How To Guide

Many people like to shop for clothes online because they may not be getting the clothes they want in the shops or they don’t want to spend the time going to shops.

Most clothes can be easily bought online. It can save you a time, and when time is money, this is an important consideration. Ranging from household linens to suits, from innerwear to warm clothes, you can buy everything online, without leaving the comfort of your home.

Shopping for garments

Most online shopping sites have details on sizing and how to measure your sizes, if you don’t already know. After you have made your selection from the catalog, you can input your size and color and then proceed to check out.

There are some sites which offer tailoring options as well. They will also offer details on how to input various measurements, so that you get a good fit. Tailor made options also allow you to select the length of your clothes… Read More

Are you in the market for a net book? If so, you have come to the proper place to learn how to find the one that is right for you. There are certain things you need to know before making a purchase when buying a new net book

What is a net book

A net book is basically a small laptop. Usually net books are laptops that are between seven and ten inches across. They can have a variety of operating systems including Linux and various Windows operating systems. To be a true net book, the only other real requirement is that it have a WI-FI card in it so it can get onto the internet via a 3g, 4g, standard or all three types of wireless gateways.

What you should look for in a net book

Since all a computer has to have in order to qualify as a net book is any operating system, a small size and an internet connection method, there are many different types of hardware you can purchase when… Read More

Imagine if you were promised unheard of sums of money in return for your co-operation and a little ‘help’ – you would be tempted unless you knew better.

Anybody who uses email will no doubt have received one of these emails. The gist of the emails is that there is untold fortune somewhere, stuck due to government officials, death or a political or economic situation in some far off country. Or the person wants your help in getting some money in order to leave it to charity. Or (in a new version) a female wants to get married to you if you help her retrieve her fortune.  These scams are also called 419 after the penal code number in Nigeria which applies to such scammers.

Will you ever get the money?

If you ever make the mistake of replying to this kind of email – and people globally have been victims – you will be led step by step by the scammers deeper and deeper into a hole, till you have given the money in the form of cheques or… Read More

Most people today have one or more email addresses and somewhere or the other there are databases of email addresses – this is the information that scammers use and send generic emails, knowing that a small percentage will get ‘hooked’.

While a lot of email providers now have spam filters, they don’t always work. That is why a person with an email address tends to get a lot of emails which take them to porn sites, or freeware, free stuff, phishing and more which then open the door to scammers who may be hacking into your accounts or taking your money one way or the other.

Different email scams

There are innumerable email scams – we are not even discussing email hoaxes which don’t ask for money but are simple hoaxes or chain letters.

These are some of them:

• Free offers of goods or coupons for discounted products
• Dire warnings of virus/Trojan attacks
• Emails purportedly from banks which are actually fake emails
• Fake appeals for various charities or charitable causes
• ‘Too good to be true” job offers (specially if

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You might not think it possible. But Onspeed, a software firm, allows those with dial-up connection to achieve much higher download speeds.

Onspeed uses a technology called content sensitive compression to individually compress each element of a web page or email content using various compression algorithms based on their patent approved technology.

When a web requests a page, the ONSPEED software redirects that request to the ONSPEED Compression Servers. They take the respective Web Page content, compresses it and sends it back down to the ONSPEED software which decompresses it and sends it to the Browser requesting the information

It works with any internet connection irrespective of who the internet service provider is

You will benefit by:

Having speed boosted by as much as 5 times, which is equivalent of low end broadband

Keep your existing internet service provider (ISP)

Low cost compared to subscribing to the slowest broadband service

However, unlike broadband, you will not be able to use the… Read More

Broadband internet is fast approaching dial up connection in terms of the medium through which most households in the UK and other developed countries access internet. Whether, it is used to download and sharing music, watching the latest movie trailers, communicating with family and friends via web chat or/ and downloading favourite movies already released. Many of these households would not be able to without broadband, as it has become the focal point of entertainment. Find out here how to get free broadband internet.

There are numerous considerations to make when choosing which service provider that will best fit.

