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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Tips on writing a good Email
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 19, 2010
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This is a very brief post on writing a good email
Keep your “TO” list small
If you want to send emails to a lot of friends at once, use CC and Bcc. Bcc(Blind Carbon copy) is a better idea as the reciever cant see other reciepients
Use Simple language
You can also use your mother tongue, eg:Malayalam by selecting preferred language in gmail
Size and Italics
Use appropriate sizes and italics to Highlight important details
color
Use color to make readers notice.
Most important of all ,NEVER FORWARD FRAUDULENT AND SILLY EMAILS
REMEMBER to clear the long list of previous recepients before forwarding an email
Is Avatar Old wine in new bottle?
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 11, 2010
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Firefox addon for screen capture-Aviary
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 9, 2010
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Use Remote signout feature in gmail.
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 8, 2010
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If you forgot to signout from your Gmail account after using it, it can create lots of problems especially if you used a public computer. Gmail’s remote signout feature is a great blessing to those who forget to signout every now and then.
How to use remote signout feature in Gmail
While going through the Gmail blog I came acroos this tutorial by Erwin D’Souza, Gmail Engineer,which helped in enriching my knowledge.
At the bottom of your inbox, you’ll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it’s still open in another location
You can see more details about your account activity by clicking Details link:
The top table, under “Concurrent session information,” indicates all open sessions, along with IP address and “access type” — which refers to how email was retrieved, for example, through iGoogle, POP3 or a mobile phone. The bottom table, under “Recent activity,” contains your most recent history along with times of access. You can also view my current IP address at the very bottom of this window, where it says “This computer is using IP address…”
With this information, you can quickly verify that all the Gmail activity was indeed yours. You can also click on the “Sign out all other sessions” button to sign out of the account you left open somewhere else.
Gmail Security tips from Google blog
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 8, 2010
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Gmail is the most widely used email provider all over the world. As emails are widely used as a means of communication in business and personal levels, security of email accounts become the highest priority.
Google blog has described some security tips for Gmail.
1.Remember to sign out.
2.clear the browser’s cache, cookies and history, especially if you are using a public computer.
3.completely close the browser.
4.If you forgot to sign out, Open up a new Gmail session on another computer and use Gmail’s remote sign out feature to close any sessions that might still be open elsewhere.
5.Don’t send sensitive information via email,like credit card numbers, social security numbers etc.
6. Enable “Always use HTTPS.HTTPS is used to encrypt data as it is transmitted between computers on the Internet, so look for the “https” in the URL bar of your browser to make sure that the connection between your computer and Gmail’s servers is encrypted.HTTPS can make your mail slower,but safety comes first so it is better using HTTPS.Open Settings and choose “Always use HTTPS” on the General tab if you want to turn it on.
7. Be wary of unexpected attachments.
8.Make sure your account recovery information is up-to-date.
How to prevent being cheated on social networks
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 7, 2010
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In olden days thieves used to rob us at night when all the family members were asleep. In this modern era Cyber thieves or Cheaters rob us during the day time, with our permission.Most of us are ignorant, or just don’t bother about it.
Most of the important safety features provided by the social networking sites revolve around a friendship request. People believe strangers are danger, but thieves are common people and mingle among us. They are not strangers,even though you believe that your identity is safe, it may not be!
In the western world, photo privacy may not be an issue, but in a conservative country like India,people take much care to protect their images.Once someone can lay hand on your image, it will be a difficult task to set the image right, especially for women.
How cyber thieves gain access?
Whenever a new person wants to be your friend,a new friendship request is sent by that person to you. Once you accept that friend request, he/she gets access to most of your online activities on that social networking site, including albums, scraps, walls and so on.
STEPS IN CHEATING
I.When a thief or someone you hate want access to your profile, they just create a fake ID.
A.If you are a woman, they will create ID of a woman and vice versa in case you are a man, to avoid suspiction.
B.Add some of your friends to his/her friends list to create an air of familiarity
C.Wait for some days and create a lot of scraps.
D. Create an album with simple images.
E.Write some testimonials from other fake ID’s
F. Send a friendship request to you.
Most of the time, people accept friendship request from a stranger who is trusted by everyone else and falls in the trap just like everyone else.
