Showing posts with label Internet Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Tips. Show all posts

Friday, 19 August 2011

Skype Multiple Accounts Login

looking for a solution to login to multiple Skype accounts simultaneously? CalimSkypeLauncher allows users to sign in to multiple Skype accounts at the same time. With this application, you can open multiple Skype accounts for your professional and personal contacts and keep all of them running at the same time.

It is a portable application that can be launched instantly after download. The first step is to enter the username/password of all your Skype accounts. It supportsmultiple login of upto 3 Skype accounts. When done, providing this information, open CalimSkypeLauncher file to sign into multiple Skype accounts. You will be prompted when it successfully signs in to all your accounts.

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calimskypelauncher
A handy application for signing into multiple Skype accounts. You must have Skype 4.0 or later for this app to work.

How To Find The IP Address Of The Sender In Windows Live Mail, Gmail Or Yahoo! Mail


Whenever you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender and this is how you do it.

Windows Live Mail


Log into your Windows Live Mail account with your username and password,Open the inbox.  To display the headers, right click on the email message in the Inbox, and select View Source.

view source

This will open up a new page with a detailed header content.

source
Now look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets
ip
If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that haveproxy.anyknownserver.com.

Gmail

Log into your Gmail account with your username and password, Open up the mail. To display the email headers, Click on the Reply drop down box and select Show Original.

 show original
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
show original

If you find more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.

Yahoo Mail

Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password, Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail, Open the mail. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers, click on the drop down Standard Header box and select Full Header.
yahoo

Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. If there are many instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the IP address in the last pattern. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.

full header

I hope this post will help you finding the IP address of the sender, do let us know what you think by leaving a comment.

Easy tip to increase internet Speed

1. Make sure you're logged on as actually "Administrator". Do not log on with any account that just has administrator privileges.
   2. Start > Run > type gpedit.msc (not available in home version).
   3. Expand the Local Computer Policy branch.
   4. Expand the Administrative Templates branch.
   5. Expand the Network branch.
   6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window.
   7. In right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting.
   8. On setting tab check the ENABLED item.
   9. Where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0 (ZERO).
  10. Close gpedit.msc.

Effect is immediate on some systems, some need to re-boot

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

INTERNET BROWSER SELECTION

A browser is basically a software for browsing the worldwide web. There are a host of browsers available today from which you can chose depending on what are your web needs. Most popular browsers today are Internet Explorer, Mozilla firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape Navigator and more recently Google Chrone
Each of these browsers varies in terms of security, speed, picture properties and download behaviours.
Personally i use Google Chrome more often. Its a very fast browser with high internet security. Let me quickly add that you can use more than one browser in your computer. In my case, I have Google Chrome, Internet explorer, Firefox as well as Opera installed in my system. Now lets look at these browsers briefly.

INTERNET EXPLORER
This browser is developed by Microsoft and is arguably the most used browser in the world today. It comes with the Microsoft Windows system.

GOOGLE CHROME
This browser is produce by google and it was commecially release in 2008. The last time i checked, it was the fourth most widely used browser. Using the compatability tab in it property dialogue box, it can be made to be compactible with older window versions like window 95, 98/ME, NT 4.0(service pack 5) as well as window 2000.

MOZILLA FIREFOX
This is an open source browser with a lot of user friendly features. It is beleived to be the second most used browser in the world and is owned by Mozilla. It allows you to open multiple pages in a single window and it caches pages you have visited. These features are also obtainable with Chrome.

OPERA
This browser is more popular with internet enabled mobile phones (opera mini and opera for mobile). The computer version of opera is not as popular as other browser, but it is compatible with most operating systems like linus, Solaris, Mac OS X and windows. Opera is developed by Opera Softwares

SAFARI
This is Apple's browser which also have both the computer and the i-phone version. The computer version is compatible with both Microsoft windows and Mac OS X. It boast of high end features like Voice over Screen Reader, Grammer Checking, Auto fill and Life Connect.

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR
This browser, developed by Netscape Communications, was more popular in the 90s and is getting less and less popular these days.
Note:
Each of these browsers can be downloaded and installed over the internet. Happy browsing

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Top 10 Internet tips and tricks

 You don't need the http:// portion of a web page
When typing an Internet address you do not need to type http:// or even www. in the address. For example, if you wanted to visit Computer Hope you could just type computerhope.com and press enter. To make things even quicker, if you're visiting a .com address you can type computerhope and then press Ctrl + Enter to type out the full http://www.computerhope.com address.

