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[Review] ServerClub: One Of The Best Hosting Services

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serverclubFast and Easy Hosting Service:

In today’s fast moving world, internet is everything. It is a man’s most powerful tool and one on which he is highly dependent. In order to review the website ServerClub we need to first discuss what dedicated servers are. Although most of you out there would know but for those of you who don’t, dedicated servers are part of a specific type of hosting. Specifically one that involves leasing an entire server to a client this would be a server that is not shared with any other individual. These prove to be significantly beneficial for high performance blogs or websites.

Customer Care:

Serverclub.com is no doubt one of the prominent names in the world of hosting and specifically dedicated servers. It has a great customer care and provides the users with instant setup and at the most reasonable prices.

Easy Accessible Location:

Location is everything and Serverclub.com is located in Nether lands, EvoSwitch Datacenter Amsterdam to be more specific. Server club is installed and designed in the most environmentally sustainable technology. Another stand out is that there servers are designed in such a way that you save money while using the services. Thanks to the energy saving technologies which made it possible.

High-Tech and Updated Technological Services:

These were just a few out of many reasons why you should use Server club, now we shall shed some light on the more technical ones. At server club all the equipment comprise of the latest technologies which are designed specifically for invoice payments bandwidth usage statistics as well as supporting ticket system. Apart from that their 24 hours customer care service is spotless and worth giving a shout out to as well. They also help the clients with the initial server setup anytime without any service charges.

Uplink Capacity:

The total uplink capacity at Serverclub.com is 220GB while they offer up to 1000MG to all their premium clients. The highly experienced and dedicated staff is always forefront to help the clients during installation of any software. Security is also not your problem when you come to Server club for they consider it their responsibility as well. As long as you are a part of their cliental you never have to pay an extra dime for their technical support.

There are so many factors that make ServerClub stand out from the rest that it’s impossible to get them all. Yet their traffic plans and affordable hosting prices are only few of the many. All your special requirements are met at ServerClub for they live to serve your every need. There application for iPhone is also duly commendable. To cut things short if you need dedicated host servers, ServerClub are the people you need to contact.

[Review] Check for Grammatical Errors Online With GrammarBase

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Most of the word editing or text editing programs out there come with a built-in grammar or spell-check tool that is just not good enough to find all the mistakes in your writing. Some word processors can easily find spelling errors but ignores context.

GrammarBase Grammar Checker online tool

There are plenty of grammar check websites out there to help you but most of them require payment. It is not possible for all the students and regular writers out there to use a paid grammar checker service. That’s where GrammarBase comes in.

What is GrammarBase?

GrammarBase is a free, instant grammar checker that promises to identify all types of grammatical errors and give you a detailed report. You can get this report instantly and correct them with a single click. You just have to copy paste your text in to the check-area and then click “Start checking”. This free instant grammar checker can check a big 500-words article in less than 10 seconds. This free service also claims to provide secure service and can check the originality of your content so let’s see if this free service really works or not.

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Does GrammarBase Really Work?

At first I checked some of my old articles to see if this service really works or not. As you can see in the screenshot, the free grammar checker didn’t find any mistake in my article. Then I tested some common grammar mistakes that almost everyone makes to make sure this grammar checker is ready to handle them or not.

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As you can see in the screenshot, I wrote “Whom love you more than me? I lie the pencil on the table” on the box and then asked the grammar checker to check for mistakes. To my surprise, the grammar checker failed to identify the grammatical errors here.  The correct sentence will be “Who love you more than me? I lay the pencil on the table” Microsoft Word 2010 managed to find this grammatical error.

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Same thing happened when I wrote “are you feeling alright? Do I have to call a doctor?” The grammar checker failed to understand that alright isn’t even a real word.

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The service also claims to offer protection from plagiarism, similar to PlagTracker, by checking for originality of your pasted contents. However, when we tried to use this feature, the service failed to identify plagiarized contents.

Pros and Cons of GrammarBase:

Some of the pros:

  • Completely free, no hidden fees
  • Identifies simple grammatical mistakes instantly
  • Simple, user-friendly interface
  • Doesn’t require any registration or software download

Some of the cons:

  • Not good enough to identify all the grammatical errors in a content
  • Failed to check contents for plagiarism
  • Results could be better

Verdict

If you are just looking for a not-so-bad spelling checker to improve or learn English, you can check out this free grammar checker. This free grammar checker service can identify small spelling mistakes and typical grammar mistakes. However, if you are a professional writer, journalist, author, job applicant or a student, using this service won’t be a good idea.