Some people avoid falling in this trap, but the cyber thief doesn’t back off, he comes with renewed power and energy, this time he/she changes his/her strategy.
II. Create a duplicate ID of one of your friends.
A.Most of the time we don’t care in adding someone a second time, eventhough we already have him/her in our friends list.
B.”Add me,My other ID just got deleted” or “My other ID got hacked, this is my new ID” or “Ignore messages from my old ID, this is my new one”
III. Create a new ID of one of your OLD friends who is not a member of the social networking site and who is not in regular touch with you.
IV.Create a false login page and steal your password.
This is the most dangerous of all. Sometime you may get emails from the networking sites like orkut or facebook with links to their homepages. Some thieves use this method to steal your password. They send emails to your email account with a fake ID similar to the orkut/facebook mailing lists. When you click on the links you get redirected to a false homepage which looks exactly similar.
Most of the people who are unaware of this trap, just log in and surrender their password to the thief.
V. Sending greeting cards to all in your contacts list.
This is a new type of fraud, choosing festive seasons as seasons for fraud. I got this email, with a nice Christmas card. I clicked on the card and was taken to a website with a single Christmas card. I liked the card so much that I wanted to send it to my friends and relatives. I searched for the option to send christmas card and clicked on the link.
I was redirected to another page which requested me to enter my email ID and password to fetch my contacts. I sensed the fraud and resisted the temptation to enter my account details.Though I liked the Christmas card, I valued my email account and password even more.
One password is linked to ten other passwords. When you lose your mail password, you lose your Bank ,paypal,facebook and a lot of other sensitive information in the mail accounts.And most of the time, passwords are same across different sites we visit.
HOW to avoid being cheated
1.Don’t add strangers
2. Call and inquire this friend
3.Lookout for duplicate ID’s
4.Avoid keeping sensitive data in your online profile.This is the easiestt step which will save you a lot of headache!
5. Don’t click on suspicious links.
Look on the addressbar and confirm the homepage of your favorite websites.
6.Don’t give away passwords to send greeting cards.
Though I have covered only a few of the frauds, hope this enlightens you to learn more.
Orkut tips to protect your privacy
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 6, 2010
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Orkut can be a tricky playground, where rules can be bent and broken just as a small twig is broken. The privacy barriers set by you can be broken in no time by a seasoned criminal.Some of the tricks used by a hacker can be complicated, some other tricks are just simple.
I have seen tips on many websites providing information on breaking orkut rules, improving scraps etc.
Security features
Orkut offers many security features, best of them are scrap privacy,album privacy.
Allowing only friends to visit your scrapbook is the best feature, because criminals can work better if they know you better through your scraps. Photo albums can be made private or public. The best method is to selectively allow albums to be viewed as per privacy requirement.You can select friends one by one or allow or friends to view your album. Allowing select friends is a better feature because we can select people whom we personally know and whose accounts are authentic.
Google image swirl-an interactive flash experience
Posted by Jobin Martin
on January 1, 2010
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Google Image search is a wonderful utility which allows people to find out the best images suited for our Powerpoint presentations. Google image swirl is a feature which is interactive and fun.Usually in google image search a list of images is shown which can be further expanded to related images search. In Google image swirl the same thing happens but it is wonderful to see how it shows up.12 image thumbnails appear and on clicking on one of the images it becomes the center image surrounded by related images.
I searched for Eiffel tower and got the following images as results
Once you find the group of images you’re interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will “swirl” into view. For example, here’s what you’ll see if you click the image of the Eiffel Tower:
You can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster. The interface may look familiar to those of you who have tried Google’s Wonder Wheel available in the Search Options panel, which enables you to explore related search queries.
Image Swirl expands on technologies developed for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition to discern how images should be grouped together and build hierarchies out of these groups. Each thumbnail on the initial results page represents an algorithmically-determined representative group of images with similar appearance and meaning. These aren’t just the most relevant images — they are the most relevant groups of images.
Image Swirl currently works for more than 200,000 queries and Google plans to include more queries in the future. Available queries will auto-complete as you start to type in the search box, similar to Google Suggest.
