Outlook and Outlook Express work as email clients and these utilities are provided as pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows Operating System. You can also download and install them manually if you want upgraded version than the version you have with your operating system. Because of these utilities you can create number of accounts for different individuals on the same computer. One of the major reasons of it’s popularity is you can perform the backup of important email on your computer. Many people think that Outlook Express is a advance version of Outlook but it not true as both of these are used for differently and also have different functions of their own. Outlook has capabilities of task and contact-management and handling the emails from Internet and surprisingly these functions are not available with Outlook Express. There are few common things apart from the name Outlook, can be found with these two like displaying HTML messages and handling S/MIME(Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) and managing the Internet email accounts. If examined carefully one would come to know the Outlook comes with more number of applications compared to Outlook Express. Scheduling of meetings and notification can be done more efficiently with Outlook, the mails can be sent automatically to the desired people on a desired time. Synchronization is another factor which is taken care by Outlook in better manner than the Outlook Express and this makes things easy for the people who prefer to use Outlook on portable devices.

There are few rare functions like ‘Access to NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) newsgroups’ are available with Outlook express and not with Outlook. Its recommended for home based users to use Outlook express as a email client but for Business professional Outlooks serves in better manner.

Note :- Windows Mail has been upgraded to Windows Live Mail, which contains even more enhancements, such as the ability to automatically configure itself to work with many popular e?mail services. To download Windows Live Mail, go to the Windows Live Mailwebsite.

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Here are the remaining list of well-known ports.

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Google is known for providing many freebies and portable SMPT server is one of them. One can use it for sending mails from any network. This is very useful facility specially for those who travel on regular basis and want to remain in touch with particular people through emails. SMPT server provided by ISP’s have certain limitation when the network get changed, so using this free utility is a big advantage for such people. One more major reason for using this utility is if one do not want to use the mail server facility provided by the web hosting provider. Following is the procedure to configure SMPT server account on GMail.

Make sure to have a GMail account before starting the configuration. ( If you don’t have GMail account then you can create it from here Create an Account ) Enter the following details for configuration of the SMPT account.

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.gmail.com

Use Authentication: Yes

Use Secure Connection: Yes (this can be TLS or SSL depends on your mail client type)

Username: your GMail account

Password: your GMail password

Port: 465 or 587

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Content Delivery Network which is also know with its short form as CDN is a group of highly optimized servers from all over the world, though this group is widely spread one but logically its unique. The system is designed in such a way they user’s request will be redirected towards the closest server to him which produce best results for the websites which have large number of visitors from all over the world. This system works impressively by making a unique system of various web hosting servers which contains data which is placed at various points in network to optimize the bandwidth access to clients all over the network.

Few people might get problem while accessing the images and videos from the servers from long regions but if the the same data made available on a CDN network then it will reflect higher accessibility with higher speeds. The working of CDN is based on specifying the directory on a server which pulls all the files. One need to go into W3 total cache setting to enable the CDN function and make the required changes in URL.

The only drawback of this CDN transparency towards user-side, a user can identify if a CDN is accessed or not, because a delivered URL can be different that the requested URL. But as he is going to access the service much faster then he should not been so worried about it.

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PNG which stands for Portable network Graphics is widely used and popular format of images. Though it had few major cons like it is not supported by all the browsers, with the latest compatible browsers it is becoming more and more popular. PNG is treated as a more advanced version of the GIF format with lot of improvement. The PNG image in a lossless possibly has 5% to 25% more compression than the GIF format of the same image. Transparency is the main idea behind a PNG format which is not possible with GIF up to that level. The only major disadvantage a PNG has is lack animation.

Following are major features of PNG format.

• Improved Indexation – color images of up to 256 colors.

• Streaming – It is possible to read and write PNG file in a serial order so that file format can be used as a communicating protocol.

• Progressive display – It is possible to display an PNG image as it is received as a communication link while interacting. It is shown as yielded image with the lower resolution at the start and then the original one with original specifications.

• Transparency – As discussed in the starting of this post a PNG image can be marked as a transparent one by creating effect.

• Truecolor and Grayscale images – PNG supports up to 48 bits for truecolor images and up to 16 bits for grayscale images.

• Ancillary information – It is possible to store textual comments and other type of data withing a PNG file.

• Good replacement for GIF – PNG has covered lot drawbacks of GIF format like more effective 100% lossless compression, legally unencumbered, more reliable, straightforward detection of file corruption, full alpha channel.

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Following are the features available in phpBB board making it one of the most popular board for forums owners.

