It has been commonly observed that user accounts are easily compromised through phishing schemes, trojans and spywares. As a starting point, the following steps are recommended:-

• Avoid sharing your username, password and personal information secret and better chane your password regularly. Use a password combination (with a minimum password length of atleast 8 characters) with an uppercase, lowercase, a digit and some special characters making it much harder for someone to guess your password.
• Never paste a URL or a javascript when logged into orkut regardless of what it claims to do. Never click on links in emails that claims to be from Gmail or Orkut.
• Don’t enter your Google Account username and password on sites other than orkut.com and other Google networks sites.
• Sign out when you are done: Don’t forget to click the Logout link at the top of the page when you’re done with using orkut. This should be strictly followed when using a orkut from a shared computer.

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If we are honest, many of us love shopping. For many it could be the grocery store, it could be the clothing store, or it could even be online. Where ever it is, it often hurts our budgets and makes it easy to spend more then we have. We can increase our standard of living by curbing our spending and saving our money. This way we are careful to buy only what we really need or really want and we save tons of clutter space in out house.

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Here are some of my favorite tips and tricks for Word 97/2000/2002(Office XP)/2003, organized into three sections: The basics, Advanced tips, and Things you don’t have to do.

1. Learn to use Undo – Make a mistake? Press [Ctrl]Z or choose Undo from the Edit menu right away. Keep pressing [Ctrl]Z to backtrack through and undo the most recent editing changes you’ve made.

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There has been many occations when i had wished i could recover deleted data from Pen drives, but found it impossible due to lack of tools. Recently i chanced upon a few softwares which is quite handy when it comes to recovering deleted data from pen drives.

Quick Recovery for Pen Drive

This tool is one of the best rated data recovery softwares currently available in the market to recover deleted data files from a pen drive. It does the data recovery in 3 steps:

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Here’s a collection of free top 20 Xp Themes.

Download Top 20 Xp Themes

This is similar to the function performed by Google toolbar wherein you search for a topic, navigate to a matching page and clicking on the google toolbar highlight button adds a yellow highlight to all the instances of the search text that appear in the page.

Similarly in Word 2007 a feature called Reading Highlight does almost the same. Here’s how you use it:

1. Select Home -> Find to display the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Type the text you want to highlight in the Find What text box.
3. Click Reading Highlight and then click Highlight All. Word applies a highlight to every instance of the text in the document and tells you the number of items it highlighted.
4. To clear the highlights, click Reading Highlight and then click Clear Highlighting.

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This application converts the .flv files from YouTube to MPEG4 format so that they can be pplayed on an IPod. But before this conversion you need to get the .flv file downloaded from YouTube. The converted MPEG4 files would run on an IPod, Sony PSP device and Mobile Phone. You can also rip the Audio alone in MP3 Quality format.

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There are times when you want to browse the internet in a stealth mode without leaving any traces behind. Firefox has an extension ‘Stealther” which does this for you. It conveniently takes care of the following taks for you to leave your computer invisible on the web. First it temporarily disables the following:-

- Browsing History (also in Address bar)
- Cookies
- Downloaded Files History
- Disk Cache
- Saved Form Information
- Sending of ReferrerHeader
- Recently Closed Tabs list