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Toplists provide you only junk traffic!

2016-03-29T03:23:00.001-07:00

Why toplist concept can circulate only junk traffic

As is the concept, toplists keep your link higher according to the qualifying clicks you send them. First of all they have a stricter validation for the 'in' clicks but nearly no validation check for 'out' clicks. That means for your site the shown 'in' clicks would be too less but the 'out' clicks would always be overpowering- but actually junk.

Suppose there are sites listed on a 'conventional' toplist as:
A
B
C
D
E
F
etc.

Important thing to note here is that most people in toplists use misleading or adult titles to attract most 'out' clicks. Most toplists allow it.

Suppose, a user is sent at the toplist from F incrementing its 'in' clicks by 1 (only 1). B here has a super attractive and most wanted bad/illegal title '18+ Super models'. Sure, many people will click on this title in the toplist. But when the user arrives on some xyz.com linked to the title, he will find that there is no content on the site similar to the link title! As a result, the user will instantly press back button to arrive on the toplist page again. Note that B here gets an 'out' click registered but no gains!

Now the user will click on some other title, say E, and maybe the same happens this time! User clicks, does not get the claimed content, presses the back button to come to toplist again. This may happen with a user multiple times before the user gives up, cursing the fake content.

Note that in this flow F's in hits increased by 1 but the same user got registered as out for B, E etc.! That means a single 'in' click was shown multiple times in 'out' of others.

Another issue is that toplists have multiple pages. Normal users do not have time to visit all of them by pressing 'next' and 'prev' button under each page. That means a toplist cannot replenish clicks to sites on pages other than first. Ah, toplists discovered a weird way to solve this too. Mostly, they use a link on top with title such as 'Top downloads', 'Hot downloads' etc. Such titles lead to random sites in the toplist which have less 'out' clicks. Again the same would happen. User will click on the title; arrive at a site; dismayed by mismatch in title and the content, press the back button. Out click would be registered, but no use: No conversion!

Even if they do not themselves cheat
The toplist concept as such is unfair. For example if there are titles:
A. Beach model videos
B. Best PHP scripts
C. Selena Gomez Albums free!

Obviously A and C will attract much better traffic than B. Hence the toplist will not be able to replenish even 1x clicks in return to B when it is genuine.

You will see clicks coming to your site but most of those users will never go beyond the very first page of your site!

Reality
General logic: No site (or toplist) can generate its own clicks except from search engines, other listings, direct traffic or some other linking. A genuine and fair traffic exchange can return only nearly the same clicks as a site would send it. If some site claims to send you too much of traffic for your small contribution, it is sure to be a lie, a fraud, or a miscalculation.

How to know if a toplist is cheating?

In addition to ineffectiveness of the toplist concept, most of the toplists active today are actually cheating their users by hardcoding click count manipulation in their scripts. You can not exactly know how actually a toplist cheats. But you can easily detect foul play.

Suppose the following portion of main page of a popular toplist (actual titles hidden):

1.A 7203/62312
2.B 3583/25284
3.C 3001/17098
4.D 2890.5/18628
5.E 2511/22682
6.F 2505.5/17356
7.G 2360/10642

Analysis
1. According to the logic, no one can generate its own clicks. So how A sent only 7203 clicks but got 62312 in return? If the toplist is genuine, it is unfair to others. Or if such stats are shown for nearly all sites in it, the toplist is a cheat!
2. Check D's stats. How the 'in' clicks are 2890.5 (LOL)? Can a site send 0.5 click? Probably a childish logic of dividing 'in' hits by 2! Cheat!
3. Check all the stats. Can you find even a single odd number 'out' clicks entry? No! That clearly shows the toplist is multiplying the 'out' hits either by 2 or multiples of 2! Cheat!
4. Finally, let us use some mathematics. For as many sites in a toplist as you can, add all the 'in' clicks and all the 'out' clicks separately. Here let us do the same only for the portion we are considering.
Sum(in)=7203+3583+3001+2890.5+2511+2505.5+2360=24054
Sum(out)=62312+25284+17098+18628+22682+17356+10642=174002

Wow! This toplist is amazing! Give them 24054 clicks and they will give you 174002 clicks back (7.2338x)! Where did the 149948 clicks come from? Does they have their own click generating factory? Seems like this toplist is cheating its users!

You can try our SpellUsers Directory Concept for advertising your mobile site.
How SpellUsers gives you Genuine and Highly-converting traffic

Travel Safety Tips in India (The Practical View)

2015-08-27T07:59:00.001-07:00

Last Update: 30 August, 2015

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Safety tips for tourists in India

India is a grand country with warm hearted and welcoming people.

People: Fairest and Darkest. Smartest and the dumbest. Richest and the poorest. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsies and nearly all other religions unite here.
Places: Coldest and the hottest. Most dry to super rainy. Coasts to the highest mountains in the world. Deserts to super fertile. Poorest slums to highly developed urbans. You can see from ancient to futuristic here.
India is a country where thousands of languages are spoken. Thousands of cultures are followed.

India is the land of contrasts. India is a world in itself.

In this post I would do my best to present my views and suggestions to help you be safe in India. Also I would mention various things to know before visiting India.

I am an Indian who got a chance to see some cities of India from a non-Indian point of view. Four of my friends from France (French natives) came to India in the month of July, this year. While traveling various places with my friends, I felt that the image which international tourists get of India is mostly not the real India. Real India's image is blotted by thugs, pickpockets, perverts and other miscreants.

Indians are very helpful, friendly and welcoming.

It is my humble request to everyone who wishes to visit India to kindly understand the grand country, the culture and the people before coming to any conclusions. You are most welcome to India. I sincerely hope you have a great stay!

If offer a friendly hand to everyone who wishes to visit India. Kindly use comments for any questions/queries/comments.

Always keep a map of the city and a tourist guide book (Lonely Planet India (Travel Guide) suggested) along with you.

Best time to be in India

India has a highly varied climate all throughout the country. You can find subzero mountains in Kashmir and then there are hot deserts of Rajasthan. It is best to study a little about the climate and best time to visit a certain place. Months from May to August for visiting most part of India (excluding high altitude areas) are the worst - very hot and humid.

