Of so many Internet Speed Test sites we have tried, none are more consistent than auditmypc.com which determine your true bandwidth on any connection, such as Broadband, Cable, Satellite and DSL Modems. To give you the most accurate results, their internet speed test was based on a research paper by Liang Cheng2 and Ivan Marsic from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The paper explains in detail how to accurately measure Digital Subscriber Line Networks and is used by our speed test.
However, there are times when an internet speed test site gives an unrealistic reading. You can gauge it with the actual feel in your internet browsing. Reconfirm with your Internet Provider speed test site or one near your area.For McAfee Speedometer click here! For Streamyx click here. Common sense always prevail and it is found more often than not the comparison always indicate the lower readings are more realistic.
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Network cards in your computer transmit data at either 10Mbps, 100Mbps or 1000Mbps. This data travels through an Ethernet cable and is received by whatever device it's connected to: another computer, a cable or DSL modem, a router, or whatever. In a nutshell, it's the maximum speed of your LAN (Local Area Network). Keep in mind, that this is NOT the speed of your Internet connection or your WAN (Wide Area Network).
In telecommunications, data transfer is usually measured in bits per second. On Ethernet local area networks, data transfer can be as fast as 10 megabits per second. In computers, data transfer is often measured in bytes per second. For example, when a "1 Mbps" connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable download bandwidth is 1 megabit/s (million bits per second), which is actually 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per second) or 125KB/s/(kilobyte per second).
The data transfer rate is commonly used to measure how fast data is transferred from one location to another. Data transfer rates are typically measured in bits per second (bps) as opposed to bytes per second, which can be understandably confusing. Connect Rate is measured in Kb/s (or Kbs same thing, the s just mean per second), Mb/s, Gb/s etc etc, which is short for Kilobits, Megabits and Gigabits per second etc etc, key thing being connect rate is measured in bits per second. And Connect rate is the rate that you are physically connected to something at. b (little b or lower case) for bit, and big or upper case B for byte, remember that. Now there are 8 bits in 1 byte. (for e.g. 1000 kilobits is 125 kilobytes) So with a connect rate of 1000Kbps your MAX transfer rate is 1000/8 = 125KB/s as expressed in your torrent software. Read More on "What is Data transfer rate?"
Due to lots of variables over a long distance (weather, humidity, line quality, temperature, static, interference, line noise etc[More notoriously the capacity of the Internet Provider is oversubscribed]), the rate your are connected can be less than subscribed rate that you could be connected to at the time of reconnecting.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Internet Speed Test
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Gmail & Images
Gmail is not displaying images.
| Each is an alternative solution on its own. 1) Clicked the "Display images" link at the top of the email? 2) In IE: Go to Internet Options Go to Security Click on the Internet icon Click on the Custom level button Scroll down and near the bottom, look for "Display Mixed Content" Change it to Enable Display video and animation on a webpage that does not use external media player - Enable Next click on "ok" then followed by "Apply" to be done. 3) Right before you open an e-mail which contains pictures, you'll probably get a pop-up message asking if you wish to see only content which is secure - you should answer 'No,' and then you will be able to see the pictures OK. 4) In Gmail click on "Settings" (top right of the page), then "General," then scroll down to "Browser connection." The options there are "Always use https" and "Don't always use https." Choose "Don't always use https", save setting, logout or close browser and log back in with only http in the address bar, and images will display. OR setting to always use https & maually change the URL to http://mail.google.com Gmail default browser settings need to be https. To disable or re-enable this feature in Gmail: 1.Sign in to Gmail. 2.Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page. 3.Set 'Browser Connection' to 'Always use https.' 4.Click Save Changes. 