I have created a tutorial at tech-recipes.com that tells you all about how to create a cool MSN display name/nick name! If you are interested go take a look at it.
Friday, 11 November 2005
Thursday, 10 November 2005
Usually many people who discover Powerpoint (the software that is usually used for presentations in the 1980's) are really impressed with what they can create. Powerpoint sure does have a lot of power from a persentation makers point of View but the people who go through the presentation don't think so. I've uncovered this article that tells you all about how much people can hate Powerpoint presentations if they are overdone. Andrew Wahl tells us all about it! I suspect he also did see a boring Powerpoint presentation before he wrote this article!
Just put together a good presentation with nothing fancy, is the key. Apparently the most effective thing in a presentation is "you!". Your voice and the way you go about the presentation is more important than the presentation slides!
That reminds me... when I went to see this
Just put together a good presentation with nothing fancy, is the key. Apparently the most effective thing in a presentation is "you!". Your voice and the way you go about the presentation is more important than the presentation slides!
I too think that the most important thing to do with PP is that to express your point. Other wise it will be "PowerPointLess"!
Here is another article that talks about the power of the New PowerPoint XP which is part of the new Office XP suite.
Powerpoint has many features that are unexplored or just aren't considered professional enough when creating presentations. That's why the key to making professional presentations is "Keep it simple"! ...
Another article by Ian Grayson from The Australian tell us how to utilize the power that is hidden away in power point.
Here are some of his tips
Wednesday, 9 November 2005
When I was surfing around the new I just found another cool resource which is called Tech-Recepies. This place has all cool tutorials and tweaks and all that stuff no matter what system you have you can find it all here! I too have made some posts there because I thought I could pitch in and make this site more bigger and better.
Anyways, don't take my word for it just go check it out yourself if you wish! the address is http://www.tech-recipes.com
Enjoy!
Anyways, don't take my word for it just go check it out yourself if you wish! the address is http://www.tech-recipes.com
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Most of us are new to the blogging world (and yes there is a thing called blogosphere which consists of blogs). Starting out can be hard and it takes a lot of time to come up with cool posts (even though you know that no body is going to read it). But it doesn't have to be that way. When I was browsing around the new I found this blog by Rajesh Setty that had some cool tips on how to get started and how you can get more people to come to your blog and all that stuff. Take a look at it yourself! Go to Rajesh Setty's site!
Give me some more time and I'll come up with my very own list of things that you can do ... but until then I guess this one will have to do!
Thursday, 3 November 2005
Yes, Mailnation Solutions is giving away 1083984MB or so of storage without any adds for free (and no I do not work for mailnation).
This was created in order to make people swhitch over from google, yahoo and hotmail. But I guess this is basically just there so that you can buy their 19.99 USD service.
Well good if you want so store some files on the internet but otherwise I guess Gmail and Yahoo and Hotmail are better.
Sometimes I wonder if it is really worth it having such e-mail addresses because the domain name just doesn't click. What's the point of getting a e-mail address that is something like me@mailnation.net or others that are just as crappy as this one. Plus this company isn't a reputable company either. It's just beginning to make a name for iteslf.
But if you wan't to store some files as drafts so that you can access it from anywhere I would even blink before I sign up for my account. If you get more gigabites then anywhere else(well I'm not sure if you can get more) then it could be worth it.
If you wan't to try it out for yourself then go to www.mailnation.net. Then after you do that just come back here and leave a comment about how it was!
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Well good if you want so store some files on the internet but otherwise I guess Gmail and Yahoo and Hotmail are better.
Sometimes I wonder if it is really worth it having such e-mail addresses because the domain name just doesn't click. What's the point of getting a e-mail address that is something like me@mailnation.net or others that are just as crappy as this one. Plus this company isn't a reputable company either. It's just beginning to make a name for iteslf.
But if you wan't to store some files as drafts so that you can access it from anywhere I would even blink before I sign up for my account. If you get more gigabites then anywhere else(well I'm not sure if you can get more) then it could be worth it.
If you wan't to try it out for yourself then go to www.mailnation.net. Then after you do that just come back here and leave a comment about how it was!
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Today I just realized that IE now has the tabbed browsing power. It feels good to realize that now even IE 6.0 can have tabbed browsing if you enable the new MSN Search Toolbar. You can download the latest version at their site http://toolbar.msn.com/.
