IPv6 : The next version of the Internet begins rolling out today

After years of testing, major Internet companies, internet service providers, and independent Websites, will switch permanently to IPv6, the next-generation Internet networking technology on June 6.

For most end-users and SMBs, nothing will change, as their computers will continue to connect to the Internet and their favorite services will remain online. However, it is a significant milestone as companies shift their focus to building up their IPv6 infrastructure, and slowly wean off the older IPv4 network.

Companies have been upgrading their networking infrastructure, testing their deployments, and making sure that all their services remain accessible to end users, regardless of which networking technology they use.

What Happens June 6?
On Wednesday, the Internet moves into the future.

Last year, hundreds of Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco, and Facebook, temporarily switched over to the IPv6 protocol for 24 hours as part of a global stress-test. The idea of World IPv6 Day last year was to find any deployment issues and to raise awareness about the new Internet technology. By that measure, the test was a success. There were no disruptions, and for the most part, the masses surfing the Web didn't notice a thing.

Unfortunately, many of them switched back to IPv4 on June 9.

This year, the Internet Society is promoting the World IPv6 Launch Day as a way to encourage companies to make the switch and keep its IPv6 infrastructure live alongside its existing IPv4 systems. No more switching back, and hopefully, the event would encourage the smaller players to finally make the transition.

Why Switch?
The clock started ticking on the transition to IPv6 last year when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) doled out the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses to the individual regional Internet registries in February. While it is up to each regional registry on how the remaining addresses are allocated, industry observers have predicted the Asia-Pacific region will run out of addresses first, followed by North America and Europe.

In fact, there is no longer any IPv4 space in Asia-Pacific, according to the latest information from Internet Society's CTO Leslie Daigle in a guest post on Forbes.com. Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Africa are all expected to run out by 2014, Daigle wrote.

What is IPv6?
The familiar IP addresses that are assigned to practically every device that can access the Internet— computers, smartphones, cameras—follow the IPv4 naming scheme which was developed in 1977. The 32-bit system, which follows the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx pattern, with each set of numbers ranging from 0 to 254, is capable of generation up to 4.3 billion possible addresses.

Vint Cerf, Google’s current chief Internet evangelist and the “father of the Internet,” has said in previous interviews that he thought 4.3 billion IP addresses was more than enough. With the explosive growth in Internet and the potential of having practically everything connected to the Internet, such as refrigerators sending out alerts when running low on milk and cars that double as wireless hotspots, 4.3 billion sounds quite minuscule.

As a replacement scheme, IPv6 has a staggeringly large number of addresses: 340 undecillion. (That's 340 followed by 36 zeros).

The catch, really, is that while IPv4 systems and IPv6 systems can run in parallel, the newer standard is not backwards-compatible. A user on the IPv6 network with an IPv6 address is limited to accessing Websites and services that also have an IPv6 address. The IPv4 address space, which at the moment consists of most of the Internet, becomes inaccessible.  Over the years, many ISPs and network providers have come up with IPv6-to-IPv4 tunnels, where the IPv6 traffic is wrapped to look like IPv4 traffic to access the Internet.

Some companies, including Google and Netflix, actually have IPv6-compliant sites, and are readily available to users regardless of which address space they are on.

More companies committing to making their services available on IPv6, means users won't have to worry about complicated setup or configuration to get the tunnels working. They would just plug in their network devices, and surf without worrying about what networking technology they are using.

Are You Ready?
As was the case for last year's IPv6 Day, most users won't even notice when their ISPs make the switch to IPv6. Part of the reason is because most modern operating systems, including Apple's Mac OS X, most versions of Microsoft Windows, and major Linux distributions, have supported IPv6 addresses for a number of years. Check out your computer's IP address (on Windows machines, type ipconfig at the command prompt): you are most likely going to see the IPv4 address as well as longer string of letters and numbers making up the IPv6 address.

Many networking vendors have also started selling IPv6-compliant routers and switches for enterprises, but Cisco already has several IPv6-ready routers for the SMB, including theRV180W Wireless-N Multifunction Router and the Linksys EA2700.

