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How to send an E-mail

Yahoo Mail G Mail

1.Click above link in which you have an account
2.Type in your ID/Username (eg.smith@yahoo.com) and password in the space provided
3.Click "Sign in"
4.Click "New" for sending a new mail in yahoo mail (Click "Compose Mail" in Gmail)
5.Enter the To address in the "To address" Column
6.Enter a Subject (just anything will do)
7.Now type your matter in the body space provided.
8.Click "Attach" if you have anything like a photo or document to send along with the mail.
(Click attach->select the file from your computer->click open)
9.Click send
(You can avoid the 8 th step if you dont have any attachments to send)

Reading a mail

1.Click above link in which you have an account
2.Type in your ID/Username (eg.smith@yahoo.com) and password
3.Click "Sign in"
4.Click "Inbox"
5.Now you can see all the mails stored in your mailbox. (unopened letters are in bold)
6.Click the mail you want to read.
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To delete a mail select the mail then click "Delete".

For learning purpose you can send a mail to your own id.It will come back after some seconds.

One of the advantages of having a Gmail account is that you can read docx and xlsx (Office 2007 format) files by selecting "View as Html" or "Open as a Google document" without downloading the mail.Then you can select the text and paste into word pad or other Office versions.

Click "Sign Out" once you have done with your mailing to protect your security.Dont allow windows remember your username and password if you are using a public computer.
Links in Web pages only require a single click.

In case you dont have an email id , click "Sign Up" or "Create an account" after the first step.

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How to avoid shocking Broadband Bills?

I have seen people complaining about the heavy telephone bills they recieved after installing broadband services at their home or office. Most of them pay heavy bills without knowing what went wrong with their connection. Some believe that it is common for all broadband services and discontinue the service once and for all. I am a DSL (broadband) user for more than two years and never ever have i received a bill higher than the minimum for the package I opted i.e. Rs.250/- .I am allowed to use a total of 1024 MB (One GB) each month. Beyond that limit i have to pay for each MB @ rate of 20 paisa per MB. (Earlier the rate was 90 paisa per MB)This i avoided through regular monitoring of the usage statistics in my account.

The four ways of checking your broadband usage(dataone bb usage) statistics are explained below.

1.BSNL Dataone Portal

The site http://data.bsnl.in/wps/portal hosts the usage details. Any broadband user can log in using his username (14 digits username, eg.bha74601122007) and password given by the BSNL. To bypass the log in and entering other details each time there released a number of softwares by third parties. One of them is BSNL Broadband usage 2.4.

2.BSNL Broadband usage 2.4.1

http://www.shaplus.com/dataone/index.htm.

This is a small software (137kb in zipped form) and very easy to use. You can download this software from the above site .Once the file is downloaded right click the zipped file (compressed) and select "extract”. Now the software is ready to run. You can enter the username and password given by BSNL. In the summary page you need to enter the plan you opted (eg.250 BBG 250).The report will explain everything you need to know about the usage. How much you used already in a particular month, how much bandwidth is left for you etc... and the probable bill amount including the tax is displayed.

3.Bandwidth Meter 1.3

http://www.shaplus.com/bandwidth-meter/

This software helps you monitor real time download /upload statistics from your computer without going to BSNL’s site. For accurate monitoring go to the settings and select the one Network Interface Card (NIC/LAN/Wireless) applicable to your computer and uncheck all others. As the ISP (Eg.BSNL) using their own software for monitoring your data for billing purpose it is highly recommended that you check their statistics too once in a while.

As this software is not configured to check any particular ISP it can be used by anyone across the world to check their broadband usage. If the net is accessed from more than one computer, each one needs to be monitored separately for getting the total usage.

4.BSNL SMS Alert

The site http://bbusage.bsnl.in/ has provision for broadband users to register their account and BSNL will send weekly SMS to their mobile phones the total bandwidth they used up to that date.

