Useful and FREE online tools for DNS and Network Troubleshooting

When troubleshooting network or DNS problems related to your website, server or other online services, it can be very useful to have access to online tools that can help you narrow down the problems. W3dt.net's useful online tools can help you with this, most of all they are free.W3dt.net (short for World Wide Web Domain Tools) is an online Network Troubleshooting site dedicated to providing relevant real-time data regarding networks, websites & other technical resources.
Although you can perform some of the tasks w3dt provide from your computer (such as nslookup/dig, ping, traceroute etc..) it can often be useful to able to perform these tasks from different locations to verify the consistency of your Network/Domain and it's behaviour and settings.

Firstly let's note that there are several other Network/Domain Troubleshooting websites around, but w3dt.net has proven to be one of the more satisfactory sites due to it's vast amount of tools & utilities that are all free of charge. Because of this we will be reviewing some of the functionality of the site and what it has to offer.

The site currently has five categories of functionality (and growing) to help you trouble-shoot your Network/Domain:

* Network Tools / Internet Tools
* Web / HTTP Tools
* Ping Tools
* Database Lookup Tools
* General Tools

Network Tools / Internet Tools
These tools are generally the most frequently used tools on the website and contain some of the following features:
DNS Lookup's, Port Scanning, Trace Route's, ARBL Checking (Blacklist / Whitelist Checking), Maximum Transmission Unit Determination, IP Lookups, NetBIOS Scanning plus more.
You can run some of these tasks from your desktop computer but w3dt offers the assurance of real-time results without any interception of data.
For example, a Port Scan from your desktop computer running on a home internet connection will often fail, due to ISP Policy's, proxy filtering, etc…

Web / HTTP Tools
Web / HTTP Tools can be used to test your Domain in real-time and return the most relevant results. Tools such as:
HTTP Header Retrievals, Plain Text Website Conversion, URL/Base64 Encoding & Decoding can be used to help debug your website.
Dave Nedved from w3dt.net also states that other tools such as HTML Validation & Checking is planned for the not to distant future.

Ping Tools
This category basically speaks for itself, w3dt.net has dedicated a whole category for pinging and ping testing. Using this category you can run your own ping tests on any IP/Domain, including http websites, and the ability to ping IP's/Services on open TCP Ports.

Database Lookup Tools
W3dt.net hosts several large databases, such as RFC Lookups, WHOIS Lookups (on almost all domains on the internet), Abuse Contact Lookups, and most impressively (In my opinion, the biggest feature on the site) the DNL (Short for Domain Name Listing). Basically the DNL is a massive online database of every top level domain hosted on the internet. W3dt runs a query program codenamed "Project Cyberdawn" which spiders through the internet collecting information about every .tld (Top Level Domain) on the internet. Currently the DNL contains over 92 million domains, there is a good chance your domain & information about it will be in the database also.

General Tools
Most of the general tools listed on w3dt.net are used by I.T. gurus & technicians… tools such as IP Conversion, Hash Testing, and Random Character / Password Generation can be found here. For instance these tools are great if your a programmer or web developer, and you wish to see all possible 38 hashes for the query 'dog' and use them to query against your database.

Hide or Masks your IP address by Invisible Browsing

Hello Friends, All of you know about proxies or masking of your IP address or continuously change your IP address while browsing. There are many things, Tools, Softwares available in market but today I am revealing a tool for invisible browsing which have ultimate features for masking, Hiding or changing your IP address while browsing called invisible Browsing Tool. By this tool you can hide, change or masks your IP address. This tool letting you surfs anonymously preventing your IP or other information to be collected without your permission. It is very efficient in erasing all your online tracks and it is very good Internet Explorer Privacy Solution.
This tool change your IP address anytime by route your internet traffic through server around the world. All proxies are tested in advance providing a high speed anonymous Internet connection.

Some features of advance invisible browsing are Masks, Hides Your IP Address, Automatic/Manual Mode, Blocks Invasive Code (JavaScript), Browser Cleaner, Blocks Potentially Harmful Code (ActiveX), Auto Change Proxy, Proxy Driver.

