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Things To Try When You Are Unable To Connect To A Public WiFi Network

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WiFi zones have become quite famous among the people these days and everyone literally looks out for free and public WiFi zones for connecting their devices. Everyone is very much used to the internet these days. But the most annoying part of these free internet zones is that many of us face connection issues and because of these connection problems. Many people feel irritated with these kinds of problems and leave the internet zone without connecting.

When you connect to public Wi-Fi,  the request for access is intercepted and redirected to the captive portal. Oftentimes this works just fine and you can go on about your business. But sometimes this redirect is blocked by the browser because it attempts to redirect the request to HTTPS before it tries to connect to the server—this is a security measure. In short, it sees this redirect as potentially harmful and blocks it without any interaction from the user.

Connecting To A Public WiFi Without Any Issues

So, if you are also among those people who face some kind of issue while trying to connect your mobile phone or computer/laptop to an internet zone. Then don’t be worried, here is the solution for you

Let us now first get to know the cause of this connection problem. All the websites that use the HTTP protocol and are not forced by the SSL technology obviously behave in the same way as the HTTPS does. They don’t recall the captive protocol and that is why you can find no verification or login page. This is what basically causes the connection problem.

Let us now see how to redirect to the captive protocol in such a situation. The users just need to fill in the neverssl.com by opening this website link in the web browser on your mobile phone or computer whichever device you are trying to connect. And it will launch the captive protocol in a way the connection could be established.

This is the easy fix for the issues caused while trying to establish a connection with such public WiFi networks.

A Simple Guide On How To Use Microsoft OneNote

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Microsoft OneNote is one of the most underrated note taking app. Many have just known it as an application to save to do lists and write down notes, but you can also actually write notes, to do lists, shopping lists with a stylus, and you can also convert your handwritten notes into text and can also organize your recipes collection.

Creating Notes:

The structure of OneNote involves three layers which include Notebooks, Sections, and pages. Once you are done with creating Notebook and sections, you can rename the page by typing in the top left corner of the page. You can then start writing or typing your notes. When you right click on the particular page name you have on the left-hand side of the OneNote, you will get the various options that you can do with the page. You can either choose to have a plain page, or lined page or a page with grid lines.

If your monitor supports using a stylus, I mean if your monitor is a touch screen then you will be provided with the Radial menu which will allow you to choose among the four different pen styles and various colours of pens and sizes of the pen lines.

In case your screen is not a touchscreen, then you will find the paper icon which will have different options which are also OneNote’s more complex.

Camera option which allows you to click pictures and insert them directly into the OneNote page, draw option allows you to draw with your mouse, table option to create your own customized tables. This radial menu is one of the best things in OneNote which gives you easy access to the settings.

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Customization:

There is a big room for customization in Microsoft OneNote which makes it the best application. You can get a lot of customizing options once you right click on the particular section or a page you will get the various options to customize. Under the customization options for the section, you will get colour changing option, there will be about 16 colours to choose from which will change the appearance of the entire application once you select a colour, but the right panel and bottom panel colours will be default and will never change and will be purple always.

You can pin a particular page or section to the start screen which will give quick access to that page or section.

Microsoft OneNote automatically saves the content to SkyDrive which will not give a chance to lose your content. And this also allows you to share the links to your pages with your friends and all.

So this is how you can easily use your OneNote application, hope you like this and start using OneNote and make it your default note-taking app.

 

How to automatically lock your Windows computer when you are away from it

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It is very much important or even safe to lock your computer when you are not in front of it. As you may have a lot of personal and very important information, you can’t give a chance to anyone to play their tricks. With Windows 10 Microsoft added a Dynamic lock feature that works by pairing your phone to the PC using Bluetooth and will automatically lock the computer when you step away from it.

But don’t worry if you are still using the old operating systems of Microsoft like the Windows 7 or 8.1, then don’t worry, there is a software program to help you. A locked PC is a safe PC.

Go through the link below to get that software on your PC

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Bluelock.shtml

The application is called Bluelock which is a very simple tool that has been there for many years. For this, your system should have Bluetooth and you should have your phone always handy. After you download the application from the above link, just open it. Turn Bluetooth on on both your PC and Phone, then it will list your device in the Discovered Bluetooth Devices window. Double click on it to make your phone the lock to your PC. Adjust the time slider to your required time after which you would like to lock the PC. That means once you are away for that particular period of time, it will be locked.

So, do try this simple application to experience some safety and security.

Forget Octa-core, 1000 Core Processor is Coming

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How many cores in a processor would be there as far as you know? Two? Four? Six? or Eight? Whatever the processors that we are using today does not exceed much. The US scientists have invented a new 1000 core processor by bagging another record in the computer technological advancement.

The 1000 core processor is named as Kilo-core processor which represents the 1000 cores inside. This processor can amazingly execute 1.78 trillion instructions per second containing 621 million transistors.

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A processor would not be an ideal chipset if consumes more power. The kilo-processor takes less power and works smartly. Each core in the processor will turn off the charge when not in use automatically. This is the first processor with the highest clock-rate ever designed.

This 1000 core processor even dominates the IBMs 32nm CMOS technological chip that is being used. The multiple cores in the kilo-processor work independently unlike other multi-core processors. The number of processors embedded in a chip so far didn’t cross 300 cores. The 1000 core processor would be the first of its class with 4-digit cores.

The each core of the kilo-core processor works at the clock frequency of 1.78GHz, transferring data to each other directly rather than using the pooled memory. Pooled memory can squeeze the amount to be used by the core and lets them wait until some other core releases it. The direct transfer saves the waiting time for the processors.

If everything goes well, these processor will be available to us in this decade itself. But, don’t expect them for normal prices.

Why you need to turn off your Webcam immediately?

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Webcams are essential for today’s communication through desktops and laptops. But the same webcams causing privacy issues if the system got hacked or infected. We came across many incidents where hackers captured naked video footage from the systems they hacked.

How webcams hacked?

Any program such as Skype installed on the laptop can activate webcam and broadcast the captured images to the remote server. While browsing illegal, porn sites people accidently installs rogue browser extensions and software which take control every aspect of the computer. Remember that; any program can activate webcam if it has such functionality in the code written.

Disconnect or cover the Webcam

If you are using a webcam on your desktop computer, it is the best idea to unplug the webcam when not using it. People feel it discomfort to unplug and plug the webcam repeatedly whenever they want it. But the negligence can lead to webcam hacking. So never connect webcam continuously to the desktop computer.

A webcam on the laptop itself equipped onto the motherboard so that you can’t disconnect it. So it is a good idea to cover it with a small plastic tape or sticker. We can disable webcam through the Windows Device Manager or the BIOS. You can purchase webcam covers specially available to close the laptop webcam on the Amazon.