Some facts about downloading and uploading

Those who have learnt something about computers will be familiar with the usual Download procedure.In general sense it means copying files from a server attached to the Internet to our own computer. Before downloading each file you need to click the "Download" button. When you click that button the file in the server will start to download onto your computer. Windows displays the size of the file when you are asked to save the file. Uploading a file is just the reverse of the activity.Eg. Sending a photo or mail to your friend. The reason why I explained these two is that the usage statistics displayed for each broadband user is broadly divided into

a. Download

b. Upload.

Even when a user never clicked the "Download" button he is shown a number of MB or GB already downloaded or uploaded. Those who use the broadband service for the first time will be embarrassed by these statistics.

The truth is that Download and Upload have wider meaning when you use that word in connection with Internet bandwidth usage. When you open a web page you see many things on the page. Some web pages have only texts, some have images, some have sounds, some have videos, and some have softwares. Except for the last one, i,e "softwares" all others will be displayed on your computer screen without your clicking the button "Download" and you may be eagerly avoiding the "Download " button for the fear of excess usage and subsequent heavy phone bill. I have known people who have incurred Rs.3000 and above even without seeing the “Download” button. What they did was watching videos, listening music, chatting with friends, sending mails and reading online news papers.

The truth is that when you start browsing whatever you see on your monitor or hear through your speakers are downloaded from the relevant servers.In other words you start downloading the moment you start browsing.These files are stored in Windows Temporary Internet Files folder.( this is the only difference,when you Download a file yourself you have an option to select the location)The flip side of the process is that most of these files are tiny in size and not mattered much. The average size of a medium quality internet photo is only 500 kb and you need to view two photos of that size to make it One MB (1 MB =1024 kb) and if your current plan allows you to use One GB( 1 GB = 1024 MB) of data you can view 2000 photos of that size.

Below are the average size of different kinds of files you will find on the web pages.

Size of an MP3 song = 4 MB

Size of a small video clip = 10 - 20 MB

One hour chat without web camera = 5 - 10 MB

One hour chat with web camera = 25 - 75 MB (Depends upon the resolution of the web camera)

One hour chat with web camera and mic = 35 - 85 MB (Depends upon the resolution of the web camera)

E-Mails = 7 - 20 KB

A web page without much graphics (pictures) = 100 – 300 KB

Calculating all the above details will be very simple if you have ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter 1.3 on your desktop.I have found that certain browsers eat the bandwidth unnecessarily.If you see that your

'internet' lamp on your broadband modem blinks continuously without any reason please close

those web pages you have opened.It may be using your bandwidth for some other purposes,like stealing your username,passwords etc..If it continues to blink even after closing the pages switch off the modem at once.Curiously enough I experience the same thing whenever I open my Windows Media Player to listen to a song with my net connection on.A software like ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter 1.3 is very much useful in circumstances like this.

Those who check their usage the way explained above will not be embarrassed at the time of receiving the telephone bill.For a user who is on the basic plan of BSNL i.e. 250 BBG 250 can use 33 MB on an average per day(1024 is divided by 30 days). If that bandwidth is carefully used, I think he can use the internet throughout the day 30 days a month without exceeding 1024 MB (One GB) at the end of the month and there won’t be any excess amount to pay. On the other hand if he takes on the habit of watching Videos, especially U tube videos which are aplenty on the internet now a days, the entire bandwidth allowed for a month will be used up within a week or so and for the rest of the usage 20 paisa will be charged for each MB.

I have provided links to all the above sites in this web site (Home Page) under the section “Softwares”.Please see your IP address displayed on the Home page of this site if you are to download Shaplus “Dataone Bandwidth 3.1 or BSNL Broadband usage 2.4.1” because the first software is for the IP address of the type “5x.xx.xx.xx “and the second is for “117.xx.xx.xx”.

Below is the link to BSNL's latest Tariff.

BSNL Tariff- Combo BSNL Tariff- Unlimited

Happy browsing

Ranjith Kumar A.K

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                                 How to send Free Group SMS across India?

