Solving Server not Found and DNS errors : 5 Free Fast DNS Servers

If you have error or not, it's though exactly a diagnose. Using DNS server can speed up your online experience. Give them a try, it costs nothing. It can be all good and no bad.

DNS is Domain Name System, it's work in simple words is to translate URLs into IP addresses so that you can get the right thing. If it gets overloaded, you may be unable to view all or some websites. Like, if websites like http://74.125.53.99/ loads but http://www.google.com doesn't, you may have a DNS problem.
Also, if you have a DNS problem, the browser will often display error as Server not found.

To correct the trouble, you can use DNS servers. These will be servers that shall respond and process the DNS demands of your computer or network.

Some Gyaan Before we take off:
There are two types of the IP address your computer could be assigned.

• Static IP
  

  Your IP address would be same every time you connect to the internet



• Dynamic IP
    Your computer would be assigned different IP address every time you connect to the internet. In this case, it's good for you. You don't need to see Control panel for now.
  

There is a simple observation you can make just now, go and check whatismyip.org. The website shows your IP address(that's all it shows on the page, so i don't need to elaborate). Note it somewhere on notepad, paper or desk or in the form of doodle or on walls or have a Tattoo whatever. Now next time, you start the computer and connect to the internet, go again to whatismyip.org, again you'll find the IP address. Check the latest one from the one you noted before. If there's no difference then you have Static IP otherwise you have a Dynamic IP.

Here's the procedure.

1. The thing is you have to get to your internet connection's properties to instruct it to use a DNS server.
2. On Windows XP and older versions, it's in Control Panel - Network Connections
3. Or it can be in the Start Menu - Connect to
4. Right click your connection and get to it's Properties. (On Windows 7 or Vista,  get straight to the properties of the connection)
5. Networking Tab - in the list of services, Click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
6. Get to it's Properties. You should see this.

You see those boxes for IP addresses, here is your turn to pick up the most handsome numbers from the menu below.

Here's List of DNS Server's that you do the Job, just for free.

Google Public DNS
Google is everywhere. It claims to be the fastest, and i'm sure you would believe it unless you really want to investigate. If time's not a luxury for you, try Namebench. You will find other info there. So back on Google.

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

[Link : http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ ]

Download a copy of Windows 7 RC now!

The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is publicly available right now, so it's time to get your hands on a copy - which will work for you uninterrupted until next Spring. Don't get too excited though, as at nearly 2414MB, it's not a quick download.
So how do you get it? Well, like the beta, you'll need to register for a product key. But unlike the beta, the RC will work for most of a year from now, so you won't have to update straight away when Windows 7 is actually released sometime before January – most likely Autumn.
While Microsoft has confirmed the RC will not expire until 1 June 2010, it has cleverly ensured you'll need to sort out your installation before March. "Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours," says Microsoft. "Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010."

• Download the Windows 7 RC

"[The RC is] a big deal for us," Microsoft's Windows OEM Product Manager Laurence Painell told TechRadar last week. "Obviously, we are releasing what we feel could be the final version - what we will put out to manufacturers and even wider availability when we release the product to consumers."
"Our official line is that [the production version] will be available no later than January 2010 and we will stick to that, but people will still be able to use the release candidate for nothing until June 2010."

What you need to think about
Beware that, like the beta, the RC is based on the Ultimate version of Windows 7, so if you invest in a netbook running the Starter Edition or another PC running Home Premium (or buy the boxed version), your version will have some features missing.


And remember also the sage advice – don't install the RC on a critical PC where you store all your main files and especially not if you haven't backed them up.
As with the beta version, you'll also need to burn an ISO file to make an installation DVD. Available in English, German, Japanese, Spanish and French as well as 64-bit and 32-bit versions, the OS requires a PC with these system requirements:

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

If you have any technical questions about Windows 7, such as what partition size you'll need for dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista, you may get the answer on TechNet's Windows 7 forums.
Microsoft hopes that the RC release will be as successful as the beta test. "There has been a great deal of feedback and a huge amount of it positive through the beta program," added Painell. "Obviously the beta program was the widest that we've ever run and the overwhelming response has been positive.
"We're obviously very excited internally about the quality of the product and that's been one of the overwhelming things internally."

OhDon'tForget.com

Send Quick Reminders

It does only one thing, but it does it oh, so well. On the home
page, just type in a cell phone number and a brief message ("Pick up
dry cleaning") and this site sends it out as a text message to that
phone on the date and at the time you specify. The site detects your
time zone so you don't have to include that, nor do you have to even
register or look at any ads. (Recipients will be charged a regular
text-messaging fee.) You'll need to be brief, as there's a
160-character limit on messages, although soon users will be able to
ramble on longer, and Oh, Don't Forget... will transmit the message in
parts so that it all gets through, the site's creator Jason Stirman
says. The service works with all U.S. carriers, a few select Canadian
ones and a few in Europe and Japan, but you don't have to know your
recipient's carrier to send a message. (If you changed carriers but
saved your old number, you must take one extra simple step: see Add
Your Number.)