General Tips to be safe in India

Remember in general: confidence, alertness and knowledge can help you avoid complications, everywhere. Google and tourist books are your friends.
You can always reach the local police on phone throughout India by calling: 100
Think long term and do not trust people easily. Always calculate your stakes.
Do not carry too much cash with you. Carry an international Debit/Credit card. Ask your card issuer beforehand about its working in India to be on safer side.
Do not be at wrong places at wrong times. Avoid being out at night especially if you have luggage. Strictly DO NOT if you are a female - make it a rule!
Beware of thugs and pick-pockets.
If you need guidance, talk to established shopkeepers instead of just random people on the road.
When being at local markets train yourself to deduce genuine prices. Watch; Explore; Learn; Buy. Learn to bargain. It works most of the times.
Tourist guides are important when visiting monuments and other important places. Before you hire any tourist guide, ensure that he should be able to speak proper and fluent English (or your language). Put him to a little test before hiring him. Interact and tell him to give you a little overview about the place to check his language. Moreover, bargain well before hiring the tourist guides. In Taj Mahal, we were approached by self-proclaimed govt. approved tourist guides at the ticket stalls who demanded around Rs.1000 for the tour. We denied. As we walked closer to Taj Mahal's entrance, the charges of tourist guides started to decrease unbelievably. One guy even approached us for as low as Rs.100.
Something too-good-to-be-true would actually be very well so. Beware!
Avoid crowds. Your stuff can be easily misplaced/stolen. Especially if you are a female, beware, as you can be badly groped and harassed in crowds.
Get a local mobile SIM card. Make sure you get one of the following network operators only: Airtel, Idea, Vodafone. They have the widest network coverage in India. You can easily get a mobile SIM card in India. Having mobile Internet on your phone is always a good idea.
Prefer to carry a power bank to charge your phone on the move. We all know how badly smartphones suck at battery backup.

Where to Stay?

There are so many trustworthy sites like OYO rooms, Goibibo.com, makemytrip.com etc. from where you can pre-book hotels, guest houses, lodges etc. at very reasonable prices. Read reviews about the places. Look out for approachability to the places you wish to visit.

Also enquire about Wifi connectivity of the place beforehand.

In Agra, Hotel Sheela is very economical and is quite close to Taj Mahal. International tourists stay with them mostly.

In Amritsar, Tourist Guest House is quite economical and is close to Golden Temple and Railway station.

Traveling within in India: Always pre-plan long distance journeys

Major cities can easily be reached via flights.
Trains are cheap and have a huge network throughout India. Make bookings beforehand. Train reservations in India should well be made in advance. Expect crowds and long queues at Indian train stations. Fortunately, most of the big cities have special section for International tourists. Prefer using them. Kindly check Indian Railways page for International Tourists. When traveling in trains, especially at nights, you can avoid most of unwanted staring if you choose the upper berth.
Indian trains generally have these classes in order of decreasing fare prices: 1AC, 2AC, 3AC, Sleeper, Chair Car, Second Class. It is much more safer to travel in AC classes than the others.
Avoid traveling at night; Especially if you are a female. If you do need to travel at night, think wisely and use prepaid taxis or call-cabs. The idea is that your driver should know that someone else is keeping a track of him and you.
Before booking tourist buses, enquire thoroughly about the time the bus would take and if the bus would waste time picking up other passengers.
For internal traveling, most of the big cities have a good government run buses. If you are in Delhi, Mumbai or any city that has Metro trains, always opt for them.
Avoid auto-rikshaws when you can use bus or metro train.

Foods, eating and water in India

Avoid unpackaged water while traveling in India. Always buy and carry packaged (and SEALED) water bottles. Do not buy water just from any hawker or stalls. External hygiene of the water bottle especially near the seal is as important as the water content itself.

India is known for foods, curries and spices. Most Indian foods start with spices. Hence, if your stomach cannot handle spicy food well, you need to be careful at making choices. You may consult the restaurant staff to enquire about the spice content. Try to train yourself gradually to handle a little spicy food so that you may relish Indian foods.

NEVER eat the salad or cut fruits sold by street vendors and hawkers. They can be major vectors of various diseases.

Tip: Have food at a place which has a good sale at the time you have food. Better circulation ensures food would be freshly cooked.

If you can have egg, you can always find a place where street-vendors sell bread-omlette. It is nutritive, very inexpensive, instantly prepared, hot and hence hygienic. My French friends always loved it. :) You can also enjoy roasted corn (local name: Bhutta or Chhalli) which is easily available at street sellers during and after rainy season. They serve it with rock salt and lemon which makes it yummy! Since they roast the corn on open charcoal flame, it is very much hygienic.

When unsure about food while being outside, buy packed branded food stuff like biscuits, fruit cakes etc. instead risking your health.

General public is very helpful

Feel free to ask for general information like routes etc. from general public. Indians are very helpful. Just keep in mind the basic safety rules.

Beware of auto-rikshaw (or tuk-tuk) drivers!

At tourist places in India 70% of them are shameless, inhuman, highly nagging and practically uncontrolled. When they see you are an international tourists, you can easily see "I got a prey!" feeling in their eyes. Early you learn how to tackle them, the better it is. Know the distances and routes and learn to estimate genuine fares. Sharpen your bargaining skills. If you are at a tourist place, dash out, decisively. Do not reply them the ones on the way and do not hire them. Preferably hire an auto-rikshaw that is mobile and already running on road. If you want to cut down costs, always prefer to share auto-rikshaw with other passengers whenever possible.

Do not trust auto-rikshaw drivers. They may have plans to stupendously overcharge you. Also, take care of your luggage! Always keep a close watch.

DO NOT ask any auto-rikshaw driver for any places to stay i.e. hotels, lodges, guesthouses etc. You would land up at an over-priced worst place where he would get a good commission for bringing you in.

Good guidebooks do have fair-prices given for auto-rikshaws for various destinations. You may also consult fellow passengers (IN FULL DISCRETION from the tuk-tuk drivers) about fair-prices for route from A source to B destination.

