File Sharing Services - Simplified

What are File Sharing Services?

File sharing services are websites that allow you to upload heavy files (up to 1 GB) and provide you with a link that you can share with your friends and they can download that file from anywhere. So, in simple words File Sharing services are nothing but your online storage place for your files which you want to share with someone.

Do I have to pay for these services?

Yes and No.

Yes, if you want to store your files for a longer time and want to upload files in GB. They provide you free service with certain conditions such as.

• Restriction on No. of days your file will get stored.
• No. of times your file can be downloaded.
• Size of file you can upload

And certain more conditions like these. But in most of the cases free service is more than enough.

Is it safe to put file on these websites?

Not if you have very sensitive information. They do assure of privacy but you can never be sure. This service is essential of files like movies, softwares etc.

Which is the best Service available out there?

There are numerous services providing you with file sharing facilities but Rapidshare is unarguably the best service available out there and it is worth having a premium account of this service. Some other popular services are

Megaupload

MegaShare

Pointupload

Can I search for files available on these services?

Yes and No again.

No, because these services don't provide any search facility.
Yes, because there are several ways which can help you search for the files and one of the most important sources is Google.

You can use sites like rslinks, rapidlibrary which act a directory for rapidshare files.
You can also use Shareminer which essentially uses Google to provide you with results of files available but the good thing is that you can search from all the popular services in on go.

Video Capturing - What it is all about?

Video capturing is the process of recording the what ever is being played on screen of you PC.

Why do you need video capturing?

Good question actually, you might need video capturing software for the following purpose.

Creating a tutorial: You might want to tell someone how to do a particular process and explaining it in writing is very difficult. In those cases video capturing is just the thing that you will need.

What does it do?

Video capturing allows you to save the captured things as video (avi or flash files) which you can share with others.

How to do video capturing?

There are number of software's available that you can use to do that. Some of them are paid and others are free.

You can get a comprehensive list from http://download.com

Just search with the term video capture and you should get a list of large number of softwares. You can also filter on license type as free to get list of just free video capturing softwares

I have used several softwares for video capturing but I really like AVI Screen. It is small but robust software and it what's more is that it is free :).

You can download that software from here.

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How to Submit Site to Search Engines?

If you have a website then you need to have traffic too. There are various ways to get traffic on internet such as

• Advertising
• Search Engines
• Buying

Buying is not a good practice

Advertising is Expensive

So, that leaves us with option of Search Engine which are free and very important.

But search engines are undoubtedly the single most important factor in bringing loads of traffic to your website. There are lot of search engines available on internet but 3 are main one’s and if they index your website then others will automatically add it. I am putting them in order of their importance.

• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN

Google is the most important search engine out of all 3. It can sometime result in 70% of your total traffic (it does for me).

There are two ways by which your website can be indexed by a search engine.

• Search engine find it themselves which a really slow process as there are millions of sites out there.
• Second and the best option is to submit your site to search engines.

URL’s given below will help you submit your sites to these search engines for free

• Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/
• Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/
• MSN: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

In addition you can use webmasters tools provided by these search engines themselves to quicken the process of indexing your website

• Google: http://google.com/webmaster
• Yahoo: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
  

These tools help you to provide your sitemap details and track the progress you site is making in that search engine.

In addition to these services like

http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html

But this might be slower than webmaster tools way.

How To check file system of your OS

There are wide variety of File System available in different OS such as.

NTFS: New Technology File System
FAT: File Allocation Table
FAT32 : File Allocation Table

File system play an important part in functioning of your OS. NTFS gives your files local security and FAT has some limitation with file name size and size of drive that you can have.

Will be comparing the files system in details in my coming posts. But this post I will tell you how you can check what File System your PC is having.

• Double click on My Computer
• Choose the drive that you want to check your file system for
• Right Click and choose Properties.

You will able to see your file system there

It will show something like.

File System: NTFS
or
File System: FAT

If you right click on CD drive while a CD in the drive you will see

File System: CDFS which is Compat Disc File System

and you do same thing on dvd drive you will see

File System: UDF which is Universal Disk Format.

What is IP address?

IP stands for Internet Protocol.



If you use internet than you must have heard term IP address. Before we go into details of IP you need to understand one or two important terms.


Protocol: Protocol is a language or set of rules that have been decided to make two computers talk to each other. Various things on internet are performed by various protocols few examples of those would be.


FTP: File Transfer protocol use for transferring files from one computer to other.

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is protocol used by browsers to talk to web servers and transfer data to and fro

MMS: Protocol used to transfer streaming video.


IP is one of the important protocols used over internet to actually transfer data.


As we all know internet is nothing but a really really big network of computers connected with each other. On this network computer needs to have an address before other computers can find it and transfer data.



IP address is a unique address which can help to identify your computer on this network thus enabling transfer of data between your computer and other computers.


IP address 32 bit address in the form of 4 numbers separated with the help of decimals few examples of IP address are
10.34.34.5

23.35.45.23

169.34.34.2

224.55.23.54


You can view you IP address by going to command prompt and type:


ipconfig / all


You should be able to see all the details of your IP address.You can renew your IP address by the following command


ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew


ipconfig /help will show you all the options that you can use with ipconfig command

Will soon post details like Ip address classes, ranges, subnets and IP V6