• Availability of various font styles and multiple sizes which are compatible for many quoting styles, codes, inserting images and automatically converting the URLs in to links.
• Standard and extended BBCode tags and limited HTML tags are supported in phpBB boards.
• Participant can conduct polls with multiple options in the posts and can view the public opinion on specific subjects.
• Notifications through emails can be send whenever anyone replies to a post.
• Topic subscription is possible in more effective to know each update over it.
• Emotions can be from original to portray.
• Default search facility with many search options available.
• Private messages can be sent as emails to other members of the board.
• Multiple types of avatars like local, remote and uploadable are supported on board.
• Topic edition is possible after posting.
• Post can be deleted, moved, locked and unlocked for administration and moderation purpose.
• Topic can be divided in parts.

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When launched, people had said many things in praise of Google Wave, as it made it possible to use many features like communication, e-mailing, messaging, multimedia management and document sharing throughout a single online tool. To dominate the other giants like Facebook and Twitter Google attempted to start a similar service attached with G-Mail and as it was providing all the features as real time it really get high exposure. Integration with wiki, blogging provide a big push for getting popular. It really become a great tool for project collaboration but as time passed people ignore using this tool. I found following some reasons for the reduction in the popularity of this tool.

Google Wave

Mixed up conversation – As a group of many people is communicating in real time, this created a lot of mix up when communication carried by large groups

Not easy for everyone – People who are not so much tech savvy getting it hard to use Google wave and this made it unpopular among them.

Complexity due to various platforms – Google wave can be operated from various platforms which created complexity among various users.

Haven For Spammers – Spammers started to use it for their spamming activities as anybody can add to anybody and wave at him / her. This gave a huge opportunity to spammers for their spamming activities.

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Number of cases are rising of hacking a web hosting accounts and websites. Though Hackers loves blogs more than websites as they are easier then the websites for getting hacked. The word hacking describe the unauthorized and unwanted entries in a private network or computer which mostly work as a web server and capturing its most possible controls and functions. The main strength of any hacker is the lack of webmaster’s knowledge about the latest technologies and tools and how they works.

Emails are the mostly used as a hacking attempt starting process. Webmasters receives emails which includes requests of software installation or certain types of plug ins and this all is provided at fully free of cost. According to human tendency of acquiring free things webmasters get attracted quickly towards such emails. These type of free programs are specially constructed with the ability of spying the activities done by you and controlling the networks.

To avoid such attacks a webmaster need to be always aware of the up-gradation of standard softwares installed on his servers. Older versions of security softwares possibly may include few exceptions of errors and bugs which are unable to prevent your website hosting servers from external attacks. Hackers are capable of studying these security systems and using the drawbacks of those ones. Always make sure to do not click on the links of unknown emails which claims suspicious free stuff for free from a fishy site. Though search engines are always blocking such sites but its not an easy task to always track such sites with surety. Never upload any file which you collected from a unknown source and never found anyone else using it ever before, such files comes with an inbuilt scripts which are capable of automatic installation of programs and spread itself throughout the network.

Usage of short and weak passwords as they are easy to remember but it is another big reason for getting a web hosting account getting hacked. As all of us know what are the characteristics of good passwords so never take it easily while using a password.

E-Commerce websites are most likely to be on the target of hackers because they always deals with money transactions. Such websites should be checked by setting up regular maintenance schedule on hourly basis which can be effective to keep hackers away from web hosting accounts and web servers.

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Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), a very popular bitmap format of images due to its portability and wide supportability. GIF format has the ability to allow a unique image to use 256 distinct colors which are selected from 24-bit RGB color space, 8 bits are supported for each pixel in this format, but the more special thing about this format is it supports to animation and allows multiple palettes of 256 colors in each frame. Due to having ability to animate a image GIF is most widely used and most suitable for small graphics and professional logos.

GIF uses lossless compression technique which supports only 256 colors and this differentiate it from the JPG. In lossless techniques by adoption of data compression technique there is no data lost, which maintain the quality of image as original. PKZIP is the well-known compression technique of lossless compression. Maximum space reduced can be up to 50 % only in any other lossless compression technique. If one want more compression to reduce more size then lossy compression technique is recommended for it, but on the other side lossy compression technique can be tolerated by cetain types of files like graphics, audio and video. Hence lossless technique is more effective than lossy in terms of quality maintenance of any file. This difference in two types of compression techniques also differs the GIF format from JPG format because lossy compression is used in JPG type format. Animation editor makes it possible to put together a GIF image as a animated image, further more it can be also supportable for image transparency which is an important aspect from designing point of view. Unisys is the company which owns the compression algorithms of GIF format hence one need to license from them to use it.

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