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Giveaway: Premium Membership for MyGreenPC

June 28, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

MyGreenPC is a unique service that builds upon Windows integrated technology to provide a remote desktop solution that is easy to setup, far more secure, saves energy, and available anywhere in the world.

MyGreenPC is a easy to setup remote desktop access program which uses US government approved AES encrypted remote access sessions. This program enables you to easily access ‘client’ computers anywhere around the globe within few mouse clicks and in a more secure way. If you are a techie willing to fix someone else’s computer or just want to access your own computer located in some other country, remote access programs like these do the job.

It has two membership options – basic(free) and premium. The good news is that MyGreenPC is giving away it’s premium membership for free. If you are into remote desktop work, you should not miss this.

Difference between basic and premium membership:

A very unique feature of this program is that you can actually start a power-off computer with it. How? The FAQ section on the website says:

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

Follow these visual illustrations to obtain premium membership for MyGreenPC:

Once signed-up, you will be redirected to a page saying:

Now, activate your MyGreenPC account from the confirmation email you receive in your email inbox
That is it. You now have a MyGreenPC premium account!
You will need to follow the quick guide mentioned on (Click here) to setup and get started with a much secure and more flexible remote access session.

Visit: MyGreenPC

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

How To Keep Your Inbox SPAM Free

June 21, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

4 steps every user must follow to fight against E-mail SPAM.

It has been a long time since I registered on Gmail and haven’t received a single SPAM mail. This is because I have cautiously used my E-mail IDs at every web portal I registered with. As a result, my Gmail Account has been clean with a “Zero Spam History”. By zero spam history I mean no SPAM in my inbox and not even in the SPAM folder! I am sure of one technique that Email-Spammers have been flowing since the online SPAM world came into existence. It’s what I call as “Steal and Exploit”.

stop spam here — (Image Credit: messagedefence.co.uk)

The main sources of Email SPAM are websites with Freebies, Porn related content and Get Paid To (GPT). Once a user registers on these websites, their Email ID is available for the spammers. How? May be these website owners “sell” the Email IDs to spammers. The bottom line is, you can’t stop them. The only trick is let them continue with what they are doing and keep your important Email accounts away from them.

Follow these steps to effectively beat SPAM:

Use 3 Email Accounts. One only for your important contacts, second for social networking and third as a disposable email account especially for spammers.

If your accounts are only on Gmail, use a freeware application called GmailAssistant to check multiple email accounts at the same time for new emails to make it convenient. For other email services, you can use ePrompter (freeware) which supports AIM, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Yahoo Beta, Gmail, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, Email.com, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo and hundreds of other e-mail domains.

Disclose the disposable Email ID anywhere you want. Spammers will be able to attack this disposable account only.

You can get a quick and free disposable email from 10 Minute Mail, Guerrilla Mail and Mailinator.

Well, this is my way. Do you have your own way of dealing with email SPAM? If yes, then share your creative ideas to deal with this menace.

Nano Powered Apparels To Charge Our Portable Electronics

June 20, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 1 Comment

The clothes we wear can generate enough energy to charge our mobile phone batteries, when powered with technology.

Nanotechnology has a better answer to energy efficiency and conservation. Professor Li-Wei Lin at University of California, Berkley is working along with his team to enrich our clothing with more features, to be able to keep our portable gadgets like our mobile phone charged with energy generated by body movements. His idea is to intertwine electric generators into clothing fibre. Thus allowing the energy generated from our body to be utilized for a purpose rather than being wasted away.

Preview of an experiment where energy is generated by simple hand movements

Earlier, Sciencedaily reported about the Stanford Engineer Yi Cui, is working on a similar concept with a different approach. He is experimenting to code nano material into common cloth with nano infused ink. Thus building a battery that will be embedded into clothing which will act as a energy storing device.