Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

What is Intranet?

Monday, July 27th, 2009

  An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet technologies to securely share any part of an organization’s information or operational systems with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to the organization’s internal website, but often it is a more extensive part of the organization’s information technology infrastructure and private websites are an important component and focal point of internal communication and collaboration.

An intranet is built from the same concepts and technologies used for the Internet, such as client-server computing and the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). Any of the well known Internet protocols may be found in an intranet, such as HTTP (web services), SMTP (e-mail), and FTP (file transfer). Internet technologies are often deployed to provide modern interfaces to legacy information systems hosting corporate data.

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All About Mozilla Firefox 3.5

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.
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Evernote: Note Taking Application Review

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Guest post by Srikanth AD

There are many note taking applications like the Notefish, Microsoft OneNote, Google Notes, etc., but none of them let you take notes easier than the Evernote.

The best thing about this application is it works on any platform and you can jot down, capture, drag and drop virtually anything into this application and can search for the notes using the search functionality later.

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New in Gmail: Tasks

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

gmail tasks Now Gmail Tasks came out of Google labs and joined in Gmail features, It is so simple entering a new task: just click in an empty part of your list and start typing. No buttons to click and it’s saved automatically. Hit Return and you’ve got a new task right there. You can also easily convert emails into tasks: select one or more messages and go toMore Actions > Add to Tasks. (Or turn on keyboard shortcuts and use <shift> + T). They used the same interface as Google chat for the tasks such that it make the user feel more comfortable working with it.

The Screen Shot of the task options was attached for your idea.gmail tasks capture

Online Transactions Now Require An Additional Layer of Security

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

verified by visa - mastercard securecode The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated that from 1st Aug 2009 all online credit card transactions require an extra level of verification. Your credit card issuing banks are therefore, implementing a "Verified by VISA" or "MasterCard SecureCode" password. You will need this password to continue transacting online from 1st Aug 2009.

What is the "Verified by VISA"/"MasterCard SecureCode" password?

This is the password that your credit card issuing Bank provides. For example – ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Citibank, HSBC Bank, Axis Bank, SBI etc. This password is the additional layer of security for all your online transactions.

How it Works?how it worksBenefits of "Verified by VISA"/"MasterCard SecureCode" password

Even if you lose / misplace your credit card it cannot be misused online as the password is not present on the card.

Note : Keep your password safe. Do not share your password with anyone.