Internet Educational Tips

Make Money on Your Profile

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:58:00 -0700

Monetization is taking place every where and people are not willing to loose a chance if they are willing to get monetized anywhere. Keeping that in mind this site has started and they provide dynamic banners which we can keep in our profiles in social media sites and we can get money from people clicking those banners. The banners work with .php and hence no problem with scripting coz some sites dont accept scripts. The advantage of registering with this site is you get $1 for each referral that signs up under you.

MAKE MONEY on your PROFILE - ProfileDough.com
But there are more disadvantages rather than advantages with this site. You get only 2cents per click which really sucks right now. In the past myspace did not allow Adsense and hence at that time this one rocked. But now bad luck. But you can try it on other social media sites. Even the above one can be berable but this one is really pissing. You need to reach $50 for payout. If you want to get your money for $20 then you need to give them 75% back as a penality it seems. But if you reach that payout mark of $50 then you dont need to give back anything. This one only works if you have a good network of people joining under you. Finally want to say that this is not that much recommended but anyway if you like just join.

1990

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:03:00 -0700

1990
September: The Archie Search Engine
The Web’s first search engine was Archie. It was nothing like today’s Google or Yahoo or Live Search; it was an Archive that catalogued a list of FTP sites & requested for updates once every month! Launched on 10th September 1990, this system quickly expanded from being a local tool, to being available on a network, to being a popular service available all over the Web. The servers on which Archie was hosted could be accessed by the local client xarchie, to sending queries via e-mail, and later via Web interfaces, like we do today.
The name Archive was derived from the word archive, Clones of Archie- Jughead and Veronica – were, however, inspired by the comic book series.
Then talking about search engines, we should talk about Gopher, which was created in 1991 by Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Dan Torrey, and Bob Alberti of the University of Minnesota. Gopher was designed to act as an anonymous FTP service while trying to incorporate new web features. It contained a file like hierarchical system that was familiar to users, an easy-to-use syntax, was free to use, and could be created easily.
The name Gopher was chosen because its users would program it to “go for” information.
The Gopher protocol ceased gaining popularity as soon as it was made famous. The primary reasons for this were the University of Minnesota’s announcement on charging licensing fees for the use of its Gopher server, Web browsers like Mosaic quickly duplicated Gopher’s functionality & finally, because its defined file format & structure was too rigid to use.
December: The Internet is Born
The Internet was originally envisioned by Tim Berners Lee, an independent contractor at CERN in 1980, when he created a database software to catalogue people and software models while working at CERN, In this database, each new page of information had to be linked to an already existing page, a term later known as hypertext. He called his software ENQUIRE.

The World
The first ISP on the planet to offer basic dial-up access was the World. Operated by Software Tool and Die, it is headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. It used to use the domain name http://world.std.com earlier, but now uses mainly http://www.TheWorld.com

By 1983, the ARPANET was complete & had a total of 213 Universities connected all over the US. Robert Cailliau joined him in 1990, and the duo tried CERN to adopt their technology.
By December of 1990, Berners Lee had built all the required software to run the first web browser, called the World Wide Web, the first web server, and first web pages that described the project. However, the browser ran only on his NeXT system, which was far superior to computers available to the general public at the time.
In 1991, tests were on to make a multi-line text base browser that would run on any computer irrespective of the hardware or OS used. To encourage its use within CERN, they put up the entire CERN telephone directory on the web. Earlier, users had to dial into the mainframe to get the required telephone number, which could take several minutes.
In May of 1991, Paul Kunz from the standard Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC) visited CERN and was fascinated b the web. He took with him the NeXT software, which was later ported to run on the VM/CMS OS of an IBM mainframe computer. This mainframe contained a catalogue of all the online documents in SLAC. This became the first web server outside CERN & the first in North America. Then in August of 1991, Berners Lee posted a summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt. hypertext newsgroup. This was also the time when the Internet became a publicly available service.

By 1992, early users of the web were navigating through pages that had HTTP links or hypertext menus presented as a file system. Since the number of new pages was growing rapidly, users book marked popular directory pages such as http://info.cern.ch/, or NCSA’s “What’s New” page. The graphical browser gap was filled in April 1992 with the release of Erwise & Viola WWW in May. These browsers could view embedded graphics & animation and paraphrase scripting code. The release of the Mosaic browser in 1993 helped revolutionize the browsing experience.
The first International WWW conference was held at CERN in May 1994. It was agreed that the web protocol and code could be used by anyone for free. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in September 1994, with Tim Berners Lee as its founder.
The years 1996 to 2000 saw a dramatic rise of the Web where many companies were starting to offer commercial services till the 2001 “dot-com bubble” burst.

