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Tips For Choosing The Best Internet Provider

October 12, 2011 by techtips · Leave a Comment

Tips For Choosing The Best Internet Provider should come handy if you got to relocate or want to switch from you dial-up or the broadband connection that is currently in action, may be in limited actions to your expectations.

Service availability

First thing would be service availability, you can simply check which all Internet Services Providers are active in your area. In the past, you have had to go peep at various ISP websites and get to know if they are on in your area. Now that things changed to help you out better, you can find broadband resellers got softwares, getting you the list of ISP’s services available in your area, simply by providing your home phone number or your address. So that means less of head aches searching who all are available

Requirement

Next comes requirement. Talk to yourself and let you know what you need Internet connection for, if you have minimal requirements, you can go for plans that got average bandwidth and minimal monthly usage. When you got massive requirements, you can go for a higher data limit cap on average speed or higher speeds. What you must know is any and every ISP got your n number of plans. its simple they find customers of various requirements and want to keep all them happy, so they got flexible plans for all.

Few other things

When you got more than one computer at home, you would need to chose a broadband plan that adequately caters the requirements of all the PC’s or WiFi enabled devices. The ability to set up home networking is really important here, try installing a wireless router if you got WiFi enabled devices. That would be the best thing to make available your Internet connection and if you got PC’s with no WiFi, you can always connected them wired from the router. Check connections that got features like parental controls, Internet security features etc. Most ISP’s do provide these facilities, but be sure to check if they got the above, and its good to have additional features as well. Mostly when you don’t need to shed extra money on them. Almost every ISP’s these days get you virus protection, pop-up blockers and anti-spam software, so be sure to avail. But ist good that you have your own personal firewall and antivirus/ Internet security package installed.

Check for the pricing and plans offered by every provider, be sure to stick with a plan that suits the best for you need. Now don’t forget to get in to the details on Terms and Conditions, check if you got contracts or not? Check out for ISP service feed backs, customer support facilities, you will want to have a 24/7 anyway. Maybe you can even visit websites like pissedconsumer.com and check if how many feel bad about the ISP you are about to go along with.

What To Know Before Getting A Dedicated Server For Your Business

October 11, 2011 by Sanil S · Leave a Comment

Hosting your website on a dedicated server gives you the most control over security, so you can have a stable and safe website. If you are running a business website or popular website and cannot afford any downtime, consider using a dedicated server with nearly 100% uptime.

Many web developers pick a shared hosting plan for their first plan because it is more economical and, usually, has enough features for brand new websites. However, since many websites share the same server on a shared plan, when one website gets a sudden surge of traffic, all of the others hosted on the server will experience slow loading times. Your visitors will soon become frustrated with a slow website, and you may start to lose traffic. Using a dedicated server eliminates slow loading times caused by high traffic on other websites and offers stability.

Hosting with a dedicated server also gives you more customization options. In order to take full advantage of these options, you should be proficient in programming and building websites. Some hosting options include support, but others do not. Learning how to modify your server gives you the power to use all the resources that are included with your hosting plan.

Better website performance and more customization options are good reasons for upgrading your hosting options, but those aren’t the only benefits. Having a dedicated server allows you to manage data better. Your website may have a large database and large video files saved on the server for visitors to stream on their computer. This uses a lot of bandwidth, especially if your visitors upload and download from your website throughout the day. With a dedicated server, you control all resources so you can be sure that bandwidth is available for all users.

Using a dedicated hosting plan also means you will have dedicated email for your website. Emails sent to and from your domain name are more secure and less likely to be reported as spam. You can also install firewalls and scanning software to protect your server and email attachments. This level of protection just isn’t possible with shared hosting plans. If a website that you share a server with sends spam email, your emails could be flagged as spam by top email providers, and your customers may never receive your messages.

Moving from shared hosting to a dedicated server is an expensive step up, but it is an investment in your website and business. With less downtime and faster loading speeds, traffic will increase and visitors will spend more time on your website. You can also add disk space and RAM to the server as needed, so you will not run out of bandwidth.

