Contest: Win 10 Licenses of BitDefender Internet Security 2010

Jan 31, 2010

An overview:

BitDefender, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, has introduced has introduced its 2010 edition of its world leading Internet Security & Antivirus solutions for India.

BitDefender Internet Security 2010 includes improved optimized scanning, intrusion detection, increases parental control, application time control, active virus control, in-product technical control, first-ever usage profiles and other system enhancements to provide industry leading proactive protection against all Internet Security Threats, along with improved system maintenance and backup, without slowing PC performance.It is advisable that you don’t run both Windows Firewall and BitDefender Firewall concurrently.

Why BitDefender 2010?

Active Virus Control is an innovative technology, monitoring programs running on a user’s computer as they execute and then notes malware-like actions. If enough such actions are detected, the program which ran them is declared harmful.

BitDefender 2010’s optimized scanning capability allows on-demand scans to be completed in half the time needed by previous versions. By avoiding scanning files known to be safe this process improves the scan speed and reduces the system load. BitDefender provides a database of files known to be safe, and updates this database on a continual basis.

BitDefender 2010 also features three dashboard views – Novice, Intermediate, and Expert – to better accommodate users with different levels of PC knowledge. For a full list ofBitDefender 2010 features and benefits by product, please visit here.

My Verdict: I have used BitDefender for almost 2 months and found it very reliable, the best part of it is, it don’t slow down your PC while scanning. I can assure you that if you are running Deep Scan Periodically than chances of your PC getting affected reduces considerably.

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Promote your website in 5 easy steps

Promoting your site isin’t an simple task there are lot that you have to do, today while surfing the net I read a lot of articles about it and most of them has the listed below things in common.

The following 5 steps helps you to promote your website, though there are a lot of ways, but I have included the first basic 5 steps that everyone must do, these 5 steps helps you to get initial traffic and ranking.

1. Submit your website to the three major search engines

Here are links to submit your site to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Baidu:

2. Verify your site with Webmaster Tools and submit a site-map

This step will help your website to get indexed in various search engines and thereby help in generating traffic from search engines.

3. Submit your site to website directories
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Add PayPal donate button on your website

Now since you have verified your Paypal account its time for exploring some more options of it, one of the option is to add a Donation Button. This button helps webmasters to earn some bucks by getting donations from there visitors.

By following the below steps you can easily add a Donate button in your website.

Step 1.Login to PayPal and click on ‘Merchant Services’ link shown in Navigation Bar.

Step 2. Now Scroll Down to PayPal Website Payments Standard and in Key features Box click on ‘Donation’

Step 3. Now you will reach to Create PayPal payment button page. Fill necessary information in step 1 of this page. In Transaction Notificationselect Use my PayPal email address.

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Become Our Fan and Win 180$ Hostgator Business Plan Free

Jan 26, 2010

As promised earlier, we are giving away free webhosting plans to our readers. This is the right time for all the bloggers and other users who wants to start blogging, as they may get a free webhost. We have reviewed Hostgator services and plans yesterday and now its time for giving away Hostgator Business Plan (their best plan) as we promised.

Contest Prize : We are giving away Hostgator Business Plan one year subscription which is worth 180$. Take a quick look at what this plan offers-

UNLIMITED Domains
UNLIMITED Disk Space
UNLIMITED Bandwidth
FREE Dedicated SSL & IP
FREE Toll-Free Number

How to Participate : To participate in the contest all you need to do is :

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5 Cool Websites Part – 3

Today we have included some really interesting websites, that even may help you to save few bucks from your pockets. So check out the most interesting coolwebsites that we discovered, all are free websites and will help you, if not right now than may be later. We suggest you to Bookmark these websites.

If you came across any website or want to include your website in our list than please contact us at coolwebsite@beingpc.com

So here are the today’s 5 websites that interest me and may interests you too.

1. Free Online File Conversion

ZamZar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents intodifferent formats. Have you ever wanted to
convert files without the need to download software? If yes than ZamZar can help you achieving this in 4 simple steps described below.

It is worth noticing that ZamZar is still in its Beat (it has a collection of thousands of file types) phase but is working out fine, if only they could have used some attractive interface than it may have attracted a lot of user. It is the simplest and best way to convert your Files online.

