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Webmails are very useful utility for accessing your emails from anywhere you want, provided you have access to internet connection. Webmails will make your life easier for reading/writing emails.
When using Webmail actually you are referring to email that you access via you web browser. Thus your e-mail are not limited to one computer. As far as you have access to internet connection you can read your emails. All webhosting service provider offer you webmail feature with their hosting plans using which you can access your email account. You have range of such webmail application such as Squirrel mail, Horde or Round Cube which are widely used.

Squirrel

The Squirrel Webmail is a standard-based e-mail application which is written in PHP. It’s a free application to use. Squirrel mail includes everything, from the message list to the address book which is designed so professionally that you can navigate them easily.
If you need to personalize your mail account Squirrel have such facility too. You can even have custom theme for your webmail program thus you can adjust look and feel of your webmail program as you want. There are many plugins available which can be integrated with your Squirrel webmail program. Eg.. you can have using calendar, xtending functionality of your address book, can add filters for handling spasm etc…

Horde

Horde is also one of popular webmail program which is widely used.
Using Horde you can easily compose emails and handle all incoming messages. You have excellent address book feature structuring your contacts. If you want you can save incomplete emails as draft which can be accessed later. You can  consider Horde as something similar to Outlook Express.
Major difference between them is that with Horde you can access all your emails wherever you are you just need to have Internet connection for accessing them.

RoundCube

RoundCube is also one of best webmail application which you will get as a free Webmail software . It provides you a great inbox options, such as drag and & drop, privacy protection, integrated address book and HTML and multipart support are important aspect which are included with this application.
RoundCube offers you an excellent customer support if you got stuck or had any problem with your emails.

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Using CMS for building your website is gtting much popularity now-a-days, all webmaster try to use them for creating websites, using CMS you can easily manage your website, can easily add contents to your site etc…. there are many CMS available on the internet one of them is Drupal one of the most important features from Drupal is that it allows you to install one single Drupal code base which can be used for multiple websites each domain with its own individual durpal configuration.

If you are looking for having such utility for all of your domains then just follow following steps :
First of all you should have to install Drupal CMS for any of your domain, once you are ready with it you can easily add other domains to this Drupal installation.
Consider following steps for achieving this :
•    You need to create a new database and database users for the second domain ( eg “NEWdomain.com”)

•    You have to grant full privileges to the database to the user created

•    Now you have to create a sub-directory in the “/sites” directory call “NEWdomain.com”, it will look like /sites/NEWdomain.com/. Make sure you don’t include ‘www’ in the sub-directory.

•    Now you need to copy the /sites/default/default.settings.php to the new directory /sites/NEWdomain.com/settings.php

•    You will have to setup the add-on domain for “NEWdomain.com” in your web hosting account. If you are on shared web hosting environment, NEWdomain.com will point to a directory like “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”.

•    Now you will have to remove directory “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”

•    Just create a symlink to the main site as “/home/username/public_html/NEWdomain”

•    You need to launch the NEWdomain in your webbrowser, that’s all Drupal Installer will be launched, you need to go through the installation process, you will get all instructions for the installation process as you proceed. That’s all you have a new web site having same Drupal code base which you have used for your other website.

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SHOUTCAST is a cross-platform streaming media server used to broadcast digital audio content from supported media player softwares. You can consider Shoutcast as a streaming server like windows media server where you can stream audio and video through winamp or any 3rd party applications. Shoutcast is a product from Nullsoft and is widely used by many webmasters and professionals to create internet radio networks. You can setup radio station easily. For implementing shoutcast tchnology you need to have a highly configured dedicated server. You should check if your webhost support Shoutcast for their hosting plans. Shoutcast is cheap and afordable option for settingup internet broadcast station. Its widely used by major radio owners. Shoutcast can be install on Linux as well as on Windows hosting platform.
If you are planing to install and run Shoutcast on your Linux Dedicated server you can follow following steps :
Shoutcast works on client-server model, its always recommended to create a shoputcast user rather then using it as a root user. There are security issues if you use it as root user.