If moving to a dedicated server is too great of an expense for your growing business, another option is a virtual private server (VPS). This is an option that gives you the the stability and faster loading times of a dedicated server, but offers affordability like a shared hosting plan. Using a VPS gives you valuable security features at a price small business owners can afford. A VPS isn’t quite as dependable as dedicated hosting, but it is more dependable than using a shared server.

Moving to a dedicated server for your website to be hosted on gives you the best stability with almost 100% uptime and faster loading times. Faster loading times can help your website gain search engine rank, which helps you gain more organic traffic. If you are outgrowing your current shared hosting plan, or think you will in the near future, consider dedicated hosting rather than buying a bigger shared hosting package. Upgrading is expensive, but it is a worthwhile investment as your website will be able to handle more traffic and always be available for your customers.

Brian F. is the Social Media Specialist at InMotion Hosting, a Los Angeles webhosting company. You can follow him on Twitter @BrianAflores.

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Create HTML 5 Easy, With Hype

October 11, 2011 by Sanil S · Leave a Comment

Web design is becoming more particular every day. What works in one browser may not work in another, and can leave you scrambling creating hacks, and leaving your site’s SEO less effective. HTML 5 is being popularized by Google, Facebook, and the late, great Steve Jobs. While HTML 5 doesn’t perform as well as flash in some instances, it is much easier to use, and can provide some interactivity for your site. HTML 5 is also going to pave the way for better SEO, with tags such as “video” or “audio” letting search engines index sites much easier.

One problem is every web entrepreneur doesn’t know HTML 5, or even HTML for that matter. You can use a WordPress theme, but you might find yourself stumbling across your sites design numerous times while browsing. Who wants that? For those of us that do no have time to learn the in’s and out’s of webdesign, Hype, from the app store provides a great alternate option.

Hype lets you create, animate, and implement creative HTML 5 on your website. No coding experience is required. In all actuality it is more of a virtual web page creator. You click record and let the graphics work for you. You then have an output of state of the art HTML 5, CSS 3, and Javascript. And all you have to do is copy the snippets of code that automatically is generated for you.

With Hype you also get 100% cross browser capability. This lets your webpage work great for all browsers as well as mobile users, and tablet users. Of course if some code is not supported by a particular browser, Hype will fall back to proper Javascript code. Some call this “Progressive Enhancement,” but I call it peace of mind. You can be sure that everyone browsing your site gets the best experience possible.

Hype gives a great gallery of samples created usingthe application. If you do not have much experience designing websites then this is a great way to get started with some ideas. Hype also won’t leave you hanging. They provide great customer support, and offer some easy to follow tutorial videos to get you going.

With HTML 5 you are going to be leading the way in your niche with better SEO. Google loves HTML 5, period. This is because tags such as header and footer will make it much easier to index pages. On top of that the brand new article tag is perfect for writers performing link building services. HTML 5, along with Hype is the a great way to get some additional onsite and offsite SEO.

For as great of an application Hype is, it is pretty affordable. Hype, made by Tumult, is only $29.99 in the app store. For a low price you can really create some great websites fast, and reach all of your users in the same way. HTML 5 is the language of the future and can definatley give you a competitive advantage in SEO. What you create in Hype is what your viewers will see in their browsers.

This article was contributed by Ben Anderson. Ben is a webdesigner who also incorporates on site White Label SEO tactics for his sites.

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What Do I Need For Wireless Internet

October 8, 2011 by techtips · 1 Comment

Wireless Internet simply means Internet access with out wires. With this you can connect all you wireless enabled or your WiFi devices to the Internet. Connecting to the Internet were done the wired way in earlier times for laptops and computer. Wireless Internet facility lets you go mobile and you have connectivity for all your WiFi devices.

The answer to the question, “What Do I Need For Wireless Internet?” is really simple. First you need to have at least a broadband connection, these days you should never compromise for nothing other than a broadband. Most Internet Services provides get you modems at the time of installation, that means the connection would be wired and you need to connect each computer by making use of Ethernet cables. But you want to go wireless, so the best thing here would be to install a router. You can bring in a wireless router between the modem and your computers or your other WiFi enabled devices, so that you can have Internet access made wireless. When you get a router, be sure to install something that is new and not an out fashioned slowcoach, hesitatingly Internet delivering router. So go for n-routers, they offer you the best of speeds. Now it should be noted that your computers do have a wireless network card installed or there is no point installing a wireless router, maybe you can use that only with other WiFi devices, and you may need wires for your computer.

