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Pingdom is a paid uptime monitoring company which will monitor your any website and should it go down, they will immediately notify you about it either via email or SMS or both. After you create an account with Pingdom, you can always monitor whether the hosting you’ve chosen is up to par or not.

If your website is down, this service checks every minute if your website is up again or not. The data is very reliable as this service makes test from several locations from around the world to make sure it is really down.

However, this paid service costs as much as $9.95/month, but recently, this uptime monitoring service is offering a totally FREE package with 1 check and 20 SMS alerts!

With the Free account (which is not just a free trial, but a standard free account, you can only check one website with 20 SMS alerts only; however besides that, you have access to all the features.

I have just signed up and added Enfotainer to my Pingdom account. You can also sign up for Pingdom account from here. Get free Pingdom account now!

Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.5 a couple of days ago, the latest version of my favorite web browser. If you’re still with the 3.5 Beta version, here is a link to download Firefox 3.5.

Well, if you’ve not been using Mozilla Firefox web browser till now, I strongly suggest you start using it immediately! It is not only more faster than other browsers but also more convenient and easy to use with fantastic functions like Private Browsing Mode.

On the previous beta versions, you could not enable private browsing mode - what you could do is remove your browsing history for just a specific website or just the history of the last few hours browsing.

However, with the release of Firefox 3.5, now you can always start and stop private browsing mode. Here is how you do it.

• Make sure you’ve downloaded Firefox 3.5 and not Firefox 3.5 Beta.

• Click on the tools menu and click on “Start Private Browsing.” You can also use the shortcut simply by pressing Shift + Ctrl + P (Press Shift, Control, and P keys at once together).

• Firefox will ask you to confirm your decision. Confirm it my clicking on “Start Private Browsing” again.

• To end your private browsing session, just again click on “End Private Browsing” on the tools menu or again press Shift + Ctrl + P.

As soon as you activate Private Browsing mode in Firefox, all what you’ve browsed, cookies, and data are stored temporarily, i.e., as soon as you end the session, everything will be flushed out with no traces left behind of your browsing history!

When it comes to homepage pagerank checking, there are a wide variety of web tools available such as PR Checker and many more which are equally reliable. But what do you use to check your internal page ranks?

Of note, Google does not only update the homepage rank but also the internal pageranks from time to time. And to check such internal page rank, throughout my blogging work, I have not come with anything better than the downloadable Google Page Rank Checker tool. The Google Page Rank Checker v1.0 is an extremely efficient tool to check all the internal page ranks more accurately with just a single click!

There are other sites also which provide internal page ranks such as Web Diagnostic Tool but I find them kind of too slow, especially when you have thousands of internal page ranks to check.

I’d previously downloaded this superb tool, Google Page Rank Checker v1.0 from some site (I don’t recall from where) and accidentally deleted it. When I tried to redownload the program, I was unable to even find a trace of this program on the Internet for this superb program. After a long struggle, I was however able to recover it from deletion via a recovery program, and I have this program, intact! You can also now download this free tool via this site and use it for your personal use.

Download Google Page Rank Checker v1.0 Now! (Working Version!)

If you’d like to know more about Google, the Top 7 Interesting Facts About Google PageRank might be helpful to you to understand how page rank determines the popularity of a site and why you should go for it.

Tinyurl.com is a cool service and there are many such URL shortening services such as BudURL. These services come handy especially when you have a limited space to use and when you’ve got to send a long URL, such as in services like Twitter.

However, how about such URL shortening service with which you can not only track the stats like number of clicks it got, etc. but also click details like from where the clicks came, country/region of the clicks, etc., all updated in real time! Wouldn’t that be cool!

Bit.ly is this new free URL shortening service which not only shortens the URL but also traces the clicks and provides the user with detailed information on the number of clicks, country/region from where the clicks came, etc.

If you are one of those who use Twitter extensively, you might be interested in knowing at what day people click on your links or where are those people located, etc.

You can access the complete history of your bit.ly links at any time and store your twitter and other preferences. So what are you waiting for? Get your free account!

Searching for a web hosting provider? How about an unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited features, unlimited hosted domains, and a free domain for life at just $4.99/month! Yes! That’s what cPanel Hosting.com is offering.

If I’m gonna start a new tech blog, this is where I’m gonna set up. I’ve actually been searching for some best web hosting providers for many days, have been researching on various web hosting companies and web hosting review sites, and what cPanel Hosting had to offer was in fact more than interesting - a free domain for life!

