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Today, I would like to offer a tip on opening restricted websites. When I say restricted websites, I do not mean anything illegal, but rather sites, which you cannot open from places like your office at work or school. Those sites aren’t harmful, but often have been deemed as distracting in certain environments, so it might be better not to access them. I will show you how to do it anyway. Actually, there are a few ways to do it:
• Search for a website in Google (www.website.com). You will notice, that when you want to click on the website, it will not open. However, you can open the cache version of the page, which will enable you to visit the site. It might be a slightly older version though.
• Use an online IP conversion tool to get the IP address of a particular website and enter the IP address in your browser. This should open the website as well.
• Use proxy anonymizer tool website, which will change your IP address. This will change your identity on the internet and should allow you to visit the restricted website as well.
I am treating the above guide as an education tool, so please don’t abuse the knowledge you gained too much.

Our life requires us to multitask. When you drive a car, you might be required to talk to your children or on the phone, eat while watching the news etc. Multitasking is actually a lot of fun. It allows you to do at least two things at the time, and thus use your time more effectively. There are many activities which can be combined together, for example, eating and watching TV. Why would you look at the plate, if you can watch news at the same time? Talking with full mouth is not healthy, and thus it is not the best idea to talk with family members while eating a meal. Many children and teenagers do their homework and watch TV simultaneously. This might be a little bit tricky, but if a teenager can concentrate on his homework while listening to the music or watching TV, there is nothing wrong about what he is doing. I saw many parents alarmed by the fact, that their teenager does a few things at the same time. In my opinion, there is nothing to worry about. Young people can concentrate a lot easier than older people. I suggest that you stop worrying about it in case you do worry about it right now.

One of the best things that the Internet gave me (among many other things) is the fact, that I completely got rid of my traditional thermometer to measure the temperature outside. I simply no longer need it. What I have instead, is a software, which shows me what the temperature outside currently is (of course the data comes from a distance of a few miles). Additionally, there are many sites on the internet which predict the weather for the next few days, and I check them from time to time too. With this software, I can additionally check the force of wind on the particular day and get some more useful information. I do it every time I plan a trip with my family. I find this feature of the Internet to be very interesting and convenient. I am very happy with the Internet in general. It is hard for me to imagine, that even a few years ago, people did not have access to the Internet. Even 10 years ago, the Internet was not as popular as it is today. Many people even did not know that such a thing like the Internet existed.

Many people use Internet Explorer and never care to download and try any other web browser. Internet Explorer is definitely the most popular browser, but who said that it is the best? Only because it comes for free with your Windows? As a person who prefers Opera and Firefox, I find it inconvenient that some sites only work in Internet explorer. Of course, I have IE installed on my PC and if necessary, I open it, but I prefer not to do it. It would be just another browser open on my computer. Recently, I was wondering, how many people can name other browsers, like Opera, Firefox or Netscape? Probably not everybody, as only those, who live geeky lives, are more likely to be able to do it. However, I am glad that overall awareness of other browsers is growing, and that people are more and more open to other browsers as well. I predict that in the future, there will be many good browsers which we will be able to choose. Today the competition is still not so steep, but in the years to come, there will be more and more companies releasing competitive browsers. I encourage each one of you to try at least one other browser than IE, and see how you like it.

These days, floppy disk drives are quite obsolete, and most computers do not have them. However, floppy disk drives can sometimes be useful, for example, in case of running a data erasing program on your HDD. If you have more than one PC, it may not make any sense to buy a floppy disk drive for each one, but instead, you might want to consider a USB floppy drive. This way you can connect it to any computer you want, and the USB floppy drives are usually more reliable compared to the regular ones. Having said that, I also feel that you should also be aware of the limitations of a floppy disk. First of all, it contains only 1.44MB of data, which means that one CD is an equivalent of around 500 floppy disks. Another problem is that floppy disks are not very durable or reliable.

Vista as an operating system has been released a long time ago, but the popularity of this operating system is not as huge as some suspected it would be. Some analysts claim, that this is due to the fact, that vista has so many editions, that consumers are getting disoriented. Vista offers a few versions, including Vista Starter, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate. Different versions often have different hardware requirements. For example, Windows Home Premium and Ultimate might not work smoothly on some computers. Since an average computer user cannot afford to buy an operating system, only to discover later that his computer does not have the recommended system requirements, it seems quite clear why there are some problems selling Vista to people.

Whereas for some of you this tip might be obvious, I believe that there are still many people who are beginners when it comes to computer. Those computer users will appreciate an easy step by step guide on how to get started. After all, each one of us used to be a beginner. To start Microsoft Word, go to your start menu at the bottom left corner of your screen. Here, locate the place where Programs or All Programs are. Click on it to obtain a submenu. Try to find Microsoft Word, and click on it to open it. I recommend that you make a shortcut to Word on your desktop to have access to it at any time. To make a shortcut, right click the Word icon, and select Create Shortcut. Then cut and paste this shortcut wherever you want. It is as easy as that.

PowerPoint has many interesting features that can make your presentation very eye capturing and very enjoyable. For example, you can program your slides in such a way, that instead of one slide appearing after another, slides will be disappearing slowly from the screen, and new slides will be emerging in their stead. To change the regular, default transition in PowerPoint to visual transition, follow these steps:

1. Go to the slide that you want to modify in Normal View.
2. Choose Slide Show, then Slide Transition. A dialog window will appear.
3. Choose Effect and choose the effect that suits you: slow, medium or fast.
4. Go to Advanced options and make necessary changes there, like checking Automatically after and selecting the proper amount of time.
5. Select Apply (for a single slide) or Apply All (to all of your slides) to finish the process.

I assure you, that working with PowerPoint is a lot of fun, and that is especially true when you are going to be more and more proficient.

In today’s world, it seems we are surrounded by information and data on every step. Very often, it is difficult to spot which data is really important and worth one’s time. Identifying important trends and data might be the difference of success and failure in many cases, especially in case of many companies. Internet is a great source of information, but the problem is that people often don’t know where to find valuable information and they get buried in unimportant data. It would be hard to me to present you with a solution, but my advice is to have realistic expectations, and not to trust everything you find on webpages, which you do not have a reason to trust. Only then, you will truly benefit from the Internet as a great source of information and data.

Most of us want to be rich and even if we are rich according to world standards, we still want more and more money. Other people know this fact and some of them would do anything to cheat other people from their money. This is basically how the Nigerian confidence trick scams emerged. They are also called advance fee fraud and are based on the fact that the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. Don’t be fooled by such scams, as it is easy to loose your hard earned money. There are a lot of scammers on the internet and you should be careful with whom you are doing business.