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How to Setup Free Mail Server for Your Own Domain with Google

Yes that’s true you can setup your mail server for your own domain, absolutely free with Google!! As we know Google having mind blowing mail servers; you will be getting IMAP, POP, Mail forwarding ….etc for free and we can trust Google and they are with us for a long time now. So here are the simple 8 steps you need to follow to setup your mail server with Google.

1) Go to Google Apps and sign up for a standard account for your domain.

2) Once you provide your info, Google will take you to your control panel/Dashboard.

3) Note that Google needs to verify that you own your domain. So click on the link to verify your domain ownership.

4) At this point there are two ways of verifying ownership, HTML and CNAME method you can use any one of this which ever convenient for you.

5) Now setting Google apps as your mail server, by using this people can send mail to ‘userid@yourdomain.com’ and it will get routed to Google apps. If you need this, then sign in to your domain hosting service and go to the DNS panel for your domain and add the following to the MX (Mail Exchanger) section. Make sure you delete the default MX entry that is already there by default. If you don’t have access to MX you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

Priority        Mail Server

1             ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10           ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

If hosting provider allowing only one or three MX, then choose first 1 or 3. You can use priority as same.
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6) Wait a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on hosting providers). There will be a default email address which ever you passed while signing up this will be master account. If you need one more email account then go to your Google apps dashboard and “User accounts>> Create a new user” and add new email account. Also activate your Email.

7) In the “Service settings >> Email” menu you can change web addresses for accessing Email. For this create a CNAME and modify URL. This URL can be used to login to mail box (ie: click on “Service settings >> Email” menu and change the default web address to http://email.yourdomain.com or whatever you used for CNAME)

To use the custom URL email.yourdomain.com, you must change the CNAME record with your domain host.

a) Sign in to your domain hosting service.

b) Navigate to your DNS Management page. Generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings, if not you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

c) Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias:

‘email’

d) Set the CNAME destination to the following address:

‘ghs.google.com’

8) Wait for a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on Hosting providers). Then you can access to login page of your mail box using “http://email.yourdomain.com” or whatever CNAME you set.

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Google will be Nokia’s competitor in Online Mapping

Nokia-Map

Nokia is taking on the world with the latest addition to their online social website Ovi.com. Nokia revealed an early version of their new Map software on Ovi.com.

The demo is impressive. Unlike most web-based mapping applications, the screen refreshes rapidly, enabling you to pan, tilt, and spin your view of the map while the screen refreshes almost instantaneously. zoomed around a yellow-and-blue map of San Francisco with an aerial abandon that felt like flying over the city, in comparison with Google Maps’ pokey dirigible. Nokia gets that speed by using vector-based maps and doing the redrawing computation on the user’s computer, rather than the servers.

Demo Video here
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbfMSVgpWQ&NR=1

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The company is planning on publishing an API for developers to create various applications that will allow this software to interact with other software on the PC or mobile phone.
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=2f1ovS6Cvls
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Edit Publish and Download Pictures for Free with Google Tool

PicasaYes Edit, Publish and Download Picture for Free with Google’s Picas. The Picasa 2.7 is packed up with features like web album upload and download, localization in many languages, folder hierarchy views, better RAW support and more. Google contributed to Wine’s development, by contracting with CodeWeavers to improve Wine to run Picasa 2.2 in a proper way. Google also asked some interns to work on some areas of Wine, such as widl, msi, riched20, etc.

You can download and upload images from and respectively to Picasa Web Albums, in a simple and easy manner and you can distribute your Picasa Web Album URL to your friends too. When you want to share some photos, let’s say you took on a trip, you can post them online by using the new “Web Album” button. The albums can be downloaded directly into Picasa by using Firefox. The photo edits you do can be saved to disk, and you can revert to the original file, in case you do something wrong.

You can work with RAW files from cameras like Canon 30D, Nikon D200, with Adobe DNG files and much more. The photo import from a camera to Picasa is much faster now. Larger thumbnails, better caption editing, ability to configure the row of buttons, a special “Starred Photos” album are only a few of the new features and improvements of Picasa 2.7.

Picasa really shines when it comes to organizing pictures, with improved search capabilities and a time-line slide-show function for beautifully displaying your photo collection. It also automatically resizes your photos for e-mailing. You get several options for storage and sharing. You can burn albums to DVD or CD, print pictures at home
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The Picasa package is made up of the Picasa application, Wine and the web page rendering engine Gecko. If you want to use Picasa, you must have the following Requirements

For Linux:

  • To download from Picasa Web Albums, you will need a Mozilla-based browser.
  • Intel 386-compatible CPU
  • glibc 2.3 or greater
  • a Linux kernel >= 2.6.13 (this is necessary only if you want to be notified of file changes; if you have a newer kernel and HAL – Hardware Abstraction Layer – the new media you insert is automatically detected).
  • Linux kernel >= 2.6.13, HAL >= 0.56, libgphoto2 and gnome-volume-manager or equivalent are required for camera detection and integration.
  • Recent version of GNOME or KDE.

