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Proxy server is a server that sites between a client application, such as a web browser and a real server. It intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requirests it self. If not, it forwards request to the real server.

There main purposes for using the proxy server are:

• to keep machines behind it anonymous (mainly for security)
• to speed up access to a resource (via caching). It is commonly used to cache web page from a web server
• to censor network services or content
• to forge transmitted content before delivery, eg: to insert advertisements

There are diff types of proxy server in generals:

• Transparent Proxy: it identifies itself as a proxy server and also make the original IP address available through the http headers. The generally use to cache websites but do not effectively provide any anonymity to those who use them.
• Anonymous Proxy: it identifies it self as a proxy server, but does not make the original IP address available. of proxy server is detectable, but provides reasonable anonymity for most users.
• Distorting Proxy: This type of proxy server identifies itself as a proxy server, but make an incorrect original IP address available through the http headers.
• High Anonymity Proxy: This type of proxy server does not identify itself as a proxy server and does not make available the original IP address.

You may easily get the free proxy server list from the Internet by Google it with the key word of “Free Proxy server list”. Or you may just access the following web site for the free Proxy server list:

• Proxy 4 Free (www.proxy4free.com)
• SamAir Proxy (www.samair.ru/proxy)
• Aliveproxy (www.aliveproxy.com)

Please bear in mind that when you use the free public proxy server, your transmitted data through the Proxy server may capture or monitor by some body including your login detail and password.

Step to set up the Proxy on difference browser:

Mozilla Firefox:

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings -> Manual proxy configuration -> enter the Proxy server IP and Port number

Google Chrome:
Options -> Under the Hood -> Change proxy settings -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> Proxy Server -> check the “use a proxy….” -> enter the proxy server IP and port number

* Google Chrome is share the same Proxy server setting with Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer:
Tools -> Internet Option -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> Proxy Server -> check the “use a proxy….” -> enter the proxy server IP and port number

Opera:
Tools -> Preferences -> Network -> Proxy Server… -> Select what ever Protocol to use the Proxy Server -> enter the proxy server IP and port number

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Copy Tasteis a Google Notebook a like web application that allow you to copy and paste your text and share it over the Internet. To use CopyTaste, there is no log in require, but if you would like to store and managed the post in the future, then may to log in to the copytaste using any OpenID provider as they included.

CopyTaste provide the normal text editor and also Rich Text editor which it also allow you to insert image or video into your note. After you enter your content, you may set the permission whether allow the public to read it or you want to make it private. To make it private mean that you can set the password or let’s the system to choose the random key to view your content. Besides that, you may also set the permission whether this text is allow comments or not.

After all done, just click on Submit button and a copytaste auto generated URL will be display on top of the text area which you may share your text with other by providing this special URL.

CopyTaste also provide the plugin for IE so that you can just right click on the text/content and post it directly from IE to CopyTaste easily.

To view my sample CopyPaste Content: Sample 1, Sample 2

Click here to go to CopyTaste home page

Just type or copy your long long text and paste it over the main text area

A random link generated after the content submited, share your content with your friend by provide them this URL

Login to Copytaste using the Open ID to managed your post at anytime

After login, you may easily manage all the post done by you

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HeartRails Capture is a free web service tools for you to save and capture the web site as PDF. Just go to the HeartRails Capture web site and enter the URL address to capture. HeartRails Capture will auto capture the snapshot of the web site then generate the PDF for you.

PDF file created URL will be displayed for the tags to embed or blog.HeartRails Capture is a free web service tools for you to save and capture the web site as PDF. Just go to the HeartRails Capture web site and enter the URL address to capture. HeartRails Capture will auto capture the snapshot of the web site then generate the PDF for you.

PDF file created URL will be displayed for the tags to embed or blog.

Click here for sample TechSharing PDF
Click here to go to HeartRails Captures home page

Enter the web site URL to generate the snapshot

PDF generated from the URL anter

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

You may create the word clouds by copy and paste your bunch of text in the the text area, enter the url of your blog, blog feed or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed. After you get your word clouds, you may edit it by changing the font size, font type, font color, layout, or remove certain language from the wordcloud.

Currently Worlde supported most of the language but not Chinese and Japanese, base on the author, this is because they cannot reconize the word split for this 2 languages.

For more question, you may refer to the Wordle FAQ page.
Click here to go to Wordle home page

Tech Sharing wordcloud sample 1

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Tech Sharing wordcloud sample 4

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Fuser.com puts you at the center of all the conversatinos you care about by letting you easily manage your e-mail, facebook, myspace and twitter communications in one secure place, so you’ll never miss another message.

I believe most of the internet user may have more then one email account nowadays, and we used to login to each email account through the web mail to check your inbox. But it maybe troublesome if you need to login more then one email account just to check your email. Here come the Fuser.com that allow you to check all the conversations and email at one place.

After you register and verify your email account, just login to the Fuser.com and add your webmail account into Fuser. You may add more then one email account into Fuser.com and you may also add the social network account into Fuser.

To add any new email or social networking account just click on the “Add/Edit account” link at the left bar, to edit your account configuration such as adding a new Avartar, changing the password, changing the registered email, just click on the “setting” link at the top right bar.

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After few years of search engine being monopoly by Google, Microsoft has announced their new counter weapons toward Google – called Bing.com

This is just a begining for the search engine war. Now come to another part of the new search engine where all the webmaster or the blog owner should do – get your site to index by the new search engine and gain the traffic from Bing

Click here to submit your website to Bing and get’s index by Bing, so that your website can be found.

Besides that, Bing also has the webmaster tools like the Google webmaster tools. Click here to create a web master center account to submit your site and get index and explore to the search engine faster

Bing home page

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