The World Wide Web

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:03:00 -0700

22nd May 1990
The era of Microsoft dominating the PC took off with the introduction of Windows 3.0. It was launched on 22nd May 1990, and rivaled the Macintosh and Amiga on the GUI front.
The biggest advantage of Windows 3.0 was that it could be used with different PC processors and could run on the 80386, 80286, and below. When run on the 386, the speed and stability it offered were unparalleled.
Its MS-DOS file manager/program launcher was replaced with Program Manager, there by simplifying the process of viewing and launching files and applications. Like in the Macintosh, all system settings were relocated to one place on the OS called the Control Panel. All this came bundled with a text editor called Notepad and a simple word processor software called Write. There were two games pre-packaged in the OS- Reversi and Solitaire.
Around 1991, multimedia extension was released to support sound cards, graphic cards and CD-ROM drives. Microsoft sold more than 10 million copies of Windows 3.0.

How TCP/IP Works?

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:50:00 -0700

Data sent across the internet is broken up into packets of less than about 1500 characters each. Each packet is given a “header” which holds the information needed to put the packets back in right order again. To each header is adder a “checksum” basically a number that checks whether the precise amount of data in the packet has been received or not. Each packet is put into what is called an IP “envelope” a packet of data with a common address and other specifications. Once the packets go through the routers to their destination, TCP at the receiver’s end, calculates a checksum for each packet and then packet and then compares it with the checksum that was sent in the packet. If these don’t match, the computer figures that the data has been corrupted en route, discards the packet, and requests the sender to resend the packet. TCP then assembles them into their original coherent form to allow the receiving computer to make sense of it.
None of would possible, however , without a DNS server acting as mediator.

TCP/IP

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:51:00 -0700

Every device, every computer, that is part of the Internet, is allocated an address, called an Internet address, or Internet protocol address (IP address). However, it isn’t like our home address or any thing because, as I mentioned in earlier post, computers only understand numbers. So the IP address ia a series of numbers.
The current protocol is called IPv4. Each IP address is actually just four number each ranging from 0 to 255 (each of which is called an “octet”) and separated by decimal points (called dots). IP addresses are, therefore in the format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where each xxx could be any number from 0 to 225. So an IP address could look something like 161.184.138.36. This address is essential during every exchange of data on the Internet, because it identifies the client computer (which makes the request, and to which the data must be sent) and the destination can happen on the Internet unless your computer is first assigned an IP address.
Say you have specified the IP address of a Web site you wish to access. A server usually has a static IP address. However, your home PC, if you are connecting to the Internet through a modem, is usually assigned a different IP address by the ISP each time you dial in. This IP address is unique to you as a user, but only for as long as the session lasts. The reason for this system is that ISPs have to deal with a large number of requests at the same time. Besides, at any given time, the number of users of the ISP server is limited. To assign permanent IP address to retail users wouldn’t really be required; instead, ISPs simply allot any IP address that is not being used at the time to each user who has just dialed in. This system enables the ISP to get along with fewer IP addresses for the number of users who are connected simultaneously.TCP breaks down and reassembles packets of data. IP ensures that the packets are sent to the right destination. The TCP/IP combination is used because the Internet is a “packet-switched” network. In a circuit- switched network, in contrast, once a connection is made, that specific part of the network is exclusively used only for that connection. “In a packed-switched network”. The connection between sender and the receiver is not single and unbroken. When information is sent, it is broken into small packets and sent over many different routes at the same time and then put together in order at the other end once the pockets of data reach the destination.

Protocols

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:07:00 -0700

A protocols is a set of rules that enables the exchange of information between two computers, regardless of whether they run on different opreating systems. These rules strictly state the format and procedure to be followed while transmitting data between two computers or two networks. A protocol basically gives the "grammar" to their "speech". Certain key protocols you should know about are :

TCP : Transmission Control Protocol, used for the reliable transmission of data over a network.

IP : The internet protocol is the set of rules that dictates how exactly packets of data should be transmitted over the internet. IP standardises the way machines over he internet (or any IP network) forward or route their packets based on their IP addresses.

HTTP : Hypertext Transfer Protocol, used for transmitting and displaying information in the form of Web pages on browsers. This is the langwage used when your Web browser talk to the web server.

FTP : File Transfer Protocol, used for file transfer (uploading and downloading) over the internet. Both FTP and HTTP are based on TCP/IP. FTP is still often used as a means of downloading large files.

SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, used for email.

Ethernet : Used for data transmission over a LAN (Local Area Network).

Wi-Fi : The wireless version of Ethernet.

