Online death

This column is not about how you can remove your online persona. That, honestly, is extremely difficult. You need an e-mail account much like you need roti, kapda aur makaan and increasingly you need to be on a social network of some sort or another, which is usually Facebook. But just like going online is a certainty of life in the modern age, a much older certainty of life trumps that. Death. So, what happens to the online life of a family member or a friend you have lost to the Grim Reaper?
Well, the "Terms of Service"(TOS) for most online services are quite clear: An account is non-transferable and there is no "right" of survivorship. That is to say that the legal heirs of a deceased individual have no "rights" to the deceased person's account and its contents. Yahoo!'s TOS clearly states. "Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted."
However, some large Internet e-mail providers can make exceptions (like they do for law enforcement, apparently). Google offers something like this for Gmail, where if you have a legal need to access the contents of a deceased individual's mails, you can contact Google, but only through fax or snail mail.
There is a help page for this in the Gmail "Help" section, but, to cut a long story short, you have to send Google proof that you are the person's lawful representative along with a copy of the death certificate. You also have to show them a mail that you received from the e-mail account you wish to access.
Of course, there could be a simpler way around this if someone who knew the deceased person was also in possession of their access password. But that goes against the very grain of having a password in the first place. Usually, most people do leave their passwords with at least someone they trust implicitly. However, do keep in mind that trusting someone with your password is not a foolproof idea.
E-mail is one thing, social network is another ballgame altogether. In fact, many smaller social networks do not have any method of removing a profile. Orkut allows one to request that a profile be removed upon death. If you make such a request, you have to upload a death certificate and Orkut promises to take action within three business days.
Facebook, on the other hand, does not "remove" the profile (it can, if you want) but "memoralises" it. "Memorialising the account removes certain sensitive information and sets privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. The Wall remains so that friends and family can leave posts in remembrance," the company explains. Again, one has to provide proof of death. Both networks allow one to report death through help pages on their sites.
Death is not easy to deal with, but it is a fact of life and like it or not, we will increasingly be dealing with the issues that we discussed in this column as our lives become digitally connected.

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The ten most commonly used internet passwords you should never use

A data security firm has unveiled the ten most commonly used passwords on the web.
To reach the conclusion, Imperva analysed around 32 million passwords that had been exposed in a recent hack of the RockYou website.
Last year a hacker had breached the site's company database, gaining access to the unencrypted usernames and passwords of all its 32 million users.
Now, after studying the breach the firm has come up with a list of the most commonly used passwords which website users should avoid, reports The Telegraph.
"Everyone needs to understand what the combination of poor passwords means in today's world of automated cyber attacks: with only minimal effort, a hacker can gain access to one new account every second-or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes," said Amichai Shulman, Imperva's chief technical officer.
"Employees using the same passwords on Facebook that they use in the workplace bring the possibility of compromising enterprise systems with insecure passwords, especially if they are using easy to crack passwords like '123456'," he added.
"The problem has changed very little over the past 20 years. It's time for everyone to take password security seriously; it's an important first step in data security," he said.
The ten most commonly used passwords analysed in the study were:
1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123

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How to download music for free without P2P software

 

 

If you want to download songs of your favorite bands, but don’t understand how all peer-to-peer software works or you are worried about facing legal consequences by downloading from P2P networks, then you might want to use a program called Clickster.

Clickster uses Google and other search engines

to find MP3’s, which have indexed more MP3’s than the P2P networks, so that means you can find just about every song and not have to worry about illegal downloads. The music industry does not seem to care (or does not know) that Google has more MP3’s indexed than all the P2P networks combined.

Clickster is a freeware program and is really easy to use. Once you have it installed, it loads up with a simple interface where you type in the name of the song or artist and the search begins! You can download the files directly or you can play them through the interface by double clicking on the song name.

Pretty sweet! No need to worry about downloading bloated P2P software that might have spyware if you just want to listen to a little music while working on your computer!

Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/22/search-for-and-download-mp3-with-clickster/

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How to find the name or title of a song by lyrics

 

 

Most people listen to songs from bands they like and sometimes search for the lyrics of a song if they can’t quite make out what’s being sung. However, for those of us who happen to listen to the lyrics of a song and want to find out who sang it, there are some useful lyric search engines

that do just that. Frankly, this happen to me all the time!

It’s amazing how many times I’ve jumped into my car and turned on the radio, really liked the song that was playing, but at the end of the song there was no announcement by the DJ of the artist or band! I understand the whole “back-to-back” song broadcasts on radios these days, but it would be really nice if there was a quick mention of the song name at the very end!

Anyway, so if you know some of the lyrics for the song you’re looking for, you can try out a few of these lyric search engines to try and find the band or song name. Actually, there are quite a few of them out there, but only a few really have large databases of song lyrics. So I put a couple to the test to try and find a fairly new song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers called Californication with the query “the sun may rise in the east”.

These are the search engines that actually found the song:

1. Get Lyrical – You can also search by Artist, by Song, or by Album.

find songs by lyric

2. Search Lyrics – This site also has some non-English lyrics and you can translate any of the English lyrics to another language on the lyric pages. Get Lyrical finds an exact match for your lyrics whereas Search Lyrics searches for those words anywhere in a particular song and will return a result even if the words are all not together.

song by lyrics

3. LyricsFly – Found my song also, but make sure you click on Lyrics first and then perform a search.

lyricsfly

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How to add Delicious bookmarks to Facebook?

 

 

Do you want to share your Delicious bookmarks with your Friends?

  • Login to your Delicious account.
  • Go to Settings
  • Choose Facebook Application

Delicious Settings

Delicious Settings

  • Now you will be redirected to Facebook where you will be asked permissions.
  • If you want to add Delicious to Facebook, click allow

Delicious in Facebook

Delicious in Facebook

  • Once you allow permissions, set the required permissions

Delicious Settings in Facebook

Delicious Settings in Facebook

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UPDATE:Shutdown ur pc using cellphone

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Shortcut Key To Flip The Screen In the Windows TO 180 Degree..

 

 

 

The shortcut is

for normal windows : Ctrl + Alt + <Up arrow>
and for 180 deg it is : Ctrl + Alt + <Down arrow>

How ever you should know that these are default shortcuts for Intel Extreme Graphics Controller, and you can change them. To check / change or disable these keys go to control panel–>Intel Extreme Graphics–>Hot Keys.Tongue out

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