So, you need a photo resizing tool so as to optimize your photos and images before you can upload them on Internet and share them through Facebook etc.

How to Optimize Images for Internet

There are lots of tools available but we just stumbled across a very neat, easy and convenient image resizing tool called Freesizer.

FreeSizer is an easy to use tool to quickly create resized copies of your pictures that can be sent by email or uploaded to the web. Simply drag and drop one or more photos into the list, select a resizing profile and click a button! No need to fiddle with height, width and compression settings – FreeSizer comes pre-configured for most popular uses.

Features of FreeSizer

Just have a look at some of the great features, which make it super easy to use and yet powerful enough for fulfilling most of your image resizing needs.

• Easy to use
• Simple drag&drop operation
• Built-in preview to test resizing settings
• Batch resize multiple images
• High quality resizing algorithm
• Pre-configured reszing profiles
• Custom profile option
• Automatic file naming
• Your original are never changed
• Portable version available
• Free! No toolbars, no adware, no gimmicks

It then tries to match that meta data information from the other images uploaded on the image sharing sites like Flickr to trace you some other images, which have been taken from that camera. Now it is upto you how you identify the person who might be the person who is in possession of your stolen or lost camera with the help of those images.

Every photo you take with your digital camera contains hidden information about both the image and the camera such as the make, model and date. This information, called exif data, can also include a unique serial number which identifies your camera.

stolencamerafinder crawls the internet searching for photos, collecting the serial numbers of the cameras that took them.

When you use the drag & drop feature, stolencamerafinder reads the unique serial number from the exif data of your photo and uses it to match against serial numbers it has stored.

Nice concept, but in practice there may be a few assumptions and questions before you can reach at a conclusions.

But, Will This All Actually Bring My Camera Back?

Yes, that is the actual thing to be asked. For instance…

• Fine, you may be able to trace some images taken by that stolen or lost camera. But, how to actually trace the person, who has taken those images and is deemed to be in possession of that camera at present?
• Even if you are able to trace the person, how to actually get the camera back? Do you make a call to him and tell him that it is a stolen camera and you are the actual owner of that? Will that work, or do you call the police?
• Then there are lots of ways in which the meta data information can be changed from the images. And if that can be done easily, how will you prove that you are the actual owner of that camera. Will that person not be able to claim that you might have changed the meta data of your pictures to match the meta data of his pictures? Will your claim be sustained in such a situation?
• And can this web service be misused for stalking? I would not go into details for obvious reasons.

What do you think? Is the service really useful?

The actual increase in speed can be obtained by taking care of some basic issues. Here are some of them.

1. Adjusting Your Upload Settings: If you allow uploads to a higher value, then invariably your download speeds may suffer. Setting of your upload limits is a fine line and it has been observed that settings it to about 80% of your overall upload capacity will give you optimum speeds. You can check your upload capacity by visiting a site like speedtest.net.

2. Adjusting Your Download Settings: It is a good idea to keep your download settings as say 95% of your download capacity, which can again be checked from sites like speedtest.net.

3. Selecting the Best Torrents: For best bittorrent speeds, it is imperative that you choose the best torrent, which has a high seed to peer ratio. This is important because of the characteristics inherent to seeds and peers. Remember…

Seeds have 100% of the content associated with the torrent and are only uploading to peers. Peers also upload to other peers, but are also looking for other peers to upload to themselves and their download capacity is almost always higher than their upload capacity.

4. Disable Windows Firewall: Windows firewall is known to be hating Bittorrents. If you want to use a firewall, then use some others like ZoneAlarm or Keiro.

5. Encryption: Some ISP’s are known to throttle the torrent traffic. You can bypass the limitations set by these ISP’s by using the encryption on your torrent downloads. This will sure speedup bittorrents in case your ISP is limiting your speeds.

This is not an exhaustive list. There are sure many others also like them. But I have found them to be working like charm. Try them, if you are not already using them to increase bit torrent speeds.

Personal Blocklist Google Chrome extension is very easy to use. Once you have installed this extension, you will start seeing option “Block website name” with each of the search result. You can just click on that option, and that website will be completely blocked from your search results.

Note: It just blocks the website from appearing in your search results. If you try to go to that website directly in your browser, it does not stops you from doing that.

You can keep blocking as many websites as you want. However, there is no simple way to block multiple websites together by just providing the website list. The only way to block websites is to click on “Block” text that comes with them in search results.

