What if one day your Facebook account accidentally deleted or banned  for some reason or another? What if a new social network that pass, and got shut down Facebook? What if you decide to close your account from Facebook, but you will not lose any data you put there? These scenarios may be unlikely, but they are indeed possible.

Everything you put on Facebook reside there. All status updates, links, photos, notes – everything. Thus, just as it is good practice to back up your hard disk, it is also good practice to have a plan ready to Facebook backup in case something bad goes down. Here are three free tools you can check to ensure that their data is safe.

1. Backup your Facebook to hard disk

Fancy recreate Facebook on your laptop?  ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox addon that lets you save the contents of Facebook directly to your hard drive and after that you can burn it on a dvd-r and view them the same way they currently view them on Facebook. It takes some time to process, however, because it will try to make a backup whenever full – but still very broad and very useful.

2. Backup Facebook photo albums

Whether you’re trying to back up his own albums, or trying to easily grab a friend’s album for offline viewing, FacePAD is a Firefox addon that lets you download entire albums from Facebook with a click of a button. You can also do it for fan pages and pages of events.

3. Backup Facebook to the cloud

Backupify service is an amazing backup multiple services – Facebook is one of them. Using Facebook Connect, Backupify regularly to keep all your photos, friend lists, events, links, notes, and states of the cloud. The free version of Backupify can handle up to 2 GB of storage.

Everything is stored on a server in Amazon S3 and its privacy policy clearly states that the data stored in Backupify is yours, and they has no right to say it, or look, sell, or analyze.

Sometimes it is easier to find and discover interesting news scrolling through pictures rather than read through lines of text. Images for easier exploration and the really interesting things often draws attention quickly. Here are 4 great visual search engine that can be played.

1. SpaceTime 3D

SpaceTime 3D is a visual search engine that uses Coverflow, Apple’s amazing interface that lets you turn gracefully through snapshots of different websites. It works for Google, Wikipedia, Youtube and search for images.

2. Cooliris

Cooliris started as a simple Firefox extension, but has grown to include the iPhone as well, and can now be integrated directly into other websites. It uses an approach of “endless gallery where users can quickly scroll through a wall of images, news, videos.

3. Middle Spot

Middlespot lets you preview of search results corresponding to a description in the sidebar of the search engine.
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4. Spezify

Spezify returns all media types related to the subject of photos, audio, web pages, mentions twitter, and more. This is probably my favorite of the lot, as only fit together in a coherent way.

Security should always be a major concern when using the Internet or publish content online. If someone gets hold of your personal information or breaks in one of your online accounts, either your email or WordPress blog, then you are at risk of identity theft and the kidnapping of their accounts. Anyone who infringes on your account could steal your private content, send spam, steal your WordPress account, or use it to gather email addresses to send spam a.

Fortunately, there are ways to protect yourself and your online accounts from malicious threats to your privacy and it is important to take all necessary precautions to keep safe online yourself. You can secure your WordPress blog from unauthorized access by installing some plugins that are available for download at the WordPress plugin directory.

Most of these are easy to install and require no care once you have created. It will prevent anyone who should not access your WordPress blog account to get beyond the very basic password protection is provided when setting up your account.

1. Hide your login screen : Stealth Login

A simple  way to prevent breaks in your WordPress blog is to hide the login screen. You may do this by installing a plugin like stealth Login, which will create a specific URL or web address you use to log into your blog, or administrator to perform in your account. This means no link to enter the public pages of the blog. When you want to login, simply go to the custom URL you have chosen and sign in as normal.

This plugin also protects your access page by preventing anyone from going directly to wp-login.php, which is the default setting for WordPress. This plugin can prevent anyone from unauthorized access to your site, even if they can guess the password, to hide the login page for them. This can also prevent programs called robots to get to the blog via wp-login file.The. php new access to URLs and options can be controlled through the settings panel.

2. Ban selected users : User Locker

The User Locker plugin can help prevent anyone from making multiple attempts to access your blog. This can prevent cracking the password when trying to hundreds and thousands of different conjectures. When you register for an account of WordPress there is no limit on the number of attempts that can be done to get to your blog.

This is a major security flaw because it opens the way for unauthorized access through what is known as brute-force dictionary attacks y. They simply try all possible passwords until they have access. The plug-in box office user places a limit on the number of attempts in which logging can be done. If this limit is exceeded, the account will be blocked and will need to request a new password or contact the WordPress Admin to return to the blog. This means that you can only enter the account.

This plugin also allows you to block specific user accounts access to the blog, even with the correct password. This means that you can prevent someone who should not access the blog from getting into it.

3. Prevent brute force hacking : Limit Login Attempts

This plugin has the same effect as the User Locker plugin, putting a limit on the number of logon attempts that are supported. The limit of user passwords can limit both connection attempts through the normal entry process and the use of special cookies. Block any web address to make further attempts to connect after a certain number of failed attempts to access the blog.

4. Prevent unauthorized automated access : SpiderSquash

The SpiderSquash plugin is designed to prevent automated computer programs, such as spiders and robots from accessing your WordPress blog. It works by complicated statistical methods to recognize the bots and automated access attempts. The  SpiderSquash plug-in have access to a global database that is built by all plugins SpiderSquash plug-ins worldwide, and will help yours if you find any new bots.

Your account is protected against any bot that is listed in the database. Each time a new bot is discovered by SpiderSquash, is added to the database and you will become protected against it. This plugin needs to be loaded and activated in WordPress.

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Ichitaro attacked again. The cyber criminals to exploit the gaps that exist to steal the identities of its users. Ichitaro is a popular word processing program in Japan. The program ranks second after Microsoft Word in market share. The amount of Ichitaro make use of cyber criminals love to attack the hole in the application.
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Rapidshare and Megaupload are both very popular sites for downloading content, but may be a bit difficult to navigate, search and download what you are looking for really. Here are four ways to help you move faster and get a better experience.

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Google has shaken hands with Twitter to launch a service called “Follow Finder” that will help people on Twitter to find other people who might be interested in or share similar interests on the basis of their twitter followers and following.

To use the service, enter your Twitter username on the implementation of the browser page. Then, Google will search its list of followers and the people you are following and the same evaluation accounts are linked. Then, dishes from a list of people who are connected together on Twitter, which are not connected to appear directly on the results page.

Therefore, it is a very useful tool if you want to find more people on Twitter who are interested in things you do, the links you share and say things to say about you or your profession, for that matter.