How to Verify That You Have Typed In The Correct Password?

             When you type your password on a website, all you see are asterisk (*) signs. That is probably a security measure in web browser to prevent people, sitting next to you, from finding your password.

But there are cases when you would really want to know the exact characters that you are typing in the password filed.
For instance when logging into your online bank account, if you type the wrong password more than three times, the account access could be locked for the next few hours. And it’s not uncommon to make typing mistakes especially when you have
a long password.
A simple solution to prevent password typo errors is the show my password bookmarklet – just drag the link into your browser bookmarks.
Now the next time when you login into some website, just type the password and click the “show my password” bookmarklet before hitting the Submit button – this will reveal the actual password characters, not the asterisk signs. (see screenshot)

Thanks to Mr.Amit Agarwal (www.labnol.org)

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10 Key board tricks for Firefox browser

Firefox

1. [Ctrl] + [1] to [9] – jump to tab numbers 1 to 8 or last tab (9)
Rather than scrolling through all your open tabs, you can quickly navigate to a specific tab if you know its position. For example, clicking [Ctrl] + [4] will open to tab number 4 (from the left). With [Ctrl] + [9] you will jump to the very last tab, no matter how many you have open.

2. [Ctrl] + [Tab] or [Ctrl] + [SHIFT] + [Tab] – move up/right or down/left in tabs
Neat shortcut to move between tabs.

3. [/] or ['] – Find As You Type Text or Link
Firefox has a neat search feature, which is Find As You Type. When you click the [/] key before starting to type your search, Firefox will only search in text. Likewise, clicking the ['] key will only find links.

4. [Ctrl] + mouse wheel – change font size
With the new generation high resolution screens we often find that text on websites is way too small to read properly. Here is a little trick that can quickly increase the font size for better reading.
While you hold down the control key, move your mousewheel to increase or decrease the font size in Firefox. This will also work in other programs, for example Word.
This is also very useful for making a website fit your window size, rather than to adapt the browser window.

5. [Ctrl] + [F4] – close tab
A quick, mouseless way to close a tab.

6. [alt] + [F4] – close window
This will rapidly shut down Firefox.

7. [Ctrl] + [SHIFT] + [T] – open closed tab/s
Did you accidentally close that tab? Re-open it using this key combination.

8. [Spacebar] or [SHIFT] + [Spacebar] – scroll PageDown or PageUp
Give your mouse wheel a break and use the spacebar to move up and down a website.

9. [F7] – caret browsing
Caret browsing allows you to select and copy text from web pages using the keyboard.

10. [F11] – toggle full screen
Quickly change into full screen mode.
Find out about more shortcuts for Firefox, Windows and more Windows.  Also find out your favourite Firefox shortcut in our Poll.

10 Things Parents Need To Know About Internet Pornography

Courtesy ---- www.surfrecon.com

No one wants to talk about pornography. It's an awkward and uncomfortable subject, but if we don't take the time to learn why pornography can be so destructive, we won’t have the knowledge that we need to protect our families. 

During the past several years, I have had the opportunity to talk with plenty of people who emphatically said, “pornography is bad for you”, and I completely agree with them. But when I asked them why it’s bad, I got a lot of blank stares. The same people who felt so passionate about their beliefs only seemed to be repeating what they had heard from a friend, parent or religious advisor. 

The truth is there are plenty of problems associated with pornography use. I would like to take this opportunity to explain, what I consider to be, ten of the more important issues concerning pornography abuse. I hope these ten points will shed some light on the darkness of this subject matter and arm you with some new tools that can help you keep yourself and your families safe. 

1). Due to a lack of regulation, the Internet contains some of the darkest, most disturbing, and easily-accessible pornography ever created.

With the exception of child pornography, no other form of Internet pornography is vigorously investigated and prosecuted by law enforcement. Why? Because the courts cannot decide on whose definition of “pornography” to use, when the Internet is available to everyone, everywhere. Therefore, obscenity cases that were once routinely prosecuted are now stuck in limbo. 

If that weren’t enough of a problem, the computers that are used to publish pornography to the Internet can exist anywhere—including countries with relaxed or non-existent obscenity laws—leaving the door wide open to pornographers to do what they want. 

The combination of a lack of Internet regulations, law enforcement’s inability to prosecute obscenity laws, deteriorating social morals, and a $50-billion-dollar market for pornography worldwide has pornographers rushing-in to do anything and everything they can to grab as much of that money as possible, regardless of the harm they may cause to children, adults, and the performers themselves. 

