Find the other Websites of a Person?

Learn how you can find the other websites (or domain names) that are owned by some person using online lookup tools Say you are on a website example.com and would like to know which other web domains are owned by the same person who owns that example.com website. Is it possible? Yes there are some easy workarounds (and tools) that can help you find domains owned by an individual or a company though you may not be successful on every hunt. Let’s give it a try! Step 1: Reverse Whois Lookups with Google When you register a web domain, your name, contact address, phone number and other details are stored with the domain in a public registry database that anyone can access online using a Whois Lookup tool. Go to whois.sc and enter the domain name that you are trying to research....

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Same mouse for my all computers

Learn how you can easily share the same set of your keyboard and mouse with two or more computers without requiring any extra hardware. My current work setup is something like this – I have two desktop computers, each running Windows, and they are both connected over LAN. Each of these machines have separate monitors but they share the same wireless keyboard and mouse – thus the desk looks less cluttered and I can quickly switch between the two computers. This can be done is multiple ways. There’s a simple hardware device called the KVM switch that is helpful when your computers aren’t connected over a network. With a KVM Switch, you can easily manage multiple computers (CPUs) with just one monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The...

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Puzzles for Treasure

Crossword puzzles are fun to solve and can also be used as an educational tool. Learn how to create your own crossword puzzles A lot of us are crossword enthusiasts – a fact easily demonstrated by the inclusion of these puzzles in almost every newspaper across the globe. Crossword puzzles are fun to solve and can also be used as an educational tool to great benefit. Being a niche field, there aren’t too many crossword puzzle generators out there that are both competent as well as affordable. The easiest tool for creating crosswords from a given set of words is EclipseCrossword. You specify the words and their corresponding clues, choose a grid size for your crossword puzzle and your crossword is ready. If you aren’t happy with the generated layout, you can always shuffle until...

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Block Adult Sites from Kids

If your tech-savvy kids are spending a fair amount of their computer time surfing the Internet, there’s a chance that they may sometimes accidentally stumble upon adult sites that you would definitely not like them to see. Keep your Kids from Seeing Adult Content on the Web It is nearly impossible for any parent to manually monitor their child’s entire computer session and what you therefore need is a solution that works in the background even while you aren’t around to watch over them. There are couple of options. For instance, YouTube has a safety mode to block videos that aren’t appropriate for children. Then you have OpenDNS that you can configure with your router or computer to block an entire category of websites that contain violent or adult content. There...

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Free Conference Calls

Have your conference calls arranged for free with SabseBolo, a free audio conferencing service in India. Ideal for small businesses, team meetings, trainings or for family chats. The next venture of Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia is SabeseBolo – an Audio Conferencing service that lets you make conference calls through regular landline or mobile phones within India. The service is completely free and all you need is an email address to get a unique conference number and pin. All the participants will then dial that number to set up a conference call. You can have at most 10 people per teleconference session. There’s probably no direct way to record conference calls though you can refer to previous hacks. Sounds simple and there’re...

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Internet calls free

Make Phone Calls over the Internet (VoIP) and Lower your Phone Bills . Want to make cheap (and even free) international or long-distance phones calls. This guide reviews the best VoIP services that let you make phone calls over the internet thus lowering your phone numbers There was a time when long-distance and international phone calls were a luxury but, thanks to VoIP or Internet based telephone services, this is no longer the case. You can now call your friends and family members anywhere in the world at extremely low rates (sometimes even free) and some of these VoIP services don’t even require you to have an Internet connection at home. VoIP Services for Making Phone Calls Most people have heard of Skype, and it still is...

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Save Web Pages and Blogs for Offline Reading

Lean how to store web pages and blogs for offline viewing. Now you can easily catch up with all your favorite websites whether you are inside a taxi or a public park where there’s no Internet. Consider the following two situations where a local offline copy of websites may come handy: Situation A: You are travelling in a taxi or an airplane where you have access to a reading device (like a laptop computer or your mobile phone) but no Internet connection.  Situation B: You have just checked into a modern hotel where there is WiFi (or an Ethernet port) available in your room but the problem is access cost – it’s way too expensive as the hotel charges you per minute. In the first case, you may want to download a copy of all material that you want to read before embarking on the journey...

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Website Monitoring Services

. Website Monitoring Services continuously monitor your websites for downtime and send email alerts as soon as your web server goes down or becomes slow and inaccessible I recently did a small experiment to evaluate the reliability and response time of various website monitoring services available on the Internet. In case you are new, these services continuously monitor your website(s) for downtime and send email alerts as soon as your web server goes down or becomes slow and inaccessible. You get another alert when the site is up again. For this test, I configured my site with Uptime Party, Pingdom, Watch Mouse, Site Uptimeand Zoho’s Site 24×7. They are all commercial site monitoring services but also offer...

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Essential Tools for Presenters

Conferences have come a long way in the last few years. As a presenter or as an organizer, here are some useful tools and tips to help you get the most out of your sessions Conferences have come a long way in the last few years. People just don’t attend a presentation, take down notes, ask a few questions and leave but they expect something more. As a conference presenter, here’re some useful tools (and tips) that may help you get the most out of your session. Once the details of your session has been finalized, set up a Google Moderator page  to get an idea of what people expect to gain from your presentation. They may also send you questions in advance through the Moderator’s page and, because time for Q&A  is often limited in conferences, you may address the...

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Free-up Disk Space

If your Windows computer is running low on disk space, here’re few things that you should do to instantly recover a few gigabytes of free space. The cost of digital storage is going down and most newer computers ship with 500 GB to 1 TB of hard disks that are big enough to store all your files. However, if you are using Windows on an old computer with limited disk space, here is a list of things you should do to instantly recover some free space. 1. The Obvious Methods to Free Disk Space a. Use CCleaner to quickly clear your Windows recycle bin, temporary Internet files, log files, memory dumps and other stubborn files that don’t show up in Windows Explorer. CClean also provides an option to clean your unused Windows Registry...

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