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Want to keep your stuff private! use bitlocker in win7 ultimate

18 Aug 2010

Many of us had at times felt the need of some privacy or security for our data or something personal.many of you might have used some third party software like folderlock etc..but might have been bothered about the problem you faced. i have a very nice solution to your need. if you have WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE VERSION INSTALLED in your computer all you need to do is to follow the screenshots and get a faithful, secure and glitch free encyption of your drive.

right click on the drive you want to encrypt or lock

[caption id="attachment_119" align="alignright" width="950" caption="type in your password and click on next"]

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[caption id="attachment_121" align="alignright" width="950" caption="save the recovery key in the pendrive "]

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[caption id="attachment_122" align="alignright" width="950" caption="click on start encrypting"]

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[caption id="attachment_123" align="alignright" width="950" caption="the drive starts encrypting ..take normaly 3/4 mins depends upon size of drive"]

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[caption id="attachment_124" align="alignright" width="950" caption="when encyption complete everytime you cilck on the drive it asks for the password"]

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[caption id="attachment_125" align="alignright" width="950" caption="the drive opens as you enter the correct password"]

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Guys the advantage of using bitlocker is that first its part of your operating system and so there is not gonna be any compatibility issues and secondly the encryption is pretty strong so you data and files are pretty safe.....so keep reading and enjoy ! :)

chao!

Install linux a easy way…without getting into trouble :)

17 Aug 2010

hey guys...many of u must have heard of linux and even got urself one of the free cd but got scared away because of troubles in partitioning and many of you must have ended up screwing your windows installation.But there is a very easy solution to this problem.

well here i assume the reader to have a zero knowledge of linux.

well the first thing u need to do is to install DAEMON TOOLS....HERE IS THE LINK #mce_temp_url

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL DAEMON TOOL.

the next thing u need to do is to download cd image of UBUNTU OR LINUX MINT.you can get these cd images free and easily from dere sites...guess u can easily google out for them.

now i will give u screenshots of how u can install linux on your own without getting into any trouble

[caption id="attachment_107" align="alignleft" width="950" caption="mount the cd image of the OS."]

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here we mount the cd image of the OS that is ubuntu or linux mint. how do we do that, we will mount the cd image from the location where you have downloaded the image.

[caption id="attachment_108" align="alignright" width="950" caption="Mount the OS to be installed in our case UBUNTU"]

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next the autoplay starts ...its will prompt you to click on WUBI.

[caption id="attachment_109" align="alignright" width="950" caption="Autoplay window of the UBUNTU.click on WUBI.exe"]

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Now as you click on it,a new windows opens...dere you need to specify the destination drive. the size of harddisk as you can see in the screenshot below. you can also specify your password for security and privacy concerns.

[caption id="attachment_110" align="alignright" width="950" caption="insert the password.HDD size in this window and click on install"]

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SO guys you must be thinking it very easy to install and you know what THIS LINUX INSTALL AS IF ITS LIKE ANY OTHER APPLICATION LIKE PICASA....you can remove this anytime by going into controlpanel>add/remove programs...THIS LINUX INSTALLS INSIDE WINDOWS SO THERE IS NO NEED OF ANY PARTITION.

KEYPOINTS: INSTALLTION TIME APPROX 10 MINS.THIS TUTORIAL IS ONLY VALID FOR UBUNTU AND LINUX MINT DISTRIBUTION BECAUSE THESE TWO DISTROS ONLY COME WITH WUBI

...SO GUYS ENJOY THE BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE OF THESE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM WITHOUT GETTING INTO ANY KIND OFF TROUBLE . :) :)

Make your own webpage in 20 mins…and absolutely free :):)

25 Jul 2010

Many of you ever wondered of having your own website but might be taken aback by by money you need to buy a domain name or to make your site.well i have a good news for you you can get a fine working website of your own that too absolutely free...

sounds exciting ......:)

lets see how can we do it

first we need to create a "co.cc" account

[caption id="attachment_81" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="go to website http://www.co.cc/"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_82" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enter the name of the website you want to enter..like you name "][/caption]

then continue to registration..

create a co.cc account if you dont have one..

