Use Windows Remote Assistance

Use Windows Remote Assistance

How To Use Windows Remote Assistance?

Windows Remote Assistance is the most safest and easiest way to remote control another PC over the internet. The only bad thing about Windows Remote Assistance is that, you cannot transfer files from your PC to another PC. But many Windows user still don’t know that how to use this feature. So, this is why, we have created this tutorial to tell you the how to use Windows Remote Assistance In Windows PC. Follow the below given steps to get started.

To Send Invitation

• First of all, click on Start button, and type Windows Remote Assistance then click on it.
• After opening the program, you will see a dialogue box with two options.
• To ask for help, then select the first option and if you want to help someone and we will use the second option in the Accept Invitation method.
• So, I am selecting the first option, just to tell you that how it works.
• After that, you will again see two options, the first one, Save this as invitation file. By using this option, you can save a invitation file, that you can send the other user by using e-mail address, to access your computer and help you. And another option, Use Easy Connect, which will gives a special type of code that you can send to the user to help you.
• I would suggest you to select the Use Easy Connect option.
• Then, a new window will open with a special password in it.

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To Accept Invitation

• Like the above steps, it is also very simple to accept a invitation and help other users.
• So, at first, open the Windows Remote Assistant, and now select the second option, Help someone who have invited you.
• Now, after selecting the second option, you will be asked for the two options again. In the first option, you can use the invitation file that the user have sent you in your e-mail or you can use the second option, in which you can use the special password that the user have given you.
• After selecting the appropriate option, then type the password, if you are using the Easy Connect option. Or add the invitation file, if you have selected the first option.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

How to Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com?

What is a Professional Email?

A professional email is the one that has your business name in it. For example support@yourdomain.com is a professional email rather having yourdomain@yahoo.com. There are many ways you can setup a professional email. You can use the built-in mail server that comes with most WordPress web hosting providers. But that does not nearly match up to the features you get with Gmail.

Step by Step Guide to Setting up Outlook.com on a Custom Domain Name

In order to use Outlook on your own custom domain, you need to configure your domain’s MX and TXT Records. MX records tell domain name servers that you are using Microsoft mail servers, and TXT records will be used to verify your ownership of the domain.

Step 1: Signing up for a Custom Domain Mail Service

Go to Windows Live Admin Center and click on Get Started to start setting up your domain on Outlook.com.

Enter your domain name on the next page:

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

The next screen will give you a choice to either use an existing Microsoft account to administer this domain or create a new Microsoft account on your own domain name, e.g. yourname@yourdomain.com. Make sure that you give an active email address as Microsoft will send a verification email to verify your ownership of the email address.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

If you opted to use an existing Microsoft account then you will be asked to sign in, otherwise you will have to fill a form to set up a new account on your custom domain. Once you fill out the form, you will receive a verification email at the email address you provided. Click the link in the email to verify your ownership of the email account.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

The next page will ask you to confirm your request and accept Microsoft’s terms of service. Once you accept, you have finished the first step of setting up an administrator email account to manage your domain on Outlook.com

Step 2: Setting up DNS MX Records to use Outlook.com

After the registration, you will reach Windows Live Admin Center’s domain control page and it will be showing MX and TXT record strings which you need to add to your DNS settings.

Many WordPress hosting providers use c panel for account management. It is likely that your web host may be using a different control panel with a slightly different interface. Don’t worry just look around for Domain Settings page, and you will find a link to edit the DNS settings or enter MX records. If you can’t find DNS or MX records settings in your control panel, then ask your web host. In this tutorial we will be using cpanel to demonstrate how to add MX records.

Log in to c-panel and click on MX Entry icon under Mail:

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

Select a domain name:

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

After this you need to select email routing method. Choose “Automatically detect configuration”.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

Add the MX record string provided by Outlook.com. Leave priority as it is and add the record in the Destination field.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

To protect email originating from your domain and landing into junk or spam, you need to configure sender ID by adding a TXT record with this value:

v=spf1 include:hotmail.com ~all

If you want users to use mail.yourdomain.com to sign in for email address, then you can create a CNAME record in your domain’s custom DNS settings or in cpanel’s Simple DNS Editor. Enter Mail in the Name field, and enter subdomain in CNAME field, e.g. mail.example.com.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

You will have to wait for DNS settings to propagate which can take 30 minutes to 48 hours. You can refresh Windows Live Admin center’s domain settings page to see when the changes are live and ready.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

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Step 3: Creating Custom Domain Name Email Accounts

Go to Windows Live Admin Center and click on your active domain. On the left sidebar you will find options to manage accounts on your domain. You can choose Open Membership, so that people on your site can signup for an email account with your domain name. The other option is where you manually create email accounts for your staff, family members, friends or community members. You have the power to suspend or delete any email account on your domain at any time.