2. Check which games will run on your PC

Many time you want to know whether your computer supports the minimum system requirement for the latest game you want to play, for this the best option is to check the game homepage, but most of US don’t know whats is our current system configuration than how should we check/confirm whether a particular game will run on our computer or not.The answer is-

can you run it How To Check which games will run on your PC

What it does?

This site provides a One-Click solution that looks at your computer’s hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product. Each of yourcomputer’s components is evaluated to see how well it meets the minimum and recommended requirements for specific products. Recommendations are made on how to update or upgrade each component which does not meet the listed requirements. Sometimes, a simple, free software download is all that is needed. Sometimes you’ll find that you need a different videocard to fully experience what the game has to offer.

How To Check which games will run on your PC

All you have to do is go to Can you run It. Choose the name of the game for which you want to check your system requirement and click on Can U run It button.

3. Watch BollyWood and hoolyWood Movies Online

onlinewatchmovies.net is the most popular website for watching BollyWood andHollyWood Movies Online for free. But at the front note I would like to tell that this website is not tied up with any company, so its not legal to watch movies from this website. All the movies in this website are not on their servers (Clean Sweep for the owner if anyone file a case against them), all movies are uploaded to youtube and other websites.

So if you are movie lover and want to see movie online for any reason this is the best website for watching free movies online.

4. Post anything on the net with just an email

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email them at post@posterous.com and they reply instantly with your new posterous blog. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. Posterous is NOT a micro blog. There’s nothing micro about it! There are no limits to what you can post.

You can send anything! Posterous will accept any file you send and convert it to the most web friendly format available. They’ll host everything and publish it online instantly. You can attach any type of file and it will be posted along with the text of your email. Learn More about them here

5.Send Free Faxes Over the Internet

Need to send a fax to someone but you don’t have one? FaxZero lets you send a fax to any fax machine in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada for free. You don’t need a fax machine yourself, but you do need a valid e-mail address.

It doesn’t requires registration and all you need to do is to fill in your particulars, including the other party’s. Users can only fax 1 document per fax and it currently only supports .DOC and .PDF files. If you just want to fax plain text, simply type it in the textfield provided. Definitely, there will be some limitations such as you can only fax a maximum of 3 pages per document and up to 2 free faxes daily.

There record shows that till now total 2,200,768 faxes had been sent successfully.

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Google Chrome is back with a BANG

Google has just released its more stable version of Google Chrome 4.0 providing support for extensions and bookmark synchronizing. Google Google said it on their Official blog that -

We’re excited to usher in the new year with a bundle of browser goodness for the stable version of Google Chrome. With today’s new stable release, all Google Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features, through our new extension system.

Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add useful functionality to the browser and to the websites you visit. Some provide you with alerts and notifications, others let you easily access your favorite web services from icons next to your address bar, and there are lots more. Check out Extension Gallery for Extensions.

Check out top 10 Google Chrome Extensions that you should use.

Here is a walkthrough on how to install extensions:

In addition to extensions, another feature that’s moving from our beta to the stable channel on the Windows version of Google Chrome is bookmark sync. For those of you who use several computers — for example, a laptop at work and a desktop at home — you can now keep your Google Chrome bookmarks synchronized and up-to-date across computers, without needing to manually recreate your bookmarks every time you switch computers. To read more on bookmark sync. We have already covered Bookmark Synchronization earlier.

IPL 2010 Official Schedule [Season 3]

