How to Set up an Outlook Express Email Account

Your Internet Service Provider has probably given you the option to set up more than one email address. Most come with at least five. So you're not limited to just the one. If somebody else in your household wants his/her own address, you should be able to do it. You'll learn how to configure a new address right now (We're using Outllook Express, the most popular Email software.)

o set up an email address, make sure you are looking at an Outlook Express screen and not a New email screen. Then do the following.

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  From the menu bar, click on Tools


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  From the drop down menu that appears, click on Accounts (one click, left mouse button)

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  When you click on Accounts, you get the Internet Accounts dialogue box popping up. Click the Mail tab at the top to see the following:

The Mail tab shows you all the email accounts that you have set up. In the image above, there are no email accounts set up yet. To set up an email account, do the following:

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  Click on the Add button in the top right hand corner


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  A popup menu appears


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  Click Mail with your left mouse button

When you click on Mail, you get an Account Wizard popping up, which will ask you a series of question.

When the Wizard first starts, it will look like this:

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  Type in a name you want for display purposes. You can type in anything you like here. It doesn't really matter because Outlook Express will completely ignore the name you pick!


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  Click the "Next" button when you're done. The screen will change:

You need to type in an email address. Type in the email address you got from your Internet Service Provider.

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  Once you have entered the email address, click Next. You'll get the following screen

It looks a very daunting screen, so let's break it down.

Your Incoming mail server is probably a POP3 one, so leave the drop down box as it is. The first text box is Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server. You can usually get these details from your Service Provider's homepage. But yours will probably be a POP or POP3 address. This is a method used to receive emails. The format to type into the text box is this

pop.provider.com

So if your Service Provider was Home and Learn, you'd enter this

pop.homeandlearn.co.uk

The next text box to fill in is "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server". SMTP is the method used for sending emails. The format to use is

smtp.provider.com

So if your Service Provider was Home and Learn, you'd enter this

smtp.homeandlearn.com

In the picture below, we have entered some fake POP and SMTP details

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  Click the "Next" button at the bottom when you are finished


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  The next screen is this one:

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  The Account name is the one you got from your Service Provider. They might have given you a password, too. If they did, enter your Password in the text box. Unless your Service Provider has told you otherwise, DON'T put a tick in the box for Log on using Secure Password Authentication.


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  When you're done, click the "Next" button


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  There's nothing left to fill in, and you are invited to click the Finish button. Click the Finish button and you'll return to the Internet Accounts dialogue box


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  Your new Account will be there:

The Account name is a bit messy. Outlook Express has simply taken the name of the Incoming Server - pop.type_your_isp_here.com. To change this to something more memorable, click the Properties button to the right, or simply double click the name of your account. You'll see this dialogue box:

Delete the text at the top, the one highlighted in blue in the image. Then type something of your own:

Click OK and you'll get back to the Internet Accounts screen. You should see your new name appear, under Account:

When you're done, click the Close button on the Internet Accounts dialogue box. You'll be taken back to the main Outlook Express screen. To check if the account has been set up, we can click on the Send/Recv icon in the main Outlook Express screen.

As you can see, our new account has been added at the bottom. It was a success!

How to secure Facebook profile

With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on Facebook -- posts, photos, comments, likes and so on -- in a handy timeline format to anyone with access to your profile, which may include friends of friends, colleagues, executives at your company, a potential future boss ... well, you get the idea.If you've made the jump to Timeline -- and if you haven't, you will within the next few weeks, like it or not -- you should know that Facebook has changed a few things, and there are certain settings you need to pay attention to if you're concerned about what parts of your life others can see. Here's how to lock down your profile in the post-Timeline world.

Protect Yourself From Identity Theft On Facebook

Identity theft is the fasted growing crime in America.

A new case is reported every three seconds.

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, have become a prime target for ID theft predators.

Beware Of Inbox Messages

Think before you click on a link in your inbox messages. Links that seem strange may lead you to a page that could download all your Facebook profile information. This malicious link can then spread to all your Facebook friends as well.

Do Not Use a Weak Password

A password should have at least eight characters. Avoid simple names or words. Use mixed upper and lower-case letters or numbers in your password.

Does Your Profile Show Your Complete Birth Date?

This is an ideal target for identity thieves. It is a piece of the puzzle to obtain more information about you. You can remove or change your birth date preference on the "edit your profile" page. For maximum privacy don't use the month, day, and year when posting your birth date.