Download Picasa 2 for Linux right now from Here….

Installing Picasa :

If you’re using a recent version of Linux, you should be able to pick “Open With Default Application” or double-click on the downloaded .rpm file to install.

If that doesn’t work, open a terminal window and install with a command like

$ sudo rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm

or

$ su
# rpm -Uvh /path to rpm file/picasa-2.7.3736-15.i386.rpm
# exit

After installation Start Picasa by looking in your Linux distribution’s Graphics menu. If you can’t find it there, give the command

# /usr/bin/picasa

in a terminal window.

For Windows:

  • PC with 300MHz Pentium® processor and MMX® technology.
  • 64 MB RAM (128MB Recommended)
  • 50 MB available hard disk space (100MB recommended)
  • 800 × 600 pixels, 16 bit colour monitor.
  • Microsoft® Windows 2000, or Microsoft® Windows XP.*
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 or better (6.0 recommended). If at any time you get an “unable to authenticate” error, you should upgrade to IE 6.0.
  • Microsoft® DirectX 7.0 or higher (8.1 ships with XP, 9.0b recommended).

Download Picasa 2 for Windows right now from Here….

Double-click on the downloaded .exe file to install then run it form program files.

Now you can use the application for editing the images and publish it to Picasa Web Albums. Also you can download images which ever you missed or deleted from you PC from Picasa Web Albums. Remember its also an absolute free service from Grate Google.

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Best Tips to Protect your Web Sites from Hackers and Malicious contents

Hack

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.These Web-based attacks become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for worms and viruses to directly attack computers. Nowadays about 1.3 percent of all Google search queries list malicious results somewhere on the first few pages.

Criminals are getting better at this kind of work. They have built very successful automated tools that poke and prod Web sites, looking for programming errors and then exploit these flaws to install the drive-by download software. Often this code opens an invisible iFrame page on the victim’s browser that redirects it to a malicious Web server. That server then tries to install code on the victim’s PC. “The bad guys are getting exceptionally good at automating those attacks,”

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Following are some tips to get rid of this hackers or hijackers activity.

– Keep you password and username safe change it frequently only with strong password check your password with Microsoft

– Keep your PC clean from viruses and spy-wares because there are chances to hijack your PC contents and login cookies etc. Scan your PC for viruses now with NOD32 Online Antivirus Scanner

– Keep all folders and files permissions proper in your web hosting accounts/server. Never give full permission for the folders and files, that means read write and execute permission. If you are hosting sites in Linux platform never give 777 permission (read write and execute permission) to all members even for net users of file and folders. The preferred maximum permission is 755. This means write permission for root user and only read and execute permission for others.

– There are many techniques used to hack/hijack the website

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

SQL injection flaws

Site reconnaissance

Session hijacking

Application denial of service

Cookie/session tampering

To withstand from this you need “professionally well designed websites” and also powerful web sitefirewall at server end.

– You need to choose good web hosting platform or company which provides good firewalls and Security. If you are going for Linux platform better to choose Grsecurity enabled kernel Servers; especially for shared hosting.

– But not the least the best way to find the flow in website is by checking the web site stats all the day. By this you can find the links/URL which are not related to your website so that you can delete it before it spreads through search engines.

– If some one reports your site having virus then its 99% sure your site home pages are having masked IFrames at the beginning or last lines of the page, which actually downloads virus file form some other server/site. You can fix it your self by editing your home page and removing the contents which looks like as shown bellow.

Iframe

These are some of the tips which really helps to protect yourself from Hackers and Malicious contents

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Tips to Protect your PC from Malicious Sites Using McAfee Siteadvisor Plug-In

McafeeMcAfee SiteAdvisor, a plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, tests, analyzes and rates websites in detail for unsafe or annoying practices such as dangerous downloads, spamming, misuse of personal information and browser hijacking. This helps you sidestep possible identity theft or fraud traps. When searching with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s easy-to-understand safety ratings too

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1) Browser tool bar

As you browse Site, a small button on your browser toolbar changes color based on SiteAdvisor’s safety results.
Red (Danger) Mc Red

McAfee tests revealed some serious issues that you’ll want to carefully consider before using this site at all. (Example: The site sent lots of spam e-mail or bundled adware with a download).

Yellow (Caution) MC Yellow

McAfee tests revealed some issues you should know about. (Example: a site tried to change browser defaults, or sent a lot of non-spam e-mail)

Green (Safe) mc green

McAfee Tested the site and didn’t find any significant problems. (Secure sites.)

Gray (Not submitted site) Mc Gary

The site has not been tested, or is in the process of being tested also you have option to submit the site to test also.

You have a menu options on SiteAdvisor’s toolbar which let you customize SiteAdvisor or see a site’s detailed test results too.

2) Search Page

When you search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s safety ratings appear next to search results. Ratings—Red indicates dagger that means this site reported virus downloads and also linked to malicious sites which already rated Red in Macfee database.