Setup a Professional Branded Email Address with Outlook.com

Reduce Your Blog/Website Loading Time

Reduce Your Blog/Website Loading Time

How To Check Speed Of Your Blog?

There are many tools to check the speed of the blog or website but Google Speed Test Tool is the best tool which I recommend to all bloggers.

• Go To Google Speed Test Tool.
• Enter the website url and check the speed.
• We scored 90 out of 100 which I feel is not a great score,we are still working on improving the speed of our blog.If you scored anywhere between 80 to 90 then you should take this seriously and work cutting down the extra scripts,images,flashes etc.

Tips To Reduce The Blog Loading Time: 

1.Compress Images before you Upload:

This is the one of the most important factor when coming to blog loading time.Most of the newbies upload the images without compressing them thereby loosing a great way to reduce the blog loading time.Wordpress users can straight away use plugins like Smushit to compress images as soon as they upload image to text editor.Blogspot users have to use a third party service to compress images before uploading them.I personally recommend you to use Yahoo Smushit and Puny Pny.

2.Resize and Give Proper Dimensions to Images:

After you finish selecting images for the post that you are going to publish ,you have to properly resize the image.Use Cropp.me to resize images online.Give proper dimensions to fit images in the body of the post.

3.Avoid Too Many Javascripts/Flashes/Plugins:

Remove unwanted Java scripts,Flashes and Plugins.More the number of Javascripts and Plugins more will be the blog loading time.In case of wordpress users prefer manual coding than using ready made plugins as the plugins will increase your blog loading time.

4.Decrease The Number Of Social Share Buttons:

Now again these social sharing buttons are javascripts hosted by third party servers ,so it takes some time to load thereby increasing your blog loading time.Reduce the usage of social sharing buttons on blog.If your major traffic comes from search engines then use very less social sharing buttons.

5.Don’t Use Image Background:

Few people use image background for their blogs.If you are one of them then kindly remove the image and keep a simple background.A background Image repeats itself horizontally and vertically which is responsible for 50% slow load time. Just remove the background image and feel the difference. To remove a background image simply find this CSS code inside your template.

6.Show Not More Than 5 Posts Per Page:

More the number of posts per page more the time taken for loading.Don’t use too many or too less posts per page.5 posts per page will give a good user experience.

7.Reduce Advertisements:

Advertisement banners are coded with Javascripts which reduces the loading time of the blog.Use only reliable Advertising networks like Google Adsense, Infolinks, Buy Sell Ads etc.Few networks like Adbrite,Technorati Media have a good payout but effects blog loading time a lot.Try to place ads below the fold to increase blog loading time.

8.Avoid Linking To Blog Directories:

Linking to blog directories not only reduces the loading time of blog but also Google will penalise such blogs with links in the footer(Google Penguin and Panda).

9.Reduce External Linking:

External linking especially using banner images or scripts provided by third party services increases the blog loading time.Always host the images on your own server.Blogspot users create a static page to upload images to use on your blog.

10.Wordpress Users Use WP Super Cache Plugin:

WP super cache wordpress plugin is one such plugin which helps you optimizing your database by generating static HTML pages.This way when any page is requested from your blog, static page will be served instead of processing all PHP scripts thereby reducing the blog loading time.

Source : Techiego.com

 

Google Dashboard shows you every device accessing your account

Google Dashboard shows you every device accessing your account

Email hacking is a problem that won't be going away anytime soon. But if you're diligent and take the proper precautions, you can significantly minimise the chances someone bad will be able to get into your account. Google wants to help too. The company has a new tool that lets you easily check when and where your account has been accessed over the last month to make sure nothing unusual is happening.

The Devices and Activity Dashboard lists what devices are connected to your Google Account, along with when and where they've been accessed. The list stays up to date for the past 28 days. If a new device recently began accessing your account, "New" is stationed in all caps next to the product listing. The device you're currently using with your Google account is listed at the top.

If you notice something suspicious, like a new Mac accessing your account when you only own PCs, you can click "Secure your account" to change your password, update your recovery information, check app passwords and account permissions, or check your two-step verification settings. (If you don't have two-step verification set up, now is a very good time to do so.)

In Gmail, you can also check recent account activity the old fashioned way. At the bottom right of your inbox or any open email, beneath "Last account activity" you can click "Details" to see when and where your account has been accessed. There, you can also sign out other active sessions besides the one you're currently using.

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Send money through Facebook

Send money through Facebook

Facebook's Messenger app will soon let you send your friends money, the latest in a crowded field of services aimed at an increasingly wireless and cashless generation.

Services including PayPal, its Venmo unit and the disappearing-photo app Snap chat let you beam money to friends and family using smartphones linked to bank accounts or credit cards.