5.Manually change the URL to http://mail.google.com to start accessing Gmail via http. Please note that selecting 'Always use https' will prevent you from accessing Gmail via HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). If you trust the security of your network, you can turn this feature off at any time. 4) Go into Settings Tab within Gmail, under Labs, and ENABLE the Picassa web email option. Don't forget to go to the bottom and SAVE CHANGES or it won't work. Gmail will then reload and you should be able to see images in messages again. 5) Gmail view: standard -click basic HTML at the very bottom of the page 6) This problem can be fixed by configuring your firewall option. You will once more get to see the images in the mail. 7) Try viewing them when Firefox is run in safe-mode... if it works then the problem is one of your installed extensions...or a setting within.. This is only for Firefox safe-mode...Don't check off any of it's safe-mode boxes... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode 8) Norton may be the cause of the blocking of pictures. Do you use the Norton toolbar?... if so, then you might want to uninstall that bar...or disable it to see what happens. |
To use an image you found on the web
| * Click on the image with the right mouse button. * Select View Image from the menu. * Hit Ctrl-A * Hit Ctrl-C * Position the cursor in the Gmail message where you want the image to appear. * Hit Ctrl-V Use an image uploaded to a free image hosting service: Host your images to ImageShack® is an intuitive and easy-to-use free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, as well as to post images on message boards and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images on websites and online auctions. http://imageshack.us/ Register free upload an image copy Embeddable Code from Direct box paste the image's page address on a New Tab Navigation toolbar. * Click on the image with the right mouse button. * Select View Image from the menu. * Hit Ctrl-A * Hit Ctrl-C * Position the cursor in the Gmail message where you want the image to appear. * Hit Ctrl-V Extra: Image for your email address to deter spamming. E-Mail Icon Generator Copy URL below "To display this image elsewhere, use the URL:" Paste in Compose Mail's toolbar of Camera Icon to insert image URL |
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Listen to the best web radio stations without any restrictions
AudialsOne Free
Functions of AudialsOne Free:
Feature description:-
The Radio tab gives you the most comfortable option for listening to Internet radio stations!
You can search for and select over 30,000 Internet radio stations by genre, country of origin and of course by radio station. Create your own list of favorites super easy. Here’s a hint: find your new favorite radio stations that play your favorite artists the most!
Free web videos and music videos straight to your hard drive by using the Web tab!
The freeware lets you record all the videos you have viewed online on YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Clipfish and MyVideo and automatically save those files to your hard drive in the desired file format.
The Web tab also hooks you up with the music from videos for free!
The freeware lets you automatically record the audio track from music videos on YouTube and then save the files as an MP3 song file. All free of charge!
Convert audio files for free with the Converter tab!
The AudialsOne freeware enables you to convert music, podcasts, audiobooks, ringtones, voice recordings and lots of other audio files. The converter has MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, FLAC and WMA pro as source or target formats at its disposal.
Receiving 40 songs for free is part of the demo functions.
The freeware also gives you a preview of the functions included in the full version, which only are available in the demo for a limited time or a limited number of downloads. After reaching the set limit, you will still be able to use all of the freeware functions without restriction.
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* Windows 7 / Vista / XP ®, 32 bit and 64 bit
* 1 GHz CPU
* 1 GB RAM
* 1 GB hard drive space
* DSL / cable / 3G Internet
* minimum resolution: 1024x600 pixels
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
ZIP Utility - RAR 7-ZIP UNZIP UNRAR ENCRYPT ISO BIN
Wondering how to open zip files,rar files or any other "strange" archive files attached to emails? Use freeware IZArc!
IZArc can unzip (extract) almost any archive file types. If you have many documents containing confidential information or you just want to back up your files you can use IZArc to create password protected archives secured with strong AES encryption.
IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG.
It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).
