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Make your Home Server using Dynamic DNS

March 7, 2012

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The purpose of this article is to explain about Dynamic DNS and it’s usage. I’ll walk through by setting up Dynamic DNS system for your server. What is Dynamic DNS and how it works In short it’s the replacement for the requirement of static IP. First you need to understand how DNS works, check out this article. [...]

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How to Setup Zimbra Open Source Mail Server on Ubuntu 10.04

February 14, 2012

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Zimbra, an open source mail server is not just to send and receive emails but it’s a fully featured collaboration suite which includes calendar, tasks, file-sharing, IM, mobile support and many more… Now, I wanted to deploy an email server on my work place and went through some research based on cost-effective, features, stability and easy [...]

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Importing & Exporting large scaled Databases using MySQL dumper

January 30, 2012

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For your information, there are different kinds of Database structures over the internet such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL.. etc. Now we’re discussing here; about MySQL which can be run through phpMyAdmin. It is actually an open-source tool written on PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL with a use of a web-browser. In this post, We’re [...]

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Resetting/Recovering, Master password on Firefox

January 27, 2012

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FireFox is an open-source application given by Mozilla Corporation to their user for free use. It is basically an internet browsing application or I could say “web browser” in short. By the way, I don’t want to explain about firefox as you all may know more than me. ; ) Therefore, I’ll start explaining on what [...]

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Control your Android device from a Web browser with Airdroid

January 26, 2012

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Airdroid is an awesome application where you can control your android device within a web browser simply. With airdroid you can take over most functions of the device but not only file sharing; you can also manage applications, read/write SMS and many more…  I will give you simple guide on how you can utilize this [...]

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Turn your Windows PC into a Wi-Fi Hot Spot

January 18, 2012

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Nowadays everyone has wireless smartphones tablets etc. Sharing the internet from a wireless enabled PC or lap in windows is not easy for non techy people. In this tutorial I will demonstrate on how to setup and easily share your existing internet connection to all other wireless devices instantly. Connectify me hotspot application. Connectify me is [...]

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Change default search engine to google.com in Chrome

January 4, 2012

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Omnibar is a cool feature in Chrome browser, you can instantly search for anything from the omnibar (address bar) and result will appear below it. So the results we get limited to the region Eg: as I’m in Sri Lanka, searches will categorized as we search in google.lk. For some reason I want search result [...]

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Browse Faster in Slow Connections with Opera Browser

January 2, 2012

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Opera is one of the popular web browsers. Opera Tips highlights a few features and functions to show you what Opera can do for you. Opera Turbo uses compression technology that boosts your webpage download speed on limited-bandwidth connections. for example, when using a crowded Wi-Fi connection in a cafe or a slow dial-up modem. [...]

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Session Hijacking made easy – Android

December 31, 2011

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Session Hijacking also known as a Sidejacking, is an attack stealing someones web session to gain unauthorized access. What is a web (HTTP) session Each & every time a user log into Facebook, Twitter or your banking account… etc, the web server will give the user a session ID or a token while the web browser stores [...]

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How to Remove NewFolder.exe Virus

December 28, 2011

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Newfolder.exe is one of the most irritating viruses that affect your system through Pen drives. Once your system gets affected, it will start creating new folders resembling the name of the parent folder. If your folder name is “smn”, it will create the virus file “smn.exe”

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