There are many people that still rely on public spaces to get connected to the internet. The vote to have online access at home is pretty strong though. Because there are so many places to hop on the net around for free many people don't think there is a real pressing need to pay an internet provider at home. If you think about it, there are some pretty good arguments for staying online at home.

The best thing about using a web provider in a public space is that it is free. That is pretty basic. Generally although you are not paying for the free Wi-Fi, you usually do have to buy something to sit wherever you are. If you are in a coffee shop or a cafe, they will expect you to drink some beverage or have lunch if you are sitting there using their Wi-Fi.

Some people like that they are sitting in a cafe surrounded by people while online. For others though this can be very distracting. If you actually have work to do then being engulfed in noise and activity can be very overwhelming. People that are basically just playing online won't be too worried about the distractions. They are enjoying themselves and probably making plans to get together for more fun. For work or study, it is important to have space and time.

If you are a working professional or student, with family and kids, finding the time to actually go to the free public access, might be out of the question; unless you are ok with taking away from quality family time, plus the expense of going there early in the morning or late in the evening. A Internet connection at home allows you to be home when you need to be and still have the option of working or studying in the comfort, safety and quietness of your own domain.

There really is no reason for anyone who wants to get connected at home, to be without a web connection. In most homes and apartments , two basic standard options are the phone lines or the cable lines. Both are an excellent and reliable way of staying connected to the Internet from the comfort of your home 24/7. All others have the option of satellite internet service, for the same 24/7 connection anywhere on the planet, regardless of how remote.

Author:-JEN BARNUM

It's true using a secure proxy server is one of the biggest steps you can take in securing your details online and protecting yourself from the growing scourge of identity theft.

There are many, many people involved in identity theft, huge criminal gangs with lots of resources have slowly discovered this form of electronic theft. The rewards are huge and to be honest the risks are minimal compared with conventional crime. These groups set themselves up in countries with ineffective police and information laws and actively target internet users and their accounts. This is big business, the rewards for these gangs are phenomenal. The rewards of course attract many more criminals in countries across the globe. A rather nasty side affect of the communication revolution that is the internet - you no longer have to be in the same country as your victim to steal from someone. Lots of us put our personal details up on the internet, you can easily pull together a lot of information on a person from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. A few more tricks and a little more snooping and your very online identity is at risk.

One of the main issues is with your browsing - 99% happens in clear text, that's everything you send from your PC across the web is all readable without any special skills, you just need to intercept it. There are numerous places your data can be intercepted - your local ISP stores logs containing full details of everything people do online. There are numerous other places it can be intercepted but some are easier than others. The easiest is quite simple to do and what most identity thieves do - they rent, buy or just hack into and steal a server.

Next the identity thieves install a proxy server and advertise it on the net as a free anonymous proxy. Pretty soon thousands of people will be directing all their personal data via this server. The proxy is switched to caching mode or logging enabled and a huge stock of personal data, your personal data is copied. Account names, web sites, personal details, logins and just abut everything an identity thief needs. They will impersonate people, steal directly from individuals or even blackmail surfers if they've reason to. Thousands of options, thousands of victims and all this came directly to them via a free anonymous proxy.

You don't get anything for free, a secure proxy server can be used with an encrypted connection to protect your data, anonymity and personal details. But they cost money to run and set up securely so choose wisely and never, ever send your data via a free proxy unless you know who is running it.

Author:-NEIL BERRY

Internet browsing was always easily accessible with our default browser in windows operating systems. Internet explorer is the name which most of us would always remember. Internet explorer was first released with Windows 95 in 1995. Since then internet explorer has been capturing the market of browsers. Although since competition is very tough as there are lot of browsers in the market like Mozilla Firefox and Netscape but internet explorer has still managed to be on top. Microsoft has made internet explorer default browser and also windows help is always there to assist and end user.

Internet explorer started with various versions like IE 1,2,3,4,5 and later windows XP came equipped with IE 6. Prior launching new operating systems Microsoft launches the new and updated version of IE. Later windows vista came with IE 7 and now the guesses are over IE 8 has been launched prior launching Windows 7. Initially Beta versions were available for download where anyone can download and feel the experience and also check for any problems, bugs or drawbacks. Microsoft does not provide any Tech support for beta products neither entertains any claims vulnerabilities created by beta products. There is no Microsoft support, online Microsoft support for all these beta products. They are only meant for testing purpose.

Internet Explorer 8 is finally launched and now is available for download. Microsoft support is available for Internet Explorer 8 now. Internet Explorer 8 has been devised in such a manner that it protects the user from all the security threats that were posed to Internet Explorer 7. IE 7 was venerable to various viruses and security scams. Most of the users had to either call Tech support, Microsoft support or any computer support for fixing the issues with their browser or had to download a third party browser. Various IE 7 users had also fears of their information being leaked out on the internet and were reluctant in doing any kind of financial transaction online.

