If you neighbor has been leeching off your home network and messing around will the things you have shared over the network, then its about time you add protection to your home network will the three following things I am about to share.Through this tutorial, I will guide you through on setting up your router settings to enable maximum protection, by turning off SSID broadcasting, allowing only certain MAC addresses and enable the encryption.
Turning off SSID broadcasting
Open your browser and type in 192.168.1.1 in the address bar and hit Enter. You will be prompted to enter your username and password to login. The default username is admin and the default password is password, if you haven’t changed it off course.
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Today, I found this really cool trick with which you can create hidden text files without using any third party software but your very own trusty notepad. With this trick you can hide text data in a file, and the file create from this process will not show up in DOS or in Windows irrespective of the hidden and system display settings and can only be accessed if you know the correct file name you used during its creation.
Follow the steps below:
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Earlier I wrote a post 5 Awesome Gmail Features to try out, and today I found these 5 cool features of Gmail Labs. Gmail has always been my favorite web-based email service and it keeps getting better with these awesome features they come up with for better user experience.
First to start off you need to enable the Gmail Labs features. To do that, login to your Gmail account, go to Setting, Labs and browse through all the features available and enable them to try on your Gmail account. Following are the 5 Gmail Labs features I found really useful.
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Windows 7 is being expected the next big thing from Microsoft. Although Windows Vista could not prove itself to be a really impressive OS but people (including me) have high hopes for Windows 7. I tried installing the beta version and it is really good, the boot up timing is improved from Windows Vista.
Now getting to the post now, I found this really cool Windows 7 Logon Pack for Windows XP and 2003. It changes the login screen of Windows XP to that of Windows 7. Check out the screen shot below.
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Yes people, the wait is over at last as Apple unveils in much awaited iPhone OS 3.0 on 18th March and it comes loaded with the requested features by the people for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Following are few of the new features which the new update comes with.
- With the new iPhone OS 3.0, you can download content with applications like you can buy extended features offered by an application or in game.
- iPhone OS 3.0 enables Peer-to-Peer connectivity to other iPhones; you can play multiplayer games on with other iPhones through Bluetooth. I am still not sure if you can connect your iPhone with other Bluetooth supporting hand sets.
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Facebook is the most popular social network around the world and it really help catching up on my friends who usually have moved to places where we can not meet up often.
And while you socialize with your friends, you come across really cool photo albums and want them on your computer and that’s where this tutorial comes handy on downloading albums from Facebook rather saving individual photos which gets really annoying.
FacePAD is a Firefox plugin which lets you download complete picture albums from Facebook with just a few clicks, well a right-click and then a left click to be precise 
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Firefox has always been my favorite browser. Even after trying out Google Chrome and Safari, firefox is still the best to use. Its fast, hardly any bugs and really easy to use. Its new edition of 3.0.7 comes with all the features of tabbed-browsing, popup-blocking, integrated search, automatic updating, improved privacy features and many more.
I found out the Firefox 3.0.7 portable edition today while browsing few pages on the internet and thought of sharing it with you guys. Well, this portable edition comes geared up with all the features of a normal Firefox 3.0.7, now you can use firefox without installing it your computer. It comes really handy when you’re on the move, using different PCs and you can not find firefox installed on them. Now with the portable firefox 3.0.7, you can easily carry the whole firefox as a single file on your USB and give it a double click to use the Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 easily.
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