Another way to nag your spouse: Teleflip's flipOut service, which lets
you email a text message of up to 120 characters to anybody's phone by
sending it to yourfriendsnumber@teleflip.com. Your email appears as a
text message, and the reply turns up as an email message in your inbox.
TeleFlip has another service called FlipMail, which lets you read your
email on any cell phone, be it "smart" or otherwise. Here too you must
pay your carrier for text-messaging services, and while it's ad free,
longer missives are sliced and diced to meet the 120
character-per-message max. You also have to "white list" your friends,
because flipMail only allows messages from pre-approved email addresses
to get through.

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Some Googles you may not had discovered yet!

There might be some rare human being around who has surfed Internet but hasn’t used Google in some way or the other. Still there are some great works of Google that are known but to a smaller community of people. They are worth looking. Today I came around a Google page where Google pays tributes to moms around the worlds. That made me search on for something more. Here is the compiled list. Worth a look for all the Google lovers/critics.

Google Moms

Google’s way of expressing love.

Rare Google Beta Logo
They really have improved.

Google Heart 1 & Google Heart 2
Google’s way of expressing love on valentines day.

Google’s Metaplex
Google’s way of saying “April fool”

Google Newsletter
You have read Google’s blog, but did you read this. It contains there progress from the day it was launched to till date.

Google’s Search Statistics For 9/11/01
… and there tribute. (a rather general one)

Google Zietgeist
What you see here is a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition.

Google’s Help To Build Better Query
Some useful sets of tips from the makers themselves.

Google Doodles
Few more: UncleSam, Microsoft, Mac, Linux, BSD. Google remembers all.

Google’s Languages Which Only Google Can Understand (This Link Is For Ewmew Fudd)
More for you. Bork, Bork, Bork!, thlngan Hol, H4×0r, lgpay Atinlay. Did you understand any one of them? I did not.

A real cool real time collection of how people go wrong with spelling while searching for Birteny spears aaa Britney spears
That’s bad. Most of you Britney fans never even cared to know about Britney’s original spelling?

Google’s Librarian Central Newsletter
They do take care of everyone.

And last a non Google page but worth a look.

How was that? I am sure many might have been new to you. Your Comments?

21 Free online Tools to use Everyday!

Today, we are listing 21 free and online web based applications which are very helpful for you to process your daily work. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

You are welcome to share if you know about any free web based application which our readers may like.

Phonevite

Sending reminders and alerts, with your own voice, is easy and simple using Phonevite™. With this tool, you can send free phone reminders & alerts to yourself and/or your friends in 3 quick, easy steps.

Google Docs

You can import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time. All you need is a Web browser.

crazyegg - visualize your visitors

Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not.

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

hooeey - Record, retrieve and analyze your web hops

hooeey is a personal web application that records all web links that you browse and lets you use them in a fun and productive way.

vuzit

Vuzit is a web based document viewer you can embed in any web page. It’s fast to add and it’sfree!

codepaste

CodePaste provides an easy and convenient way to send/share PHP, C++, Javascript, Java, CSS, Actionscript and HTML code with others. Copy and paste the code and enter the email where you want the CodePaste to send it. CodePaste then nicely formats the code and sends it over.

Sprout Builder

Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more.

infoencrypt - Online service for easy encrypt messages

This is service for securing your messages in an easy way. All you need is only to enter a message text of your message and encryption password. The password will be used for both encryption and decryption. The system will encrypt your message using strong encryption algorithm, and it will be secure for sending. Anyone who intercepts the encrypted message without password will not be able to read original message.

Premier Survey

Free survey software for online surveys, web surveys, email surveys. Free Online survey software for customer satisfaction surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, market research surveys.

Primo Online

PrimoOnline provides a super-fast way to create PDF files online, without the need to install any PDF software. Simply upload your file, enter your email address, and our server-based PDF creator will quickly convert it to PDF and deliver it straight to your email inbox.

postica - stick it! Create and share sticky notes

Postica lets you create sticky notes, attach a file, and share them with your friends.

TinySong

TinySong allows you to quickly share music links with your friends.

Adobe Buzzword

Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required.

ShrinkFile.NET

ShrinkFile.net is a free resource to compress your text documents, images, PDF files and other data online, because some computers don’t have WinZip or WinRAR installed. ShrinkFile.net will host the uploaded content at a static URL for one week, allowing you to share the file with family and friends.

