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10 Ways To Protect Your Online Privacy

Young — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:51:18 +0000

When online, whether reading emails, updating Facebook status, playing games, or doing any other things, your activities will be tracked automatically, by the services you are using and/or some other third-party ones.

While you can't control those services to share your data or not, you can control yourself to protect your online privacy, and to reduce the risk in case they do, with the following 10 ways:

1. To keep your device clean

Whether using a computer, smart phone, table computer or any other device with internet access, you'd better keep its operating systems up to date, as well as use reliable anti-virus software to remove any malware.

To be more safe, you can also clear browser history, remove all saved passwords, lock disk secret files with strong passwords, and so on.

2. To keep your applications clean

When the operating systems are up to date, make sure the browsers (such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.), Skype, Twitter and/or any other installed apps are also up to date.

3. To hide your IP

When your public IP address is hidden, others are harder to track your location and identity.

To do so, you can use Proxy, SSH and/or VPN.

4. To use HTTPS connection

If a website site can be connected via both HTTP and HTTPS, use the second one, though which load speed will be a little slower, you will be more safe.

For how to use HTTPS, you can check out these 3 ways.

5. To avoid untrustful sites

Before opening an unfamiliar site, you can check out if it is trustful or not via Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic, Unmask Parasites, WOT or some other free tools.

If the site is reported as untrustful, you'd better not visit it.

6. To find out the trackers

When visiting a site, you can check out who will track you with Collusion, and prevent (some of) them from doing so via Disconnect.

And if there is any strange and suspicious tracker — which you can find out with the free tools mentioned in way 5, you'd better close the site at once.

7. To keep an eye on what you download

Do not download strange files (including movies, software, browser extensions, etc.) which you feel doubt, such as a software in a pop-up window which claims that your computer has been infected, a file with unknown type, a browser warning asking you to open a file, so on and so forth.

By the way, "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity", it is better to only download the files you really need.

8. To keep an eye on what you click

When in doubt, leave it out.

For any strange link in email, message, comment or any other place, check it via Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic, Unmask Parasites, WOT or some other free tools as mentioned in way 5, if the result says that the link is not safe, then you'd better not click it.

9. To use 2-Step Verification

Up till now, 2-Step Verification is the most safe login mode for your account, so, if the service (such as Gmail) you are using supports 2-Step Verification, active it.

And if the service you are using doesn't support 2-Step Verification, make sure you can get your account back any time via your (another) email, mobile phone, security questions or some other ways, which will help you stop privacy leaking when your account is hacked.

10. Do not share your privacy

In fact, even though you have followed all the above 9 ways or even some more which are not mentioned in this post, your online privacy still can't be 100% safe, since there will be hackers, leakers, NSA, and some other uncertain threats, so, the best way to protect your online privacy is NOT to put the privacy which you don't like to be known by others online.

Without putting your home address, credit card, phone number and some other important personal information online, you can still protect yourself from stalking, stealing, spamming and many other threats, even though your original IP address, email box, Facebook account and/or some other privacies have been hacked.

So, while there are always risks, you can still protect your online privacy very well by following the above 10 ways.

Image Credit: c2k2e@Flickr

How To Find Your Phone IP Address

Young — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:51:47 +0000

To find your computer's public IP address, you can just ask Google "What is my IP", then you will get the answer, correctly and uniquely.

So, how to find your smart phone, table computer or Kindle Fire's IP address? You can also just ask Google "What is my IP", as what you can do on your computer.

A piece of cake, right?

In fact, if you can do something on your computer's browsers, you probably can do that on your smart phone, table computer, Kindle Fire, or any other device's, though the experiences may be not so friendly. For example, you maybe need to ZOOM IN to view a blog post on your phone.

The most obvious and big difference between a computer's browser and a smart phone's (or any other device's) is that the later one rarely support Adobe Flash, which will prevent you from watching videos or playing audio based on flash.

But there are really some browsers support flash on your phones, such as Puffin Browser (for iOS and Android), Photon Flash Player & Browser (for Android), Firefox Browser for Android, and so on.

And what is more, as an alternative to Adobe Flash, HTML5 is becoming more and more popular and widely used, it will be possibly for you to do everything that you can do on your computer browser on your smart phone, table computer, Kindle Fire, or any other device's in future.

Best 3 Sites Like Movie2k

Young — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:01:59 +0000

As one of the best video sites for you to watch movies online free, Movie2k is not available anymore.

When visiting Movie2k.to, Movie2k.com, Movie2k.me or Movie2k.ws, you will only see an information page written by the German Pirate Party, for whose server those domains have been redirected to.

As a fan, it is upset to lose Movie2k, but luckily, there are also some other sites like it for us to watch movies online free, such as the following 3:

1. PrimeWire.ag

The PrimeWire.ag website is nothing new, but just with a new domain redirected from LetMeWatchThis.ch, which is available for you to watch many movies and TV series online free via different movie resources, such as novamov, tudou, vidxden, etc.

By the way, the old domain 1Channel.ch is still hijacked, so now it is better to use PrimeWire.ag only.

2. Zmoive

The Zmovie website offers video links to thousands of movies and TV series from dailymotion.com, youku.com, veoh.com and many other sites.

