127.0.0.1, also called the loopback address or local host, is a special IP address pointing back to the user’s computer. The local host is often called My Computer. This top-level domain loopback address has only one end point and gives a user access to a shared global file system via a browser. It prevents conflict [...]

The Token Ring is a Local Area Network (LAN) topological technology that was developed by IBM in the 1980’s as the standard for LAN design and architecture. It is a local area protocol which serves on the OSI Model at the Data Link Layer (DLL). The name derives from a special three-byte frame or packet [...]

Sampark is basically a user friendly software that is supplied free of cost to the public by the Income Tax Department. It helps to prepare income tax returns from the comfort of your home or office. It is not necessary that you should know the tax laws and its provisions. The Income tax department allows [...]

RBI Guidelines for Online Credit Card payment processing In order to make online transactions safe & secure , Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently passed a mandate, with effect from 1st August 2009 according to which all online payments are required to go through an extra level of authentication. As per the mandate, while [...]

The modern storage facilities available for computers are many and varied. There are many interfaces used to connect these cards to the host computer or portable notebook. Of the varied cords used to interface these storage facilities, the Serial ATA (Serial Advancement Technology) is one of the most modernised and highly used cables. SATA hard [...]

Laptop computers have become a very efficient mode of mobile computing today. Many of them fill in the communicative networking’s that make cell phones indispensable along with the superior processing power of personal computers. Most new laptops and notebooks have built in wireless connectivity options, but there are some who still do not have wi-fi [...]

The Domain Name Servers make Internet Protocol (IP) addresses into human-readable format such as “http://xyz.com”. The DNS have a huge repository of all domains, linking them to their characteristic IP address. Thus, when we type in an address in the URL (Universal Resource Locator) bar of any browser, we are actually asking the DNS to [...]

EEPROM is a type of non volatile memory used in many modern electronic devices that wish to store memory for a specific amount of time, and also want it to be erased at given times. EEPROM or E2PROM is an acronym for Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. Earlier Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM) [...]

Memory has always been a vital part of a personal computer. Greater the random access memory (RAM), greater the speed of the computer as it can access files and store them much faster than smaller RAM systems. DIMM stands for Dual-Inline Memory Module. These are the state of the art memory modules used in computer [...]

Mp4 stands for MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)-4, which is a modern compression for audio and video files. There are also many types of mp4; these “parts” range from one to twenty. Whenever someone is referring to mp4, they are probably talking about mp4 part 2, so that is the part I will be talking [...]

ASCII art refers to the artistic medium created primarily through the use of computer technology. ASCII art is commonly used for presentation purposes. In order to create this form of art, one needs to utilize a fixed-width font as compared to a variable-width font which is what is commonly used now in most document processing [...]

Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique used for presentation for different forms of content to various search engines and different presentations to the users. This is a deceptive method for hood winking search engines for the purposes of getting the desired ranks for desired keywords. Cloaking is resorted to for the purposes of showing [...]

Ethernet is one of the most commonly used network technology. These days a computer has become a necessity in our daily lives and moreover a system that cannot interconnect with other systems for official or other personal works is just of not much use. Ethernet was initially designed for coaxial cable or bus topology but [...]

A webmaster is referred to as the person accountable for maintenance as well as creation of design for the purposes of coding as well as smooth functioning of a website. As far as personal website is concern, the webmaster is equipped with the domain of the website. Small businesses frequently employ some in house employee [...]

SORBS are known as Spam and Open Relay Blocking System in spite of the fact that these are not strictly appropriate in spite of the fact that these involve listing open proxy servers as well as machines which have an appearance of getting hacked forms of spam. SORBS do not involve in blocking networks, or [...]

Spam is drowning the internet with very many copies of similar messages, in a concerted attempt to bring the people to the senses for the purposes of enabling them to receive them with willingness. Most of these advertising efforts frequently for spurious products get rich quick schemes or semi legal services. The cost involved is [...]

The basic function of Small computer system interface more commonly referred to SCSI is to server as a standard cable system that is used to facilitate physical connections and transfer of data between a computer system and its peripherals. The computer hardware is made up of a number of different components. Then you have other [...]

Just like we have new and improved software being developed for various purposes we have the computer hardware evolving at an equally fast pace. Amongst the different things related to hardware that has cropped up in recent years is the ATA. This is a new and improved technology that has replaced the old school technologies [...]

A DNS lookup will give you insight about any particular website. You will be able to access information regarding the owner of the website and other such things. Special ways have been developed in order to make this possible for the users. Below you will find the basics of performing a DNS lookup which is [...]

Technology related to the development of computers is developing at such a fast pace that it is almost impossible to keep pace. Each new invention is superseded by yet another one and the cycle continues. Furthermore we find that computer hardware has so many different elements of it and although many of use computers most [...]