Internet Search Engines

Google: is the leader in the search space and definitely the most loved search engine today. Some other Search engine  as follows

Bing: Bing from Microsoft – many do not want to try or use it for one simple reason! It’s from Microsoft! But if you can lay aside your negative bias for ‘anything Microsoft’ and check it out for a week, you will be surprised at the results it delivers. If you don’t like it, you can always go back to using your earlier one. Bing is now also powering Yahoo Search results.

IxQuick: It was IxQuick which was the first search engine to offer encrypted search back in 2009. It has now also made SSL encryption the default on all searches – although other search engines too followed suit. Ixquick has a sister search engine called Startpage.

Startpage: Well Startpage may not exactly be a Google alternative, but for lovers of Google Search results, it looks to be the best alternative as basically Startpage uses Google Web results – but does not track you or your searches. You can use Startpage to search the web anonymously and protect your privacy. Moreover Startpage shows only a limited amount of relevant sponsored results on the top and the bottom of the results page. You can even add StartPage to your browser.

DuckDuckGo: This search engine too does not track your history and bans spammy sites and sites that are full of advertisements.

Dogpile: It is a metasearch engine, that allows you to simultaneously search not only Google, but also Bing and Yahoo. No longer can you trust just Google Search, as it pushes results from its own sister sites. Using such meta search engines, you can get the best of the three worlds.

Metacrawler: It is another meta search engines that searches and delivers search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo. By accessing multiple search engines for each query, it can provide you with a more relevant spectrum of results than you would from using any single search engine.

Blekko: It helps eliminate spam from search results by allowing you to use slashtags to deliver results that are relevant. For example, you can search with the slashtag “/windows” to get results that have to do with Windows.

Wolfram Alpha: It works in a way quite different from the traditional Search Engines. Search Engines index web pages, then look for textual matches, then give you lists of links. WOolfram|Alpha uses built-in knowledge curated by human experts to compute on the fly a specific answer to every query

Ask: Ask.com is the largest of the small search engines having approximately 5% odd US market share.  Forget its hated Ask toolbar for a moment and check it out.

Gigablast: This one styles itself as a Green Search Engine as 90% of its power usage comes from wind energy. If you want, you can also perform your query on the coal-based search engines by clicking links below the search results. It has a pretty big index and some nice advanced search options too. 

Courtesy : www.thewindowsclub.com

Changing the Administrator Password- Windows XP

Have you forgotten Windows xp Administrator login password or do you want to change the Administrator password of the windows system , Then this will be useful

• Follow the steps below 

• Restart your computer 

• Press F8 key continuously until you get a black screen where you have many options to start you operating system 
• From the options“Select the Safe mode with Command Prompt” 
•  When your computer starts in DOS mode, type the following commands 

net user

This command displays the list of users on this OS in ROWS

5. Now type the following commands to reset the windows Administrator password

net user username password

Note: Enter your username above and space then password.

Then it asks the new password without the last password.

Now type your new password ******
Again retype your new password********

Note: When you type the password, it will not be displayed

Increase the Speed of your Internet by 10 to 20%

Increase the speed of your internet by 10 to 20%

Microsoft/Windows uses about 20 % of the available band with for their purposes like windows update default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection.

You can get it changed by using

Go to

Start----------------------Run

type gpedit.msc and click ----------ok

Then it s open Group policy editor

Click ------ Local Computer Policy

------------- Computer Configuration

------------- Administrative Templates

------------- Net work

-------------- QoS Packet Scheduler

Then double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth

In this it shows as not configured, But while we look in to the explain tab we can see that “By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”

Then click on Enable reserved bandwidth, then set it to zero. 

Recovering Scratched CD’s/DVD's

Recover CD/DVD Using Softwares: There are many softwares available on the net, which enable the recovery of the CD data. BadCopy Pro is one such software, which can be used to recover destroyed data and files from a range of media.
Just a few clicks is all it requires to recover the disc from almost all kind of damage situation; be it corrupted, lost data, unreadable or defective.
DiskDoctors is another popular company, which offers both software and solutions to recover data from a scratched CDs and DVDs

Manual method of recovering data from Scratched cd/dvd:
* Always wipe the CD from the center outward with straight spoke-like strokes. Wiping CDs in circles will create more scratches.errors.
* Clean your Disc players lens regularly with a suitable product to ensure optimal viewing pleasure.
* Make sure to use a soft, lint-free cloth to clean both sides of the disc. Wipe in a straight line from the centre of the disc to the outer edge.
* If wiping with a cloth does not remove a fingerprint or smudge, use a specialized DVD disc polishing spray to clean the disc.

* Do not scratch the graphics layer as you cannot repair the disc.

HINT: Hold the disc up to a light with the graphics layer facing the light source. If you can see light thru the scratches at any point then the disc may be irreparable and or exhibit loading or playing

Here’s an easy home remedy, which might give you the desired results. Rub a small amount of toothpaste on the scratch and polish the CD with a soft cloth and any petroleum-based polishing solution (like clear shoe polish). Squirt a drop of Brasso and wipe it with a clean cloth.

Courtesy : saparavur.blogspot.com

BSNL Revises Unlimited Broadband Plans, More Speed Same Price

India’s largest Broadband Service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today revised its Unlimited Broadband and Home Combo Plans. Starting from February 1st, 2012, BSNL Broadband users will get will get approx 50% increased or Double speed at same price in most of the plans.

