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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I found this really cool software when I had to download a simple 1mb pdf file and it came in a compressed zip file of 300mb. My job was made really simple with this software called Load Scout, which enable you to download partial content from within the zip files, like if there different documents, or songs you want to download and you don’t want to download the huge zip file, then this software comes really handy. You also comes really handy when you want to preview any media files you are downloading.
You will just need a link of that compressed zip file and the software will create a list of files in that zip file. You can use zip or rar files with this software. I tried both the extensions, worked fine for me, I am not sure about the other extensions. And from that list displayed on the software, you can download partial or full size individual file to your computer.
A click on extract button will direct you to preview any media files you are downloading, which is really helpful to check out the quality of the video you are downloading. This software also works on the ftp servers aswell.
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Windows 7 has been making news every single day and its beta editions are already out for trials. It is predicted that Windows 7 will be introduced to the world on 24th January 2009.
Till then if you have been following Windows 7 updates and wants to try it on your PC running on Windows Vista or XP, then today’s tutorial will help you dual boot your pre-existing OS plus Windows 7. It’ll help you adjust partitions your hard drive for the Windows 7 installation and will not dump any of your current settings of your PC.
To begin with trying out Windows 7, you will need to download a 2 GB Windows 7 installation file and burn it on a DVD.
You can get the 32-bit Version from Here. And 64-bit Version from Here.
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This little tutorial is for all those Windows Media Player fans out there who do not want to switch to other players when they want to play a .flv(flash video) files. Each time you download a video from you tube, it is saved with the extension of .flv which is not supported by Windows Media Player.
There is a plugin PlayFLV, with which you can play FLV files on Windows Media Player.
You just have to download PlayFLV plugin and install it. Then Play FLV associates itself with the .flv files and the next time you play any FLV files, it will automatically open in Windows Media Player.
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