In fact, many companies and home users have what is often called a "shadow network," with computers and compliant routers communicating with each other over the IPv6 protocol, Mark Urban, senior director of product marketing at Blue Coat Systems, told PCMag earlier this year.

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How to Hack Facebook in Easy way

Well there are many techniques for hacking out Facebook Password well these include Phishing Attacks, Keylogging and other Social techniques but today we are going to see how to hack passwords using new feature introduced by Facebook the 3 Trusted Friends Password Recovery Feature in this what happens if you have lost your password and you don’t have any access to your default email address than this feature will handy by sending request to your 3 trusted friends and hence gaining your account password again.

For this technique you need to create 3 fake Facebook account and you need to surely add these as friends into your victims account whose account you are going to hack.

After succefull addition of your fake accounts into victims account as friends follow the below steps .:

1. Go to Facebook and click Forgot your Password ?

2. Than you will get something like below just enter the details you know about him enter his Username, email address and full name.

3. After entering everything check it again and click on search.

4. After succeful search for the user Facebook will show some information about how many emails are linked to the account and there is simple option saying No Longer Access to These click that one.

5. Now it will promote you to enter a new email address on which you will get the password resetting option so enter your email address I suggest you creating a Fake or Temporary email address for safety purpose.

6. Than it will promote you to enter the Security well if you have some security guess about that one than that’s ok but if you don’t know it than simply enter 3 wrong answers and it will take you to the 3 trusted friends recovery page like below.

7. Now just click continue and facebook will ask you to choose 3 trusted friends choose the 3 fake profiles of your which you created and added into the victims account.

8. After selecting 3 accounts facebook will send security codes to these accounts just enter these codes and you will get Password Resetting email from Facebook on the account you created in Step 5

That’s it now you are succefull in Hacking Facebook Password with the 3 friends.

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Galaxy S III launched in India

Samsung has finally launched their next flagship handset, the Galaxy S III, in India. The successor to the very popular Galaxy S II, the S III ups the ante, not only for Samsung, but for Android smartphones as well. The design is heavily inspired by pebbles, which is reflected in the curved design of the phone. It measures just 8.6mm in thickness and weighs 133g, making it thin and light. The screen size is slightly larger, as compared to the One X at 4.8 inches and will sport a resolution of 1280 x 720. 

Rs. 43,180!

If one has missed out or just wants a quick look, here are the highlighted specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S III:

• Android 4.0 with TouchWiz
• 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos 4212 processor
• 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720
• 8MP camera with AF, LED flash, BSI sensor and 1080p HD video recording
• 1.9MP front camera with a resolution of 720p for video chat
• 16/32/64GB Internal memory, expandable upto 64GB
• 1GB RAM
• NFC, Wi-Fi, DLNA, GLONASS, micro-USB 2.0, HDMI, Bluetooth 4.0
• 2100 mAh battery

One of the main features of the S III is the Siri-esque voice recognition system, called S Voice. It also features Smart Stay, a technique that uses the front facing camera to track your eye movement, so it keeps the screen on as long as you're looking at it. Pretty cool. Social Tag uses face recognition that scans the faces in your gallery and maps them to your friends on Facebook or other social media sites. S Beam lets you bond and share data instantly between two S III devices using a combination of NFC and Wi-Fi Direct. AllShare Play uses DLNA to share your photos and videos on compatible TVs. Coming to the camera, it’s an 8MP shooter in the rear with a BSI sensor and a 1.9MP front facing camera. The camera also features new modes, like Burst Mode and Best Buddy mode. The S III will have TouchWiz running on top of ICS, so extra multimedia features, like DivX playback is possible out-of-the-box.

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How Torrent Works

How BitTorrent Works

BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or pop-up advertising.

Unlike other download methods, BitTorrent maximizes transfer speed by gathering pieces of the file you want and downloading these pieces simultaneously from people who already have them. This process makes popular and very large files, such as videos and television programs, download much faster than is possible with other protocols.

To know why BitTorrent downloading is different from the regular downloading i’ll have to explain how the traditional client-server downloading works:

You open a Web page and click a link to download a file to your computer.

