What Do You Know?

Google has started a new site called Knol that allows you to share your vast wealth of personal

information with the world. Everyone knows something that no one else knows. Think about it, I'm sure you can come up with something. Voice your opinion on something, or tell the world about something you witnessed. Then you can share it on Knol.

Everyone knows something. See what people are writing about, then tell the world what you know: knol.google.com

"The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in people's heads" ~Cedric Dupont, Product Manager and Michael McNally, Software Engineer

Then you can browse around Knol and find other articles that interest you. Make modification suggestions to the author of the article, they can then choose to use your suggestions or not. Write reviews on other people's articles.

If you choose to use ads in your Knol articles, you stand the chance of earning a little extra money. You can even add cartoons to your articles from New Yorker magazine.

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Cubestat, the free website value calculator

Cubestat is a free and perfect tool for website value calculation, estimations and information.

How does it work?
You simply enter the domain url in the search box (as shown below) and Cubestat's unique algorithm will calculate and estimate the website worth, daily pageviews and daily ads revenue of the present domain.



Among the estimation it will show precise information available for the domain including:

• Website Worth
• Daily Pageviews
• Daily Ads Revenue
• Estimated Date
• Meta Info
• Meta Title
• Meta Description
• Meta Keywords
• Index Data
• Quantcast Rank
• Page Rank
• Back Links
• Dmoz Listing
• IP, Host & Whois
• Site Age
• Rank Graphs

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CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy, and cleaning tool that removes unused files from your system, which allowing Windows to run faster and frees up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities, such as Internet history. Additionally, it contains a full-featured registry cleaner. The tool is fast and easy to use.

• Website: Visit Official Site
• Price: Free
• Developer: Piriform, Ltd.

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Block or unblock any website from your computer

Do you wish to block or unblock any website from your computer? You can set your computer to open the sites that you wish and block the ones that you don’t want to. Here’s how you can block or unblock any website from your computer:

1.Open your C: folder. ( or Any drive where you have installed Windows)
2.Navigate to Windows folder and search for Systems32 folder inside it.
3.Find a folder ‘drivers’ and then another folder etc inside it.
4.Now your full path should be C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
5.Inside the etc folder, look for a file named as hosts.
6.Open that hosts file with any text editor like Notepad or Wordpad
7.Scroll to the bottom and you can find a line there as 127.0.0.1 localhost.
8.Just below that line add this >> 127.0.0.2 (site name)
9.Now Save the file and exit.
10.You are done.

To unblock the site:
Simply go to hosts file and delete 127.0.02 (site name). You can now access the site from your computer.

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How to decide if given URL is fake

Online Scams and identity theft has become a real big problem now a days and its one of the major online crime, In this internet age many people use internet for things like checking emails, chatting, booking tickets, buying online, paying online, but also many people fall into the online scams with fake websites and emails, So I m going to give you some tips on identifying the URL of a website address, where we can find some clues to indicate that it’s a fake website or a scam site.

How to help yourself finding a way to get avoided from scams

Step1: One of the important rules when you are using online websites for buying or selling is to be caution at every given point. Try to stop clicking on pop up ads or links in emails that seems to be suspicious. I would say a very good rule is to type the website address directly in the address bar rather than clicking on the link in your email message, especially if it’s something related to buying selling or credit cards.

Step2: Another tip would be, if you suspect that any given URL is not correct, and then hold your mouse above the URL, then the actual URL will be seen in your browser status bar, and you can see the website name before actually clicking on it.

Step3: Common sign of a URL if its fake or not is if it contains @ sign in the middle of the website address, If a given URL has the @ sign, the browser just ignores everything to the left of that link, suppose, if you visit a website that is www.yahoo@145.33.124.198, you are not taken to the actual Yahoo.com site, it would take to you some hacking site. All the genuine sites and companies use a dedicated domain like www.Yahoo.com and no @ in between the site name.

Step4: A very common tip to decide if a given URL is fake or not is to check the spelling of the given URL properly, many fake URLs contain a similar kind of a site name which is popular or a well know company, this is one of most common idea used by hackers, so just cross check the website URL spelling.

Follow the above steps for a good and smooth internet experience.

If anyone has more tips to add to this, you are welcome!

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Defragment your computer for better performance.

Defragmenting your computer mostly proves to be beneficial for your system. This optimizes the performance of your computer system significantly. Defragmenting process is very useful at the time when your computer is running slow. After you defragment your system you will be able to save enormous amount of time, as this process also increases speed of your computer by consolidating files which were broken and scattered through out the system. So it is not a bad decision to defragment your drives.

Disk Defragmenting is not as tough as it seems. Many people want to defragment their disk but could not do it as they do not know how to. So this article is dedicated to all those who would like to know how to free some useful space using defragmenting option in Windows. To begin with you need to click on Start option at the left bottom of your computer screen. Then select Programs, in some computers it will be seen as All Programs. Under the Programs menu you will have the option Accessories; you need to click on Accessories to get another set of options. Now once the Accessories option is selected you will see System Tools click on it and then select Disk Defragmenter.

This is what we need. Now you will see a Window popped up with various options of your drives. You need to highlight the drive that you need to defragment by clicking on it, just once. But before you start to execute the process, you need to check how much benefit it will provide. For this you need to click on Analyze. This will help you get an idea of how much useful will the process be. If you think that it is going to help you enormously then go ahead and click on Defragment. But remember to close all the programs that are running on your computer. This will help you free some space and improve your computer’s performance.

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The Code Project

The Code Project is a useful website for anyone learning or working with various coding or web development languages and scripts. By joining the community you get access to forums, articles and code snippets for .NET, C#, C++, HTML, ASP, Javascript, AJAX, and a whole lot more.

There is also a section of Free Programming Tools that has some useful tools for programming and debugging uses. Read more...

Life Hacker - Thumb Drive

I forgot to mention the Lifehacker website that offers regular articles on using USB Flash drives in various ways, such as for running portable applications. Recent articles have included how to Disable USB drives for security and On-the-fly encryption for your USB flash drive. Read more...

Ever wondered what your website looks like on other operating systems and browsers?

So you've spent months making the perfect website. You've checked in on Firefox and Internet Explorer on your Windows XP/Vista PC, but what does it look like under BSD, Linux or Mac OS? What about on browsers such as Camino, Safari, BonEcho, Dillo, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, Iceape, Iceweasel, Kazehakase, Konqueror, Minefield, Navigator, Opera, SeaMonkey?

The solution is BrowserShots.org. This lets you test your web design in different browsers. Simple, no installation at your end, and best of all it is free.

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