Sunday, May 4, 2014

Type in your own language now at ease!

Introduction:

With Google Input Tools application now it is very easy to type in different languages which you know.

This application is available for chrome browser as an extension and for windows as an application. In this you can try it out live as well using the online version of it without installing anything in your system and we can use this on among all the Google Services like gmail, google search, blogger etc..,

Features:

Offline Support

  • No internet connection is required.

Word Completions

  • Dictionary-based word completions for prefixes.

Personalized Choices

  • Remembers user corrections along with macro and canonical support.

Easy Keyboard

  • Dictionary-enabled keyboard to enter rare and complex words.

Quick Search

  • Single-click web search for highlighted words.

Cool Customizations

  • Customize candidate window size, display fonts and more.

Usage:

We can type any language which we know with ease using this application in various software applications like MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemaker etc.., 

We can use this application in facebook too for chatting and for updating status.

One great thing about this application is that it is available for free and more over it works offline too. That means this application doesn't require active internet connection. So, we can use this anywhere at any time. Cloud Input Tools makes it easy to type in the language you want, when you want. It covers over 90 languages.

So, there is no need of Anu Script Manager, Lekhini etc., for typing languages like telugu, hindi etc..,

Conclusion:

Now am giving you the links to download it for free, install it in your system and share your views with us in the comments section below....

Versions: Windows    Chrome

Monday, April 28, 2014

Ad-free browsing

Have you ever got frustrated with the ads that interrupt you while browsing your favorite websites. Its a bit annoying isn't it?

There is a cool ad blocker extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and even for your Android mobile phone or tablet, thanks to the contributers of Adblock.org

It can block other things, like tracking, as well. With more than 50 million users, it is the world's most popular browser extension. Adblock Plus is an open source project created by Wladimir Palant in 2006. Eyeo was founded in 2011 by Wladimir Palant and Till Faida to make its development sustainable.



Adblock Plus itself has no functionality, in the sense that it does not block anything until it is "told" what to do by its filter lists. These filter lists are essentially an extensive set of rules, which tell Adblock Plus which elements of websites to block. Besides blocking advertisements, filter lists can also be used to block tracking and malware.
Out of the box, two filter lists are enabled:
  • An ad-blocking list selected based on your language
  • The Acceptable Ads exception list
You are free to disable these lists, add others or create your own.

Now, you can surf the web with flying colors and without annoying ads even on your facebook wall :) ;)

Share your thoughts in the comments section as sharing is caring.



Monday, April 21, 2014

Heartbleed bug!


Introduction:

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs). CVE-2014-0160 is the official reference to this bug. CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is the Standard for Information Security Vulnerability Names maintained by MITRE. Due to co-incident discovery a duplicate CVE, CVE-2014-0346, which was assigned to us, should not be used, since others independently went public with the CVE-2014-0160 identifier.

The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.

Appearance:

The Heartbeat Extension for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocols is a proposed standard specified by RFC 652, published in February 2012. It provides a way to test and keep alive secure communication links without the need to renegotiate the connection each time.

In 2011, Robin Siegelmann, then a Ph.D. student at the University of Duisburg-Essen, implemented the Heartbeat Extension for OpenSSL. Following Siegelman's request to put the result of his work into OpenSSL, his change was reviewed by Stephen N. Henson, one of OpenSSL's four core developers. Henson apparently failed to notice a bug in Siegelman's implementation, and introduced the flawed code into OpenSSL's source code repository on December 31, 2011. The vulnerable code was adopted into widespread use with the release of OpenSSL version 1.0.1 on March 14, 2012. Heartbeat support was enabled by default, causing affected versions to be vulnerable by default.

Resolution:

On March 21, 2014 Bodo Moeller and Adam Langley of Google wrote a patch that fixed the bug. The date of the patch is known from Red Hat's issue tracker. The next chronological date available from the public evidence is the claim by performance and security company CloudFlare that they fixed the flaw on their systems on March 31, 2014.

There are some applications for your browsers to check whether the website is vulnerable or not. Here am recommending some of those applications.
  • Chromebleed (for google chrome browser)
  • Heartbleed-Ext 3.0 (for firefox browser)
For android devices:
  • Bluebox Heartbleed Scanner (for android devices)
Hope, you enjoyed this post and in future am coming with more interesting stories in the mean time you can share your thoughts in our comments section.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Windows

Are you a movie lover? and you have so many movies which are on DVD and you don't know how to store them on to your  hard drive without losing Quality and you don't know how to backup them to your hard drive to another formats like mp4, flv,avi etc..,

Then MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Windows will be the answer for all those above queries! It  is an innovative DVD ripping tool to backup your DVD preserving the quality into different video formats. It supports various video formats as outputs such as FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, MPEG and it has a great abilty to rip DVD's directly to your iPhone, Android, PSP, iPad etc., with stunning speed.mac-drp-winOne of the greatest and best feature of  MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Windows is that it gives you full access to protected DVD movies by getting rid of the copy protections. It strips CSS encryption, Sony ARccOS encryption, RCE Region protection, Disney X-project DRM, etc. It prompts DVD conversion speed upto 5X faster in conversion time.


