Tag people in your Facebook status updates

You can make someone's name go blue in your Facebook status. 

To mention someone in a status update just type '@' in status bar and start typing your friend's name as it appear on Facebook. It will automatically suggest a list of friends starting in those letters you are typed. Select the name you want and complete the update. The selected name will become a hyperlink to your friend's profile. But you won't see @ symbol as in the case of twitter.

Google Encrypted Search

Google SSL Search allows end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that helps provide secure internet communications for services like web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data transfers. When you search over SSL, your search queries and search traffic are encrypted so they can't be read by any intermediary party such as employers and ISP.
It works in the same way online banking or other login pages work. Using Secure Sockets Layer connections, the connection between you and Google is encrypted, so that third parties, beyond you and Google, cannot look at your search data.

An encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google when you search on https://www.google.com. This beta service only works with traditional search results. Encrypted connection may lead to slightly slower results. Encrypted search does not mean Google no longer stores your search data - it only means third parties cannot listen in to the connection between you and Google. Searching over SSL doesn't reduce the data sent to Google - it only hides that data from third parties who seek it.

LibreOffice 3.4

     LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document Foundation. It is compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms. Its developers' goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite and without any copyright assignment requirements. LibreOffice is a hybrid word with the first part Libre, which means free in both Spanish and French, and the English word Office. The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 3.4 now.

Download LibreOffice 3.4

Google +Like

   Add Facebook Like button to every result in Google Search.

Click here to check it.

Block websites in windows

Internet allow access to plenty of stuffs with few click of a mouse, this includes few things which you don’t want your kids to get access to. Many applications are available to block websites temporarily on a computer but that cost money and are little complicated to operate. Windows gives you an easy and free option to block few websites you want.
You can block websites you want through the following steps by editing windows host file.

• Open Notepad (Run as administrator)
• Open the following path C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
• Select All Files in dropdown list to open the file hosts
• Enter the website you want to block at the bottom in a new line as follows

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com and save it

• You can’t access these websites in any browser until you remove them from the hosts file.

Disable Search History in Windows 7

Windows 7 automatically saves all the recent searches done by the users. The last three searches become visible under the search box as you start typing in it. 

There is a way in which you can disable search history display in Windows 7. But you cannot disable search history display in Windows 7 Home editions. Because you need to utilize the Group Policy Editor for this and it is not available in the Home versions. 

Follow these steps to disable search history display in Windows 7.

v  Enter gpedit.msc in the search box of the Start menu and press Enter.

v  Goto User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer.

v  Double click on Turn off display of recent search entries in the Windows Explorer search box.

v  Select Enabled

v  OK

Now the search history won't be displayed in the search box

Hidden wallpapers and themes in Windows 7

When you first install Windows 7, it asks for your language, time and currency. Based on your responses, it installs a set of wallpapers and themes. If you choose English (US) for your time and currency format, for example, the available desktop backgrounds and themes will include a United States section with scenery from locations such as Maine, the Southwest and so on.

There are hidden background scenery and themes from other English-speaking countries like Australia, Canada, Great Britain and South Africa. 

Normally, you can't access those backgrounds or themes, but there is a simple way you can install and use them:

Ø  In the search box in the Start menu, type C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and press enter.

Ø  Windows Explorer will launch and show you a list of subfolders:

MCT-AU, MCT-CA, MCT-GB, MCT-US, and MCT-ZA. Each subfolder has wallpapers for a specific country: AU for Australia, CA for Canada, GB for Great Britain, US for the United States, and ZA for South Africa.

For any of the countries whose wallpaper and themes you want to use, go into its Theme folder, for example, C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT\MCT-ZA\Theme. Double-click the theme.

Ø  That will install a shortcut to the theme and wallpapers in the Personalization section of Control Panel.

You can now use them as you would any other theme or background, by right-clicking the desktop, choosing Personalize, and choosing a background or theme. They will be listed in their own section.

How much Google knows about you

Google knows what you searched for as well as your activity on partner web sites that use its ad services. If you use the Chrome browser, it may know every web site you've typed into the address bar. It may have all of your e-mails, your appointments and what you're watching (YouTube). It may have transcripts of your telephone messages (Google Voice). It may hold your photos in Picasa Web Albums, which includes face-recognition technology that can automatically identify you and your friends in new photos. 

Technically Google doesn't know anything about you. But it stores tremendous amounts of data about you and your activities on its servers, from the content you create to the searches you perform, the Web sites you visit and the ads you click.

 

Google collects all data about your friends for the optimization of Google social search.

Google Social Circle page will show you all your connections split downs into various categories.

