France Wide Web Minitel is Shutdown

Online banking, online booking and many more online things spread around the world because of internet. But would you believe, in 1978 there’s a network for online things in France?  It is called France-Wide-Web and also called “Minitel”.

In earlier days, the purpose of this Minitel is to do banking, shopping, connect to air and rail service departments and also connect with cable TV services etc in online by using a keyboard and monitor. This was very successful at that time and this was the best communication network before originate internet.  Monitor, key board, modem and the telephone connection are the main part of Minitel network. Transaction media is telephone lines and only “Text” will be visible in the monitor. Once you ordered a Minitel system it comes with the telephone and connection.

Best features of this Minitel,

• Order the needed things from shopping store.
• Booked the air and train tickets.
• Find any telephone number from online telephone directory.
• Do online banking.
• Credit card payments.
• Email box

I think you can’t imagine this kind of facilities in 1978, but Frenchmen got the chance to do work from online and in 1982 whole country covered by this Minitel network. At that time Minitel is one of the greatest technical equipment for whole world because there’s no internet at that time.

Some of the countries copied this Minitel and constructed their own networks using Minitel technology,

• British – Prestel
• Germany – BTX
• Canada – Alex Tel
• South Africa – Bel tel
• USA – Community Link
• Italy – Video Tel

After spreading the internet around the world, most of the countries are shutdown the Minitel systems.  But French people not shutdown it and keep using this Minitel after the internet comes. Even in 2010 Minitel earned like 30 Million Euros with 10 Million users.  

In 2012 June 30^th is the last day of Minitel and the owners of Minitel decided to shutdown this network. Some reasons for this decision is,

• Further extension for Minitel is really hard
• Internet more flexible than Minitel
• The users count getting lower and lower

As internet users, we cannot forget the origin of online works Minitel. The Minitel technology is historical and good bye Minitel.

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If you have a genuine windows operating system, in time to time you can see there is a message displays that “Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” (You should have to turn on the automatic updates for this).

What is this “Windows Automatic Updates” and how it works? This is a common problem for computer users. Windows Automatic Updates Includes,

• Error fixes of the operating system.
• New extensions of the operating system.
• Automatic updates Increase the immunity to viruses.
• Automatic updates ensure that new software compatibility to operating system.

Most of the older versions of windows do not compatible to the latest software programs.  If you want to run those applications, what you can do is install the latest version of windows or turn on the automatic windows updates. Note that; most importantly please ensure that your computer has genuine windows operating system to use automatic updates. And it is highly recommend turning on automatic updates always. 

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Feature of Google Desktop

• You can load any Google products like Gmail, G talk, Google search, Google Plus etc.
• A brief view of your Gmail, it will shows a part of the title in the emails.
• Also you can add your favorite websites and latest updates of those sites. Images will not show.
• Double pressing of CTRL button will enable the Google Search. (For this feature it is not essential to add sidebar, just need Google Desktop install and run).
• The latest previous searched term will not get erase from the search bar. You do have to do it manually.
• Also you can add, time, date, photo slider, calendar widgets to this Google Desktop bar.
• For your own safety, log off from Google if you go out from the computer.

Download Google Desktop

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Find Total Downloaded and Uploaded Data Usage Easily

This is very good and light weight software that can use to monitor net speed easily. I thought this is very useful to you. As internet users it is very good to know about the stats of Current uploaded and downloaded data usage because most of the time you have to pay for the data usage if it is not unlimited connection. 


You can monitor data speed, monthly data usage and daily data usage easily from this software. Most importantly the good thing is these records are very accurate. This is one click install software and compatible for any windows versions after 2003(XP, Vista, 7). There an icon in the taskbar for this software.

You can download the software

For 32 bit Users:  Download Here

For 64 bit Users:  Download Here

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Nearly 40000 employees worked together to the success of windows 8. Most of official sites published that the windows 8 will officially release on 2013. Most of computer users are waiting for windows 8 to interact with its new features. So when this Windows 8 releases? 2013?

There’s a rumour going through the internet that the windows 8 will release on Last week of October 2012. I think its good news for windows users. But this is not yet officially published on the official sites. But you can see it in the near future that this gossip is correct or not.

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Remove Vocals in Mp3 and Make a Sound Track

I needed a sound track of a song. I Google it, searched every where in the internet for the sound track. I fed up of it and stopped searching it. I started think of a new way to do it and i found a solution that to remove the voice of music track and get the sound track. I found 2 software that can do my task easily. First software is "Audacity" (Download from here).

Steps to follow

1. Select the Audio file (File --> Open)

2. Right Click on the Track --> Split Stereo Track 

3. Select Effect Menu --> Select Vocal Remover

Second software is "Mp3 Karaoke" you can download it from here. This software rather easy than the previous one, just need to add the mp3 file and select "Make Karaoke".

Quality of the sound track depends with these parameters,

1. How the sound track and audio track embedded. For me 1 one's quality better than the second.

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This is the latest new from the Google Company. There is a rumor going on these days that “Google Drive” cloud storage (dropbox killer) will release on next week and it will give 5GB space. Try to go http://drive.google.com it will shows 404 error message, which means the domain also active now. Dropbox.com only give you 2GB storage and Google drive will give 5GB storage you can store your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Also another advantage of Google Drive is that it can use in any operating systems like windows, Mac Os, iOS, Android. 


Will Google Drive will be the killer of Dropbox?

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• Click the link in a webpage with your mouse wheel; link will open in a new tab of the browser.  (This option same as “Right click > Open in a new tab option”.
• On any file like (PDF, Word) or web page click  (you will get this icon) (No need of keep pressing just one click enough) the Mouse Wheel and then go Upside, downside, left side, right side easily. By using method you can go around the file (if big size file this method is very suitable).
• Press the CTRL key in the keyboard and roll the mouse wheel, you can see the page zoom in and zoom out.

These are some secret tips of using mouse wheel easily. I know most of you will not aware of at least one of these options. 

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As you all know about Torrent definitely you would know about “ThePirateBay”. “ThePirateBay.se” is the biggest Bit Torrent website. Most of you would definitely downloaded songs, films, games, software through Piratebay for sure. As the new American government act SOPA – (Stop Online Piracy Act) the free file sharing sites like megaupload banned and took the owner to the custody. Most of the file sharing site shut their sites because of this SOPA. (Still Mediafire is up and running, I don’t know what will happen to them because of this SOPA). 


PirateBay also took some serious actions to protect this SOPA. One is they changed their domain “org” to “se” now you can access to piratebay by type “ThePirateBay.se”. “org”is a top level domain and it belongs to America. 

The biggest action from piratebay is they try to set their servers in GPS controlled drones in the air. As they said with modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. They setup this drones in the air area of their friendly country. This is still with the experiment level but really achievable with modern wireless transmission.

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