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Wikipedia : The Wrongly Self Labeled Encyclopedia

Lately a good wave from various columnists and educators is highlighting the dubious nature of Wikipedia along with its trustfulness of information on the topics which, the name and real identity of the real author is never been verified.   Important points raised against Wikipedia   Wikipedia Review itself has a huge collection of opinion, nicely compiled by Gomi, on January 1, 2008. … [Read more...]

DNS Propagation : What it is and Free Tools to Check DNS Propagation

DNS Propagation is a process that replicates the intermediate locations distributed throughout the world while a domain is registered or name-server is changed. Before understanding DNS Propagation, you can read the basics of Domain Name System (DNS) and Name Server (NS). There are many theoretical and technical things related to DNS Propagation, but we will not go very deeper on  DNS Propagation, … [Read more...]

Pinterest : How To Leverage Your Business Presence

Pinterest is a new social photo sharing with default integration with Twitter and Facebook. You can leverage your online presence with Pinterest with our tips. Time magazine has marked Pinterest among 50 Best Websites of 2011. With high SERP, definitely Pinterest is another great tool for designers, bloggers, photograhers, guide writers and product sellers.   How Pinterest works   The … [Read more...]

URI and URL : Uniform resource locator and Uniform Resource Identifier

URI and URL are often interchangeably used. However, technically there are some differences between Uniform resource locator and Uniform Resource Identifier. In this article, we will briefly discuss on both URI and URL.   URI or Uniform Resource Identifiers   URI or Uniform Resource Identifiers is basically the broader terminology to cover other conceptual models operated on the … [Read more...]

Frequently Asked Question on Domains and DNS

Frequently Asked Question on Domains and DNS answers some frequently asked questions about domain names, transfer and the Domain Name System (DNS). These questions and answers are not for providing too much detailed technical information, but in a way to reply 'how things works in a 'Frequently Asked Question' format.   Licensing and legal details of this Frequently Asked Question on Domains … [Read more...]

Facebook Timeline Template Plus Full Guide to use Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline Template PSD files will need Adobe Photoshop to open and Edit. You can download the 30 days free trial version of Adobe Photoshop, if you never have or has installed Photoshop on your computer. In the old Facebook layout at the top of user profile, users could only include a small photo. With the introduction of Facebook Timeline, you can use the cover image of 850 x 315 pixels. … [Read more...]

Ping or Packet Internet Groper

Ping or Packet Internet Groper is a diagnostic utility on computer networks which checks the status of the connection of the host on a TCP / IP network. Ping is the most widely used tool to to test or verify the local TCP / IP stack.   Ping Pong   Ping was originally developed in late 1983 by Mike Muuss and first appeared in BSD 4.3.The name "ping" is derived from military technology. … [Read more...]

Domain Hack : Facts behind the Unconventional Domain Names

Domain hack refers to using subdomains and subfolders on a Top Level Domain Name to get a conventional full name that is not available as someone else has registered that domain name beforehand. Think about the domain name del.icio.us - it is typical example of this domain trick named as Domain hack. Domain hack has no relationship with Domain hijacking. Del.icio.us and delicio.us now however … [Read more...]

ISP : Internet Service Providers

ISP or Internet Service Provider is a commercial structure or a organization that provides users at the supply contract, the provision of Internet. With the explosion of the Internet in early 2000 the market has gone from small ISPs that worked with banks of modems to operators of large telecommunications. Several ISP?have been restructured or acquired by bigger ones. Today the majority of … [Read more...]

HTTPS : Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS is an application protocol based on HTTP, for the secure transfer of data from Hyper Text, it is the secure version of HTTP. It is used primarily by banks, online stores, and any service that requires the sending of personal data or passwords .   Technical Specifications of HTTPS : Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol   The system that uses the?HTTPS encryption?is based on SSL / … [Read more...]

Fake Screenshots – You Must Be Aware of

I got an email today from a friend with two screenshots of my Twitter conversations with an unknown girl. I can not even recall when I last logged on to Twitter. As my account was hacked ago, I first changed the password. I really never thought about the possibility of fake screenshots. I thanked my friend and said him about the possibility of getting hacked. The next reply with two urls was … [Read more...]