My Useful Web

Do you just love star gazing? How about a spectacular comet show? Do you have to wait till it gets dark before you can watch the stars and the constellations? How would you love to explore our galaxy, learn how dusts form into stars and planets, watch the sky hundreds of years ago? Yes, they are all possible now. Thanks to Worldwide Telescope, now the universe is at our fingertips.

Worldwide Telescope is a visualization software that allows you to explore the universe from your PC.  It was created by Microsoft and is still in beta version.

Worldwide Telescope is a great help for budding, aspiring, and the frustrated astronomers.

Meanwhile if you are not ready to download the software you can see the still images of some spectacular celestial wonders from www.google.com/sky

My husband is a huge fan of free movies. He always watches movies when he’s relaxing. Most of the time he watches them online and one of his favorite sites is www.watch-movies.net where movies are free.  That’s right, movies are free. You can also watch new released movies however you might not get a good one some other time as people just record movies from theatres and upload them on the site. But some movies have good qualities and sometimes there are multiple downloads where you can choose the best because there are feedbacks that tell you the percentage of satisfied watchers.

I have been able to watch the Dark Knight and Indiana Jones myself and they were not bad for a free movie.

Last night I was going to watch RocknRolla but it was just not good at this time. Maybe I’ll have to wait for a couple of weeks more before I can get a better one.

So far the not-so-old and not-so-new movies have all been good. You can choose by genres and the options are just great.

You don’t need to download a viewer to watch the movies from www.watch-movies.net. The movies play online by megavideo or yuoku. Usually the first one is better than the latter and it loads faster.

So the next time you fancy a movie just go to www.watch-movies.net

I was surprised but I shouldn’t really. Google has come up with their own web browser called Chrome.  As soon as I read the article from Webuser I downloaded it right  so I could try it. Downloading it was a breeze and so far their icon is the best one for me.

What I like about Chrome browser is that it’s simple and there are no addons and toolbars that crowd the top window.You’re practically viewing a web in full screen.

Like Firefox, it also offers to save password. It also allows tab browsing and it’s fast considering that Google has a huge server. This article is composed using the  Chrome  browser and I’m so impressed.

When you open the browser it will show you your mostrecent visited websites in thumbnails. So it’s really cool. Kudos to Google!

I think I have one of the smartest husbands in the world when it comes to shopping. I have never met a man quite like him. He knows which store offers the cheapest price for specific grocery items. I often hear him say, “In Asda the pasta is cheaper. In Lidle the juice is cheaper. In Sainsbury, the rice is better.” and things like that. In that case we go shopping to different stores. However we do most of our shopping at Tesco because they offer discounts on top of the club card points which you can redeem as discount voucher.

Hubby almost always buys organic foods which obviously cost more in this part of the world. He doesn’t mind spending more as long as he is sure he’s eating healthy foods. With rising cost of fuels, everything goes up in the shop. So we need to be wise and smart in order to stretch our money.

But of course sometimes we don’t always get the best deal as we don’t really check all stores for the prices before doing the shopping. But thanks to mySupermarket.com which I find very handy because it allows you to compare prices from Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, and Ocado. Navigation is very easy as you switch from one store to another to compare prices.

As it is with most websites, you need to register to use the service but there’s nothing to worry about because it’s free.

I was submitting my applications online and one of the database accepts only a pdf file. So I searched for a free PDF converter and it brought me to www.freepdfconvert.com. It’s an excellent site that converts your file to pdf in a breeze. There’s an option where you can enter your email address so they can send the pdf file to your inbox. The email contains link to download your converted pdf file and another link to delete the file from their site. If you use the same email address you have to allow 30 minutes before uploading another file for conversion.

Nowadays, there are countless resources online where we can do anything for free. We just have to know where to get them.

So if you have any file that needs to be converted to pdf try www.freepdfconvert.com.

Earlier this went to my first blog and I’m reposting it here.

Antivirus is a very important component of a computer. Everyday we get emails containing malicious links that installs virus to our computers.

Now there are a handful free antivirus softwares we can download online and they are equally efficient as the non-free ones.

