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Airsnare: Monitor your wireless network for unauthorized intrusions

by Avinash May 9, 2010Internet
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How many of you use your Wireless network or WiFi to access internet? How often you are worried about someone using your wireless network without your permission? Even though we can protect the wireless networks using the WPA/WEP password protection, still it would be great if we can have some  way of watching who else is using our network. AirSnare .....

Hide or close all browsers , chats and folders with a touch hot keys

by Avinash April 3, 2010Internet
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How often do you need to instantly hide or close your browser , chat or folder windows when someone turns up suddenly while you are doing something which is critical or sensitive or confidential ? Sometimes, it gets embarrassing too for many if someone sees what we are browsing or talking with using chat/IM. A small utility called Instant Hidden .....

Search similar faces on the web using face recognition

by Avinash March 7, 2010Internet
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Web is full of unlimited possibilities in every niche you can think of. Take example of “Search”. Google made search a compulsory part of our life and first thing we do while we are trying to find some information over the web is to Search Google or any other search Engine. Today I will talk about a new dimension of .....

Facebook adds a new Privacy Control with everything You share

by Avinash February 3, 2010Internet
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It seems Facebook is adding some new Privacy controls after it faced criticism over the recent Privacy policy changes and some changes with the default settings making them more visible to public by default unless you change it. Just today , I found a new privacy Control box just at the place you share anything on facebook. When you try .....

Download Yahoo messenger 10 offline installer from yahoo servers

by Avinash January 12, 2010Internet
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For those of you who dont want to run Yahoo messenger web installer to install yahoo messenger and need direct download would love this. The web installer by default contains yahoo bloatware like yahoo toolbar which irritates most of us. Even you can get the direct download link easily if you are using the URL Snooper just like me. I .....

Astrill (VPN) – Unlimited, Secure & Anonymous Internet surfing, 150 Exclusive Beta Invites

by Avinash January 10, 2010Internet
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Most of you will remember my post about 15 best FREE VPN services for Secure & Anonymous Internet surfing. Some of them got paid  ones and some of them embed Ads in their service to recover costs. I wont talk much about what VPN stands for or what it is capable of and why you should use it. Just refer .....

Manage your Paswords safely with KeePass Password

by Avinash January 10, 2010AntiVirus
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Managing and remembering passwords can be a tiresome and bulky job for anyone including me. You need to remember passwords for almost everything. You need password for logging into your computer, email, banking accounts, credit cards, Networks, social networking and what not. The problem is you have different passwords for for every service even though sometime you want them to .....

Top Free Anti Virus softwares to protect your System

by Avinash January 2, 2010AntiVirus
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Today i will talk about some of the best AV solutions that are available for free for home and personal use. I have tried to put together a small list of good free AV solutions available. Just a note here, the order doesn’t indicate any ranking. Take a look at these and give them a try if you are not ready to .....

Hide Facebook Friends list from Public view

by Avinash December 22, 2009Internet
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Few days back i wrote about how Facebook changed privacy settings on its own. There was so much fury by the users over the new public availability of friends to the public view with new settings and no way you can change it. It seems that facebook backtracked once again as it happened last year too. In a blog post .....

Speed up Web browsing by finding the fastest DNS servers

by Avinash December 21, 2009Internet
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Before I start talking about how to speed up Web browsing by finding the fastest DNS servers, let me first talk about what actually a DNS server is and how it affect your browsing experience and its speed. DNS which is short form of Domain Name System is a technology which manages  names of Web sites and Internet domains. It .....

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