Jan 20, 2010

IPL 3 Schedule –
Day 1 – Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Hyderabad, March 12, 8 pm IST
Day 2 – Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals
Mumbai, March 13, 4 pm IST
Day 2 – Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils
Mohali, March 13, 8 pm IST
Day 3 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Kolkata, March 14, 4 pm IST
Day 3 – Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers
Chennai, March 14, 8 pm IST
Day 4 – Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils
Ahmedabad, March 15, 8 pm IST
Day 5 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab
Bengaluru, March 16, 4 pm IST
Day 5 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings
Kolkata, March 16, 8 pm IST
Day 6 – Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians
Delhi, March 17, 8 pm IST
Day 7 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals
Bengaluru, March 18, 8 pm IST
Day 8 – Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings
Delhi, March 19, 4pm IST
Day 8 – Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab
Vizag, March 19, 8 pm IST
Day 9 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Ahmedabad, March 20, 4 pm IST
Day 9 – Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Mumbai, March 20, 8 pm IST
Day 10 – Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils
Vizag, March 21, 4 pm IST
Day 10 – Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Chennai, March 21, 8 pm IST
Day 11 – Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Mumbai, March 22, 8 pm IST
Day 12 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings
Bengaluru, March 23, 8 pm IST
Day 13 – Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals
Mohali, March 24, 8 pm IST
Day 14 – Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Mumbai, March 25, 8 pm IST
Day 15 – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers
Ahmedabad, March 26, 8 pm IST
Day 16 – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Mohali, March 27, 4 pm IST
Day 16 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils
Bengaluru, March 27, 8 pm IST
Day 17 – Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings
Ahmedabad, March 28, 4 pm IST
Day 17 – Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians
Hyderabad, March 28, 8 pm IST
Day 18 – Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Delhi, March 29, 8 pm IST
Day 19 – Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai, March 30, 8 pm IST
Day 20 – Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Chennai, March 31, 4 pm IST
Day 20 – Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals
Delhi, March 31, 8 pm IST
Day 21 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers
Kolkata, April 1, 8 pm IST
Day 22 – Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Mohali, April 2, 8 pm IST
Day 23 – Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
Chennai, April 3, 4 pm IST
Day 23 – Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers
Mumbai, April 3, 8 pm IST
Day 24 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab
Kolkata, April 4, 4 pm IST
Day 24 – Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Delhi, April 4, 8 pm IST
Day 25 – Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals
Hyderabad, April 5, 8 pm IST
Day 26 – Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians
Chennai, April 6, 8 pm IST
Day 27 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab
Jaipur* / Ahmedabad, April 7, 4 pm IST
*To be confirmed subject to inspection
Day 27 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils
Kolkata, April 7, 8 pm IST
Day 28 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Deccan Chargers
Bengaluru, April 8, 8 pm IST
Day 29 – Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians
Mohali, April 9, 8 pm IST
Day 30 – Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings
Hyderabad, April 10, 4 pm IST
Day 30 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Bengaluru, April 10, 8 pm IST
Day 31 – Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab
Delhi, April 11, 4 pm IST
Day 31 – Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians
Jaipur* / Ahmedabad, April 11, 8 pm IST
*To be confirmed subject to inspection
Day 32 – Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Hyderabad, April 12, 8 pm IST
Day 33 – Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Mumbai, April 13, 4 pm IST
Day 33 – Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai, April 13, 8 pm IST
Day 34 – Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Jaipur* / Ahmedabad, April 14, 8 pm IST
*To be confirmed subject to inspection
Day 35 – Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils
Chennai, April 15, 8 pm IST
Day 36 – Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers
Dharamsala, April 16, 8 pm IST
Day 37 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Bengaluru, April 17, 4 pm IST
Day 37 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals
Kolkata, April 17, 8 pm IST
Day 38 – Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings
Dharamsala, April 18, 4 pm IST
Day 38 – Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers
Delhi, April 18, 8 pm IST
Day 39 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians
Kolkata, April 19, 8 pm IST
Day 40 – SemiFinal 1
Bengaluru, April 21, 8 pm IST
Day 41 – SemiFinal 2
Bengaluru, April 22, 8 pm IST
Day 42 – 3rd Place
Mumbai, April 24, 8 pm IST
Day 43 – FINAL
Mumbai, April 25, 8 pm IST

Hackers take over Baidu

Jan 18, 2010

We all remember last month Twitter was hacked by a group of Hacker who call themselves “Iranian Cyber Army”.

The message read

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

After this Iranian Army has grown and now they are emerging as a big group, we can only speculate there power by seeing that they are able to Hack China’s Biggest Search Engine (it was no more Hack it was a real time war, continue reading to know why I am saying it a War).

Baidu is a Chinese search engine established in 2000. According to the Alexa traffic ranking, the website is currently number one in China and eight in the world. What actually happened ishackers hijacked the Baidu domain’s DNS records and pointed it to a server under their control.

