If you are a Firefox fan and like working on it but are irritated as your Firefox is running slow then here is a simple utility that can improve your Firefox browser’s performance and reduce the reaction time.

The utility is called as Firefox Booster which is a small and simple app designed to accelerate and speed up the Firefox browser. What this utility does is, it configures your Firefox browser according to the internet speed you have. It changes the profile of the browser according to the internet type you have.
The tool displays the internet speed as image of cars, choose your type and this tool will automatically make your Firefox adapt to the internet speed you have. In short this is a nice way to optimize your browser.
Download Firefox Booster

Orkut account Hacked / taken over ( and deleted after being hacked by someone.)
General methods of hacking Orkut Account :-
1. Phishing using fake page.
2. Using Keyloggers / remote key loggers.
3. Brute force attack.
4. Using Java Scripts

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5. Using greasemonkey scripts.
6. By cookie stealing method.
7. Other methods.
Explanation of each method is beyond the level and i dont wanna go in details.
Follow these steps:
1. Try to reset your password – Go Here or Here
2. If not able to do so then fill this form providing as much correct details as you can. ( the correctness of info provided will determine weather you will get back your a/c or not so give your best guess if you dont remember something.Contact Orkut for password reset.
3. If your Orkut Account has been deleted after being hacked. do fill this form (Click here ) immediately.
You will get password reset link through email. Do change your password and login to your Account as soon as you can.
4. Always remember these points:

• Donot ever login to any site rather than www.orkut.com
• Donot ever run any javascripts while logged into your orkut account, Never use any flooder in your account
• Donot ever share your password with anyone else and keep changing your password regularly.
• Donot ever click suspicious link while logged into Orkut Account. if you are curious you can copy the link and check them in other browser after cleaning it’s browser’s cookie and cache.
• Donot ever install any suspicious script on greasemoneky and always disable greasemoneky before logging in to orkut.
• Do your mobile verification also, so that you can get back your account if hacker doesn’t change the mobile number there.( Verify mobile here )

In 21st century, Internet is accessed by the people of all ages for their respective purposes either for education, work, entertainment and many more. You can get knowledge about everything which is existing or in research. But, now-a-days this option has become a reason of concern for the parents and teachers regarding their young children.
Parents can’t always keep an eye on their child’s internet activities so its better to use some precautions and safety measures to ensure a safe experience of internet. But most of the parents do not know how to do that.
In solution to this, Google has come up with some tools and advices for parents by which they can protect and educate their young children on using the internet.
Google has provided some tools and controls that help you manage your online experience.
There is an option of ‘Google Safe Search’ which is designed to remove sites that contains sexually explicit content from our search results. By default, Moderate Safe Search is ON but for more precautions you can select Strict Safe Search.
You can do this by going in the option of ‘Search Settings’ at the top-right of Google homepage and then in the option ‘SafeSearch Filtering’.

There is a possibility that your children knows about this setting and can do changes without your knowledge. For this, there is an option of saving your setting using a password by going in the option ‘Lock SafeSearch’.
After locking your search option, your Google search will appear with colored balls which will ensure you that your kids searches are safe even from a distance.
Also, you can work closely with the organisations such as charities, others in our industry and government bodies dedicated to protecting young people. There are some common issues that are of big concerns to parents which are:
1. Sexually explicit and violent material
2. Meeting strangers online
3. Sharing too much personal information
4. Cyber bullying
5. Exposure to vulgar language
6. Sites promoting inappropriate behaviours such as eating disorders and drug use
7. Malware
You can read the advices of these organisations on these topics on the given link:
Advice on Safety Issues
You can also report inappropriate content on YouTube, Buzz, Blogger and Picasa Web Albums.
For example, if you find any video on YouTube inappropriate then, you can report it by just clicking ‘Flag’ below the link which will show a list of reason why you want to report that video. Just select the appropriate one and click ‘Flag this video’.
The video will then be reviewed by a team and if found inappropriate, will be deleted.
Likewise, read how to report abuse to other sites in the given link:
Reporting Inappropriate Content
 Source:Troublefixers
You can also watch videos of parents view on this topic on Thoughts From Parents.