Facebook's entry, announced on March 17, is free, works with debit cards and is available on Apple and Android mobile devices and on desktop computers.

The world's largest social network will process the payments and emphasized the service's security features.

Facebook will likely expand internationally after the service becomes available to US users over the coming months.

To send money, Messenger users can tap a new "$" icon that's next to the buttons that let you send photos, stickers or a thumbs up sign. Then, enter the amount you want to send, tap "pay" on the top right corner and enter your debit card number. To receive money for the first time, enter the card number.

Once you add your card number, you can create a pin code that you will need to enter the next time you want to send money. On Apple devices that have Touch ID, you can enable this instead and authorize transactions using your fingerprint.

To help allay concerns about security, Facebook noted that it handles more than a million payments transactions on its site every day for its advertisers and game players.

Blog different from a Regular website

Blog different from a Regular website

How is a Blog different from a Regular website ?

Many people are confused about the difference between a blog and a website. There isn’t any difference, a blog resides on a website. A business website includes their aim or mission, their contact details, information about products or services. This information isn't updated very often and this is what we call a website is. A company might have a blog on the website that talks about the latest news, job openings, special events or other items of interest. This part of the site might be updated daily or weekly, though it’s a blog, it’s part of the rest of the website.

• A blog is a way to publish to the Internet frequently like sending an email. But a website require technical skills.
• A blog is updated frequently, with chronologically-ordered, dated posts.  A website is frequently static information, and the order and sequence depends on the purpose of the site.
• A blog is written in a personal voice A website's text has the whole teams in the marketing department analyzing every word and link on the home page altogether technical.
• A blog allows the audience to interact - so they can post comments to your individual posts, and link from their blog to your posts.  This allows a conversation to occur between the writer and the audience.
• With a blog the content is distributed much more broadly than on a website.  In a blog, the content is separate from the formatting it means it decouples the “content from the “presentation”. A blog is encapsulated in its own message envelope (extension of XML called RSS “Really Simple Syndication”) that can be read by other sites on the Internet.  When I publish something on Internet using a tool that supports RSS, and anyone searching for the related article can automatically receive my release on their site.
• In a website the content and presentation would be coded all together. A website requires Google promotion which will take...2-3 weeks to come on top!  On a blog, it's a few minutes.
• You tend to get better search engine results with a blog because of “content syndication, frequent posts, linking from other sites” which the Google's algorithm require for better listings.
• You can keep up with hundreds of blogs much more efficiently than hundreds of websites.  Because of the RSS feature, you can monitor many blogs by syndicating them, and automatically receive updates whenever their website changes on your PC.

WhatsApp Voice Calling

WhatsApp Voice Calling

How to enable WhatsApp Voice Calling ?

One of the big new features that WhatsApp has been working on lately is voice calling (VoIP), similar to Skype, Viber, and several other major players in the game. Both the iOS and Android apps are currently in a transitional period, at the end of which, they’ll each support free VoIP calls, but with Android version slightly ahead of its iOS counterpart in terms of development progress, Droid users can now enable the new feature in just a couple of easy steps. Below, we've got the full details in a how-to tutorial.

VoIP (voice over IP) hasn't been officially rolled out to the masses on Whats App for Android, but it is buried within the very latest build, and if you’d like to check it out then the steps are below.

Before you dive in, there are a couple of things to consider. First and foremost, since WhatsApp hasn't officially offered this out to everyone, it could, and probably will, have its fair share of bugs and imperfections. As VoIP is made available to all WhatsApp users, it’ll surely improve, but at this stage, don’t rely on it.

Also, as we have heard from beta testers, call quality is apparently not the best, so again, it’s not a service that you’ll want to rely on right now. Some early users have reported grainy coverage, but with time, things should get better.

Before you start, you will also require the assistance of another Whats App user.

So, with that out if the way, here’s what you need to do:

Step 1: Grab the latest version of Whats App for Android (2.11.561) from the Play Store.

Whats App Voice Calling

Step 2: Ask a user who has the feature call you through Whats App. You might have to ask friends of friends or associates, but as it spreads, more and more people will be able to get in on the act.

WhatsApp Voice Calling

Step 3: After receiving your call, shut Whats App down and then re-open it.

Step 4: Check out the new tab for calls. From here, you can call your buddies over VoIP, and the more people you call, the more it will spread.

WhatsApp Voice Calling

How to enable WhatsApp voice calls (with root):

In case none of this is still working for you, there is another way for rooted users to force the feature onto their phones, but it is a bit of a pain, as you’ll need to be connected to your PC and open a terminal every time you want to Whats App call someone (until it is enabled permanently for you).

Just open a terminal emulator and enter the following command:

su -c am start -n com.whatsapp/com.whatsapp.HomeActivity

Enable Whats App voice calls (with root