A World Map of the Undersea Internet Cables

Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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A Wikipedia entry states that only 1% of Internet data and voice traffic is transmitted through satellite links while the remaining 99% is still carried by undersea cables spread across the world’s oceans. This explains why Internet services get disrupted when these undersea cables are damaged due to passing ships or in the event of an undersea earthquake.
You should also check the recently updated Submarine Map which gives some good idea about the physical routes of these cables lying under the sea bed. This is an interactive map so you can zoom-in or click on any particular colored cable to know about their respective owners. Fascinating stuff.

bed. This is an interactive map so you can zoom-in or click on any particular colored cable to know about their respective owners. Fascinating stuff.
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How to Remove Passwords from your PDF Files

Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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You have a bunch of PDF files on your computer that are protected by a long and complex password. You know the passwords but it still feels inconvenient and boring typing them each time you have to open a PDF file.
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Removing Password from a PDF File

There’s a free Windows utility called BeCyPDFMetaEdit that can help you remove passwords from PDF files* but without make any other change to the document.

Here’s what you need to do:
1. Launch the program and it will ask your for the location of the PDF file.
2. Before you select and open the PDF, change the mode to “Complete Rewrite.”
3. Switch to the Security tab and set the “Security System” to “No encryption.” Click the Save button and your PDF will no longer require a password to open.
[*] If you would like to test this tool but do not have a password-protected file, use this sample PDF (the password is labnol)
For more tips, check this detailed guide on PDF tools.

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Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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101 Digital Etiquettes That You Need to Know

Posted: Friday, August 5, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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Is it considered rude to ignore a friend request on Facebook? If a phone call disconnects, who should ring next? Is is OK to use a family picture for your profile on a public social network? Is it essential to answer every missed call that shows up in your phone log?
The rules of good etiquette in the age of email and Facebook are obviously different and still at an evolving stage. eEtiquette.com is an impressive website that offers 101 useful guidelines on what we do, and more importantly, what we should avoid doing in the online /digital world.
Some of the guidelines available at eEtiquette will immediately strike a chord. For instance, it says you should consider turning off your phone at all places where you would feel uncomfortable with a crying child. You should only share your online account information with people with whom you can share your toothbrush.
The recommendations aren't just restricted to e-mails and mobile phone usage but extend to other channels like blogs, video conferencing, text messaging and more.
eEtiquette is a website of Deutsche Telekom AG (yes, they also do a Facebook book). You can read all the rules for good manners on eEtiquettes website and they do offer the entire collection in a printed book format as well.
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Posted: Monday, August 1, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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See Your Favorite Website in a Different Font

Posted: Friday, July 8, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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The web designers at Google picked the Arial font for their pages probably because Arial is a very “web safe” font that is installed locally on nearly every computer system. But have you ever wondered how would Google look had their designer team been a little more adventurous and chosen a more beautiful sans-serif font like Helvetica?
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Meet FontFonter, a neat online app that lets you change the font styles of your favorite websites with a simple click. Enter a website address, choose which type of fonts (serif or sans-serif or both) you want to replace and then pick a target typeface – you’ve more than 40 different fonts to choose from.
What’s nice about Font Fonter is that while previewing a website in a different font, you can go any levels deep and the pages will still render in the previously selected typeface.
This helps when sites use different styles for the home page and inner pages or when you are a search page and are navigating to a new page that could be using a completely different typeface – your font selection will be preserved during the entire session.
You need Firefox or Chrome to use Font Fonter, it simply won't work in IE and Opera. FontsLive, another font vendor, also offers a similar preview service where you can again replace the default font styles of a web page with premium web fonts.

Preview Web Pages in Google Fonts

The Font Fonter app is nice but you can preview web pages in a select range of commercial web fonts. However, there’s an awesome Chrome extension as well that will let you change fonts of a web page to any of the Google Web Fonts that are completely free and can be used anywhere without restrictions.
And with the font preview extension, you can not only change the fonts of a web pages but also their size, style and other text attributes. Thank you @SwissMiss for the tip

Your Skype is now a Facebook Chat Client

Posted: Friday, June 24, 2011 by vamsi satyavarapu in
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Facebook chat with Skype
Skype today released a new beta – Skype 5.5 – and a good thing about the new version is that it doubles as a Facebook Chat client.
Simply connect your Facebook account with Skype - you can do this from within the Skype desktop software itself – and it will then show you a list of all your Facebook friends in a new “Facebook” tab. If a friend is online, click her name and choose “send an IM” to start a Facebook chat session.
You no longer have to keep switching to the Facebook tab to see if a friend is online or if he or she has responded to your message – the notification now appear in the system try. And Facebook chat with Skype supports smileys (emoticons) too.
If you have been looking for a way to chat with your Facebook friends outside the browser, Skype is quite good an option. The chat feature is however only available in the Windows version of Skype at this tiem.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-your-computer-connecting-to-websites.html