How to Identify Fake Facebook Account

Fake Account is one of the biggest cons of Facebook and unfortunately Facebook has no solution for solving the problem of Fake Facebook Accounts .Out of the 1.28 billion Facebook accounts, today the probability of Fake Facebook accounts can be somewhere near to 20 or 30 percent or even more . Most of these Fake Facebook accounts are either created to get information, to steal your identity, or even to destroy your reputation. It's very important to beware of suck fake accounts which may lead to privacy dilemmas.

For your own sake, knowing how to identify a fake Facebook account is an important part of keeping safe online.

 Here are some valuable advices that will help you identify fake accounts on Facebook.

Make Dangerous Virus In Minute

Most of the people think creating a virus is a very tough task which can be done only by professional programmers but it is not true.

 You can also make a virus which is really simple to create yet very dangerous. This virus would format C drive of your computer. The good thing about this virus is it is not detected by any AntiVirus.

10 Tips to create a Strong Password

Most people have multiple passwords for e-mail accounts, social networking sites, online banking, site memberships, and so on. With so many passwords people may think it is easier to simply use the same password, or to use passwords that are easy to remember such their Phone number or a relative's name. But Passwords are the first line of defense against cyber crime. You should make sure you have strong passwords for all accounts on Internet. It’s very crucial to pick strong password.

The following 10 tips will help you to create strong, secure and hacker-proof password -

1. LENGTH - Passwords should be eight or more characters in length. The longer the password, the harder it is to crack.

2. COMBINATION - Use a combination of uppercase alphabets {ABC.. }, lowercase alphabets {abc..}, number {123…} and symbols { !&@^|.. }. Using all four types of characters works the best. For example instead of using welcome use W3Lc0mE^9.

3. RANDOMIZATION - Use special charcters and uppercase letter randomly not just in starting or ending like "pcj@bGq" instead of "Pcjbgq@"

4. COMMON INFORMATION - Avoid using common information like birthday, phone number, address which is known to all.

5. MEANINGFUL WORD- Don't use proper or meaningful words or simply speaking dictionary words since they are easy to crack down. Rather use password comprised of random meaningless characters.

6. PATTERN - Never make password comprising a pattern like QWERTY or ABCD or 789.

7. ACRONYM - Generate a password as a acronym from a phrase of your choice such as " Earth is the 3 planet of solar system" and use the initial of each word like this :"Eit3pss", coz Acronym are easy to remember and difficult to guess.

8. REVERSE - by reversing, a simple password can be made hard to crack like “erolgnab" in place of "banglore".

9. ALTERNATIVE - Use alternative for some letters like 3 for e, $ for s, 0 for o .

10. DRAWING - You can make letters, shapes, and more just ’drawing’ on the keyboard like "cft6yhnji9" forming N on Keyboard and Throw in some random caps to really lock it down.

You’re now ready to create your own strong, long, memorable mixed-character passwords using one or more of these tips. Still if you don’t have faith in yourself, you may use online tool like password generator or password strength checker.

 Now, share the tips with others, just don’t share your passwords!

Pros and Cons of Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites such as facebook and twitter have exploded in recent years and young surfers in particular have became ardent fans of this dynamic, universal and high tech way to connect to friends and hooking up with likeminded people. SNS is a way of connecting with people in the virtual world. There are many public and private and online SNS with the best known as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, pinterest,   and many more. Facebook is one of the biggest site with over 300 million users. Usually free to join and open to all SNS allow registered user to set up personal profiles and then communicate with friends, share photos, update status and the most important chat in real time. Now a day’s SNS has became integral part of life of peoples. But the SNS has many Pros and Cons hidden inside them which user must keep in mind.

Pros of SNS

SNS offers powerful, inexpensive tools to stay connected with people, to get in touch with those latest whereabouts you want to know, current updates on latest developments round the globe, and for business to expand their market reach. Used diligently, SNS can help business widen their circle of contact, create a communication platform with their clients and advertise for free. User can use social networking sites to promote his Art and Talent. The social media is a great tool for learning and knowledge dissemination. It provides the most effective platform to raise voice and share views fearlessly on any issue. It can be an effective tool to spread awareness among people and to motivate mass behavioral change.

Cons of SNS

Privacy is always a concern for any communication carried out online and people do not realize risk involved in exposing of much information on SNS. Cyber bulling & stalking where malicious comments are posted online about an individual and or individual receives abusive msg. is the very disturbing part for any user. SNS accounts are always vulnerable to hacking. Harassment in the form of Cyber Stalking is another con. Since who saw the info shared by user is not controlled in a SNS, User can be a easy victim of identity theft. Over sharing personal information may result in embarrassment too. Another danger is that scammers use social networking sites to trick people into downloading malicious software (malware).This virtual social networking swaps one from real social network. Continuously being online has made direct talking a matter of least priority which will weaken society in the long run.

