Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Open multiple facebook accounts using same browser

Before discussing how we can open multiple facebook accounts, we will quickly touch upon the other dimension i.e. why we can’t open multiple accounts together in a single browser.


Cookies – Cookies are small encrypted text files, which are located in browser directories. When you open a website, it creates a cookie file. Cookie stores different kind of user information e.g. login information, session information etc. Every time, a user goes back to the website, the browser sends the cookie file to the website to provide important user related data. Out of the many functions of a cookie, one important function is to store log-in credentials, when user logs into a secure site. And reuse the same information, when the user returns to the same secured site. This allows the user to enter into the secured site without logging in again and again. That’s the reason, why you cannot use multiple facebook accounts together. This also holds good for other sites having cookie enabled authentication e.g. Yahoo, Google etc.


In most of the browsers, you have the provision to bypass the existing cookie authentication. However, we will only discuss here Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.


Google Chrome - Click on the main menu of Google Chrome and then click on “New Incognito Window” or alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+N in Google Chrome. When the browser opens in Incognito mode, you can see an icon on the left corner, which is identical to a man’s face with a hat and a sunglass. Now you can open your second facebook account here.



Internet Explorer – Click on main menuàSafetyàInPrivate Browsing or alternatively press Ctrl+Shift+P in Internet Explorer. This opens up a window for InPrivate browsing. You will be able to see tag “InPrivate” on the left corner. You will be able to open your second facebook account in this window.



While using Incognito or InPrivate mode, remember that neither, it does show up in browsing history, nor it leaves behind any cookies, once you close your browser. It means that if you want to use the same facebook account later, you need to enter your login credentials again. This feature can be utilized, when you surf in a public computer.

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

How to troubleshoot computer problems

We often face issue of computer slowing down or hanging up when opening a software program. Don’t go nuts when you experience such a situation. If you are systematic, the issue can be resolved quickly. We will go here step by step to troubleshoot computer problems. These steps are mainly based on Microsoft Windows platform.



To troubleshoot computer problems check Software Issue


In step 1, check what are the latest changes made to your system. It is highly possible a new installation or update have destabilized the system. If your system is in auto update mode, it may update some driver or install some patch without your knowledge. You can check the latest update to the system in System Restore (more details about system restore in step 10). In most of the cases, either the new version is not compatible with your system or your system doesn’t have adequate memory (RAM) to execute the program. To troubleshoot computer, uninstall the new program or roll back the software. It resolves the issue majority of the time.

 

How to troubleshoot computer problems


 

Invoke Troubleshooter to troubleshoot


To resolve any software issue, you can invoke the troubleshooter in your windows system. The troubleshooter can be invoked following Control Panel àAll Control Panel Items à Troubleshooting. This is the path in Windows 7 operating system. The path may be slightly different in other versions of windows. For example, if you are facing issue in connecting to the internet, you can click on "Network and Internet" in troubleshooter and then follow simple instruction. This only helps you, if the issue is because of any Microsoft component malfunction.


 

troubleshoot computer problems


 

Microsoft Fix It, an option to troubleshoot computer


You can also go to Microsoft Fix It Solution Center. Few of the actions in step 2 are overlapping here, but I feel that it is more streamlined. Here, in step 1, select your problem area and in step 2, select what you are trying to do. For example, if my windows operating system becomes very slow, I will select Windows in step 1 and then select “Fix performance, errors or crashes” in step 2. Now in step 3, I will run “Fix Windows system performance on slow Windows Computers”.


 

troubleshoot computer


 

Take help from Windows Help and Support


Minimize all windows and press F1. It will open up Windows Help and Support window. Type your question and try to find out the relevant answer for the same. For example, if you want to change the screen resolution of your monitor, simply type “screen resolution” in the space provided. Find below the screenshot, which provides 30 topics based on “screen resolution”. Click on the most relevant answer for you and work accordingly.