[caption id="attachment_83" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="create a new co.cc account"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_84" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="fill up the form and get ur own co.cc account"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_86" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="go to wordpress.com"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_87" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="register into wordpress"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_88" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="click on the link"]

check your mail to activate your account

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[caption id="attachment_90" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="login in ur account"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_91" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="login screen"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_92" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="write a new post describing yourself, likes intrest"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="write your first post"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_94" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="click on appearance and then select the theme you want for ur website"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_95" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="choose the theme"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_96" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="new theme activated :)"]

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[caption id="attachment_97" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="yupee blog is up and running :)"]

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[caption id="attachment_98" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="now go to co.cc page you left that time to setup your webpage"]

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[caption id="attachment_99" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="click on url forwarding on the left side of page"]

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[caption id="attachment_100" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="crucial step enter the address of your wordpress blog and other settings as shown"]

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[caption id="attachment_101" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="now open ur browser and type the name of ur blog.co.cc in my case testmyspace.co.cc"]

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[caption id="attachment_102" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="bingo :) your own website is up and running :)"]

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SO GUYS , IT WAS FUN CREATING UR SITE RIGHT......KEEP READING THIS BLOG AND U WILL COME ACROSS MORE INTRESTING POSTS....WILL POST A NEW BLOG ON HOW TO USE WORDPRESS AND OTHER BLOGS SOON..TRY IT OUT...EVERYTHING WILL WORK COZ I HAVE TRIED IT MYSELF AS I CREATED THIS POST :)

SO IT WILL CENT PERCENT WORK.....CHALO CAAOOOOO!

wonder how to make your mail encrypted,lets learn how to do it

25 Jul 2010

hey guys , you guys must have seen in movies or heard that mails can be encrypted in such a form that noone else other than who has the key, ofcourse the one you gave the key can decrypt and see it..well it appears too geeky though but its amazingly simple..

in this blog i will show u how this is done.

well you must b wondering what is the need of this well u must not be aware of the fact even your private mail to your friend is being monitored by national security agency or NSA (us).

well to do this you need a mail client mozilla thunderbird you can download it from#mce_temp_url#

when you install this software you need to setup your account so as this mail client can work.in the following screenshots i will show you how to do it.

first thing you need to do is to configure your mail account so that thunderbird is able to store and configure your mails.for this you need to enable pop and imap in your account

[caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enable imap"]

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once you are done with this click on save changes , now we will configure our thunderbird to work as our mail client.i will show you how.

click on the thunderbird icon you just installed, a new window will pop out it will look somewhat like this:

[caption id="attachment_55" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="create new account"]

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[caption id="attachment_58" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="fill in ur details like name ,email id and password"]

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[caption id="attachment_59" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="create an account"]

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[caption id="attachment_60" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="account ready for use :)"]

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now folks your thunderbird is ready to send or recieve your mails ,but to do the encryption you need to download a small sofware that is required to be installed inorder to windows to encrypt your mails. you can download it from#mce_temp_url#

[caption id="attachment_61" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="windows version of gnupg"]

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[caption id="attachment_62" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="install gnupg"]

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[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="now go to tools > add-ons"]

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now we need to enable a plugin called enigmail in thunderbird that is required to do encryption.

[caption id="attachment_64" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enigmail"]

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first u need to configure your key which u need for encryption

[caption id="attachment_74" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="go to open pgp>key management"]

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[caption id="attachment_75" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="click on generate"]

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[caption id="attachment_76" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="make a key for the account you are using"]

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[caption id="attachment_77" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="save the key you just created"]

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now as the key creation is done we can proceed and remember this key creation is just one time affair because your key is valid for 5 years .

now lets create a encrypted mail for this click on write icon on the thunderbird

[caption id="attachment_65" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="write a mail "]

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then click on encrypt or ctrl+shift+E..

[caption id="attachment_66" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="configure openpgp"]

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[caption id="attachment_67" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="enable enigmail(open pgp)"]

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[caption id="attachment_70" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="select the key you just created"]

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[caption id="attachment_71" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="use the open pgp key you just created"]

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[caption id="attachment_72" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="insert the passphase or password you used to make the key"]

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hmmm...after this long configuration we are finally ready to create a new mail which is encrypted. and guys the gud news is that all this configuration is one time setup.....everytime you need to encrypt your mail press ctrl+shift+E :)

easy right... i will show you a encrypted mail i created some time back using THUNDERBIRD and these settings

[caption id="attachment_73" align="alignleft" width="614" caption="a sample encrypted mail"]

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tomzs

2010-08-02T10:55:52.000Z

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Is this possible?

creativetotalsolution

2010-08-17T22:36:23.000Z

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