has came up with a new platform for Facebook addicts cum wanna be bloggers – Facebook Me. Using this tool one can easily transform his profile into a mini-blog.

How to start?

• Visit Facebook Me’s homepage.
• Connect to it by logging in with your FB credentials. 
• That’s it! You have a blog now!

Just like other blog platforms it too have awesome themes (just three now. They’ll add new soon), but the thing which did not like is – Blog URL. A facebooker turnerned blogger won’t get any link for his blog. Overall it is a great way for Facebook users to start a mini-blog without wastage of time and spending a single penny!