Being online while travelling

NetBook/ Tablet PC’s
Netbooks, such as Sony Vaio pocket PC is the best way to bring your laptop with you. Being smaller in size, they are easier to carry and handle while travelling. Though some of the Netbooks appear costly, the savings that it provides in carriage and handling makes it worth it.
These are best suitable for travellers who need to check their emails and use the internet. However they are not suitable to run big number crunching programs. If you want to buy a Netbook Check out Netbooks comparion article on Wikipedia and over at Laptopmatrix..

Safe internet search for kids

Ask for kids is a specifically designed search engines for kids which blocks content considered inappropriate for children. Unlike safe search option on other major search providers, AskKids blocks any result whose search string contains words considered inappropriate for children.

Audit your PC using auditmypc

Have you wondered as to how that Damn! virus that caused your PC to crash came in. Probably you visited some website that shipped virus to your PC through the open ports. Well you would say that your firewall is turned on. Well are you sure that all the open ports known to be used by Viruses and Trojans are closed. AuditMyPC is a free web based tool that will scan your PC for open ports and let you know if you have inadvertently left any ports open. Its a very good tool for a novice and the steps may seem too filled with IT jargon but just ignore the jargons read the English part and you should be able to do a quick test. Here is the result of a test which showed some gaping loop holes in our systems



Another good free tool is the Anonymous Surfing test which will be useful if you want to check how anonymous your surfing is, They have a lot of tools such as proxo, that will let you surf anonymously, but if you really need to hide everything, then use a proxy server.

Setting And Achieving Goals The SMARTER Way

You want to achieve a lot in life. You have planned a grand scheme of things. Well have you planned it to be achievable? Setting objectives is the easy part meeting it is a little tougher. The tougher part can be made a lot easy if you plan SMARTER goals and objectives.

Create Sub-domains for Custom Domains on blogger

Most people love publishing on Wordpress and go for custom hosting but folks like me prefer to host their blogs on Google's servers just because you need not worry about maintenance and instead spend time where you are supposed to - Blogging! Now with blogger giving the option of custom domains, its pretty much easy for bloggers to switch over from their Blogspot domains to the custom domains. However one of the much underutilized option with this approach is the option to create sub-domains. Creating Subdomains in blogger is very easy and useful.
Steps:
1) Create a new blog using the conventional approach in blogger. Click create a blog as shown in picture