Email encryption will protect you from hackers, but it does nothing for your anonymity. Email account service providers like Google have your name, phone number, and other personal details. They can even look at everything inside your inbox and who you correspond with. So, how can you send an email without giving away your identity? How do you...
Written by GentleGiant on 01/06/23 at 04:00:57 EST
Millions of people use Google search every day for a variety of reasons. Students use it for school, business people use it for research, and millions more use it for entertainment. But most people may not be using Google search to its full potential. Want to use Google search more efficiently and get the search results you want quickly? Here are...
Written by GentleGiant on 05/24/20 at 15:44:31 EST
Top malware to watch in 2020 Here’s this year’s biggest cybersecurity threats on the internet: Emotet Emotet is today’s most dangerous, costly and destructive malware to date. Emotet “functions as a downloader or dropper of other banking trojans,” per the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Spreading through e-mails with phishing content, this...
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is more commonly known as CISPA, is expected to receive a House vote this week. The Internet community, with the exception of tech giants such as Google and Facebook, has been raising concerns about the bill claiming that it is another SOPA. Ryan Radia, the Associate Director of...
The Internet has won the fight. SOPA and ACTA are both dead after having been eviscerated by the combined powers of the world coming together to fight for what they believe in – basic digital human rights. We can now rest easy knowing that the war has come to an end. Politicians would never think to bring them back, even under the guise of...
Adware Toolbars Adware toolbars are a type of browser toolbar that monitor the search queries and surfing habits of their users. The details of that activity is then transmitted to home servers so that targeted or contextual ads can be transmitted back to the users' PCs, where they are displayed in the form of pop-up ads and/or toolbar links. Most...
Financial sites such as banks frequently decide to disable password manager using the autocomplete="off" attribute. I'm not sure why they do this; it seems to me that it hurts security more than it helps: Advantages of letting users save passwords: Users are more likely to choose passwords that are hard to guess or...
Written by GentleGiant on 01/24/12 at 14:53:51 EST
According to Nielsen, the top web brands in 2011 (in the U.S.) were: 1. Google 2. Facebook 3. Yahoo 4. MSN/WindowsLive/Bing 5. YouTube 6. Microsoft 7. AOL Media Network 8. Wikipedia 9. Apple 10. Ask For social networks and blogs (again, in the U.S.) the list was: 1. Facebook 2. Blogger 3. Twitter 4. WordPress 5. MySpace 6. LinkedIn 7. Tumblr...
Written by GentleGiant on 01/02/12 at 09:25:55 EST
SOPA is an abbreviation for Stop Online Piracy Act passed by the US government on October 26th 2011 in order to protect online copyrights. The bill allows US government to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. It is built and generated from the earlier bill Protect IP Act. It allows copyright holders...
Written by GentleGiant on 12/30/11 at 05:15:15 EST
12 Expert Google Search Tips If you’re like me, you probably use Google many times a day. But, chances are, unless you are a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form. If your current use of Google is limited to typing a few words in, and changing your query until you find what you’re looking for,...
Written by GentleGiant on 12/29/11 at 20:06:41 EST
A typical Ecommerce website contains a few hundred pages. An Ecommerce giant like Amazon contains thousands of products and millions of web pages. Optimizing a website like Amazon is not tough; it just requires a strong SEO strategy. Optimizing an Ecommerce site is slightly different from optimizing a static website. You need to plan and...
Written by GentleGiant on 12/27/11 at 15:39:15 EST
According to recent numbers from comScore, Google sites controlled 65.4% of core search share in November in the U.S. Yahoo sites controlled 15.1%, and Microsoft sites controlled 15%. With Bing powering Yahoo search on the back-end, let's call that about 30% for Bing. Less than half of Google's share. That's pretty close to how it was at the...
eBay CEO John Donahoe, speaking at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Monday said he thinks his company has the same opportunity to dominate the commerce platform the way that Facebook has dominated in social and Google has dominated in online advertising, but he also said that the commerce opportunity isn't a zero-sum game. Donahoe brushed off...
Everyone who owns a website wants to find inexpensive and yet reliable website hosts. However, this proves to be not an easy task. Website hosts with lots of features and great support often prove to be very hard to find and/or very expensive. An unfortunate state of fact is that usually there's no way to verify the claims of the targeted website...
Search Operators The following table is about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read this page and you will increase your knowledge to use search engines. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. This list includes operators that are not officially supported by Google and not listed in Google’s online...
1. Different Types of Files at your will How many times would you have asked for materials (PDF, PPT, DOC) for a particular topic from a friend? Its almost everyday that we might have the necessity to ask them either for knowledge, preparing a presentation, white-paper or for case studies. Such times it mostly difficult to look out what to exactly...
If you are a website owner, it is one of your top priorities to make your website secure from malicious attacks and hacking. In fact, in setting up your website, whether you are making an online store, a business website, a blog or a website you use to make money online, you don't just think about design, traffic and contents but how to protect...
A cookie is a small bit of text that accompanies requests and pages as they go between the Web server and browser. The cookie contains information the Web application can read whenever the user visits the site. Imagine that when users request a page from your site, www.contoso.com, your application sends not just a page, but a cookie containing...
TCP/IP is actually two layered networking protocols: TCP and IP. IP stands for Internet Protocol and, as the name implies, is the protocol used by the Internet. TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol, runs on top of IP and handles the sending of data between the machine and the network. IP can also run on top of PPP for dial in access (in which...
If your PC begins behaving sluggishly or programs start inexplicably failing, or you see items in your email "Sent" folder you didn't send, it's very likely that your computer has a virus. Most computer viruses are multi-headed monsters that can embed themselves deep within your PC in ways that are very difficult to remove. If you...
Microsoft Corp. is expected to unveil its new Internet search engine to the public next week, an attempt by the software heavyweight to grab back some of the Internet search market from behemoth Google Inc. The site of the coming-out party for the new Web search engine apparently will be a high-tech conference called “D: All Things Digital,”...
Before network service providers can claim – assuming they want to – the mantle of ownership for the end-to-end customer experience by extending their responsibility to the home network, someone needed to claim the mantle of owning the monumental task of defining the practices and standards that will allow service providers to do the job right....
Image Internet Explorer browser lost almost 7% of popularity from the beginning of last year, and it is continuing to slide down as time goes on comparing to open source browsers. While Internet Explorer continues its one-way-tour, open source browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome are constantly increasing in popularity. Firefox's...
Written by GentleGiant on 02/11/09 at 19:46:41 EST
Microsoft is looking to boost its online shopping search market share. The company has announced an acquisition of Greenfield Online, owners of popular shopping search site Ciao.com. This is the largest purchase Microsoft has made in a while. The company appears to be playing around with the money it had left from the Yahoo deal falling through....
Every company today has a website. But is your website compelling? Does it reach out to your potential customer base and convert traffic into sales? Well, It Should . . .On average, you have roughly seven seconds to get your message across before the end user abandons your website for one of your competitors’ sites. We have created simple...