How to reset default search engine in firefox address bar?

Firefox has come with google as its default search engine, but sometime because of some software, it changes to other search engines such as Ask.com. Recently, I myself faced this problem and thought to share with you.

While we could easily change search engine in the right hand side toolbar by clicking the icon of current search engine and then clicking manage search engine, but in the case of url address bar, we need to open about:config from url. It is very easy to do and three steps procedure:

1. Type about:config  in your url bar and press enter
2. Click on I will be carefull I promise
3. Search for browser.search , Right click and Reset it to default. That's it!

I hope that helped!

How to find Best free photo sharing websites?

If you are interested in photography, then you would definitely have large collection of photos. Nowadays, good Smartphone’s and digital cameras are easily accessible and available to anyone. If you like photography, you can take as many photographs as you want. But memory cards of our gadgets are limited and we need some place to store it.

Where to store these many numbers of photographs? 

Although it is a good option to save your pictures in computer hard disk, but there is risk of hard disk crash or unintentional deletion of photographs. Therefore, the best way of saving these precious images is online photo sharing websites.

Advantage with these websites is that you can download your uploaded pics from anywhere in the world. It is also the best way to share photographs with your friends and relatives. To use these websites you need to have account with them. If you want your reach to the world of photography, you would need one of these photos sharing websites:

Flickr:

It is one of the world’s most popular photo sharing website provided by Yahoo. Moreover, with the help of flikr, you can share your pics on Twitter, Facebook and your blog. There are many ways to upload photograph on it. If you want, you can directly upload them from mobile phones and uploading using browser and email is easy too.

Sign In : Yahoo, Facebook or Google

Account Types:

Free: In a free account you can upload 300 MB size of images per month.

Paid : $1.87 per month includes unlimited photos and ads free browsing

Mobile Applications: iOS, Android and Windows Phone

Photoshop:

It is an online version of photo editing software Photoshop. Using it, you can add effects and store images in 2 GB of free space. Moreover, it also provides features such as Slideshow and image gallery.

Mobile Applications: iOS and Android

Picasa:

Sign In : Google Account

It is a service provided by google. Other than photo sharing it provides a tool which creates slideshows and create quality albums. Picasa has desktop application where you can search and upload photograph directly from your computer. If you want to share them, you can do it on google social networking site google plus.

Free: 1GB of Storage.
Paid Account: 25 GB for Picasa and Google Drive at  $2.49 / Month

Dropshots:

Here you can create albums for your pics and allows upload of 500 Photographs and 20 videos with 2 minute Video limitation.
Paid: $4.95 for unlimited account

Photobucket:

Sign In: Facebook , Twitter and Photobucket account.

Upload unlimited photos using its free account with only restriction and that file size of photo should not exceed 5 MB. If you want you can edit photos and graphics. It also includes slideshow tool and photo sharing.

Fastest way to search files on internet

Searching for a file on internet is always a massive task, whether it is pdf file,doc file or some other type of file. Even though, we can search files with google or bing advanced search option ,but it is not as convenient as any file search engine would be .

Findfiles.net tries to solve this particular problem. They have given us various options to select file format we would like to search including virus scanning facility even before downloading a file. Moreover, they have big database of files to select from.

If you are one of those who is looking for similar app, Try it now!

Video Surf great way to search video online

When Microsoft recently bought Israel start up video searching site Videosurf for 70 million dollars, It made me think that what this site has to offer which other sites don't have? After using this site from last two and three days I can say that it is really good search engine.

For example , when I searched for my favorite TV show Friends on all 3 popular search engines such as google video , bing video and video search of yahoo . I find that I get most relevant results from Videosurf, not only that, videosurf gave me options to select different seasons.

Another advantage with videosurf is that , It show us glimpse of video in the form of frames of images right below the video in the search results. Moreover,  it also tells us particulars about the video such as episode, season and other stuffs like that.

Tweets of your favorite bollywood star

We all want to know about stars life, What they are doing? What they are thinking right now? Who knows better about them ,than stars themselves. Tweetidol is a place where you will get all latest information about them through twitter api.It is good site for Indian celebrities which is inspired from its US counterpart celebritytweet.com which  follows Hollywood tweets.

With Tweetidol, you can follow almost all celebrity tweets at one place. Using it we can read tweets of celebrities without even knowing about there official twitter id. Moreover , there are other benefits too such as we always get tweets from genuine account. If you have temptation for celebrity lives than this site would be great experience for you.

Personalized your Search with Trapit

Web is getting bigger and better with each passing day. There is lot of search engines around like google and bing who are trying there every bit to improve our search experience. So, Do you really think we need another search engine?

Yes , because as web is getting bigger, it is difficult for us to follow all the information we want to see with present search engines. Trapit is a search engine which provides you personalized search experience where everything important seems to follow you.