The Web browser software on your computer (the client) tells the server (a central computer that holds the Web page and the file you want to download) to transfer a copy of the file to your computer.

The transfer is handled by a protocol (a set of rules), such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).

   

The transfer speed is affected by a number of variables, including the type of protocol, the amount of traffic on the server and the number of other computers that are downloading the file. If the file is both large and popular, the demands on the server are great, and the download will be slow.

But the BitTorrent follows a different method of sharing files known as Peer-Peer Sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing is different from traditional file downloading. In peer-to-peer sharing, you use asoftware program (rather than your Web browser) to locate computers that have the file you want. Because these are ordinary computers like yours, as opposed to servers, they are called peers. The process works like this:

• You run peer-to-peer file-sharing software (for example, a Gnutella program) on your computer and send out a request for the file you want to download.
• To locate the file, the software queries other computers that are connected to the Internet and running the file-sharing software.
• When the software finds a computer that has the file you want on its hard drive, the download begins.
• Others using the file-sharing software can obtain files they want from your computer’s hard drive.

The file-transfer load is distributed between the computers exchanging files, but file searches and transfers from your computer to others can cause bottlenecks. Some people download files and immediately disconnect without allowing others to obtain files from their system, which is called leeching. This limits the number of computers the software can search for the requested file. 

Unlike some other peer-to-peer downloading methods, BitTorrent is a protocol that offloads some of the file tracking work to a central server (called a tracker). Another difference is that it uses a principal called tit-for-tat. This means that in order to receive files, you have to give them. This solves the problem of leeching — one of developer Bram Cohen‘s primary goals. With BitTorrent, the more files you share with others, the faster your downloads are. Finally, to make better use of available Internet bandwidth (the pipeline for data transmission), BitTorrent downloads different pieces of the file you want simultaneously from multiple computers.

• You open a Web page and click on a link for the file you want.
• BitTorrent client software communicates with a tracker to find other computers running BitTorrent that have the complete file (seed computers) and those with a portion of the file (peers that are usually in the process of downloading the file).
• The tracker identifies the swarm, which is the connected computers that have all of or a portion of the file and are in the process of sending or receiving it.
• The tracker helps the client software trade pieces of the file you want with other computers in the swarm. Your computer receives multiple pieces of the file simultaneously.
• If you continue to run the BitTorrent client software after your download is complete, others can receive .torrent files from your computer; your future download rates improve because you are ranked higher in the “tit-for-tat” system.

Downloading pieces of the file at the same time helps solve a common problem with other peer-to-peer download methods: Peers upload at a much slower rate than they download. By downloading multiple pieces at the same time, the overall speed is greatly improved. The more computers involved in the swarm, the faster the file transfer occurs because there are more sources of each piece of the file. For this reason, BitTorrent is especially useful for large, popular files.

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How to make Free calls from the Internet?

With the advent of VoIP technology, long distance calls have gotten cheaper. It has created a revolution and has become the most accessible option for communication. With its fast growing popularity many of web users are still unaware of how VoIP works, but it becomes more important to equip yourselves with the know-how of making calls using VoIP and what its benefits are. So here is information on how you can use VoIP and benefits of it!

VoIP is:

VoIP is an acronym for Voice-over-Internet-Protocol. It is a technology that transmits analog audio signals from telephones and converts them to digital signals so that the computers can understand them and transmit them over the Internet.

Depending on the kind of technology, the following equipments may be required:

• High speed internet connection (DSL or cable modem)
• Computer
• Telephone
• Adapter
• Speakers (if not in-built in the computer)
• Microphone (if not in-built in the computer)

How it works:

VoIP can be used in one of the following ways:

1. ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter): Use analog phone or home phone to connect to the adapter. The adapter is required to convert analog signals to digital signals that can be transmitted using the internet. To connect the home phone to the adaptor, remove the cable from the wall that is plugged into the home phone and plug it to the socket in the adapter.
2. IP Phones: IP phones look very similar to home phones, but have a RJ-45 jack that is for Ethernet connection. Here too (like the ATA) the cable must be plugged to the router.  IP Phones do not require the adapter, it only needs the software and hardware suitable for the VoIP calls in the phone.
3. Computer-to-computer: Download the required software from the internet; connect microphone and speakers, and a sound card. The receivers of the call should also have the same service downloaded and active. It is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to use VoIP to make calls because the software is free, costs include internet rental and usage charges.