 

tips to troubleshoot computer problems


 

Check Software Problem


In case, the software is non-Microsoft software, you can go to the website of that particular software and check the resolution. For example, if I am having an issue with Google Chrome, I will go the Chrome troubleshooting center and find out the resolution for the same.


 

troubleshoot computer Problems tips


 

Troubleshoot computer through Software support


If you have licensed copy of the software, you have the right to ask for software support. Sometime, you may have to log a ticket for your complain. The support group will come back to you after investigating the problem. However, for retail customers, the support group may not take the complain on priority.


 

Browse through Technical Forum


You may search in Google, if someone else faced the same issue before and anyone provided the solution. There are good numbers of technical forums available for all kind of software. Even if no one faced the issue before, you may put your question in any of the relevant forums. While framing your question, ensure that you provide all the required details. It is always good to attach relevant screenshots. It does help the experts to understand the exact issue and provide solution accordingly.


 

Repair software


If none of the above steps solves your problem and the problem is related to a particular software, you can try repairing the software. For that, you have to go to Control Panelà”Program and Features” and then click on Repair on particular software. In case, you have the installable available with you, you can uninstall and install the software program. Before repairing or uninstalling, ensure that you have noted down all the existing configuration of the software.


 

It may be a Device problem


If the issue is pertaining to any of your devices, you can troubleshoot or uninstall the same through Device Manager. You can go to Device Manager from control panel. Once uninstalled, you can again reinstall it from device manager itself (most of the time, it gets reinstalled automatically, once the system identifies new uninstalled hardware). For example, if you have problem with your WiFi, you can check the WiFi adapter in the device manager.


 

how do I troubleshoot computer problems


 

System Restore, the ultimate solution to troubleshoot computer problems


If all the above steps fail, try to restore the system to an earlier check point. Windows automatically creates checkpoint of the stable windows system at different time interval. Installing a certain software or incompatible driver can slow your system or cause it to hang up. Restoring system to an earlier stable check point resolves the issue. You can access the "System restore" through All Program àAccessories àSystem Tools àSystem Restoration. The system restoration doesn’t impact any of your files. However, you may have to reinstall few software or driver post restoration to an earlier check point.


 

How can you troubleshoot computer problems


 

Still, the issue is not resolved? Well, then shut down your computer and give a call to a good computer technician.

Sunday, 20 January 2013

laptop as wifi hotspot

Before proceeding further, we will touch upon what is WiFi hotspot. A hotspot is a facility that provides internet access over LAN or local area network. Hotspot generally needs a router and uses Wi-Fi technology. Hotspot operates in two ways i.e. Open public network and closed public network. In open public network, there is no authentication required and anyone can use it within the range of the hotspot. Closed hotspot generally needs some kind of authorization and most of the time, it is restricted usage with respect to time or speed or both.

 

The 3G/4G dongle, which we use, is good for connecting a single computer to the internet. However, with Connectify, we can turn this into a WiFi hotspot service. You can download the software from http://www.connectify.me/hotspot/ . There are two versions of Connectify, one is free Lite version and the other is PRO. With the Lite version, you will NOT be able to turn the 3G/4G connection into a WiFi hotspot. Thus, you do need a PRO version of Connectify Hotspot. If you want to convert wired connection to WiFi hotspot, the free lite version is good enough.


 

For turning your laptop into a WiFi hotspot, you do need an internet connection in any mode e.g. Ethernet, WiFi or 3G/4G dongle wireless connection. Additionally, your laptop/computer should be a WiFi enabled. It works in Windows operating system 7 or later. Using Connectify, you can transform any kind of internet connection into a WiFi hotspot. You can also share files between different devices and machines. And the good part is that you can share the files even without any internet connection ("No Internet Sharing" mode).