Download Link : http://rapidshare.com/files/128422507/InvisebleBrowsing.rar

Some cool Mozilla Firefox Tricks and Tips

Hello Friends , Here I am writing some cool Firefox tricks which are very helpful in using Mozilla Firefox. As we know Mozilla Firefox is the Best and very good browser with extensions, add-ons, Language Packs, Plug ins and themes and many new things by which you can execute JavaScript. Mozilla Firefox also has other features like Tabbed browsing, Pop up blocking, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, pause downloads, JavaScript Console, JavaScript Debugger, Select text and perform search, View Selection Source, Cross-platform, Display icons in tabs and address bar, HTTP Pipe lining, XML Base, CSS generated content, CSS2 selectors, Caret Browsing etc. Below are some tricks and tips by which you can use Mozilla Firefox easily.

1. Here is the Keyboard shortcuts.
- Space bar (page down)
- Ctrl+K (go to search box)
- Alt-N (find next)
- Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
- Ctrl+= (increase text size)
- Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
- F5 (reload)
- Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-W (close tab)
- Alt-Home (go to home page)
- Ctrl+F (find)
- Shift-Spacebar (page up)
- Ctrl+T (new tab)

2. Sometimes in hurry by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. But In Mozilla Firefox you can remove or move close tab button by about:config. Type about:config in address bar then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in search bar. When you find it double click on it. It will show you a prompt with by default value 1. You can change it to different values for different behaviors.
- Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only.
- Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs.
- Enter 2 to don't display any close buttons.
- Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar.

3. Now we know Mozilla Firefox have giving feature of multiple tabs , so sometimes it is very hard to handle multiple tabs with mouse, so you can also handle tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle tabs by keyboard.
- Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
- Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
- Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

4. Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox.
- Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
- Shift-scroll down (previous page)
- Shift-scroll up (next page)
- Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
- Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

5. about:config : This is a feature of Mozilla which lists aaplication and configuration setting of Mozilla. You can Get all settings configuration of your Mozilla by enter about:config in your address bar of Mozilla.

6. If you want to spped up your Mozilla Firefox then
- Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
- Set network.http.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.

Hello Friends,We all know the invisible mode of yahoo messenger but if you want to know that who is in invisible mode and also if you want to know orignal id of Yahoo messenger profile then Here is the Website that helps you find if a particular user is online, offline or invisible and also orignal id of Yahoo.
I remind below is the the link for website you don't have to download any software for this,Just enter id and then press enter it will show current status of user.

link: www.invisible-scanner.com

and the new thing in this site (Which is very important) is that Main Yahoo ID checker!!!!

We know that we can create 7 profile id in a main Yahoo id , By which anyone can chat with you by 7 ids and make you fool (If you don't know how to make seven id in yahoo, Post me a comment i will tell you) , So by this site you can check Real/main id of yahoo.

Other thing is that by this site you can check multiple id's status.For this just click on Multi-Check and then type you yahooid1,yahooid2,yahooid3..

and the last one is that display Image,means it catch image of yahoo id.Just click on top Display Image Catcher and then enter Yahoo id.

Problem : Sometimes this site not working (Because of server load) so you can use other site

link: http://www.4invisible.com/

But this site doesn't have any other features , it only show Status (Online , Offline or Invisible).

What’s Next after Windows Vista?

It's Windows Vienna

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is a future version of Microsoft Windows . It is expected to be the successor to Windows Vista . Microsoft has confirmed that the planned development time frame is at least three years, putting the release date around 2010. On July 20 , 2007 , Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 is "the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS".
Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about Windows 7 publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista,though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged at developer conferences such as Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006 .

On February 9 , 2007 , Microsoft's Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some possibilities:
"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it's hypervisors . I don't know what it is" [...] "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers.
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Bill Gates , in an interview with Newsweek , also suggested that the next version of Windows would "be more user-centric." When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said: " That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you've got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you're interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else's PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that's kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in Vista, things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won't need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices . Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We'll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we've got a pretty good outline. "

Other features

Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is "a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in." The implications of this could be as simple as a "complete as you type" function as found in most modern search engines, (e.g. Google Suggest ) or as complex as being able to give verbal commands to the PC without any concern for syntax.

Availability

The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.Server versions of Windows 7, however, will be exclusively 64-bit.