The user guide of the software is provided directly from the Official Website of Macxdvd.

These software are developed by Digiarty Macintosh Software Group, a division of Digiarty Software Company, owns a professional multimedia software development team, providing a range of products for Macintosh Computer users, including comprehensive video and DVD conversion software, series of application for Apple devices iPhone, iPad, iPod and etc.

Digiarty Software Company has high ratings from well known software review editors like CNet, MacWorld. The company developed products for Macintosh OS and as well as Windows. For further information regarding Digiarty Software Company check these links Macxdvd and Winxdvd.

The Pro version of this brilliant software costs around $39.95 and now as a promotion we are giving this software as a GIVEAWAY for about 5 licenses directly from the website and that too for a limited time period. Link has been provided below  for this Giveaway licenses.

If you need further more information regarding functions of the software wait until our next post.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How to Make a Simple Movie/Video in Windows Movie Maker

If you're a PC person, Windows Movie Maker is a sweet program for it's easy to learn and when you get the hang of it you can put together slideshows, music videos, documentaries, or any other kind of multimedia project that you want. This article will provide a simple step-by-step for adding and editing video files, music, special effects, subtitles, credits, titles, and transitions, as well as saving the final product to your computer or a DVD or CD.

Open Windows Movie Maker from "All Programs" on the Start menu, or click the Windows Movie Maker Icon on your desktop.

Open Windows Movie Maker from "All Programs" on the Start menu, or click the Windows Movie Maker Icon on your desktop.

Click on the "Tasks" button on the top to open the "Movie Tasks" bar on the left.

Make sure the program is in timeline mode. You should see a place below for Video, Audio/Music, and Title Overlay. If you see a horizontal line of boxes, press Ctrl+T

The bottom section of the screen should look like this.

Under the "Capture Video" category, click "Import video" to start uploading video files to Windows Movie Maker.

Browse for and select the files that you want to include in your video.

Browse for and select the files that you want to include in your video.

Drag the first video you want into the "Video" area of the timeline at the bottom of the screen.

To cut a video file into two pieces, play the video file and pause it at the place you want to cut it. Then, click the "Split" button below the video playing area, or press Ctrl+L. You can do this either in the timeline or in the "Collections" area.

To cut a video file, click this button (outlined in red).

To upload picture files, such as for a slideshow, click "Import pictures" and follow the same procedure. To reduce or increase the length of time a picture plays, drag the ends of the picture file in the timeline.

To add a music or other sound file, click "Import audio or music". Drag it to the "Audio/Music" area of the timeline.

Music or other audio goes here.

To add an effect to a picture or video file, such as grayscale, film age, fade in, speed up, etc., right click the file in the timeline and click "Add Video Effect". You can also click "View Video Effects" in the sidebar under "Edit Movie" and drag an effect onto the desired file in the timeline.

To add an effect to a picture or video file, such as grayscale, film age, fade in, speed up, etc..,

See the left sidebar for additional options, like adding transitions and credits.

And this is how you make a simple movie/video using Windows Movie Maker and here are some tips for you :

  • WMM is pretty self-explanatory. If you want to add subtitles, titles or credits, click "Make titles or credits" in the left sidebar. If you want to add a transition, click "View video transitions". There are many different aspects of Windows Movie Maker, but these are just the basics. After you get these down, it's easy to figure out how to do other things with the program.

  • After finishing your video, you can save it as a video file with one of the options under "3. Finish Movie". This way you can watch your video without the WMM program.

  • If you're not sure how to do something, press F1 or click Help>Help Topics up on the toolbar. You can search by topic for how to do something like adding credits.

And for further more understanding watch this simple video tutorial here:



Monday, March 11, 2013

How to Choose a Free Web Host

What are some of the things you should look for when choosing a web host?  The criteria for choosing a free web host and a commercial web hosting solution are slightly different although they do overlap.

Choosing a Free Web Host


1. Advertising :


Most free web hosts impose advertising on your website. This is done to cover the costs of providing your site the free web space and associated services. Some hosts require you to place a banner on your pages, others display a window that pops up every time a page on your site loads, while still others impose an advertising frame on your site. There is really no hard and fast rule which is to be preferred: some people hate a pop-up window, other webmasters dislike having to stuff banner codes onto their pages, and many people cannot stand an advertising frame (which may cause problems when you submit your website to search engines). Whichever method is used, check that you're comfortable with the method.

