How To reduce Google Chrome Memory Usage

Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the most popular web browsers today. One Common complaint about these browsers is that they eats a lot of memory (RAM) while viewing web pages. It slows down your pc if the websites are large or you've more opened tabs. Conditions are even worse if you're using an old pc which has less resources. In this post, here's few tips to reduce memory usage of google chrome browser. Few of them will also applicable to firefox.

 RAM usage of Google chrome is directly proportional to installed addons and opened tabs while the latter cant be controlled. But you should checkout the installed addons and remove unwanted extensions. Goto Tools > extensions to uninstall useless extensions.

Use the in-built flash plugin. If you're using the chrome's developer channel build, there's a chance to use a better flash plugin. To use this feature, right click and select properties on the google chrome shortcut on your desktop. In the target field, put a space after chrome.exe" and enter the command line switch ' --enable-internal-flash' as shown in the screenshot below.

You can Press Shift+Esc to open task manager in chrome. This shows the perfect statistics of memory usage by the extensions and tabs. This is an easy way to find and kill memory eating processes.

    Use TooManyTabs extension: Well, we talk about removing extension, but this one could really help you release some memory. this addon allows you to store all opened tabs in the extensions work area so it fee up memory that currently utilized by these tabs. Download TooManyTabs
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/amigcgbheognjmfkaieeeadojiibgbdp

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Internet Connection Sharing on Windows XP

This trick shows you how to share your internet connections on multiple computers within a workgroup with Windows XP. Windows XP has a built-in feature that called "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS) that allows home users to share their internet connections on multiple computers.
If you are not familiar with the network configurations, the easiest way to share your internet connection is to purchase a router or hub. Use this trick only if you don't have a router, or don't want to use a router, or if you just want to try out the feature.

A simple way to understand this feature is, you are making your host computer (the computer directly connects to the internet) functioning as a router for other computers.

What do you need?

    A "Host" computer that running Windows XP. This computer must have at least TWO (2) network adapters. One adapter - let's call it "Adapter #1" - connects to the internet and another, "Adapter #2", connects to a hub or directly to other computers.
    Client computer(s), which run any version of Windows. A client computer can be connected to the host computer directly by a cross-over cable or indirectly through a hub.
    This trick assumes that the host computer is connected to the internet and you are able to access the internet on this computer.


Configure the Host Computer

•     Logon the host computer as Administrator.
•     Click Start >> Control Panel.
•     Click Network and Internet Connections.
•     Click Network Connections.
•     Right-click the connection that you use to connect to the internet (the connection with Adapter #1). This connection can be either a high-speed internet connection or a dial-up connection.
•     Click Properties.
•     Click Advanced tab.
•     Under Internet Connection Sharing, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box.
•     If you are sharing a dial-up Internet connection, select the Establish a dial-up connection whenever a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet check box if you want to permit your computer to automatically connect to the Internet.
•     Click OK. You'll reieve the following message:
•     When Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, your LAN adapter will be set to use IP address 192.168.0.1. Your computer may lose connectivity with other computers on your network. If these other computers have static IP addresses, it is a good idea to set them to obtain their IP addresses automatically. Are you sure you want to enable Internet Connection Sharing?
•     Click Yes.

Configure the Client Computer(s)
To use the shared connection from the Host computer, a client computer must be configured with "Automatic IP address". The main configurations are:

•     Configure TCP/IP Automatic IP
•     Configure Internet Connection

The steps for the above two configurations are vary on different versions of Windows.
The following procedures are for Windows XP client computers.

•     Log on to the client computer as Administrator or as Owner.
•     Click Start >> Control Panel.
•     Click Network and Internet Connections.
•     Click Network Connections.
•     Right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.
•     Click the General tab, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the This connection uses the following items list, and then click Properties.
•     In the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Obtain an IP address automatically (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.
•     Click Start >> Control Panel
•     Click Network and Internet Connections.
•     Click Internet Options.
•     In the Internet Properties dialog box, click the Connections tab.
•     Click the Setup button. The New Connection Wizard starts.
•     On the Welcome to the New Connection Wizard page, click Next.
•     Click Connect to the Internet, and then click Next.
•     Click Set up my connection manually, and then click Next.
•     Click Connect using a broadband connection that is always on, and then click Next.
•     On the Completing the New Connection Wizard page, click Finish.
•     Exit Control Panel and test the internet. You might need to restart the computer.