Internet Explorer 8 has given a clear signal to all the end users that this browser is equipped with latest security measures and also will not be an easy catch for Virus’s. Internet Explorer 8 is a very stable and enhanced browser. Online Microsoft help has lot of material regarding IE 8. It will explain you how to install and browse through Internet Explorer 8.

Internet Explorer 8 has is a very easy to install browser with option of selection of search engine. It even gets installed very easily where you would not require Tech support or Microsoft support to install it. The browsing is made easy and stability has been added in terms of session restoration. You can restore your previous sessions once the browser is closed unexpectedly or if there is an illegal system shutdown. By clicking on the address bar you can view all the previously visited WebPages with their brief description. You can also see favourites while clicking on the address bar in the browser. The tabbed browsing is of the same nature as in previous version of the browser.

Most of the times when we have contacted Tech Support or Computer repair we might have seen that most of the times the Tech deletes the browsing history and cookies. That enhancement has also been changed here with all the deletion options coming with check boxes. So you have liberty to check the boxes which you want to delete. Another enhancement is that Internet Explorer 8 is compatible with almost all the scripts and languages including Microsoft Silverlight. Safety options have also been added where you would do a private browsing without making your browser venerable to the security threats.

There are various other options available in Internet Explorer 8 which would help you in easy browsing. To experience the new browser you can download and install this browser on your windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows vista and also enjoy the support from Microsoft help and online Microsoft help.

Author:- GANDHARVA KUMAR

Slow computers can hamper your work efficiency to a great extent. There can be several reasons for it including malware attack, accumulation of Internet cookies or temporary files, or a faulty hard disk. At such an hour, whom should you trust? Well! Now, there is online computer support to protect your work interests. The technicians offering such services can tackle your system and security requirements effectively.

You can avail a number of exclusive services for your precious PC. No matter whether it’s related to virus removal, antivirus installation, PC set up, PC optimization, troubleshooting PC errors or any other, you can contact these online support shops anytime. The best part about them is their proficiency and 24x7 availability.

You can search for computer support on the internet by using keywords such as remote computer repair services, remote PC repair & network security services or online technical support. The technicians will diagnose your existing computer and work along with you to analyze the required treatment. After a complex and comprehensive assessment, they decide the treatment to be done for resolving your PC troubles.

Online technical support eliminates the need for you to take your computer out for repair or spending money to call technician at premises. All the things are done online at the convenience of your home. This significantly cuts down the technical support costs and result into economical solutions. With a single click on a link given on the website, your computer support representative is instantly connected with you in a virtual on-site support conference.

The support representative has an instant, real-time view of the end-user's desktop and can optionally share remote control of the mouse and keyboard.

The technician working on your system remotely takes an instant, real time view of your desktop and accesses your mouse and keyboard to resolve the errors. They access your PC with your permission. However, you still can control the actions taken on your system as you are the one who is sitting before your system. Therefore, online computer support is both cost effective as well as safe.

Author:-GANDHARVA KUMAR

Your data is highly valuable and critical to your business’s success. Since computers serve as store house for the company’s work, you will undoubtedly want to protect them to the best of your ability. Earlier, computer back-up procedures used to be highly demanding in terms of time, money and efforts on the user's part. Some people show lenient attitude towards such things and avoid any effort towards these jobs. Contrary to what has been the scene in the past, you can handle your business’s data as never before with online data backup services.

The need for online data back up services is more to small businesses than others. Their resources are generally scattered across different computers, none of which are properly protected from power surge or have proper back-up capacity. However, there are other sources too which can lead to data loss. These can be nasty computer virus, spyware, human errors, or failure of any software applications.

So, don’t let your small business fall prey to hardware failure or data-munching viruses? Most PC errors are preventable with a combination of the proper hardware, proper backups, and a little bit of end-user training. The computer support vendors that offer online PC support can not only help in repairing the issues, but prevent them once and for all.

Computer data back-up services can save you from undergoing a lot of hassles thereby enhancing your business potential, time invested in creating data and costs of data recovery. Online data back yup services are not only a cheap, fast but the most prevalent way of protecting data. Since data back ups can be stored in a different locations from the original data, it is completely safe.

You just need to use Internet to find a good online computer support shop. Try searching with the keywords like online data back up services, computer support, data back up support, and similar words. These keywords get you the refined search and help you to narrow down on the required service provider that meets your requirements and suits your budget.

Author:-GANDHARVA KUMAR

Today, email holds critical importance for every business to stay a step ahead of competitors. It would not be wrong to say that a proper email management is a backbone of most companies’ daily activities. This underlines a need a growing need to secure emails against computer viruses, software failures, power failures, hard drive failures, or human errors. These threats can destroy the data including documents, pictures, emails and other files.