1.) Login to your server as a root
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast
you need to provide a new password and make sure you remember it.
Now you need to login to this new shoutcast user using su shoutcast

*) INSTALLING SHOUTCAST :
You need to install shoutcast for this you will have to grab shoutcast application from Nullsoft.
Use :
wget http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/s…-glibc6.tar.gz

*) EXTRACTING SHOUTCAST :
Now you need to extract shoutcast using following command
tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz

*) CONFIGURING SHOUTCAST :
You need to manage all shoutcast extracted files.
rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
Now you have to edit few file usign
pico sc_serv.conf or  visc_serv.conf command

Now you need to set some important configureation options and will have to change few settings in the file:

MaxUser
Password
PortBase

uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.

You need to set and change setting as per your requirements or can save and start shoutcast. Use crtl+x to save setting you have made.

That’s all your server is ready with Shoutcast installed on it and now you can use it for radio broadcasting.

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You have order and bought your dedicated SSL for your hosting account and now you need to install it on one of your domain. If you have shared hosting account with cpanel as your hosting control panel then you need to contact your webhosting service provider for installing it on your domain, as a shared hosting account holder you do not have access for installing SSL certificate on your domain. If you have a higher hosting plan  such as VPS or dedicated server hosting with WHM control panel.

If you have WHM ( Web Hosting Manager ) as your hosting control panel you can easily manage your hosting accounts and can setup addon, subdomains, ftp accounts, email accounts and can also install SSL certificate using it.

Once you got the SSL certificate with all details you can install it using WebHost Manager. You need to have both the certificate and key files to install the certificate.

Once you receive your certificate please copy it into a text editor including header and footer. You should save the certificate as “yourdomain.txt.”

You need to login to your WHM control panel. Click on the Install an SSL Certificate icon and Setup the Domain link in the SSL/TLS menu. You need to put domain name, user name and IP address in respective fields. You will have to click on “ Fetch Button “ and need to copy paste .key and existing .crt files for the domain where you want to install this SSL certificate. Now you need to replace existing .crt file with “yourdomain.txt” you have created when you had received your certificate. That’s all you need to click “Do it “ and your Dedicated SSL would be installed for your domain.

The padlock icon on your browser will be displayed in the locked position for your domain where you have installed this SSL certificate if your certificates are installed correctly and the server is properly configured for SSL.

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Very soon Mozilla will come with its new version Firefox  3.1 which would be of great use for users surfing questionable sites, This new version will offer you ‘Private Mode’ surfing so that you can prevent anyone from accessing your history and thus no one can track your surfing records. This feature would help many webmaster, kids or anyone who are fond of surfing such XXX sites. This feature will not collect any of your browser history or cookies so you are free to surf whatever site you want without any fear. This new Firefox 3.1 browser will provide you a separate window from where you can access web the way you want and can easily surf any website you want to browse without getting this data in your browser history menu, thus you can hide yourself from your Wife, kids, or even from your Boss for what sites you have been surfing last latenight.
Though this feature would hide your surfing history from your local machine but your ISP have total control on your web surfing and can track you for what sites you have given visit.

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Microsoft BlueTrack LED Mouse

Most of time you will find it difficult to operate your laser/optical mouse if you are using it on some rough surface or uneven surface, thus after great research Microsoft had invented a highly configured mice using hifi technology popularly named as BlueTrack mice which is based on new technology called Blue LED technology. Using this new technology of Microsoft BlueTrack technology your mice can work on virtually any surface, no matter what you use, it can be granite surface, carpet or even any rough-grain wood surface.

FEATURES  :
Most important feature is about recharging, you can see battery status for your mice so that you can recharge it instantly. it have compact and easy to use recharging base.
It have a status indicator flashing light system and it start flashing once batteries of your mice needs charging. you can simply recharge your mice by placing it onto the stable, horizontal charging station and can activate charging process.

It have glowing blue light and have excellent features with comfortable curves to give your palm a perfect grip.

It uses 4-ways scroll feature using tilt wheel technology thus you have greater efficiency and comfort.

Best feature you have with this mice is that you can customize buttons for managing
media, programs and other file you use frequently.