       In today’s fast world it has become imperative on the part of higher offices to contact a large number of subordinates in a short time for passing urgent information and the like and it has become indispensable to have a meaningful and efficient communication system to be relied on. Fortunately with the advancement of technology especially with the widespread use of internet and mobile phones it has become a matter of choice to access the resources which provide these facilities.Way2sms,Indiarocks,160by2,net2mobile etc are some of the many free SMS services that catering to the need of Indian customers. As Way2sms is a pioneer in the field of free SMS I will explain how to set group SMS with Way2sms here.

Way2sms

Way2sms

      Way2sms is the first to provide free SMS in India. A new user who wants to use the services of this company need to register his/her mobile number with the company. Those who want to register can go to Way2SMS home page by clicking the above link. Once you reached the home page click “REGISTER HERE”. Fill the simple registration form consisting of user’s mobile number, name, date of birth and email address. After carefully filling the details submit the form by clicking “Verify & Register”. Within 5 or 6 seconds you will receive the password for the account in the mobile phone you opted to register. Using your mobile phone number as username and the given password you can login to your account. Immediately after the first login in change the password to your choice. Once the account is settled you can start sending free SMS to anyone living inside India.
Adding contacts
You can add contacts to your way2sms account in the same manner you add contact to your mobile phone. If you intend to send group SMS it is better to name groups first before adding contact names and phone numbers.
Steps
1. Click Add contacts.
2. Click “Groups”
3. Give Group name in the text field shown and then click “Add”.
4. After giving group names you can click “Contacts” for adding contacts to each group. You have to enter the name, phone number and the group he/she belonged to for each contact.
5. Once the contacts are added click “Group SMS”.
6. Select the group name from the drop down menu.
7. You can click the “Select All” check box to select all the 25 members.(Please remember that only 25 numbers can be selected at a time.)Type the SMS in the box provided below and click “Send”. You have to go to the second page to repeat the same process. For easiness you can copy and paste the Message from one page to the other. Thus if you want to send SMS to 100 contacts you have to do the process four times.
8. In addition to group SMS you can send single SMS by way of selecting the name from the list given on the right side or by clicking “Quick SMS” (in cases where you have not added the contacts already).
9. Future SMS is another feature. Here you can set the time and SMS to be sent at a time in future which will be sent in the right time automatically.
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                         How to insert the New Indian Rupee Symbol ?

The New Indian Rupee Symbol `
The India Govt have issued orders to use the new Rupees symbol in all the governmental and non governmental correspondences. The method of using the New Symbol is explained here.
Download the font Rupee font.zip and copy it in your Windows Fonts folder. Normally if you want to type that symbol you have to select the font "Rupee Foradian" from the drop down fonts menu in MS Word. The new symbol is attached to the grave accent key (the key just above the Tab key) .Alternatively you can set Auto text function and call in that auto text function using F3 function key.
Setting Auto Text
Steps
1. Type the Indian Rupees new symbol in an MS Word document.
2. Select the symbol and press Alt+F3.There will appear a small text box where you can give a name to this auto text. eg. rs. Then click OK
3. Next time when you want to type the symbol you can just type rs and then press F3 to call back the auto text function attached to rs.
These "auto text " function setting steps are applicable to all the routine repeated typing jobs. For example if you want to use it for repeated adding of your From address in daily correspondences, first type the address then select it and press Alt+F3.There will appear a small text box where you can give a name to it eg. from. Then click OK. Next time when you want to type From address you can call in the auto text function by just typing the word from and then press F3.The whole text will be pasted at the place where the cursor is pointed.