The Broadband plans in which speed up-gradation will happen are BBG Combo 299,BB Home UL 499 , BB Home Combo UL 625, BBg Combo ULD 85 and BB Home Combo ULD 900.

For BBG Combo 299 users the speed will be revised to 512 Kbps from its existing 256 Kbps speed where as in BB Home UL 499 plan it will be increased till 512 Kbps upto 4Gb and 256 Kbps beyond 4GB where as it was 256 Kbps prior.

In BB Home Combo ULD 900 plan there is no major speed hike as they have given 512 Kbps beyond 8GB usage which was prior 256 Kbps. For rest of the plans please refer the table below

  

Courtesy : http://telecomtalk.info

Mozilla FireFox Browser - Shortcut Keys

Shortcut keys                                        Action

CTRL+A   ---   Selects the all items on active page

CTRL+B   --- Display the "Organize Bookmarks" dialog box

CTRL+D  --- Include the active page to your Bookmarks list

CTRL+F --- Display the "Find" dialog box to search text

CTRL+I  ---   Display the Bookmarks pane

CTRL+H --- Display the History sidebar of Mozilla Firefox

CTRL+N --- Use to open new Mozilla Firefox page

CTRL+P --- Use to print the active web page

 CTRL+R --- Use to reload the active web page

CTRL+T --- Display a new Tab in active Firefox window

CTRL+U --- View the source code of active web page

CTRL+W --- Closes the active Mozilla Firefox window

CTRL++ --- Use to increase the font size of active page

CTRL+ - --- Use to decrease the font size of active page

CTRL+Tab --- Move to next Tab in Mozilla Firefox

ALT+Home --- Use to open the home page of internet explorer

ALT+Left Arrow --- Go to previous page of active page

ALT+Right Arrow --- Go to next page of active page

ALT+B --- Go to Mozilla Firefox Favorites Menu

ALT+D --- Go to address bar of current Firefox page

ALT+E --- Go to Mozilla Firefox Edit Menu

ALT+F --- Go to Mozilla Firefox File Menu

ALT+S --- Go to Mozilla Firefox History Menu

ALT+T --- Go to Mozilla Firefox Tools Menu

ALT+V --- Go to Mozilla Firefox View Menu 

Tab --- Move forward between all items on active web page

F5 --- Refresh the active web page

F7 --- F7 activate the cursor to move with keyboard

CTRL+SHIFT+DEL --- Use to clear all Private Data history

CTRL+SHIFT+D --- Use to Bookmarks all Firefox Tabs

F11 --- Press F11 key to view any webpage in full-screen view and then again press for normal view.

Press Ctrl+Enter --- Windows will automatically add both "www" and ".com". For example, if we type

 Press Shift+Enter --- Windows will automatically add both "www" and ".net"

Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter ---   Windows will automatically add both "www" and ".org"

Courtesy : http://saparavur.blogspot.com

Google Input Method: Type anywhere in your language

Google Transliteration IME is an input method editor which allows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that is converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content will always be in Unicode.

Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 22 different languages - Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya and Urdu.

Download Google IME

Installation Instructions

How to Rectify consistency problem in SQL Tables

Solution 1:

sp_dboption 'dbname', 'single user', 'true'
go

dbcc checkdb ('dbname', REPAIR_REBUILD)
go

sp_dboption 'dbname'single user', 'false'
go


Solution 2:
The second option is to run the query given by us through query analyser.This solution given may result in a certain degree of data loss proportionate to the corruption of data.The extent and amount of data loss cannot be determined before running the query. Run the query given below from SQL Query Analyser after taking a backup.

sp_dboption 'databasename', 'single user', 'true'
go

dbcc checkdb ('databasename', REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)
go

sp_dboption 'databasename, 'single user', 'false'
go

msconfig - System Configuration

msconfig - is the Microsoft System Configuration Utility. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 it is called as ‘System Configuration’. This is a tool that comes with the Windows Operating System. For Windows 2000 users this tool can be downloaded from microsoft website. This is used to configure and maintain your Windows System. In this tutorial we can see how to use this tool.

To start this tool goto Start->Run and type ‘msconfig’. A new window with five tabs will open.

• General Tab: This tab has three sections. Normal Startup, Diagnostic Startup and Selective Startup. When Windows functions normally we use Normal Startup. When the system doesnt function properly, we can use diagnostic startup to diagnose the issue and to troubleshoot. If we want windows to start with specific programs then we can choose Selective Startup.
• Boot Tab: This tab shows the operating systems installed in the computer. Additionally we can choose options such as ‘safe Boot’, ‘Boot log’, ‘Time out delay’. If you are a new PC user then it is best to leave this tab without any changes.
• Services Tab: This tab lists all the services installed in this PC with the details such as whether the service is running or stopped etc. From here you can enable or disable services. You can check the ‘Hide all Microsoft services’, to hide all essential windows services so that you don’t change them by mistake. From here you can identify unknown services that take up your memory and stop them wherever necessary.
• Startup Tab: Startup tab shows the list of programs that starts automatically when Windows starts. All system tray programs and programs that run in background will also be listed here. You can see which of these services and programs you don’t need at startup and remove them accordingly. This will speed up your windows startup time.
• Tools Tab: In the tools tab you can see, System Information, Programs, System Restore etc.