Apart from installing a wireless router, you have lot other options to have wireless Internet. Most carriers got facilities like USB modems or laptop cards getting you wireless Internet and advanced devices like MiFi gets you Wireless Internet for up to 5 WiFi enabled devices.

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How To Map Free Wifi Hot Spots

September 6, 2011 by techtips · Leave a Comment

WiFi hot spots gets you WiFi Internet access, either fee or payed. Free Wifi hot spots delivers WiFi Internet services for free, basic bandwidth and services are free, but if you need additional or faster data rates, you may need to pay for the services. Its easy to map free WiFi hot spots, find them by airports, hotels, coffee shops, and other establishments where business people congregate. Really helpful for business travellers, roamers and of course any one with a WiFi enabled device on the go. Data rate while you are on the move always tend to be high, this one reason free WiFi hot spots are preferred by most people on the go. There are lot many third parties tools that help you map free WiFi hot spots around the globe.

JiWire
JiWire brings you WiFi locations, bothy paid and free in dozens of countries, you are able to search with various parameter to help find free WiFi spots easy. This is one wideley preferred tool, you they got you multi device support, get the JiWire application from your iPhone App Store or from Android market.

Wi-FiZone Finder

Wi-FiZone Finder is the official WiFi hot spot finder for WiFi Alliance, but this one WiFi finder only stacks details on WiFi hot spots registered fot the ZOne program. This way they filter out inactive or hot spots of lesser quality.

Apart from thse two, you can find lot other tools that help you map fee WiFi hot spots, that got tools to search country or location wise. Wi-Fi-FreeSpot, The Hotspot Haven, WiFinder are few other WiFi finders worth trying.

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Internet Explorer market share slips, even as IE9 usage grows

September 6, 2011 by Sanil S · Leave a Comment

ie9 Before the year 2004, Internet Explorer used to be the undisputed market leader of the web browsing arena and had enjoyed more than 90% of the total market share. It is important to keep in mind that the above figure do not speak of quality as much they speak of lack of competition. In 2004 the arrival of Firefox has placed tough challenges before IE and internet explorer was never able to recover its undisputed market leader tag. Again in 2008, Google Chrome emerged as the fastest growing web browser, yes, even faster than Firefox. But you haven’t heard the most shocking news yet. Internet Explorer which is currently in its ninth avatar or version (IE9), is losing the battle in spite of the fact that it’s latest version has been applauded by the critics and the figures for IE9 shows that it is growing.

The incompatibility of the same blood

Technology against technology is not a new thing. Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft is an everyday affair. But two innovations by a single company have rarely backfired against each other; this is precisely the case behind the downfall of internet explorer. To this date, Windows XP is the most used operating system all over the world. According to the figures released by Microsoft itself, Windows XP accounts for 52% of the market share, while Windows 7 accounts for 42%. But at the same time, IE9, which is regarded as the best internet explorer version till date is not compatible with Windows XP. So the huge number of Microsoft users can not even experience its best browser.

Google growth hormones

Executives at Microsoft are actually elated by the success of IE9. According to them, people using IE9 as their browser for Windows 7 are the only ones truly enjoying the web experience, Windows 7 was designed for. In the beginning people didn’t switched from IE9 because others browsers were better; they did so because this super slow, archaic browser got on their nerves.

And the one that have filled the gaps with exceeding speed is Google chrome. In the beginning of the decade, Mozilla Firefox was the hottest property in the web browsing business, it was free, fast and it had everything internet explorer had not. But from past few years its market share has remained flat. While Google chrome’s market share has increased from 7.8% to 15.5%, Firefox is still struggling to overcome the 22.0% mark it has maintained since past few years. Chrome’s success can be devoted to its seamless compatibility with Google’s search engine. In terms of browsing speed Chrome is neck to neck with Firefox, while its fan will vow to the fact that its interface is least cluttered and is the best in the business.