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How to block and unblock internet sites....!

Learn to block and unblock internet sites
Some times it becomes necessary to block and unblock internet website on our Computers for one or other reason.

Procedure to block an unblock internet sites:

* Go to Start and type RUN .
* Type C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
* Open the file "HOSTS" in a notepad
* Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" . Add IP Name
IP - IP of the site to be blocked
Name - Name of the site (see the pic below for example

Example :
127.0.0.1 localhost
209.191.122.70 www.yahoo.com

Yahoo is now unaccessable . For every site after that you want block , just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and then the add like before.

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How Firewalls Work

Firewalls are basically a barrier between your computer (or a network) and the Internet (outside world). A firewall can be simply compared to a security guard who stands at the entrance of your house and filters the visitors coming to your place. He may allow some visitors to enter while denying others whom he suspects of being intruders. Similarly a firewall is a software program or a hardware device that filters the information (packets) coming through the Internet to your personal computer or a computer network.

Firewalls are basically a barrier between your computer (or a network) and the Internet (outside world). A firewall can be simply compared to a security guard who stands at the entrance of your house and filters the visitors coming to your place. He may allow some visitors to enter while denying others whom he suspects of being intruders. Similarly a firewall is a software program or a hardware device that filters the information (packets) coming through the Internet to your personal computer or a computer network.

How Firewalls Work

Firewalls may decide to allow or block network traffic between devices based on the rules that are pre-configured or set by the firewall administrator. Most personal firewalls such as Windows firewall operate on a set of pre-configured rules that are most suitable under normal circumstances so that the user need not worry much about configuring the firewall.

Personal firewalls are easy to install and use and hence preferred by end-users for use on their personal computers.  However large networks and companies prefer those firewalls that have plenty of options to configure so as to meet their customized needs. For example, a company may set up different firewall rules for FTP servers, Telnet servers and Web servers. In addition the company can even control how the employees connect to the Internet by blocking access to certain websites or restricting the transfer of files to other networks. Thus in addition to security, a firewall can give the company a tremendous control over how people use the network.

Firewalls use one or more of the following methods to control the incoming and outgoing traffic in a network:

1. Packet Filtering: In this method packets (small chunks of data) are analyzed against a set of filters. Packet filters has a set of rules that come with accept and deny actions which are pre-configured or can be configured manually by the firewall administrator. If the packet manages to make it through these filters then it is allowed to reach the destination; otherwise it is discarded.

2. Stateful Inspection: This is a newer method that doesn’t analyze the contents of the packets. Instead it compares certain key aspects of each packet to a database of trusted source. Both incoming and outgoing packets are compared against this database and if the comparison yields a reasonable match, then the packets are allowed to travel further. Otherwise they are discarded.

Firewall Configuration
 

Firewalls can be configured by adding one or more filters based on several conditions as mentioned below:

1. IP addresses: In any case if an IP address outside the network is said to be unfavorable, then it is possible to set  filter to block all the traffic to and from that IP address. For example, if a cetain IP address is found to be making too many connections to a server, the administrator may decide to block traffic from this IP using the firewall.

2. Domain names: Since it is difficult to remember the IP addresses, it is an easier and smarter way to configure the firewalls by adding filters based on domain names. By setting up a domain filter, a company may decide to block all access to certain domain names, or may provide access only to a list of selected domain names.

3. Ports/Protocols: Every service running on a server is made available to the Internet using numbered ports, one for each service. In simple words, ports can be compared to virtual doors of the server through which services are made available. For example, if a server is running a Web (HTTP) service then it will be typically available on port 80. In order to avail this service, the client needs to connect to the server via port 80. Similarly different services such as Telnet (Port 23), FTP (port 21) and SMTP (port 25) services may be running on the server. If the services are intended for the public, they are usually kept open. Otherwise they are blocked using the firewall so as to prevent intruders from using the open ports for making unauthorized connections.

4. Specific words or phrases: A firewall can be configured to filter one or more specific words or phrases so that, both the incoming and outgoing packets are scanned for the words in the filter. For example, you may set up a firewall rule to filter any packet that contains an offensive term or a phrase that you may decide to block from entering or leaving your network.


Why Firewall?