Also, this extension works in Google Chrome only, and does not blocks search results in other browsers.

To see your blocked list, you can just click on the Personal Blocklist extension icon that comes next to Chrome address bar. It will show you list of all the websites that you have blocked. From here, you can also choose to unblock any website.

Be advised that any result that you block is sent back to Google as well, so that Google can analyze the results. Overall, Personal Blocklist Google Chrome extension is quite useful if you keep getting lot of crappy websites in your search results. Using this extension, you can block them for once and for all.

[This is a guest article from Ishan, who blogs about free software and freeware alternatives of paid software on his popular blogs. Do not forget to pay a visit to his articles.]

A timesheet (is actually time sheet) is a method for recording the amount of a worker’s time spent on each job. If you are a professional working on the projects for different client simultaneously with a small team of employees, then a Employee Timesheet Tracking software is something, which is a must to enable you tracking employees time spent on different projects.

Originally developed for an employer to determine payroll, timesheets are not just for payroll any more. Timesheets may record the start and end time of tasks, or just the duration. It may contain a detailed breakdown of tasks accomplished throughout the project or program. This information may be used for payroll, client billing, and increasingly for project costing, estimation, tracking and management.

Some companies provide web-based timesheet software or services that provide a means to track time for payroll, billing and project management. One of the major uses of timesheets in a project management environment is comparing planned costs versus actual costs, as well as measuring employee performance, and identifying problematic tasks. This knowledge can drive corporate strategy as users stop performing or reassign unprofitable work.

Freeware Employee Timesheet Software

Once you have decided to automate the task of time tracking of employees, there are lots of options available to you. You can use the excellent EXCEL time sheet templates, many of which are made available by Microsoft itself. In case you have a team of employees, who are working at different locations and are always on the move, then the best time tracking solution for you will be online timesheet tracking.

And in some cases, you may like to consider a standalone application running on your computer to track employee times.

Here is a Freeware TimeSheet Software, which you may like to consider for use as a standalone application.

The features are plenty, for instance…

• Real time automated logging of tasks and projects based on used applicications and documents;
• Use smart rules to automatically determine the task and project working on;
• No data entry- unless you want to add something specific;
• Less time spend on administration;
• Accurate project budget control;
• Increase your profits: bill the registered hours you easily would forget;
• Improve your productivity;
• Track billable and non-billable working hours accurately;
• Automatic attendance logging;
• Use historic recorded data to allow for better future project budgeting;
• Reports can be exported to Excel;
• Extremely easy to use.

[Download TimeSheet]

What is a Shared Hosting Plan

A shared hosting plan is a server, which hosts lots of blogs,, business websites and stores. These websites are allocated a part of the common resource pool and the web host managers try to create a balance in the usage patterns of different websites. In such a situation, it often happens that the websites drawing lots of visitors consume more of the critical resources like memory and CPU as compared to the websites, which draw less visitors.

The web host managers allow this only to a certain extent. When a website grows beyond that, web hosts raise a red flag and ask the webmaster of that website to move their website to either a dedicated server or move it to elsewhere.

Here come the VPS Hostings

VPS Hosting is the next step. They are an intermediate step in the journey towards a dedicated web host. Customers are allowed a little more flexibility and they now have their own administrative control on the web server functionality. Although you are still on a shared server, but there are less number of people sharing that server and the server is partitioned to allow individuals to configure their partition as per their requirements and needs.

When Is the Time to Migrate to a VPS Hosting

As we have already said, there cannot be a prescribed format. It all depends on individual needs and requirements. You yourself can decide when it is time to migrate. You have to keep a watch on critical resource usage pattern and then take a decision.

192.168.1.2 is a private IP Address, which is used by many of the router manufacturers as the default IP Address. This is fabricated within the firmware of the router and allows a user to access the device through a web browser running on a computer which is connected with the device.

Being a default IP Address does not mean that it cannot be changed by the user. If the user want, he can change the IP Address to anything other than 192.168.1.2 depending upon his needs and requirements.

What are Private IP Addresses

In the Internet addressing architecture, a private network is a network that uses private IP address space. These addresses are commonly used for home, office, and enterprise local area networks (LANs), when globally routable addresses are not mandatory, or are not available for the intended network applications. Private IP address spaces were originally defined in an effort to delay IPv4 address exhaustion, but they are also a feature of the next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6.