 


 

Once you install the software, it doesn’t need much configuration. In the setting tab, enter password, which will be used as mean of authentication, when users will connect to your WiFi hotspot. The next field is “Internet to Share”. For PRO users, you can choose automatic, so that Connectify will automatically pick up the Internet connection. In the advanced setting, you have the option of making it either Open network or Close network. For open network, choose sharing mode as “WiFi Ad-hoc Open”. For close network, you can either choose WPA2 encryption or WEP encryption. WPA and WEP both uses encryption but differ in the way they provide security to the WiFi network. Next, click on “Start Hotspot” and your WiFi hotspot is ready.

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Free backlink generator that you can make use of

For the new website owners, a daunting task is to create quality SEO backlinks. Link building is time consuming and needs substantial effort. In such scenario, it will be great if you get an automated process. IMTalk.org has created a backlink generator, which can create 2500+ SEO backlinks. The entire process takes something between one to two hours depending your Internet speed.


To use the backlink generator, go to IMTalk.org. Once, you submit your website url here, it starts creating pages about your website on 2500+ websites. The websites, where the pages are created, are mainly “who is”, “about us”, “website statistics” etc. And all these websites are well established sites, which are regularly crawled by Google and other search engines. Once, the pages are created, it basically creates a link to your site. If you want to shorten the process duration, you don’t submit your website url to all the available websites in the utility. Rather, you may opt to submit for Top 50, Top 100, 250, 500, 1000 or 2000 site by selecting the adjacent dropdown box.


Backlink Generator

 

Click here to submit your url.


 

Featured Image Courtesy : Widjaya Ivan from flickr.com

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Increase ranking Through Google Authorship

Google’s new authorship program has received good response across the world. Last year Google changed its algorithm to provide more meaningful search result to its users. It has been heard that they are still trying to modify the same to provide search results, which are rich in contents. With the introduction of google authorship program, it is definite that Google has something in mind revolving the authorship. Some people stated that if someone clicks on (read like) an article of a particular author, Google tries to rank the articles high from the same author to the search result of the same user. Though it is not definitely known, it is understood that authorship will have some weightage in Google’s search criteria going forward.


Before proceeding on how to establish Google authorship, we will see the benefits of the same (apart from the Google’s search result prioritization).


 

Author Name and Photo Display - When set up properly, Google shows search result along with Author’s name and photo. Having a photo along with search result is an eye catcher. If the users like your writing style, they can quickly pick up the article written by you by seeing your author tag.


 

Increase ranking Through Google Authorship


 

Stats of the contents written by you -You may be writing in many sites. Google Webmaster gives you the facility to set up the statistics based on your authorship. So, you can see the impressions and clicks on the articles authored by you.


 

Now, we will see how we can set up Google authorship.


 

Step 1 – If you don’t have a Google+ profile, you need to create the same. If you already have a Google id, you can use the same to generate your plus profile. The url is http://plus.google.com. Attach a good high quality headshot photo to your profile. This picture will be shown along with the search result.


 

Step 2 – Now, go to https://plus.google.com/authorship and sign up with your email id. Ensure that the email generated in the same domain where you generally post your contents. A verification mail will be sent to your mail. You need to click on the given link in the mail to add your mail id to your Google+ profile. This completes your set up in Google authorship.


 

Step 3 – Now, to connect your article with your Google+ profile, you need to add a byline to each page of your contents e.g. “Suvendu Manna”. You must ensure that the byline name matches the name that you have mentioned in your Google+ profile.


 

Now when your content comes up in the Google search result, it will show your name and photo as author of the content.


 

It is highly possible that you are a guest writer and don’t have the e-mail id for the specified domain. How do you establish your Google authorship? In such a case, you need to link your Google+ profile anywhere from the page of the content. To link your Google+ profile, you can use below code


<a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a>


Here the profile_url is your Google plus profile url, which looks like https://plus.google.com/10019141570xxxxxxxxxx. The author tag will instruct Google to associate the contents to your profile.


 

Next, you need to add a reciprocal link of the said website in your plus profile. Edit your profile and scroll down at the bottom of the page to find out “Contributor to”. Click “Add Custom Link”, enter your website link and save. This step is not required when you have a domain e-mail id as Google automatically adds your domain to your contributor list.


