How To SETUP & USE Google Public DNS

You might have heard about the open dns service which gave more security and more speed while browsing the web. Now Google too has come up with their new Google Public DNS. This service gives you more speed while browsing and also protects you from DNS spoofing attacks and from various other security threats. This one too look promising like the open dns.



If you don't under stand what's the use of it then just take a look at this.

As web pages become more complex and include more resources from multiple origin domains, clients need to perform multiple DNS lookups to render a single page. The average Internet user performs hundreds of DNS lookups each day, slowing down his or her browsing experience. As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure.DNS lookups can become a significant bottleneck in the browsing experience. Whenever a client needs to query a DNS resolver over the network, the latency introduced can be significant, depending on the proximity and number of nameservers the resolver has to query (more than 2 is rare, but it can happen).

How to Change DNS Server to Google Public DNS in Windows XP, Vista and 7

• Go the Control Panel.Click Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center, then Manage network connections.


• Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example: To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties.


• To change the settings for a wireless connection, right-click Wireless Network Connection, and click Properties.


• If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.


• Select the Networking tab. Under This connection uses the following items, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) (In Windows Vista and 7), and then click Properties.
Xp users just need to take the Open Internet Protocol TCP/IP Settings.

• Click Advanced and select the DNS tab. Select Use the following DNS server addresses.
  Replace those addresses with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
  Restart the connection you selected in step 3.

Setting Google Public DNS in Mac OSX

• From the Apple menu, click System Preferences, then click Network. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.


• Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example:
  To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, select Built-In Ethernet, and click Advanced.


• To change the settings for a wireless connection, select Airport, and click Advanced. Select the DNS tab.


• Click + to replace any listed addresses with, or add, the Google IP addresses at the top of the list: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Click Apply and OK.

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Google Chrome OS Review : 7 Different things that make the New OS Unique

Finally Search Giant has released the much hyped Google Chrome OS Source Code. Developers all over the world can dive into them to come up with more programs and ideas on improving it. According to Google their new operating system is far different from any other operating system available till now. The Chrome OS team has released a short 3 minute video which briefly explains how exactly it is different from the other operating systems. Here is a brief review of the google's New Operating system.


Here are

7 different things that make the Google OS Unique

The Browser Itself is the Interface :If you have used the Google Chrome browser before, you wont feel anything new when you first take a glimpse on the new operating system this is because the browser is the primary interface of the operating system. Unlike Windows, Mac and Linux you don't have a separate desktop, file explorer etc for Chrome OS. However you can open up multiple windows some thing like multiple desktops and switch between them is some what similar to the windows 7's Alt+Tab feature with the live preview.



Designed For Security: One of the main problem's faced by the computer users today, are the viruses, spywares etc. You need an antivirus software in operating systems like windows but in chrome os you dont need such a thing because the OS is designed for security. Each and Evey application you run are put in "security sandboxes" which is designed to resist viruses and malwares. Moreover the Chrome OS is intelligent enough to verify its own code and reboots the system and fix by itself, if it finds any issues with it.
The Operating system will be always upto date. It wont give you a choice to turn on/off automatic updates. The OS automatically updates itself when required.

Google Chrome OS Demo Video

Data Storage is in the Cloud: What ever you save in your Chrome Os is synced with the clouds. the advantage is that you can have your home pc any where any time. There wont be problems like backing up data, migrating user details etc. You will have every things as such as soon as you sync up your new pc. All of your data is secure and encrypted.



Forget the Slow BootUps: This is one are where most of the operating systems lags behind. When you want to quickly work with your pc you need to wait up for at least 30 seconds or more to start working with. Google has seriously take care of this issue and its is known that the Google Chrome Os can boot up blazing fast. They are so obsessed with it that they're asking the hardware manufacturers to use specific materials just for speeding things up.

Every Thing is the Web and No App Installations: This is some thing that can make many people hate it. There wont be any software installations like in the other operating systems. There wont be any Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Adobe AIR. Instead every thing will be web apps. However there will be support for plugin/extensions support like in the Chrome Browser.



Chrome OS is Free to Use (Open Source): Like the linux operating systems chrome os will be open source. People are free to modify the code to suit their requirements and for now they can contribute the submissions back to the project.

No More Driver Supports: According to Google the new os is going to support only specific platforms. No more moving parts will be used. That means it wont run on regular PC's with physical hard drives, it needs SSDs. There will be specific requirements like screen sizes, full sized keyboards, above average touchpads etc.

According to Google the new Os is expected to ship in about a year. The Google Chrome Os will be great for Netbooks but not for the desktops.

So, What Do You Think about the New Chrome OS? Show Off Your reactions though comments.

How To Find Similar Images with Certain Colors

There can be many reasons for you to search for images in google. It wont be hard to find the desired images these days, as google has a plenty of search filters that will narrow down your search to pin point to right the image. Searching images will be a lot more easier if you can find similar images having a particular color. Lets see how you can do that by making a small tweaking in the google url.

The Search Options/ Search Filters aren't displayed directly in the user interface of the search page. So here is how.