The end result is that the Internet has some of the darkest, most-disturbing, most-violent and easily-accessible pornography known to man. The Internet is not a family-friendly place. Don’t treat it like it is. 

2). Pornography is not a victimless crime.

Some people would have you believe that pornography is a victimless crime. That is not true. Pornography frequently takes advantage of and abuses underage or barely-18-year-old individuals, luring them into the industry with promises of wealth and fame. Before these individuals can appreciate the magnitude of their decisions, they can be mentally and physically abused, contract sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, develop drug and drinking addictions, alienate themselves from family members, and succumb to the notion that pornography is all they will ever accomplish with their lives. 

Other performers are enslaved through drug and drinking habits or are simply abducted into sex-slave rings. These performers are coerced either implicitly or explicitly into performing increasingly-degrading sexual acts, with little hope of escape. 

When you view pornography or allow it to be viewed, you are contributing to the crimes and abuse being perpetuated against these unfortunate souls. 

3). On the Internet, everything is connected to everything else

Everything on the Internet—websites, webpages, images, videos, etc.—is connected by hyperlinks (links) to everything else on the Internet. Just because your children visit family-friendly websites like Disney.com or Nickelodeon.com doesn’t mean they are safe. 

With a couple of mouse clicks or by visiting less-scrupulous websites, your children could find themselves in the darker corners of the Internet very quickly. For example, youtube.com, a popular video hosting site, not only contains videos that are appropriate for children, but also videos that are nothing more than advertisements for adult websites. 

Another problem occurs when, with a few clicks of the mouse, your children wander from a clean site to a more questionable site, and finally to a website that is completely inappropriate. These types of links often exist within forums, blogs and other social networking websites. 

You should know what websites your children visit and check any external links from those websites. You should also consider making websites that have mixed content and questionable links off limits. 

You should also be concerned about gateway websites. Similar in respect to gateway drugs, like smoking, drinking and marijuana, pornography has gateway websites. These sites contain softer, more subtle forms of pornography (e.g., bikini websites, lingerie websites, or “funny”-but-sexually-suggestive-video websites), but link to increasingly harder forms of porn. The danger being that an unaware individual can be lead along a path to abuse and addiction by visiting increasingly harder-pornographic websites in order to feed his fascination. 

4). Internet pornography isn’t just on the Internet

Internet pornography is digital pornography, images and videos that can be easily copied and transported via a variety of different media and applications. In other words, a Web browser isn’t the only way to access Internet pornography in your home. 

Digital pornography can be easily copied and saved onto your home computer, a CD, a DVD, a USB thumb drive, or external hard drive. It can be sent and received via email, instant messaging, peer-to-peer (P2P), and other applications that have nothing to do with a browser. You can also access pornography with a number of web-enabled devices, such as a PSP (Playstation Portable), XBOX, or cell phone. 

Just because the browser’s history is clean doesn’t mean that someone isn’t accessing pornography in your home. 

5). What's legal and what’s not illegal

Is it legal for a website to allow your children to access pornography? Since adult websites aren’t being prosecuted for allowing minors to access pornography, it is essentially not illegal. 

Some adult websites do use a warning page as their home page, with a simple question: “Are you an adult? Enter or Exit.” These warning pages often feature pornographic content and act more like a teaser than a security feature. After all, there is no real technology behind that question. It is up to the user—in some cases a curious child—to decide whether to click on the “Enter” or the “Exit” button. 

Furthermore, as I have stated earlier, the only form of pornography that is regularly investigated and prosecuted is child pornography. Your children need to know that taking nude/sexual pictures of themselves or their friends—even if the pictures were taken jokingly or accidentally—could be considered by law enforcement as child pornography. There are, in fact, many minors who are facing child-pornography charges for doing just that. 

Lastly, you and your children should understand that the Internet can be forever. What I mean by “forever” is that if your children post a nude/sexual picture of themselves on the Internet that image could remain in cyberspace forever, haunting them for the rest of their lives. Even if law enforcement gets involved, that doesn’t guarantee the image will be removed from the Internet. 

6). Pornography is not sex

Some people believe that pornography is nothing more than a depiction of people doing "what comes naturally". Nothing could be farther from the truth. Not only is pornography devoid of the emotional and spiritual aspects of a healthy intimate relationship, but it also portrays attitudes and behaviors that are completely contrary to the ideals of love, trust, respect, commitment, kindness, consideration, etc. 