Recently, you can get access to the Zmovie website via "http://91.223.82.118/", "http://91.223.82.39/", "http://zmovie.tv/", or "http://www1.zmovie.co/".

3. Noobroom.com

In fact, the Noobroom.com website has no videos, instead, you need to visit the new domain listed on the website homepage, such as Nooroom7.com for now.

Besides movies, Noobroom.com also offers TV series, but which are NOT free.

Like Movie2k, all the above 3 sites only offer video links to Divxstage, NovaMov, Sockshare and some other sites, and which MUST be against SOME copyright, but anyway, they are fighters and still alive.

And besides the above 3 sites mentioned, you can also check out Movie4k.to (only using this domain), which is a clone of movie2k.to, as what yo can see from the following screenshot:

RIP, Movie2k.

Share Your Likes On Persona

Young — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:21:51 +0000

When listening to a good song on Facebook, seeing a funny photo on Instagram, or watching an interesting video on YouTube, you probably want to LIKE it and share with your friends.

In that case, it will be a good idea to put all your LIKEs on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube together and share them on just one new place.

Persona is such a place for you to show the music, photos and videos you like on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr and Vimeo.

On the Perso.na site, you can sign up with your Facebook account or email address, and connect to your Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr and/or Vimeo accounts, then you are done, and your likes of music, videos (including movies), and/or photos (including galleries) on those connected social networking sites will be imported and displayed together automatically.

Besides, you can also find and follow other users, like their LIKEs, and enter any keywords to seek LIKEs.

For every music, photo or video on the Persona site, you can like it and share it on your Persona profile timeline (such as this), go to its original URL, share it on Facebook and Twitter directly, or copy the Persona link to share it anywhere else you like.

While Persona is easy for you to share your likes from multiple places onto only one, it also has some shortcomings, such as that you can't find out the pages you like, though you can go to the original URLs of the photos, music and videos mentioned on them; you can't share your likes of text, though you can share those of music, photos and videos; and it only support English, though you can still see the photos, listen to the music, and watch the videos of Chinese or any other languages with “?” description.

A Quick Way To Fix The XML Parsing Error

Young — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:23:38 +0000

When the post How To Configure Snova For C4 was published, the RSS feed of Free Nuts was invalid, but which I did NOT know until today!

According to Feed Validator, the problem was caused by an "XML parsing error", as what you can see from the following screenshot:

To be honest, I have no idea what the error means, nor how to fix it, since I think there is nothing wrong with the HTML codes marked above.

Instead to double-check the entire HTML source of the original post, I copied the whole rich text, pasted it into the free online HTML editor CKEditor, and copied its source codes, then paste them back to replace those of the original post, as a result, the "XML parsing error" was resolved, and the RSS feed was valid again.

By the way, the new HTML source will be different to the original one, more or less, for example, the image of the post had been in center, but it was in left now. So you'd better double-check to make sure everything is OK, and to make some adjustment if necessary.

ALthough it will be quick to fix the XML parsing error, it will be better to check the RSS feed immediately when publishing a new post on the blog, what do you think?

A Free Swiss VPN — Telecomix

Young — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:33:34 +0000

In a country with internet censorship, you are not allowed to make a VPN, that's why most free VPN services are from US, UK, CA and some other democracies.

When more and more people from democracies are travelling to China, Iran, Vietnam and/or some other authoritarian states, VPN services will be more popular, and some of which will be from Japanese, Nertherland, Romania and so on.

The following will show you a new one — Telecomix, which is from Switzerland, and offers both a PPTP VPN account as well as an OpenVPN one.

For the PPTP VPN, its account information will be the following:

Host: vpn.rrspot.net or 31.172.42.78
User: telecomix
Password: telecomix

With the above data, you can follow the site's instruction with screenshot to set up the Swiss PPTP VPN on your iOS devices.

And for the OpenVPN, you can click the "Visit after install" link to download the config file "rrspot.ovpn".

Above the config file link, you can download the OpenVPN Connect apps, with which, you can connect to the OpenVPN service on your Android and iOS devices.

By the way, Telecomix is aiming to help Turkey, where the internet has been slowed down by the government now, so "Please only connect if you are in Turkey!"

How To Save CPU And RAM For Your Blog

Young — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:16:58 +0000

When your blog is becoming bigger and bigger, with more and more traffic, the usages of CPU and RAM of your server will also become larger and larger.

For a paid server, whether VPS, cloud computing or dedicated server, it will save your money if you can save the CPU and the RAM.

So, how to save CPU and RAM?

For a WordPress blog, you can check out the following 3 free and easy ways:

1. To use cache plugins

When a page is cached, it will load faster and reduce the usage of your server's CPU and RAM.

And up till now, the best cache plugin for WordPress will be W3TC, which you can just install and follow the "Install" instructions to use.

2. To compress images

If a blog page has an image, the smaller the image is, the faster the page will load, since which will save traffic, as well as CPU and RAM.

So, it will be a good idea to compress an image before to upload it onto your blog, and for WordPress, you can also install the WP Smush.it plugin, which will be available for you to bulk compress your blog images in one click.