Firewalls provide security over a number of online threats such as Remote login, Trojan backdoors, Session hijacking, DOS & DDOS attacks, viruses, cookie stealing and many more. The effectiveness of the security depends on the way you configure the firewall and how you set up the filter rules. However major threats such as DOS and DDOS attacks may sometimes manage to bypass the firewalls and do the damage to the server. Even though firewall is not a complete answer to online threats, it can most effectively handle the attacks and provide security to the computer up to the maximum possible extent.

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HOW TO UPDATE BLANK STATUS ON FACEBOOK TRICK

Hello friends , Today I have something awesome for you. I'll tell you the trick to update a status  .. Sorry Sorry I mean to say a BLANK STATUS, and I'm sure your friends will be surprised to see this. so I'll not take your more time . Here is the trick

STEP 1. - First of all login to your FACEBOOK account.

STEP 2. - Now type this code in your status bar and click on post

@[0:0]

STEP 3. - You have done, your blank status has been updated..

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How to download all files of a Website

Instructions

1.First of all go to this link file2hd.com
2.Now enter the URL of the site whose files you want to download in the URL box.
3.Choose the category that you want like Audio,Movies,etc.
4.You must remember to accept the terms and services.
5. Than click on Get files button.

6.Now links of Files will be shown below,download files that you like....!!

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How to Trace Any IP Address

There exists many websites through which you can trace any IP address back to it’s source. One of my favorite site is ip2location.com.

Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address.

1. Country in which the IP is located

2. Region

3. City

4. Latitude/Longitude

5. Zip Code

6. Time Zone

7. Name of the ISP

8. Internet Speed

9. Weather Station

10. Area Code and

11. Domain name associated with the IP address.

A sample snapshot of the results from ip2location.com is given below

ip2location_results

You can also visually trace route any IP address back to it’s location. For this just visit http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ and enter the IP you want to trace in the dialog box and hit the “Proxy Trace” button. Wait for few seconds and the visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination. Hope this helps.

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HOW TO ACCESS WIKIPEDIA OFFLINE

Hey friends, as you all know Wikipedia is the biggest information provider on the internet at present. You can find every single definition on wikipedia along with detailed explaination. Today we are going to discuss that how you can access the wikipedia Offline i.e, while not on internet, you can still find information on wikipedia.

Just follow the easy steps to get that working:

    Download WikiTaxi  from this linkhttp://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/lib/exe/fetch.php?hash=8fcac3&media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikitaxi.org%2Fdelphi%2Fdownloads%2FWikiTaxi_1.3.0.7z, you will find this as 7-zip archive.(Use 7-zip to open this.)

    Extract the archive and you will find the files as below:

Run wiki taxi and you will find a screen like this:.

 Now, you need to download a package (Dump, as they say it), the package start from 25 MB and goes upto 3.5 GB. You just can download Simple English (it would do your task)

    After downloading, open Wikitaxi Importer and you will see something like this:

In XML dump file dialog, click browse and select the file you downloaded, browse for location of Wikitaxi folder and hit Import Now! It dows it for aruond 5 Minutes and you are done to use it offline.

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SEND PROFILE PIC DURING CHATTING

I'm here with one new facebook trick to make your friends surprised and also make your chat interesting. I'll tell you the trick to send your as well as your friend's profile pic in chatting. This trick is very short and easy but you have to follow some steps to make this working

STEP 1. Login to your facebook account and select any friend to chat

STEP 2. Now say hello or hi whatever you want.

STEP 3. Now the trick is start , just type below code in chat box and hit enter
[[user id /username]]

e.g.
[[facebook]]
[[zuck]]
[[waytohacking]]


STEP 4. Enjoy  trick. 

Say If it works for you or not...

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How to add Hotmail and Live Email Accounts to Outlook 2010?

Microsoft has been claiming that it will improve its Hotmail service, making it a better webmail provider. Nevertheless, new version of Outlook, i.e. Outlook 2010 is already out. This article will instruct you on how to incorporate Outlook and Hotmail.

Outlook 2010 is compatible with many email systems, such as POP3, IMAP and Exchange accounts. Exchange syncs your calendar and contacts as well as your email but POP3 and IMAP does not do so. If you use the Hotmail Connector you will be enabled to sync your email, contacts and calendar with Outlook . This will make it easy to access your PIM data anywhere you are.  

The procedure involves 8 easy steps:

1.     In order to incorporate Hotmail into Outlook you need to first install the Hotmail connector. Before doing so, ensure that Outlook is not being used and it has been closed. Then go ahead with the installation.