Some tips for female tourists

I do not recommend females traveling solo in India. At least a single male accomplice is highly recommended.
If you feel the situation is dangerous, call police by dialing 100
DO NOT TRAVEL AT NIGHT!
When traveling in Metro Trains and buses, claim the seats reserved for ladies. Don't hesitate. Its your right to claim the seat if it is reserved. In Metro trains, there are some wagons specially reserved for ladies only. Use them to avoid inconvenience and inappropriate behavior of men especially at rush hours. In Delhi Metro trains, the first two wagons are always reserved for ladies. In Mumbai local trains too there are wagons reserved for ladies; there are full ladies-only trains as well.
Always be confident, well-informed, alert and agile.
Dress modestly. Do not wear shorts, mini skirts, sleeveless tops etc. Also, do not wear tops with deep-necks or too much back-revealing. Avoid wearing see-through or very tight fitting clothes. It is a good idea to carry a cotton 'dupatta' (a long rectangular scarf).
If any pervert(s) cause any inconvenience to you, you do not have to bear it! Create a little fuss if needed. Do ask for others' aid. General public is very helpful in India.
Avoid talking to unknown men.
Always try sitting next to women in public conveyance.

Conclusion

Just be smart and informed. Be alert. Feel free to experiment new things, being safe. India is very economical and highly enjoyable. India is lovely!

I hope you have a great time in India! Feel free to comment below. Also if this article helps, share it. It would help others too.

Best Mail Client for Linux (Ubuntu)

2014-09-11T22:49:00.002-07:00

There are so many mail clients available for Linux. But nearly all tend to lack at some or the other thing. It is a good thing to stick with products from big giants when stability and features are concerned. Moreover, they stick to technology standards.

I cannot discuss all the features these clients provide. I would simply point out certain major things that I noticed for myself.

Thunderbird

I used Thunderbird for quite some time. It works well. Mail accounts can easily be set, the GUI is neat and clean, there are numerous add-ons available for Thunderbird too. Also there is a cool feature of archiving messages to different folders based on the year they were received in. But well, I never liked the way it presented emails. The consolidation of all the accounts is not so good and it looks cluttered.

To install Thunderbird, go to Terminal and type in the following command:

For Ubuntu like distros:
sudo apt-get install thunderbird

For RPM based distros (CentOS, Fedora etc.)
yum install thunderbird

Opera Mail

Opera is an amazing web browser (I don't use it for browsing though). But most of the people are not aware of how amazing Opera's Mail client is. It is superbly fast and easy to use. Dealing with multiple email accounts has never been easier! Even the consolidation of all your email accounts is superb! Under a single head, you can have all your emails which are grouped by receiving days.

Opera Mail also has in built RSS feed client! Isn't that amazing as well? :)

To install Opera Mail,
Go to http://www.opera.com/ and download the deb package if you are on Ubuntu like distro or RPM if you are on Centos, Fedora etc. or other package according to your distro.

Setting Opera to minimize on close

In Opera, enter following in address bar:

opera:config

Hit Enter

Search for 'exit'.

Set 'Show Exit Dialog' to 1

Once you do it, Opera would ask if you wish to hide or close itself on closing.

Auto-starting Opera on Session login
This varies accordingly to DEs.

For Unity, in your Dash search for 'Startup Applications'. After that, add an entry with command 'opera'. That is it.

For XFCE (I am using it), in applications menu, go to Settings Manager. Then go to Sessions and Startup. Click on Autostart applications tab. Add an entry with 'opera' as command with other fields of your choice.

Conclusion

Choosing a best mail client is not something conclusive. Everyone's choices are different. Best way to choose your own mail client is to try some popular names. :) Personally, I love Opera Mail.

Reduce Firefox memory/RAM usage

2014-09-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

We all love Firefox but hate its memory footprint, especially if you keep numerous tabs open simultaneously. I always love to find new ways on how to achieve better performance in my every day computing experience as well as faster speeds. Reducing memory footprints of applications or switching to lightweight applications is something I am passionate about.

Let me discuss few tips that I use to keep my Firefox slimmest on memory

Unload Tab extension

Modern web pages gorge heavily on memory and keeping too many tabs open is not a good idea. Often we forget to close the tabs that we do not need. Or we sometimes feel as if we would 'lose' our tabs. It is most probable that we do not use all the tabs open side by side. Eg. I would keep around 20 tabs open but would be frequently switching only between 4-5 tabs. Rest of the open tabs would consume system memory for no good. With a Firefox extension called Unload Tab, the unused Firefox Tabs would automatically be suspended and their memory would be released. You can also choose not to suspend particular sites/urls from being suspended automatically. I personally love this extension! Make sure you choose not to automatically suspend dynamic sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. Otherwise you would not be able to receive any updates when your tab is inactive.

Cleanup Firefox's cache and History

Firefox uses in-memory indexes for history and bookmarks to keep them loaded for instant 'awesome-bar' results. Having big amount of history always available is good. But then you have to 'pay some costs'. It is better to remove stale history of a previous month or previous week to be on safer side.

Flash players (especially Youtube)

Many a time, we open a video on Youtube or Metacafe somewhere in some tab and then we switch to other tabs, not aware that it may hog a crazy amount of your system memory by even simply being open. It is just the way Flash player and plugin stuff works. Do not forget to close down the video playing (or Flash player) pages after you are done watching.

Avoid memory munching web pages

Here, you would have to use your own experience to find out which sites/pages have memory leaks and when they are open your memory usage gets higher and higher over time. One such site has been Wunderlist. For me, Firefox's memory consumption would cross beyond 1.5GB even when only a single tab with Wunderlist.com was opened in it. I hope Wunderlist should already have solved this memory leak issue. There may be many sites like this. Avoid them.

Too many add-ons/extensions

Well, having too many add-ons/extensions itself is not bad. But when you have some add-ons installed which implement themselves on each page and do some fancy stuff, their memory consumption would add up. Buggy extensions are worse! Best way is to avoid the add-ons you can live without. Or you can disable the unused extensions temporarily from add-ons menu.

Upgrade Firefox and its extensions

Over time, developers of Firefox and extensions tend to get better with their products in terms of stability, efficiency and memory consumption.

Firefox Health Report

You can go to Help menu and click on Firefox Health Report to learn more about your Firefox's health, startup times, troubling add-ons etc.