Of all these protocols, in order to understand how the internet works, what we really need to know is the IP and the TCP.

In my next post.. about TCP/IP

History Cleaners

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:55:00 -0700

Any browsing activity leaves a trail on the system. Temporary file folders, browser history, browser address bar, browser profile assistant, and the Registry are some places where it is possible to find information that can be used to piece together a user's browsing history. History cleaners are a group of applications that can delete the relevant information from these locations and make it difficult to find where the user has been. On a personal computer, with all security paraphernalia installed, a user can remain relatively protected. But when the need to access the Net over a public PC arises, the following tools can become imperative.
CCleaner : This is comprehensive history cleaner. It can clean the trails of all three major browsers - Opera, IE, Firefox. And while it is it, it can also clean the usage history of commonly used applications like Office 2003, WinRAR, Adobe Flash Player.

Domain Name

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:43:00 -0700

Most of us would find it considerably difficult to remember hundreds of strings of numbers of the sites we visit. So, for humans, the address is in letters (URL). The domain name is the root identifier of a web site on the internet.

When you want to connect a location on the internet (Website) you'd type in an address like www.yahoo.com IP uses

The internet address information

The Domain name system to understand and deliver your mail or request from one computer to another; the letter www.yahoo.com are translated into an IP address, which is in this case, 87.248.113.14. Infact, if you typed in http://87.248.113.14, your screen would show you the Yahoo site and you would make the job a microsecound faster & a trifle easier for the computers. This translation is accomplished by the DNS server.

Make An Internet Connection In Windows XP

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 23:25:00 -0800

If you want to set up a connection to the Internet or any other network, for that matter. Microsoft has provided the user friendly New Connection Wizard. To use this, open Network Connection : Start > Control Panel > Network Connection.
Under Network Tasks, click Create a new connection, than click Next.
To choose the type connection you want, just click "Connect to the Internet" and click Next.
If you already have an account with an ISP, click Set up my connection manually and than click Next.

Set up the connection manually:

If you are connecting to your ISP using a standard 28.8 kbps, 56 kbps or ISDN modem, click connect using a dial-up modem, click Next and follow the instructions in the Wizard.
If your DSL or cable modem ISP connection requires a uses name and password, click connect using a broadband connection that requires user name and password, click Next than follow the instructions in the Wizard.
If your DSL or cable modem ISP connection is always on and does not require you to type a username and password, click Connect using a broadband connection that is always on, click Next and than click Finish.

Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:42:00 -0800

Firefox is a free and open source browser, which is available for the Windows, Linux, and Mac platform and relies on the support of the web community to build new features for vthe browser and test them. The ideology behind the browser, according to its developers, is to deliver the "Best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people." The latest version of Firefox is version three, which is currently in beta. The Firefox browser allows tabbed browsing, an in-line spell checker, bookmarking and a download manager among other features.

Tips And Tricks

Though Firefox is pretty efficient on its own, there are various tweaks you can carry out to improve the layout and the speed of the browser.

Here are some tips and tricks to help you realiose that dream :

To increase more screen space for the web page, make all your icons small. To do so, right click anywhere on the toolbar and select customise. Now, right at the end of the window, put a tick mark next to use small icons.
It is possible to search with different search engines right from your address bar window. All you have to do is go to your favourite search engine, right click on the search field and select " Add a keyword for this page." So, if your search engine ia Google, you may add 'g' as my keyword. Now, whan you want to search using Google, all you have to do is enter ''g [space] [search query]'' (without the quotes) in the address bar. If you want to customise Firefox further than you have to use the about:config tool. To access this, enter "about:config" in the address bar and than press Enter. This is a place where all the layout and page rendering settings - not normally accessible from the menus are stored. You can change many of the settings to improve the way Firefox works.

Attention : Using this tool without knowing what you are doing could cause Firefox to stop working. It is therefore important to follow these steps carefully.

Anti-virus

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:53:00 -0800

Avast : The Avast! Home Edition anti-virus is free for non commercial use, given that the user has acquired a freely available registration key from the site within 60 days of installation to continue using the product. Besides the basic virus scanner to protect local folders, Avast! also includes modules to scan online file transfers. There are modules that scan files transferred during regular browsing, peer-to-peer activities, Instant Messaging, communicating through newsgroups and e-mail. Avast! creates a database of the files in the system when the system is idle. This "Virus Recovery Database" can be used to recover files damaged by a virus.

The free Home Edition only allows using the simple interface of main program window.

You can download it from http://www.avast.com/

Internet Service Providers (ISP)

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:35:00 -0800

What is an ISP?

