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Todays internet ERA you'll need a protection of firewall rathar than depending on your hardwares firewall. Some times you gotta tweak and customize the firewall to your optimum needs. Today i've found on Engadget, they have a nice and hand to hand tutorial on setting up your personal linux firewall system by yourself. Go ahead and read the tutorial here.

Now a days we have digital gadgets and cameras everywhere. Everyday new technologies come out. Digital cameras becoming more complex, featureful and smaller. Most of the new and old photographers has real trouble with these complex digital cameras. When i bought my own digital camera i had real trouble balancing it while taking a shot. I found this article at Digital PhotoGraphy school which has some interesting tips on digital camera holding techniques.

Read at Digital Photography School 

Greasemonkey script Gmail Encrypt adds encryption to the emails you write in Gmail.

Not all people uses encryption. But when your e-mail does all the Business stuff you should encrypt your conversations. This script can only be used from FireFox and you will need the Greasemonkey extention to make it work.

Greasemonkey script Gmail Encrypt  (Installation guide and instructions here, get the Greasemonkey extention first then follow the instructions)

Instructables has a step-by-step for turning a regular old landline phone into a VoIP phone.

This hack requires a little bit of electronic hobbist kinda soldering and might not be for the novice hardware tweaker, but the results look quite good. If you've been wanting to try out Skype but haven't wanted to buy a new headset and you've got an phone laying around, this seems like a cool stuff to do.

Portable SkyPE Phone [at Instructables] 

Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web.

And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won't be left with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks to sort through; all your web findings will be gathering into one organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any computer.

Clip and collect information as you browse the web.

• Clip useful information.
  You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.

• Organize your notes.
  You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.
• Get access from anywhere.
  You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.
• Publish your notebook.
  You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.

Download the Firefox Extension (Requires you to login with your gmail username and password)

At Google Blog