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   How to Run your System Fast and Stable Forever?
Tired of this ever lasting virus scanning and cleaning of your PC?
For a number of reasons I think Virus Scanners are more harmful than the viruses themselves. The first thing i hate them about is their style of eating a lion share of your PCs resources (Processor speed and RAM) while scanning,it slows down your system.Second, in each moment a new virus is born somewhere else in the world and the virus signatures you have had in the database of the virus scanner become outdated and it calls for a regular updating and the result ? You lose your net speed too. I bid good bye to this nonsense long ago when I came across Deep Freeze. Just a small, 2 MB sized software keeps my systems fine, fresh and fast as if they were bought today.
What is Deep Freeze  ?
Deep Freeze, from Faronics is an innovative computer security software that takes a snap shot of your system on the Personal Computer (PC) and will keep restoring the system to the snap shot every time you reboot the PC. Any programs installed, settings changed in any program or even files saved will be discarded.
How can this be of help to me and you?
First, there can never be a system change on your PC, whether accidental or malicious; from a careless user, by a virus, malicious software or any other sort of attack. When ever it happens, Deep Freeze will automatically undo it and restore your old setting and configurations. Deepfreeze will only freeze the drives you specify at installation so under normal circumstances, it would make sense to only deepfreeze drive C: (your system drive), because it is the most vulnerable. You can have another drive for archival purposes deep-frozen as well. All you need to know is that you can't save files on a frozen drive so you need to leave yourself atleast a drive to save your files.
If you ever want to make any system changes or instal new software on your PC, you access the control panel of Deep Freeze,login with your password and suspend Deep Freeze. During this session, any change done will be registered and the programs installed will be retained by the system. You can set the number of reboots you need to have without Freezing the system again, because some programs need one or more reboots in the process of installation.
After this, you will have a new system, new programs installed and locked againsts any unauthorized changes.
Deep freeze will keep your heart settled even when browsing through the most infected files or websites, knowing that whatever the virus tries to do on your PC will eventually be reversed, whatever files it copies will be deleted.
Deep Freeze is available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Viruses and malicious software can now pose much less threat, if you will have Deepfreeze on your PC.
For more information on Deepfreeze, check: http://www.deepfreeze.com.au/
NB : If your system is already running at a snail's pace due to virus infection there is no point in installing Deep Freeze now beacuse it is not a virus remover software.It keeps what is inside inside and what is outside outside so first have a complete format of all your drives and then install windows anew.Immediately after installing your necessary softwares install Deep Freeze keeping at least one drive unchecked.
The rest is peace of mind !
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How to open a docx, xlsx (Microsoft Office 2007 format) files without having MS Office 2007 on your computer?

  Now a days it has become a practice of some officers to send emails with attached files formatted in MS Office 2007 without realising the fact that the recipient will not be having the same format to read the document. When the document has some urgency and the recipient is a subordinate of the sender he will be in a fix. He has to read it anyway but is not able to however hard he tries. Here the sender either thinks that all the other people in the world too having the same Office 2007 like him or he is quite ignorant of the fact that it is quite a difficult task for others to open the file without having MS Office 2007. My request to those who use Office 2007 is that please save your files as .doc and .xls format(you have that option with you) which can be read by up to MS office 2003 instead of saving them in docx and xlsx formats which require MS office 2007 on the recipient’s computer.
One Solution
I have googled for a solution for this problem and found that Gmail has an option to read these kinds of files. They have two options for MS word files like 1. View and 2. Download and three options for Excel files like 1.View as HTML 2. Open as a Google spreadsheet 3.Download.In this case Download has no use and we have to go for the other options. Follow these steps and you can save the files as if they were originally written in doc and xls files.
Steps are different for MS Word and MS Excel files.
MS Word
1. Click View
2. Click File
2. Edit online
3. Click File
4. Download as
5. Word
6. Save
MS XLS
1. Click “Open as a Google spreadsheet”
2. Click File
3. Download as
4. Select excel from the option
5. Save
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How to build a free web site ?

www.webs.com

1. Click the above link

2. Choose your type of Web site ( a. Business b. Group/Organisation c. Personal)

3. Click Get Started

4. Give your E mail address and password

5. Give a Suitable site address.(Please choose one that is catching and easy for others to remember )

6. Give a Title. (Just anything will do. It can be changed later)

7. Select a Template (Template means a ready made design. There are a lot of templates with Webs.com. Just choose one now. You can change it later).

8. Once a suitable Template is selected Click Next

9. Choose Pages for your site (Those shown there in the first section is the default. You can either include or avoid each just by selecting/deselecting them)

Same way you can add additional pages if you want.(You can add and delete pages at any time later.)