Quickly move between the fields of a web page

If you're filling out an online form, e-mail, or other text field you can quickly move between each of the fields by pressing the Tab key or Shift + Tab to move back a field. For example, if you're filling out your name and the next field is your e-mail address you can press the Tab key to switch to the e-mail field.
Tip This tip also applies to the buttons, if you press tab and the web developer has designed correctly the button should be selected and will allow you to press the space bar or enter to push the button.
Tip If you have a drop-down box that lists every country or every state you can click that box and then press the letter of the state or country you're looking for. For example, is a drop-down box of States in the United States you could press u on the keyboard to quickly scroll to Utah.
Use Internet search engines to their full potential

Make sure to get the most out of every search result. If you're not finding what you want try surrounding the text in quotes. For example, if you were searching for 'computer help' this actually searches for pages that contain both computer and help and not necessarily pages that have computer and help next to each other. If you search for "computer help" with the quotes around the search query this will only return pages that actually have computer and help next to each other.
Tip Many new computer users also don't realize that in every search box you can press enter instead of having to move the mouse button over to the Search button.

Know your Internet browser shortcuts

There are dozens of different shortcut keys that can be used with Internet browsers. Below are a few of our top suggested Internet browser shortcuts.
- Pressing Alt + D in any major Internet browser will move the cursor into the address bar. This is a great way to quickly enter an Internet address without having to click the mouse cursor in the address bar.
- Hold down the Ctrl key and press the + or - to increase and decrease the size of text.
- Press the backspace key or hold down the Alt key + left arrow to go back a page.
- Press F5 to refresh or reload a web page.
- Press F11 to make the Internet browser screen full screen.
- Press Ctrl + B to open your Internet bookmarks.
- Press Ctrl + F to open the find box in the browser to search for text within the web page you're looking at.

Take advantage of tabbed browsing

Take full advantage of tabbed browsing in all Internet browsers today. While reading any web page if you come across a link you may be interested in open that link in a new tab so it can be viewed later. A new tab can be opened by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the link or if you have a mouse with a wheel click the link with the middle mouse button.

Try alternative browsers

Most computer users use the default browser that comes included with the computer, with Microsoft Windows this is Internet Explorer. There are several great alternative browsers that are all free to download and use and may have features your current browser does not include. Below are a few of our favorites, try one or try them all.
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Opera
Install plugins and add-ons

Each of the above alternative browsers also have a large community of volunteers who develop add-ons and plugins that can be added into the browser. Each of these browsers have hundreds of thousands of these add-ons that can do such things as giving you live weather in your browser window, changing its color, and adding additional functionality.


Make sure your browser and its plugins are up-to-date

Each Internet browser can have several additional plugins that give it additional functionality. For example, Adobe Flash is a great way to bring movies and other animated content to the Internet. Keeping these plugins up-to-date is vital for your computer stability and also security. Using the below tool you can quickly verify if your plugins are up-to-date and get links to where to download the latest updates.

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Increase the speed of your internet connection without a new modem

As more and more people get quick connections to the internet, such as cable or ADSL, it becomes apparent to the user of a simple dial-up modem that the World Wide Web can quickly turn into the World Wide Wait. Here a trick that can help speed up your current modem without shelling out the big bucks.


There is a setting located in your windows registry called the Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU). This determines the size of the packets of data sent between your and your server. In Windows 95, this setting is has a value of 1,500 bytes when the actual size of internet packets is 1,000 bytes. This can sometimes slow things down. To remedy the situation, simply follow these steps:

In the registry editor (Start > Run > regedit.exe), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\NetTrans. In the NetTrans folder you should find another folder named "000x" in which x represents a fourth digit. Right-click on the "000x" folder and select New and StringValue. Rename the item that appears in the panel on the right side to MaxMTU, then double-click it to bring up the Edit String box and give it a velue of 1002.

Remember to keep playing with the MaxMTU value until you feel that your internet connection has greatly sped up. Some people report huge speed gains using this tricks, while others hardly notice a difference. In any case, it's definetly worth a try.

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