Here are some of the salient features of cPanel Hosting:

• cPanel/Fantastico/RVSkins

• Blazing fast DELL servers

• Guaranteed 99.9% Uptime

• Automated weekly backup of your database

• Free Addons and instant setup (preinstalled Fantastico etc.)

• 24/7 Live Support available

• Affordable Shared Hosting, cPanel Reseller Hosting and cPanel VPS Hosting

• 30-Day Money Back Guaranteed!!

Just compare these features with any other web hosting providers - you’ll find cPanel Hosting comparatively better!

I understand that choosing a web hosting company is a very confusing work, especially when all web hosting providers equally claim to be the cheapest and equally reliable. Well, I’ve already undergone through this process where I spent endless hours just searching for my perfect web hosting. I did not know about web hosting review sites that time, and all I did was consult with webmasters and friends here and there.

Well, believe me, that time I got a wide variety of different answers from different webmasters, making things even more complicated on what to choose. However, if someone asks me now which web hosting provider to go for, I think I’ve got an answer.

Actually, the answer is varied; it all depends on what you’re gonna do with your site! Would you like to run a blog or a forum, small business or an e-commerce web site? What you’re gonna do with your website is very important factor before choosing a web hosting provider/web hosting package. I’ve been collecting a lot of information on various web hosting providers, and I think unbiased web hosting review sites are one great spot to get all your researches done effectively and efficiently. And if you’ve been trying to set up your own site and researching about web hosting providers, you might also want to check web hosting reviews from SearchYourWebHost.com.

SearchYourWebHost.Com provides the users with unbiased, independent review of various web hosting providers, has many web hosting articles for beginner and advanced webmasters, and lists out top web hosting providers on various factors such as Linux hosting, VPS Hosting, Reseller hosting, etc.

Sites such as SearchYourWebHost.Com can simply make your choosing of web hosting providers effortless, helping you better research about web hosting providers. However, a word of caution, don’t solely base your decision on any web hosting review sites; they are great for initial assessment and narrowing your searches, but after that, you’ll need to do more researches on your chosen web hosting providers to make sure that the one you chose is perfect for your needs!

Conficker, also known as Downup or Downadup, is a new, incredibly sophisticated worm that came into existence on around October 2008, which has already infected millions of PCs around the world till this date.

Trust me, W32/Conficker is something you must be very alarmed about because this worm is a resilient virus with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology capable of completely killing your Windows Security System, and guess what - this virus is due to be activated on April 1!

The programmer of this virus has repeatedly been updating its software and computer experts don’t have a single clue what the creator is going to execute with this virus on April 1; the virus is scheduled to contact a server for instructions exactly on April 1. Is Conficker an April Fool’s joke or an unthikable cyberworld disaster, no one knows for certain as of yet. Even computer experts around the world are finding it completely impossible to destroy it.

With an innovative built-in p2p capabilities, this worm can force its way to shared folders, printers, office network, USB flash, and hard drives pretty quickly, and can completely destroy your security software, disable windows update, Windows Defender, Windows Error Reporting tool, etc., leaving your computer open to any attacks. Plus this worm uses a sophesticated RPC request and can execute codes on the targeted computer. Spooky, isn’t it?

Speculation about Conficker’s purpose ranges from the benign — an April Fool’s Day prank — to far darker notions. One likely possibility is that the program will be used in the “rent-a-computer-crook” business.

- New York Times

If you feel your computer is infected with this deadly virus, here’s what you can do to (hopefully) remove W32/Conflicker worm from your PC.

Steps of Removing W32/Conficker using Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool:

• Download Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

• Disconnect from the Internet

• Run the program to try and remove the Conficker worm

Steps of Removing W32/Conficker using Symantec Virus Removal Tool:

• Download Symantec W32.Downadup Removal Tool 1.1

• Disable System Restore and disconnect from the internet

• Run the tool to scan for Conficker worm

• Restart your computer and re-scan again to confirm there is no worm

I am not sure that these security tools can completely remove W32.Conficker from an infected system, but it surely is worth a try, so go for it.

UPDATE: March 28, 2009

Here is another W32.Conficker removal tool released just recently by McAfee, named as Stinger, which can remove 11 trojans including Conficker safely. Download McAfee’s Conficker Removal Tool.