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About the author: Alia Haley is a blogger who has a deep interest in tech stuff and nothing can replace her personal computer for her. She loves playing video games and is planning to buy the latest XBOX soon. She also blogs at Gizmowatch.

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Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter

September 5, 2011 by techtips · Leave a Comment

A wireless network adaptor provides a device wireless support, helps in bringing in extended wireless capabilities, connect the device with a wireless network LAN. Depending upon the wireless card type, it may support 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n WiFi standards. You can find lot many wireless network cards available, the traditional PCI wireless card are installed inside a computer, which got a PCI port, these days USB type wireless network cards are common, these cards connect with your computer’s or your device’s external USB port and finally we have got the PCMCIA wireless adapters inserted into a narrow open bay on notebook computers. Whatever the card type, the basic purpose is to bring in wireless possibilities to your device.

Xbox is a high end gaming console from Microsoft, Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter get you advanced wireless possibilities for your Xbox device. From the Microsoft, you can find 2 Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapters available, helps you connect with your device via USB. First released version is dressed up in white, gets you 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g capabilities and the device works on one antenna. The next release would get you extended 802.11n support along with 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. This version of Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter is comes in black and features two antennas. You have WEP and WAP encryption options available,. Additionally, the latest software update will get you the WAP2.

The above two are the official Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapters available, apart from that you can find lot third party Xbox 360 Network Adapters in the market. These wireless bridges needs to be connected via Ethernet port of your Xbox 360, though recognized as wired, these cards offer similar functionality.

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How To Increase Upstream Bandwidth

September 4, 2011 by techtips · 2 Comments

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series ROR

Upstream bandwidth would be always high with full duplex connections when compared to half duplex ones. Data needs to be flowing in both directions, from user to the network and network to the user. A half duplex connection delivers upstream and downstream data flow, but this never happens at the same time. Its just one at a time. When it cones to full duplex, you can find it both happening at the same time.

Upstream bandwidth is very important just as the downstream data flow for a fewer cluster of people. I say this because most people are concerned only about downstream data flow, they don’t have much going up the pool. But still lot are really concerned about upstream data flow, people who got loads of uploads and hosting every day, and any of these would need a considerable upstream bandwidth maintained. Now how about online gamers, what about the Counter Strike lunatics?, 32 fellas moving stealth all around the “de_dust”, killing or get killed. They don’t really appreciate any latency happening out of a bad upstream bandwidth, must say they don’t tolerate that. So upstream bandwidth is really important and few ways you can check you are delivered the available best.

Increasing the Upstream Bandwidth is easy to be doing, first you can check with your ISP and get known to your bandwidth and connection plan, next check your connection speed with Speedtest. Now if you are running low, you can check if your computer got any problems. Follow the article on How To Increase Bandwidth and fix possible problems, if any.

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How To Increase Bandwidth

September 3, 2011 by techtips · Leave a Comment

First of all you need to know that bandwidth is dependent on several factors. Check with your Internet Service Provider (ISP), the connection plan you are subscribed to. See if you are with an adequate bandwidth plan and if you are not getting the bandwidth as your plan, you can check a few things that could help you out solve the problems stagnant. Open you browser, launch your favorite search engine and look up for “Internet Connection Speed Checker”. A list of speed testers are sure to show up, go along with some thing that you seem good. Speedtest is one recommended speed calculator, the direct link is http://www.speedtest.net. If you find your bandwidth falling down much, when compared to the plan, sure you got a problem and needs to be fixed.

Most of the bandwidth issues are never problems as such, a few things you might be less careful about that pulls back your connection speed.
Start with checking the condition of your computer, if you got few malwares running in your system, they are likely to take up your bandwidth. So install a good antivirus program, clean of any and every clutter you have and stay clean from malwares. Additionally, you update your network drivers and router firmwares.

Next would be temporary Internet files. Each time you are live, your browser keeps files by a location in your computer, and as times goes by, the files in this folder go up considerably high when you have never cleared it for a while. So you need to clear the Temporary Internet files folder, clean your browser cache, history, etc.

