Backing up your personal data is something which we all should do periodically. Now in Mozilla backing up and restoring your Bookmarks couldn’t be any easier. Although there are many ways to achieve the task, the following one is probably the easiest.

Step 1:

First of all start your browser.

Step 2:

On the Menu bar, go for “Bookmarks” -> “Organize Bookmarks”. The following window will open up,

How to bookmark in Mozilla Firefox

Step 3:

On the left hand side click on the item “All Bookmarks”, and it will show all the Bookmarks saved by you on the right hand side box. Select the all the items which you want to save and click on the “Import and Backup” option above.

How to restore bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

Step 4:

Now from the drop down list click on “Export HTML” as shown in the above picture.

Step 5:

Once you do so you will be asked to give the “filename” and the “location” where the backup file will be saved. A HTML file containing all of your Bookmarks will be saved in that location.

Now whenever you need to restore your Bookmarks information in case of any System crash or if you want to transfer the Bookmarks from Mozilla to any other web browser, you can use this HTML file. For example, if you are importing the data into Mozilla, under the “Import and Backup” option you will find “Import HTML”, click on it. The following window will pop up,

How to restore bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox

Click on “Next” and you will be asked to give the location to the HTML file. Do it and all of your Bookmarks will be restored.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It’s just another protocol like HTTP using which your browser connects to a web server or FTP server. This protocol is mainly designed for file transferring as the name itself suggests. Technically it stands over the TCP/IP.

Using this method you cannot only download from the server, but also you can upload files. Here, both process is fast as the protocol is mainly designed for file transfer.

Now there are quite a few ways in which you can use FTP.

First of all you can use any of your favorite browsers like Mozilla, IE etc to download the files from the server. But uploading can not be done here. For uploading you have to use one of the following ways.

You can use your Windows/Linux machine to connect to a FTP server. There are a few commands to do that which you can easily learn.

Otherwise the best way to handle FTP transfers is to use dedicated FTP Clients. The client takes care of all the low level details for you. You have to know about certain things before you use FTP.

• Whenever you connect to a FTP server you will be asked for a “User Name” and “Password”. So you must have an account on the FTP server. Some servers allow “guest” login also, where the “User Name” is “anonymous” and “Password” should be your valid “email id”.
• Once you are connected to a server you will given a certain access level there. Sometimes you can download files from the server, or sometimes you can upload also.

Now there are certain benefits of using FTP over other traditional methods. Such as

• The whole transfer process is very fast compared to any other method.
• File transferring is done in the most secured way.
• There is no fear of loosing data due to interrupted internet connection. Because you can always resume your downloads or uploads.
• Further multiple file transfer is available.
• If the server is over loaded with too many connections then you can simply wait. Yes, there is a “Queuing” option available.
• You can also “schedule” or transactions.
• And moreover you can also different scripts situated on the FTP server provided you have given the required permission.

You will find “Advanced Search” option on the left side of the Google Search box. Click it and you will be taken to the advanced search option page.

A many options will be listed there like

• Contain all or at least one of the search terms.
• Not to include any specific words in your query
• Search in a specific language.
• Search for a specific file format.
• Restriction to results having adult material

In the bottom you will see perform search in specific areas as shown in the figure.

Now if you are a person like me who believes in creating the query himself, then you should know about these search operators which will give you the flexibility to improve your search.

You can use “+” or include operator to restrict the search to have a specific word. For example if you search for “Google” the first hit will be www.Google.com. But if you do it this way “Google + uk” then it will be www.google.co.uk. And don’t forget to include a space before the “+” sign.

You can use “OR” operator to search for any one of the two terms. It works same as the ordinary “OR” operator.

If you want to restrict your search to only one site then you should use “site” function. For example if you do “computer site: www.tipadviser.net” you will get all contents from our website having “computer” keyword in them.

You also can include a Numeric Range in your search. When you search for “TV $100..$1000 site: www.amazon.com” you will get all the occurrences of TV in Amazon’s site having a price associated in between $100 to $1000.

Like these, there are many advanced features available in Google search. It really won’t be a waste of time if you learn a few.

IP Address or Internet Protocol Address is nothing but a set of four numbers joined by “.” or a dot, to identify you on the vast network of WWW. It works the same way as postal ZIP code works. It can be represented as XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, where XXX can be any number in the range of 1 to 255. When you visit a website using an internet connection, you are identified at the server by this number only. Now it can be of two types, Static and Dynamic. The first one means it never changes for your computer whereas dynamic IP Address means just the reverse. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) can give you a unique IP each time you connect through it, from a pool of IP Addresses.

There are mainly two ways to identify this number.

1st method

• You can simply visit different websites available who will display your IP Address at no cost. It costs only a small piece of code to display it for you. If you want to know your IP Address, then just Google up for these websites.

2^nd method

• You can also find your IP Address from your computer. Follow these steps

Step 1:

Open the “Run” command window from “Start” -> “Run” and type “cmd” there. A black command prompt will show up like the following,

Step 2:

Type “ipconfig” there and hit “Enter”. You will see a list of results and there you can see your IP Address.

Now you would have expected to see a number as explained above, but it is showing something non-numeric and total two IP Addresses. It happens when you access internet from within a LAN. In that case your computer is assigned a unique Intranet IP Address and it is not revealed outside the network of yours. The first one showing a number of 192.168.1.20 is this number only. And if you verify your IP Address by a website then it shows the one assigned by your router.