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Android, Likely Will Be the Most Popular Smartphone OS Choices

Android, a Google’s open source operating system likely will be lead smartphone market. Android currently in second place worldwide and will become the leading smartphone operating system (OS) of this year. At least this is a new report from industry research firm IDC.

“2010 was Android’s “coming-out party”, while 2011 will be the “corronation party”, said Ramon Llamas, IDC senior research analyst.

Android, released a little more than three year ago, but now, android available on handsets from a variety product, like LG, Motorola, Samsung, HTC and others. And now android also has emerged as a key competitive operating system to Apple for tablets.

Accroding to IDC’s, in 2011 IDC predicts Android’s worldwide market share will be 39.5 percent, growing to nearly half of all phones by 2015 at 45.4 percent. Symbian now in second with 20.9 percent and having been abandoned, that position will fall to nearly zero in four years. Apple’s iOS is currently third at 15.7 percent and is projected to fall 0.4 percent.

RIM’s BlackBerry OS is now fourth at 14.9 percent, and is projected to drop slightly to 13.7 percent. Windows Phone 7 is projected to see the biggest increase, from its current 5.5 percent market share to 20.9 percent in 2015. Other Operatin System projected at 3.5 percent in 2011 rising slightly to 4.6 percent by 2015.

Research Firm Nielsen in January found 40 percent of those who purchased a smartphone within last six month chose smartphone with Android OS. Apple’s iOS 27 percent and the BlackBerry was choosen by about 19 percent.
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Simple Tips to Securing Your Computer System

Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything, from just a surfing, communication, to investing, online shopping, online banking and more. As we do these on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, crackers and attackers. While some may be looking to phish your personal identity information for resale, others simply just want to use your computers as a platform from which to attack other unknowing targets. Below are a few tips and tricks to make your computer more secure:

  1. Always make backups for your important information in a safe place separate from your computer.
  2. Install a firewall. Without a good firewall, trojans, viruses, malware, adware and worms can all easily access your your computer from the internet. Consoderatoin should be given to the benefits and differences between hardware and software based firewall programs.
  3. Always update and patch your operating system, browsers and software frequently. If you have a Windows Operating System, set the Automatic Updates to Automatic, you can choose schedule for your Windows operating system to download patch and update automatic. How to use this feature? Click on the start button, then click on the Control Panel and click on the Security Center and click Automatic Updates and choose Automatic.
  4. Instal antivirus software and set for automatic updates that you wish the most current versions and don't forget to set automatic schedule for scan in the whole computer.
  5. Do not open unknown email attachments. It is simply not enough that you may recognize the address from which its originates because many viruses can spread from a familiar address.
  6. Do not run programs from unknown origins. Also, do not send these type of programs to coworkers or friends because they may contain jokes, funny or amusing stories. They may contain a trojans horse waiting to infect a computer.
  7. Review your email and browser settings for optimum security. Why should you do this? JavaScript and ActiveX are often used by hackers to plant malicious programs into your computer. While cookies are relatively harmless in term security concerns, they do still track your movements on the Internet to build a profile of you. At a minimum set your security setting for the "internet zone" to High,and your "trusted Internet zone" to Medium Low.
  8. Instal a Cleaner Software. When you use your PC, there are a lot of traces left all over. Cleaner software will erase your webtracks, cache, cookies besides cleaning a others traces to make your PC more clean and faster. For those who know where to look your computer contains a treasure trove of information about what you get up to, seriously compromising your privacy and security.
  9. Disable hidden file name extesions. By defaults, the Windows operating system is set to "hide file extensions for known file types". Disable this option so that file extensions display in Windows. Some file extensions will, by default, continue to remain hidden, but you are more likely to see any unusual file extensions that do not belong.
  10. Turn off your computer and disconnect from the network when not using your PC. A hacker cannot attack your computer when you are disconnected from the network or your PC off.

There are a few easy tips and cost-effective steps to make your computer more secure. Hopefully this article can be usefull for all of us.
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CCleaner Free Cleaning and Optimization Software


CCleaner is a cleaning tool, system optimization and privacy. When you use your PC, there are a lot of traces left all over. There's your web history, Windows temporary files and cookies. And CCleaner removes unused files from your system, allowing Windows to freeing up valuable harddisk space and run more faster. CCleaner will cleans traces of your online activities such your internet history that can compromise your privacy (such as the cache and cookies). CCleaner contains a full featured registry cleaner, aside from finding and deleting broken items in the windows registry, deletes chckdsk file fragments, manage restore points and does an asortments of the tasks. It's highly configurable, CCleaner allowing you to select which problems to look for and which items to ignore. You might be surprised at how much disk space it can recover. The best part of this CCleaner is that's fast, norrmally taking less than a second to run. CCleaner is the most popular cleaner and optimizer software because CCleaner easy to use, small and fast

CCleaner will cleans the following:

  • Browsers
    Temporary files, history, cookies, form history on the browser you used on your PC. Supported in many browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari, K-Meleon, Rockmelt, Flock, Google Chrome Canary, Chromium, SeaMonkey, Chrome Plus, SRWare Iron, Pale Moon, Phoenix, Netscape Navigator, Avant and Maxthon.
  • On Windows
    CCleaner will cleaning a Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary Files, Log files, Clipboard, DNS Cache, Error Reporting, Memory Dumps and Jump Lists.
  • Registry Cleaners
    Removes Unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, shared DLLs, Icons, Fonts, Help Files, Invalid Shortcut, Application Paths, etc...
  • Third Party Applications
    CCleaner will removes and cleaning temp files and recent file lists <MRUs> from many Windows PC applications. For example, like a eMule, Google Toolbar, Windows Media Player, Mocrosoft Office, Adobe Reader, WinRAR, WinZIP, WinAce and others.


   download the latest version of CCleaner
Or visit the official website: www.piriform.com
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How to Use HTTrack Software, Step-by-Step


In this step-by-step tutorial we try to explain you in 5 step:

Choose a project name and destination folder that you want save your work

         In this step, It is more convenient to organize all file website you want to mirrors in one directory. You can fill or not on the Project category. For example Your Mirror Project. If you already have made a mirrors using HTTrack, be sure that you have selected on the right folder on your local directory.



Choose the action

        In this step, you can choose your action project, you can start a new download a website you want or continue your existing project for update or retry. If you try to continue your existing project, select the * update existing download in the pop up list.
  • The default action is * Download websites,
    in that options, HTTrack will transfer the desired sites with default options
  • * Download website(s) + questions
    This options will transfer the desired sites with default options, and ask questions if any links are considered at potentionally downloadable.
  • * Get individual files
    This options will get desired files your specify (for example, RAR/ZIP files), but will not spider through HTML files.
  • * Download all sites in pages
    This options will download all sites that appears in the site(s) selected. If you drag and drop your bookmark file, this option lets you mirror all your favorite sites.
  • * Test links in pages (bookmark test)
    This option just will test all links indicated. Useful to check a bookmark file.
  • * Continue interupted download
    You can use this option if a download has been interupted (user interruption, crash, etc)
  • * Update existing download
    You can use this option to update an existing your project. The engine will recheck the complete structure, checking each downloaded file for any updates on the web site.
If you finish to change your project option, now its time to enter the site's adresses, you can click on the Add URL button to each an adress, or just type them in the box.


Other option, if you may to define options by clicking on the Set Options to change filters or download parameters in the option panel and/or you may also click a add a URL if you want to define additional parameters (login/password) for the URL, or caoture a complex URL from your browser

Ready to Start Your Project

On this step, you can connect immediately or if you want you can delay the mirror
This is a option on the step:
  • Connect to this provider
    In this pop-up option you can select here a specific provider to connect to when beginning the mirror if you are not ready connected to the internet.
  • Disconnect when finished
    You can check this option if you want to HTtrack disconnect from a network when your mirror project is finished.
  • Shutdown PC when finished
    If you click this option your computer will be shutting down after your mirror project is finished.
  • On Hold
    You can enter here the time of the mirror start. you can delay up to 24 hours a mirror using this software.
Note:If you don't select anything, HTTrack will assume that you are already connected to the internet and that you want start the mirror now
If you finished, just click Finish on the Finish button.


Wait

You can cancel at the anytime the mirror, or cancel files currently downloaded for your any reasons (for example, file too big). Options can be changed during the mirror: limits, maximum number of connections, etc...


Check Log Files

If you finished with your mirror project, don't forget to check the error log file, which could contain useful information if errors have occured

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Easy Fast HTTrack Installation Tutorial

In this tutorial we try to explain about how to installation HTTrack to use in your computer step-by-step.

First, open your master installation driver in click twice until the window installation opened. Like picture below:



Click next on the right-bottom to continue the installation until show up the window screen like this picture:


In this window installation, you will see License Agreement window, click on "I accept the agreement" to continue installation.


You see, in this step installation, you will be able to change destination file installation on your local directory or you can let this installation file default.


On this step, you can change destination folder, or you can let him default.


In this step installation, you can select the additional tasks you would like setup to perform, while installation HTTrack, you can create a desktop icon, quick launch or none. Than you can click next.



In this step windows, just click install on the right-bottom button and let him working itself. or click back if you want to change any settings.




And yes, you're done. Now you can copy any website you want on the internet and save on your local directory.

Now, in the next tutorial, we try to explain step-by-step using HTTrack.

See also:

HTTrack website copier, useful freeware to copy website for offline browser

Easy Simple Use HTTrack Software
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HTTrack website copyer, useful freeware to copy webite for offline browser

Free offline website copier

 

HTTrack is a software to copy a full website to local directory on your computer. HTTrack is a free (GPL, Libre/Free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

HTTrack its allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the internet, building recursively all directories , getting images, HTML, and other files from from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link structure. Just simply open link a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link offline, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume mirrored downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Just note: This software available in two different types, winHTTRack is for windows 2000/XP/Vista releases and webHTTrack use for linux/unix/BSD release.

or see the official page about this software to find out more at www.httrack.com

 
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