Speed

If you are one who wants to get the best out of your internet service and hate waiting when downloading large music and video files then speed should be your uppermost concern. A fast service that provides up to 8mb/s should allow you to download these files in a flash. A large movie file of around 500MB can be downloaded very quickly. Not all service providers offer up to 8MB just… Read More

With the advent VOIP ( voice over internet protocol ), the days of high phone bills, particularly for long distance calls are all but over. Skype, the UK based company recently snapped up by the online auction giant, Ebay, has deveoped the technology (voice over internet protocol) to make smooth and clear and transparent phone calls over the internet.

Although internet telephony has been available for some time, the new technology represents something different. Up until now, the calls made over the internet has been beset with problems such as poor reception and also fears over security i.e. the threat of calls being intercepted.

Security of voice over internet protocol

Currently, the companies involved are putting the final touches to what could provide a sweeping change to the whole telecommunications industry, with calls made at extremely low cost and with full security utilising powerful encryption.

Using a technology called voice over internet protocol , you can successfully place free calls over the internet by using your broadband internet connection.… Read More

Junk mail is the equivalent of receiving all the unwanted promotion leaflets and other unwanted post that you get through your letterbox. Junk mail is even more annoying because it can be time consuming to go through them. They often look as if they have been delivered to you personally and therefore you are tempted to open them up.

Here are a few tips that will either stop or significantly reduce the amount of junk you receive everyday:

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Junk mail is the equivalent of receiving all the unwanted promotion leaflets and other unwanted post that you get through your letterbox when the postman makes his delivery. Junk mail is even more annoying because it can be time consuming to go through them. What makes it worse is that they often look as if they have been delivered to you personally and therefore you are tempted to open them up. Some inboxes are so littered by junk everyday that it can be difficult to make out which ones are for real.

Here are a few tips that will either stop or significantly reduce the amount of junk you receive everyday:

All good email accounts provide you the option to filter out junk mail from the inbox. In hotmail, you can do this by clicking on:

Options>Junk email protection>junk email filter>then choosing whichever option you prefer.

You will be able to select from one of three options:

Low – obvious junk emails are caught

Enhanced – most… Read More

Wireless network is relatively cheap to deploy, easy to setup and configure. In order to make it more secure following steps will be helpful.

Change the default password

Almost all wireless devices can be managed via a web interface that can be accessed by simply typing its IP address in a browser’s address field. While the admin interface is password protected, the default password set by the manufacturer is always the same. Anybody can download the manual from the manufacturer’s website, and get the default password. As a result, an intruder can hack our system.

Disable SSID Broadcast

The SSID is the name of the wireless network. In order to connect to a wireless network, its name needs to be known. By default, wireless gateways happily broadcast the SSID to be picked up by any wireless network device for easy configuration. Hiding the SSID by disabling SSID broadcast will make it much harder for an intruder.

Change the SSID

Disabling SSID broadcast doesn’t help… Read More

The threat of online fraud will always exist just as fraud in the real world. With the growing complexity of software and the ability for hackers to keep pace with anti fraud measures implemented by organisations to combat fraud, they are never too far behind.

Fraud can cost companies millions through loss of consumer trust as well as the fraud itself. When a fraud is committed it leads to a customer being siphoned out of money either from their accounts or credit cards.

However there are measures people can take to ensure they deal safely with organisations they are member or customer of:

Never disclose your password to anyone in an email or in a telephone conversation even they claim it is customer support of an organisation that you deal with. It is OK to provide such details if you initiate the call. Organisations will simply not ask you for password such details when dealing with routine matters. If they ask for such details over the phone it will be mentioned in… Read More

There have quite a few high profile cases recently about the dangers of online dating. Some of these cases involved men luring young girls through deception after meeting and chatting with them on sites even as high profile as MySpace.

Online dating has become extremely popular in recent years with the growth of Internet use and a host of sites that are providing such services for those looking to find love. Virtual dating differs from traditional dating in one very important aspect in that the couple do not meet in flesh and therefore it lacks the intimacy of the traditional method.

Although it may sound a misnomer, this is in fact what a lot of online dating community like about virtual dating. It allows them to get to know someone really well before meeting up with them.

The benefits of online dating

• Chat to as many people as you want. There are literally thousands and thousands of people to choose from.

• Get to chat to people from other parts of the

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Shopping over the internet is almost inevitable nowadays simply because the convenience and the kind of deals one gets. But at times the shopping instead of being a pleasurable experience can turn into a nightmare if there is manipulation of the financial resources you have used.