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Review: Panda Global Protection 2013

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Panda Cloud Antivirus LogoPanda Cloud Antivirus is an antivirus software by Panda Security; available in both free and paid version. It is cloud-based in the sense that files are scanned on a remote server without using the processing power of the user’s machine. The cloud technology is based on Panda’s Collective Intelligence. The upcoming product is Panda Global Protection 2013 and now it is available in its beta version.

Panda Global protection offer all in one protection for your PC, it has Antivirus, Internet security, Parental protection, PC tune up and many other features. We can use this beta version for 4-6 month and it will expire in  2013 february.  So, you get about 4-6 month for testing. Panda also offers a prize of 200$ for testers. So if you are lucky, you have a chance to get 200 bucks with the free antivirus.

Installation :

You can download Panda Global protection from here. Installation is done online, it will download the data and start installation automatically, make sure you have an internet connection. It won’t take long for a faster connection it will only take 6-8 minute or less. Give your Email and country and follow the instructions for remaining steps.

Interface:

The interface got a face-lift in the new version. You can refer the image below. You can see many beautiful square buttons. Setting button is placed on the right top of the windows just below the close button. You can reach Licence, Update wizard, preference pages. PC tune up, USB vaccine, Safe browser, Network management. The icons are placed on right bottom side.

Panda Global protection 2013

Features:

Panda Global protection 2013 has features like Parental Protection, PC tune up, USB vaccine, Safe browser and Password manager which is a new feature in Panda Global protection 2013. Password manager can store your account information in an encrypted manner.

Panda antivirus window

Quick scan took only a few minutes but the full system scan took around 3-4 hrs to complete, I don’t like to wait for a long time so stopped it after 78%. If you want a fast scan we prefer F-secure for you, which is faster and somewhat better than Panda in terms of scan speed.

Parental control offers five different type of filters, Kids filter which will filter all pornographic, crime, gambling, games etc. Teen filter is also similar to Kid filter. Third one is the Employee filter, which can be used to block Facebook, Google plus and other social networking sites to prevent employees from wasting time of social networks. Fourth and fifth are Personalised and No filter respectively. You can customize which categories are to be blocked.

Anti Spam is used to filter out spam emails. You can create a list of trusted friends or other people so that panda won’t scan those mails and all other mails will be scanned.

PC tune or Optimization provides two type of optimization options. One is Defragmenation, which defragments your files and make your system is fast. Clean up utility cleans your temporary files and make your system free from unwanted files. Temporary files can be created in many ways, one is during software installation, which create many files but these files become useless after the installation. Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet explorer like web browsers create web temporary files which is also unwanted. Clean Up will clean temporary files, junk files, broken shortcuts etc..so you will get more free space.

Safe browser, which is not included in this package can be download – it is free. The installer file is 2.5mb in size but you need to download 77 mb during installation. We don’t prefer it for you.

Highs :

  • Good interface
  • Password manager
  • Parental control
  • Safe browser

Lows :

  • It takes more time for a full scan
  • We didn’t find any ‘update settings’ option to disable updates

Verdict:

Panda Global protection 2013 is a beta version , final version will take 4-6 month. We can test this software for 4-6 month. Beta testers will get 50% reduction in price apart from a chance to win $200.

[Review] PlagTracker: Easily check for Plagiarism in academic papers

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If you have completed all your homework, essays, and project reports without help of Internet, Google and Wikipedia, you are either a born genius or were born in or before 1970s. All of people are habitual to look for references on internet and most of the time use those magical short cuts “Ctrl C and Ctrl V”.

But using plagiarized stuff in your work could be troublesome as some Universities, Schools are very strict on plagiarism and thus they may result in heavy penalty. To avoid such situation one must check for plagiarized content.

What is PlagTracker?

PlagTracker is an online tool that lets you check for plagiarized content in a paper for free (for basic checks). All you have to do is to copy paste your content in to the check-area on the tool. After running the check, it tells the “suspicious content” with the link of the “original sources” where the content has been copied from. PlagTracker claims that it has unique checking algorithm. It checks the content in less than two minutes, pretty fine.

Does PlagTracker really work?

I ran few tests to see how effective PlagTracker actually is. I used my masters thesis to find out if there are any plagiarized content in it. I used certain sections of the thesis to run the check for which I was sure of whether it has been written by me or by someone else.

The one below did not give any plagiarized content. That seemed fine to me:

Then I tested for some content which I have used (almost) directly in my thesis. It did tell me about the presence of copied content BUT it was not what I expected. That was the only original line in the whole text shown as plagiarized content. Boo!

In the next test, I checked again for some random text of my thesis, only to be caught by PlagTracker for multiple occurrences of copied material.