I have started using Trapit just by now , and I am amazed to see how much technology can help us. In this search engine select your favorite stories and instantly you will start getting updates about it.I can't predict what would happen in future but by experience , I can say that Trapit is going to be next big story on web.

Make your TV Watching Interesting and Exciting

In the world of Social Networking , it is difficult to keep away our temptation to tell our friends what we are watching and sharing things about our favorite shows. goMiso is the new application using which you can share your TV Watching experience with friends and gets update from them about what they are watching.

Its user interface is similar to facebook, so it won't be difficult for you to learn it. Moreover , it is available on almost all mobile and tablet platform.

How to delete your facebook account permanently?

In the time of Social Networking , it is difficult to get away from facebook for the single day.But there are few people who has fed up of facebook and want to delete their account.Moreover , there are some users who initially added too many friends and now they want to start from a fresh.

When there is need to search for a option to delete a account, usually people don't find that option in there facebook page. Facebook doesn't provide deleting account feature in there general setting options. If you do some hard work then too , you will reach a point to deactivate your account.

Actually deleting your account on facebook is easy using this link . Now, remember one thing that you should not login with your deleted account for at least two weeks to completely deleting it.

How to Host PHP Websites at your Home Computer?

Hosting PHP Website at home has its own security risks but it is not difficult as most of you think. To host a Website you need IP address(Dynamic or Static) which you already have because you are reading this blog and Server Software like Apache or IIS and domain name.If you are using PHP and MySQL at your home computer then your computer has server installed which is either Apache or IIS. If some of you don't then should first install it from wamp.

1. Make sure that your computer has Server  Software Installed :

Download Wamp(Wamp is for windows , Lamp is for Linux) according to your Operating System(Linux , Windows or MAC) from this website. Install it and move your php files into root folder of wamp which is usually www , if your server software is different than it would be htdocs.

Now,as you moved all your files to the root folder of Apache Server ,check whether your server is working or not, by typing localhost/your_folder_name/file_name.php into the address bar of your browser. If you get the expected output then everything is working fine and you can move to step 2.

2.Hosting server needs Static Ip address , if you have that then move to step 3 , if you don't have static ip address or don't even know the meaning of ip then read this step :

Whenever one computer connects with another computer on any network it needs a unique address like we need home address to get our letters, this address is called IP (Internet Protocol) Address which is like 198.168.8.8. Whenever we connect to the internet , our Internet Service Provider allots IP address to our computer from a range of IP Addresses ,this type of allotment is called dynamic if it changes whenever we reconnect our internet and the similar address is called static when it doesn't change irrespective of our connecting or disconnecting.

Static cost us more price than dynamic and usually common user don't need static ip at all.

If you don't have static ip , I assume you don't then you should try searching some good dynamic dns web service on google , which would provide you service for free to use your existing dynamic address to host website.

3. If you are using broadband as I do then you need to change factory settings of your modem , so that it can forward any request on port 80 to your localhost wamp server.

There are many ways to do so, each vary with different modems but generally you should type 192.168.1.1 in your address bar which opens up your modem control panel. If it asks for username and password and you don't know them, just type admin as username and password both(It usually works). After that click on Add NAT which is in Advanced Setting Tab of your modem home page. In NAT, write 80 for both UDP and TCP  in there respective boxes. 80 is a Port number which is used for Web Services like http requests. Select both TCP and UDP as your packet types and in IP address, type your computer's ip address which you can find using ipconfig in command prompt.
 
4. Add Exception to all of your firewalls so that they allow any request from port 80 on your computer.You can find windows firewall in Control Panel.

5. Congratulations ! You have done it. I know there is still large scope of improvement for this article but it is a vast topic and I tried my best to make it as compact as possible.Moreover , I will keep improving it according to your suggestion and comments. Bye for Now.

How to Configure zte tata photon in ubuntu?

I am giving you setting of ZTE wireless modem whose driver are not available in ubuntu. For other models of tata photon + , you can get tutorial from here .

So you have ubuntu and photon + in your hand but you don't know how to connect internet using them. I am giving you simple steps to do this task assuming that your beginner for linux.

Step 1. You need to download wvdial packages. If you are not connected with internet download them using other machine having internet. Download and install them in same sequence as given :

1. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libxplc0.3.13/download
2. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libwvstreams4.4-base/download
3. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libwvstreams4.4-extras/download
4. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libuniconf4.4/download
5. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/wvdial/download

Step 2. After downloading , open Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal 

Step 3.  Type : sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf  

paste and save the following code into wvdial.conf file :

[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Baud = 9600
New PPPD = yes
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
ISDN = 0

[Dialer netconnect]
Username = internet
Password = internet
Phone = #777
Stupid Mode = 1
Inherits = Modem0

Step 4. Type lsusb , find out string next to ID , It is something like xxxx:yyyy . Here xxxx is used for vendor and yyyy is for product. You don't need to go in detail just remember to connect your photon to computer before using this command.  If you are confuse that which ID is for your Device then you can use these tricks, most probably the device which I am talking about has ffff as value for its product or you can disconnect your device from machine and use same command , value which is missing is your device id.

