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How To Test The Speed Of Your Internet

How To Test The Speed Of your InternetInternet Service Providers will advertise that they are giving you the maximum speed for your internet connection. If you ask for a brief explanation; they will tell you about the upload and download speeds separately and altogether combined speed of your internet. However, there is a way to check your internet speed.

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How To Protect Your IP Address

How To Protect Your IP AddressComputers especially connected with the internet, the users came to know about a popular word ‘IP’. Outside the computer world IP refers to Intellectual Property; but in our world IP refers to Internet Protocol.

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Driverless Cars

Driverless CarsNow a days the road accidents are increasing. The losses suffered are more. We are losing mighty humans, leaders, etc., the main reason for accidents are reckless driving by drivers. In order to avoid these accidents we have designed a model car, which will run according to predefined informations.

This project can be operated by any user known language. The parallel ports of pc are used to control the car. In future this can be extended to stop car by the police using the registration provided. Various direction turnings can be achieved. This uses frequency division multiplexing technique, to transmit the signal. This is one of the wireless communications. This is one of the gateway to “BLUE TOOTH”. The relays are used to control various directions. By connecting an obstacle detector the accidents can be avoided.

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Social Networking - Taming The "Essential" Beast!

Get Your Social Networking Feeds At One PlaceWe all spend several hours on it, but do we really know how to make the most of it?

Love it or hate it, there really isn't a way to ignore it. Social Networking (read Facebook, Twitter and then some) has made a space for itself in our lives. Here are some tips to help you slim down, widen out and secure your entire social experience.

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Check The Strength Of Your Password

microsoft password strengthA good password can mean the difference between identity safety and identify theft. I you are not certain about the strength of your passwords, get the Microsoft Password Checker. This is a free tool. Just type in your password and get an instant strength rating: Weak, Medium, Strong or Best. Microsoft is not secretly collecting passwords for its own evil purposes. The page doesn’t record what you type; it generates a response based on the input.

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Stay Safe Online

stay safe onlineThe internet is always very easy to end up with viruses, trojan horses, and other nasty programs on your computer can slow down your abilities and steal information. You can prevent these things simply. Do not converse with people over e-mail or social networking sites that you do not know them personally. Never give these people any sort of personal information. Avoid falling for e-mails seem too good to be true; promises large sums of money in return for sending a package overseas like that. These are potential scams that you can identify. In e-mails don’t open the attachments from the unknown persons, if you are unsure why you received it. Even known mail from your friend’s, spreading viruses through attachments, because they use their computer as a bot, sending virus to other people on their e-mail contact list without your friend’s knowledge.

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Accident Free Trains

Accident Free TrainsEven in 21st century there are more derailments. Though there are lots of technological improvements but the train accidents are occurring very frequently. There are lot of human losses and fiscal losses. In order to avoid such accidents we have designed a working model called ACCIDENT FREE ELECTRO MOTIVE which  prevents  the two trains from accident that are running on the same track. Some train accident cuttings are enclosed inside.

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Internet Security - Attention Grabbing Video Links In Facebook Are Nothing More Than Scams

Internet Security - Attention Grabbing Video Links Are Nothing More Than ScamsAnti-virus company Sophos is warning Facebook users against clicking on links to video hosted on sites named FouTube, FBVideo and YoTube, amongst others. The sites are all fake, designed to lure users into clicking on links with sensational titles. Users are conned into allowing rogue Facebook apps to access their personal information, or into clicking unseen 'Like' links, which automatically cause status messages with the same scam links to be posted to all their friends newsfeeds.

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Spintronics - Plastic Hard Disk

Spintronics - Plastic Hard DiskNewton did see an “Apple falling from the tree”

He questioned,

For what? For why? Of how?

His solutions revolutionized the physics.

Even in this 21st century the plastic remains as a threat to the environment. Why the plastics cannot be decomposed? What are the alternate measures we have to take? Why cannot we reuse the plastics? On thinking about this we got the idea of plastic hard disk.

The plastic shows promise to the computer memory. The plastic has atoms in which the electrons have its own spin motion (clockwise or anti clock wise). This spin is used to store the data.

On implementation of plastic hard disk we can expect an “Demand for the plastics” in future.

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Mozilla Firefox shames developers with slow performing add-ons

mozillaMozilla is feeling the heat now, it spends every time in tweaking and perfecting Firefox to eek out as much as performance as possible, but it’s all ruined by lousy add-ons that weighing the browser down like a block of cement. It has now gone far to publish a list of slow performing add-ons that exposes the worst offenders. The biggest drags on the browser are FoxLingo Translator/ dictionary and Firebug developer tool add-on. According to Mozilla, each makes the Firefox 74% slower to start up. This is the list of the poor performing add-ons. Mozilla says it’s also institute automated performance testing of the top 100 add-ons in its gallery, and that it will begin reaching out to the developers directly to get them to improve performance.

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Mobile Voting

Mobile VotingCan you imagine an election without the booth capture, without firing of polling stations, clashes between parties, voting without long standing queues, without the ferry service to vote, voter friendly, with an increased voting rate. Yes that day is not far from here.

Here in this paper we are going to simply the voting process. In this hi-tech era the mobile phones attached with the iris scanner has to be used to cast the votes. Of course this m-voting reduces the time, cost, risks. The Iris recognition technology will pace our thoughts with higher degree of authentication.

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How to create disposable email address in Hotmail?

Hotmail Disposable Email ID CreationAs we all know that Microsoft has added new "Create a Hotmail alias" or disposable email address to Hotmail yesterday, we will see how to use the feature to cut down spam in our mailbox.

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Eco friendly Electricity generation: Electricity from speed breakers

Electricity from speed breakers: The mechanical energy from speed breaker serves as an input source to the alternator which generates the electricity of 10kwIndia signs nuclear liability treaty with US.

Power shortage when it will come to an end?

Electricity arrested humans with switches, Televisions, Fans, Lights, Laptops and so on. Its really tough to survive in this modern world without electricity for a minute. All our new equippments requires energy in the form of electricity. Here is an interesting article to generate electricity from eco-friendly means!!!

This article has been presented by me in BITS, Pilani.

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GSM kicking off CDMA in the polls

GSM kicking off CDMA in the pollsIndia is now a home of millions of cellular phone subscribers, is the fastest growing cellular user-base. In the country, most are using the GSM techology in their phones. In the country two major cellular technologies are GSM and CDMA.

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Green Computing: Need for Green Computing & How to use your PC the Green Way

ewasteGreen computing is popular now a day, going green is very much important to make yourself, your surroundings and the planet healthy. We got lot of people around the world using computers, but the cause for green computing is simple. First we have to understand what is Green Computing? Green computing can be defined as environmentally responsible use of your computers and their resources. In this part, we can discuss about the cause for green computing and some of the ways to make it happen.

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