Please feel free to add your own tips in comments.

Happy surfing! :) Thank you Firefox!

Private Window in Firefox PC and Android

2014-05-08T23:28:00.002-07:00

Ever want to surf without leaving any tracks - history, cookies, cache, temporary files etc., just for some time or for some sites?

Conventional way to do so in Firefox

(in PC version)

* Go to History menu > Clear Recent history

* Time range to clear: Everything

* Select all the checkboxes

* Click "Clear Now"

^^ Surf all the pages you wish to surf privately and repeat the above process

(in mobile version)

* Tap Menu Key

* Go to Settings > Privacy > Clear private data

* Check all the checkboxes

* Tap "Clear Data"

^^ Surf all the pages you wish to surf privately and repeat the above process

This is cumbersome! And also would log you out from everywhere in Firefox and remove even the required history! :(

The better way: Enter Private Browsing

(in PC version)

* Go to File menu

* Choose New Private Window

^^ In that private window, surf all the pages you wish to surf privately and simply close the private window and everything you did in that window would be fully vanished!

(in mobile version)

* Tap Menu Key

* Tap "New Private tab"

^^ In that private tab, surf all the pages you wish to surf privately and simply close the private tab and everything you did in that tab would be fully vanished!

Using this method only the data from the private window would be erased, keeping your main browser's data (history, logged in sessions, cookies etc.) remain intact.

In other browsers:

* In Google Chrome, similar feature is called "Incognito Window"

* In Opera, "Private Window"

Happy surfing!

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS mouse pointer problem

2014-05-07T02:37:00.001-07:00

The latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is awesome! I chose to run an upgrade on the Ubuntu 13.10 to get to the latest one.

Except for one thing. Right after the upgrade, I am randomly facing a weird issue with mouse pointer. After I keep working on an app's window (Firefox, for example), the mouse pointer would start misbehaving and it would start to actually point somewhat 20 pixels below what it appears to me. This issue occurs only with maximized windows. And it occurs randomly. It may not happen at all or it may happen quite frequently.

The issue can temporarily be dodged by restoring the window by double clicking on the title and then re-maximizing it again.

Update: 13-09-2014

Unfortunately, I could not find any solution to this myself for a long time. Also Unity was very heavy on resources of my laptop. Hence, I decided to switch to xubuntu-desktop instead. It is very fast and light... Also it does not have this issue. :)

Use this command in terminal to install xubuntu-desktop on your already working ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop gksu leafpad synaptic

After you install it, you can switch to it by logging out of your system and then on the login screen, you would have the option to switch to Xubuntu session.

Feel free to contact me incase you have any issues.

How to use SetCPU to save battery (After rooting)

2014-02-19T02:55:00.002-08:00

SetCPU is a powerful app for controlling CPU frequencies to gain maximum performance when you use your Android device and low energy consumption when you do not use the device.

* Let us assume that you have installed the SetCPU app on your Android already.

Setting it up...

I would keep this simple and to the point

* Open SetCPU

* Go to Profiles Tab and create a new profile by clicking on the '+' Sign.

* Click on the '+' Sign in front of "Turn this profile on when..."

* From the events, choose "Screen On/Off" and finally choose "Screen Off".

Hit Next> and
* Check "Set the CPU speed".
* Set Max frequency around 800 and Min frequency to (or close to) the lowest.
* Do rest of the settings shown in the screenshot below.

Hit Next>

* Name the profile "Powersave"
* Priority can be left as it is.

* Hit Next>

Lets create another profile for the time when screen would be on using the same method as above.

* In "Turn this profile on when...", choose "Screen On/Off" and finally "Screen Off"

Hit Next>

* Set Max frequency to the max of your phone. In my case I am setting this to 1200
* And the lowest should be set as close to the lowest...
* Note that here we would be setting the CPU governor "ondemand" so that the CPU scales up quickly as required within the range specified.
* Do the other things as specified in the screenshot.

* Hit Next>
* Name the profile: "Screen on: H"
* Leave the profile as default.

Hit Next> to save the profile and make sure you enable both of the profiles.

"Powersave" would be activated when your screen is off and when on, the "Screen on: H" would be activated.

NOTE

We are not setting the CPU too low in both the profiles. Setting CPU frequencies too low while processing intensive apps run would simply elongate the processing and keep the CPU more occupied. This would result in more battery consumption only.

Best dictionary for Smartphones and PCs - Wordweb

2013-10-28T04:50:00.001-07:00

We all at some or the other time need a dictionary to consult with. No matter where we go or what we do. No matter if we are reading something by someone or we are ourselves into a writing process, we need to clarify meanings of various words regularly (If you do not do that, you should).

I have been looking quite a lot of dictionary software but nearly all of them had some other the other lacking or annoying thing about them.

Finally I came across Wordweb. A powerful dictionary with neatness.

Well, I would keep this post as simple as I can. So let us discuss the most attractive features about Wordweb that I rejoice all the times...

* Wordweb dictionary is available for Windows, MacOS, Android, iPhone, iPad etc.
* It is Free! We all love free things. ;) No annoying ads either!

* Simple and easy but powerful interface.

* Equipped with an enormous word database that works fully offline - without any need of internet.
* Each and every word you see is clickable! There are instances when you find that we may not understand meanings of words within a definition of a word. Simply click on the word and it's meaning would be displayed.
* It keeps word history. You can go through all the words which you looked up in the dictionary. It is a handy feature to help you recall and memorize the already searched words...
* Easy pronunciation is present for each word.
* It may also present online references to words if you prefer so.

Download for PC and Mac from their official website:

http://www.wordwebsoftware.com

For iPhone/iPad and Android, the app can be searched in App Store and Play store respectively.

Make your android phone's battery last longer!

2013-07-26T08:55:00.000-07:00

Android devices are really powerful and the ability to multi-task in android seamless. On the other hand, it comes at a cost of high battery consumption! Well, that is one of the only negative points about using android. There are certain tips by which you may make your android phone's battery last longer than it normally would.

The key towards making your android phone's battery last longer is to reduce the burden of processing, memory and above all network (internet/data usage).

Disable features when not in use

From energy saving point of view, the features that literally eat away the battery are GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Mobile data. Do keep them all off unless you absolutely do not need them.