Conclusion 

Like every coin has two sides, SNS are not exception they have pros and cons both. Proper use of SNS can boon lives and relationship but misuse may lead to horrific and troublesome end. And with a few healthy habits, you can cop the cons of SNS. Just remember to be careful and responsible. Always remember there is a real world too out of the fascinating world of SNS. Use SNS but don't get addicted. Rather than worrying for no. of likes, composing tweets and a perfect selfie, we have to learn to "live in present". Striking a balance would open a door of boons otherwise cons are always ready to attack you.    

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End of Journey of THINKQUEST !!!

ThinkQuest is one of the biggest online learning platform which provide a fabulous platform to more than a millions of student of 30416 schools from different part of world. ThinkQuest helps students develop important 21st century skills, including communication, critical thinking, and technology skills. It was transitioning from 30 June onwards.

The sudden announcement of transitioning was very shocking not only for it’s user but for the digital world also.

ThinkQuest was created in 1996 by Allan H. Weis under his nonprofit Advanced Network and Services. The service was acquired by the Oracle Education Foundation in 2002, which has operated many different the competition until 2012.Eventully ThinkQuest is going to be closed after June 2013

As per oracle education foundation ThinkQuest is being closed because when oracle first released think.com [predecessor of ThinkQuest], few technologies solution were available to educators. But now scenario has been changed .In fact, many free technologies are now being available to educators worldwide. And therefore oracle education foundation found it the right time to sunset ThinkQuest.

ThinkQuest library of more than 1,07,943 projects which set it apart from any other online learning platform. It let the students to move beyond the walls of their classroom and explore the culture of different parts of the world. It has completely changed the way to teach and learn. 

ThinkQuest users can download their projects from ThinkQuest before 30 June using ThinkQuest online tool . ThinkQuest   has also invited members of his wonderful community to visit the “ThinkQuest Farewell Scapbook” project and share how ThinkQuest has touched their life.

In the last Trough this blog I would like to wish everyone who has been associated with ThinkQuest,... Goodbye, Good Luck and every Blessing for the Prosperous FUTURE .....  

How to type Indian Rupees Symbol ?

Around 3 years before , in July 2010 India joined the list of countries having their distinct currency symbols . the amount in Rupees is now prefixed with a ₹ , which was formally prefixed as “Rs.”

                                                                                               This symbol was designed by uday kumar , a B.Tech student at industrial design center , IIIT Bombay . The symbol was selected from over 3000 entries invited through a competition  held for citizen Nationwide  .

Today thus symbol is being used all around . 

we notice ₹ symbol in various newspaper, magazines, website, bill, price tag, statement, financial document, stamps and bank cheques frequently.   

We counter many situation when we also need to use ₹ (Rs.) symbol whether it is sending financial mail , making bill, track your expenses or any other such work , still after 3 years of symbol designed still many people don’t know how to type ₹ symbol. 

I will tell you two simple way to type ₹ symbol :

1 . Direct Method -

If you rarely encounter use of ₹ symbol this method is for you. This is the most easy and fastest method .

1.     Open a new Microsoft word document.

2.     Type 20b9 (b in small letter) in any font .

3.     Now press Alt + X .

4.     You will notice 20b9 has changed into ₹ .

                              This method works only in Microsoft office word document so if you want to use  ₹ symbol in any other program , I will suggest you to to first type ₹ symbol in Microsoft office word document as described above and copy it and paste it in program you want to use . 

2 . Patch Installation Method -

If you frequently need to type ₹ symbol opt following method . This method will work in all programs .

1. Download and install the required patch from here .

2 .Download the appropriate version of the patch based on your version of Windows.  Once download completes, install the update .

3. After installing the patch you need to change keyboard setting by following steps .

•              Browse to Control Panel, select the category :Region and Language
•             Select the tab Keyboards and Languages, select the option : Change Keyboards
•             Click on the tab Add and select English(India) and Keyboard as India(default).
•             Click on OK, and then on Apply and Ok to save the settings.

 4. Restart the system after ensuring that the default language is selected as English India.

5. Now your keyboard will be able to write rupee symbol.

6. For writing rupee symbol now on wards use Ctrl+Alt+₹(4 or $ on regular key). The Keyboards without rupee symbol, can use Ctrl+Alt+$ .

Note :

                                        This works with most of the keyboards irrespective whether rupee symbol is present on the key or not. The key with $ will be used to write rupee symbol.