Send large files to your colleagues, friends or customers who may not have archiving tool with self-extracting archive that can be extracted by simple double click.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Make your own passport photos
A passport picture is just a small picture. at the size of 4.5cmX3.5cm (5cmX5cm American, 5cmX7cm Canadian and there may be other sizes for different countries.
| Pictures taking required by Passport Office * Two identical photos. * Photos must be taken within last month. * The photo must be taken against a light background (either white, off white, cream or light grey so that your features are distinguishable and contrast against the background). * Clear and of good quality. * Printed on low gloss, plain white photo-quality paper with no watermarks, embossing or printing on the back. Using professional or high-res inkjet printer * Free from copyright (school photos are not acceptable) * Unmounted 45mm high x 35mm wide. (do not trim bigger photos to meet this condition) * Full face (without sunglasses and normally without a hat unless the applicant wears a head covering due to their religious beliefs or their ethnic background, which is acceptable) |
Taking the photo:
Take a white sheet and used grips to tightly fasten it to a background. The grips pulled the sheet to create an even surface perfect for passport photos to be taken against. Placed a chair around a foot (30cm) in front of the background, this way a shadow from the subject wasn't cast in the picture. If you're using flash, having them this close to the background will also stop the picture from being underexposed or dark. If you are using flash remember to watch-out for red eye and reflections as these are not allowed to be on a passport photograph.
The picture is to be framed through the viewfinder so you will have a tight crop of the head and shoulders and take several images so you will have a variety to choose from. They are to be taken at full resolution, although as the image size is only going to be small you can use a lower setting of around 640x480 pixels.
| Editing the Photograph: Once you decided on the chosen image you place it into Photoshop to edit the size to meet the requirements of the Identity and Passport Service. This process is not manipulating the photograph, You don't alter the light or any of the facial features just the size of the image. Methods: The 640x480 dimensions are not quite the same proportions as the necessary for example 35x50mm Malaysia passport size, so when you reduce the image it won't be the exact size necessary. There's a useful trick that allows you to reduce the picture at the same time as making a crop. In Photoshop when you select the Crop tool it gives you the option of specifying a fixed crop size to a necessary resolution. See the bar above. We've keyed in a 3.5cm width,5.0cm height and 300dpi resolution. Now when you make a crop it will save the crop to the size keyed in the figures, doing the whole job in one go. Now we need to place two copies of the photo on a canvas ready to print. With the cropped picture still on view select All (Ctrl+A) and copy (Ctrl+C). Now select new (Ctrl+N).Your program will show a box that has the sizes of your picture already set. Make sure the background colour is light blue (Malaysia) and select Background Colour from the contents options (canvas colour). Change the dimensions to just over 2x the indicated height and width (8cm x 10cm will be fine) and click okay. Now click (Ctrl+V) to paste the picture you've just copied onto the newly opened light blue canvas. Alternate Background color change: Use the Move tool to drag the picture into the top left corner. Then paste the second picture into place (Ctrl+V) and again move this so that it aligns up to the first pic leaving a small gap between the two that will be used to cut the pictures when printed. As we're going the traditional passport booth route we've printed four on a sheet. Aligning the bottom two below the first two. The other two can be sent off to Nan and boyfriend for purse/wallet fodder! When you have everything aligned use the Crop tool to trim off any unwanted surround, again leaving a slight white border around the set of four photos for trimming purposes when printed. Next we are ready to print. Hopefully you will have a program that allows you to set up the printing specs. The passport leaflet indicates that a resolution of 1440dpi is necessary. Most modern printers output at this resolution. So choose the 'best' print setting. Also use high quality paper. We've gone for the 4x6in 180gsm Inkjet paper. If there's an option centre the image and select 4x6 from the list of paper sizes. Do not select 'scale to fit media' because this will enlarge the photos making them too big. VIA How do I change the background color of a passport picture in photoshop cs4.? The easiest way to do this would be to trace around the face using either the pen tool or the polygonal lasso tool (using a 1px feathering on the polygonal lasso usually works well with 150dpi effects, 2-3px feathering on 300dpi). Once you've done this, hit control+J to copy your selection onto a new layer precisely above the original layer. This way, you can play with the color replacement of the original layer without compromising the face itself. Watch youtube 1 & 2 More |
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