Suppose you want to search for fruits and you have made a search for the term You like to have the images of red colored fruits like cherry, strawberry etc. So, Instead of thinking what are red fruits are there and searching them separately one by one, just add &imgcolor=red to the end of the url in the address bar of your browser so that it looks like this http://images.google.com/images?q=fruits&imgcolor=red and press [Enter].



You can replace red with with "blue", "green", "orange", "purple", "yellow", "white", "teal", "gray", "pink", "black" and "brown" as per your needs.

Go ahead and quickly find the images you want.

Find Invisible Users in GTalk - The Simplest Way

Google Talk or Gtalk is among the most used instant messengers or IM's in the world. People use gtalk for many reasons. Google has added the invisible mode feature to gtalk recently and it help us to be away from distractions and we can choose the people to whom we want to talk to. This is really a useful feature, but when we need to tell some thing that is so important (assuming he might not check the emails frequently) to our friend who is online, it becomes a problem. He might be available online but will be staying invisible to us. So here is how you can check whether a user is invisible on gtalk.

There is an easy way in gtalk itself that can be used to check whether a user is invisible.

1. First tick the option chat off the record.
   In gmail's inbuilt chat feature, Click the down arrow at the top-right corner of the chat window and choose Go off the record.
   
   
   You will see a message saying You are now off the record after that.
   I gtalk go to Settings > chat, and tick, don’t save my chat history in my gmail account.
   Note : This should be done when he/she is online.



2. 
   When ever you need to check whether this user is offline or invisible, just send him/her a message.
   
   If the user is offline (not online). Then you will receive a message in red colour saying
   did not receive your chat
   .
   But if the user is actually online (invisible) you wont receive this message in red colour, which means that the user has received your chat message.

Now go ahead find out the users who become stay invisible in gtalk.

Change Fonts in Google Adsense Ads (New Feature!!!!) / Use different Fonts in Adsense Ads

Adsense have been experimenting with different types of Fonts in the Google Adsense ads for the last few months. But the users were not allowed to change the fonts and use them as per their wish. Now there google has presented its adsense publishers an option to change the default fonts......

The default Standard Adsense font family will be applied by default. You can customize each ad unit separately or there is an option called Ad Display Preferences (seen under fonts) which allows you to apply one setting to all the ad units you are using in your website.

To change the fonts in Google Adsense ads : Go to Adsense Setup > Manage Ads. Now select the ad unit in which you want to use a different font and save the changes.

Presently Adsense have provided only three type of fonts Arial, Times and Verdana.

Changing the fonts will make the Adsense ads get blend more with your website content.

How to Protect Your Google Adsense Account From (illegal use) and Prevent Getting Banned for Ever / Secure or Protect your Google Adsense Account

Genuine adsense publishers sometimes get banned from adsense due to the reason that they are using their adsense ads on websites that does't comply to Google Adsense Terms and Conditions. But the publishers may not have actually done that. Their adsense code could have been used by somebody for testing purposes or so on some other websites. When google get a report that adsense is used in websites that doen't comply to their terms and conditions they will ban them. This can be avoided by following a very simple step. Here is what you have to do.

Go to Adsense Website.
Login with your user name and Password.
Now go to the Adsense Setup Tab.
Under that go to Allowed Sites.
Type in the website you are using Adsense.
If you use blogspot blog and if you add the adsense widget from it you should also add www.blogger.com in the Allowed Sites List.
That's it.

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How to Get the Google's New Favicon in Firefox search box

Google has updated its old Favicon to the new one but even though it has been changed it is not updates or changed in firefox google search toolbar. You can do some simple step to get the new google icon in Firefox. Here is how to do it.



Get the latest Google search plugin From here .
Now replace the old google plugin with the new one for that Copy the newly downloaded google plugin(Google.xml) to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins and just replace the old one with the new.
Now press Ctrl + Shift + Del in Firefox and tick only the Cache box(you can check others as your wish) and press Clear Private Data Now button.
From now on Firefox will be updated with Google's new Favicon.

Deleting Individual or Specific Search Terms/Items from the Auto Complete list

Automatic completion of text fields is a great help while doing online searches , filling online forms etc. This really help in saving a lot of time making our work faster. But unfortunately it also saves the terms entered incorrectly and every time it appears again and we again selects it by mistake. This creates a hindrance to our work.


So we need to clear out the incorrect or wrongly typed terms.In the browser, you can delete the form data through Delete in the Browser history section of the Internet options, found under "Tools>Internet options" > click " Delete Forms". the problem is that when you does so the entire list will get deleted.

To delete an individual item do as follows.

1. Open a website which has input fields.
2. Now position the cursor in the text field and start typing a term and the browser suggests some entries.
3. Now select the term you want to delete by using the arrow keys and press [Del] button.
4. That's it.
   

Google Chrome v1.0 released

The most waited google chrome 1.0 is released and has come out of the beta version.Today the version 1 have been released by google.

















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Download the Offline installer version now

This version has better stability and offers more speed and security according to google.

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