Do you access your Facebook or Twitter account while you are on a public network like your college’s or office’s unsecured WiFi.Then this is the time that you should think about your account security.If you think that Facebook or Twitter are secured websites then it’s the time to face the reality they are not secured.Whenever you login into your Facebook or twitter account check the address bar of your browser you will see something like  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?  Similar is the case with twitter.They use HTTP protocol instead of secured HTTPS protocol.But if you login into your gmail account you will notice that it uses HTTPS protocol.

What is a Virus and how do I know if I have one? If you are asking “ What is a virus ” then it is very important that you read through this article. There are some obvious symptoms that your computer will develop when it gets infected with a virus and to recognize these, you need to know what a virus is. But the first thing I have to mention is that if you had a decent antivirus program installed on your computer you would not have a problem. The virus programs now days are fantastic in crushing any chances of a viruses infecting your computer. What is a virus ? What is a virus  is a very important question! A virus is a small program that gets into your computer undetected in order to cause havoc. This small software program has either been developed because the author enjoys causing disasters for other people or sometimes for monetary gains. Sometimes a virus is packaged in a file that is called a trojan virus. It is disguised as something else, and once it has gained ...

Add Take Ownership Shortcut to the Right Click Menu:   In  Windows Vista  and  Windows 7  you might need to  take ownership  of files on your computer, therefore this  take ownership  shortcut is a great tool for you. Even if you are signed in as an administrator, sometimes you will see a message saying “access denied” when you try to open a file or folder. This is highly annoying and as I stated, to  take ownership  of the file is a nightmare. This is why I suggest you use this registry edit that adds a take ownership shortcut to your right click menu. This means that when you come across a file you cannot open, you can simply right click on it and choose to take ownership from the menu. It is a hell of a lot easier than going through about 6 steps to change the take ownership permissions. How to take ownership of a file on your computer? I will tell you these six steps for taking ownership of a file but it ca...

What operating system Do I have? A 32bit or a 64bit? What operating system do I have ? I stumbled across this dilemma when I needed to download a free file from the Microsoft website and was presented with two choices for my download. I could download the file in 32 bit version or 64 bit version, depending on which one suited my operating system. But the question remained,  what operating system do I have ? You really need to know if you have Windows XP home, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Home, Premium, Ultimate, or Business? The list goes on. Maybe you have Windows Seven. Also the average user has no idea what the difference is between a 32 bit operating system and a 64 bit so I will show you how to find out which one is running on your computer. Lets start with some computer basics: What is a processor? The processor is a main component of a computer that is attached to the mother board. It is technically called the Central process...

What to use to Backup your computer files and data? Nowadays, we can  backup your computer files  and data in different ways. We can backup our data to a CD or DVD, external hard drive, USB flash drive, print it out, store it on a web server, or even on the internet. Backing up your computer files is a very important part of your computer maintenance. To  backup your computer files , it is a very simple task to perform. It is just a matter of copying your files and pasting them into a folder. Of course Windows comes with its own inbuilt backup software, however it is just as easy to do it manually. Often we do not need to back up everything, just the important files. Burn your files and data to a CD or DVD This is how most people store their backup files as discs are very cheap to buy and you can have multiple backups. Readhow to burn a cd. You can also use a re-writable cd or dvd, and therefore reuse the disc at a later date. What is a cd-...

How To Download Facebook or Youtube Videos Without Any Tools Have you ever liked a video shared by your friend on Facebook and wanted to download it…Well this this tutorial is not only for Facebook or youtube instead it can be used for any video streaming website like Metacafe,daily motion,veoh or yahoo videos.There are websites on the internet that will convert your video link into a download link but it has the following drawback If you already watched the whole video and then you decide to download it to your computer it will take double time because you already have spent time watching it and now have to spend time downloading it to your hard rive. Moreover, the download speeds are very slow and its very irritating to download the whole video again. But if you have already played the whole video on the site then there is no need to waste the time on downloading it again.We simply have to locate the...

We all know that Google+ is the current hottest social networking website.People are navigating from Facebook to test this new social networking website.So,many of us have our accounts on both Facebook as well as Google+ now you can integrate Google+ and Facebook and can see the news feed of both from a single window. There is a plugin wisely named  Google+Facebook  which will add an extra tab in your google+ account using which you can access your Facebook news feed.You can also like , comment  or add  status updates  to Facebook from your Google+ account. Google+Facebook  extension is available for  Google Chrome , Internet Explorer  and  Firefox  browsers. Download Google+Facebook The only drawback of this plugin is that it doesn’t automatically updates Facebook Feed.You have to refresh your page to check new updates.

Tagging a person in a picture is very simple and known by most of the people that use facebook but tagging a person or a page in a facebook update is something that many people dont know.Tagging a person in the status update will automatically include a link to the person’s profile with his/her name.Tagging a person in a facebook status update is very simple and it can be done as shown below in the screenshot. Here is the complete step by step tutorial on  How To Tag People In Facebook Status Update Login into your facebook account To mention someone in the facebook status update just type ”  @  “ and his/her name.When you will start typing the name of the person an autogenreasted list of your friends will appear.select the person name you want to tag. Share your facebook status update and link to the profile person will appear in your facebook status update.

 Trick On How To Send Bold & Underline Text In Facebook Chat People try to learn more and more Facebook tricks so that they can amuse their friends.Well today I am going to teach you a cool Facebook chat trick that most of the people are unaware of that is  how to send bold and underlined text in Facebook chat. This trick doesn't require any technical knowledge and it can be used by using just simple codes In the picture below you can see that I have sent bold and underlined text in Facebook chat. Now here are the Facebook codes for sending bold and underlined text in Facebook chat. For Sending Bold Text whatever you type between * *(two stars ) will automatically turns into bold. Example : You write I *really* mean it. Turns to I  really  mean it. For sending underlined Text Whatever you type between _ _(two underscores) will automatically turns into underlined text Example: You write I really _mean_ it. Turns to I really  mean...

Facebook has taken a strong stand against spamming.Facebook is the hottest social networking site for marketing.To stop multiple account creation and other illegal activities like automatic account creation or automatic friends additions facebook has put captcha code on activities like sending friend request so that their automation can be stopped.But for legit users like us this seems to be too annoying that you have to fill captcha every time you send friend request.So,how can the restriction to enter captcha can be passed.Well,there is a solution for this and it is very simple one. You need to give phone verification for your facebook account and once you have done it you will see no more irritating captcha codes popping up in your screen.It will save a lot of your precious time. It’s completely free and will take only 2 or less minutes. Now here is the step by step guide to verify your phone with your facebook account. 1.Login into your facebook account. 2.After you ar...