Friday, June 17, 2011

Dangerous clicks

Today due to technological advances everywhere in posts, in blogs, in social networking sites, in emails in video etc. you can find links. These links are very small and attract you to click on them. And all starts with this clicks, after clicking on these links, you start getting troubles like lost of your username and password, your important files, or working in computer. And all these happens due to simple clicking on a link. Here are certain ways you can protect yourself from these links-

  • Hiding behind short URL                                                                                                                One of the most frequent ways that criminals use to spread malware is by using shortened URls  (like bit.ly/abcde) whose random character conceal the actual domain. If you get such URl than don't open them.you can secure yourself with Firefox extension long 'URL please' which automatically display the original address as soon as you hover with the mouse over a short URL. If you use a browser which do not offer a similar ad-on than you can use online service longurl.org.
  • Checking password                                                                                                                       Browser let you simplify your life by saving passwords for your frequently visited sites. So you don't have remember them. This make things easier but less save. Trojans like Zeus and its many variants are specifically tuned to detect save password in your browser. You should delete these passwords from your browser.You should install a third party application keepass (www.keepass.info) if you still need a password manager.
  • Junk Add-ons When Installing Software                                                                                          In many cases, a single click confirming you want to install some new software leads to a series of problems. Unsaved documents can be lost if other programs are left open while installing new software. New shortcuts pop up everywhere, including your desktop, and junk software starts running automatically. New toolbar clutter up your browser, your home page changes, and several settings are modified without your consent. You should use the automatic save function to protect open documents. In Office 2010, you will find the settings under ‘File | Options | Save’, and in Office 2003, under “Tools | Options | Save’. Select a value of two minutes and select the checkbox for ‘Save autorecover information’.If a program starts itself or any component automatically after being installed, you get rid of it with CCleaner (www.piriform.com/ccleaner) using “Tools | Autorun”.
  • Create back up with linked in tools                                                                                                 Click ‘Control Panel | System and Security | Backup and Restore’ and select the option ‘Create a system image’ in the sidebar. You must choose a specific target in the next window, for example an external hard disk. Subsequently, you can burn a Windows backup CD automatically. Windows also offers the necessary tools if you want to save your personal data regularly: Click ‘Backup and restore’ in the Control Panel and follow the on-screen assistant.
  • Test link for viruses                                                                                                                                                                   A good antivirus program is mandatory on every PC. Keep your system even more healthy with the Firefox extension Dr Web Antivirus Link Checker’. This add-on works completely in cloud, so it won’t consume any additional resources on your PC. After the installation, a new option appears when you right-click any download. You can have any link analyzed by the Dr Web database, and a pop up window will then tell you whether the file is safe for downloading or not.



Networking Capital-Social Media

Across the world, social media chatter is now taken far more seriously and the platform as a must have tool in the marketing arsenal of companies big and small. From Bharti Airtel, Pepsico and IBM to little known quaintly-named starts ups like Moving Trumpet, 99labels.com and Hopsim, business world can't work without social media.
Companies see social strategy as a vital prong of its digital media strategy that include Google Ads, advertising across internet and search engine optimization.
Today social media has emerged as a big source of money making and relationship making sites. Today everyone wants to connect with Face book, twitter, LinkedIn, Orkut to spread their business along with their relations. But social media possess some advantage and disadvantage. 
Advantage of Social media
  • Democratization of media
  • Helpful in making vast relationship and conversation with people.
  • Helpful in increasing creativity from social friend and developing a new mix culture.
  • Increases transparency in the system.
Criticism of social media
  • Lots of great contents still gets overlooked. Current lack of good filters creates problem in finding best content.
  • Anonymity can endanger polarization and hate.
  • Work/life balance is hard to achieve