We always have many ways to find out if user is invisible or offline on yahoo. But finding if the user is offline on Google Talk is tough before this.
Follow the steps and you will end up finding the actual status of the user.

• Open The Chat window of the user, you want to check the status.
• Click on option and click on “Go Off the Record”

• Now message user
• If you get something in red that the user is offline and can’t receive messages that means the user is offline

• If you didn’t get any message in red that means user is online in invisible mode..:)

If you want that the explicit websites which are available in plenty over internet, doesn’t capture the young fantasy of your child, then you can use a toll called Parental Control Bar to block all explicit sites.
Parental Control Bar is a very simple tool which blocks all those adult and explicit sites which could capture your child’s fantasy and distract them from studies. This tool will help you in monitoring your family’s online activity and prevent your child from distracting his mind. This tool will install as a tab on your web browser and hence with one simple click, you can turn on Child lock.
When you run the installation file of this tool, you will be asked to enter a password. Actually this is the password which you will be require to enter if you want to unlock the child mode and switch to parental mode. I will tell about both modes later. So in first box, enter any password and repeat same for second box. Third box is basically the question which you want this tool to ask, when you want to switch to parental mode.

Now in the next step you are required to enter your e-mail address so that if in case you forget your Parental Mode password, this tool will send you mail about your password and hence you will be able to retrieve your password. But before entering your mail address, ensure that your children don’t knows it password or you have not saved it on your browser.

Once all the setup is complete, you will see a tab bar on your explorer as shown below.

This tool automatically open in parental mode. Parental mode means mode in which you have access to all web sites as you usually have. But if you want to turn on block feature for you child, you will just need to click on Parental Mode and then this will automatically change to Child Mode.

Now all explicit sites will be blocked. If in case your child tries to open any explicit site, he will get an error message that access to request site is denied. You can see below how this error message look like.

Only you have authority to enter your password and access the site but no other person open website without knowing the password. By default, this tool block many of web sites which you may find not at all harmful for your child. For example it blocks search engine Google because from here anyone can search even for adult material.
So if you find any of your child’s necessity site being blocked by this tool, you can even all that site o safe list and give permission to allow that site to open in child mode. For adding any site to safe list, you will need to switch to parental mode and then open that particular site and then click on Add Site to Safe List present on tab bar and then again enter password to add that particular site to safe list.

You can even go to kid tracker to see which all are the sites open by your child. So in this way you can completely monitor your child.

The size of this tool is 4.75 Mb and it will itself get added in you internet browser when you install it. This tool is compatible with all the versions of Windows and has been tested successfully on Window 7 Ultimate –32 bit edition.
Download ParentalControl

Many of my friends who don’t know don’t have much experience with websites, often ask me this basic question of how can they easily upload a file to their website and then link to it from the website or some where else. Sometimes the ftp programs suggested to them are confusing or not easy to understand, so in such a case a person who is laymen and does not understand how websites work face many problems.

In such cases you can use this very basic and easy to understand program called FTP Droplet allows you to upload file or any type and size on to your website very easily and quickly through ftp.

Only thing required to use this program is that you must know the FTP username and password to upload your files to the website. This application is completely portable, you just need to extract all the files contents from the zip archive you will download [ download link at the end of the post ]

After extracting the contents you first need to run configurator.exe which will open a window in which you would need to enter you site ftp path of your website, ftp username and ftp password a shown in the image below.


After Entering the required details click Save settings button and then Load Settings button, now start FTP Droplet Lite Program from its executable from the folder where you extracted all the files.
Now choose the file to upload and then click the button Send File after locating the file to be uploaded.

This application is the easiest program to upload to any website which support FTP Upload.
Download FTP Droplet

Stream Transport is a free to use program which lets you download hulu tv shows, record hulu movies, capture hulu movies to your computer, and also supports downloading videos from many other videos sites like Youtube, Google Video, MySpace, Yahoo video, CBS, MTV, Megavideo, Photobucket, Dailymotion and Veoh etc.

For all those who love watching videos and then want to download videos to your computer, this program can used in such cases with wide number of video downloading sites.

