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When is Friendship Day 2011?

On Friendship Day 2011, get reunited with your old friends with whom you have lost touch. All of us have happy associations and memories with our friends whether they are childhood friends, teenage friends, work friends, neighborhood friends or just any other friend. Friendship day is the time to get all nostalgic about every friend that you have now and had in the past and celebrate the occasion together if possible. Childhood friends always have a special place in our heart; it is with them we have had our first brush with this feeling called friendship. Organizing a get-together, with all these friends on friendship day 2011, sounds like a wonderful idea. Celebrate Friendship Day on Sunday, August1, 2011 with all your beloved friends. We know that it might not be possible to have all your friends under a single roof on this day. However, you can at least attempt to bring in together as many friends as possible. Start by gathering their contact details, once you get touch with one o...

How Webcams Work .....................

Introduction to How Webcams Work Photo courtesy Amazon.com Creative Labs Webcam If you have been exploring the Web for any length of time, then you have run across any number of Webcams in your travels. Webcams range from the silly to the serious -- a Webcam might point at a coffee pot or a space shuttle launch pad. There are business cams, personal cams, private cams, traffic cams... You name it and there's probably a Webcam pointed at it. Have you ever considered setting up a Webcam yourself? You might want to create a funny Webcam by pointing it at your hamster or putting it inside your refrigerator. But it turns out there are lots of productive uses for Webcams, too. For example: • You will be out of town for a week and you want to keep an eye on your house. • You'd like to be able to check on the baby sitter and make sure everything is OK while you are at work. • You'd like to know what your dog does in the back yard all day. • You want to let the grandparent...

How to block Facebook using the Hosts file.........................

The location of the hosts file depends on your operation system. Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 2000 C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 98/ME C:\WINDOWS\hosts Note! Make a backup of the hosts file and put it somewhere safe, in case you mess up. 1. Open the hosts file using Notepad or other plain text editor. 2. Copy the following: # block facebook 127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 http://www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 blog.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com 3. Paste them into the Hosts file after 127.0.0.1 localhost 4. Save and close the Hosts file. 5. Reboot your computer to apply the changes. 6. Try to open Facebook into a browser.