ISPs are sometimes also referred to as Internet Access Providers (IAP) . An Internet Service Provider ia an organisation that provides access to the Internet and related services.

An ISP might provide dial-up access, a cable connection, an ADSL connection, or other type of Internet access. In India, there are aprox more than 150 ISPs.

ISPs provide different kinds of connections which allow you to access the Internet.

i) Dialup Accounts : This is the slowest kind of connection.

ii) Broadband : Broadband includes several transmission technologies, such as

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Cable
Wireless
Satellite

Find Related Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:58:00 -0800

If you're browsing a page and you'd like to find similar sites on the Web, click the What's Related button on your toolbar. The pop-up list that appears includes sitessimilar to or related to the Web page you're currently viewing. To see a Web page view of the list, select Detailed List.

INTERNET TIPS

noreply@blogger.com (Suzzu) — Wed, 6 Feb 2008 03:53:00 -0800

Go to a Page with Just One Word

You can type a word in the Address bar and press Ctrl-Enterto automatically add http://www and .com on both sides ofthe word.

Scope out Your Connection

Get the scoop on your current Internet connection byrunning Windows' IP Configuration. To do so, click on theStart key and select the Run command. In the command linebox, type WINIPCFG. You will receive information on your IPConfiguration, from your current Adapter and IP addresses,to mask and gateway information. For more extensiveinformation, just click on the button labeled More Info.Keep in mind that you must be connected for this process towork effectively.

Silence Line Noise

Sometimes, when accessing the Internet, you might encountertrouble logging on, surfing, or the appearance of extracharacters as you attempt to use UNIX-based features. Thisis caused by "line noise," or interference in your phoneline, caused by faulty wiring, moisture, or other factors.You can test for line noise by picking up the telephonereceiver (when you are not connected to the Internet), andlistening for line static, or crackling noises. You can cutdown on line noise by using shorter phone cords to connectyour computer to the telephone jack. If all else fails, youcan always contact your local telephone provider, and askthat a technician be sent out to analyze your line quality.

Initialize Your Modem

If your modem refuses to initialize, you can attempt to fixthe problem by entering modem initialization strings. Whenusing a term program, typing "AT&F1" or "ATZ," followed bythe Enter key, will often initialize your modem. Using"ATZ" will usually restore your modem to default settings,while use of "AT&F1" will return the modem to its initialfactory settings.

Encourage Your Modem To Speak Up

If you are not hearing sound from your modem, first attemptto adjust your speaker volume. You can also turn your modemsound up within the Dial-Up Networking Properties for yourconnection. If all else fails, check to make sure yourmodem jacks are connected securely and to the properdestinations.

Speed Up Connections And Shorten Your Cords

Using a longer telephone cord, or routing two mid-lengthtelephone cords through your telephone and computerhardware, can cause signal degradation. This can oftenresult in slower connections and file transfers. If you donot seem to be connecting at your optimal baud rate, tryusing shorter or fewer telephone cords. If your troublepersists, contact your ISP or your telephone company toseek resolution. Sometimes certain geographical areascannot connect at optimal speed.

Talk To Your Modem With AT Commands

When using a terminal program such as Windows'HyperTerminal, and your modem is Hayes compatible, you canperform a variety of modem functions using AT commands. Toaccess ability to excite AT commands in HyperTerminal,simply create a new connection named "AT Commands," selectan icon, and click OK. On the Connect Screen, click ConnectUsing pull-down menu, and select the option labeled "Directto Com#," where "#" is the communications port on whichyour modem is located. Now simply double-click thisconnection to access a terminal screen in which you cancommunicate with your modem using AT commands.

Keep Extraneous Baggage From Slowing You Down

If you have a telephone, caller ID box, or answeringmachine connected to the PHONE, or outgoing, jack of yourcomputer, you may be experiencing interference or slowerconnections. By unplugging telephones or other devices fromthe output jack, you can sometimes experience fasterconnection times and fewer errors.

Sort Mail Automatically

You can use the Inbox Assistant to sort mail that's alreadyin your in-box. Just set up your sorting rules with theInbox Assistant, click the Apply To button, and select yourin-box. Outlook Express filters through the existing in-boxmessages and applies the rules accordingly.

Mail in HTML

Outlook Express lets you create and view email in HTMLinstead of plain ole text. To create an HTML message, clickthe Compose Message button on the main menu. In the NewMessage menu, select Format/Rich Text (HTML). A new toolbarappears that contains standard HTML formatting buttons forfonts, lists, images, and lines. You can use these buttonsto create slick HTML email that your recipients can vieweither in HTML-ready email programs or in a Web browser.

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