Track website traffic with Google Trends

When it comes to web services that track web site traffic we think of Alexa. But we know that Alexa and other like services could not really give us accurate statistics because they just compile third party data instead of looking at your actual server data.

Now Google has enters the game with Google Trends.Google gets its stats from a combination of sources like search traffic, anonymous Google Analytics figures, and other third party marketing data.

This is not to say that Google Trends can give more accurate stats than Alexa and other services but at least we have another point for comparison to get us nearer to what is accurate.

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10 tips for securing your PC

1. Update / patch ALL your software every now and then!
2. Check / adjust ALL your settings so they are safe, since they ARENT by default!
3. Use firewall, like ZoneAlarm!
4. Use good passwords: at least 13marks long, containing both letters and numbers. Remember to chance your password every few months atleast!
5. Get good anti-virus & Spyware softwares and keep it updated!
6. Don’t open or execute files that you are not 100% sure are absolutely safe no matter where or how you get them
7. Wipe your historyfiles (like cookies, internet history and temporary files, etc.), logs and personal files, with specific wiping program (like Eraser) instead of just deleting them.
8. Use encryption to enhance your privacy! Use encrypted email (like Hushmail or Ziplip) and encrypt sensitive files on your computer (PGP).
9. Don’t use public computers for anything you need to type in your logins, they usually have Trojan horses that capture your passwords.
10. Don’t assume anything. If you don’t know, find out! If you cant or don’t understand, ask someone who knows! There’s nothing more dangerous than doing something you don’t really know anything about. That’s the best way to cripple your system or get a Trojan horse on your computer!

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Free Network Tool Software Downloads

Network Tools:
hese types of software is used for optimizing networks.
Here are some FREE Network Tools Software available :.

1. CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
2. Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
3. NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
4. Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
5. PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
6. PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
7. RAS Graph & Stats - http://www.trvx.com/rasgs/
8. RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
9. TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
10. UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
11. WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

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Broader release of IE 8 coming this summer

Although anyone can now download the Internet Explorer 8 browser, Microsoft is gearing this release for Web developers. However, a second beta, slated to arrive this summer, is aimed at a wider audience, Microsoft's top browser executive told CNET News.com.
"It's public," general manager Dean Hachamovitch said of the Beta 1 released Wednesday. "It's out on Microsoft.com somewhere. Anyone can download it."
Although features like Web Slices may appeal to consumers, Hachamovitch said that "the (current) beta really is for developers."







Microsoft isn't saying when the final version of the browser will be released. Hachamovitch also declined to say whether it will be released at the same time as Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's operating system. He did note that Microsoft released IE 7 for XP ahead of Windows Vista, so it is technically possible to do so.

As was the case with the IE 7 betas, those installing the test version of IE 8 will have to replace their current browser.The IE 8 beta will run on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1 as well as Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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Great Tips For Browsers

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installedas default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks.And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds whenyou try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is usingthe extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note thatthough the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 userswill experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorersimprove significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore.

Here's how : Open up the Registry and go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current

Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} and delete it. This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks.If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almostimmediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

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Remove Shortcut Arrows from Desktop Icon

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to the following registry value HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -- > lnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value in the right pane.
4. Reboot your PC.

Note:Before editing regisrty take a back up of regisrty.

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"STOP” ERROR MESSAGES AT SHUTDOWN

Some users have gotten an error message similar to the following when attempting either to shutdown or restart Win XP:

STOP 0000009F, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
STOP 0x0000001E: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
STOP 0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

TechNet and the Microsoft Knowledge Base have numerous articles discussing this type of error condition; for example, these. As a review of these articles will show, these are commonly device driver problems, but may also be caused by troublesome software (such as the notorious CrashGuard), or a problem in a system service. MSKB article Q262575 discusses a shutdown problem of this type, known to exist in Windows 2000 due to a resource (IRQ) conflict, if you have PACE Interlok anti-piracy software installed. This problem may occur in Windows XP as well.

Microsoft advises the following as one approach to these problems: Restart the computer. Press F8 during the restart and select “Last Known Good Configuration.” If you catch the problem when it first occurs (meaning you likely have installed only one or two drivers or new service), this will return you to a previous working condition. (Would System Restore accomplish the same thing? I don’t know, and don’t have a broken system to test it on.)

Microsoft reported similarly that these STOP code error message occur when Windows XP is trying to shut down devices. He says that he has seen this twice: once with Logitech Quickcam installed (with an unsupported driver), and once with a USB DSL modem that would hang if it wasn’t disconnected before shutdown.

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