Uninstall useless or rarely used apps

Most of the apps create services in the background that would hog memory and waste CPU's power and consequently consume more battery power. You may uninstall such apps or if there are certain apps which you think you would need after some time, you may use an app called "App Backup and Restore" to create archives of the apps. You may uninstall those apps after archiving them. Those archives then then be restored later on when you need them.

Reduce the apps that may remain open in background.

Uninstall any apps that you think may remain open in background. Typical example for such apps is messenger apps like: Whatsapp, WeChat, LINE, Kik, Skype, Gtalk etc. Their services would be sitting in background checking and waiting for new messages, wasting your phone's resources and consuming network traffic. They tend to drain your battery very fast by being busy on network. You may reduce the number of such apps as much as possible by uninstalling them.

Reduce the use of live widgets and live wallpapers

Live widgets and live wallpapers consume much resources even while you're using your home screen or even when you wish to keep your device on standby.

Close apps after use

Make it a habit to close down any app which you are done using. You may do that simply by long pressing the 'home' key and swiping the app's thumbnail sideways.

Disable Transition animations

Animations do that considerable processing for generating and displaying the intermediate frames. You may disable the transition animations by going to:

Settings > Developer Options

Use Power Saving mode

The android devices are now-a-days equipped with powerful CPUs (which for sure wastes energy on standby or less-load times). Whenever you do not use any processing intensive apps, you should use the Power Saving mode which will make your phone work a bit slower but in a more energy efficient manner.

Use flight mode when battery is to be conserved for future.

Keep your android phone in Flight mode whenever you wish to conserve battery and when you can do without receiving calls or messages too. Or if at all you need to conserve the battery without any loss, switch off your phone and switch it back on when needed.

Use battery extender apps like Du Battery saver.

There are quite a lot of apps available which will do all the cleaning and optimizing jobs on your phone to help you extend your battery backup time. Du Battery Saver is one good way to go.

I hope these tips would help you extend your battery backup time.

Please write your comments or additions to this subject. :)

Best Cloud Hosting (Togglebox Review)

2013-05-01T00:39:00.003-07:00

I usually do not write reviews of any kind. But this one would be more of a 'Thank you' message to Togglebox.

I had been using one of the UK's best dedicated hosting providers. Well, they have been the best. No complaints against them. Resources are resources and we, most of the times, already know what we buy and how much performance we would get from it. The real tension comes in when in crisis: misconfiguration, server overload, network issues, 'superstitions' etc. In those times one needs a helping hand one one's shoulder to wade through the situations, in a right direction. To sum up, I am referring to Customer Support, of course. My previous company provided me that too, promptly whenever needed.

I have been very happy with their services. But my pocket was not. Their services were quite expensive so I had to find an alternative.

For several last months I have been looking for a suitable dedicated host as a replacement in order to:
1. Cut down recurring costs.
2. Upgrade the system resources to more powerful ones.
3. Shift my datacenter to US (US has better connectivity than any other country if one has global users)

So then, I had to Google, Google, Google and Gooooooogle my way...

My requirements overall have been:
1. Good amount of RAM/Memory.
2. Powerful multi-core processors.
3. As less disk space space as possible.
4. High speed network.
5. Good support which would be rarely but critically consulted with.
6. Reliability (everyone needs it)

When searching for a good hosting provider, Google can confuse a lot these days. Whoever offers you good system resources would be over priced. Even if you manage to get some too-good-to-be-true deals, reliability and support would be questionable.

ENTER TOGGLEBOX

After surfing hundreds of hosting providers I arrived on Togglebox. The quick attractions to hold me there was the easy scalability, reasonable prices and instant bubble chat for support. Later I realized that Togglebox provided me all those services which my previous host provided me at a very reasonable price.

After showing some typical consumer behavior, I finally signed up for a Togglebox Cloud Package. I was amazed at the almost instant setup!

UI and AUTOMATED SYSTEM
The UI for management is very smooth and highly functional. I could easily allocate, divide and manage my resources. Also I can easily ssh into my server from the management panel. It is quite helpful in case server firewall bans my own IP during testing.

NETWORK and UPTIME
Togglebox's network is super fast and I never faced any issue till now. Also there have been no downtimes at all!

SUPPORT
Another amazing quality of Togglebox is their Support Chat. They provide 24x7 support. Their staff are very friendly and well armed with knowledge and functionality to assist.

PRICE
Togglebox's services are really very genuine. The best part is that you pay for only what you want and what you use! For an example, in my case I did not need much disk space so I deliberately kept it less.

THE BEST PART
Cloud infrastructure is truly a revolution. It saves you from conventional hardware failures especially like disk failures. So no data losses ever! Also the cloud would always perform very stable no matter what. Togglebox provides SAN storage which is many times faster than normal disk i/o. It surely makes the web sites superfast and highly available!

MY SPECIAL THANK-YOU!
I would like to thank Togglebox and all their staff for their unmatched service and support. Especially I would like to thank Sam for having helped me when I was full of dilemma and despair. Sam, thank you for helping me with Nameservers, Mailserver, MX entries etc. You are one of the best assets of Togglebox. Also I would like to thank Rafael and Veer for having helped me with several issues I faced.

CONCLUSION
I would highly recommend Togglebox to anyone who needs highly performing resources, amazing network and superb 24x7 support through chat, all for a very genuine price.

Personal recommendation: If your site(s) do(es) not need a lot of disk space like me, shifting to Togglebox will highly cut down a big recurring cost.

Recover accidently deleted files

2013-01-04T22:23:00.000-08:00

You may recover accidently deleted files very easily using an application called Recuva. It is free, small and efficient. :)

Download link:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

Do let me know if you face any issues or you have any questions. I would be happy to help.

Replace the Windows Explorer with Q-Dir

2012-10-22T23:18:00.003-07:00

Windows Explorer (the default application for browsing drives, folders etc.) may tend to be too too sluggish, inefficient and disgusting at times. Also it will not allow you multi-tab browsing.

So why use it? Let us replace it with a powerful, light and efficient application called Q-Dir.

