Sunday, January 31, 2016

Finding a good Linux Distro

You have a variety of choices on Linux distribution. Depending on your hardware configuration or your level of expertise you can find a good Distro. Now let’s gain some knowledge of various distro that are available.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Google secret tips and tricks

Here are some great Google search tips and tricks. I hope that this information will be useful for you.
1. Use “site” command to see all the images of a site. In Google images site (images.google.com) enter site: www.microsoft.com
2. If you want to search a quote/phrase simply type “quotes or phrase” with the quote symbol. This method is very useful if you want to limit your search result.
3. Try searching like this ~money and it will display synonyms of words in a search result like coin, cash and currency etc. To exclude any synonyms simply type ~money –cash -coin

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The worse passwords of 2015

The cyber security in today's world is of paramount importance because our personal data and information are increasing in the virtual world and its bound to increase in the future. To protect these information, most site uses password which are chosen by the user and here in lies the problem. Users choose some very bad password and such bad choices of password has led to several cyber security breaches.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Tweak Firefox for better performance

Most of us love using Firefox. It can be said that it is the best browser out there. Availability of various plugins makes it even greater and more useable. Normally Firefox is a bit ordinary but using rich library of plugins and extensions makes it perfect. So let’s talk about some tweaks and tricks that you can apply in Firefox in order to increase your Firefox performance.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Fun with Google

(1)   Did you know that Google search engine can be used as a calculator? Just give your mathematical expression in the search box and press Search button. You will get your answer in the search result page. E.g.: put 10+25-8 in search box and you will get the result as 10+25-8=27.

(2)    You can also use wildcard while searching. For example put United * of America and you will get the result containing any word between United and of America.