Some Key Features

• Widely support for overwhelming online videos
  The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh, Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video, CBS, etc.
• Capture URL automatically
  The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no bother to add URL manually.
• Enrich your A/V collection
  This FLV Downloader is capable of downloading almost any video and audio file you can play online so that you can turn numerous online video and audio into your own collection. The videos will be saved as FLV or MP4 format in your media library and a powerful player is inlaid for you to play them back freely.
• Considerate task manager and view log
  The task manager lists detailed information of files such as name, size, progress, location etc and allows you to play, stop, delete and convert (full version) the FLV files downloaded. Auto shutdown is available as well. The view log makes it easier to manage your tasks.
• Convert downloaded videos freely
  You are allowed to convert the downloaded videos to various video and audio formats compatible with portable devices like iPod, iPhone, 3G phone, etc and enjoy them whenever and wherever you like.

Similar Programs – Hulu Downloader

There could a situation when you want to save the location map of a place you are going to, just for your own references so that you can later locate the roads and streets going to right directions by opening the google map downloaded for that area. 
GMapCatcher is a free program which can help you download google maps and then view them offline, It downloads CloudMade, OpenStreetMap or Google Map tiles automatically, display them using a specific GUI. It doesn’t depend on google-map’s java scripts so it should work even if google changes them.

In order to download maps for a particular area of the world, search the location first and then zoom it to the right level so that things you want to see visible like roads, streets etc and then click Download map button to start downloading the maps offline for that area.

Before starting the downloading, you can also specify the latitude, longitude, width and height of that area in km and then click the download button, these options will help you get the specific map portion you require to see offline.  
 
Also Read – Download Google Maps To Mobile Phone
Download GMapCatcher

Google Calendar is one such easy to use tool which allows you to organise, manage your meetings and events easily, but in order to use it you would need to open calendar.google.com in your Internet browser. We have already written a tip on how sync windows 7 calendar with google calendar, today we will tell you about free google calendar desktop tool called GMinder which lets you manage events in google calendar directly through its interface.
GMinder – is a reminder program that waits in your system tray and alerts you when you have an upcoming Google Calendar event. GMinder supports multiple calendars and allows you to configure how you want to be alerted. Since it downloads your events, it works offline and enables you to preview your agenda of events. New events can be added to your Google Calendars using a Quick Add feature.

Once this program is installed, you can double click the system tray icon of this program to see the current and future events scheduled in GMinder. Moreover you can quickly add tasks and event in google calendar by right clicking the system tray icon of this application and select Add Event

Now type about your event with message and day it will added automatically to google calendar.
 
Following are some key features this google calendar desktop tool

• Refresh rate - How often GMinder will check online for changes to your calendars
• Preload - How many days into the future GMinder will download events for
• Test connectivity before downloading events – If events will not download even if your calendars can be downloaded, then disable this option because ECHO is probably disabled on your network (possibly blocked by your admin).
• Always on top - Force the Reminder window to always display on top of all other windows
• Future – Set the background color for events that are in the future
• Soon – Events that are soon are about to start
  • Popup – Show the reminder window when an event will start soon
  • Sound – Play a sound when an event will start soon
  • Minutes – How many minutes before an events start you want to be alerted
• Now – Events that are currently in progress
  • Popup – Show the reminder window when an event starts
  • Sound – Play a sound when an event starts
• Past – Events that have ended
  • Dismiss – Automatically dismiss (remove) events after they end
• Sound – Change the sound that plays during an alert

Note: You can add and merge google calendar from multiple google accounts.
Download GMinder

Google.cn is now redirecting to google.com.hk [ Hong Kong google servers ] – this has happened after the cyber attack on google china servers in december. right now if you try to access the google china web, news and image search are being redirected to google.com.hk 

Below is short snippet of the update about this on google official blog

So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected toGoogle.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.

