A Blackberry is a “smartphone” that integrates a phone, media player, email client, web browser, camera, and personal digital assistant (PDA) in a single device. It has many purposes and allows users to perform a number of tasks such as creating notes, accessing the Internet, and scheduling events. Blackberry phones represent over 14% of the world’s smartphones and over 500 mobile service providers in 91 countries support them. Features The Blackberry’s main function is to provide portable email access to its user. Blackberry phones also provide the user with Internet Read More

The C++ programming language has become one of the most popular general purpose programming languages taught in schools and used in industry. Its ability to allow programmers to create object oriented programs and tie in to low level constructs, has made it one of the most powerful languages available to developers over the past several decades. An error that can be encountered while building C++ projects is the “Error Lnk2019,” which is displayed when an unresolved external symbol is referenced in a function. In order to resolve the error, a Read More

The number one reason to switch to VoIP technology for telephone service is cost reduction. From that base, VoIP is able to provide some compelling features which makes switching even more attractive. Eliminating Phone Lines With VoIP service, you can cancel your traditional phone service through your local telephone company and place all of your telephone calls over your broadband Internet connection. For a residential customer, this will save around $40 a month. For business customers, the savings can be thousands of dollars a month. Eliminating Long Distance Charges VoIP Read More

Honey monkeys are a new way of detecting malicious codes from websites that try to exploit certain vulnerabilities of Internet browsers. The honey monkey system works as an automated web/internet patrol system that is designed to detect harmful materials in the Internet, to be able to come up with solutions, and to catch the people behind these malicious acts. A Honey monkey is actually a virtual computer system that works by logging on to websites just like a normal computer system or personal computer does. However, it is actually a Read More

A common task that arises for consumers is converting music saved in CD or CDA format to MP3 to be used on MP3 or other multimedia players. This allows consumers to transfer music legally purchased online or in a brick-n-mortar store on CD to be played on portable music players without incurring additional cost. One of the more popular applications used to convert CD to MP3 format is the freely available iTunes multimedia player available on the Windows and MAC platforms. For Windows users, the freely available Windows Media Player Read More

Iertutil.dll is a Runtime utility for Internet Explorer that is essential for Internet Explorer 7 to function properly. If Iertutil.dll is missing, the user may not be able to run Internet Explorer or even boot his/her computer. Iertutil.dll was missing from the Beta version of Internet Explorer 7, causing many users to have to manually replace the file, but the file is included in the final version of Internet Explorer 7 that is now available. Iertutil.dll runs on the Windows Operating System and can be found in the primary hard Read More

System Restore is a Windows Operating System mechanism that allows users to effectively reverse any settings or actions performed since the last Restore Point. A Restore Point is a specific date that the user saved his/her current settings on and restores the computer to the settings of that time. Restore Points are also automatically created whenever the user performs an installation or an action that affects the Windows Registry or other settings. Users can access System Restore by opening the Start Menu, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking System Tools, Read More

Yahoo Answers is a social networking platform that Yahoo sponsors. It allows users to ask other Yahoo users questions and receive answers based on specific categories. Yahoo Answers is ideal for those who wish to receive answers to personal questions and allows others to rate the best answer, specify their individual sources and qualifications concerning their response, and provide links with further information for the user asking the question. Yahoo Answers requires users to have a Yahoo account, but allows users to ask questions anonymously and hide their email address. Read More

An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a system for detecting misuse of network or computer resources. An IDS will have a number of sensors it utilizes to detect intrusions. Example sensors may be: A sensor to monitor TCP connection requests. Log file monitors. File integrity checkers. The IDS system is responsible for collecting data from it's sensors and analyzing this data to give the security administrator notice of malicious activity on the network. IDS technologies are commonly divided into NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection Systems) and HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection Systems). Read More

What is an IP An Internet Protocol (IP) is used for communicating data with other computers–otherwise known as a packet-switch internetwork–using a protocol such as TCP/IP. The most common type of packet-switch internetwork is the Internet. Therefore, an IP address is the protocol used to communicate with the Internet. Another way to think about it is that the IP address is the computer’s address. When files come to your site, it comes to your IP address because that’s what it recognizes. How to Check Your IP There are two ways Read More