Monday, December 21, 2009
Google DNS Helper for Faster Internet
Recently Google announced a new service – Google Public DNS .Google Public DNS Service replaces your ISP’s default DNS which which boosts up your browsing speed and offers more reliable internet experience.
By using Google Public DNS you can:
- Speed up your browsing experience.
- Improve your security.
- Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.
How to configure Google Public DNS :Check here
However with Google DNS Helper a small tool , you can do the whole process more simple.Google DNS Helper will backup your current DNS address and then switch it to Google Public DNS for a faster, safer, more reliable internet experience. You can restore your old DNS anytime you want.
The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
Fix Your Slow Internet Connection with Internet Connection Repair
Many of your Windows PC's often infected by spyware and malware. Computers that are infected by the malware will affect the internet connection.When you install the Windows Update or Service Pack will also affect the Internet settings and slow your connection .
Anti spyware programs can clean up your Windows from these spywares, but unfortunately lack the ability to repair your affected internet connection. Even worse, the removal process can cause your internet connection to stop working or become very slow . No doubt that this kind of problem is difficult to handle for an average computer user
It would be very difficult to fix the problem manually internet connection in Windows XP and Vista if caused by the problems above.
Internet Connection Repair (IRC) is a freeware program that can help you to repair Internet connection problems in Windows XP and Vista. This can automatically diagnose and fix your problem.
Features
- Diagnose and automatically repair the most common Internet connection issues
- Solve complex connection issues by providing easy step by step instructions for problems that can not be solved automatically
- Fix problems often associated with removal of spyware / adware or uninstall of the network and firewall software
- Repair registry and Winsock settings for XP and Vista
- Pinpoint issues and direct you to the right support contact for further assistance
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Bullguard Internet Security 8.5 1-Year License Giveaway
Protect your PC from hackers and viruses. With full anti-virus, firewall and backup protection, BullGuard secures your PC from the menaces of the Web. It has full e-mail protection, no matter what e-mail client you use. The anti-virus database is maintained and updated around the clock. Powerful scan engines ensure detection and removal of all the newest viruses. Also, you can protect all peer-to-peer applications such as Kazaa, ICQ, and MSN Instant Messenger . BullGuard is with firewall technology licensed from Agnitum (Outpost) and anti-malware components from BitDefender .
Features
- On-access and on-demand scanning
- Security updates every 2 hours
- Webfiltering for proactive website scanning
- Rootkit detection capabilities
- Protection against identity theft
- A powerful firewall
- Intrusion and transmission detection
- Antispyware
- Spam filter
- Support: “ Free 24/7 Live support in plain English" accessed from the application interface.
- Offer 5 GB backup to protect all your most valued files and photos
Gizmo visitors can get a free 1 year genuine license of Bullguard Internet Security Suite worth $69.95. This offer is only for 2 days. Read more here
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Get Free 1 year license of Internet Security on Oct 22
Windows 7 is launching on October 22nd .To celebrate this occasion Kaspersky and Panda Software are giving away free copies of Internet Security . So don't forgot to visit the following links on 22 OCT itself.
http://us.pandasecurity.com/w7launch/
Monday, June 15, 2009
TVUPlayer
TVUPlayer is a free program that enables viewers to watch high quality live Television programs around the world.It uses P2P technology to broadcast TV programs.Channels featured on TVUPlayer currently include CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Comedy Central, Disney and more, including sports channels.
All channels however took a little time to get started; you could find yourself waiting a minute or two for the channel to start playing.It is extremely easy to use. To scroll through the channel list simply mouse-over the up and down arrows. To load a channel simply click on it once.
FreeZ Online TV v1.10
FreeZ Online TV program that can receive over 500+ free online channels of daily and live broadcasts from around the world. There is no need for a PC TV card because the TV channels are streamed through your Internet connection. FreeZ Online TV allows users to watch TV directly. You can watch in regular or full-screen mode..This software comes with automatic TV station updates so it will never be out of date.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Free PublicProxy to Access Blocked Sites
Here is a free web proxy site which help you to access your favorite social network, like Facebook, Myspace or Youtube , when your Government, school, college or workplace network blocked your free access to the internet
Related Links:Unblock those BLOCKED SITES!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Unblock those BLOCKED SITES!
Some of the sites blocked in offices may include YouTube, Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Bebo, Flickr, Meebo, Yahoo! Messenger and other instant messengers(IMs).There are many methods to access blocked or restricted sites, some of them are mentioned earlier in SparksSpace. Here are few more methods.