Benefits of using VoIP:

• Your expenses involved for making calls are substantially low.
• You can give up your home phone and use broadband, and reduce phone expenses.
• With wireless ‘Wi-Fi phones’ you can make and take calls at anytime, anyplace.
• There are no ‘roaming’ charges.
• You can make conference calls and speak to multiple users.
• Some VoIP providers have extra features like voicemail in the form of e-mails, call forwards, blocking unwanted callers, and so on.

Some drawbacks of using VoIP:

• Power connection must be continuous and stable.
• VoIP cannot be used without a high speed internet connection.
• Slow internet connectivity cause disturbances and delays in communication.

Select a VoIP service provider:

• Know what your needs are. Depending on what kind of calls you want to make (like computer-to-computer, computer to a mobile, computer to a landline, etc.) can help you zero in on your needs.
• Identify any additional charges like activation fees, installation charges, recurring deposits, validity periods, trial packs etc. Before you decide on a service provider.
• Identify free and chargeable services providers.
• Be sure to read the contract terms and conditions too.

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How to use Facebook Effectively and Efficiently

In brief, Facebook is an effective social networking site. Through Facebook you can find friends, add them to your network and keep in touch, you can network for business purposes, play games, share photos etc. Let’s elaborate and find out what Facebook can do for you and how you can use it effectively.

1. Open a Facebook account: This is the first step to using Facebook. On the homepage, enter your full name, email ID and password. Ensure your password has both numbers and letters. Once you signup, you will receive a verification mail in the inbox of your email ID used to sign up on Facebook. Click on the verification link to get connected to Facebook.

2. Your profile information: Click on ‘edit profile’ tab to add / update data about yourself. You can reveal / show only your birth date and month info and not the year, a click on a check box will help you with this. Enter the basic details like your country, hometown, languages you know, education, work place, etc and ensure you click on ‘save’ after you add data in each section.

3. Upload pictures: One of the first pictures you may want to upload is your profile picture. Click on ‘Upload profile picture’ and browse to select your picture from your desktop / folder and click ‘OK’ to see the picture being displayed. You can add more photos by selecting the ‘photo’ icon on the applications toolbar, click on ‘create a photo album’ and add an album name and set privacy settings before you browse and add more photos to the album. You can choose groups of friends whom you want to share or hide the photos from in the privacy settings.

4. Search for friends to add: To search for a college-mate or co-worker, click on ‘friend finder’ tab and enter the name of your friend to search them. Alternatively, you can click on ‘Find friends’ tab on the right hand pane, using this page, you can find friends from your company, college or school that will be listed. Photos and names of people you may know will appear below and you can directly go to their Facebook page and add them as your friend by sending them the request. Once they accept and confirm the two of you will be connected as friends on Facebook.

5. Messages (private and public): At the top right hand corner is a tab that says ‘send message’, click on that and type a subject and your message to your friend which only he / she can view and respond. This is similar to e-mail message which is personal. However, to send a message that everyone can see, you can ‘post’ a message on the ‘wall’ of your friend.

6. Chat on Facebook: At the right hand bottom corner is a window called ‘chat’. Click on that to expand the window and the friends who are online at that point and available for chat display a green icon next to their names. You can click on your friend’s name and a chat window opens just like any other chat feature.

7. Upload links and videos: On your Facebook homepage, you can click on the ‘links’ and ‘videos’ toolbar to share your favourite or liked links and videos with others. Alternatively, if you are watching a video that you like on YouTube or any other website and would like to share it with your Facebook friends look for a Facebook icon in the toolbar below the video and click on that to share the video.

8. Notes: Look for the ‘Notes’ tab at the left hand pane on your home page, click on that to find notes written by your friends. It could be useful information, random notes or tips shared. To post your own notes, click the ‘My notes’ tab and then click on ‘+Write a Note’ to write your own note. The privacy settings here will help you choose whom you would like to share the notes with; the ‘Save draft’ option will allow you save your note as a draft until you decide to ‘publish’ it by clicking on the ‘Publish’ tab.