 

google authorship


 

Irrespective the kind of mail id, you can check whether you have set up everything properly. Click on the link http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets and enter your website url. This will show you preview of the search result with your authorship information. It will also validate your authorship when you enter your Google plus profile in author section.


 

 

google authorship helps to improve page rank

 

The photo (woman working in laptop) is taken from fr.fotopedia.com, courtesy Ed Yourdon.

Monday, 14 January 2013

Make money on the internet

Now you can also make money on the internet. You can earn easy money by using your facebook, twitter or any other communication channel. And good thing is that you need not spend any extra time for this easy money. Though, the amount may not be substantial, there is no harm, if we get easy money without any effort.

Make money on the internet

When we see something interesting, we all embed the links in our posts in different social sites, for example facebook, twitter etc. Sometimes, we send across the links through mail. We can make money on the internet just by posting a shortened link instead of the original one. The shortened link will have the same destination as that of your original link. There are many sites, which provide the facility of shortening the url. But here, we specifically talk about Adf.ly. So, what do you need to do? First of all, you have to create an account at http://adf.ly/. Account is required, in case, you want to make money on the internet. It is not required if you just want to shorten a url.

 

You can paste your url in the space provided and click on shrink. It will provide you the shortened url. As per revenue model of Adf.ly, you will be paid up to $4.67/1000 clicks to your links. The rate is dependent on your location. You can find out the location wise rate at http://adf.ly/rates.php. So, if there are 50,000 clicks on your shortened links over a year, you will get up to $233.50 without doing anything. Isn't it an easy way to make money on the internet?


How the payment will be made to you? Currently, Adf.ly accepts payments through Paypal and libertyreserve only.
But wait a minute; what is the interest of Adf.ly here? Well, when someone clicks on the shortened link, they see one advertisement page in the beginning. However, the advertisement can be skipped any time after 5 seconds.

There are more sites like adf.ly, which can help you to make money on the internet. You can find list of such sites below.


adfa.st - Here You can advertise Your websites, blogs, forums and etc. starting with $1.00 /1000 visits.


bc.vc - You can earn easy money online $4.00/1000 visitors to your links.


ilix.in - You can earn easy money online $1.25/1000 visitors to your links.


4ks.net - You can earn easy money online $2.00/1000 visitors to your links.

How to send online fax

Now, you can send online fax from your computer to any fax machine in the world. There is no need to use a fax machine. There is no need to print, sign and scan the document. Now, you can embed your digital signature in the document and directly send online fax right from your computer.



Hellofax is providing this online faxing service to us. The good part is that now we can have Hellofax service as an extension in your Google chrome browser. This has made the faxing service as user friendly as email.

 

You can install the extension from http://goo.gl/aZX32. Once installed, you can see an icon in your new browser tab. Click on this icon and Hellofax will open up for you. However, to log into this application, you need a google account. If you directly go to HelloFax site, you have other options to log in.


 

How to fax through internet


 

Hellofax doesn’t need any configuration. You can directly upload your document, enter destination fax number and send across the document through the online fax.


 

What else can we do with HelloFax?


 

In one hand, using Hellofax, you can send online fax and on the other hand, you can receive fax as well. For the basic membership, the first 5 faxes are free and thereafter, it costs 99 cents/fax. You can extend the free limit to 20 by a) Sharing the page on facebook b) Importing your contacts from gmail or yahoo c) tweeting about Hellofax. Additionally, you will get 5 free fax pages for every friend you refer.


 

online fax


 

With the paid service of Hellofax, you can opt for a fax number. So, anyone can send a fax to that number. This will ultimately be stored in your Hellofax inbound documents folder. You can take a print-out anytime you want. In the premium plan, costing $7.99 per month, you can fax 500 pages per month. In the ultimate plan, the limit is 2000 Fax pages per month for a charge of $69.99 per month. Both the paid services have 30 days of trial period. The fax number is really a good feature. Just think that sitting at any part of the world, you can take a local fax number in US and hence can have a virtual paperless office in US. By the way, the local numbers are only available for US, UK and Canada.