    Wednesday, June 15, 2011

    Revolution in Indian taste of music

    Music industries is becoming bigger and bigger day by day. Internet has increased its speed of spreading. You can find any songs of any singer of any time just you have to go on internet and it is just click away from you.
    In India Hindi songs has shown their dominance over other songs, regional songs have their presence but they are lacking in national presence and Hindi songs are beating them due to their national presence. They are famous to all type of people and all age group due this they have their leadership.
    But a new group in Indian population is moving to new kind of songs and these are western songs.
    Students and teenagers have a great craze of these songs.
    these teens does not want old type classical songs they want rocking hip hop pop songs
    and they have changed their taste of songs.
    over many decades Hindi songs are the sole leader in India. As they hold the Indian market due to many reasons like Hindi is national language and spoken by highest number of people in India. regional language have their limited presence. India gave birth to Lata Mangeskar, Mukesh , A.R Rehman etc and they know everything about songs and their audience but an new change had come to Indian Hindi songs industries.
    A part of Indian population is moving towards western songs they want change in their taste.
    These guys have changed their lifestyle. Their lifestyle resembles westernization and their hobby selection has changed.
    And this has become a threat for Indian music industries as one of their prominent customer bases are moving in other direction and Indian singers have changed their strategy also. Now you can see western style in many Indian songs and Indian entrepreneurs have also identified these opportunities and they have started to serve these customer market. They have started new store, songs, web portal etc

    ways to make your computer faster


    Following are some ways by which you can make your computer work faster-
    • Defragment  your computer hard disks
    • clean up your hard drive space being taken up by temp file, recycle bin and more Clean your registry by removing broken shortcuts, missing shared DLLs, invalid paths, invalid installer references and more. 
    • remove unwanted pre-installed programs. 
    • delete your internet browsing histories,temp. internet files cookies to free your hard disk space. 
    • clean prefetch folder to improve performance. 
    • disable XP boot logo to speed up Windows boot time speed up boot time by disabling unused ports on your windows machine  
    • If your XP or Vista computer is not using NTFS, make sure you convert your FAT disk to NTFS file system 
    • update all your drivers 
    • use a good registered antivirus and anti spyware software 
    • Replace a slow hard drive with a faster 7200 RPM drive, SATA drive, or SAS drive. 
    • Remove extra toolbars from your Windows taskbar and from your Internet browser. 
    • if you are not using some of the hardware on your computer, i.e. floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, USB ports, IR ports, Firewire, etc, then go into your BIOS and disable them so that they do not use any power and do not have to be loaded during boot up. 

    how to Increase your internet speed?


    There are many reasons due to which internet speed suffers.Most of them are due to background activities and some are due to your internet connection. Here are certain ways by which you can increase your intenet speed.
    delete temp files
    •  delete recent files 
    • delete intenet histories and cookies
    •  use a good speed optimizer like DAP,IDM, internet cyclone etc.
    •  uninstall unused software that are using your internet connection 

    Log on your computer in administrative accounts
    • start> run> type gpedit.msc 
    • expand local computer policy
    •  expand administrative templates
    •  expand network branch
    •  highlight the QOS scheduler
    •  double click limit reservable setting 
    • check the enabled item
    •  change bandwidth% to read 0 "Zero"

    How to increase your browsing speed?


    Here are certain ways by which you can increase your browsing speed in-spite of having a slow internet connection.
    • if you are sending multiple file than compressed these files using a compression utility.Compressed files decrease time dramatically, needed to send files online. Compressed files also takes less space in your email inbox. 
    • if you are sending an email to multiple people than make a contact group and send the email through contact group. It take less time in sending mails through contact group than sending mail one by one.
    •  turn of graphics in Windows internet explorer as they take time in loading.
    •  reduce email size with email signature as it leaves a professional stamps on your messages but elaborates signature that includes images take a lot of space in your message thus reducing your sending speed.
    •  work offline using cached exchange mode as if you lose your internet connection than also you can continue your work as outlook store a copy of your mailbox and this copy provides a quick access to your mail and frequently updated by server.
    •  browse offline by saving webpage on your computer this will help you to read even if you lose your connection. 

    How to increase blog traffic?


    Millions of blogs are created in this blogosphere daily.It become very difficult to attract a huge traffic to your blog.Following are some of the ways by which you can increase traffic on your blog.Update your blog daily.
    •  Blog's contents should be such that it create interest in your reader.
    •  Submit your blog to search engine like Google,yahoo etc. by submitting your blog URL.
    •  By adding links to sites you likeAutoblogging Profits,Build your autmated income network in your blogroll, the owners of  those blog will find your blog and will likely add your blog link.
    •  Make frequent comment on other's blog  and leave your link on their blog which indicate that you have interest in their blog and they may likely to come on your blog.
    •  Use links and trackbacks to increase traffic.Links  are very powerful part of your blog. they not only noticed by the search engine but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other blogger who can easily identify who id linking to their blog.
    •  Submit your blog to book-marketing sites.