As per the news Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 has been leaked on Internet, Leaked Windows Live Wave 4 includes Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Photo Gallery, Windows Live, Live Movie Maker and other new applications

However this build has been limited to certain beta testers only, but a patch has been created so that other windows live messenger users can use this new version of windows live messenger. There is no ad patch program right now supports this new version of windows live messenger, but we will  keep you updated as soon as it comes. You can download the new Live Messenger and its patch from the link given below.
Wave 4 Live Messenger Installer |  Messenger Patch

Google has recently released the latest version of the browser Chrome 4 with the added security and vulnerability fixes. It was required to add these features to keep up with the changing technologies and risks with them.

Users of the browser are automatically prompted to update their browser with this improved and stable version with the fixes of the security vulnerabilities. The latest version includes the improved features of speed, security, simplicity apart from the other usual features.
This version will be less of the experimental anti-reflected-XSS feature called “XSS Auditor” as it caused some problems with the older versions throughout the world.
To download the latest version Chrome 4, visit the Chrome official site.

If you have been dealing mostly with the private stuffs or some secret data that you don’t want to disclose then cleaning all the cookies and history will surely add up to your privacy but for the people who don’t know how to operate, here is a free tool called Liksoft.

Cleaning all the data saved by the computer while surfing the net is a good habit and it leaves the other user with less chances to view your private details. This program can quickly clean history of your web browsing and computer use permanently.
The tool is free to download and simple to use, moreover it can clear internet temporary files, clear cookies, clear IE address bar URL history, clear IE auto-form history, clear IE password history, clear IE internet history items, clear IE my favorite links, clear system temporary folder, clear recycle bin, clear finding files history, clear history of run command, clear recent documents, etc with just a single click.
Download Liksoft Free Clear History

Cache files are important files that are automatically saved in the browser for future use. It is because of these files that we are able to browse net pages when being offline.

But managing them may be bit of problem for some people as they occupy space and should be deleted once in a while. Managing the cache files is not a problem anymore as you can manage them easily and automatically using a free tool called CacheSort.
Automatically move files from Internet Explorer’s cache into folders based on the files’ extensions.
Features:
• Very handy for storing movies and other files downloaded from the Internet.
• Can be used to watch other folders.
• Only move files bigger than a given value.
• Run a program when a new file is found.
• Move or copy files.
The tool is free and requires no installation.
Download CacheSort

In my earlier post I had discussed about how to capture the IP address of a remote computer. Once you obtain this IP address it is necessary to trace it back to it’s source. So in this post I will show you how to trace any IP address back to it’s source. In fact tracing an IP address is very simple and easy than we think. There exists many websites through which you can trace any IP address back to it’s source. One of my favorite site is ip2location.com. Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address.
1. Country in which the IP is located
2. Region
3. City
4. Latitude/Longitude
5. Zip Code
6. Time Zone
7. Name of the ISP
8. Internet Speed
9. Weather Station
10. Area Code and
11. Domain name associated with the IP address.

• As firewall, a proxy protects the local network from outside access.
• As IP-addresses multiplexer, a proxy allows to connect a number of computers to Internet when having only one IP-address.
• Proxy servers can be used (to some extent) to anonymize web surfing.
• Specialized proxy servers can filter out unwanted content, such as ads or ‘unsuitable’ material.
• Proxy servers can afford some protection against hacking attacks.

Anonymizers

• Anonymizers are services that help make your own web surfing anonymous.
• The first anonymizer developed was Anonymizer.com, created in 1997 by Lance Cottrell.
• An anonymizer removes all the identifying information from a user’s computers while the user surfs the Internet, thereby ensuring the privacy of the user.

Can we chat without Yahoo messenger? Most of us are familiar with the most widely used applications such as Yahoo messenger and Gtalk to carry out chatting with our friends.But here I’ll show how to chat without Yahoo messenger or Gtalk.As we all know the information we exchange with their servers(Yahoo or Gtalk) are recorded and stored along with the corresponding IP addresses.This may hurt our privacy since all the information we exchange while chatting has to pass through a third party server.

You can update your Windows 7 PC which is connected to Internet by going to Control Panel > Windows Update. But in case you have a Windows 7 Computer without internet access and you want to update it you may face difficulties. Also if you have more than one Windows 7 PC and you want to download the Windows Updates only once and using it to update your all Windows 7 Desktop / Laptop PC.