Surprisingly, there are people that use pornography to teach their children about sex. What a huge mistake. Pornography is absolutely toxic to healthy relationships and to the understanding of what a healthy relationship is. Do not use pornography to teach your children about sex. 

Even more dangerous are "barely legal" forms of pornography and child pornography, which can confuse your children into thinking that relationships with older individuals are normal and even desirable. In fact, sexual predators often use these forms of pornography to condition children to the idea of sex, making them vulnerable to their advances. 

Don’t use pornography to teach your children about sex. Don’t believe that just because your children are curious about sex, that looking at pornography is okay. It’s not, and you need to explain to them why it’s not. 

7). Pornography can be addictive

For someone who is predisposed to sexual/pornography addiction, a single pornographic image can be enough to ignite a lifelong habit. Not everyone reacts to pornography the same way. Not everyone who views pornography will become an addict. But for those who do, pornography is considered to be one of the most addictive behaviors known to man. 

If you have an addiction or someone in your family has an addiction, seek out professional help to overcome this disease. Don’t wait for the problem to become overwhelming and destroy your life. Seek out help. 

8). Pornography doesn’t make us healthy

Dr. Mary Ann Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Therapy, said this about pornography: 

"There are no studies and no data that indicate a benefit from pornography use. If there were a benefit, then pornography users, pornography performers, their spouses and their children would show the most benefit. Just the opposite is true. The society is awash in pornography and so in fact the data is in. If pornography made us healthy, we would be healthy by now."

Pornography is not healthy for us. Besides causing addiction, pornography can also harm individuals directly and indirectly in the following ways:

Objectification of women—and men—as sex objects 

Perpetuation of the “Rape Myth” 

Developing deviant sexual attitudes and behaviors 

Developing abusive attitudes and behaviors towards a spouse 

Developing a sexual dissatisfaction toward a spouse 

Devaluing and destabilizing marriage and family 

Inability to form healthy relationships 

Developing sexual-dysfunction problems 

Being terminated for accessing pornography at work 

Physically, emotionally or sexually abusing a spouse or other individuals 

Divorce 

Incarceration 

And even suicide or death 

No one is immune to the harm pornography use can cause. The damage may be subtle or more obvious, but if you are using pornography, you are being affected in some way. 

9). Education is a big part of prevention

If your children have access to a computer and/or the Internet, you need to discuss with them the dangers of pornography. Don’t wait because they are younger and only like to visit juvenile websites. If they are on the Internet, they are participating in an adult world. 

One accidental misspelling, one curious click on a link, or one “funny” email from a friend, and they could be exposed to absolute filth that they will find confusing and alarming. Use age-appropriate language to warn them about pornography and the Internet. Let them know that if they accidentally stumble upon some pornography, they should tell you immediately. These accidents are excellent opportunities to teach your children right from wrong and why they should avoid pornography. 

10). Nothing can replace good, old-fashioned parental supervision

Deploying an Internet filter or firewall is a good first step for securing your home. However, filters and firewalls have limitations. They cannot block everything. 

In fact, the best filters are only expected to block 91% of all pornographic content on the Internet, leaving thousands of adult websites and millions of pornographic images and videos unblocked. 

Furthermore, today's super-tech-savvy population can bypass a filter or firewall easily, using a number of methods that are common playground knowledge. Something as simple as your children keeping pornography on a CD or USB thumb drive might be enough to fool you into thinking that your home is safe. 

You should absolutely use a filter to avoid accidental exposure, but nothing can replace good, old-fashioned parental supervision. You need to know what your family is doing on your home computer; how they are using the Internet; what websites they are visiting; if they have CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, or external hard drives; what other web-enabled devices do they have; where are any wireless networks in your community; and much more. 

You have no choice but to take the time to learn about computers and the Internet so that you can properly supervise their use. Local colleges, business and community centers offer a variety of courses that can help you learn how to protect your family and monitor your home computer. 

There are also a number of tools that you can use, such as SurfRecon’s pornography-detection software, to help you quickly detect any pornographic content hidden on a computer or other digital device/media. Besides helping you to find hidden pornography, pornography-detection tools can act as a deterrent within your home, helping family members act more responsibly when using the Internet. 

One last word of warning

If discussing the topic of pornography has made you curious, and you are entertaining any thoughts that you might want to see it for yourself, STOP. Dabbling with pornography “just to see” is like shooting up with heroin… just to see what’s it like. If you are predisposed to addiction, you are going to find out quickly, and the consequences can be devastating. 

