Why You Should and How to Use Proxy?

Nowadays Internet is becoming one of the major needs of this contemporary world. Almost every work can be done online and it is preferred by people because it is time and cost efficient. It is one of the greatest blessings of technology.

However, there are a lot of online web sites, which are not safe to your computer, your personal info could be hijacked through them. Therefore, in order to save your personal info you can use a proxy. So do you have the right knowledge of how to use a proxy server?

Using a proxy server to surf online safely can be very simple and everybody can avail its benefits in a convenient way. For a novice user it is much easier to understand how to use a proxy.

Proxies are very essential as they help in visiting the online websites safely. Anybody can easily protect his or her personal information by using a proxy. Proxies are used to hide your IP address, operating system, and other personal information. When you visit any of the online sites, it is seen that all the traffic is surfacing from the proxy server and your computer's identity and location remains hidden. Therefore, before visiting any of the online sites it is essential that you know how to use a proxy.


The process of using a proxy is easy and convenient. Neither you have to install any software nor have you to download anything when you use a web proxy. Make some configurations to your browser and you all set to use the proxy configured.

Then all you have to do is type the URL addresses of any web proxy site in your browser. After you typed the address, the connections will be redirected via the proxy thus revealing that all the transfer is coming from the proxy server as filtering firewall traces only the proxy server. You can easily download any files, or you can play games or even download them, you can do chatting, sharing videos and so many things more when you know how to use a proxy.

However, if you want to avail different facilities of internet safety, what you have to do is to learn how to use a proxy. It is important as it helps in hiding your personal information and avoids personal information in getting into the wrong hands.

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Social Networking Website Software Proves To Be Safe and Secure

Most of the internet users of today are members of one social networking website or the other. There are many popular social networks like MyTube, Face Book and MySpace which has maximum members in them, which is attributed to the safe and secure social networking website software it uses on the website.

With so many people becoming members of social networks, the quest to find out if the information and data provided to the social networks is actually in safe hands goes on and on. And the answer these people always receive is an affirmative one.

This is because this social networking website software is constantly updated to ensure that people on the site are safe. This does not come as much of a surprise, considering the fact that the sudden rise in people being blackmailed through such information has made it important that safety and security is a priority on the sites.


Social networking sites are a great way of teaching children to keep in touch with family members and friends. However, this can be made possible only if you teach your children all the security features and restrictions available on the site to the child. If the child is not aware of these steps that have to be taken to protect private and personal information, the child may jeopardize this information. As the social networking website software offers all these tools on site, it does not prove difficult to teach your child the basic security features of the site.

However, there is no point in having security features in the social networking website software, if you are not careful in using the computer. There are many people who leave their email addresses, home address, full name and phone number on pages that are open for public to see. Remember it is important that you restrict strangers from accessing your personal information to be successful in the internet, and especially social networks.

It is only on visiting a social networking site do you realize the amount of security the social networking website software maintains in the site. The security features of the software includes encryption, CAPCHA codes, spam filters and even passwords that are used to ensure your safety in the site.

Of course, these safety features may not prove to be something special as practically all websites have these features. However there is some additional security provided with the social networking website software which is, providing users with the ability to block and restrict access to the site by people who are not known or recognized by the site.

One of the most popular social networking sites successfully using this software to day is Facebook, which is presently one of the largest social networking sites catering to high school and college students.

Basically, access to any profile page on the site is restricted unless and up till you are added as a friend in the site. Once you are declared and added as a friend, you can view the pages of your friend, leave comments when required and even send messages. It is also possible to see other friends of your friend; and by registering yourself as their friends, you will be able to see their private pages too. With all this security, personal information remains private and personal.

In the case of another site, MySpace, security issues are handled differently. Here the access to your page can be tailored for only friends and in some situations, let everyone else have a look at your page too. You can also place limitations on who can request making friendships with you. With this feature, it is possible to not only avoid spammers, but also prevent inappropriate people visiting or gaining access to your profile page.

All this does not imply that you have to take this software for granted. Remember that hackers will always look for ways to hack into accounts and gain access to information. This is why no matter how safe a social networking website may seem you should never disclose too much personal information on your profile page.

Remember that if you cannot actually control your personal information on the web, you are the one who will suffer from its consequences. Never actually rely only on the security measures found on social networking website software. It is better to consider them to be additional tools that you can use with your common sense for your own safety.

So it can be said that these features, with the safety steps and etiquette you have to maintain when on the internet all leave you with a social networking website software that is not only safe, but will keep you secure at all times.

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Oracle launches computer hardware

Enterprise software firm Oracle is to sell computer hardware for the first time in partnership with Hewlett Packard (HP). The firm has launched an HP-designed, co-branded database system, as well as a smaller storage system, both of which go on sale this week.

The hardware is designed to speed up data retrieval via Oracle's software products and marks the firm's efforts to offer more comprehensive business software solutions, reports Associated Press. The move expands on a long-standing engineering agreement between Oracle and HP.