Step5. In terminal type : sudo modprobe usbserial vendor= 0x19d2 product=0xffff ( in my case , type your xxxx and yyyy values) Please note here x is not multiply sign(*) 

Step6. Type : sudo wvdial 

Step7. Don't close terminal window and open firefox and enjoy your internet.

Step8. For disconnecting , open your terminal window and press ctrl + c .

I tried to make this tutorial as simple as possible but if you find any difficulty in setting up your device, feel free to leave comment and ask about it.

I hope it helps!

Email alert on mobile

Yahoo : 

Open yahoo mobile site : mobile.yahoo.com
Register for alerts.

Gmail :

Open http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/
Follow the instructions.

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Free gmail sms for urgent emails . 
How to send and receive free sms from services like gmail,orkut,blogger and google alert.

Hotmail : 

Open mobile.live.com

There are other services who can provide you email access , but as i have not used them i can't guarantee there security and services.

Following are the names and url's of these services :

1.Way 2 Sms http://wwwo.way2sms.com/content/index.html .
2.Sms Country http://www.smscountry.com/Email_Alert_SMS.asp

I hope it helps, but if you know better solution or service provider please do mention in comment.

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How to have more than one homepage in firefox?

1.Open Firefox

2.Click on Tools-->Options-->General-->Home page Tab

3.In homepage you can type any number of url's  you want as your home page. You need to put  this ( | ) symbol in between the names.

4.For eg. if I need Yahoo , Google and Bing as my home page. I will type
  
http://www.yahoo.com | http://www.google.com | http://www.bing.com 

in my homepage tab.

How to configure Bsnl wireless(Wifi) Modem?

Most of the people using Bsnl Broadband don't know how to configure or install bsnl wifi modem. In this post I am giving you links which will help you to configure your modem.

1. Presentation about Configuring Wifi Modem 

2. Presentation about Securing Wifi Modem

3. Configure ZTE ZXDSL 531 (TYPE-2) 4-LAN/Wireless LAN

4. Configure UT300R2U - Wireless (Type II) Modem


P.S : Enable NAT if it is disabled

Translate hindi to english

We will learn here how to translate things you type to English from Hindi.

Please follow the steps given below :

1. Open google translate site.



2. We have two options if we want to translate any webpage or just want to translate we type is a text box. I will show you both methods.

3. Suppose we want to translate bbc hindi website into english. We will see how we can do it.


4. Type the name of website you want to translate. Here I will translate bbc hindi website as shown.


5. This is a translation of bbc hindi website. It is not that correct but still it fine.



6.Now we will see how to translate things we type in hindi.



i hope it helps.

Offline Browsers

Offline Browsers are very useful tools because it downloads complete website into your harddisk. Using this utility you can download any website containing songs,music ,pdf files or images.
Not only that , you can burn these sites on cd after downloading them.

Cyber Keeper
Neo Downloader
HTT Track Website Copier
Page Nest Pro
X site downlaod

Measure speed of internet connection

you can use tool given below to measure your bsnl broadband speed. I try it with bsnl connection, i hope it will for your connection too.

to measure speed of internet connection :-

Check your speed

How to get free website and blog platforms?

There are lots of tools available on internet for free. Now its up to you which one you want to use.

http://www.geocities.com/ :- Its owner is Yahoo.com

http://tripod.com

http://bravenet.com/

http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

http://www.draac.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.freewebspace.com/

http://angelfire.lycos.com/

http://www.friendpages.com

http://www.blogger.com :- its owner is google.com

http://www.fropper.com :- you can earn money by writing blogs in fropper.

http://www.googlepages.com

Other related links :-
What is blog?
how to make money using blogs?

How to Check Usage and tariff in Bsnl Broadband?

It is very easy process :-

Step 1. Open the website of Bsnl Broadband service. or open Bsnl official site and then open Broadband section.

Step 2. you need portal id for logging in Bsnl site so asked your portal id from local office of Bsnl.

step 3. Type your id and password.

step 4. Here you are , now you can check usage, can change your password, as well as you can see tariff of your mothly uses in Bsnl Broadband.

Other related

Check your speed of Bsnl Broadband

How do i get into friends computer?

Use following Steps :-

1. Open this website http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx to download latest and free version of team viewer for non commercial users.

2.Open team viewer application

3.Pen down id and password

4. Give it to the friend or take it from him to get access on that computer.

5. click ready to connect. enjoy