Internet
Tips : How to check Personal Firewall Status on Windows
How can you check the status of the connection and the firewall? Simply open Control Panel from the Start Menu, open Internet and Network Connections, then Network Connections. By default the view is of large icons. Click the View Menu, and choose “details” in order to reveal several more columns of information about the connections [...]
Google to Stop Supporting Internet Explorer 6
written by Geoff Duncan In a post to its official enterprise blog, Internet giant Google has announced it will begin phasing out support for Microsoft’s nearly decade-old Internet Explorer 6 Web browser. Beginning March 1, IE6 users will start to find Google’s Web based applications and services—starting with Google Docs and Google Sites—will stop working [...]
ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet
Fast Track Process for Internationalized Domain Names Launches Nov 16 Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board. "The coming introduction of non-Latin characters [...]
How to search better in Google
This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains." Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you [...]
How to Creat filter for Groups in YAHOO Mails
No doubt the mails circulated in various group are in huge numbers and they do mix up with our official/personal mails. Just to avoid all this please use the filters. The procedure to create filter is as mentioned below: Open your ID. Go to Options > filters > Add. Now give the filter name as [...]
How to Creat filter for Gropus in GMAIL
No doubt the mails circulated in various group are in huge numbers and they do mix up with our official/personal mails. Just to avoid all this please use the filters. The procedure to create filter in GMAIL is as mentioned below: Open your ID. Go to settings > filters > create new filter. In the [...]
Trick To Increase Browsing Speed for IE and Firefox
You really don’t need to tweak your browser in case you are using Firefox because it is a browser which has been specially designed for optimized and fast browsing but if you can make it even a little more fast that would certainly be a treat for you. Likewise there is a trick to make [...]
What is the Difference Between a Virus, Trojan Horse and Worm?
The most common blunder when the topic of a computer virus arises is that people will often refer to a Worm or Trojan Horse as a Virus. While the words Trojan, worm, and virus are used interchangeably, they are not the same. Viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses are all malicious programs that can cause damage [...]
Internet Disrupts Across Asia
Submarine Cables that are responsible for Internet and telephone communications between the Asia and Europe are reportedly cut down between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea.
How to forward e-mail appropriately
A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you’re sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to [...]
Internet Error Codes
Here are the most common codes and messages you’re likely to see on your Web browser (HTTP), when accessing Usenet, using e-mail, or using the FTP protocol to upload or download files.
The codes can generally by grouped as follows -
100-199 – Information Codes. Provide information about the request or the servers involved.
200-299 – Success Codes. Indicate that the request was accepted or the requested file has no content (empty).
300-399 – Redirects. Requested content has moved.
400-499 – Client Errors. Cannot find content or you don’t have the correct permissions to access it.
500-599 – Server Errors. There is a problem at the server end stopping the request from completing successfully.