Features of Q-Dir (officially announced)
Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer) makes your files and folder easy to manage, as an installed or portable Windows program.
Fast and easy access to your hard disks, network folders, USB-Sticks, floppy disks and other storage devices.

Q-Dir i a good file manager with an amazing Quadro-View technique.
You don't have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system.

No! Q-Dir gives you other nice functions, that make you happy.
One can save many hand moves and also time!

Q-Dir does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small USB-stick or other memory device.

Download Q-Dir Installer

Video tutorial for replacing the Windows Explorer with Q-Dir

Prevent resubmission of POST contents in PHP

2012-05-17T04:55:00.004-07:00

How to prevent POST contents being resubmitted again and again when user refreshes the page?

This is much easier to explain with an example situation instead of generalized statement.

Example Situation

In Filename: input.php
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
Topic Title: <input type="text" name="title" /><br/>
Message: <input type="text" name="message" /><br/>
<input type="submit" />
</form>

In Filename: process.php

<?php

// process the contents of $_POST and then post a topic on user's behalf

...
...

// Show acknowledgement to user

?>

Flow

* (input.php) User submits Topic Title and Message in the input boxes and clicks on submit button.
* (process.php) POST content is processed and topic is posted.

The problem

After the user posted the topic content, she would land on process.php. If she refreshes the page now, the post content will be submitted again. If she does that again... again.... again and again... the topics will keep on getting posted with the same content. This can be done by users by mistake as well as intentionally.

Solutions

* Redirecting the user to other page instantly after POST is submitted.
* Adding Tokens

Redirection on process.php (updated code)

In Filename: process.php
<?php

// process the contents of $_POST and then post a topic on user's behalf

...
...

// Redirect User
header("Location: success.php");
exit;

?>

Further: Adding tokens (MySQL method)

Create a MySQL table called 'tokens' with only 3 fields: id (int(10)), token (varchar(32)), time (int(10))

In Filename: input.php (updated)
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
Topic Title: <input type="text" name="title" /><br/>
Message: <input type="text" name="message" /><br/>
<?php
$token=md5(mictrotime(true).mt_rand(1,9999)); // generate unique token
$res=mysql_query("INSERT INTO tokens SET token='$token', time='".time()."'");
?>
<input type="hidden" name="token" value="<?php echo $token; ?>" />

<input type="submit" />
</form>

In Filename: process.php
<?php

$TOKEN_EXPIRY=1800; //in seconds

$token=preg_replace('/[^w]/', '', $_POST['token']); //sanitize token
$active_tokenid=mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT id, time FROM tokens WHERE token='$token'"));

if($active_tokenid[0]!='' && time()-$active_tokenid[1]<$TOKEN_EXPIRY){
$res=mysql_query("DELETE FROM tokens WHERE time<'".(time()-$TOKEN_EXPIRY)."'"); //cleanup old entries
// Redirect User
header("Location: expired.php");
exit;
}

// process the contents of $_POST and then post a topic on user's behalf

...
...

// Redirect User
header("Location: success.php");
exit;

?>

PHP function to add character(s) after every n characters

2012-05-17T03:39:00.001-07:00

‎When you need to add character(s) after every n number of characters in a string, you can use the following function to do so. This function will be useful especially when you have something like a credit card number like:
5455471516335477

This function will convert this value to:
5455-4715-1633-5477
or
5455 4715 1633 5477

function addchar($str, $padding_at, $padding_char){
$arr = str_split($str, $padding_at);
$str=implode($padding_char, $arr);
}

Example usage:
$str='5455471516335477';
$str=addchar($str, 4, '-');
echo $str; // output will be 5455-4715-1633-5477

Functions to validate user inputs with PHP

2012-05-17T03:26:00.000-07:00

Validating user inputs in PHP is very important from the view of your application's security, integrity and user experience. If you fail, your applications may be prone to serious security vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection and so on.

First of all make sure you have GPC magic quotes enabled in your php.ini file.

Here are few functions that you can use in your PHP scripts to validate different inputs.

Validating an email address field
// This function will return true if $email is not a valid email address

function NotValidEmail($email) {
if (preg_match("/^([._a-z0-9-]+[._a-z0-9-]*)@(([a-z0-9-]+\.)*([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z]{2,3}))$/i", $email)) {
return FALSE;
}
else {
return TRUE;
}
}

Validating a link
//returns true if $link is a valid looking link

function linkis_valid($link){
$link=strtolower($link);
if(preg_match("|http://[a-z_1-9\:\/\-\.]+|",$link, $array)){
return true;
}
return false;
}

Allowing only numbers
// returns only numbers from $text

function only_numbers($text){
$text=preg_replace("|[^0-9]|","",$text);
return $text;
}

Allowing only alphanumeric characters

// returns only alphanumeric characters from $text
function cleanalpha($text){
$text=preg_replace("|[^0-9a-zA-Z_\-\.]|","",$text);
return $text;
}

Sidebar applications for Windows 7

2012-05-14T00:53:00.000-07:00

Sidebar applications are intended to grab your favorite (customizable) information which would be consolidated into a dynamic view. This does makes your life better!

7 Sidebar - Dock your Windows Desktop Gadgets!

You may be aware about Windows Gadgets. This little Gadget will make all other gadgets to be presented in a neat and clean sidebar view. I really like this one because it is native to Windows and the project is active. There are numerous possibilities for its use.

Download link for 7 Sidebar:
http://nes.bplaced.net/sidebar7.html

Download link for Windows Desktop Gadgets:
Download Windows Desktop Gadgets

Do not feel restricted by the number of the gadgets Microsoft's official gadgets page. There are many other gadgets which are highly useful by they may not be catalogued on this page. Hence you can be wise and Google for what you want. :)

Google Desktop - Google Desktop is much more than a sidebar application

Google Desktop enhances your style of using Windows! It's a single solution to full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

To launch search box, simply click Ctrl key two times. Voila! Now search anything on your computer!

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.

Other features include:

Quick search box
Smart indexing
Multiple file types
Find deleted files
Deskbar and floating deskbar
Lock search
Microsoft Outlook integration

Download link for Google Desktop:

Download Google Desktop

Note: Google has discontinued further development of this project. On the other hand, the application is still an ace for its utility.