 

You can configure other online partners like Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, EverNote, SkyDrive. You can store all your important documents in any of these services and it will allow you to send your online fax from anywhere in the world without accessing your laptop or desktop.


 

You have the option to store your digital signature. So, you can attach the same under your fax before sending it to the recipients. There are different options for using your digital signature. a) You can upload an image file having your signature b) You can create your signature through mouse c) You can type in your signature or d) take a photo of your signature and send it to sign@hellosign.com with subject line bcc8baa8.


 

You can also request someone else’s signature on the document to be faxed. Here you can pin-point, where exactly the signature is required.


 

Over all, Hellofax is an excellent idea for paperless office. It is equally useful for our personal requirements.

Saturday, 12 January 2013

Interesting Facts About Your Facebook Profile

How are you really doing in your facebook? Are you using your facebook profile in line with an average facebook user? Do you have any fascination on using a particular word repeatedly? Well, you may not have the readymade answer for these questions. But, now you can analyse your facebook profile and come out with interesting facts.


“Zeebly” is a website, which can analyse your facebook profile. It accesses your facebook messages and all postings to do the analysis. The url to analyse your profile is http://www.zeebly.com/social_me . It will ask you to enter your account credential for your facebook profile. Once you log in, follow the instructions given to analyse your facebook profile.


 facebook profile


In short, it does analysis of your facebook profile on the below lines


 

a)It analyses the message related details, such as, what time do you mostly use facebook or which devices do you use mostly to post your message. It also says about the topics that you are most interested to talk about.


 

b)It analyses your facebook profile statuses, such as, how often do you share your statuses in Facebook. Based on your posting, it also puts rating on different dimensions of you, namely Optimistic, Extrovert, Organize and many more.


 

c)It also analyses about your language skill like how many words do you type on an average or whether you are using punctuations properly.


 

d)It does let you know the most popular status of you and many more interesting facts about your facebook profile. For example, it may point out if you have any fascination on a particular word or phrase.


 

e)Finally, it provides statistics on your friends like female/male distribution, top commenter and age stats.


 

While, the service is completely free of charge, you may want to use it for some interesting facts about you, which was hitherto unknown. While using this service, please remember that you need to grant access to your facebook profile. However, Zeebly doesn’t share any other information other than your First Name, Picture and age.

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

How to choose your cloud storage providers

For a medium to big business, we always do have daily back-up of file systems. In case of any disaster, the files can be recovered from the back up. However, this facility is often non-existent in small business. This may be due to ignorance or unavailability of fund. We seldom have the back-up facility available for our personal computers. However, in both these cases, the loss of data may cause significant impact and often creates ripple effect. With cloud technology within our reach, we can avail the services of cloud storage providers and easily avoid any substantial data loss or any other adverse effect caused by the same.


 

Yes, we can also store all our important data in a remote location using free cloud storage. The same can be termed as online storage. Here, the important point to note that you can store your data free up to a maximum limit set by cloud storage providers. Cloud or online storage keeps data in virtualized pools of storage. The virtualized pools are actually customized and virtualized forms of data center resources.


Cloud Storage Providers


 

So, now you have decided to go for free online storage. But, it is required to do some research before you choose your cloud storage providers. Let us see what the determining factors are.



Storage Cost of Cloud Storage Providers


   The first thing is the free online storage capacity and its cost. There are many cloud providers, which provide free storage up to a maximum limit when you sign up. For example, “Amazon cloud Drive” provides yearly 5GB online storage free. For a paid service, you can store 20 GB for $10 a year, 50 GB for $25 a year and so on.


Justcloud.com provides 15 GB of online storage free and one of the highest storage space provided in the free limit.


Symform is slightly different from other cloud storage providers in the way they operate their online storage. Symform uses your local drive as storage and there is no datacenter working behind the scene. In symform, your online storage is always free, providing you maintain a local contribution to online storage equal to 2:1. It means that if you provide a 2 GB local space, you will get 1 GB of online storage in return. Otherwise, they charge $0.15/month for every 2 GB storage above the free space.