The Google gathers all this information from your Gmail Contacts, Gtalk chat list, Picasa, Google Profile, people you are connected through social networks, people you are following on Google reader and Google buzz.

Google's +1 Button

Google launched +1 Button  to find exactly what you’re looking for when someone you know already found it. Users searching for a particular article on Google can now see what their friends have liked, making it easier for them to pick the best out of the lot. +1 is currently available on searches in Google.com when you are signed in. 

In order to +1 things, you first need a public Google profile. When you create a profile, it's visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.

Your +1’s are stored in a new tab on your Google profile. You can show your +1’s tab to the world, or keep it private and just use it to personally manage the ever-expanding record of things you love around the web.

QR Code (Quick Response Code)

A QR Code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) that is readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and QR reader application installed camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text, URL, or other data.

Common in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. The QR code was created to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.It can store more data that an ordinary barcode can do. 

The use of QR codes is free of any license. The QR code is clearly defined and published as an ISO standard. 

You can easily generate a QR code using a site like http://qrcode.kaywa.com/. Google also has a tool Google url shortner.

Your business could use QR codes in a number of ways. You might auto generate one next to every product on your web site containing all the product details, the number to call and the URL link to the page so they can show their friends on their cell phone. You could add one to your business card containing your contact details so its easy for someone to add you to their contacts on their cell phone.

www.mb4tech.com use QR codes with their articles for first time in malayalam.

Google to withdraw support for older browser

Internet giant Google is going to withdraw support for older versions of various browsers. These includes Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3. Those users who have turned off automatic updates for Google Chrome will also be required to update their web utility. 

Google wants to capitalize on new capabilities of modern browsers that are not just there in older ones. For instance, desktop notification for Gmail and drag-&-drop file upload in Google docs require advanced browsers that support the new HTML 5. Older browsers do not have the capability to provide users with high quality experience. The apps which are going to get affected by this decision are Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs & Google Sites. Another reason that is being given is the insecurities in the older browsers that leave them prone to attack. It should be highlighted that this comes just after reports of Gmail accounts hacked by Chinese crazy wizards.

 So, be quick to update your current browser latest by August 1 in order to experience the new web bonanza of modern browsers that are not just a modern convenience but a necessity for what the future holds.

Cloud Computing

Modern computing in the age of the Internet is quite a strange, remarkable thing. As you sit hunched over your laptop at home watching a YouTube video or using a search engine, you’re actually plugging into the collective power of thousands of computers that serve all this information to you from far-away rooms distributed around the world. It’s almost like having a massive supercomputer at your beck and call, thanks to the Internet.

This phenomenon is what we typically refer to as cloud computing. We now read the

news, listen to music, shop, watch TV shows and store our files on the web. Some of us live in cities in which nearly every museum, bank, and government office has a website. The end result? We spend less time in lines or on the phone, as these websites allow us to do things like pay bills and make reservations. The movement of many of our daily tasks online enables us to live more fully in the real world.

Cloud computing offers other benefits as well. Not too long ago, many of us worried about losing our documents, photos and files if something bad happened to our computers, like a virus or a hardware malfunction. Today, our data is migrating beyond the boundaries of our personal computers. Instead, we’re moving our data online into “the cloud”. If you upload your photos, store critical files online and use a web-based email service like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, an 18-wheel truck could run over your laptop and all your data would still safely reside on the web, accessible from any Internet-connected computer, anywhere in the world.

Facebook test 'Happening Now' feature

Facebook just began testing a new feature "happening now" in a sidebar to the right of their news feeds. It's filled with links friends have posted that other friends like.


Similar to a Twitter timeline, the Happening Now sidebar displays additional information that isn’t usually on the main news feed – i.e. friends liking a link or making new friends. The Happening Now sidebar also updates in real time, letting users read updates as soon as they happen without having to click a link to refresh.


It looks a lot like a Twitter feed with a bunch of re-tweets in it. A re-tweet effectively does the same thing as "liking" someone else's link, shared on Facebook: share a link you like with others.

Facebook enables Facial Recognition

   Facebook photos now have facial recognition strategy. The tagging is still done by your friends, but the facial recognition software detects your face and pushes it in an advert-like style to the right hand side of your friends’ screen. Facebook does not allow you to pre-approve tags; only the ability to remove tags once they have been tagged.
   Here’s how to check the setting to make sure it is how you want it to be:

1. Go into your Facebook privacy settings.
2. Click Customise settings.
3. Under Suggest photos of me to friends, click Edit settings.
4. Facebook automatically enables this feature. On the dialog box, select whether you want the feature to be enabled or not. Click Disable if you do not want it.
5. Press Okay.