After hacking Baidu they posted the following message

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Google Chrome Plugins and Extensions

Jan 13, 2010

So far in beingPC we have already learnt about

Google Wave and
Google Chrome OS

Now its time for Chrome browser Plugins or Extensions
Google hasn’t launched its Chrome Extension gallery yet, but stil there are a large repository of extensions ready for you to download. I have taken a deep look on some must have and some have a look type extensions of Google Chrome which i am sharing with you.

Note: Extension Only Meant For Latest Developer Builds of Chrome 4.0+.

AdBlock+

A simple extension to block all Ads. Though i never suggest you to use it.

LastPass

Bubble Translate

It is a simple translater extension which will translate the selected text on any web page into your selected native tongue.

gPDF

gPDF is a handy tool to view PDF files online. It scans webpages for PDF links and set them to open with Google Docs Viewer. You don’t need any desktop based PDF viewer (like : Adobe Reader) to open a PDF link. gPDF changes the destination URL for PDF link and set it to open with GDocs Viewer!

Gmail Checker – 1.9

A handy Extension to Check your Email without even going to GMail.

Minimize to Tray

Extension to minimize Windows version of Google Chrome browser to system tray.

Google Reader Checker

Want to read feed directly on Google Chrome so this extension will be helpful to you.

Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screen capture of the visible portion of any web page and it will open in an editor where you can crop it, add text and arrow markup, get color information or move around areas. You can easily save it to your desktop or host it online. The extension also lets you quick launch any of Aviary’s web editor design apps. View extension screenshots by clicking on the thumbnail and using the arrow keys.

Session Saver

Chrome though automatically restore the tabs that you have closed while browsing (use CTRL+SHIFT+T), but what if you want the ability to restore a sets of tabs from a specific session? Session Saver allows you to manually save an entire set of Chrome windows and tabs for easy restoration at any time.

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IE Tweaker

We are pleased to release a full fledged PowerToys/Tweaker utility “IE Tweaker v1.0” for its users.

IE Tweaker is a freebie that will help to fix various issues with Internet Explorer. It has also a great number of fixes/tweaks that will help you to enable/disable any options with ease and without getting in to registry. IE Tweaker will be a great utility for those, who don’t want to play with the Windows registry.

Most of the PowerToys will work for the previous versions of Internet Explorer also. However, we have tested only on IE7, and IE8. Some tweaks may not work with previous versions like InPrivate Browsing because they aren’t available in that version.

IE Tweaker has the following menu options, which caters you with 90+ tweaks, and fixes:

Browsing Options – This menu option helps you to quickly turn off/on the following:
Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing
Clear Junk Files - This option will help you to quickly remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data.
Tweak IE – Tweak IE menu has the following tabs:

Basic Tweaks – Offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc.,
Browser Menus – Helps you to disable/enable the Browser Menus
Toolbars – Helps you to hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar etc
Control Panel – Helps you to hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools -> Internet Options.
Advanced – Helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibity view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options.

Restrictions – This menu option has the following tabs:

Restrictions tab – Provides you various restriction options such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Autocomplete features etc.,
Settings tab – Restricts the users to change various settings.

Security – Allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc.,
Repair – Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.
In addition to it we have also provided desktop Shortcuts for various modes of Internet Explorer in Shortcuts Folder.
How to use this tool:
Download the tool from the link below.
Execute the IE Tweaker.exe file (This is a direct executable and will not install any software/adware/spyware in your PC).
Use the options.
However, we recommends to backup the Windows Registry and create a Restore point before using IE Tweaker. This will help you to restore to a previous condition, when you feel that the option didn’t work as expected.
Please refer the appropriate MS KB articles to know the detailed process of backing up the registry, and creating a restore point as the steps may differ from one Operating system to the other.
You can also use the “Reset to Defaults” button on the welcome page to revert the changes.

IE Tweaker v1.0 is developed by me (Ritesh Kawdkar), and published by IETips.net.
We are also thanks Anand Khanse MVP for all his support.

Minimum requirements – Windows XP (with .NET Framework 3.5)
Supported OS: Windows XP, Windows VISTA, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit both)
Sincere Thanks to our Beta Testers:

Niting Agrawal,
Ankur Mittal, and
Hari Maurya

For any queries and assistance leave a comment below or proceed to Publishers Page for more information.

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