 

Cloud Storage providers Speed


  One of the crucial determining factors is the speed. Though the back-up happens regularly, it is important to have high speed retrieval as it involves huge amount of data. Before going for a paid service, it is better that you test the data retrieval speed with substantial amount of data. The speed is dependent on many factors, including your broadband speed. You may want to check whether the data being stored is a centralized or a decentralized location. Though, it may not be always true, the decentralized online storage gives you speedy back-up and recovery. For example, symform stores the different data fragments in different locations. The data fragments are distributed over parallel internet connections, resulting in faster transfer speed. Additionally, they use a HOT COPY concept, which mirrors your file to the cloud for offsite data protection. This provides faster restoration in case you need it.


 

Cloud storage providers Security


 

   Security may be the most important aspect when you select your cloud provider. You are choosing online storage to avoid losing important data. Leaking this data to a third party may turn out to be equally or more detrimental to you. Thus, when selecting your cloud storage providers, you need to closely check their security i.e. how the data is kept and what is the possibility of leaking the data. In most of the cases, the data is stored with encryption. You should ensure that your cloud storage providers are applying at least 128 bit encryption (however, most of the companies are now applying 256 bit encryption). You may also want to check when the data is being encrypted i.e. before it is being stored or after it is getting loaded in the online storage. It is always better if the data is encrypted before it gets loaded in the online storage.


 

Multi-Computers Synchronization


   If you have multiple computers, it is possible to synch the data from two computers. You can check with your cloud provider, if they are providing any such facility.


 

Ease of use


 

   It is important that the online storage should be user friendly. It means that back up should happen with minimum effort. And the recovery process also should be smooth with minimal manual intervention. In most of the cases, the cloud storage company provides you a desktop application, which facilitates the back-up of the data. When you zero in on your cloud provider, ensure that the application provided by them is compatible with your operating system. For example, mimedia doesn’t yet support Mac OS X. You can also check out with your cloud provider, whether there is any facility of dashboard kind of view, which gives a summary view of your online storage (like GB used) and other related details.


 

Does your cloud storage providers impose any file size limit?


    Many cloud providers have imposed a restriction on file size i.e. you can’t back-up file beyond a particular size. For example, Box storage has file size limit of 250 MB for its free plan. Thus, if you think that you have big files, first check with your provider if there is any file size restriction.


 

Reliability of the cloud storage providers


   The ultimate aim of storing data online is to recover data when you need it. The cloud provider should be very reliable and in no circumstances, it may loose data. Thus, choose a cloud provider, which has good history in successful operation. You may want to browse through their architecture quickly. Many company stores the same data in multiple locations. This ensures that even if there is some calamity in one of the data centers, the data is still safe in other place.


 

Does your cloud storage privers have any option of money back


    Some of the cloud providers give the facility of 30 days money back guarantee. This is a good option. If you are not happy with your provider, you can always switch over to a different provider.


 

What is the Support level of your cloud storage providers


   In case there is a need, you may need support from the customer service or the technical team. Before selecting your cloud provider, ensure that they have robust customer service and technical team to help you out.


 

Accessibility


    Online storage is not only a back-up media; it also provides online accessibility. Thus, it gives the flexibility of accessing your file from anywhere across the world. Isn’t it really fabulous? So, you should always check the easy accessibility of your files. Some of the cloud providers also have this option for mobile devices. My favorite in this area is Apple iCloud. It lets you access your files from whatever Apple device you are on. And it’s built into every new iOS device and every new Mac. The good part of it is that when you buy a music file or take a snap, iCloud makes it available in all your Apple devices.


 

Is there any complimentary add on from your cloud storage providers


   When you get something complimentary, you will always be happy. Number of cloud providers is giving this extra facility to their customers. For example, Amazon is giving cloud player and 250 imported songs free when you sign up their service.


