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99 tips to make you more secure and productive
July 27, 2008, 5:04 am
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When people read out a phone number, they use “phone rhythm.” No one has to explain “phone rhythm,” we all just seem to do it automatically, “…713…555…12…34″. Similarly, when we answer a phone call we all say, “Hello.” No one taught us to do that, but somehow we all seemed to pick it up.


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So why is it that when it comes to emails, there are no accepted standards? Even though 6 billion emails are sent every day, almost no one agrees about simple things like email etiquette, how to organize a note, or whether emails are considered private or not.

The 99 tips in this article make up the best in email practices. From how to ethically use the ‘BCC:’ to what attachments will make your mobile emailing compatible with everyone else’s, this list covers everything you need to know about emailing.

Etiquette
We’re all guilty of bad manners once in a while, but when it comes to emailing, some people are downright clueless.

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Don’t send private messages with the company account. If you want to send personal messages from work (and you should probably try to minimize this), use a freebie account like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, or Excite, if your office permits it. The content of your emails is less visible to employers through these accounts, so the private messages you send will stay private.
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Use BCC if necessary. If you must send a group email to people who do not know each other, don’t add their addresses to the form’s CC field; this is one method spammers use to harvest email addresses. Instead, use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for their addresses, and put your own email in the form’s “to” field.


Speed Up Internet Connection
July 27, 2008, 4:52 am
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Need to increase your Internet connection speed/ There are a number of tweaks out there that will enable you to maximize your system’s performance and likewise, there are lots of things you can do to tweak your Internet connection to boost Internet speed. There are tons of them out there, but this article just lays out two of the most useful ones.

Tweak 1: Un-reserving bandwidth

By Default, XP reserves 20% of your bandwidth for it’s own use. This is a crying shame and should be undone immediately. To do this, you will not require any additional software, just follow the steps below.

  1. Access the Group Policy Editor. This can be done by typing gpedit.msc in the Run box (Start, and then Run). You will now be looking at something like this.

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Speedup Internet Explorer 7 by Increasing the Connections Limit
July 27, 2008, 4:48 am
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Want to speedup Windows Vista? Check out my guide on how to Speedup Windows Vista without Losing Functionality for more tips on speeding up Windows Vista.

What Are Connections?

When you connect to a website your computer establishes connections with the web server(s).  One connection might be a graphics server, another connection may be an ad server and so on.  Once the connection has received what it asked for it is disconnected and used for something else.

By default IE7 is set to only be able to open 2 or 4 connections at a time.  If you have broadband and you use tabs in IE7 or you visit sites that use lots of connections this tweak will increase the speed of IE7 a little.

You might be wondering “Why don’t they just set IE7 to use 16 connections by default instead of 2?”  If everyone who uses IE would use 16 connections it would slow down the internet.  The low number of connections set by default is like a throttle being held back so the internet doesn’t slow down and to keep web servers from getting bogged down from many connections by only a few users.

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How-to Create a Windows Vista IIS7 MySQL PHP Web Server
July 27, 2008, 4:47 am
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Introduction

This guide shows you how to create a Windows Vista powered web server using IIS7, MySQL, and PHP (WIMP). I know, I know, a WIMP server doesn’t sound too appealing. Trust me, this server is far from a wimp and will blow your socks off if you provide the right hardware.

Note: This is a generic WIMP server that’s capable of running WordPress, PHPbb, and other popular PHP and MySQL powered web sites. You might have to change a few things to get your WIMP server running just right depending on your usage.

The Limitations

Before you go too far you need to know that IIS7 running on Windows Vista is full featured with a few limitations.

Before you right this type of server off because it’s limited you need to realize if you ever reach one of the limitations you’ll have so much traffic you could probably buy an actual server with one day’s pay from the web site.

The Limitations

  • Request Execution Limit: IIS7 running on Windows Vista Basic, Starter, Home, and Home Premium have a Request Execution Limit of 3. Vista Ultimate is limited to 10. Request Execution Limit is how many simultaneous pages the web server can give out at one time. That means Vista Basic, Starter, and Home editions can serve up to 259,200 pages per day and Ultimate can serve up to 864,000 pages per day!
  • FTP: FTP is very limited. You can only download files as anonymous. No uploading via FTP to your web server. If this is a problem, check out the FileZilla FTP Server.
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Three ways on how to make your computer run faster
July 27, 2008, 4:39 am
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In this computer how to guide I will you the three most important things to make your computer run faster. If you these 3 really simple instructions your computer will strengthen its performance.

Using MSCONFIG To Toggle Off Start Up Applications

Using MSCONFIG will authorize you to close all applications that are loading up when you start up your pc. Most of applications take it upon themselves to believe that they need to be taking up space in the background even when they are not being taking advantage of. we might need to running such as our anti viruses, but a many of them we don’t really need. A great example is MSN Messenger. When you download and use this app, it will automatically use up RAM when you start your computer, you don’t have to have that.. I will show you now how to get rid of pesky programs at boot up time to make a computer run faster.

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