Help protect your PC at home

Help protect your computer without losing your information—or your mindIn the mood for a scary story? Go to your favorite news website and search for the phrase "computer security." A quick scan of the headlines should raise your blood pressure: Risk. Scam. ID theft. Hacker. Attack. Predator. It doesn't take much imagination to picture a cartoon burglar lurking around every corner of the Internet, wearing the customary striped sweater and eye mask, and ready to scurry off with all of your personal information in a canvas sack. Even if you plan to use your computer only to play games, write a memoir, or store digital photos, a little security effort can go a long way.Account(ing) for each computer userWhen you...

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How to Make Facebook Text You

Facebook users without access to a mobile Facebook application or an advanced smartphone to check the Facebook site may want to sign up for Facebook's text notification system. Once you add your mobile phone to your Facebook account, you can make Facebook text you when someone sends you a message, posts on your wall, invites you to an event or comments on one of your wall posts Procedure 1.    Log in to Facebook. Click on the top "Account" link, then click on "Account Settings."2.    Click on "Mobile." Click on "Add a Phone." Type your password for verification.3.    Choose your country and phone service provider, and then click "Next."4.    Open your cell phone's messaging panel....

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What's New: Facebook users 'unfriending' in greater numbers to guard privacy

London, Feb 25 (ANI): People are managing their privacy settings and their online reputation more often now than they did two years earlier, a new report has revealed.According to the report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, whether it's pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks.or example, 44 percent of respondents said in 2011 that they deleted comments from their profile on a social networking site. Only 36 percent said the same thing in 2009, the Daily Mail reported.The findings come a day after the Obama administration called for stronger privacy protections for people who...

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Protect your mobile device

The need to secure something personal and important to us is a natural instinct. Yet that instinct doesn't naturally extend over to a device that’s increasingly becoming the center of our attention: the smartphone. A general lack of awareness and an attitude confined to the PC era is to blame.If you are the last one to leave your house, do you not bolt and lock the front door? Don’t you safeguard your laptop or desktop PC with an antivirus software? Why then do you leave your smartphone in the lurch?For a country with close to a billion telephone subscribers, of which a substantial chunk is attributed to mobile subscribers, without security software on our smartphones, we are all sitting ducks exposed to ruthless hunters...

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How to Use the Black YouTube Player in your Web Pages

The following page has two videos embedded from YouTube – the clips are identical but the skin of the YouTube player containing these videos is different in both cases.The first YouTube video player uses the default colors (metallic white) while the video player for the second video uses a dark theme – the frame itself is black while the video control bar is red in color. How to Change the Color of YouTube Video Player?If you use IFRAMEs to embed YouTube videos, you can easily change the color of the YouTube Video Player by adding a new parameter called theme to the URL.For the dark (black) player, set the theme value to dark else set it to light for using default colors with the YouTube Player.For Light (White) Player: <iframe...

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DO YOU KNOW: How Much Electricity Does Your Computer Use?

If you are curious to know the exact electricity cost of running your laptop or desktop computer all day long, here’s a quick guide.Step 1: You first need to calculate the total power (in kilowatt) that’s consumed by your monitor, CPU, graphic card and other components of the computer.Don’t worry – you don’t have to do these calculations manually. Joulemeter is a free software from Microsoft that can quickly estimate the power consumption of your computer based on the screen’s brightness, the microprocessor, etc.Step 2: Now find the retail cost of electricity (commonly known as price per unit or price per kWh) in your part of the world. You can know the electricity cost per unit either from your last month’s electricity...

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How to Create a Custom Facebook Page

You can have a custom Facebook landing page up and running within 5 minutes. Here’s how:Visit https://www.facebook.com/developers and click on “Set Up New App” in the top right corner.Give your app a name and agree to Facebook’s Terms of Service.On the next screen, give your app an official name (this is the one the public will see). The About and Website tabs are optional, however it’s recommended to create and upload a custom icon and logo.Click on Facebook Integration:-- Now here’s where most of us get hung up. Facebook is asking for a whole lotta URL’s and canvases, secure this, and iFrame whats? Fear not, there’s no need to bring in the development team. If you’re familiar with WordPress, you’re already half...

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Free Face Recognition Software for Automatic Log in to Windows 7

Login to Your PC by Simply Looking at It! Now days technology is changing very rapidly and every day something new discovered. Now Login to windows 7 through Face Recognition using a web-cam is one of the enhancements; a lot of us experimenting. Not only this save our typing but also is a more secure way if very much conscious about the security issue. If you are also using Windows 7 and do have a webcam attached to the pc then you can test this a very little and tiny application called Blink; which may enable you to  log in to windows just by looking into the webcam only for just a second and your account wil be logged? How this is made possible because of the free software BLINK by Luxand which employs the advanced face...

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How to Check the Health of your Hard Drive

Hard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs.Test Your Hard Drive for Impending ProblemsYou may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk. This should in turn help you decide whether a replacement drive is necessary or not.Step 1: Check your hard disk for errorsAll recent versions of Windows include a utility called Chkdsk.exe that can check your hard disk for any bad sectors.You may either run Chkdsk from the command line (see details) or launch Windows Explorer, right click the drive that you wish to examine and choose Properties. Switch to the Tools tab and click the “Check...

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