Top 10 Free Proxy Applications

To visit YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and some other websites that are blocked in China, sometimes I use free online proxy tools, but most of the time, I like using free proxy softwares, since they are faster and free of ADs.

Among those free proxy softwares, below 10 are the most popular.

Bypass Firewalls & Get into Blocked Websites in School or at Work with FreeProxy

Okay kids, you’ve been searching the web for how to get into blocked websites in school, with no luck. Face it, you’re living in a world where your parents and your teachers want to protect you from the vile and nasty evils that lurk on the Internet. Why? Are there really child predators hiding in every corner? Is it really critical that you are not allowed to check your Gmail account during your free period at school? The reality is that Internet security “experts” around the globe are taking their jobs just a “tad” too seriously.

Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore

With Acronis Universal Restore you can recover the image of your system to a machine with dissimilar hardware.
This article applies to:
Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack (differences between True Image 2013 by Acronis, True Image 2013 by Acronis Plus Pack, and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation you can analyze in the table and paragraph below).

If you are using an earlier version of Acronis True Image Home, see respective articles:
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore
Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack

Install Windows OS in 5 minutes with NortonGhost or AcronicsTrueImage

Acronis True Image Home 2013 has just been released with some exciting new features to keep your data safer than ever. Including file synchronization and better network backup capabilities. Acronis has added New Windows 8 Integration to enable seamless integration into the Windows control panel. Friendlier user interfaces makes it easier than ever to backup and restore your data. See the True Image 2013 Review here.

For the sake of this review of Acronis True Image, lets say that I have just spent hours loading Windows XP on a new computer. I used Windows Update to install all 93 security updates, loaded and tweaked all of my applications to get them just the way I need them to be able to have my computer function exactly the way I like it. I do not want to do that job again any time soon. Another scenario would be that you are about to try something that you are not sure will work, like trying the latest and greatest video driver, and it has the possibility of crashing your computer. If you need to upgrade your hard drive without reinstalling Windows, this is the easiest way to get the job done.

Install Windows 7 or XP fast in just 10 minutes

Generally Windows installation is a very time consuming work. In the normal procedure, windows take approximately 45 minutes to install. This time interval seems to be very long. It becomes very boring task for the computer professionals who used to install windows on computers of their customers daily. The tutorial given below will explain how to install windows XP or Windows 7 quickly in less than just 10 minutes?  By following this tutorial, you can save much time. As a computer professional, this little tutorial can save your much time during the windows installation on the computer of your customers. This tutorial is explained in the simple steps given below:

Start your computer. Insert windows XP CD in CD/DVD-ROM drive. Your computer will automatically detect windows disc inserted. The computer will give a message “Press any key to boot from CD” Press any button from the keyboard to start windows booting.

How to Auto Publish Blog to Google (+) plus Page

Uploading Joomla to your web (hosting) server

After having developend and tested your website on a local server, the next big challenge is uploading the website to your web server, and updating the configuration such that you "go live". The tutorial below gives you the steps required to move your Joomla website from your local computer to a server. With a few tweaks these steps also apply to moving Joomla from one host to another.

Upload all files to your web server

The first thing you need to do is transfer the files to the web server where your live site will be hosted. To be able to do this, you will need FTP (FTP is a way of allowing easy transfer of files across the web) access to your web server. FTP access typically consists of:

Installing Joomla on local computer (localhost)

First to install joomla you need a webserver, php and mysql installed on your computer. If you don't have these installed..download WAMP (Windows Apache MySql PHP) server and install it. I am writing this tutorial using WAMP
as my server. But these steps are almost same in all other servers.

Follow the steps below

1. First you need joomla package. Go to Joomla website and download the latest version of joomla.
Follow this link download joomla. This tutorial is based on
Joomla 1.5.x.

14 Essential Plugins for WordPress

Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. WordPress plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize coding. So it so easy to add a plugin or remove a plugin from your blog site. WordPress Plugins are available from several sources. The “official” sources for WordPress Plugins are:

• Official WordPress Plugins
• WordPress Plugin Database

There are hundreds of WordPress plugins available in the Internet, but you may not require all of them for your site. I selected 14 essential plugins which I am currently using.

How to Backup your WordPress Database

Considering what happened on this incident , I think it's fitting to write up a tutorial on how to backup your wordpress Database. There are a couple of ways to backup your database, I'm going to show you how to do it using WordPress Database Backup Plugin .

1.Extract wp-db-backup.php, upload it into /wp-content/plugins/ and activate it under the Plugins menu.
2. Click the Manage menu in your WordPress admin area.
3. Click the Backup sub-menu.
The plugin will look for other tables in the same database. You may elect to include other tables in the backup.