Do Not Overlook Useful Privacy Controls

Your Facebook profile can be set to be viewed by your friends, friends of friends, or everyone. Your profile will be more secure by not sharing with everyone. Do not add contact information to your profile, such as phone number or address. This is private information that you would not want hackers to have access to.

Posting That You'll Be Away From Home

You might as well post a sign on your front door that says "No One's Home". Post your comments and photos about your awesome trip after you get home.

Letting Search Engines Find You

Don't let ID thieves find your Facebook profile by searching the web. In your privacy settings be sure the box for public search is disabled.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook

Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over. But children younger than that do use it. If you have a child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. 

Using A Community Computer

Don't forget to logout of Facebook when using a community computer. Leaving your account open can be an invitation to ID theft predators.

1. Limit your connections

Most key privacy settings are accessible by clicking the arrow in the upper right-hand corner of your profile screen (next to your name and the Home button). From here, select Privacy Settings in the drop-down menu.

Click on Edit Settings next to the How You Connect option to begin your profile lockdown. This section contains five privacy settings.

Limit who can find you, contact you and post to your timeline.

The first three settings govern who can look up your profile and see your contact information, who can friend you and who can send you messages. For maximum privacy, change the first and third settings to Friends, thereby preventing anyone else from looking up your profile or sending you messages.

The second setting governs who can send you Friend requests. The more secure choice is Friends of Friends, but it limits your connectivity on the world's largest social network. If you're worried about losing out on friendship opportunities, keep it set to Everyone.

The last two settings dictate who can post on your timeline and who sees those posts. Only Me is the safest option, but choosing it severely reduces the number of interactions Facebook offers. If you're seriously considering limiting your timeline posts to you and only you, it might be time to leave Facebook entirely.

Setting both of these options to Friends is relatively safe while still allowing the sharing that makes Facebook fun. And there is a way to review posts from friends before they appear on your timeline, as you'll see in the next section of the story.

2. Tailor your tags

An easily missed entry in the Privacy Settings is one innocuously labeled How Tags Work. However, it is essential to tweak the settings found here if you want to take control of your profile's privacy, as some tagging actions can be pretty invasive.

The first two settings (Timeline Review and Tag Review) are particularly useful. When you enable them, you can review posts and photos that friends tag you in, as well as the tags friends add to your own posts -- all before this information goes public. That's especially valuable if you have well-meaning friends who think tagging you in those Vegas party photos is a good idea.

Enabling Timeline Review lets you vet posts you're tagged in before they appear on your timeline.

The third setting, Maximum Timeline Visibility, should be set to Friends or customized for certain friend lists or networks to ensure that these tagged posts, once approved, aren't seen by everyone.

Disable the fourth setting on the list, Tag Suggestions. It makes it harder for friends to tag large quantities of photos featuring you or people that look like you. But it also takes some of your profile's privacy out of the hands of others.

The last setting on the list is seriously important: It determines whether or not friends can check you in to places. Turn it off. The only thing worse than constantly broadcasting your location is having someone else do it without your express permission.

3. Rein in app permissions

Speaking of permissions, the permission window that used to appear frequently when Facebook apps wanted to access your profile information is pretty much MIA now. Currently, apps need to ask you only once for permission. Once they do, they'll mine your profile information as often as need be, sometimes even when the app isn't being used.

Fortunately, there's a privacy fix. Unfortunately, it's not a quick one, since you'll have to tweak each app's settings individually.

In the main Privacy Settings, click on Edit Settings next to the Apps and Websites entry to bring up the Apps, Games and Websites privacy settings page. Next to "Apps you use," click on Edit Settings again to access a full list of apps running on your profile. Each app is accompanied by an Edit button, which displays the app's permissions when clicked. Each app has different permissions enabled, so you'll have to check each one individually.

Check each of your Facebook apps to see what permissions it demands.

Here's the bad news: Some permissions, such as sharing basic profile information with the app, cannot be altered. These are marked by the grayed-out word "Required" next to the particular permission.

Other settings, however, have the word "Remove" next to them -- click on it to remove any permission. These are the only items that can be changed, so you'll have to take a hard look at what permissions an app deems a necessity. If you don't like what you see, click "Remove app" at the top of the same page and learn to live without that app.

For the apps you do keep, it's important to control who sees the information that the apps share -- many of them are designed to broadcast your activities on your timeline and in the "ticker" on the right side of users' home pages. At the bottom of each app's permissions page is another important option entry titled "App activity privacy." Click on the drop-down menu and select Only Me to be sure your app activity isn't seen by anyone else.

Similarly, if you install any new apps, be sure to select Only Me under "Who can see activity from this app on Facebook" on the installation page.

