4 Benefits and 5 tips to purchase electronic gadgets online

4 Benefits and 5 tips to purchase electronic gadgets online

In the present times, it is quite difficult to think of a life without electronic gadgets/widgets. With the help of latest techniques and innovations, these gadgets are being designed to suit customized requirements. However, it is quite difficult to get the latest information as everyday something new is being launched in the market. Apart from buying electronic gadgets online, you can also take help of internet to make yourself aware of the latest inventions in the world of electronic gadgets.

3 Popular types of electronic gadgets

While browsing through the online shopping sites, you can come across several such websites that display electronic items. Here are 3 popular types of such gadgets that you can easily find online.

1. MP3 players – It is one of the most popular electronic gadgets that are available online. You can find a variety of MP3 players with various specifications.
2. GPS devices – GPS (Global Positioning System) is a type of electronic device that is used for navigation. You can browse through the websites to look for voice navigation devices, barometer altimeter or portable real-time traffic information widgets.
3. Mobile phones – It is probably one of the most common electronic gadgets that people search online. Just by browsing through the sites you can update yourself on the latest inventions. You can choose a variety of cell phones (such as, with cameras, internet capability, video gaming features, etc.) along with a number of service providers.

Apart from above, you can also search for gaming devices, massagers, and electronic organizers along with some other fun and novelty items.

4 Benefits of buying electronic gadgets online

Here are 4 benefits of buying electronic gadgets online.

1. Latest information: As mentioned early, you can get latest updates on electronic gadgets simply by browsing online. You can read the reviews that will help in your purchasing decision.
2. Saves time: It also helps you to compare prices without stepping out of your home. Moreover, you can purchase your chosen item with the click of a mouse. Thus, you can save a lot time as you don’t have to visit from one store to another.
3. Lowest shipping charges: Some of the online retailers also provide you with the free shipping facility. All you need to do is simply pay a nominal amount for the delivery and the item gets delivered at your doorstep.
4. Avoid taxes: Usually, you only need to pay sales tax when you purchase an item from a store that is located in your state. Thus, you can avoid paying taxes if you purchase an item from a seller located in a different state.

5 Tips to buy electronic devices online

Below are 5 tips that you can follow while buying electronic gadgets online. It will help you to avoid being a victim of online purchasing fraud.

1. Always purchase items from secured sites, such as, the websites that have ‘http’ in front of the web address.
2. Never rely only on email addresses; take down company details (such as, the address, the phone number, the fax number) from where you’re making a purchase.
3. Take a print out of your order details along with the acknowledgement you’ve received.
4. Choose uncommon passwords for making online purchase and try to keep them secure.
5. Check your bank statement after purchasing an item online.

Apart from above, you should also check the company’s return policy while buying electronic gadgets online. Verify whether or not you can return the item and get full refund if you’re not satisfied with it. You may need to search for the return policy in the websites as it is not always displayed in the listing. It is advisable that you call the company if you have queries and purchase your items only if you get satisfactory answers. Follow these tips to get the best deal on your online shopping.

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Business: How to keep your LinkedIn account secure after the hacking scare Posted 2 days ago by Adrian Bridgwater

The business-focused social networking website LinkedIn has this week confirmed that “some” user passwords have been hacked, stolen and compromised by what appears to be a Russian web forum.

After initial reports suggesting that as many as 6.5 million properly encrypted passwords had been stolen, the company’s Vicente Silveira has detailed the steps taken by his company to rectify the issue.

All members whose passwords have been compromised will now find that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid. All these members will have received an email CONTAINING NO LIVE LINKS, but with instructions on how to “request password assistance” to then receive a subsequent email from LinkedIn with a password reset link.

LinkedIn’s Silveira also reminds users that members whose passwords have not been compromised will still now benefit from additional security measures the company has put in place, which involve the “hashing and salting” of its current password databases.

In his role as director at the San Francisco based social network, Silveira has also issued his own set of guidance on how to update your LinkedIn password and follow some industry-standard best-practice advice when it comes to security best practice.