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Many web business owners love to see their site with animations and all eye catching flash effects to attract more visitors to their site but for SEO benefit they use to avoid such effect or use to avoid flash content as such file were never get crawled by Google but recently they have upgraded their indexing algorithm and now they can crawl text content present in your flash SWF files. Thus this improvement have gave a vast scope for all web animation designer to make SE friendly flash sites which can be index easily. In olden days if you want to us some flash file on your site you have to create a separate non flash version of your site for getting index and crawl by Google and other search engines. Google and Adobe both have worked hard together for getting this success as Flash is a product from Adobe and most websites try to use flash files on their website, flash is most popular and widely used application for creating animations to create attractive website. Recently they have announced that all text used in your flash files would be easily index by Google. Text within flash buttons, menus and sites would be easily crawled now giving more flexibility for webdesigner for creating search engine attractive flash sites. You can consider this updation in algorithm as most important change in indexing strategy thus now you can have very interactive and beautiful flash content within your site and your site would be more attractive with excellent graphics and animations. You can have keyword rich animated banners for your website, interactive flash buttons, excellent interactive flash menus etc… making your website more eye catchy.
Thus no worries for using flash on your well optimized website.

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Recently Google launched a new web browser popularly know as “Google Chrome” It’s a open source web browser and all is a Product of Google. Till date you have beta version of the product which can be download from Google Chrome It support around  43 languages at the moment. Google claims that Chrome is the fastest internet webbrowser than anything currently available on the world wide web, not sure about the truth, I haven’t tried it yet but I have installed and will let you know if its really excellent. I have seen mixed reviews on few other blogs and forums about Google Chrome. One of then “By Peter  “I then opened Google Chrome up and had a little play, and that was when I noticed the first of my problems. Firstly I could not find a button or logo to go back to my homepage, on further investigation it seems that you need to have your toolbar on for the Homepage button to appear.
Then there is the problem with my bookmarks which I imported from Firefox, for some reason I could not get them to show up. No matter what I tried I just could not find my bookmarks. (  Ref …. product-reviews.net/2008/09/02/google-chrome-review-first-impressions-not-good/  )

In response to this Mozilla is gearing up with Firefox 3.1 which the company claims will be faster than anything Google can muster with Chrome.

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Not all hosting service provider offers you shell access on their shared server but they may provide you jailshell access for your hosting account.  Jailshell access is very limited shell that allows you to logon to hosting server via SSH. You have limited access to your home directories and don’t have any access for other accounts on same server where your account is hosted.  Sometimes few hosting accounts having jailshell enable may get a error -jailshell: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable for few most common frequently used commands such as ls, cat etc… when fired from console. You can easily correct this error you need to login to your WHM, Suspend account which is having this error and again unsuspend the same account having this issue. Thus jailshell of account can be reset by Suspending/Unsuspending of account which removes such error.

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Finally you ordered your dedicated server and you want to start using it but unfortunately you are not much technically strong for managing it properly. Though your server provider will offer you technical support but as a webmaster you should need to know few basic things. One of them is setting up hostname for your server.

Your hostname must be FQDN : Fully Qualified Domain Name. Your server hostname is the name of your server that you want to set.  Hostname is the your server’s name that you want to set.  If you want to use server.domain.com then you should always set hostname for the domain you are owner.

1) Log in to your WHM control panel :  http://IP/whm >> then edit dns zone  >> you need to select your domain name.

Then server IN A { Use your server IP }
www.server IN A  { Use your server IP }

OR

If you are using shell then you just need to amend  following  file # vi /var/named/domain.com.db using

server IN A { Use your server IP }
www.server IN A { Use your server IP }
Just save this file  and reload named using  #service named reload
#rndc reload domain.com

2). You can also set hostname using following WHM >> Basic cPanel/WHM Setup >> Hostname. You can do it using command line prompt for this you need to login to shell /server as a root then run hostname server.domain.com { here the second parameter will be the hostname that you want to set }

3) You need to verify if you have set hostname correctly using /etc/hosts and need to confirm that you have used correct hostname and havnt done any spelling mistake or any other mistake. If anything is set incorrect while setting hostname then few services for your server may get affected/not work properly which are related to hostname.

4) Finally its time to fire “hostname “ command on server to crosscheck if you have set your hostname correctly and thats all, you have set Hostname successfully

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