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Have you ever wondered how some companies are able to lay hold on your email address in order to send spam mails to you? Or have you ever wondered how some sites like Google are able to open pages according to the country or region you stay? How do you think hackers are able to have access to the information you share online? These questions will remain unanswered until you understand what an internet protocol address is.

An IP address is a set of numbers, which are in decimal forms, assigned to each computer in a network. It is a very important component in internet communication because it determines the destination of every information sent through this network. It is usually assigned to each computer by the ISP. Therefore, one can say that the IP address helps you connect to other people elsewhere on the internet.

The most prevalent problem of using the internet is hacking. When hackers get to know your unique address, there is no limit to the information they can gather on you. In fact, they can get to know your location, phone numbers and even all your account details. With this, any hacker can successfully use your identity to access your private accounts online.

Even sites you visit have a way of copying your address in order to monitor your activities when next you visit the site. Through this data, they can get personal information on you such as your email address which can then be sold to marketing companies. This explains the spam mails you get regularly.
Sites like Google also use your IP address to know your location so they can give you results related to your region.

Thankfully, with the improvements in technology, you can be a step ahead of any hacker by anonymously surfing the web. The only way to do this is by keeping your personal identity protected. In order to make any malicious internet worker confounded, you need to hide your real unique data by masking it with another one so that anyone who tries to trace this address will end up hitting bags of sand.
By installing IP-hiding software on your computer, you can easily surf the web anonymously. The software will hide your IP by assigning to your computer a different address of your choice. This will make you go to any website and even shop online without worries of hacking or spam mails.

Want to enjoy perfect anonymous web surfing while protecting yourself from hackers and identity thieves? CLICK HERE!
Where voice recognition has grown fairly common in the mobile industry, especially with apps such as Google Voice and Blackberry Voice Recognition, the same still requires sophisticated software and hardware solutions to be just as effective in computers. But Fairsay, an innovative add-on for Firefox changes all this, introducing voice application control to web browsers for the first time ever.


It offers voice support for opening and closing websites, carrying out web searches and broadcasting online TV programs. Though the voice support is very limited for now, it carries potential to completely redefine web browsing in future. Just imagine how fascinating it would be to sit back and surf the internet all with the control of your voice?



As with any other voice recognition software, the developers of this extension too, emphasize on the importance of quality microphones for a great voice control experience. The developer has also revealed that the future versions will focus on extracting the voice commands from background clutter, an issue that Google has addressed to a certain degree for its handheld product, Android.



Again, the functionality of this beta version is quite limited. For now, you can navigate to 45 different websites and watch 15 TV programs (on Hulu) that reside in the default pre-programmed list. It is also capable of carrying out a Web search through commands, such as Search Google Bermuda Triangle which launches a Google search for keywords Bermuda Triangle.

Despite all odds, we find it to be an amazing development that will totally revolutionize how we surf the Internet. When it comes to voice recognition, accuracy is of utmost importance. In the developer’s own words, “Improving recognition accuracy is key area for investment for us moving forward.”
It supports Firefox versions 3 – 3.6, and Windows 7 only.

Download Firesay
Facebook has launched a new feature called Facebook Places. It lets you broadcast your current physical location to your friends and, at the same time, lets you see where your friends are located. Thus, you can easily find if some of your friends are near you, and contact them easily.

For example, if you are in a Cinema hall, you can see if any of your friends’ is also there. And they can also find you via Facebook Places. Thus this feature is really useful to connect with people in real life. Check out the video below to get an overview of Facebook Places,



Visit the Facebook Places FAQ to learn all about it. Some of the things you can do are location status updates, tagging your friends at places, and post comments.
Note – At the time of writing, Facebook Places is available only to US users who have W3 geolocation support. If you are in US and you have a supported phone, then go to touch.facebook.com or Facebook for iPhone.



If you need some convincing, then read on my gathered list of 5 add-ons which will greatly help you do your job once you switch over to Firefox. If Firefox is already your default browser of choice, then just read each entry carefully and see how each add-on can enhance Firefox for your web tasks.

You are welcome if you want to share more must have firefox extensions that our readers/viewers may like.

FireFTP


fireftp

If you are not using FireFTP, then there is a good chance that you are using a full-fledged FTP client (because lightweight ones simply do not offer complete FTP features). FireFTP however, is one light FTP client in the form of a Firefox add-on. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, and file hashing. The best part is that is does not slow down Firefox at all.


SeoQuake


seoquake

This extension is a must-have for anybody whose work involves search engine optimization. SeoQuake obtains and investigates many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study. We can save these parameters for future work and compare them with the results obtained for other competitive projects.




 
Domain Availability Search


Domain Availability

A website’s name is a very important factor to consider while creating a website. We cannot simply think of a name, we have to check for its availability as well. Doman Availability Search add-on lets us do so easily. Supported TLDs include COM, NET, ORG, BIZ, CO.UK, ORG.UK, MOBI, INFO, TV, WS, IN, ME, US, CC, BZ, CA, CN, EU, and DE.