To prevent such situations for once and all, most home computer users as well as businesses avail back-up solutions from time to time. The array of email support services includes Outlook Configure, Email Setup Rules, Fix Email Problems, and handling email management. Unfortunately, many people actually start to do email support only after they lose data. Well! You don’t be among them and protect your emails now. Email problems and errors can occur anytime and even within your account or configuration of your email client. However, it can never be easy to decide which one to blame

Considering the advantages of email support services, they can help you with anything related to your email. They protect your emails from dangerous and unlawful attacks. These services ensure your e-mail’s protection via a variety of methods like fixing email problems right away, spam filters and virus scanners. As such, you should not only focus your attention on preventing immediate security threats from malware, but also need to explore strategies for the control of access to mail data via the internet.

You may also ask for installation and configuration of new email client accounts, setting free email accounts with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). The technician will also get you the activation of spam blockers done in your email program to prevent receiving adult spam.

You may search for good online computer support vendors by using the search engines like Google, MSN, or yahoo. Try with the keywords such as Email Support, Outlook Configure, Email Setup Rules, and Fix Email Problems. Using these, you will get refined and targeted search.

Author:-GANDHARVA KUMAR

If you have a DVD movie and want to upload parts of it to your website, so how do you handle it?

As I know, you can use a DVD ripper, like Leawo DVD Ripper, to rip the DVD to your computer hard disk. Then use a converter that can convert DVD video file to FLV(Why FLV? Because FLV is your best bet). To upload it to your website, you also need to make a Flash video player to control the playback of the Flash video files. You can do it in Adobe Flash CS3 with actionscript. Finally, upload all the web pages and Flash files to your hosting server.

However, all these things seem to be a little complicated to a beginner on this subject. Though there are a lot of DVD to website solution products but I am talking about one for free. They are Moyea DVD4web Converter and Moyea web player Pro. This guide include two parts: Part 1: How to rip DVD to flash Part 2: How to put the converted flash videos to website

Part 1: How to rip DVD to flash

1. Download Moyea DVD4Web converter from http://www.flash-video-mx.com/dvd4web-converter/ for free if it is for personal use. Launch it.

2. Import DVD file into the program If there are DVD files in your computer, click the Load DVD button or Load IFO button, and a dialog box pops up for you to select the original DVD movies. Here, you have added the DVD movies to the product.

3. Set output file After adding DVD movies to this DVD to Flash Converter, you can click drop-down button to open sub-directory: the titles and click drop-down button again: the chapters. Here, you can select the chapters you like to rip. Here you can set the output format as flv(flash video).

4. Customize the effect for output Click “Customize” button on the main interface, you can start customizing effects for the output. Customize effect includes video effects, duration time trimming, and video cropping.

5. Complete conversion You just need to click the start convert button to start conversion. After finishing ripping task, you can hit Open button to find the ripped files quickly and directly. Then it is ready for uploading to video share sites like YouTube, blog, any social websites for playback on them.

Part 2: How to put the converted flash videos to website

1. Download Moyea Web Player Pro from http://www.flash-video-mx.com/web-player-pro/, install and launch it

2. Add the converted flash videos into Moyea Web Player Pro (Moyea Web Player Pro offers a free video converter to convert the unaccepted videos to flash videos)

3. Moyea Web Player Pro publishes some files like a swf file named mwplayer.swf and a html file named index.html

4. Upload all the published files to the same folder of your website.

5. Open index.html with notepad or Dreamweaver, edit the 'embed' tag, replace the URL in the 'src' in 'embed' tag with the real URL of the SWF file.

6: Copy and paste the edited embedded code to your web page. Then the flash videos will appear on your website.

Author:-SHIRLEY BETTER

Nowadays, lovers of movies have something to smile about when they surf through various websites in search free movies. The developments that have been made in the world of internet connectivity have improved the quality movies that can be streamed from various websites.

The best thing to note is that you don’t have to part with a cent in order to watch free TV series and have a true feel of this quality entertainment. All that you need is a reliable internet and the necessary plug-ins to ensure that you stream the videos and watch full movies as they appear on TV. It is more or less like having a TV on your browser.

The range of movies that you can watch is very wide and with over 50,000 to choose from in some of the streaming website, you can ask of nothing more on the internet. This must raise some serious questions about the legality of the decisions by some websites to make these content available freely worldwide. It means that lovers of video have might tend to shun commercial movie stores worldwide since the free versions are only a click away fro them.

However, those who market these websites view the free downloads as a chance for them to drive more and more people into the host website. If your dream is to watch Family Guy Online it is guaranteed that you will visit the website more often in the future in order to search for this better quality movie.