For those users who now want to visit the site and perform a basic password change, the BBC News website has provided the following instructions:

1. Visit www.linkedin.com, and log-in with your details
2. Once logged-in, hover over your name in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and select ‘Settings’ from the menu
3. You may be asked to log-in again at this point
4. On the next screen, click the ‘Account’ button which is near the bottom of the page
5. Under the ‘Email & Password’ heading, you will find a link to change your password

If you happen to use the same password that you use on LinkedIn for other sites, it makes very good sense to be sure to change those too.

Email-based scams resulting from this high profile hack are reported to already include links to counterfeit drugs websites and data website e-Harmony. Users are reminded to be wary of all “warning” emails that differ from the format described above here.

Cloud Office Suites and Finance Services Offer a Wealth of Features

By Robert Strohmeyer, PCWorld

Get the Most Out of the Cloud

Online apps and services let you work from anywhere, on any device.

1. Get the Most Out of the Cloud
2. Cloud Office Suites and Finance Services Offer a Wealth of Features
3. Cloud Storage Services Keep Your Data Safe and Accessible
4. Cloud Phone Services Offer Flexible Calling Options
5. Cloud Security Apps Promise Up-to-Date Protection
6. Cloud Music Services Let You Enjoy Tunes Everywhere

Of all the PC software that people use, none is so entrenched on desktops as the office suite. Microsoft Office remains the de facto global standard in business-document editing, and every otheroffice package must support Office's file formats to survive. This fact largely explains why cloud-based office software got off to a slow and shaky start.

Although Google was by no means the first company to offer a cloud-based office service, it quickly emerged as the primary cloud-based competitor to Microsoft's hegemony over document creation. At a time when Microsoft seemed to be ignoring the cloud, Google served up three Web-based apps creatively named Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations--known collectively as Google Docs.

Google Docs has two main advantages over Office on your desktop: It keeps your documents available on any computer you use (as well as on most smartphones), and it makes sharing and simultaneous editing easy. As a collaboration tool, it's simply awesome.

The primary disadvantage of Google Docs is that, although it claims to support Microsoft Office formats, using the service is the surest way to completely mangle the formatting and layout of any moderately complex Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet. And in our experience, exporting Google Docs documents into their corresponding Microsoft Office formats usually produces disastrously unreadable results.

One of our favorite cloud office suites comes from Zoho. The company offers apps for just about every conceivable productivity task, from word processing to meeting hosting to calendar tracking, presentations, and accounting. It's a positively massive collection of different tools that work well together.

In addition, Zoho features excellent support for Microsoft Office formats, making it a better option than Google Docs for people who need to send their creations to Microsoft Office users. Zoho also provides a software plug-in for Microsoft Office that lets you create and edit documents from your Zoho account using the Office apps on your PC, and automatically save them back to your Zoho storage space. The plug-in is a great compromise for users who prefer working with desktop apps but want the convenience and collaboration benefits of cloud tools. Zoho apps are free for personal use; businesses pay to use the apps on a per-month and/or per-user basis.

Microsoft's Office Web Apps are simplified versions of their desktop counterparts.It probably goes without saying that nobody supports Microsoft Office formats as well as Microsoft itself does. With the launch ofOffice Web Apps alongside--and integrated into--Office 2010, Microsoft has effectively filled the void that its earlier desktop apps left open for Google and Zoho.

Microsoft's current Web Apps lineup includes online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (along with the note-taking app OneNote). All three replicate the look and feel of their corresponding desktop applications, sporting somewhat simplified versions of each app's familiar menus, so making the leap from the desktop to the Web shouldn't induce vertigo in even the most devoted desktop-app fan.

The Web Apps save all of their files to Microsoft's cloud-storage service, SkyDrive, where you can set sharing permissions on files, invite people to view and edit your documents, and even collaborate on shared documents simultaneously.

Note, however, that Office Web Apps are not complete versions of their corresponding desktop apps: Microsoft has simplified the features of the free Web apps to ensure that people still buy its expensive desktop suites. In the company's view, these apps are only a Web extension of the programs in its suites, which range from $150 to $500. (Looking for more-comprehensive cloud-based business services? See how Google Apps for Business compares with Microsoft's in-beta Office 365.)

Of the three office options here, we prefer Microsoft's offering for its dependable mix of robust desktop programs and work-from-anywhere cloud apps that provide complete, no-hassle support for the most widely used document formats on earth.

Free Personal Accounting

The ability to manage finances has always been one of the great selling points of personal computing, and selling copies of the Quicken personal accounting program made Intuit a very profitable company.