 

Considering all the points, you may want to give appropriate weightage to the points discussed, based on your requirements.

Monday, 7 January 2013

How to test browser compatibility

From the inception of web browsers, it has come to a stage, where it is rich with functionalities and more or less immune to malware attacks. Nowadays, it is very difficult to live a day without this indispensable software. Quite a good number of web browsers exist in the market. While Google’s chrome is leading, the other browsers do have their respective market share. When you launch your website, whether it is for personal use or business, the ultimate aim is always the maximum visibility. Since, we don’t know the web browser that our users are depending on, it is always important to check browser compatibility for the major web browsers.


 

If you would like to perform cross browser compatibility check, there are quite a few solutions.


 

Check Browser Compatibility by Testers


The most primitive and manual option is to identify tester, who can perform cross browser testing. The testers can certify your website in different browsers and then can send you the test proofs. Though, this process of browser compatibility check is very straight forward, it doesn’t have enough flexibility. The difficult part here is to find out the testers, who have reach to different web browsers combined with different operating systems.


 

Screenshots from different browsers


You can check browser compatibility through screen shots. There are number of websites, which give this facility of cross browsing testing. If you provide the page url, it provides screen shots in different web browsers, based on your preference. In this category, browsershots (browsershots.org) is the most popular one. Browsershots is a paid service. However you can avail this service free for 14 minutes. Adobe browserLab (browserlab.adobe.com) is another name in this area. Here, you can compare pages in two web browsers, side by side or overlaid one upon another. Browsera(browsera.com) is one more name in this category. Testing multiple pages is easy with Browsera as it can automatically crawls pages with in a site.


 

Version Compatibility For Specific Browser


There are few more websites, which provide the facility of browser compatibility test across versions for different web browsers. For example, Netrenderer (netrenderer.com) provides facility to check compatibility across various versions of Internet Explorer. At the time of writing this article, Netrenderer provides screen shots for Internet Explorer 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5.5. This service is free. There are also browser compatibility tools, e.g. IETester, which provides similar kind of functionality.


 

Where you can download IE Tester? - http://www.my-debugbar.com/ietester/install-ietester-v0.4.12.exe


 

Test browser compatibility throug Sandbox


Sandbox is another browser compatibility tool. Spoon.net’s sand box lets you run any web browser from the web in an isolated environment eliminating the need for installation of multiple browsers. However, as it is running in your machine, the variation of OS cannot be achieved here. Currently spoon.net provides different browsers namely Chrome, Firefox, Firefox Mobile, Opera, Opera Mobile, Safari and Internet Explorer.


 

Online Browser Compatibility Testing


Last, in the category of the browser compatibility check, is the online testing of your website. Here, you can open your website through cloud based access or through virtual machine in different combination of browser and operating system. Browserstack.com is currently providing this facility through cloud based access. We will slightly elaborate on this particular service.


 

Browser Stack


 

Browserstack provides browser compatibility tool, which is free for 20 minutes. If you want extended testing period, you need to purchase their plan. However, as browserstack is providing multiple features, I believe that this is worth purchasing their plan. Through browserstack, you can achieve the result of Virtual Desktop but eliminating the necessity of frequently changing your virtual desktop (in order to have different browsers/OS combination). It has also the feature of automated java script testing.


 

browser compatibility test


 

test browser compatibility


 

For cross browser testing of your website in a particular web browsers and OS combination, first of all, you need to select the web browser and the OS. Available browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. Available operating systems are Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Xp, Apple OS X Snow leopard, Apple OS X Lion, Apple OS X Mountain Lion. The good news for you is that you can choose Mobile and Tablet emulators as well. This feature is really good as more and more websites are now becoming Mobile phone compatible. The available mobile OS are iOS, Android and Opera mobile. Once you set up your desired combination, enter the page url. It will open up the page remotely. This online browser compatiblity test is far better than screenshots provided by the other services. Here, you can have different resolutions as well. But in my opinion, the most important benefit of this service is the availability of local test at the time of website development. Here you can test your website pages for cross compatibility check through Web Tunnel or Command Line. This feature eliminates the need of any change and subsequent downtime, once your website goes live.