Awesome Highlighter

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.

CreativePro Office

CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you’re likely to find at any price - and it’s completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events from one web-based application.

ConceptDraw

ConceptDraw Visio File Converter is a free web service, provided by Computer Systems Odessa that is available to anyone who uses diagramming software and has a requirement to open Visio (VSD) documents. This service have been created because Visio users often don’t save their drawing into Visio XML (VDX) file format.

Hide My Ass

An anonymous free proxy service aimed at hiding your online identity. Use our service to hide your IP address and bypass your work/school web filter with ease.

RescueTime

RescueTime is time management software that helps individuals and businesses understand how they spend their time, and provides tools to help them spend it more productively.

Picnik

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.

Search MP3s, Books, FTPs, Rapidshare & Torrents

Wow ! It seems I’m just in love with alternative search engines, isn’t it. Today I talked about how search.io lets you search different sites in tabs on the same page. And here I come across another cool alternative search engine named Njouba which lets you
- search the web and find free mp3s online
- search for videos on video sharing sites
- search images
- search for files on FTPs
- search web for PDF e-books
- search Rapidshare content
- search torrents
All of these search tools can be accessed in different tabs on a single page.

It shows the links to the files on the respective sites. This could be a very useful search site for sure.
In the following screenshot, I searched the rapidshare tab for the query ‘Dark Knight’ and it immediately showed the related downloadable files in Rapidshare.

Certainly a handy search tool. It is also available in different languages. Give it a shot.
Check out Njouba @ www.njouba.com

Linux: Alternative of Paid Operating Systems

You may have heard "paid stuff is better than Free"(actually i also haven't heard that, actually it's is not even a quotation).
Anyways, Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs is getting their bag to be filled with dollars which they get by selling Operating systems, then mostly in XP and also in Vista we get suffered by problem(a virus, sudden crash, or more Unknown things). An alternative of them is to use Linux, not few days ago Linux was considered a OS for only programmers and Computer experts, but now there has been a significant and noticeable development in Linux, a good linux, Ubuntu is now in the first place in all linux distributions, in which all open source softwares, which are remartkeble in their field, are used. You can get to some other Linux distros and some Open source stuff at the bottom of this page.

Why not to use XP and Mac?
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Why Linux Is better?

Alltop: Top Websites in every Subject

Looking for a fabulous website but didn't find it on google, Don't worry Alltop is there.



Alltop is a website to help you explore your passions by collecting stories about “all the topics” on the web. They’ve grouped those collections — “aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, Hindu, celebrity gossip, military, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, They display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs.

You can think of an Alltop site as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points—they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that they are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In other words, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation” by providing “aggregation without aggravation.”

Features:

• Helps find you the brilliant websites
• You can randomly surf the pages from alltop
• Increases your precious knowledge about particular subject
  

Visit Alltop: Click Here!

Pdfgeni: Search, View and Download PDF Files

Pdfgeni is a simple PDF search engine where you can find, view and download all sorts of PDF files, reports, data sheets, ebooks, public papers, and so on. You can either search from the website or use provided search plugin and add it to your Firefox search bar.

Features:

• Find and view and download data sheets, ebooks , reports etc.
• Save downloaded documents as PDF.
• View PDF files directly on the website no Adobe Acrobat viewer needed.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• Also check already profiled similar services PDF search tool , Data-Sheets

Check out Pdfgeni @ www.pdfgeni.com

Wold Time Engine

Want to find out what time it is in Beijing, New York, London, Brisbane, Moscow or any other city in the world right now? Then WorldTimeEngine is the website you need. Here you can lookup the current time for pretty much any place in the world. It also lets you compare and calculate the time difference world wide. Smply type in any country, city, town, street, zip code, or geo coordinates into the search field and then click “Get Time”.

One really great feature is the option to lookup time difference for any future date so that you can plan calls and meetings across multiple time zones accordingly. Additionally you can search for multiple locations at once. See screenshot below.

Features:

• Find out what time is it in any city world wide.
• Find, compare and calculate the time difference between places.
• Compare up to 5 different locations at once.
• Meeting planner: Figure out what is the best time for cross national meetings.
• Call Talking World Clock and learn time from phone.
• Add WorldTimeEngine Search to your Firefox search bar.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• Similar site daylight savings time
  

Check out WoldTimeEngine @ www.worldtimeengine.com

PieColor: Online Pie Chart Maker

Great online utility that generates customized Pie Charts. Think of it as an online pie chart maker where you can select the number of slices you want your pie chart to have, add values, names, title, customize colors, and then click “Generate”. Once you’re satisfied with your chart, click “download ” and save it on your computer. Done.