Through Mint.com, you can review all of your finances in one convenient interface.Then the cloud came along, and with it a free cloud-based personal-finance service called Mint.com, which rendered Quicken obsolete in the minds of Web-savvy users. Mint has all the features that most users need to keep track of their personal finances, it's accessible from multiple PCs and mobile devices, and it's free. And Mint--which Intuit later acquired--offers the same level of security as most online banking services do.

Yet Mint is different from your bank's online services, because it brings together all of your various bank and credit card accounts in one place in the cloud. If you're at all uncomfortable with the idea of a single Website tracking all of your personal financial data and knowing every single transaction you make, Mint might not sit well with you.

Mint isn't so great for people who own rental properties or who run home-based businesses or the like. Those people probably need to stick with the desktop version of Quicken.

Small-business owners should check out the Wave Accounting service, which is also free but includes the tools you need to manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, and payroll.

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Robert Strohmeyer is a veteran journalist and entrepreneur covering tech since the boom of the mid-90s. He's worked in the field as both an IT consultant and as an in-house IT manager, and now creates social and content marketing programs as director of PCWorld Content Works. Follow Robert on Twitter.

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How to repair driver conflicts

How to repair driver conflicts 

A device driver is a program that helps your devices (hardware such as printers, scanners, digital cameras, disc drives, etc.) communicate with your operating system. The more hardware you have, the more drivers you will have talking' at once. With all of this going on, sometimes drivers conflicts can develop between one or more drivers and the operating system. This does not mean that you cannot use these devices together on your computer. It just means that your computer is having a hard time figuring out how to make everything work in coordination with everything else, and the drivers are how this can happen. Repairing a driver conflict should fix the problem so that your PC works like new. Often, driver conflicts happen because one or more of your drivers are out of date. If you notice a problem (devices not working, system not working) immediately after installing software for a new device, chances are this device is the culprit. If a driver problem develops when there is no new device, it probably means that one of your drivers is out of date and is not up to speed with the rest of the computer. There are three ways to fix this.

1. Visit the website of the company that manufactures the hardware in question and download the most recent driver for your device and operating system. Restart your computer and see if this works.

2. If that isn't fruitful, you can delete the driver manually. To access the device manager:

* using Vista: Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Device Manager

*using XP: Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > System > Hardware > Device Manager Inside the Device Manager, double click the icon of the device, select the Driver tab, and click on Uninstall. Restart your PC, and then re-install the original driver by using the CD that came with your device.

3. If neither of these works, you can return to the system configuration that was functioning before the problem developed. This can be done by using the Windows roll back tool, called System Restore.

FTP – Alderney License Finally Revoked

FTP – Alderney License Finally Revoked


 Filed Under Online Gambling News, Online Poker News

We have been waiting with baited breath to find out the outcome of deliberations between Full Tilt Poker (FTP) legal representatives, and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). A hearing in this regard, took place ‘in camera’ last week in London, and there was huge hue and cry regarding the fact that the hearing was not made public. After over a week of deliberations the AGCC has revoked all FTP licenses with immediate effect. Licenses for trading as Full Tilt Poker were held with Oxalic Limited, Vantage Limited and Filco Limited. Orinic Limited – a recent sub-division licensee of FTP, remains suspended for now.

The reason for this decision is cited to be “serious breaches in regulations”, and follows, perhaps not so fast on the heels of the suspension of all licenses on June 29th 2011.

The hearing was held over six days, and it seems to be true to form – that FTP was found to have “fundamentally misled the AGCC”. This is with regards to their operational integrity. The Alderney Gambling Control Commission released a statement today which in no uncertain terms said; that FTP had failed to report material events, had breached regulations by making use of unauthorized credit provision, and had reported that funds were liquid, despite the fact that these funds had been seized by US authorities.


It looks to us that the serious poker minds behind Full Tilt Poker have tried to pull off the biggest bluff of their careers; only this time it did not work. They have been accused by US authorities of making payments in the millions, to shareholders, while their loyal members have paid the price. In fact the US Attorneys Office has publicly called this once famous online poker site, a Global ‘Ponzi” scheme. This is a very hectic allegation to make publicly, so, we assume that perhaps the DoJ is sure of their evidence?

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