SG OwnBlog

or so you thought Google Motion Beta A new way to communicate The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do we continue to use outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you can control Gmail with your body. Easy to learn Simple and intuitive gestures Improved productivity In and out of your email up to 12% faster Increased physical activity Get out of that chair and start moving today Try it here http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Tracing your IP and the hops made is easy. Remember this is different from finding your IP address. You can easily get your IP address by simply running the ‘ping’ command. This tutorial will show you the geographical locations travelled by the data between your system and some remote address. What is an IP address? An Internet Protocol address ( IP address ) is usually a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. How to trace your IP?   Windows Press Win + R', the Run Dialog box opens Type ‘cmd’ and press Enter Type tracert www.google.com (or any other site) You will find many entries with their respective IP addresses. These actually denote the path travelled by the packets of data between your machine and www.google.com (or any other site)         I have blurred some data to protect my privacy.   Unix/Linux First let me admit, this method is

If you browse the internet often you know what I am talking about. Ads are everywhere. And necessary for paying for hosting bills and like but sometimes they are just plain annoying and useless distraction. Besides heavy and bad ads even take up a lot of bandwidth. In the end you might just say, Enough, now I will call the shots. I will decide what I see and not. So here I will brief you about the Do’s and Don’t in blocking unnecessary advertisements. Chrome AdBlock Simplicity is the key. A must have. Get it here : http://chromeadblock.com/   Firefox   AdBlock Plus Very useful, works great and ultra light. You can find it here. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ IE 9   Simple AdBlock Go here : http://simple-adblock.com/ Download the Installer, install and you are done! One thing though, it is important to know that some ads are good and even useful, remember the nice ad that caught your attention (in a positive way).

  We all wish we had a faster than light network speed(well not really). But there are limitations we all have to face more than often. Anyway, that’s life. But you can tweak your network, thus allowing you to get better speeds. This tutorial is not a tutorial(read that again :)) but just a guide. I think you will benefit. Get a Download Manager Often long downloads get stuck due to a network failure. Chances are high that such half finished or worse, almost finished downloads will be lost. To prevent that and also to maintain consistently high download speeds you must get a download manager. I will list the download managers(my choice, sorry :)) Operating System Download Manager Windows Free Download Manager Linux (Debian) Toolsbysk Mac iGetter BSD wxdfast   Get a browser(aka get Firefox)   Yes I know Chrome, Opera and Safari are there, and some run faster too but Firefox addons (more than 2 billion now) beat them all. Believe me, use Firefox, with some hand