Features:

• Create pie charts online.
• Customize charts: colors, size, titles.
• Save ready charts on your computer.
• No sign up or registration needed.
• Similar web apps: ChartGizmo, Charts, and ChartAll.

Go to PieColor @ www.piecolor.com

Generate a Lot of things!

 

The all Above things are created from Fodey.com
So Create your Own Now!!

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EmailFuture: Send Emails to yourself Later

It is a curse to remember something urgent, there are so many things to remind you but imagine what if all things get failed, it will be a big problem so you need someone to mail you at the time to remind you the thing.

That work can be done by EmailFuture.com,
EmailFuture.com is a free way to send yourself emails in the future. Whether it's a reminder email in half an hour or a message to your future self in 10 years.
It's a cool web service if you want to remind yourself about something in the future. No matter how far in the future that may be. Use it to surprise yourself in 1-2 years time, set one time email alert in a couple of days, or email a group of people in a few hours. No registration required, simply enter the email address and title and the message you want to send, select date and time and click send.

Uses:

• E-mail yourself reminders on important dates such as anniversaries, birthdays, valentines day, etc...
• E-mail yourself reminders on important dates such as when sporting or concert tickets go on sale.
• Remind yourself of an important due date in the future.
• Send yourself an Email at the end of the day to remind yourself to buy milk, eggs or any other errands that you may need to run.
• Maybe you saw something cool on the internet and want to send yourself the link in a couple of days.
• You can send a message to yourself several years in the future such as a list of goals that you would like to accomplish or where you would like to be in life.

Splashup :Online Image Editing/Manipulation

One topic that never ceases to amaze me is the manipulation and editing of images. It’s a fascinating world at which I stare at in awe. But when I open Photoshop to give it what feels like the quadrillionth try, I turn away in disappointment within minutes because I simply don’t have the patience and determination it takes to master a professional image editing program. CorelDraw may be an exception, I’ve actually grown quite used to it.

So when I ran across Splashup, an online image editing tool, I was fascinated by a very well designed website. I hope they made it all using their own application. Well, probably not. Anyways, when I opened Splashup I was a little turned off. It looks a lot like Photoshop and it also works a lot like Photoshop. Needless to say, it comes with only a small fraction of Photoshop’s features, and turns out to be quite valuable even for the novice user.

You can “jump right in” without signing up, but of course membership has its advantages. You can save your images locally and continue working on them later on.

You can start with a blank image or open images from your browser, your Splashup, Facebook, Flickr or Picasa accounts or using a mundane URL to an image of your choice.

To open images from Facebook, Flickr or Picasa, you first need to authenticate and allow Splashup to connect to your account on the respective site. For Flickr, a successful authentication will look like this:

Once you’re happy with your image you can also save it back to any of the above mentioned accounts, with the exception of “http” that is, and of course you can download it to your computer. But we’re not that far yet…

The canvas opens in a separate window, so it’s almost like running a separate program, only this one runs within your browser. You can even go full screen and give your full attention to the program.

As you may be able to guess from the screenshot above, Splashup works with layers, the Photoshop-typic feature that probably makes the program both most useful and most annoying. I’m not a great fan of layers the way Photoshop deals with them, but I know many people find them quite helpful, if not indispensable.

I’m assuming that most of you will recognize the standard tools, what they can do and how to apply them, so I will not go into great detail here.

What I found a bit confusing though is that boxes, circles, and polygons added to a layer will melt with it and can not be selected or moved afterwards. You can however fill them with a different color, which seems a bit awkward to me. It’s been a while since I used Photoshop CS, but that’s a drawback I don’t recall. In other words, if you don’t want to mess up a layer, create a new layer for every new thing you add.

Splashup comes with a nice selection of layer effects and filters. In the example below I created several layers of the same gradient and added (from bottom to top) gradient glow, bevel, drop shadow, and gradient bevel layer effects. I will leave the discovery of filters to your own adventurous nature.

The Layers window is one of the most powerful tools. This is not just where you control the positioning and visibility of your layers. You can also add some more effects, like changing the opacity (as seen in the example below), multiply, screen, lighten, darken, difference, add, subtract, invert, alpha, erase, overlay, and hardlight your layers in relation to each other.

There is a lot more you can do, for example capture images from any camera source connected to your computer. Whatever you do, always keep in mind that the undo option doesn’t go back very far, so better save or download your work at different stages, just to be sure you won’t lose anything.

Finally a bit of trivia. Splashup used to be called Fauxto, and interestingly enough this is undoubtedly revealed when you open the File menu. At the very bottom it still says Exit Fauxto.

In the opinion of the experienced Photoshop user, how does Splashup compare to Photoshop in the light of minor editing tasks? I would love to read your comments!

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