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Windows 7

Windows 7 (Release Candidate) is out and already started making waves in the industry. Lots of tips and tricks are being shared over the blogosphere.

Microsoft recently released ebooks that have some good Tips and Tricks for Windows 7 users.

You can download the ebooks here – Windows 7 Tips and Tricks

Check unclaimed usernames

KnowEm is yet another website that checks for unclaimed usernames in popular social sites. You can check more than 100 websites for open usernames.

Recently we have reviewed Usernamez, Checkusernames, Namechk.

KnowEm is one more website in the row that would help you to keep your online brand over various social sites.

Website Link : EnowEm.com

Typewriting – An organized way to use computer keyboards (typewriters). This was initially introduced to input the text in traditional typewriters. This gives full control over the keyboard and help us to input text in a faster manner.

After the birth of computer keyboards, the following typewriting rules have been drastically reduced and people manged to input the text in their own way. Some of my friends don’t know the typewriting and they don’t follow the procedure and yet they can type faster.

The below picture is the typing guide that depicts the finger-key mapping for common keyboards(English-US).

A guide to Finger-Key mapping

If you are wiling to improve your typing skills, then you can visit the websites given below.

www.powertyping.com

www.artypist.com

www.software-giant.com

cnet Webware awards have been announced for the year 2009.

There were 300 websites selected for the final round under 10 different categories and published for public vote.

• Audio and music
• Browsing
• Commerce
• Communications
• Infrastructure and storage
• Location-based services
• Photo and video
• Productivity
• Search and reference
• Social and publishing

There is also an 11th category introduced called Editor’s awards. This is not released to public to vote; but only the cnet Editors were allowed to vote.

Google bagged 11 awards out of 100 winners.

Visit cnet Webware 100 to view the final winners of cnet Webware 100.

Passwords are the keys to access your personal information, online banking accounts. Everyone in the online world likes to secure their passwords from hackers by creating a tough to guess passwords.

Having a strong password is always safer to protect your online accounts.

Microsoft provides you an easy way to check the strength of your passwords.

Visit Microsoft Password Checker and type your password to check its strength. It is one of the easy and secure way to check your passwords online.

Here is a note from Microsoft Password Checker page.

The security of the passwords entered into Password Checker is similar to the security of the password you enter when you log into Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.

Link : Microsoft Password Checker

Here are some keyboart shortcuts that will give you better experience with Yahoo Mail.