Stay away from pornography, keep your family away from pornography, and be aware of how and where it can attack you and your family. 

Hopefully, this information has given you some ideas for how you can better protect yourself and your family. More importantly, the next time someone asks you why you think pornography is “bad,” not only will you have some answers for him, but you can also help him understand why he should stay away from pornography as well.
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How to Filter Porn Web Sites on Your Computer

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How to Filter Porn Web Sites on Your Computer

Modify the windows hosts file

• Locate your HOSTS file. The hosts file is located in different places depending on your Windows version.
• For XP/VISTA/7 it is located in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC directory.
• For 2000 it is located in the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC folder, depending on the nature of your Windows install
• To view the contents of this file, browse to the location of the file and double click on it. You will be asked whether you want to search the internet for a program to open the file or if you wish to choose from a list. Choose the list option and open the file with Notepad. You can now view all of the websites that are being blocked.
• To manually block a site, go to the bottom of the file and on a new line type “127.0.0.1 siteyouwanttoblock.com” without using quotes. This will block siteyouwanttoblock.com. Repeat the process for any other sites you wish to block, and then save the file by going to File>Save.

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox about:config command

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Menu: address bar / about:config
Level of expertise required: Expert

The about:config command is a very powerful tool for the advanced Firefox user, and should not be used by beginners. It will display a long list of fields that can be used to change the default behavior of Firefox for many events, or change preferences that are not accessible through the normal preferences menu. For an extended list of what each field means, consult this about:config entries page from mozillazine.org, or this Firefox Tweak Guide page from tweakguides.com. Personally, I've used it to change its default behavior toward links popping up new windows, which I changed for the link popping up a new tab instead (see: browser. link. open_newwindow). There are direct about: commands, such as inserting about:mozilla, which generates some pseudo-religious babbling (it's kind of an easter egg), or about:cache?device=disk to see the content of your cache. If you think you made an error and want to revert back to the default value, right click on that particular field and select reset. Values that are changed from the original installation will appear in bold. 

Firefox Browser tips

Backing up your Firefox data

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Level of expertise required: Medium

A lot of work can be invested in building up your bookmarks, configuring Firefox just the way you like it, and inserting all those logins and passwords that Firefox remembers for you, so you would probably feel better if you could make a back up of this data in case something happens, like a possible corruption when losing power suddenly. Note: the following instructions is equally applicable to your Thunderbird files. First, make sure that you can view invisible files in Windows. To do so, in a folder menu, select Tools and Folder Options. Click on View and select "Show hidden files and folders". Now, make sure that Firefox is closed or it will not permit the copy of your data. Once this is done, go to this address, where "YOURNAME" is your Windows Profile folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Application Data\Mozilla

Copy the Firefox folder to a place on your computer where you store your data, preferably in a different disk partition or a second hard disk altogether. Another little suggestion on that topic: bookmark the pages of all your favorite extensions in Firefox Add-ons, it will be easier to install them all back if something were to happen.

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox Live Bookmarks

Level of expertise required: Medium

Live Bookmarks are a great way to subscribe to RSS feeds to easily keep track of new blog entries, daily news or any other web sites that is updated regularly and offers this service. When you bookmark such a site using the little orange icon, a folder with the title of the site will be created in your bookmarks, all news titles are updated automatically and will be displayed as a bookmark link. Just click on it and you directly access that particular news. You didn't even have to visit the site to see what was new! So now you have an easy way to monitor multiple blogs or news sites with just a quick look. It is very easy to set up. If your site of interest has the little orange icon next to the address bar, it means it provides a RSS feed that you can subscribe with Live Bookmark. Click on it and add the new site in your bookmarks (my preference is to create a folder called "Live Bookmarks" in my personal toolbar for easy access and add all my Live Bookmarks there).

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox Personal Toolbar

Menu: Bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks
Level of expertise required: Medium

When you add a bookmark in your personal toolbar folder, that site title and icon will appear in the personal toolbar under the address bar. A few other things to consider: shorten the title name so you have more space (right click on it and select properties and change the field called "Name"), better yet, erase the title completely and you'll have just the icon, as shown in the image above. Another practical tip is to move a whole bookmark folder in your personal toolbar folder and you'll have a quick access to all its content.