In this article I will share two tools which allow you to download Windows Updates on a PC which is connected to the Internet and save those updates and re-use these updates to Install on the Windows 7 desktop / laptop computers which are not connected to Internet or otherwise.
We have already reviewed similar tools to Save and Re-Use Downloaded Windows Update Files but they are not Windows 7 Compatible. In this article I will review two tools which support Windows 7 32bit and 68 bit versions.

Download Windows 7 Updates With AutoPatcher 1.3 Onwards

AutoPatcher is a very renowned and long existing tool, its 1.3 version onwards are Windows 7 Compatible. The AutoPatcher tool is very Simple to use and is very effective. When you run it for the first time, it will show you the available updates to Install and will then download these updates to your computer which isconnected to Internet. You can use these updates to Install Windows 7 Updates on computers which are not connected to the Internet or other Windows 7 Computers.
To start with, download the AutoPatcher Installer, extract the downloaded file and run the downloader file named – apup.exe , this file will download the required components. You can also download AutoPatcher User guide if you need any detailed description.


I have tested it on my Windows 7 Desktop PC and it works like a charm without any hassles. It downloads the updates and will show you the progress of the updates while downloading.

After the download is completed, you need to go back to the same folder where you stared apup.exe, there you will find a file called autopatcher.exe, run this file and it will install the AutoPatcher 1.3 update install engine on your computer.
You can copy the entire apup folder to any computer and run the autopatcher.exe on the PC on which you want to install updates offline.


Downloading updates on one PC connected to Internet and then installing on all the Windows 7 PCs that you have will save a lots of download and time. You can copy these downloaded updates in a pen drive, on LAN or on a DVD and use them on allthe Windows 7 PCs you have.

Download Windows 7 Updates Using WSUS Offline Update Tool

The WSUS Offline Update tool is another very simple tool to download offline updates for Windows 7. Apart from Windows 7 32bit and 64 bit version, you can also download updates for Windows XP 32bit and 64 bit, Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit, Windows Vista 32bit and 64 bit editions.
 
It also allows you to download offline updates for Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007 in multiple languages.

It allows you to directly copy the updates to a USB pen drive using which you can Install it on multiple computers without any problem.
Download WSUS Offline Update Generator

Many of us use Firefox as our primary browser but there could be one your realize that you need to upgrade your computer operating system, but you don’t want to lose any of your Firefox bookmarks, extensions, remembered password and other browser settings.

We had already posted about several tools which lets you backup settings and Firefox profile selectively, these tools are FavBackup, FEBE and MozBackup. Today we will tell you about another free tool which lets you take the backup of your entire profile with all settings and extensions.

PortProfile is a simple to use tool which lets you import and export entire profile in Firefox from one computer to another and vice versa. The selected profile is exported as .ppz file which can be imported using this tool again on any other computer.

Note: It requires Java 6 at least to run on any Windows or Linux computer, following are some key features of this application.

Compress and store profile

• Choice to choose among existing profiles
• Export to user’s home directory
• Export to remote location (FTP/SFTP)⁺

Unzip and set profile

• Import form a local file
• Import from a remote file (FTP/SFTP)⁺

Download PortProfile [ For Linux or Windows ]

How to Watch Movies From Torrent Files Without Downloading Them

Torrents have become the most popular way to share and download movies, there are several torrent clients that allow you to download files using torrents. But what if you want to watch a movie without having to download the torrent?

If you are looking to do that, we have found a nifty little software that will allow you to view movies without having to download the torrents. RARPlayer is a multimedia torrent player, which will allow you to view high quality movies without having to physically download them.

RARPlayer does not use much CPU resources and can be run on slower computers to enjoy DVD quality playback for movies.

RARPlayer supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as:
DivX, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Xvid, 3ivx, QT QuickTime MOV, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , mkv, asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, , mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, AC3, aif, ram, wma…

rar-player-select-movie rar-player-view-movie

RARPlayer is free to use and is definitely a must have if you do not want to download and store the video files but just want to watch it once.

Note: You will have to download the torrent file before you can watch the movie with RARPlayer.
http://rarbg.com/player_en.php