Spam mails in the name of Google Plus Invitation

Although Google Plus has been released in the field trial stage, it acquired a plenty of concentration, interest and attention. The only method to get into Google Plus is through an invitation from someone that is already using Google+. But spammers have found a technique to utilize this to send you spam messages.

Spammers have realized that Google Plus is the next huge mania, so they have decided to utilize its popularity to send you spam emails. They are creating emails that look approximately identical to the Google+ invitations and that may take you to some other places.

If you like to acquire a Google+ invitation, make sure that you double-check the person that sent you the invitation. If you don’t pay attention and follow the link, you’ll reach on a pharmacy website that will attempt to sell you all sorts of medications. These sites may install any spyware or send spam messages to everyone in your email list. 

So it’s better to keep a close eye for these forged emails.

Google+: Google's Social Network

Google is launching a new social network Google+. Its in field trial stage and is available only for a limited users now. Its features are a lot like Facebook.

Google simplified its simple home page as part of The Google+ Project by adding a black bar on the top and moving some links to bottom. 

Google+ include Circles which lets you to share selectively to your specified groups within your personal network. Google+ also include Sparks,Hangouts etc.

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.