Friday, 4 January 2013

How can you stop spam mail

With the rising e-mail marketing, hundreds of spam mail are flocking in our mail box every day. Some of them are solicitations to purchase daily necessity like Baby Diaper or some time it is an offer to provide information for big purchases like apartment\house. I don’t know whether you have ever tried to unsubscribe these spam mails or not. Though most of them have a link for unsubscribe, they seldom oblige unsubscribe request. I am telling this from my own experience.


 

Where, we don’t have any direct remedy for spam mails, we have some work around for the same. We do often need to enter our e-mail address, where we don’t want to. For example, you want to download a file from a website and they wanted you to have your e-mail address, so that they can send the download link. And once you enter your e-mail id, you don’t know how many places it would be shared. In some unfortunate circumstances, your mail may be hacked as well. To overcome all these issues, it is always better to use a temporary email address. It may not be always a good idea to create a new email account, as it may be recognized as fixed origin of request. This is specifically problematic, if there is some limitation in performing a particular activity only once i.e. downloading two files one after another is not allowed. Also, if there is long inactivity in your email account, the same will be deactivated. Over and above, you may have to give some effort to maintain this permanent mail box.


 

Incognito is the perfect solution in creating a temporary email address and thereby help you to stop spamming your original mail account. Incognito creates a secure, anonymous, temporary and disposable e-mail account that’ll last 60 minutes. 60 minutes is enough time to receive e-mails that contains activation or download links. Incognito is also useful where you want to send anonymous mail.


 

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1.Open incognitomail.com . Either get system given e-mail id or set your e-mail id as per your preference. For demonstartaion purpose, we created a system generated e-mail id.


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2.Now, the same anonymous mail id can be provided, wherever you want. For demo purpose, we sent a mail from contact@universal-post.com. As auto refresh is activated, you can see the mail once it reaches your mail box. Alternatively, you can click on the Reload button.


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Generally, the anonymous mail becomes active for 60 minutes. However if you want, you can extend the time for another 60 minutes.

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Depression Treatment- Follow a simple step

Do you get depressed quickly? Does a commonplace situation spoil your mood? Well, when you are depressed and upset, you cannot give your 100% to anything. Thus, depression doesn’t only impact your mental health; it also takes a toll on your regular activities as well. Prolong depression may cause you to take severe step sometime. All of us have suffered in depression sometime or the other. But don’t worry anymore; you can throw away your depression within a minute. You can do depression treatment by adopting a simple procedure.


 

Let us start your depression treatment. Whenever you feel blue, write down your depression or negative thoughts on a piece of paper. Read through the lines with apt attention. Think in your mind that all those thoughts are just useless and will not do any good to you. Now, throw the paper in a trash bin. This will work as your depression therapy.


 

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But theoretically what is happening here? By throwing away the negative thoughts, we are sending the message to our subconscious mind that those thoughts are not valid any more or just useless. As you know that we have the sailor-crew relationship between our conscious and sub-conscious mind. The conscious mind is the captain and sub-conscious mind is the crew. The subconscious mind listens to the instructions given by conscious mind and brings the instruction into reality. Thus, when our conscious mind ask to throw away the negative thought, our subconscious mind obediently takes the instruction and rules out all negative thoughts.


 

This very fact has also been supported by Richard Petty, Ph. D. , a professor at the Ohio State University. Dr. Richard Patty, has done an experiment with 83 people and came out with the fact as how to cure depression. He asked all of them to write down their thoughts and then either would keep it with them or throw it away. It was found that people, who kept the papers with them, were more likely to retain their thought pattern. On the contrary, the people, who threw away their notes and having negative thoughts, showed positive change in their behavior.


 

So, if you are reading this article and upset about something in your life, you can try out this simple depression treatment by yourself.