Ever came across a situation when you are asked for help to fix some software issue and you are miles away from the troubled computer? Even more, the person asking for help is not much of computer literate!! I had this issue a bunch of times and I find it very hard to get it resolved. People are not able to describe the problem exactly and even if they do, your solutions may not be that straight forward for them. Guiding them step-by-step may also prove to be troublesome sometimes.
After going through numerous such occasions, I spent some time on Google and found this Free utility, TeamViewer, that can help you take control of a remote computer and do what ever you need to as long as the connection remains active. You just need to have this utility downloaded on both the machines and you will need internet obviously. The connection can be established by putting the auto-generated TeamViewer ID and Password of one system on to the other. Happy troubleshooting… Remotely!!
Link to TeamViewer website
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Internet, Utilities
In last couple of years, I have a seen sudden increase in Spywares/Malwares attacks on my computer. Some of them look like they are softwares that fight against such attacks but that is not the case. You may see a message box in your Taskbar saying that your system is infected and click to download anti-virus/anti-spyware or click to scan the system. Once you do that, it will harm your system even more. One such common software that shows up for download is Antivirus 2008. If you run this, a screen similar to the one below will show up on your screen:
Prevention is Better than Cure!! Follow these steps to prevent your system from getting infected:
Install a Firewall
Firewalls may slow down your internet browsing a little by throwing in additional confirmations boxes but it may keep unwanted softwares out of your machine.
Install a AntiMalware
These keep a check on computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software.
You can download these tools from here: Download Utilities
Update your software
Whether it is your Windows Operating System, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware or the Firewall, keep the auto-updates on and update your software as soon as an update is available since this way your armory will be up-to-date to fight against all these Malwares.
Fianlly, browse the internet safely since sometimes what you see is not what you may end up with. Pay extra attention when opening attachments even if it seems to be coming from a friend. Install Active-x controls only from reputed websites.
Have fun browsing!!
Internet, Software, Utilities
HTML is used to design a website but what if you want to display a sample HTML code in a website?? The browser will consider your sample code just as the rest of the HTML code and parse it in a similar way, removing all the tags before it displays the content on the website.
To display some HTML code, you need to use escape characters for all the special characters defined in HTML. The following link has a HTML Encoder/Decoder which can generate the code that should be inserted to achieve the desired HTML code form as output.
HTML Encoder
Just input the code you desire to display and copy paste the encoded code in your HTML file.
Enjoy !!
Internet, Programming
I came across a few instances where people complained that they were unable to access Internet any more. There can be many reasons for that varying from hardware failure to some problem in settings.
One of the very common reason that I have seen in recent times is if you are using some Security program like Norton Internet Security that has some firewall which prevents a program from accessing the internet. Following are the steps for Norton Internet Security:
Start Norton Internet Security.
- In the main window, click Norton Internet Security tab.
- Click Settings.
- Under Web Browsing, click Personal Firewall and then click Configure.
- In the left side of Norton Internet Security Options window, click Personal Firewall and then click Program Control.
- In the Program Column, select the specific program (Internet Explorer or any other browser that you use).
- Change the Access from Block or Custom to Allow.
- Click OK.
This should enable the internet access for you. For other programs, visit the following website to learn more:
Firewall Blocking Internet
Internet
Problem: You turned your laptop on and connected the network cable but the system is not connecting to the network. The network card (NIC) is not there in the device manager either as if it is not installed.
Cause: When turned on with Power cable unplugged (running on battery), the Quickset utility in the newer Dell notebooks disables the network card by default thinking that you are on the go and won’t be connecting to a network cable.
Solution: Open the Quickset utility and select “Internal Network Card Power Management”. The “Internal Network Card Power Management” dialogue box will appear. Select the option “always activate on battery” and then click “Apply” and Restart your laptop.
Hardware, Internet, Utilities