Search-res

You can also get more information about the site by keeping the mouse pointer on the alert symbol; it will show a popup in search window it self, which gives summary of the sites status.

Search Pop

3) Detailed Test Results

Also a detailed test results for every site are available by clicking on the more info link; in that you can see the external sites which are linked to this site as shown bellow.
Linked

So it will be very hand if you installed McAfee SiteAdviso in your PC while surfing the giant www network.

Download it here….

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Google had security issue with its GrandCentral.com telecom service and Google.com : Fixed

Google

Google has fixed security issue related to its Central telecom service and its Google.com Web site..

Google fixed a cross site scripting exposure on the log-in page for Grand Central, a service that allows people to have numerous phone numbers ring on one phone and have a unified voice mail.

A cross-site script is a vulnerability found increasingly in Web applications in which malicious code can be injected into Web pages that could be used to attack or compromise visitors to the site.

“This issue was reported on Monday morning, and google closed it shortly after being notified”.

The vulnerability was posted to a security e-mail list called Full Disclosure and was not reported to Google in advance, meaning Google had to race to fix the issue before someone could write an exploit for it.

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In a separate security issue, Google fixed a weakness that allowed people to create a spoof site that looks like it goes to the Google.com domain but actually redirects a Web surfer to a different site. Such redirect links are usually distributed via e-mail and often send people to a site with malicious code that can be used to attack or compromise the visitor’s computer.

Google, meanwhile, was working to fix a redirect vulnerability related to the site of its DoubleClick online advertising unit.

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Yahoo announced BrowserPlus while Google de-branded Gears!!

Yahoo

Yahoo announced software called BrowserPlus that has a similar philosophy. Expand what’s possible to make Web applications a better alternative to programs running natively on a personal computer. Right now, it’s available only in a “sneak peek” on some Yahoo-operated Web sites.

But a year after the Google launched its Gears project, Google appears to be trying to make it easier for competitors to embrace Gears. At its Google I/O conference here Wednesday, Google de-branded Gears today, taking its name off the project and announcing some new Web browser support in the works.

“BrowserPlus is a technology designed to extend the Web, so that developers can build more exciting Web applications and so end users can get more done inside their Web browsers,” Yahoo said on a BrowserPlus frequently-asked-questions page.

Different Web sites can use BrowserPlus to support things like drag and drop from the desktop, easier file uploads, more efficient and secure acquisition of feeds and information, and native desktop notifications.

BrowserPlus works on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 machines and on Windows XP and Vista machines. Supported browsers are Internet Explorer 7 or later, Apple Safari 3 or later, and Firefox 2 or later.

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New Google Earth API and Browser plug-in unveiled

Google API

Google has unveiled the New Google Earth API and browser plug-in, allowing web developers to embed Google Earth inside any web page with a few lines of code, while the JavaScript API can be used to to enable Earth-based web applications.

Users are interested in seeing the world’s information in a geographic context, which has lead to the rise of the Geoweb, a collection of user-generated content associated with a given location. The Google Maps API, with over 150,000 developer sites, and the Google Earth client, with over 400 million downloads, are both successful tools to help users visualize this Geoweb of content.
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View the thousands of existing 3D buildings, or add their own 3D models and also switch to Google Sky mode for high-res imagery of stars, planets, and galaxies. As the latest member of their Maps API family, the Google Earth API allows web developers to turn their web pages into 3D map applications. They can now use the Earth as their canvas, leveraging the same technologies used in the desktop Google Earth client.

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Google Health beta service is officially Released

G-helthLike many of Google’s new services, Google Health is in beta, although officials said anyone can sign up for it and start entering their health data as we they promised earlier.

The public can go today to www.google.com/health and create profiles that include basic medical information such as existing medical conditions, allergies and any medicines being taken.

Google is one of several groups trying to “democratize” health care by allowing people to access and take control of their health records. Others include Microsoft, which announced its Health Vault initiative last year, WebMD and Revolution Health Group, founded by AOL co-founder Steve Case.

People who sign up at Google Health can also import medical records from U.S. pharmacies and medical facilities that have signed on as partners, which so far include Longs Drug Stores, Walgreens Pharmacy, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and several others.
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Google Health will be linked to some extent to other Google services, which could potentially also raise privacy or security concerns. For example, if a user creates a list of doctors’ contact information, the group of contacts will automatically appear in their Gmail account.

“Google Health is all about pulling together documents from your doctor’s office, labs and pharmacies to provide a holistic picture of your health,” said Google Vice President Marissa Mayer, who was joined by health industry professionals to launch the project at a press conference at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Concerns about privacy and security are seen as a big hurdle. Google says it will store health data in servers that are more secure than those it uses for other services. Users will be able to decide who has access to their records and to revoke that access at any time.

The service is available initially only in the U.S. Google is talking to partners in Europe and Asia, but the service is more complex than others it offers, because of the sensitivity of the data and the number of partners involved, so it will take more time to be rolled out in other parts of the world, he said.

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