Topcoder - www.topcoder.com

If you think you are good at programming, designs, algorithms, developing and much more then I will suggest you to compete with many others like you at www.topcoder.com and win $$ cash prizes. Its free to register and easy to understand. Only you must know some good knowledge in programming, software development etc.... When you sign in there will be many contest going on, you may choose any1 in which you want to compete and if you win you will be rewarded cash prizes starting from as low as 10$ to thousands of $. For example there are Algorithm competition, software architecture, component design competition, testing competitions and more... And hey you can also win 2nd prizes. :)

http://www.topcoder.com

Some useful websites....

Want to surf the net anonymously ? Here are few websites which will let you do so:
­­· http://www.tools.rosinstrument.com » visit
­­· http://www.forexeuro.co.cc » visit
­­· http://www.kproxy.com » visit
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Tracing IPs and emails, whois, name server lookup (nslookup) and many more:
­­· http://www.ip-adress.com » visit
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Neobux, it is a PTC ( paid to click )  website which pays you 1¢ for each ad you click. You get 4 ads  to click everyday. Once you reach 2$ you can transfer the account balance to your paypal or Alert Pay account. It might be a slow process but it takes not more then 10 minutes of your day, atleast we have that much time. :) So common join me if you wish to earn few $ ...
 · http://www.neobux.com » visit

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 Moneybookers is an e-commerce business that allows payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders. Moneybookers performs payment processing for websites, online auction sites, and other corporate users.
[ Source: Wikipedia ]
  · http://www.moneybookers.com » visit 

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Neteller is an e-money/e-wallet stored-value service. Consumers in over 160 countries[7] use the Neteller service to send and receive money from their banks to and from merchants. The operation of the service is authorised and regulated by the UK government’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) [ Source: Wikipedia ]
  · http://www.moneybookers.com » visit

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Paypal is almost same as neteller.
· http://www.paypal.com » visit

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You can check your internet connection speed from this website. Its simple.
· http://www.speakeasy.net » visit

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W3Schools is one of the best online Web Tutorial. You can learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, PHP, ASP etc..... Visit it and you will come to know.
­­· http://www.w3schools.com » visit————————————————————————————————————————————
Download any e-book for free at:
­­· http://www.freebookspot.es/ » visit————————————————————————————————————————————
Download Free Programming e-books:
· http://http://freeprogrammingebooks.com » visit————————————————————————————————————————————
Another website for downloading e-books:
· http://www.bestebooksworld.com » visit
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India's no1 local search engine. Search address and phone number of any shop in any city across India..You can even call from your mobile phone. Normal rates apply. Try it, it is a great website:
­­· http://www.justdial.com » visit
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 I bet you must have heard about skype. It is a computer software written by Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn which allows user to make free calls PC to PC and even on landlines and mobile phones at a very low cost. The three developers are from Estonia, one of my favourite places.. :)

 · http://www.skype.com  » visit

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The website I mentioned below contains a lot of information on Network Security and much more...
It is run by Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon. Gordon is a network security expert, open source programmer and a writer. A very famous and ideal port-scanner named 'nmap' was written by Gordon. Nmap stands for network mapper. One can safely say that Nmap is the best port scanner. You can download nmap and more network related softwares from the above given website..
· http://insecure.org » visit
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AntiOnline is your resource for computer security information, hacker, phreaker, snooper, virus and cracker info, security news, hot fixes, patches and IP locator tools. It is a must visit website if you want to know in deep about the security in computers.
· http://www.antionline.com » visit

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Kevin Mitnick, the name says it all! He was a world-famous controversial computer hacker in the late 20th century, who was, at the time of his arrest, the most wanted computer criminal in United States history. Now he is a computer security consultant and author.[source: Wikipedia] read more » visit

· http://mitnicksecurity.com » visit

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 SecurityFocus is a website that deals with the  information on latest vulnerabilities and attack. It is a great website.
· http://www.securityfocus.com » visit

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Good at programming? Then you must visit this website. There are many programming contest held here and the winner gets cash prizes, $$ . You just have to register and compete with other users and if you are best you will get rewarded. It is a website worth visiting once....
· http://www.topcoder.com » visit

s i x t h s e n s e - a wearable gestural interface.

You might be wondering what is this 6th sense!! Pranav Mistry a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab has made a instrument which you would not have every seen before. It can do many things which I cant mention here and explain you properly.

Please visit this link to know more:s i x t h s e n s e

Watching this I was shocked!! And instantly I remembered my old days when I was a kid and use to watch a cartoon named 'Jetsons'. In this cartoon they had very great technologies and I always use to ask myself, can this be really possible ever? And today I feel that it has already started.. This guy really deserves appreciation.

*I personally thank you for the invention you made for us or maybe for the future generations. Keep it up!

msconfig ..

Microsoft System Configuration or just System Configuration... Have you ever felt that your PC is starting up a bit late? It maybe because of unwanted application starting at the startup. You can anytime disable it by using msconfig. *START -> RUN -> type "msconfig" and hit enter. Look at the image above, you can see many startup items besides which a checkbox is mentioned so that we can disable/enable it. You are free to uncheck any application you wish not to start with windows. You can even choose which service to start as windows start by going to the Services tab besides Startup tab.

C++ Programming. . . .

Programming, its so much fun making programs. C++ is one of the strongest programming language on earth. If you love computers then definately you will have to love programming. If you would not like to be professional in it then atleast you may try it for fun. Just think whatever you say the computer will do. GREAT!
Have a look at my simple inventory program:download file. Please run in full screen mode.. ie: ALT+ENTER.
You can also get the source code of the above program from here: Get Source Code.

This is just a simple program, I can make much more complex programs... If you want me to make any program for you then please let me know. And dont worry I don't charge. Its totally free because it only helps me to get better in programming. But the program must not be very very advanced... But i will try.. :)
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To download Turbo C++ compiler, click Turbo C++ Compiler

Few Tips for Strong passwords...

You might be fed up of thinking strong passwords for your mailid or bank login password. These are some easy tricks so that no1 can easily guess your password:

1. Your password may contain atleast 1 capital alphabet and atleast 1 number.
2. It must not relate things in your daily life or anything related to you.
3. For example you would like to use the word "google" as your password then you may use it this way: "gOooglegOoogle86"
It looks hard but its so easy, two times the word google, 2nd alphabet capital and at last may be two times your lucky number.
4. A great tip to keep your password very very strong and unguessable. Suppose you stay in India, you can keep your password a place name which is not close to India at all. eg: estonia. :)

You can check the strength of your password here:
Password Strength Checker.

Some tricks while surfing on Firefox..

These are some tips which may help you while you use firefox or maybe some other browser:
1. Press ALT+D to directly go to the adress bar.
2. Press CNTRL+TAB to switch between tabs. And pressing CNTRL+SHIFT+TAB switches tabs in opposite directions.
3. Suppose you want to visit google.com, you may only type google and press CNTRL+ENTER.
CNTRL+ENTER is shortcut for .com, SHIFT+ENTER is shortcut for .net and SHIFT+CNTRL+ENTER is shortcut for .org. Try it...
4. Pressing CNTRL+W will close the active tab you are working on.
5. Pressing CNTRL+SHIFT+W will close the whole browser.
6. Pressing CNTRL+SHIFT+P will let you browse anonymously. In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won't keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files.  However, files you download and bookmarks you make will be kept.
7. When you type "about:config" in address bar in firefox it will take you to configuration settings while typing "about:sessionrestore" in the same place and pressing enter will help you restore your previous session. For more information on firefox session resotre please visit -->  mozillazine