Highs and Lows of PlagTracker:

Some of the high points:

  • Free (basic)
  • Easy to use
  • Online, no download required
  • No need to register to the online tool for free usage
  • Pretty decent result (better results claimed for premium users)
Some of the low points:
  • You cannot upload a whole document (at least in basic version). You have to copy paste it in the tool.
  • There is a limit of 5000 characters for basic users.
  • Results could be better
  • Too expensive ($14 per month) for premium version. Not suitable for individual needs.

Verdict:

It is a pretty decent tool that comes handy in checking your essays and other small academic papers. But it might be a bit cocky when it comes to check for a whole thesis, for free users. But no one can be blamed here as any company needs to generate revenue. And for one time home users, it provides enough basic facilities.
If you are responsible for evaluating the students’ work, you might be very well aware of the plagiarism issue in student’s work. You can push for your university or school for a subscription of PlagTracker. Students, feel free to use the free version, no need to go for a premium membership.

Review: Cloud System Booster Cleans and Optimizes your PC with Cloud Power

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Anvisoft’s cleans and optimizes your PC. It is designed to boost your computer performance by freeing up valuable hard disk space, at the same time, well protect your privacy by erasing your online activities traces and help you maintain a high-performance PC through fixing and repairing PC errors.

The program is designed simple and easy to use. The installation doesn’t take long, you don’t have to restart your computer, instead you can use the software right away after installation completes. The user interface is simple, yet attractive. The big button Boost that offers one-click solution to clean and optimize your computer is easy to catch. Its Chameleon skin-changing function is interesting and amazing, which enables you to create a splendid and personalized look of this program.

Cloud System Booster is a powerful all-in-one PC repair and system maintenance program which has four basic features: Cleaner, Optimizer, Repair, Application cleaner and optimizer. You can change the default settings according to your needs by enabling or disabling the check box of the Settings. It is designed for both PC novices and professional users (Home mode or Expert mode).

The software is no doubt user-based, despite its powerful functions, and easy-to use design, you can also schedule an automatic scan, so your computer will be cleaned and cared regularly even if you forget to do so. It has already won over thousands of users since Anvisoft launched it in May, 2012. It surly will rank among the highly-recommended system optimizers in the future judging from its present status.

Cloud System Booster does a great job in cleaning out junk files, emptying caches, fixing PC errors and doing other regular maintenance tasks that slowdown a PC over time. It is highly recommended to take this software as an eye to care your PC for factors that might clutter your computer, and a helper to eliminate them all so that your computer will live longer and service you longer.

Blisscontrol lets you control all your social network at one place

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What if you have a place from where you can control all of your Social Networks settings? Sounds good, eh? Blisscontrol is the one stop where you can change settings for most of the popular social networks.

It is a simple site where at left you can select the setting for e.g. Profile Picture, Username, Password change etc, you want to change and on the right you can select the social network  for which you want to change the settings.

Its a wonderful idea. Definitely worth a try.

Review: Smart way of managing your Personal data with Personal

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In daily life we need to remember a huge number of things in almost every aspect from credit card number to house insurance number, from kids’ baby sitter’s detail to passcode of the alarm system. You buy an electronic product, you have to remember its details for e.g, manufacturer, serial number, purchase date, warranty expire date etc. You have a party scheduled, now you need to worry about the food items, guest list and if more than one person are hosting or collaborating then share the status with them. You have 22 characters long wi-f- password, your kids’, wife’s or friends’ allergies.

The list grows endless. As human mind has its limits in remembering things (unless you have something like a Beautiful Mind of course), it seems technology advancements are hell bent on solving the issues faced in keeping the details of your “personal data”. Personal is one such new product, in public beta, that tries to help you keeping the track of your personal details in a way that can ease your life big times. [Read more…]

Microsoft Social Network SOCL goes in beta, book a place for yourself

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Microsoft Social Network SOCLFew months back we saw that Microsoft accidentally published its own version of Social Networking site Socl.com. They took down the site in few days but it seems they are back with their project renamed from Tulalip to socl (pronounced as social).

Socl is in fact not a new social networking site that wants to compete with Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus. Instead it is more like where users can collect interesting stuffs from web at one place and share it with their friends. [Read more…]

You can avoid spyware, if you really want to!

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As an internet user, you are exposed to online security threats. You might have stored some very important information on your computer, such as passwords and account numbers, and that’s what puts you up for identity theft. Cyber criminals have become clever, and they use techniques, which are not easy to figure out. One of the most lethal weapons of cyber-criminals is spyware. With the help of this app, they keep an eye on your secrets, and are all set to steal valuable information from your computer. [Read more…]

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