Desktop Sidebar - Another powerful innovation towards organizing gadgets!

They say: Breaking News... Critical Appointments... Personal Photo Gallery... Convenient Toolbars... Favorite Cartoon... Instant Web Searches... Task Tracking... Music Library... Notes to File... Weather in Tokyo...

Everything can be consolidated in a sidebar!

It can fetch desired information from your system as well as from internet to present in a very efficient manner. This project is quite active too. There are numerous gadgets available for this application which makes it highly useful.

Download link for Desktop Sidebar:
http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Lyrics of ‘Emptiness’ (tune mere jana kabhi nahi janaa ishq mera dard mera) ..

2012-05-09T12:11:00.000-07:00

Ho love of mine..

with a song and a whine..

You’re harsh and divine..

like truths and a lie..

but the tale end is not here..

I’ve nothing to fear..

for my love is yell of giving and hold on…

in the bright emptiness..

in a room full of it..

is the cruel mistress ho ho o…

I feel the sunrise..

that nest all hollowness..

for i have the way to go.. not come…

And i feel so lonely yea..

There’s a better place from this emptiness..
And i’m so lonely yea..

There’s a better please from this emptiness.. yei yei yei ya….

Aa.. aa.. aa…..

Tune mere jaana..

Kabhi nahi jana..

Ishq mera dard mera.. haaye…

Tune mere jaana..

Kabhi nahi jana..

Ishq mera dard mera …

Aashiq teraaa..

Bheed mein khoya rehta hai..

Jaane jahaan a..

Puchho toh itna kehta hai..

And i feel so lonely yea..

There’s a better place from this emptiness..

And i’m so lonely yea..

Functions of SEBI

2012-05-09T12:03:00.002-07:00

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is a regulatory authority in India established under Section 3 of SEBI Act, 1992. SEBI Act, 1992 provides for establishment of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with statutory powers for (a) protecting the interests of investors in securities (b) promoting the development of the securities market and (c) regulating the securities market.

1. Regulatory Functions

a). Registration of brokers and sub-brokers and other players in the market

b). Registration of collective investments schemes and Mutual Funds

c). Regulation of stock exchanges and other self-regulatory organisations (SRO) merchant banks etc

d) Prohibition of all fraudulent and unfair trade practices

e) Controlling Insider Trading and take over bids and imposing penalties for such practices

2. Developmental Functions

a) Investor education

b) Training of intermediaries.

c) Promotion of fair practices and Code of conduct for all S.R.O.s

d). Conducting Research and Publishing information useful to all market participants

VLC latest version -- review at a glance

2012-04-17T12:59:00.002-07:00

Media players now have a neck-to-neck competition too! If you are always in search of best things, you would probably have already tried several players. VLC Media Player is an open-source media player (absolutely free of cost) bundled with a variety of features. It is one of the best media players available. Moreover, its features are dynamic, i.e. they are constantly upgraded to accommodate the needs of the users. It is much faster as compared to majority of other players.

Whats new?

We already know what a normal Media player contains. :) Lets check out what is new.

Users can now easily surf a video frame by frame using shortcut keys. Also, there is an improved granular navigation control that makes it easier to run the video faster or slower as needed. Menus can be easily customized according to one's own choice. So you can have only the buttons you need in the interface, there's AirTunes streaming, and there's better integration in Gtk environments. Along with the improvements, VLC continues to offer robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files.

Default view of VLC is still a very simple one, suitable for even beginner users. VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently. Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you want it to play.

Official Description

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

What's new in this version: Version 2.0.1 includes fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support, Support for MxPEG files and streams, and fix for splitted RAR files playback.

Make your Windows 7 upto 10x faster! (Including Video Tutorial)

2012-04-17T12:35:00.000-07:00

Understand the causes of system Windows 7 and solve

them easily...

* Too many temporary or obsolete files

- Most of the actions being done on our system are logged (noted) in log files. Over time, this would cause a heap of text files containing information that no one would ever use, adding clutter.
- Temporary process files or installations would create intermediate files which remain orphaned.
- Browsers store files which are not frequently changed. This improves your browsing experience but too many of such files adds to clutter.
- Too many of these files waste your system's resources over obsolete work.

* Cluttered registry and fragmentation

Registry is a place where windows and its programs save information about settings, locations etc. It is a vital part of the Windows. It becomes a clutter due to installations and with working of windows and other programs. This fills up the registry. During uninstallation or removal of programs or even by running of programs, registry entries get deleted. Due to this unorganized addition and deletion not all registry entries are properly linked and are required leaving orphaned/incorrect registry entries. This increases the workload of your system, wastes computing power over incorrect/non-existent data, finally leading to fragmentation of the registry. By fragmentation, we mean additions/deletion of registry entries resulting empty spaces. Due to fragmentation, reading and locating needed registry entries becomes difficult. Reading processes have to jump over empty spaces. This finally results in slower and inefficient operation of your system

* Fragmented Disk

In simple language, too much addition/deletion of files causes it. Due to fragmentation of files, reading and locating needed files becomes difficult. Hence, reading process has to jump over empty spaces that results slower and inefficient operation of your system.

* Low Virtual Memory

When your system's RAM runs out, there is a part of disk that acts as RAM (pagefile.sys). known as SWAP. Setting the size of Virtual memory or SWAP too low makes your system slow.

* Autorun applications

These are the applications which start along with Windows startup. Obbsolete applications consume processing power during start up. Even after they start once and run in background, they continue to occupy RAM and wastes processing power.

* Visual Effects

For sure visual effects seem cool. :) But they consume processing power of your system and occupy RAM. You have to make a compromise on how much of visual dynamism you want.Solving all these problems is now very easy with the amazing freeware software called Toolwiz Care. This program comes with a single click tuneup for everything!

Download NOW

Official Facebook Messenger App for Desktop/Laptop!

2012-04-10T23:55:00.002-07:00

I have seen a lot of Facebook messenger/chat apps programmed using Facebook's API. But those had some or the other flaws that always forced me to uninstall them off my Computer.

Today, when I opened Facebook, I was delighted to see a popup announcing official messenger app for Facebook!

What is it?

Your Facebook Sidebar would be your Desktop's Sidebar!