10. Click Create My Site.

(Now your site is ready. You can type in your web address and browse your site. But as yet we haven’t added any content it will be almost blank except the beautiful template.).So

11. Click Content Box on the left side

There will appear a dotted box. Type your page name first. Just below you can write something like “Welcome” to beautify your page. If you want to add something like photo or link on that page click the relevant tool displayed on top.

12. Once you finished editing click PUBLISH.

For Editing your site just go to www.webs.com and then sign in by just entering your username password
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How to receive free mail alerts on your mobile phones?

It is quite pleasant to feel that each and every mail that reaches in our mail box (Gmail, Yahoo etc.) has an alert on our mobile phone too. Now a days free sms provider Way2sms extends such a feature absolutely free to their users. All you require is an account with a mail service and an account with way2sms. If you don’t have an account in Way2sms, click here to get one.

http://www1.way2sms.com/content/index.html

Once you have finished registering with Way2sms follow these steps

1. Click “Mail Alerts” on top right corner of their home page.

2. There are separate settings for Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts. Settings with yahoo mail account is little bit difficult as Yahoo mail (free) does not store the mails once forwarded to another account.(Still it is possible in a round about way).But with Gmail it is very easy as it stores a copy of the mail it has already forwarded to another account.

3. Activate Email alerts on your WAY2SMS account and find out your way2sms email id.It looks like this 7680249@way2sms.com.
NB:The mail id shown in the steps to set up mail alerts on their mail alert page is your mail id.

4. Logon to your Gmail account

5. Click on settings & then click on 'FORWARDING/POP/IMAP' option

6. Select 'Forward a copy of incoming mail to" option & Enter your Way2SMS Email ID    7680249@way2sms.com there.

7. Gmail sends a verification code to 7680249@way2sms.com.

8. Check your Gmail confirmation code from adjacent Inbox tab Or You will receive gmail confirmation mail alert on your mobile with subject line containing confirmation code.As you have already set your mobile phone for mail alerts in the third step, it is more likely that you will receive the confirmation code on your mobile phone.

9. Enter the verification code in Gmail verification box. Click On Verify.

10. Finished. You will now receive alerts for every incoming mail that arrives in your gmail id( You can filter alerts by choosing which emails you want to alert, and when you want to receive them ).
Setting Mail alerts with Yahoo mail
Recently Yahoo changed their way of dealing with forwarding option.Now a days Yahoo also stores mails that have already been forwarded to another account. if your Yahoo mail account provides Store and Forward option, follow these steps.
1.Options
2.More options
3.POP and Forwarding
4.Forward Yahoo Mail to another E mail address
5.Enter your way2sms address (eg.7482369@way2sms.com)
6.Select Store and Forward
7.Save
Yahoo will send a confirmation mail to 7482369@way2sms.com. Login to way2sms account and check mail alert to see this confimation mail.Open the mail and click the confirmation link.
If your Yahoo Mail Account does not store mails that have already been forwarded to another account what happens is that you will get Yahoo Mail alerts but the mail will not be able to read as way2sms does not store mails either.The method I followed before my Yahoo Account provided "Store and forward" option is Mail Fetching.Gmail has a facility to fetch mails from other accounts.Periodically Gmail fetches new mails from your other account.Follow these steps to set up Mail fetching from Yahoo mail Account to Gmail Account.
1.Go to Gmail settings.
2.Open Accounts and Import Tab
3.In the Check mail using POP3 section, click Add POP3 email account.
4.Enter the full email address of the Yahoo Mail account you'd like to access, then click Next Step.
5.Enter your Password.
6.Decide whether to:
Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server etc.
7.Click Add Account.
8.Once your account has been added successfully, you'll have the option of setting it as a custom From address. This allows you to compose messages in Gmail, but have them appear to be sent from your other email account. Click Yes to set up a custom From address.:
NB : Recent TRAI regulations on DND (Do Not Disturb) put a hold on free smsing from way2sms too.You will not be able to receive any mail alerts on your phone in case your number has been registered with DND registry.You have to cancel the request by sending
SMS with Keywords ”STOP ” to “1909" (Full deregistration)
or
START 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 to 1909 (Partial blocking.You will receive promotional sms but no promotional calls)
or
Go to your provider's Office and ask them to reset your DND account so as to receive all kinds of promotional sms but should block all promotional calls)

