Did you know that you can create your own, private and secured network over the Internet? Your private network can have its own members, password, applications, you decide who joins it and not only that, it’s free.
We are talking about an application called Hamachi which is in fact a Virtual Private Networking application enabling you [...]
I often find it difficult to browse Internet sites with my current broadband connection from the local ISP. Sometimes the URLs does not resolve and often it takes lot of time to resolve the addresses. Searching Google for some solution to run a DNS client on my own PC resulted in discovery of [OpenDNS] and [...]
Almost everyone of us who uses Internet has at least one online account that requires a username and password. While some of us choose to use complicated passwords, others give least importance to it. Every now and then many websites surfaces on Internet with loads of new services and requires that you to register with [...]
You must have heard about VNC, a remote desktop control software in XP and many other remote desktop control softwares that are available in the market. Each of those tools have their own advantages and disadvantages. While some are very fast but overly insecure, other remote desktop control softwares are secure but are very slow [...]
One of the many sophisticated and powerful modules in Apache is mod_rewrite. It’s used for URL manipulation, also known as URL rewriting. It’s very powerful but very complicated in nature. Beginners may find it a little difficult to understand it the first time but people with knowledge of regular expressions will love its ease [...]
Disk encryption softwares have been available since quite long, but their usage has increased since last few years. Using an open-source software such as [TrueCrypt] saves a lot on your pocket and even does an on-the-fly encryption of your disk volumes.
The main features of this software are:
On-the-fly encryption [data is automatically encrypted and decrypted]
Entire filesystem/disk [...]
By the time you finish reading this article, you will realize some of the many benefits of using Open Source software, how it dramatically lowers your investments by reducing the cost associated with licensed software and its support.
We will look at existing uses of licensed software and how Open Source software can replace them while [...]