For example is AVG 8. This is what I use right now and my computer is safe from malicious emails and websites that infiltrate the net.

AVG 8 scans the computer system every hour and it works silently in the background so you don’t get interrupted if you’re in the middle of something online.

Another free software is Avast Home Edition. Although I can’t say much about this one because I  haven’t use it but I judge that it’s highly efficient as well.

This is my first website review and I hope many will find it as useful as I do.

I was looking for train and bus tickets for London from Norwich. I heard that there were promotion or cheap, cheap fares to London or anywhere in the UK provided you book early. So I was combing the webs for sites that would offer the best train or bus ticket. And I stumbled with this site, www.MoneySavingExpert.com which is created by Martin Lewis. It gave me the link to £1 Funfares to and from London and other parts of the UK.

 Martin Lewis is a brilliant guy and his site offers a lot of tips on money saving including car insurance. It’s not that he gives all the information. He invites users to his site to share their knowledge and experiences about finances and through these people others can compare offers from companies and who gives the best deals.

MoneySavingExpert.com covers tips on all types of finances like card loans, shopping, banking, claims, insurance, travel, health, and home mortage. It’s really worth a visit.

What is this? According to my favourite internet magazine, Webuser, IP address will have been exhausted by 2010. 

IP address stands for Internet Protocol. Each computer, website, and internet network server is assigned an IP address for identification.  We are very much aware that thousands of new websites crop up daily. You may say only a few people make websites. But networking sites such as facebook, myspace, friendster, hi5 and the likes allow you to create your own webpage or profile page which gets an IP address of its own. 

The current IP version, IPv4 (Internet Provider version 4) can only generate 4 billion combinations. Currently the world’s population is 6.7 billion. Even if there is only a fraction of it surfing the net, the problem is that many IP address once used goes to the “recycle bin” and accordingly, this is what spammers spoof to send malicious emails. In addition, using internet on the mobile phone is growing exponentially.  

But we don’t have to worry. Authorities are now putting their expertise on the matter which started in February this year. The new version will be called IPv6 and according to a reliable source it will generate 340 trillion trillion trillion combinations. 

Will our computer automatically change its configuration? 

It depends on what operating system one uses. Luckily for Window’s Vista users their OS is already capable of handling the switch to IPv6. But with XP users will have to do it manually. 

Here’s how from Webuser Issue 187, p43  From your Local Area Connection click on Properties. Click Install then in the Select network Component Type dialogue box, click Protocol, and then Add.  In the Select Network protocol dialogue box, click Microsoft TCP/IP version 6 and then OK.

I used to use the same passwords in all my accounts but I have different usernames. I figured it’s easier to remember usernames but not passwords.

Lately, I came about signing up to so many paying sites online like affiliate sites. I realized it is not safe to have the same password to all of them especially. Besides, if you save them in your computer then you can only use them when you’re using your computer. But if you go to other places it would be a hassle to retrieve forgotten passwords.

Then I heard about Roboform. It’s a toolbar that works with both Firefox and Internet Explorer once downloaded and installed.

Roboform also generates password for you. So you don’t have to make them up and they are the strong types of passwords because it uses alphanumeric combination with upper and lower case.

The only thing though is that you have to remember to save  your passwords in your folder.

Do you like multitasking like me? Do you find annoying sometimes to switch between windows or tabs. Or do you open 2 or more internet windows and resize them smaller so you can view two windows at the same time? Or do you just open tabs and switch between them?
With two open windows is just like dividing a room in two from floor to ceiling and installing separate lights for each when you can leave a space in the ceiling where you can put a long fluorescent bulb to illuminate both rooms. Did you get what I mean?

With split tab you can view multiple internet windows simultaneously. You don’t have to switch between windows hiding the others while viewing the one in front. This is because the main browser is split between tabs. You can choose to tile your tabs vertically, horizontally, or both ways.

I find split tabbing very useful especially with my PTC sites. When I’m viewing paid ads I can open up to 4 windows and it makes navigation so much easier as all the windows are visible and I can see which one is already finished.

So, if you want to use Split Tab just click on the image below.