These addresses are characterized as private because they are not globally delegated, meaning they are not allocated to any specific organization, and IP packets addressed by them cannot be transmitted onto the public Internet. Anyone may use these addresses without approval from a regional Internet registry (RIR). If such a private network needs to connect to the Internet, it must use either a network address translator (NAT) gateway, or a proxy server.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has directed the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to reserve the following IPv4 address ranges for private networks.

If you want to have a list of routers and modems working on default IP Address 192.168.1.2, please visit out post on 192.168.1.1 Router: Password, Admin List and Details.

Please be advised…things are too complex these days. It is a known fact that malware developers and online threats are getting smarter and smarter and security agencies and vendors are looking to be fighting a increasingly difficult battle to combat them.

In such situations, you cannot rely on any security software for providing you complete online security. Remember, your online safely is in your hands, and you have to be vigilant, cautious and circumspect in your approach, while being online.

Microsoft has sponsored the creation of a new, free, Internet Safety Calendar application, that consumers can download to their Internet Explorer browser (Note: only IE is supported at this time).

Built by LOOKBOTHWAYS, the calendar provides relevant monthly advice to help you increase your online safety whether you’re looking out for your own safety, or you are a parent watching over your family’s safety. The calendar also includes reminders for recurring those safety actions you know you should be doing, but that frequently get forgotten in the rush of day-to-day activities.

Each month, the calendar will send you a note reminding you to check the calendar for important online safety advice, but you can also view the app at any time by selecting Online Safety Calendar under the Tools menu.

But remember, this calender works only with the Internet Explorer. I have tested it with IE8 and IE9 Beta. It is not working with IE9 BETA and I have not tested with any other versions.

[Download Online Safety Tips Calender]

One option is to invest heavily in security cameras, webcam software and things like that. But if you are low on budget and your requirements are of casual in nature, then you can think of using your own webcam software installed in your computer or laptop and start spying.

iSpy – The Freeware Motion Sensor and Sound Detector

iSpy is a freeware application, which allows you to do the trick. iSpy uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services. Any media that is captured is compressed to flash video and made available, securely over the web. iSpy can be setup to run on multiple computers simultaneously.iSpy is free, open-source software, so if you want it to do anything else, please download the source code and customize it to your requirements.

This You Can Do with iSpy

There is an impressive list of things you can do with a software like that.

• Connect and monitor as many cameras and microphones as you like. Import and export object lists to share with colleagues.
• Connect multiple computers in a group and manage over the web
• Install iSpy Server and publish your webcam to other instances of iSpy, over your network and to the web
• Detect, highlight, track and record movement
• Detect loitering
• Customise movement detection areas on your cameras
• Detect and record sound
• Run any program or send an email or SMS alert when movement or sound is detected
• Run any program or send an email or SMS alert when movement or sound is not detected (monitor machinery or staff activity)
• Receive email movement alerts with attached frame grab images from your webcams
• Periodically receive image grabs via email from your webcams
• Connect to any device, even webcams attached to other computers with JPEG, MJPEG, IP Cam, webcam and AVI file support
• Watch live and recorded media over the web (through this website) and also via mobile devices
• Access and control iSpy remotely
• Password protect iSpy and hide it in the System Tray
• Schedule sound and video capturing to start and stop automatically
• Time-lapse record from any camera
• Motion track and count moving objects
• Connect multiple instances of iSpy and iSpy server running on different computers to this website and view all aggregated media online
• Create groups, invite friends and share access to your webcams and microphones
• Receive email alerts if your connection goes offline
• Download the source code and customise it to your own requirements!

Recent changes have been…

• Added an FLV viewer for viewing captured media locally.
• Added a timer to movement detection, so if movement is detected for x seconds an alert is triggered.

Great Software.

[Download iSpy]

If you are searching for your options to host your web solution on a sharepoint server, then SherWeb’s Hosted Exchange might be a good option worth considering. In case you are wondering what is a sharepoint server, then let me mention that there are specialized hosts for web solutions requiring collaborative working and among them, servers using Microsoft’s Sharepoint platform is a common solution.

Microsoft SharePoint, also known simply as SharePoint, is a software platform developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing combined under a single server. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence.

Here is a nice video, on how Sharepoint can help you in your search for a perfect web solution.

The capabilities of SharePoint 2010 work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher business priorities.?

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