Some of the most featured movies are Lost, Supernatural and True blood. Through the ABC channel, many movies can be transmitted to millions of online viewers the world over. At times it takes a thorough search in various websites in order to find the best of them all in terms of speed of streaming. The level of challenge based of the search engine appears to be very low. This hints at satisfaction rather than loss of interest.

Through online TV shows, one can get access to the programs of their choice without doing any harm to the copyright issues. This is as far as the disclaimer posted by providers of free online movie shows is concerned. The fact that you can watch Bones online does not mean that the TV that is showing the program is accessing it from its servers. This is the claim made by the advertisers and providers of online movies.

Your computer can bring you a real when you watch free TV shows that are your favorite. It takes time to stream free TV series if you have a problem with your computer. This does not mean that you can’t d download free series of the best programs through few simple steps through the same interface.

Whereas a website will be free to allow downloads to take place, it only takes a carefully worded disclaimer to turn the risk into an opportunity to provide the best form of entertainment magic as a way of marketing a website.

Find out more about watch free tv series,

Author:-I55T SAM

If you live out in the country and don't have access to cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) service, how can you get high-speed Internet service? Simple - Satellite Internet. But who has the highest speeds and the best prices? Read on ...

What is Satellite Internet Service?

Instead of using your phone line or a cable line to access the Internet, satellite service uses a satellite dish to capture then redirect a satellite Internet signal to your computer. Because satellite service does not have the bandwidth restriction that dialup service does, satellite service is up to 50 times faster than dialup.

High-speed satellite service is available to anyone in the United States who has an unobstructed view of the southern sky.

What Equipment do I Need?

In order to get satellite service you need a satellite dish to capture the signal sent by an Internet provider, and an uplink and downlink modem.

Which Provider Has the Highest Speed?

Of the four major Satellite Internet companies, HughesNet offers the fastest speed available - 5Mbps download speed which is 50 times faster than dialup.

It's closest competitor, WildBlue offers upload speeds up to 1.5 Mbps. The next two providers, SkyWay and StarBand also offer speeds up to 1.5 Mbps.

How Much Does it Cost?

Thanks to the competition between satellite providers, prices have come down in recent years. For instance, you can get 1 Mbps service from HughesNet for $59.99 per month. That includes free installation, 24/7 technical support, and anti-spam and anti-virus protection. You also get a 30-day money-back guarantee.

WildBlue's 1 Mbps service is $69.95 per month, SkyWay's 1.5 Mbps service is $79.95 per month, and Starband's 1 Mbps service is $69.99 per month.

The Bottom Line

If you want a super-fast Internet connection that lets you surf web pages like flipping through the pages of a magazine ... an always-on connection that lets you talk on the phone while you're on the Internet ... and the ability to download music and video files in seconds instead of minutes or hours ... then satellite Internet service is what you're looking for.

Author:-BRIAN STEVENS

Like the quiet kid at school who goes on to be a mighty PC journalist, there's a tiny program probably installed on your PC that's capable of incredible feats. VLC is the Firefox of media players - rock-solid, open-source, free and completely customizable. So far it's been used for everything from beaming videos from space to generating ASCII-art versions of video files.

But its most overlooked core feature is its ability to stream video over a network. VLC was originally created for this purpose by students of the Ecole Centrale Paris, but when they realized they had created a versatile media player they chose to set it free on the net. The video streaming functionality is perfect for home networks - it's incredibly easy to set up and can even be used for streaming music. It can also be used with the multitude of Linux systems pre-installed on Eee-style crotchtops, as well as - dare we say it - Macs. That's not all it can do: one handy (albeit potentially migraine-inducing) feature is its ability to display a video as your Windows wallpaper, simply by opening a vid, right-clicking on it and clicking ‘wallpaper’.

So, next time you turn on your PC, open up VLC, play around with it and show it some love. It's probably the most underappreciated program on your desktop.


How to stream network video

First, grab the IP address of the PC you want to stream to by pressing [Windows] + [R] keys, then typing ‘cmd’. Enter 'ipconfig' to reveal the IP address. Write that down. Go to the PC you want to stream from, open VLC, and then go to File > Open File.

Click on browse to locate the video file you want to stream, then check the 'Stream/Save' option under advanced options. Click ‘Settings’ then check 'UDP' and enter the IP address.

On the second PC, open VLC and click on File > Open Network Stream. Make sure that 'UDP/RTP' is checked and the port is set to '1234'.

Click OK, then click Play on the source machine. Of course, you'll be wanting to control your media from the destination machine, so on the source PC, click Settings > Add Interface > Web Interface. On the destination PC, open a browser window and type the IP address of the source machine followed by ':8080'. This will let you access the web interface, which allows a whole host of cross-machine interaction.

If you're even more tech-minded, or just anally completist, you could even configure your Bluetooth mobile to control playback.

Author:-SANDRA PRIOR