3. To use CDN

CDN (Content Distribution Network) will distribute your blog via different servers, or we can say that CDN will cache them on multiple servers, which will share your own server load.

For a free CDN, you can check out CloudFlare, which will distribute your blog pages via over 20 servers all over the world.

By the way, most of shared web hosting servers offer unlimited traffic, but which is meaningless, since the more traffic is, the more CPU and RAM usages will be, and both CPU and RAM are limited on every server, when the traffic is too large, CPU and RAM will be overloaded, which will cause the whole server or only your blog down.

And for a VPS, cloud computing or dedicated server, you need to figure out how much CPU and RAM are suitable, since too much will waste your money, and too less will make your server down when out of CPU and/or RAM.

1Channel.ch Has Been Hijacked

Young — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:02:31 +0000

Previous known as LetMeWatchThis.com, 1Channel.ch is one of the best websites for you to watch movies online free all over the world.

Although 1Channel.ch hasn't been seized by any governments like The Private City, it has unluckily been hijacked these days.

Now, opening the 1Channel.ch website homepage, you will see the following alert:

We are working hard to fix all errors. Thank you for your patience!

As what you can see from the following image:

And when visiting the homepage of Letmewatchthis.ch, you can see the following warning:

Only use LetMeWatchThis.ch domain, 1Channel has been hijacked.

As what you can see from the following image:

In fact, Letmewatchthis.ch and 1Channel.ch were ever 2 nearly same websites except for the domains, but now they aren't.

For example, there will be even pop-up ads when you are visiting any single page of the 1Channel.ch website, and what is more, the 1Channel.ch forum section is out of date.

In some degree, the hijacked 1channel.ch website now is just a copycat site of the Letmewatchthis.ch website, but with many loads of pop ups.

So, for surfing security and good experience concerns, you'd better only visit the LetMeWatchThis.ch website till on which there is no warning about 1channel.ch.

Search Animated GIFs With Giphy

Young — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:48 +0000

To create your own animated GIFs online free, you can check out Avatar Photo, Gickr, Picasion and some other web apps as mentioned before.

And to find some interesting ones created by others, you can check out the Giphy website, which is available for you to search and browse tons of animated GIFs with the following 3 special features:

1. All pictures are from Tumblr

Tumblr is so large that it has thousands of interesting animated GIFs for Giphy.

2. All pictures are sorted by tags

For every animated GIF picture, there will be one or more tags, and which are also sorted in artists, emotions, reactions and/or some other categories.

3. All pictures can be searched and browsed

You can enter any keywords to search the related animated GIFs, there will be autocomplete suggestions for what you have entered.

And you can also click on the "Browse" button on the right top corner to find pictures by categories and tags.

Besides the above 3 special features, Giphy also has some other features, such as that you can watch the animation when moving the cursor over any picture, you can click any picture to view it in original size, full screen or tile format, you can add #giphy to your Tumblr animated GIFs for index, so on and so forth.

By the way, although Giphy is available for you to share those GIFs via links, it doesn't add support for you to embed them into your own sites, and you have no idea if you can do that, either.

How To Configure Snova For C4

Young — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:47:14 +0000

C4 here means PaaS (Platform as a service).

Up till now, the Snova proxy has already supported 6 C4s, which are Appfog, CloudFoundry, Dotcloud, Heroku, Jelastic and Openshift.

Regarding how to configure Snova for C4, you can check out the instructions inthis post, but which was based on 0.15.0, and was a little out of date for the latest version 0.22.0, since "c4-client.conf" has been integrated into "sonva.conf".

So, the following will make an update and show you how to configure C4 on the latest Snova (Java) client.

After download the "snova-0.22.0.zip" file, extract it, open the "sonva.conf" file in the "conf" folder, and change the values of both "[C4]" and "[SPAC]".

1. To change [C4]

Under [C4], you need to change the "Enable" value from "0" to "1" to enable C4, and enter your C4 domains, as what you can see from the following:

[C4]
#Change the Enable value from 0 to 1 to enable C4.
Enable=1
#Enter your C4 domains as WorkerNode values.
WorkerNode[0]=xyz.herokuapp.com
WorkerNode[1]=xyz.cloudfoundry.com
WorkerNode[2]=xyz.jelastic.servint.net
…

You can add one or more C4 domains, just make sure the numbers behind "WorkerNode" are different from each other.

For the old version 0.15.0, you just need to add your C4 domains in the "c4-client.conf" file.

2. To change [SPAC]

Under [SPAC], you need to change the "Default" value from "Auto" to "C4", as what you can see from the following:

[SPAC]
Enable=1
#Change the Default value from Auto to C4.
Default=C4

For the old version 0.15.0, you need to change the "ProxyService" value from "GAE" to "C4" on the "snova.conf" file.

After that, save the "snova.conf" file, and which will look like the following screenshot:

As what you can see from the above, you just need to edit the "snova.conf" file after deploying the Snova servers to your C4 platforms, which is same as what you need to do for the old version 0.15.0 as mentioned before.

By the way, when C4 is enabled, you need to configure your browser http proxy to "127.0.0.1: 48102" instead of "127.0.0.1: 48100".