The HP Oracle Database Machine is configured for data warehousing, uses 64 Intel processor cores and can store 168 Terabytes of data. It will retail for USD650,000, but excludes the cost of Oracle software, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, the HP Oracle Extradata Storage Servers is aimed at enterprise customers with existing data warehouses. This hardware is designed to enhance data processing and offers 12 Terabytes of storage.

The launch was unveiled by company CEO Larry Ellison during a keynote speech at the Oracle Open World event in San Francisco. The move follows Oracle's USD8.5bn buyout of software rival, BEA Systems, last April. Read More...

3 Theories on Why Fewer eBay Listings Are Showing Up on Google

Ever since 9/16 when fp30 rolled along with a bunch of finding bugs, we have seen sales plummet in many categories with apparel and jewelry being hit the hardest.

While most sellers are focusing in on some of the eBay (eBay) finding wackiness, one seller noticed Google (Google) had all but disappeared as a 'source' of traffic in their advanced store reports.

Based on that tip, we started doing some looking and saw some very unusual behavior.

Here's a search for a popular Nike product's model number:

Notice that the second, third and fifth search results are all for eBay international sites and not ".com".

I've run literally hundreds of searches and you have to really work now to find eBay in the organic (and even paid) Google results. Interestingly enough, when I did find the occasional eBay listing in the index, it was an FP30.

Note that eBay's pagerank [PR] doesn't seem to have changed - it's at 8/10.

Theories on what is going on...
I have a couple of quick theories on what's going on:

• Given their track record in the last couple of weeks, it's possible that eBay has done something to mess up the crawlability of the site.
• It could be that eBay has asked Google to not crawl anything but fp30 dramatically reducing the number of eBay listings in the google index (this doesn't seem very smart, but hey anything's possible I guess)
• It could be that Google is using this tough spot for eBay to kick them in the ribs and has decided that eBay listings are 'not relevant' and yanked them from the index.

Personally I think the last theory is the most probable given the near overnight disappearance of eBay's listings from the Google index.

Readers - any insights into what you are seeing/think is going on

Disclosure: Author is long eBay and Google.

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Welcome to the Future

by: David Ewing Duncan

With a little help from Google, secretive Silicon Valley startup 23andMe is betting you’ll want to Web-surf your own DNA. But is the science ready?

Graphic by: Martin Krzywinski
This just in: Illumina C.E.O. Jay Flatley has the “sprinting” gene, a cluster of DNA that is associated with professional athletes and Olympic track stars, those human beings whose muscles twitch fast instead of slow. Flatley, a stocky 55-year-old industrial engineer, chuckles at this discovery.


On the other hand, he lacks a fairly common gene variant linked to Type 2 diabetes. That’s good news, he says, zooming in on a virtual human body that’s now floating on his computer screen. He clicks on the figure’s leg, and up pops a page describing the gene for restless legs syndrome, a malady that causes some people to flail around at night, resulting in sleeplessness. The webpage includes graphics, descriptions, and links to studies and references, including PubMed, an online health science library. “This site will tell me if I have a gene for obesity,” he says, “or whether my earwax is wet or dry. I’m not kidding.”

My fast but fantastic voyage through the inner Flatley comes during a visit to his company’s San Diego headquarters, where he has allowed me to peek at an early version of the site being developed by a Silicon Valley startup, 23andMe, which is named after the number of paired chromosomes in every human. In stealth mode until a launch planned for later this year, 23andMe is using Illumina’s powerful gene-reading chips to build a company that is among several hoping to cash in on personalized genomics—the tailoring of an individual’s health care and lifestyle based on DNA and biomarkers.

When 23andMe goes live, customers will be asked to spit into short plastic tubes or to swab cells from inside their cheeks and mail in the sample. 23andMe will then analyze the data in relation to reams of information about ailments, treatments, diet, and ancestry and compare the results with those of thousands of others who have been tested for genes associated with diseases and other traits.

The cybersynthesis will be channeled into a customized DNA diary on the website. The company is considering a feature that would allow people to then link their personalized pages to those of others who share their DNA—fellow sprinters, say, or people at risk for Alzheimer’s—just as you can now link to college chums on Facebook. 23andMe has not discussed pricing, but competitors are talking about charging upwards of $2,000 a person.

As wonderful as this sounds, 23andMe is plunging into very controversial territory. Scientists and ethicists warn that the understanding of most genes remains a work in progress—and, as a result, users could make life decisions based on incomplete or erroneous science. “Just because we have identified a gene doesn’t mean its function or its impact has been thoroughly understood or that having a gene has any real predictive value,” says Francis Collins, who led the international consortium that sequenced the human genome and now directs the National Human Genome Research Institute.

This admonition, however, has not deterred 23andMe and other online companies from entering what they believe is a potentially gigantic market. “We’ve only scratched the surface of understanding the human genome,” admits a source familiar with 23andMe. “But the company will be very responsible with the information it will make available to consumers. 23andMe is working closely with the research community.”

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