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How to Avoid Spyware during Online Browsing?

Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 07:50:18

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Spyware is an unwanted program that gets installed in user’s system without his/her permission and tracks all the activities like important log-in information, valuable data, internet interactions etc. In addition to that, it hampers the performance of systems and even redirects web browser searches.Its rank on vulnerability is high because detection is very difficult. Before some spyware will be installed on your system, you have to open or click on some programs. The usual sources of these are spam folders of your mail, free downloaded software, misleading pop-ups and corrupt websites. Unless you are not sharp enough to judge these ... Read More

How does Das Keyboard’s Work?

karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 06:36:49

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What do you visualize when somebody coins the term ‘input device’? A keyboard, a mouse, a joystick or may be a touch screen. For the majority of the world’s population, keyboards have been the symbols of input devices. Whether you are a professional or a hard-core gamer, a keyboard would always be the primary input device for you.Keyboards have been around with us since the beginning of the typewriters and digital computers. The keyboards we see now have evolved across a plethora of inventions, innovations, and technological advancements. In the present world, we have smartphones, smartwatches, smart washing machines, smart ... Read More

Best Online Tools for Compressing Images

Sharon Christine
Updated on 20-Jan-2020 06:37:59

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How many times have you thought of sending multiple images to your loved ones but just because of the file size would have easily avoided. Gone are those days of worrying about file sizes as now embrace compression based online tools to your rescue. Here we have shortlisted a few online tools which can help you compress images without losing quality. Hope you will be excited to discover for yourself. Go ahead and make the best use of these tools.Compressor.ioThis is the best image size optimization tools as it allows the user to choose between lossy (picture quality reduction) and ... Read More

Top Keyboard Shortcuts For Mozilla Firefox Browser

karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 13-May-2022 08:11:43

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Did you know that you can operate your computer without using a mouse, that too with a much faster rate? Yes, you read it right. You can do that by using the keyboard shortcuts.If you’re an internet savvy, you would understand the problem of searching most of the options in your browser using a mouse, even for basic stuff like copy and paste. But if you know the shortcuts, your work pace increases with a lot of time being utilized for doing other useful things.Some of the shortcuts are listed here which are mostly used in Mozilla firefox on windows ... Read More

Top Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome

karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 28-Apr-2022 12:06:00

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Google Chrome is probably the fastest browser that fetches results at lightning speed. When Google was launched in September 2008, Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer were the go-to browsers. However, it was only a matter of time when Chrome started making its strong presence and now, it is the most preferred and the most popular web browser. It has more than 1 billion active users and its ever-growing list of admirers is a testimony.The best feature is the beauty of keyboard shortcuts. Believe me, you can save a lot of time and the following shortcuts can be mastered in less ... Read More

Outlook Tips and Tricks for Efficient Work Productivity

Sharon Christine
Updated on 17-Jan-2020 10:58:56

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Millions of people use Microsoft Outlook for managing their email, meetings, and contacts. It offers so many features but few of us really know how to make the most of its features. When you use these useful features effectively, Microsoft Outlook enables you to do your work seamlessly and as efficiently as possible.Few of tips and tricks are listed belowAvoid Repeated Typing with Quick PartsIf you need to use a standard passage of text over and over again, save it as a Quick Part for easy insertion in emails. To do so, simply highlight the text in the composer window, ... Read More

Netdata – A Real-Time Performance Monitoring Tool for Linux Systems

Sharon Christine
Updated on 17-Jan-2020 10:41:38

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Netdata is an enormously optimized Linux utility that presents real-time (per 2nd) efficiency monitoring for Linux techniques, applications, SNMP devices, etc. And shows full interactive charts that certainly renders all collected values over the web browser to investigate them. This article explains about how to find a real-time performance monitoring tool for Linux Systems.FeaturesIt monitors total and per Core CPU usage, interrupts, softirqs and frequency.It monitors Memory, RAM, Swap and Kernel usage.It monitors Disk I/O (per disk: bandwidth, operations, backlog, utilisation, etc).It monitors Network interfaces including: bandwidth, packets, errors, drops, etc).It monitors Netfilter / iptables Linux firewall connections, events, errors, ... Read More

The Story of Captcha and its Variants

karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 17-Jan-2020 10:26:30

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Coined by a creatively influential and inventive team of Carnegie Mellon professors comprising Luis von Ahn, Nicholas J. Hopper, John Langford and Manuel Blum, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captchas was first put to use in the early 2000 by the reputed search engine giants Alta Vista and Yahoo. Touted as one of the most powerful weapons that helps fight web spams and dubious chat bots, Captcha is a befitting solution to prevent fraud URL submissions as well.Turing TestTuring test is a test named after the father of modern computer science- ... Read More

Hold shutdown function of the system using shutdown7

Sharon Christine
Updated on 16-Jan-2020 11:50:49

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Shutdown7 is a compact application with feature-rich user interface that gives advancement to the window shutdown system – all in free. These shutdown7function get activated after specific condition in the system – on closing of an application, file deletion, music playback, or after a specific period of user activity.It is a very small and useful application to help the user to turn on or turn off the computer at a specific time. Only, user has to specify the exact date and time upon which computer get turned off and turned on. For example; when user runs some process and leave ... Read More

Speed up a slow pc without spending money

Sharon Christine
Updated on 16-Jan-2020 11:50:23

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If anybody PC gets slow down, they should not blame to the PC hardware. It’s true, they can speed up their PC by adding RAM, up-grading CPU, or exchanging hard drive with an SSD. All of these solutions tell to spend money.Users do not have to reinstall the operating system to speed-up their PC, they just have to apply some tricks on the PC to fixes the system problem.This article will definitely help those users who do not want to spend money on purchasing any tool (Software or hardware) at the time of system get slow down because of heavy ... Read More

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