But it is sad to know that Microsoft was slow in adding tabbed browsing to Internet Explorer and never thought of it before the others did. The other thing that bugs me is that when you right click in IE you find that there is no "Open in new tab" option there's just a "Open in new background tab" and "Open in new foreground tab" somewhere at the bottom. So using the tab option is harder. Although you can set the settings to
Somehow I don't seem to like IE though because of one main reason, it's speed. IE has a really slow speed especially the slower versions. No matter how fast internet you have even with high speed IE takes a long time. Where as in firefox, your pages load way faster and I guess you can really know that if you have like slow internet or something as I'm not sure. So untill they make Internet Explorer better and faster and easier (I wonder when that's going to happen) to use I'm not going to switch over from Firefox!
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Somehow I don't seem to like IE though because of one main reason, it's speed. IE has a really slow speed especially the slower versions. No matter how fast internet you have even with high speed IE takes a long time. Where as in firefox, your pages load way faster and I guess you can really know that if you have like slow internet or something as I'm not sure. So untill they make Internet Explorer better and faster and easier (I wonder when that's going to happen) to use I'm not going to switch over from Firefox!
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Tuesday, 1 November 2005
Passowords and pin numbers have become a big part of our lives now. Our passwords are as significant as our signatures except that you can never know who typed in the password. Keeping it safely can be a daunting task and that's why I've come up with these tips to help you out.
To know how we can keep our passwords safe first we need to know how hackers work.
Hackers seem to use 2 main kinds of attacks(techniques) with which they can figure out our passwords.
The first one is called the "dictionary attack" this simply means that the person uses a program that tries everyword in the dictionary until it can log in. So if your password is some word in the dictionary the hacker is going to say "bingo! I've got the change to log into their account!"
The other kind of attack is called 'brute force attack". This means that the culprit uses a program that tries out every single combination until it finds a match. for example it is going to try every single aplhanumeric character. Then try combination of one alpha numeric letter plus another. Like aa then ab then ac then ad and so on (you get the idea right!).
change passwords. simple password changing tips, ctrl+ alt+del. then change the password. but if it is a website then go to your account area where you can usually find links to change your password/account information.
Just like that some ingenious evil master minds came up with this idea:
Use a card reader when you swipe you card so that they know the card info. Then when you type in your pin(like in the debit cards and all that) they record that using video cameras. And voila instant access to your stuff!
A few days ago the police also busted a few people who were making credit cards and this goes to show that how techniques can be used to cause "identity theft"
Quick tips for safe passwords and drive away "to be identity thieves"
To know how we can keep our passwords safe first we need to know how hackers work.
Hackers seem to use 2 main kinds of attacks(techniques) with which they can figure out our passwords.
The first one is called the "dictionary attack" this simply means that the person uses a program that tries everyword in the dictionary until it can log in. So if your password is some word in the dictionary the hacker is going to say "bingo! I've got the change to log into their account!"
The other kind of attack is called 'brute force attack". This means that the culprit uses a program that tries out every single combination until it finds a match. for example it is going to try every single aplhanumeric character. Then try combination of one alpha numeric letter plus another. Like aa then ab then ac then ad and so on (you get the idea right!).
change passwords. simple password changing tips, ctrl+ alt+del. then change the password. but if it is a website then go to your account area where you can usually find links to change your password/account information.
Just like that some ingenious evil master minds came up with this idea:
Use a card reader when you swipe you card so that they know the card info. Then when you type in your pin(like in the debit cards and all that) they record that using video cameras. And voila instant access to your stuff!
A few days ago the police also busted a few people who were making credit cards and this goes to show that how techniques can be used to cause "identity theft"
Quick tips for safe passwords and drive away "to be identity thieves"
- Never use a dictionary word!
- Try to make it eight cahracters or so
- Make sure the passwod is alpha-numeric
- Never use the same password in different palces. Unless you consider that the account might not be important that way you can use the same password for low priority accounts(this way you can log into every account if you have lots of them).
- Always make sure no camera or person is watching you while you put in your credit card/atm pin number
- Also try to minimize online shopping this way the chances of phishing (phishing means that the hackers make a site that looks exactly like the original one but it isn't so if you put in your password and username and credit card no. the info goes directly to them. then using that info they hack into your real account and ... you get the idea)/hacking are more less
- Never trust anybody even if you know them(because you never know if somebody is forcing them to do something)
- Make sure that you change your passowrd every now and then so that people can't log into your account unless
- Finally make sure that you check your bills, and log into accounts once every week or so because if somebody has hacked in or witdhdrawn any money you are going to know!
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