You are almost fine with possible problems with your computer now. Next lets check the outside stuff, if you are using a wireless router, you can check a few things and make sure its delivering its best. Routers come basically in 3 flavors, b, g and n. n router would be the fastest and if you are installed with an earlier version, be sure to upgrade your router to n. Sure this will deliver the best available bandwidth.

Router positioning is another important thing that needs to be addressed. Routers are bundled with an omnidirectional antenna, this means signals are transmitted evenly in all directions from where the router is kept. This is where the position comes to be important. Place your router in a location that is by the center, instead of corners. Do this and every connecting device gets the best of router signals. Another thing that routers operate at a frequency of 2.4 Ghz, if you got devices working on the similar frequency, interference and signal loss will be happening. Keep off devices capable of creating potential interference or vary your router frequency (change your router channel). If your router got a larger area to cover, you can think of installing a wireless repeater, booster or pull in a powerful router antenna.

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how to speed up firefox 4

July 5, 2011 by techtips · Leave a Comment

Firefox is the most popular web browser and the new version 4 comes with stunning looks and packed perfect to give in the best of performance. Still you have space to make it a bit more fast running.

Performance tweaks to increase speed

Launch your Firefox and next type in about:config by the address bar and hit enter. Next you need to press the I’ll be careful, I promise tab to continue. Next by the filter field, you need to type in the following values one by one and set its value the same way.

network.http.pipelining => true
network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 12
content.notify.backoffcount => 5
plugin.expose_full_path => true
ui.submenuDelay => 0
network.dns.disableIPv6 => true
javascript.options.jit.chrome => true
javascript.options.jit.content => true

In any case you are unable to find the above values, you can follow the steps layed down. To a set a value with true or false. For example, if you don’t see the value being displayed below as you type content.notify.backoffcount on the filter field, then you can simply right click on an empty space and then select Boolean from New. Type content.notify.ontimer in the box and set its value to true. This holds good if you are setting an integer value, only difference is that you will need to select Integer right click menu.

Clean off SQL Database

Your Firefox makes uses a my sql database to where different values and entries are placed during your browser session. Over time, this place gets cluttered just like unwanted registry entries after lot installations and uninstallations in Windows. So cleaning the database once a while can deliver you good results. Launch your Firefox browser and then press Ctrl+Shift+J, this will open your error console, next you can click inside the code field and paste the following code and press on evaluate.

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM");

The code needs to be entered with no breaks, as a single line. You can see your Firefox
freeze for a while, after a while it restores itself to normal. You have cleared off the clutter.

Addons to browse faster on Firefox 4

Next you can go for Add-ons to browse faster on your Firefox 4. Install add-ons that will enhance your browsing experience. Say for example, Adblock Plus can help block advertisements from various websites, that way it makes it easier for you to read and enhances your browsing experience. Also it should be noted that unwanted Add-ons or buggy add-ons can slow down your speed, so you can disable or uninstall such add-ons.

Keyboard shortcuts

Make use of keyboard short cuts instead of going all the way reach your mouse and pointing out for things. This way you can be quick to access “most wanted” Firefox stuff.

Ctrl + T (Open A New Tab)

Ctrl + W (Close The Current Tab)

Ctrl + N (Open A New Window)

Ctrl + D (Bookmark Current Website)

F5 (Refresh)

Ctrl + F5 (Hard Refresh)

Ctrl + H (Show History)

Ctrl + E (Highlight Search Bar)

Ctrl + (+/-) (Zoom In/Out)

Ctrl + F (Find)

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V (Copy/Paste)

Home / End (Top Of The Page/ Bottom Of The Page)

CTRL + Click (Open Link In Background)

CTRL + U (View Source)

CTRL + Shift + T or (CTRL + Z) (Restore A Previously Closed Tab)

Firefox 4 is on the way and the beta version has been released for the testing purpose. The new version 4 of the most popular browser is stunning in looks and performance. Here are some tweaks and ways which can be used to Speed Up Firefox 4.

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