Category Archives: Tech

GizmoCall Free VoIP Calls to Mobiles and Landlines Worldwide

GizmoCall allows free Internet calls to landlines and mobiles worldwide up to 5 minutes daily without subscription. Finally a great Jajah competitor;
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TruPhone Free VoIP Calls With Your Mobile

TruPhone is a killer VoIP application for you mobile phone which route your calls via the internet using the wi-fi connection instead using GPRS network. Continue reading

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How To Delete Chats And History Of A Single Skype Contact

Besides VoIP calls, Skype offers an instant messaging system among the contacts through a chat channel.

Due to privacy issues, however, it is possible to unable the recording of Skype talks via chat or to limit memory time for three months, one month, two weeks in your PC, or even Continue reading

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URL rewriting and search engine optimization

Most dynamic portal search engines have a problem with dynamic pages indexing due to complex structured URL.

For example, a dynamic address such as page.php?cat=news&cod=5 is much more difficult to index than a static one such as page.html. More than a strict rule, it is a moment of confusion spiders tend to experience when in a page address a character like ‘&’, ‘?’ or ‘=’ is found.

Therefore, pages with a normal address are indexed more and more often than dynamic ones. In order to get round this inconvenience, there is a technique called “url rewriting”, that is getting the server to “rewrite” dynamic addresses as “static”. Continue reading

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Phishing, how to avoid cheats and credit card frauds

Phishing does not happen when user clicks on the suggested link, but only when he/she enters personal data in the link destination page. It’s therefore sufficient to check with attention the page address in order to understand whether we are dealing with phishing or not (even if, for non-expert users, it would be better never to click on links of unclear nature). Continue reading

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PPLive: Free Movies In Streaming

One of most popular programmes to watch TV via internet is a chinese software called PPLive, at present available only for Windows, whose 2.2.23 version has been recently released Continue reading

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DSL Speed Test: How To Estimate Your Real Download Speed

I wanted to test my ADSL connection speed just for idle curiosity first and second to verify if I’m paying the right amount of money for all services on this line. As I am convinced that the experience is a good guideline for everyone, here you have a list of things you can do to test your home line speed. Continue reading

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DSL: How To Calculate Your Download Speed

How can you calculate an ADSL or xDSL line download speed when you only know the provider speed and the available minimum guaranteed band?

Many are DSL operators inefficiencies, and sometimes you just need a little bit more knowledge to avoid any useless stress. Here you can get some further information in order to verify whether your ADSL is really a slow one or you just made a possible wrong estimation. Continue reading

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Wireless DSL: How To Protect Your Wifi Connection

I personally think that sharing with other people one’s knowledge and resources is a good thing. In fact, projects like FON (organized wireless connection sharing) attract me, by the way I am aware that many families have a wifi ADSL router without the least idea of how easy it is for unknown people to connect to it at these families expenses. Continue reading

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Wireless DSL: Top 10 Tricks To Limit Wifi Speed Loss

Internet home and office wifi connections are very useful but few ones know that they can produce a serious speed loss. But when using Ethernet cable this never happens. Speed loss can be remarkable in case of ADSL2+ connections, which can even reach 20Mbps! Continue reading

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