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Avoid Facebook Account Hijacking In 4 Steps

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Facebook is a well known social networking site used by you, me and millions of other people in world to remain connected with friends and family. Most of you use Facebook regularly. Some of you might got addicted to Facebook. But ask yourself, Is your Facebook account is really safe from hijacking? What all methods you have implemented to make it secure?

If you are not having answer for any of above question then you should must follow following steps to prevent your Facebook account from getting hijacked.

Step 1: Change Your Password

Change Password

This is most important. If you are using current password from a long time then you should change it as early as possible. You can navigate to Account Settings > General to change your password. Try to update your password monthly, it is a good habit. This will prevent most of unauthorized access to your account.

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HTML5 Prefetching Api

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One common effort done by browser as well as developer is making the browsing experience faster by any means. To achieve this there are several known techniques such as Using CDN (Content Delivery Network), using minified Java Scripts and CSS, using image sprites and even by setting file header for longer caching in .htaccess and so on. There are still thousands of ways, in fact many of them are still unknown. One of all those unknown way is ‘Link Prefetching’.

What is link prefetching?

According to MDN:

Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser’s cache.

That simply means, ask user browser to download next page which user will visit likely after the current page. With this prefetching API you can prefetch content to <link> tag which may be a document, image etc.

How to implement it?

Implementing prefetching API is simple. Just you have to mention rel=”prefetch” or rel=”next” in <link> tag as follow

<!-- full page -->
<link rel="prefetch" href="https://ankurm.com/lab/blog/api/using-localhost-for-facebook-app-development/1091/" />

<!-- An image -->
<link rel="prefetch" href="https://ankurm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/logo.png" />

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How To Completely Uninstall Any Antivirus

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Uninstalling any program from computer is quite simple task. Go to control panel, select add or remove program (or program and features), scroll the list, select desired program and click on uninstall. Sounds simple? Yup. But in case of antivirus, it is not. Sometimes antivirus software blocks itself from removal. On other hand even if you remove antivirus with help of uninstall option from control panel, still some traces are left behind in your PC.  These small traces of previous un-installed antivirus software may create some problems. It may happen that you are installing a brand new antivirus program on your PC and you may run into an error, “You are already having antivirus software installed on your PC”. Sometimes your brand new antivirus may fail during its installation resulting into insecurity of your system. Sometimes your brand new antivirus may get installed successfully but it may throw several error while its operations. To avoid such issues you have to manually clean up your old antivirus software from your machine. So here is how to do that.

As you know there are several companies like Microsoft, Avast, Bitdefender, McAfee, F-Secure offer antivirus software. But the thing is that un-installation procedure is not same for any of them. Each company provides a separate un-installation tool for completely removing their antivirus software from your PC. Here we have listed some of them with their procedures and tool.

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How to add Gmail and Yahoo accounts in Windows 8 Mail

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Windows 8 mail app has new sleek, modern look. It includes a nice, clean, eye catchy design and functionality. If you are Windows live user then your mail will be shown up in your mail app as soon as you sign in to Windows 8 with your Microsoft account. This mail app also works with Gmail and Yahoo accounts. Here is how you can set up Gmail and Yahoo account in Windows 8 mail app.

Step 1: Log in to your Windows 8 mail app with Microsoft account. If you are not having Microsoft account then sign up for it. No need to get a new email ID, you can use your existing one.

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Using Office Web Apps Viewer To View Documents

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Microsoft Office is a best and world known software suit. It is used by millions of people and organizations all over the world. It provides ability to create everything ranging from document, spreadsheets to very complex databases. Hence in most of cases the information in any organization is stored in office documents. If you requested any information say a letter or a balance sheet or purchase history, in most of the cases, the representative from that organization will mail you an office file which is of type document (doc or docx) or a spreadsheet (xls or xlsx).

Now if you are Windows Live (hotmail) user then you will not face any problem with those office file. Windows live comes with built in functionality to open and edit office docs online. If you are Gmail user, then also you will not face much problems, you can open it with Google Docs Viewer but sometime it may happen that the office document may lose is formatting in Google Docs. Anyways there is a desktop application from Microsoft named as Office Viewer. This is a free application to open office files in read only mode and can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Site. There is a web version of this office viewer dubbed as Office web app viewer. This office web app viewer is part of Skydrive and hence it is accessible to all of Windows live users.

Office Word Web App
Office Word Web App

If you are a windows live user then you can sign in to your live account and can open any document from your mail directly in office web app viewer. Additionally you can create, edit any office document with your Skydrive and office web apps.

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9 Best Sites For Diwali Greetings, SMS, E-Cards And More

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Diwali is a few days ahead and still you are not prepared a greeting card or sms to wish ‘Happy Diwali’ to your family, relatives, friends? Don’t worry, here is a list of site, where you can find greetings, e-cards, sms. Each of the site have a varieties of cards and sms, choose best from that collection and send it to your loved ones. By the way, “Happy Diwali To You And Your Family“.

1. www.123greetings.com

123Greetings.com

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Redirecting www To non-www And Vice Versa

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Every domain and sub domain can be accessed with two different url. Say you have a website example.com. Then it can be accessed by using urls example.com and www.example.com. This is true in case of sub domains also. Say if you are having a website as blog.example.com then that website can be accessed by two urls, blog.expmle.com and www.blog.example.com. Even though there are two urls, the content on the both url will be same. According to user point of view, having two different urls for same content will not matter much. But according to SEO point of view, having same content on two different urls is a big problem for your website.

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