Know The Latest Scams And Rumors On The Internet.

The number of Internet users has been increasing exponentially and due to this the fraudsters are seeing a whole new playground to play their tricks. Thousands of new scams are created everyday, most of them are foolish and very less people may fall prey to it but some are very complicated and well constructed. Even a very precautious and well informed Internet user may fall prey to it. So every netizen should have some knowledge of the latest scams and rumours even if it doesn't concern them. Here is a site which informs the people of the latest threats and scams.

WWW.SNOPES.COM

Snopes is a very popular site for knowing the latest threats and scams making rounds of the cyberspace. Every scam and rumor is studied and checked for authenticity. The users can also suggest or inform about the scams and rumors.

Faster Fox (Make your Firefox work faster on XP)

While searching for ways to increase the Firefox page load speed, i came across this great Firefox addon.

FasterFox

Fasterfox Lite allows you to easily tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache and initial paint delay. Unique to this Lite version are included options for SSL Pipelining, timer-based content reflows, UI Responsiveness, Link Prefetching, IPv6 DNS lookups, and by default the Page Load Timer is disabled. If you want to manually change the "about:config" settings, then the Fasterfox Lite preset must first be saved to the "Custom" setting. This is to prevent the configurations from being different from a selected preset's settings.
Fasterfox Lite comes with pre-configured tweaks to improve the browsing speed of Firefox when using most broadband internet connections. Fasterfox Lite will speed up your web browsing right out of the box with no assembly required.
To change the settings go to the addons option in your Firefox browser and select the options button of FasterFox there you can manually tweak the Firefox settings or use the pre-defined tweaks.

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NOTE :- This addon only works on Windows XP. Many user have reported that it doesn't work on Win 7 and instead makes the page load slow.

DOWNLOADING VIDEOS FROM METACAFE (ONLINE)

Every Internet user at some point has downloaded videos from Youtube. Downloading from youtube is very easy as many sites are dedicated for downloading videos from Youtube but many users have difficulty downloading videos from other  popular video streaming sites like Metacafe. Here i am providing a method to quickly downlaod videos from Metacafe online.

STEP 1) Go to the Metacafe video which you want to download and copy its URL.

NOTEPAD++ (Source code editing tool)

Don't be fooled by the name. Based on powerful editing component scintilla, Notepad++ is a powerful source code editing tool and also functions as a notepad enhancement. It supports mostly all the major programming language like c, c++, java, perl, html, css etc.

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DELETE UNDELETABLE FILES USING UNLOCKER

Have you ever faced a problem where you can't delete a particular file or folder and get error messages like

• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

LIGHTWORKS (Free alternative to Sony Vegas and PowerDirector)

Now-a-days mostly everybody owns a video recorder, be it in the form of cam-corder or a cellphone. Hundreds of videos are shot using this devices, this videos are raw and need some editing and finishing touches and for that you need a good video editing software. There are wide range of video editing software out there in the market, but they are too costly and are of no use to individuals who want to do just basic editing. It will be stupidity to waste so much money on the high-end programs like Sony Vegas and Adobe PowerDirector for basic editing of home videos. Mostly all windows users will be familiar with the in-built Windows Movie Maker but i personally feel it inadequate because it does not support all the formats, Crashes many times, can't save big files and the video quality is also not that good. So here is a free video editing software which has recently been shifted to open source.

SEEING VIDEO WHILE IT'S BEING DOWNLOADED

This may not be a problem for those who have a high speed Internet, but for users with a slow Internet connection like me it is very frustrating to wait to see the videos while it is being downloaded. Many of you may suggest seeing the video on youtube, but its not possible to get all the videos you want to view on youtube like entire films. Films which are typically around 700 mb takes like a eternity to download and in the meantime the user can do nothing about it. But there is a way to view this videos as they are being downloaded.

For this you need VLC player, most of you may already be using it, but for those who don't have VLC here is the download link   DOWNLOAD

Now while downloading go to the folder where the video is being downloaded, there you will see two files both having the same name as the video being downloaded, one of them will be PART FILE right click on it and change the "opens with" option to VLC player and then open it. VLC will prompt that the file is broken and whether you want to repair it. Click on repair and that's it, the video will start playing. ENJOY !!!