1.Access Sites Blocked allows you to surf almost any type of website you want to, without any extra information or headache.This will allow you to browse anonymously on the internet without giving out your personal information.Just type the website name and you're on your way to open it.
2.Download GhostFox, a privacy-friendly browser which is based on Firefox. GhostFox has a privacy bar just below the URL bar, from which you can select a proxy (select the one from your region), click ‘Apply’ and start browsing.
3.Using Blockedsites.info proxy, you will be able to view sites that your work or school filters have blocked out. Visit MySpacy, Bebo, FaceBook and many other sites that you cannot view using a standard browser window with this.
4.Get the IP of the site from Web Server IP Checker and go to RedRoster. Enter the IP in the IP address field and hit calculate. You will get a decimal in the ‘Decimal’ field. Paste it in your browser as http://decimalnumber
5.Use Google cache - If you are not bothered whether the content is latest on a site, Google cache is best. Do a Google search for the site and then click on the cached link below the search results.
6.Check this list of
- 300+ web proxies.|http://webproxieslist.com/
- http://www.Free-Internet-services/Web-proxy/
- http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Wolfram Alpha is Coming:'A New Paradigm'
Scientist Stephen Wolfram has built a new engine, called Wolfram Alpha, that apparently can compute answers to factual questions more powerfully than Google. — Wolfram has just posted about the effort here
It is a product of technological renaissance man Stephen Wolfram, and it runs on the the same kernel as his Mathematica software
Read more
- Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web'
- Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Make Your Web Browsing Safer
Internet Fraud is the fastest growing threat to personal safety. It is estimated that every day more and more people fall victim to internet based scams. Stay safe and don't become a victim ,use some utilities mentioned below to stay away from fraud sites.
CallingID safe browsing toolbar automatically shows whether sites visited are real and safe to login, submit personal information to or deal with. It displays the site owner information of the website you are currently visiting. It includes the physical address, company name and a risk assessment, based on a variety of verification tests. CallingID checks if the site owner is actively conducting business.The program can protect you from phishing scams, and other online dangers.
- Which site will you really visit
- Which company stands behind the site
- Is it safe to deal with the site
- Are there any known risks visiting the site
SysReq:Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server, Mozilla Firefox and/or Microsoft Internet Explorer|freeware
Similar to the above, this add-on performs real-time site scanning in search of active attacks. You can scan a given URL on demand, and you can use LinkScanner side-by-side with filtering software.It integrates with Google, Yahoo and MSN to check the search results and can warn you of exploits, hacked pages, malicious sites and phishing/fraud scams.
Hold your cursor over the icons and a description will appear, click the icon and you will be taken to a definition page giving further information about the site and the reason for the rating.One of four color-coded icons will appear next to each result. It provides the most accurate analysis of the safety of Web search listings.LinkScanner Lite is free for personal use.
SysReq: Windows 2000, XP Home and XP Professional, Vista
Finjan SecureBrowsing is a security extension for your browser that scans and classifies web addresses to provide you with safety rating of URLs before you visit them. Proactively alerting you to potentially malicious web addresses in links of search results, ads and other selected web pages, SecureBrowsing protects you from webpages that could be used to compromise your privacy and identity.
- Sites are scanned in their current form, so potentially harmful recent changes are always detected.
- Visiting unknown sites from search results becomes a lot safer with SecureBrowsing installed.
- Code analysis is a more efficient method than most alternatives for detecting malicious behavior.
- Some warnings contain rather detailed information about the nature of the threat at hand.
- SecureBrowsing does not depend on static URLs or blacklists, giving it a more dynamic approach.
SysReq: XP Home (SP 2)/ 2000 (SP 4) | I E 6.0 or 7.0 | Firefox 1.5 or 2.0
WOT is a free Internet security addon for your browser. It will keep you safe from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites. WOT warns you before you interact with a risky website. It's easy and it's free.
WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox/IE now
SysReq:Windows (all), Mac OS X, or Linux| Fire Fox| IE 6.00 /7.00 | Freeware
Also Read:SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Free Currency Converter
XE.com is a free online currency converter.The site provides users with updated foreign exchange values and quick converter that has every currency value enlisted it.The site refreshes after fixed time intervals in order to change the updated conversion values .
Service is extremely user-friendly and fast. All you need, is to select amount, base currency and currency to convert to.