Shareaholic


shareaholic

Promoting our site or blog over social media networks could not get any easier with Shareaholic. It is an award-winning add-on that has been downloaded over 1 million times by people looking for a customizable, light-weight method of sharing virtually any web page. The supported range of networks is more than impressive and we can share on them with simple mouse clicks.


Flagfox


maps

Finding out about the location of a site can be helpful in eliminating doubts regarding security. On the Firefox address bar, Flagfox places the country flag of the currently open website’s server. We can click on this Flag to pull up a geographical map of that location and other information regarding the site such as the city and IP address.
Are you looking for a solution to login to multiple Skype accounts simultaneously?

CalimSkypeLauncher allows users to sign in to multiple Skype accounts at the same time. With this application, you can open multiple Skype accounts for your professional and personal contacts and keep all of them running at the same time.


It is a portable application that can be launched instantly after download. The first step is to enter the username/password of all your Skype accounts. It supports multiple login of upto 3 Skype accounts. When done, providing this information, open CalimSkypeLauncher file to sign into multiple Skype accounts. You will be prompted when it successfully signs in to all your accounts.

calimskypelauncher-


calimskypelauncher


A handy application for signing into multiple Skype accounts. You must have Skype 4.0 or later for this app to work.

Download CalimSkypeLauncher
Need to store things online for either hacking purposes or personal purposes?
Then do it on Googles Gmail for free.

Lets begin
(Only windows XP,Vista,7)
You may want to create another Gmail account and not use your own personal one due to the
fact when you upload the files it will come up as your emails.
Trust me it looks annoying.Just use the new one for online storage only.


Download Gmail Drive from filehippo here:
Click To Download

The file you downloaded will be in a zip file.
Extract the files into a New folder like this




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Double click "setup" and the will program install automatically on your computer.
Might tell you to restart your computer
Go to "My Computer" or "Computer"
You will see the GMail Drive installed like this


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Double click GMail Drive and it will prompt you to sign into your gmail account.

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There you go now your done.All you do is drag the files you want to put into storage into the GMail Drive. 
 
You will then get a email on Gmail about the file being uploaded.

Video Tutorials:


1. Use Twitter’s tools for finding and adding your existing contacts. If you follow them, they’ll likely follow you. Don’t stop there, however. Follow up with an email to each of those people letting them know why you really hope that they’ll follow you on Twitter. This follow-through increases the number of followers that you’ll get.

 
2. Make an announcement on your other social networking sites that you’d like to be followed on Twitter. Let your Facebook and MySpace friends know where they can find you to follow you on Twitter. Don’t just make this announcement once either; update your Facebook status with this info every two or three weeks to keep getting people’s attention back to your Twitter. You can also post to Facebook from Twitter and it will show up on Facebook that you did that so people will know that you’re using Twitter.

3. Add your Twitter information to your email signature. Every time that you email anyone, they’ll see that they can follow you on Twitter.


4.
Blog about your use of Twitter. Mention regularly in your blog or on your website that you are a Twitter user and be sure to link to your Twitter contact information.

5. Add the Twitter widget to your website. In addition to mentioning your Twitter use yourself, you can actually show others what you’re Twittering by adding the Twitter widget to your site or blog. This encourages readers to check out your
activities on Twitter and therefore to follow you.

6. List yourself in Twitter directories. Directories like JustTweetIt and WeFollow are great places to provide others with information about who you are and how to follow you on Twitter.


7. Improve your page. You can customize Twitter with a better background, avatar and bio info. The better your page looks, the more likely it is that people who see that page will want to follow you.


8. Be active on the site. The best way to get followers is to follow other people and then respond regularly to the things that they post. The more active that you are on Twitter, the more people are going to want to follow you.


9. Be interesting on the site. Don’t just be active without saying anything. Post things that are actually interesting so that people will be interested by you.


10. Offer to guest post on the sites of big Twitter users. Find Twitter users who have a lot of followers. Check out their blogs. Offer to guest post on the blog in exchange for promotion of the post on Twitter. This increases attention to you on Twitter and creates more followers.


11. Write articles around the web and promote them on Twitter. There are many sites that you can write articles on (HubPages being one of them) so write a few about Twitter and link to your profile. (Here’s my Twitter information!)


12. Participate in forums and blog comments about Twitter. The more that you’re talking about Twitter, the more that you’re going to get attention from other people online who are using Twitter and who may want to follow you on the site.


13. Request support from your Twitter followers. Once you’ve established a bit of a following, Tweet that you’re looking for more followers and would love people to let their Twitter followers know where to find you. Some just might help you out.


14. Create some sort of contest related to Twitter. Make up your own
creative contest on your website or Facebook page that ultimately leads to benefits to someone else for supporting you on Twitter. For example, you might giveaway something to the friend who refers the most people to follow you on Twitter.

15. Make a Twitter Landing Page. This is a tip from Problogger that basically says to replace your website
home page with a Twitter landing page which informs people about your use of Twitter so that they can follow you. Then they can check out your website.

16. Add your Twitter URL to
your business cards. Make sure all printed promotional materials that you have include a link to your Twitter profile.

