Yes, You can get a Free Laptop with Broadband Connection. But if you are living in India only. Tata Indicom, one of India’s leading Wireless Internet service provider presents Tata Indicom Broadband 2.0 More-4-Sure offer. If you become a Tata Indicom Broadband 2.0 customer, you could get a free laptop, or Linksys router or free broadband.

In this More4Sure offer, You can get a Free Zenith Laptop on advance rental of 36 months. It means if you pay for broadband connection for 36 months in advance that’s like pre-paid connection, you could get a Free Zenith Laptop. Based on your subscriptions you can get Free Linksys Wi-Fi router on advance rental of 6 months, Free 4 months Broadband on advance rental of 12 months and Free 1 month Broadband on advance rental of 4 months.

You can select speed and tariffs for your broadband connection at tariff page. For more details submit your details and phone number on More4Sure website.

Tata Indicom Broadband 2.0 also comes with useful Value Added Services for your home and business needs. For your Internet connection at home you can enjoy services like online movies, 40 live radio channels, live streaming from temples and mosques, art of living videos, educational services like IQ and EQ tests for your kids and more. And for business needs you can enjoy services like Multiple PC connectivity, PC Security Domain Registration, Personalized Mail, Website hosting and much more.

Free Laptop:

Model- Zenith Netbook (Z- Book) : This Laptop comes with Intel Atom Processor 1.6 GHz, 160 GB Hard Disc and 1 GB DDR2 RAM. Approximate market price Rs20000/-. Click here for more Technical Specifications and other features.

Free Wi-Fi Router:

Model- WRH 54 G from Linksys (CISCO) approximate market price Rs2500/-

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The History of Internet

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To increase Internet usage in India, Google worked with various products such as SMS Search, voice Search, and Google Map Maker. Google initiates local search like business listings, railways, flight status and cricket scores to increase the quality of search.

But there are lot more people are there in India who do not know the benefits of Internet. To increase Internet usage in offline population of India, Google is trying to engage directly by using this Google India Internet Bus Project.

The Mobile Bus is designed to showcase the benefits of Internet to the people who do not know more about Internet. The Bus was started in Chennai and will visit the cities across Tamil Nadu.

The bus gives simple introduction to Internet for a new users, with a focus on the four themes of education, information, communication, and entertainment.

You can see the photos and videos from the places they have visited. Join Internet Bus Orkut Community. See the following video about the Internet Bus.

Top 10 and other languages of the Internet are shown below.

Chinese is very near to English and Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Arabic Languages are showing good figures on the chart. As Internet usage is growing globally the usage of national languages are growing. As China has worlds highest population, Chinese is the second in top 10 languages in the Internet.

And the table below shows Number of Internet users by Language.

Here is the Statistics.

Statistics By Digital Center

The percentage of those who connect to the web through cell phones is still relatively small, It has increased by two and a half times from 5% to 13%. Most of the cell phones used to connect web are Blackberrys, Treos and other smart phones.

But the growth in the use of wireless connections from computers (Wi-Fi) has seen a remarkable increase in the 2002-2007 period. You can see these figures in the figure. According to statistics, In the year 2007 over a quarter of all web users  connect to the Internet through a wireless connection.

Social Networking website Facebook encourage Americans’ by showing the message ” Today is Election Day, Go Vote ”

Internet Community website StumbleUpon showed the following picture on election day.

Like this many social networking website are encouraged Americans to Vote. I had not seen this kind of  encouragement for any other country elections or previous American elections.

Image by Sweet Shiwa.

I am giving here some of the keyboard shortcuts for web browser specially FireFox, It really save you. These keyboard shortcuts also works in other browsers also.

Ctrl + N   – Open new Window                    Alt + Left Arrow  – Back

Ctrl + T   -  Open new Tab                           Alt + Right Arrow  – Forward

Ctrl + Shift + W  -  Close Window              Alt + Home  – Home

Ctrl + W  – Close Tab                                   Ctrl + D – Book Mark This Page

Ctrl + S  – Save Page as..                            Ctrl + Shift +Del – Clear Private Data

Ctrl + P – Print                                                Ctrl + K – Web Search

Ctrl + F – Find                                                 Windows Logo + M – Minimize all windows

Esc – Stop                                                      Windows Logo + Shift + M – Restore Minimized

Ctrl + R – Reload                                                                                             windows    

Ctrl + +  – Zoom In                                       Windows Logo+E – Open My Computer

Ctrl + -   – Zoom Out                                    Windows Logo+F – Search for a file or a folder

F11 – Full Screen                                        Windows Logo+ L – Lock the keyboard   

                                                                       Windows Logo+R – Open the Run dialog box

These are some of the useful keyboard shortcuts when you are browsing. Try using these short cuts right now.

How safe is public computers?

Many people uses  Cyber Cafes, Colleges, Airports to browse Internet. Generally people check emails, bank accounts, Instant Messengers and many more in Internet. While using these services we have to enter personal or financial information like username and password. Its not safe for you to use public computers as you like.

The safety of public computers depends on how you use them. Follow these steps to keep your sensitive information safe.

> Don’t save your logon information.

When you try to logon to web sites  or Instant messengers you provide ID and Password. Before logon there you read remember me on this computer. Do not check this option. If you check this, It will keep your log on information on that computer. So, Others may access your Information.

> Don’t leave the computer unattended with sensitive information on the screen.

If you have to leave the public computer, log out of all programs and close all windows that might display sensitive information.

> Erase your tracks.

Web browsers such as Internet Explorer keep a record of your passwords and every page you visit, even after you’ve closed them and logged out.

To disable the feature that stores passwords
Before you go to the Web, turn off the Internet Explorer feature that “remembers” your passwords.
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
2. Click the Content tab, and then click AutoComplete.
3. Click to clear both check boxes having to do with passwords.
To delete your temporary Internet files and your history
When you finish your use of a public computer, you should delete all the temporary files and your Internet history.
1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
2. On the General tab, under Temporary Internet files, click Delete Files, and then click Delete Cookies.
3. Under History, click Clear History.

> Watch for over-the-shoulder snoops.

When you use a public computer, be on the look out for thieves who look over your shoulder or watch as you enter sensitive passwords to collect your information.

> Don’t enter sensitive information into a public computer.

These measures provide some protection against casual hackers who use a public computer after you have.
But keep in mind that an industrious thief might have installed sophisticated software on the public computer that records every keystroke and then e-mails that information back to the thief.
Then it doesn’t matter if you haven’t saved your information or if you’ve erased your tracks. They still have access to this information.
If you really want to be safe, avoid typing your credit card number or any other financial or otherwise sensitive information into any public computer.

Mashup is a web application that combines the functionality of two or more web sites or other sources.

You can create a mashup without writing a line of code to combine different web sites together to form cool, new creations.

No coding required. Create games using tools and have fun.

Create a web page with Popfly’s graphical editor and embed your favorite mashups. Easily build web pages without writing any code.

A Mashup of twitter map is shown here. This is a US twitter map. you can see it in Mashup examples.

Game creator console is equipped with easy to use and understand tools. Have a look at game creator below.

Web Page creator tool is look like Front Page. One can easily crate web pages by choosing web layout or create own layout and images.

Microsoft is trying to get Google users. But everyone fear that Microsoft may have back eye on us. Popfly is cool.