XE.com Currency Converter is a useful Firefox extension which consists of a button that you may add to the Firefox toolbar that uses XE.com to convert any amount from one currency to another. When the button is pressed, you are prompted to enter the amount in the original currency. Then you are prompted to enter the original currency and then the destination currency. It is important that the currencies are entered in 3-character ISO currency codes.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
How to Troubleshoot XP and Vista Network Problems
Network-connection problems are extremely annoying. A step-by-step approach needed to solve this . Before repairing Registry for the many times or throwing your router into the trash,go through this network-troubleshooting checklist:
- Disable your software firewall temporarily. It may sounds crazy, but mostly the firewall may blocking your network connection.Many third-party antivirus programs, such as Trend Micro's PCCillin or Norton AntiVirus, include built-in firewalls. You may not realize that you installed the firewall component when you installed the antivirus software, and now that firewall is getting in the way of connectivity on your home network. Even if the firewall has worked flawlessly for months, a small configuration change or automatic update could have caused a problem. At least twice this year,Windows XP users Software's ZoneAlarm personal firewall have lost its internet connectivity due to a Windows update. It's true that patches can introduce problems with firewalls, but subsequent fixes may solve this.
- Pinging:-The ping command is the basic tool for testing TCP/IP connectivity. It sends a special packet (called ICMP Echo) to a particular IP address and looks for a reply. If everything is working right, the reply comes back. If not, the ping times out in a few seconds. By default, the ping command repeats the process four times. When ping fails, you’ll see one of these error messages:Request timed out|Unknown host <name> or Ping request could not find host <name>|Destination host unreachable.To fix a corrupted TCP/IP Installation on Windows XP, follow the steps in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article
- Check your physical connection. Ensure the router, modem, and other network devices are properly plugged in and powered on. Are the network cables between PC and router still connected firmly?
- Renew your connection. To reconnect quickly, click Start, Run in XP (or press the Windows key in Vista), type ipconfig /renew, and press Enter.
- Do your firmware and drivers updation promptly. Routers and network adapters makers may be caught unawares by patches to operating systems .But the vendors often issue firmware or driver updates that fix the problems. Check the support pages of your router and adapter manufacturers' sites for updates.
- Sometimes we unknowingly change the configuration settings of our routers and network connections. You may not remember that you turned on your router's MAC filtering, but doing so could have blocked all of your devices from connecting, just the same. So return to default settings may helps.
- Please remember, it's always best to change settings one at a time and observe the results of the change before making any other alterations to your system. If you don't see an obvious way to return your hardware and software to their default settings, you may have to uninstall and reinstall the device or program to regain its original settings
Read more
How to troubleshoot home networking in Windows XP
Windows XP Network Troubleshooting
Friday, November 14, 2008
Repair Your Internet Connection With WinSockFix
Sometimes you may encounter Internet connection problems after removing network related software, Adware or after registry clean-up or improper uninstall of firewall applications or other tools that modify the XP network and Winsock settings .WinSockFix will offer a last resort if your Internet connection is corrupted due to removed or invalid registry entries.
It can create a registry backup of your current settings, so it is fairly safe to use.
The Winsockfix Utility will:
· Detect your current Operating System
· Release the IP address, taking you "Offline"
· Reset the TCP stack using Netsh.exe (Windows XP only)
· Delete the current Registry TCP and Winsock Values
· Import new "Working" Registry Values
· Backup any Current "Hosts" file
· Replace the "Hosts" file with a default one
· Reboot the Computer
1.) Download WinsockFix.
2.) Run WinsockFix.exe.
4.) Click the Fix button
SysReq:Win 9x/ME/2K/XP |Freeware|1.4MB
Saturday, October 18, 2008
SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer
McAfee SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, and online scams. Automated testers continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download files, and sign-up for things with e-mail addresses. As you search, browse, download, or register online, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings help you stay safe and in control.
When you do a google search or a yahoo search, a little symbol will appear next to each entry. A green check means it is a safe site to enter,no viruses or trojans there. A yellow question mark means it has questionable content.You might get something evil there. A red X means it is a site known for trojans and malicious software. Don't enter a site unless it shows a green check.
McAfee SiteAdvisor (Free Ver)
McAfeeSiteAdvisor +: McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus | Mcafee Siteadvisor Plus 2.1.2.25.
Also read :McAfee SiteAdvisor for Firefox