17. Follow people often. Follow new people every single day. They may follow you back. Follow everyone who follows you. Their followers may follow you back.


18. Join Twitter Groups. There are online groups that are all about Twitter and if you join them then you’ll
meet people who use the site and who want to friend other users on the site.

19. Go to TweetUps. These are in-person meetups of Twitter users that are springing up all over the country. Meet people in person, put a face to the name and then you can follow each other on Twitter with some real impact.


20. Get creative. The main thing is to do all that you can to keep thinking of new ways to drive traffic to your Twitter account so that you gain followers. The more creative you get, the more likely it is that you’ll see success on the site.
Most of my calendar data lives in Outlook. Not by choice, mind you, but because that's just where it has accumulated over the years.

I'd rather use Google Calendar, which is more versatile and less, well, Outlooky. Just one problem: how do I move my data from the latter to the former? And, just as important, how can I keep the two entities in sync?

Surprisingly few people know that Google itself offers a solution: the aptly named Google Calendar Sync. This free utility runs under Windows and automatically keeps Google Calendar and your Outlook calendar in sync.

That means you can enter an appointment in one spot and it'll auto-magically appear in the other--and vice versa. But you also have the option of sticking with a one-way sync, like copying all your Outlook appointments to GCal but not copying GCal appointments to Outlook.

Google Calendar Sync is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7. It requires Outlook 2003 or 2007--I'm not sure if it's compatible with Outlook 2010.

Setup is a snap: download and run the utility, enter your Google account info, choose your sync option (1-way or 2-way), and then specify how often the utility should sync your calendars (the default is every two hours).

That's it! The first sync takes a couple minutes; after that, it's virtually instantaneous. Now you can use both calendars however you see fit, all the while keeping both in sync.
Twitter is the most popular micro blogging platform in the world,a lots of users are sharing their knowledge,information through this website.Here is the best and top ten twitter application which makes your tweeting very easy..These applications are very useful while using your twitter account in a proper way.This will show you the correct path for the best use of twitter application.

Twitpic:Twitpic Application for Photo uploading on twitter

If you want to share your photos etc. either with your friends or if you want to keep a record on the server so that you need not carry your photos or to get access to your photos when ever require then twit pic will help you. It is used to upload photos, it can be uploaded either from your phone or system etc. You can also upload the photos from the website or from the system etc.

Twitter-Search:

If you want to search any information in twitter then don’t worry twitter search is there for you. It is an application in twitter which helps you to search what ever you want to whether it may be any other application, information or any news etc. Twitter search filters information and provides you the information which you want.

T-Whirl:Twitter for Search

T- Whirl helps you in many things whether you want to get notification about your messages or if you want to shorten the URL. T-whirl is there for you, it helps you in almost every thing. If you want to post images you can do it in T-whirl, if you have typed some text and want to check for any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors then you can do it on T-Whirl. It is also used to record a video and you can also share that video immediately.

TwitBin:

It is an exciting news for the twitter users that now you need not to go to twitter.Now twitter will come to you in the form of twit bin. Now you can send and receive information like messages and you can also share your links etc. It’s very simple, to use twit bin you just have to install it and in will ready to use. Now you can also configure your twit bin. What are you waiting for? Just go and enjoy.

Twitter- Holic:

If you want to know the most popular user of the twitter then twitter holic will help you. It will rank the users according to the number of followers. If the numbers of following a particular user is more than any other user then that user is known as the most popular user and this follows. Now new users will find it easy to follow a user as you will be getting list of the most popular users. Now go and choose your favorite user on twitter holic.

Twitty-Tunes:

Twitty tunes will make you multi tasking and saves your time now you can upload a song while playing it just at one click. Now you can enjoy the music and at the same time you can post it one the twitter. See how a twitty tunes has made you multi tasking person. It supports many different types of players. Along with the songs you can also post the websites you are visiting and the videos you are watching. You can also post many others things.

Tweeting from the womb:

This is really an extra ordinary twitter application. Now your baby will tweet six months before born. This is a special extra ordinary application of twitter which has one device and it is connected to twitter. So when ever a baby kicks mother under the womb, the twitter will update the information on the web. This helps to find out the development of the child.

Atlas:

This is a very good application in which a user can locate his/her position in the map. This will help other user to find out the location of the user who has located himself on the map. This map location is clearly understandable and the user can also point out the important landmarks near his location which will help the other users to find out his exact location. It is an interesting application where you can show where exactly you are on the globe.

Hellotxt:

You may use many social networks and you have friends on all networks and you want to be in contact with them to share your views and to share, to chat, etc. But it is too irritating to login to all networks by opening web page of each network and also you have to remember Id’s and password of all the networks. Now we have a solution hellotxt will help you in this, with hellotxt you can be in almost all social networks with one login. Isn’t it interesting? As now you can have fun with your friends with just one login id.

Monitter:

This application will help you if you want to get updated on twitter. If you want any updated news or the information from the twitter then it will help you to find out the information. For that just you have to login and type the keyword of the topic you wish to monitor then twitter monitter will help you to find and monitor the topic. So login and enjoy the monitoring on the twitter.