Follow below links to read more about Mail Fetching.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21289
Telecom Regulatory Authorities web site for DND registration
http://164.100.9.238/ndncregistry/aboutRegister.jsp

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How to trouble shoot continuously disconnecting broadband DSL link?

    Internet is a marvelous innovation in the sense that it made the whole world into a small village. People living in far away countries and immediate neighborhood are same for a netizen. Broadband made this transition a pleasant experience with its agility. People who enjoyed this experience will be much aggrieved if they are made to sit in front of a computer with an interrupted DSL connection. As the broadband net connection is relied much on telephone cables (Channel cables too) this kind of interruption is likely once in a while. The reasons are many including rusty cable connections, faulty splitter, fault of modem and the malfunctioning telephone receiver itself.

In this article we will be discussing about how we can isolate the faulty component so as to resolve the interruption.

Telephone cable.

As I have already said, the role of telephone cable is much greater in the realm of internet than all other components that the likelihood of its failure is higher. Just lift your telephone receiver and listen to the dial tone. If the tone is not clear and you can hear some other noises too along with the tone your telephone line is faulty. DSL connection will be hardly lingering for more than five minutes. As the telephone cables are laid mostly underground and much of the lines are lying far away from our home there is very little we could do about a faulty cable rather than call the telephone personnel and make a complaint.

Splitter

Splitter is the second component comes in line after the telephone cable. A splitter divides the signal into two parts one part containing the ADSL signal and the other containing only voice.So that you can make telephone calls along with internet without being disturbed by the cooing sound of internet. If your telephone line is OK and you suspect your splitter is at fault just remove the line connection from the splitter and connect it direct to the modem and start browsing. If the DSL stays there without any problem you have to suspect your splitter or phone receiver. Just remember that the DSL will go out if someone tries to call you on phone during this time. If you are a person who receives a lot of calls on landline during day time you have to conduct this experiment in the middle of the night. As the splitter is not a costly component (it costs around Rs.30 only) you can replace it without much worries. But before you replace it go through the next steps also. You may check its contacts too. If you can see rust lying on the contacts, remove the rust using a flat screw driver or other sharp objects. You may check the telephone line contacts also for rusty substances. Once all of them are cleaned well you can try the splitter after removing the outbound telephone connection.

Telephone

In some cases the telephone receiver itself turns out to be the villain. In order to check it you can remove the outbound telephone line from the splitter leaving inbound telephone line and line to modem intact. Your phone receiver will have no dial tone now. Start internet browsing and check for any interruption. If the interruption has gone it is sure that the interruption is coming from the telephone receiver. In order to solve this issue you can purchase one more splitter and serially connect in between the first splitter and the telephone receiver.

Modem

If all the above components have been tested and the problem still remains you may borrow your friend's modem and check the DSL status (you needn’t change the username etc to check the DSL status). If the new modem works well, you can take your modem to your friend’s house in order to give it a last chance to prove its worth. If it behaves same at your friend’s house too, your modem is faulty and you have to replace it.

The cases of modems become at fault are very rare and nine out of ten cases it is our cheaper components at fault - the telephone cable, splitter or the phone receiver.

DSL Settings

If you think that your telephone cable is at fault but your line man is not able to locate the error spot to repair it,you need to configure the Modem settings so as to accommodate the unhealthy signal condition.Login into your Modem and reset the DSL settings as shown below.Save the settings and reboot the modem.Now on your DSL lamp will be steady as a rock.

For further reading on DSL interruption,DSLsettings and Modem Configuration
http://ranjithkumarak.webs.com/computertipsandtricks.htm
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