Here are a few tips to shop safely over the internet:

Try and make it a practice to shop only from well known trusted sites or sites that you have been already using experiment might turn costly if the site is not a well-authenticated one.

Check the privacy policy of every site before giving in any details of your financial resources.

Try and use a credit card or a credit check so that the payments are routed through the company after doing all necessary checks of authentication

Try and keep a record of every transaction that you have done online so that if you find any discrepancies in the statement you receive an immediate identification will be possible.

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First of all, you must be connected to the internet. Television stations have two ways of broadcasting web TV:

Live streaming

This technology lets end users experience the same content they would normally experience using a regular TV set. The only difference is that you have a wider choice of TV stations you can watch (you can even watch TV stations from other countries), and it is usually free.

Due to the large size of video streams, you must have a broadband connection to watch internet TV without problems. Many broadcasting servers let you choose the speed at which you would like to receive the stream. The correlation is simple: faster streams deliver better resolution, image and sound clarity than slower streams; but if your internet connection is slow, then faster streams will stop regularly to download themselves (this process is called buffering), while slower streams will run smoothly.

Here are a few web sites you can use to watch internet TV:

.  www.itv.com … Read More

The internet and email have created opportunities for criminals to use email in the theft of one’s identity. At one time, those who stole a person’s identity had to work a lot harder to get the information but now it is very easy to deceive a targeted person by using emails containing deceptive tactics. Here are some tips in how to identify email identity theft:

. Any email where the domain on the return address is hard to remember (such as a9203@xukkluoorg.com).

. Look at the timestamp on the email. In Outlook you can do this by a right click on the message title in the inbox and selecting Options. The timestamp will be at a strange hour indicating that it could be from the other side of the globe.

. Be suspicious of any email that asks for personal information such as credit card numbers and bank account numbers. This seems pretty obvious however sometimes the spammer offers awards in exchange for your registration on their site where you disclose personal and financial resource… Read More

Surveys are a part of a company’s market research program. These are practically questionnaires that customers fill out. The company that launched the survey analyses the results and then it creates new products or adjusts current products it provides to better suit customer needs. As a company, success depends on the ability to deliver exactly what customers want. That is why many companies started launching paid surveys, i.e. they pay customers to share their opinion about the firm’s products and/or services. A way to do this is through the internet, because it reaches customers all over the world, and that is what “online surveys” are all about.

So practically, what do you do to get paid for stating your opinion over different products and/or services provided by various companies?

. First, you have to join one or more of the online survey services listed below

. You will receive forms that you have to complete or addresses to sites describing products and services on which you have to write a comment.

. Complete… Read More

Carphone Warehouse, the High Street mobile phone retailer, said it would start offering free broadband internet access as part of its TakTalk fixed line service. This will undoubtedly create a huge surge in interest in those wanting to take up fast internet access. The offer undercuts those of its rivals such as BT internet, which offers the standard 2Mb package for £15 a month.

Carphone Warehouse has invested millions in setting up a broadband network and is likely to lose up to £50 million in the first year by offering the service for free in its quest to win customers away from other companies, especially BT, for its rather new landline phone service. It also hopes to become less reliant on mobile phones, its traditional stronghold, by extending its range of services.

Price war

The decision to offer free broadband will lead to a price war which in the long run will be beneficial whether or not Carphone can sustain its TalkTalk broadband package, as other companies will need to slash their prices or face losing… Read More

Identity theft has become a household name lately, unfortunately, it’s a major growing problem that everyone needs to learn about and take the proper measures to protect yourself and family from these types of crimes.

Identity theft needs to be taken seriously especially with the advancement of the internet, the facts is most everyone has a computer in their home which allows for more identity theft than ever before. You need to recognize that there are now two avenues of identity theft one being offline and the other online. Now, let’s take a look at what is considered identity theft and how to protect your identity.

Many forms of theft

Identity theft comes in many forms where thieves will steal your Social Security number and name, along with other personal information to commit crimes mainly fraud to steal money or other personal gain. The list of Identity theft includes; using someone’s Social Security number to access your good credit ratings, using it as a false identity to get a job, open credit card accounts, or to… Read More