2. Outlook will prompt you to download Hotmail Connector if you enter your hotmail account in the New Account Setup. If you haven’t already exited Outlook you will have to do so and enter your information again when you restart Outlook, thus it is better to install Hotmail Connector first.

3. The actual process will start at this point. If you are running Outlook 2010 for the first time, the screen given below will appear. Click the Next to continue setting up Outlook.

4. When you have pressed next, you will be asked for confirmation. Select Yes and then Next for the second time.

 5.    If you have been using Outlook, just add a new account by pressing the File button and then clicking the Add Account button.

 6.    After you have selected the required button, enter the information related to your Hotmail account and once again press Next.  

7. Outlook will generate a search for your account settings and then it will automatically setup the account with Hotmail Connector which has already been installed.

8. Once all of the steps listed above have been completed, the following screen will popup. Just press the Finish button, setup has been completed and you can check your Hotmail in Outlook.

Setup has been completed so now you  have officially synced your Hotmail account with Outlook 2010. You will receive a notification at  the bottom of your window stating that you are connected Windows Live Hotmail. Your email will be coordinated with your Hotmail account, vice versa your calendar and contacts saved on Outlook will be synchronized with your Live calendar and contacts. This procedure will ensure setting up an optimum full Exchange without actually getting an Exchange account. As a matter of fact, Hotmail Sync seems to be faster than IMAP synchronization.

Hotmail generally isn’t as popular as Gmail but it works really well with Outlook integration. If you frequently use Window Live services, or want to give them a go then Outlook Connector is the best option to keep the cloud synced with your desktop. Or maybe you are just like many other Hotmail users who want to access Hotmail with their other email accounts, this is a useful procedure for you too. 

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Add / Import Facebook Contacts to Gtalk Using Yahoo Contacts

Now you may have more friends in your facebook than Google Talk. It is really difficult when you have to manage your friends on facebook and friends on facebook at a time. With two different windows active, it becomes slightly difficult but there is always a solution. Now, You can now add your facebook contacts with your gtalk Contacts. The facebook contacts import process is really easy if you have a yahoo account. If you don’t have one, then sign up for a yahoo account and believe me – it’s Worth it.

How To Import Facebook Contacts To GTalk Contacts

1) Go to Yahoo Mail and Sign in with your Username Password

2) Select Contacts Tab from the Top Panel

3) You will see a message on top like this ” New! Import email addresses from your Facebook friends to Yahoo! Contacts ” and this will be added to your yahoo messenger too.

4) Simply follow the steps and you will get all your contacts imported to your yahoo contacts

5) Click On this Link to export all your Facebook contacts on your PC. You can Export it as .vcf, .csv or .zip file format

6) Now Go to your Gmail > and Sign in

7) Import the Downloaded Contact File to a Group

8} Select Compose and Select the Group Name in the “TO” field

9) Once Group name is taken by the Field, You can just Click Select All and Copy all the address

10) Sign Into Gtalk, and Click on the Add button Link.

11) To the Blank Space in the Newly opened window, Paste the copied Contact list and click on Next button. Its Done.

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How do you block websites in Windows for a specific time period using Focal Filter?

There are a lot of programs out there that can block access to Web sites. The problem with them is that you have to manually disable the block. However, with Focal Filter it can be done automatically. You just have to set the time span for which you want the block to exist. Focal Filter is a program for Windows operating systems that can block a user-generated list of Web sites for a specified period of time. The lock on these sites will persist until the time has elapsed, at which point you can extend the lock or unblock them. 

Follow these 5 easy steps:

1)     Download and install Focal Filter.

2)     Open the Windows start menu and type Focal Filter into the search box.

       Now run the Focal Filter program that appears in the list.sp;

 3)     Click Edit My Site List option to open a new window containing the names of the sites you want to block. Add more sites if you want. Click the Save button when you have finished. 

 4)      Click on the area next to the label Block for. Then a list of available times ranging from 5 minutes to 12 hours will be displayed. Select the time that best fits your need. Now click the Block My Site List button to block your browsers from visiting your list of Web sites. Note that you might have to restart your browser before the block will work. 

 5)     This is what you will see when the timer ends: 

a)     You can unblock the sites by hitting the Close button.

                          OR

b)     You can press the Block Again button if you want to extend the block. 

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