9. Create a group: On the left hand pane of your home page, you will find a tab called ‘Create groups’. Click the tab, add a group name and members whom you would like to add to the group. Below you will also find a privacy tab and you can choose from ‘open’, ‘closed’ or ‘secret’. By choosing ‘open’, you confirm that the group can be visible to others along with the posts from the group. Also anybody can choose to join the group. ‘Closed’ option will restrict the conversations only to the members of the group. Here the members can be seen by others. By choosing ‘secret’ tab, the members and the content exchanged are secretive.

10. Profile privacy: Click ‘account’ and select ‘privacy settings’ to set your privacy settings. Click on ‘Customize settings ‘ to adjust your privacy options such that your posts, pictures, etc can be viewed only by ‘Everyone’, ‘Friends of Friends’, ‘Friends only’ and ‘Customize’. The Customize option allows you to hide the posts or picture albums from any group or people of your choice. Do not forget to ‘save settings’ once you have set your settings.

Happy Facebooking 

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How to disable Facebook Photo tagging on your profile

Facebook is very addictive social networks with lots of spammy applications and user’s. We usually avoid spam’s but things get worse when someone misuse the Facebook Photo tagging feature for you. Some applications like “Who Staked Your Profile” and others contaminate your and your friends wall after gaining the access.

You can disable Facebook Photo tagging by few simple steps:

1.Go to your Facebook Privacy Settings

2.You also simple go to “Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites >What your friends can share about you” and Unchecked the “Photos and videos of me” .

Below mentioned screen shots will help you in disabling the Facebook Photo tagging:

a) Go to “How People bring info to apps they use”

b) Uncheck “My Photos and My videos”

After saving the changes no one can tag you via photos on walls. Though this tip will block photo tagging but your friends can still tag your profile with @username functions.

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Amazing facts of Facebook

Amazing facts of Facebook

Facebook has become a behemoth.

In the United Stated Facebook has surpassed even Google in terms of traffic.

Below I have collected 40 amazing facebook statistics, and I will update them as time goes on.

To the best of my knowledge all stats below are current, and accurate.

 

People on Facebook

1. More than 500 million active users

2. 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

3. Average user has 130 friends

4. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

 

Activity on Facebook

5. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)

6. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

7. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

8. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

 

Global Reach

9. More than 70 translations of Facebook are available on the site

10. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

11. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

 

Platform

12. More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries

13. Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications\

14. More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform

15. More than one million websites have integrated with Facebook Platform

16. More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month

17. Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

 

Mobile

18. There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.

19. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.

20. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

All of  the content above is from facebook’s official press room stats page.

The remaining stats below are from elsewhere on the web.

 

Facebook Stats from Around the Web

21. Over 80% of businesses today are using facebook today.

22. Facebook has over 1,700 employees

23. Facebook is valued at between 7.9 and 11 billion dollars (and rising).

24. Facebook is an international phenomenon: 70% of Facebook users live outside of the United States.

25. There are over 3 million active Facebook fan pages.

26. There are over 1.5 million local businesses with Facebook pages.

27. More than 20 million people become fans of Facebook fan pages every single day. 

28. Facebook fan pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans.

29. The average Facebook user spends over 55 minutes on Facebook per day.

30. Women have 55% more posts on their wall than men.

31. More than 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day.

32. More than 3 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook each month.

33. The United States is the country with the most Facebook users with 143,583,400 users. (viaCheckFacebook.com)

34. 26.22% of the internet using world population are currently Facebook users.  (viaCheckFacebook.com)

35. More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users.

36. Facebook has more than 45 million active user groups.

37. Over 30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every month.

38. Texas Hold’em Poker currently has the most fans with 26,973,501. Via the Facebook Page Stats Leaderboard by allfacebook.

39. Static FBML is the most popular Facebook app with over 95,294,450 monthly application users.  (However this app can no longer be downloaded.) Via Facebakers Facebook stats.

40. If Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country in the world.

There you have it, 40 amazing Facebook stats!

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