4. Stop others from taking your information with them

The Apps, Games and Websites privacy settings also contain some other features that security hounds would be wise to disable.

Click on Edit Settings next to the entry labeled "How people bring your info to the apps they use." Other users may be able to bring your personal information with them when they use apps and websites. It's all in the interest of making things more social. It can also be invasive. Uncheck the box next to each information category listed (there are 17 of them) to prevent others from using your personal data.

Prevent others from using your personal information in apps and on other websites.

Head back to the Apps, Games and Websites privacy settings and click Edit Settings for the "Instant personalization" category. This option should be turned off by default, but check to make sure. You'll first see a pop-up screen explaining the feature; when you close that, you'll be able to see whether it's enabled. If it is, disable it. This will prevent Facebook partner sites from accessing your public information to personalize your experience on their own websites.

5. Reduce your social footprint

Sharing is the whole point of Facebook, but the Timeline layout sometimes takes this to extremes, making it easy for others to see all your activity from years gone by. The good news is that you can disable Recent Activity updates, which broadcast new friendships, groups you've joined and any other changes in your basic information (such as relationship status or political views). Just click on the X next to a Recent Activity update on your timeline and select Hide Similar Activity from Timeline.

This makes the process of hiding certain activities from your past a little easier. But here's the bad news: Individual status updates or posts from, say, your less judicious days need to be removed individually by clicking the pencil icon next to each item and choosing Hide from Timeline -- a process that could take you to the end of 2012 if you've ever been very active on Facebook.

There's a limited solution, though: In the main Privacy Settings window, the second-to-last entry on the list is titled Limit the Audience for Past Posts. Click on the Manage Past Post Visibility link next to it. A window will appear giving you the option to change all past posts so that they're visible only to friends. Click Limit Old Posts to do so.

That will at least prevent anyone other than people you've friended from seeing older items on your timeline. But considering that your boss, colleagues and other acquaintances may be among your Facebook friends, it's still a good idea to review your entire timeline and remove compromising status updates, comments, links and photos. Start with the oldest items first. When you first started using Facebook, you probably had fewer contacts and might have posted and commented with less caution than you've done more recently.

Limit your posts to friends -- or a select group of friends.

As a last precaution, make sure that everything you post on Facebook moving forward is shared only with friends, specific networks or friend lists: Click the drop-down box next to your status update, comment, link or other shared content and select Friends or a group. For even more granular control over who can and can't see a post, select the Custom option.

It bears mentioning that the last and best defense against digital privacy invasions is common sense. You may want to be a bit irreverent with your Facebook friends -- and there's nothing wrong with that. But ask yourself if you'd wave that questionable photo or say that pithy comment in front of someone who could affect your future hiring prospects. If not, think twice before you post it on Facebook.

How To Add “Read More” Posts Link in Blogger

With this trick, you can choose to display a select amount of text from the beginning of each post as a teaser instead of showing the entire post on the front page of your blog. Then when people want to read the rest of the post, they can click a “read more” link to see the full post. This is very handy if you have lots of long articles all on one page.
Step #1 - Update Your Template Code First you need to edit your existing code. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML. There you first click on "Expand Widget Templates" showing right above the HTML editor box. Now do a search (CTRL + F) within the HTML editor box for the following code <data:post.body/>. Now add the following code just above the <data:post.body/> tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style> <p><data:post.body/></p> <b:else/> <style>.fullpost{display:none;}</style>

The result should look something like this:

Now let’s add one more bit of code which will actually create the “read more” link in your post. This code will go below the <data:post.body/>tag so copy the following and paste it in. Feel free to change the “Read more…” text to whatever you want the link to look like. Be careful not to delete any other code during this process.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'><br /> <a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more...</a> </b:if> </b:if>

Yes, there are supposed to be two </b:if> tags in the above code so don’t think it’ s a mistake. The result should look like this: This code will be the same no matter what template you are using. Just make sure it goes below the <data:post.body/> as shown in the image above. Now let’s look at what the final result should be. Here’s the updated code block you just worked on all put together:
Ok, now save it. If it get saved means you have done it well. So move to the next step: Step #2 - Add a Class Tag in Your Default Post Template For this step go to Settings >> Formattingand scroll all the way down to the bottom. It’s the last option called “Post Template”. You’re going to paste in the following code:

<span> </span>

You’ll want to keep the spaces in there which will make sense later. After you save this, it will look like this:
Step #3 - Create a New Post Ok, we’ve got everything all setup so it’s time to go and test it out. Hopefully you’ve got a new post in mind for your blog. If not, then we’ll just create a test post which you can later delete. When you click on the “Posting” tab, you’ll notice that the post text area is now pre-populated with the <span class=”fullpost”> and </span> tags. If not, then you didn’t save it properly so go back and re-read step #2.
So when writing your new post, anything you put above the <span class=”fullpost”> tag will be the teaser text. The main body of your post needs to go in between the <span class=”fullpost”> and </span> tags in order for the “read more…” link to work properly. See the screenshot below. Sometimes pictures illustrate better than words.
Now publish or preview your post to see the “read more” hack working on your blog. If it doesn’t show up for some reason, go back and run through the steps again. Most likely you pasted the code blocks in the wrong places. It’s difficult to troubleshoot these issues since each template can be unique so please make sure to double-check your template before asking for help in the comments section below.
Here’s the live post with the “read more…” link properly working based on the text I used above in the post text area.

Additional Info If you want to go back and update your old posts with this new “read more…” feature you can. Just go back and edit each post manually. Essentially you’ll need to paste in the <span class=”fullpost”> and </span> tags breaking apart the post into two parts.
For some posts, you might not want to use this feature at all. If that’s the case, just delete the <span class=”fullpost”> and </span> tags from within your new post text area. Then your new post will show up entirely just like it used to before you implemented this hack. Enjoy!

How to Restart Windows without Restarting your PC

When you click on the SHUTDOWN button,
make sure to simultaneous press SHIFT Button.
If you hold the Shift key down while clicking on SHUTDOWN button,
you computer would restart without restarting the Computer.
This is equivalent to term "HOT REBOOT".

How to hide drives from My Computer in Windows

With this trick you can play with u'r college pc...after this hack if some one opens my computer he/she'll not see any drive in my computer.Open Registry Editor by typing "regedit.exe" in Run or in command prompt. There you navigate to registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item (by rightclicking and new->dword) and name it NoDrives ( case sensitive).
Now modify it's value by double clicking it and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
Restart your computer. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be seen.
To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete that DWORD item NoDrives that you created (it can be deleted by navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer and selecting the NoDrives and deleting it..del key...).
Again restart your computer.
You can now see all the drives again.

How to create Text Boxes in HTML Forms

For most form elements, the word INPUT is used to set up the element. Next, you type a space followed by the word TYPE. This tells the browser what type of form elements to draw on your page. If you want a text box, the TYPE to use is "Text":

<INPUT TYPE = "Text">

(Notice that there is no end tag for INPUT.)

Next, you add the attributes you want. There are quite a lot of attributes for text boxes. The three most common ones are Size, Value, and Name. Size refers to how long the text box is in pixels rather than the number of characters it can contain. It's a good idea to limit how many text characters can fit into your text box, and for this the Maxlength attribute is used:

<INPUT TYPE = "Text" Size = 20 Value = "" Name = "text1" Maxlength="15">

The Value attribute means the text that will be typed in your text box. You can set some default text, if you like:

<INPUT TYPE = "Text" Size = 20 Value = "Default Text Here" Name = "text1">

Whatever is between the two quote marks of VALUE is what you get back when the form is sent somewhere.

A Name attribute should be added so that you can refer to it in scripts. It distinguishes it from any other text box you may have on your form.

Some other text box attributes are:

Accesskey
Height
TabIndex
Width

Height and Width are self-explanatory. Accesskey refers to a keyboard shortcut you can add, while TabIndex is a number value and refers to where the cursor will end up when you press the Tab key on your keyboard. As an example, take a look at the following three text boxes:

<INPUT TYPE = "Text" TabIndex="2">
<INPUT TYPE = "Text" TabIndex="3">
<INPUT TYPE = "Text" TabIndex="1">

The third of the three text boxes above will be activated first when the tab key is pressed. Press the tab key again and the cursor will appear in the top text box, followed by the middle one. You can really annoy your visitors if you get the tab index wrong

How to Keep the Windows XP Core in the RAM

If you have 512 MB or more of RAM, you can increase system performance by having the Windows XP 'Core' kept in the RAM instead of paged on the hard disk.

Go to Start -> Run - Type regedit and press enter - On the left hand side tree, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

- On the list on the right side, look for an entry called 'DisablePagingExecutive'
- Double click it
- Press 1 on your keyboard
- Click OK
- Exit regedit and reboot the computer

To revert to the default setting, follow the same steps as above, but this time, press 0(zero) instead of 1 on the keyboard.