Facebook is for sure known for its efficiency (from users' point of view as well as from their own backend). Now, the Messenger app will provide you even more efficient and functional interface for:
Online/Offline Friends - Know instantly who is online/offline using the already familiar interface!
Chat - Super efficient and decent look of Chat makes the experience lovable! When you click on any of your friends from list, it will open up a separate movable chat area like any other messenger.
Updates - Instant updates as you have always been getting - now using the Desktop app!
Friend requests - Easy popups for friend requests
Messages - Messages popup automatically also alerts you visibly and audibly.

Making the already loved look amazingly easy and highly functional

When you click on 'Dock to right' button in your Facebook messenger app (located in bottom-right corner), Facebook messenger will always remain along side your screen no matter what other things you open.

Clicking on the settings button along Search would present you options to make popups and sounds on/off. You can also easily go offline or logout from your account.

If you click on your profile thumbnail in the top right corner, it will open up your Facebook Wall in your default browser.

In simpler words, Facebook knows how to remain being loved...

Download Now!

Know IP address of any site

2012-04-09T22:18:00.000-07:00

We know that any web site's name eg. google.com is just a human readable name. Actual address is its corresponding IP address.

Using ping to know IP address

1. Press Win + R to open Run dialog.
2. Type 'cmd' or 'command' (without quotes of course)
3. Press Enter (or Return key)

This will open a command prompt like shown in the picture

Suppose we wish to know IP address of Google.com

Type:
ping google.com

Press Enter.

This will print something like in the image

The required lines are shown as

Reply from IP bytes=32 time=NNNms TTL=NNN

Where IP is Google's IP address that serves your location.

Using the above method, you can get IP address of any site by replacing 'google.com' to some other site.

Restrict a particular site in Windows

2012-04-09T21:50:00.003-07:00

Why you would need it?

Sometimes we wish that a particular site should not be accessed from our PC in conditions like:

You want to block Facebook/Orkut etc. for the employees
You are a parent and want your children not to be able to access specific bad sites
You want to prevent an application on your PC from contacting a particular site

How to block sites?

There are many ways you can do it. eg. by adding filters in your firewall software, using a proxy and then blocking sites from proxy control directly, preventing a site from being resolved etc.

Here, we will learn how to block a site using ip resolution block method. It is very simple and you do not need any external tools for it either.

Overview of what we wish to do

You may already know that when a web site is opened, it is first resolved from its host name (eg. yahoo.com, gmail.com etc.) into its corresponding IP address by Windows's resolving mechanism. This is called host name resolution.Then the real transaction of data takes place and we use the site.

So, now if we somehow prevent the host name of a site from being resolved into its IP address, we can can consider it blocked. In other words, no one can be able to access the site from any browser or service from your computer.

How to do it?

We now have to somehow override the default host name resolution in Windows. There is a file located at

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

that contains overridden entries for host names to ips like

IP HOSTNAME

in each line.

Now, go to

[Start] > All Programs > Accessories

Right Click on Notepad. Click on Run as Administrator

Windows will now ask for permission. Allow it.

Once notepad is opened in Admin mode, click on File > Open

Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

At the end of this file, add a line:

127.0.0.1 sitename.com

Where sitename.com is the site you wish to block.

Save this file by pressing Ctrl+S

Voila! We have set the blocking!

Now try to open the site we just now blocked in any of your browsers; It will not work. :)

Delete/Deactivate your Facebook account

2012-04-07T11:46:00.002-07:00

Sometimes you may want to get rid of your Facebook account using following ways:

Deactivating it
Deleting it (beyond recovery)

Video tutorials:

Deactivate: When you deactivate your Facebook account, it will go invisible to everyone instantly. But everything belonging to your account will still be preserved on Facebook servers. You can reactivate your account after 24 hours of deactivation.

To deactivate your account, click on the down arrow icon beside Home link as shown in the picture.

Go to Security tab on the left side.

Then you can find the option to deactivate your account.

After clicking on Deactivate your account option, you will be presented with a confirmation message along with a Captcha code.

After confirmation and entering Captcha code, you will be redirected to Facebook page along with ack that your account was deactivated.

_________________

Delete it: To delete your account beyond recovery, you can go to the URL:

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

You will be asked to enter your password and a Captcha code. Then confirm your action.

Once you are done with it, your account will be deleted in around 14 days. Avoid logging into your account after that.

* WARNING: if you choose to delete your account, it cannot be recovered by any means afterwards!

Best 2 browsers for 2012!!!

2012-04-07T08:41:00.001-07:00

The question is of course impossible to answer. Which browser is the best would depend on your choice. A normal person would love Apple's Safari for its speed and neat look. On the other hand, a geek would love Mozilla Firefox with loads of add-ons :) Let us discuss about some of the top browsers, considering their most conspicuous features from a normal user's point of view.

Well, right now there is a big competition in browser trends. Google seems to be really serious about spreading Google Chrome regularly with frequently updated versions. Mozilla Firefox too is launching newer and newer versions frequently. Microsoft too is pressing hard to make their once worthless browser the best.

1. Mozilla Firefox

I consider Firefox the undisputed king of browsers. It has a simple interface. It is fast and secure. The design is quite friendly. Mozilla Firefox is the only browser with highest compatibility with Windows and the normal day to day needs of a user. Some awesome features I would love to discuss are:

Awesome bar (the navigation bar) is really awesome in terms of usability! It is Navigation bar, URL suggestion by URLs and even by titles! Also it acts as a search bar too.

Add-ons make it highly functional. If you are Facebook addict, a Tweeting bird, an Email Guy, a programmer, a geek or any thing else, Firefox add-ons are available for you! There are thousands of add-ons available which can be easily integrated to extend the functionality of the browser.

Stability of Firefox is very nice too! You can open big number of tabs and windows and the browser would work fine.

Private Browsing option would delete all your information like: cookies, history, cache etc. when you close your browser.

2. Opera

Opera has a vast empire in browsers world! Opera is fast, easy, secure and functional.

It has Opera Turbo option that makes your browsing much more fast for heavy pages when your internet connection is slow.

Session restore is very smooth. Even browsing experience overall is efficient.

Opera also has an in-built torrent support and mail client.