2. Amount of web space :


Does it have enough space for your needs? If you envisage that you will expand your site eventually, you might want to anticipate future expansion. Most sites use less than 5MB of web space. Indeed, at one time, one of my other web sites, thefreecountry.com, used less than 5MB of space although it had about 150 pages on the site. Your needs will vary, depending on how many pictures your pages use, whether you need sound files, video clips, etc.

3. FTP access :


FTP is the most common method used by people to transfer their web pages and other files from their computer to their web host's computer, so that it can be viewed by anyone in the world.

Some free hosting providers only allow you to design your page with their online site builder. While this is useful for beginners, do you have the option to expand later when you become experienced and their online page builder does not have the facility you need? Online site builders also have significant disadvantages.

FTP access, or at the very least, the ability to upload your pages by email or browser, is needed. Personally, I feel FTP access is mandatory, except for the most trivial site.

4. File type and size limitations :


Watch out for these. Some free hosts impose a maximum size on each of the files you upload (including one with a low of 200KB). Other sites restrict the file types you can upload to HTML and GIF/JPG files. If your needs are different, eg, if you want to distribute your own programs on your pages, you will have to look elsewhere.

5. Reliability and speed of access :


This is extremely important. A site that is frequently down will lose a lot of visitors. If someone finds your site on the search engine, and he tries to access it but find that it is down, he'll simply go down the list to find another site. Slow access is also very frustrating for visitors (and for you too, when you upload your site). How do you know if a host is reliable or fast? If you can't get feedback from anyone, one way is to try it out yourself over a period of time, both during peak as well as off-peak hours. After all, it is free, so you can always experiment with it.

6. PHP and/or Perl :


It's quite possible for a website to work even without PHP or Perl access. For example, you can always use one of the many free script hosting services available that provide counters, search engines, forms, polls, mailing lists, etc, without requiring you to dabble with Perl or PHP scripts.However if you really want to do it yourself, with the minimum of advertising banners from these free providers, you will need either PHP or Perl access. Note that it is not enough to know they provide PHP or Perl access: you need to know the kind of environment your scripts run under: is it so restrictive that they are of no earthly use? For PHP scripts, does your web host allow you to use the mail() function, which allows your scripts to send email? For Perl scripts, do you have access to sendmail (a computer program) or its workalike?

7. Bandwidth allotment :


Nowadays, many free web hosts impose a limit on the amount of traffic your website can use per day and per month. This means that if the pages (and graphic images) on your site is loaded by visitors beyond a certain number of times per day (or per month), the web host will disable your web site (or perhaps send you a bill). It is difficult to recommend a specific minimum amount of bandwidth, since it depends on how you design your site, your target audience, and the number of visitors you're able to attract to your site. In general, 100MB traffic per month is too little for anything other than your personal home page and 1-3GB traffic per month is usually adequate for a simple site just starting out. Your mileage, however, will vary.

Not satisfied with the free web hosting service and you want a magical paid web hosting then wait until my next post choosing a "Commercial Web Hosting Service".

How to Build a Professional Looking Website For Free

This is how to build a web-site that you will love and won't have to pay for.

Prepare your website plan. Before setting up an account for a free site, decide what the focus of your site will be. Collect Information, pictures, and write some of the text ahead of time to familiarize yourself with your idea and get comfortable with the process. Decide if you will use artwork or photos on your site. Make sure your photos/artwork/music is royalty/copyright free.

Use Google or some other search engine and look for web sites offering free web sites and compare some of your choices. Remember that when using a free services, your website will be supported by advertising to allow you to get in for free.

  • Keep in mind if someday you might want to bump your freebie site up into a higher level and look for those sites that offer that feature.

  • Some sites also offer tools to help the technically challenged in creating their sites. Certain sites also offer levels to get you started off immediately and let you come back later to upgrade and update later as your tech skills grow.

Choose your web-site offering free service. Set your password and username and WRITE THEM DOWN. You would not believe how many people actually forget within an hour of setting their accounts up.

Use Google or another search engine to find images/sounds/graphics that relate to your site - don't forget to get permission give link backs crediting original artwork or material that you are allowed to use.(Link backs are small hyperlink graphics or text words with the original creative site's web address that your visitors can click on to see the original creator's site).

Find a free WYSIWYG editor. This stands for What You See Is What You Get and is an excellent way to be introduced to the world of building and creating websites.

Consider using website templates. Utilizing website templates allows you to quickly use a pre-made design which you can choose and replace the text with your own to produce a great looking website. Be sure to look for a simple design layout as more sophisticated templates may be difficult to edit until you’re more skilled. Template galleries can be found at css4free.com and oswd.org.

Here is a featured video for better understanding creating a website :)

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If you need some more help regarding choosing a free host for your website read this "How to choose a free web hosting"