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Six Ways to Secure a Wireless LAN

Posted by Harshad on Sunday, November 2nd 2008   

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Wireless is a new generation mantra to connect with the world. Many people loving this technology and enjoying it in daily life, but as we know that every coin has two sides, this technology also has other side and that is its security.

Wireless LAN users should know the importance of security factor but still 70 percent of users are using unsecured wireless connection. If your wireless is not secured then you may land in trouble, hackers can use your connection and use it for some illegal activities.

Check out the following six ways to secure a Wireless LAN.

1. Administrator Username and Password

Username and password are important things in wireless connection and one should take care of them while setting-up the wireless network. Many routers comes with default username and password; hackers can easily guess them and access your connection so, it is always good to keep secured username and password. Don’t share administrator username and password with other people.

2. MAC Address Filtering

If you find that someone is using your connection from outside then you can do MAC Address filtering. It can be done by checking a long address of your network and filtering the suspicious addresses from the network. To do this, you will have to add MAC addresses of your home equipments on your own so that other devices will not get access to your network. This way you can avoid outsiders from your connection.

3. Upgrade the Wi-Fi encryption to WPA2

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is old encryption standard and it is easy to hack. Upgrade your Wi-Fi encryption to WPA2 which provides more encryption protection than WEP.

4. Change the Default System ID

Many routers have similar system ID (SSID) like the name of the router’s company or just “Default” and most of the Wi-Fi users leave it as a default. Keeping default SSID will not cause any harm but it can give certain indications to hackers like the network is not so secured, name of your router etc. So change the default system id and use your own SSID.

5. Access Point of router

Don’t keep your router near to windows or doors because Wi-Fi signals can reach outside of your house and neighbors or hackers will use it for their purpose. Your router’s access point should be somewhere around the center of house so that it will not reach outside of the house. You can also place your router in such manner that router signals will not pass outside of your location.

6. Disconnect the router

Lots of people have habit of keeping their router on even after completion of work. Keeping router on is really stupid thing to do, as it invites others to get access of your network. So, once you complete the task disconnect your router from the network.

These are the six simple ways to protect your WLAN from intruders. Do you use Wireless LAN? How do you protect it from others?

P.S.: This post is only for newbies. :)

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Filed under: Tips and Tricks     Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless connection, Wireless LAN, Wireless router
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WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Released

Posted by Harshad on Saturday, November 1st 2008   

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WordPress has released the first beta version of WordPress 2.7. WordPress 2.7 is coming with new style for the dashboard and few other features. WordPress team is working on few areas of it.

All the WordPress users are eagerly waiting for WordPress 2.7 to launch on 10th November, but there is a delay in launch. It will not be available on given date and new date will be announced soon.

WordPress Development Team on delay of WordPress 2.7 release-

“Speaking of the final release, it will not be available on November 10th as originally scheduled.  We are two weeks behind schedule at the moment.  We need a little more time to finish the visual design, do a round of user testing against that finished design, and do a proper round of public beta testing. Our plan is to keep working as if Nov. 10 is still the release date.  However, instead of releasing the final 2.7 on the 10th, we will make a release candidate available instead.  The release candidate is intended to be a high-quality, almost-finished release that we are comfortable recommending for broad use.  After Nov. 10, the focus will be on fixing high impact bugs turned up by those of you testing the release candidate. I suspect 2.7 will be ready for final release by the end of November.  A specific date will be set as we progress through the public beta cycle and get a feel for how solid the release is. “

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Download Opera 9.62

Posted by Harshad on Saturday, November 1st 2008   

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Opera is one of the most used browsers in the world. Opera has launched its new version i.e. Opera 9.62. It fixes some security related issue. Opera 9.62 is a recommended security update.

What’s new in Opera 9.62?

  • The links panel no longer allows cross-site scripting.
  • Fixed an issue where History Search could be used to execute arbitrary code.

Get the copy of Opera 9.62 from following link.

Download Opera 9.62

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Firefox Extension for WordPress Users-WordPress Helper 1.0

Posted by Harshad on Saturday, November 1st 2008   

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Currently, WordPress is the best CMS available for blogging. WordPress is a good medium to share your thoughts with the world. WordPress has got some great plug-ins which helps in enhancing the utility of it.

WordPress Helper 1.0 is a useful Firefox extension. It helps you working with WordPress by providing useful help and tools. Have a look at its features.

Features of WordPress Helper 1.0 Firefox Extension

  • Update Notification on new WordPress versions
  • Website Profiles
  • Custom Shortcuts
  • Various preference settings
  • Categorized Access to WordPress Help pages (WordPress Codex)
  • Search for highlighted text strings on websites
  • One-Click-switch to a website’s WordPress backend

Download WordPress Helper 1.0 Extension for Firefox.

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Filed under: Blog, Wordpress     Tags: Firefox, Firefox Extension, Wordpress, WordPress Plugins
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Website Review-Driver-Library Dot Com

Posted by Harshad on Friday, October 31st 2008   

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What do we do when speakers, printers stop working or giving errors? We either check for external damage of the devices or we try to update, reinstall the device drivers. Driver is nothing but an interface between operating system and hardware. Drivers are as important as the device, without drivers it is impossible to run useful devices on the system.

Driver Library is a website which shares wonderful information on the drivers of various devices that we normally use on our PC. This website has categories like Bluetooth, infrared, camera, printers etc. that contains the information about their drivers. Website also has a free scan feature for outdated drivers on PC.

One important thing which we have observed on this site is that, we can also search the information of drivers for particular device with its model number. For instance, if you want the information on canon printer drivers then you can select the canon drivers from printer category where you’ll see available model numbers and according to your printer’s model number you can get the information.

At the end, we think that Driver-Library.com is a very useful website for all the users to solve driver related errors of device.

Have your opinions on it in the comment section.

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Download Free Wallpapers of Windows 7

Posted by Harshad on Thursday, October 30th 2008   

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Few days back Microsoft unveiled the features of Windows 7 and we are very much impressed with the new features and their looks. Not only the features but also the wallpapers of Windows 7 are stunning.

Check out the wallpapers of Windows 7

With Windows 7 logo

Without Windows 7 logo

These Windows 7 wallpapers are available in two formats i.e. with logo and without logo and are inspired by the first official screenshots of Windows Seven at the Microsoft PDC 2008.

You can download a pack of free Windows 7 wallpapers from the link given below.

Download Windows 7 Wallpapers

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Filed under: Windows     Tags: Windows 7, Windows 7 Wallpapers
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How to Get Digg Alerts for Your Articles?

Posted by Harshad on Thursday, October 30th 2008   

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Social bookmarking is one of the best medium to share thoughts worldwide from your blog. Digg.com is a well known social bookmarking site in the blogosphere.Bookmarking site can make your blog popular over the night if your article hits on the first page of these sites.

Getting alerts for your submitted articles on digg is really cool thing. So,How to get digg alerts?
Following tutorial will help you to get Digg alerts for your articles.

Steps to follow:

  • Go to this link — http://digg.com/search
  • Type the URL of your site in the search bar.
  1. Select “URL Only” from first drop down menu.
  2. Select “Upcoming stories” from second drop down menu.
  3. Leave third drop down menu as it is and click on search button.

  • Search result will be displayed. Click on the small RSS button [] from extreme right. Subscribe to RSS feed for this search, and you will get alerts of your articles on the digg.

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