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox Multiple Bookmarks

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Menu: Bookmarks / Bookmarks All Tabs
Level of expertise required: Medium

You have done a lot of research on a particular topic and have up to 10 web pages opened in different tabs at once. You have to call it a day, yet you would find it laborious to bookmark all those pages one by one and create a specific folder for it, especially when you know these pages won't serve you much longer after your work is done. Well, Firefox has a neat way to bookmark many pages at once and give it a simple name. Simply go to the menu Bookmarks and choose Bookmarks All Tabs. When you go back in your bookmarks, you will notice a new folder, open it and choose "Open in tabs" and all your pages will open just as you left them.

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox Privacy

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Menu: Tools / Options / Privacy / Settings
Level of expertise required: Beginner

Firefox has a high level of privacy and any traces of your browsing activities such as history and cache can be erased easily, if you're on a public terminal, at work or if you just browsed not recommendable web sites. To do so, simply select the menu Tools, then Options, then Privacy, and you'll see a Settings button at the bottom, where you can set what will be erased when using the Clear Private Datamenu. You can even set this function to operate automatically when you close your browser. Once you have configured it properly, you can activate it with the menu Tools / Clear Private Data.

Firefox Browser tips

Firefox Keyboard shortcuts

Level of expertise required: Beginner

CTRL-L	Highlights the address bar so you can start typing an URL quickly.	CTRL-- CTRL-+	Decrease or increase font size of a page
CTRL-T	Open a new tab	SHIFT-Click	While clicking a a link, to launch a new window automatically
BACKSPACE	Go back in browser history	F11	Full screen mode
CTRL-K	Highlights the search bar so you can start typing an search query quickly.	F5	Reload the web page
CTRL-D	Bookmark the current page	ALT-F4	Close a window
CTRL-F	Find in this page	CTRL-U	View page source

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Google Chrome Browser Shortcuts

The following are some useful shortcuts:

• Alt+F – Open the wrench menu (i.e chrome settings menu)
• Ctrl+J – Go to downloads window
• Ctrl+H – Go to history window
• Ctrl+Tab – Navigate Tabs
• Alt+Home – Go to home page
• Ctrl+U – View source code of the current page
• Ctrl+K – To search quickly in the address bar
• Ctrl+L – Highlights the URL in the address bar (use this to copy/paste the URL quickly)
• Ctrl+N – Open a new Chrome browser window
• Ctrl+Shift+N – Open a new incognito window (for private browsing)
• Ctrl+Shift+B – Toggle bookmark display
• Ctrl+W – Close the current Tab
• Alt+Left Arrow – Go to the previous page from your history
• Alt+Right Arrow – Go to the next page from your history
• Space bar – Scroll down the current web page

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Google Cloud Print

Go to Settings -> Options -> Under the Hood -> click on sign into “Google Cloud Print”.

Once you setup your printer using Google cloud print, you can print to it from anywhere. i.e You can print to it from your mobile, other PC at work, or any other system that is connected to the internet.

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Autofill

You can use the autofill option to enter one or more addresses that you can use to fill-up any web forms. You can also use this feature to store one or more credit card information that can be pre-populated on web forms. Don’t use this feature on a computer that you don’t trust.

Go to settings -> Options -> Personal Stuff -> Click on the check-box “Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click” -> Click on Manager autofill settings -> Click on ‘Add new Address’ and enter the information.

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Highlight a Text and Search

When you are browsing a website, if you come across some word that you are not familiar with and like to perform a google search on it, just double-click on the text to high-light it, right mouse-click, and select “Search google for”, which will open a new Tab and search for the selected text. This saves some time.

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Detach a tab

If you have multiple Tabs opened, and like to detach a single tab as a separate Chrome instance, just drag the tab anywhere outside the browser, which will detach the tab and run it in a separate Chrome browser window.

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Resize TextArea

You can also resize a textarea that you see on any website. Please note that you can resize only the textarea and not a textbox. At the bottom right corner of the textarea, you’ll see two slanted lines, use your mouse, hold this, and drag it to resize the textarea on the screen.

You can try this yourself on the comment box (which is a textarea) located at the bottom of this page.

Google Chrome Browser Tips and Tricks

Navigate Between Tabs Quickly

• Use Ctrl+Tab to navigate Tabs one by one
• Press Ctrl-1 to go to 1st Tab
• Press Ctrl-2 to go to 2nd Tab
• ..
• Press Ctrl-9 to switch to the last Tab