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PC & Laptop Assembly Workshop 2k12

The  Information Technology  Department of  D. Y. Patil College of Engineering organizes the  PC and Laptop  Assembly workshop  at D.Y.P.C.O.E -Akurdi campus Pune every year. This is now a tradition in the IT department of the DYPCOE. The response for the workshop is usually very strong and it receives loads of positive feedbacks. This time too, we are looking forward for something very big.   The workshop extends for a duration of around  3 to 3.5 hours . Each batch is divided into groups.with each groups having not more than 10 students. Each group will be having 2 technically skilled persons from the Organizing Team to teach all required skills for the next  3 hours. Hands on experience is given to every one during the PC assembling workshop.   After the workshop, participants are directed to the seminar hall, where they will be attending a  seminar  on   Computer Security and Protection . After t...

Facebook Spam | How to Stop It?

Facebook users are continuously being hit by spam that claim to offer Free meal, Free Mobile Recharge, Some Nude Content or they may offer Free Money. Once you click on such links you are automatically taken to some inappropriate website. Sometimes it takes you to some Facebook application which asks you to allow to access your Facebook account. How Does a Spam Spread? 1) Malware(Malicious software that harms your system) infects your friends computer Secretly giving spammer control over Facebook or Twitter accounts 2) The spammer posts a message on your friend's Facebook profile, offering the same things. 3) You click on those links and you are taken to a website that sometimes instructs to download some stuff to view the content, or if they offered you a free coupon, they will tell you to download that coupon. 4) The malware infects your computer and lets spammer post the offer on your Facebook profile, repeating the same cycle ...

Facebook's New Page Insights- very useful for page owners

If you’re the administrator of a Facebook page, you may have noticed that your Insights and People Talking About This tabs have disappeared. If you haven’t noticed, go check. Are you back yet? Are your Insights gone? Don’t freak out just yet! Facebook has introduced a new, updated version of Page Insights. Read on to learn what’s new and different. Better engagement measurements The old version of Insights had limited engagement information to give page owners, and really only offered data about likes, comments, and interaction rates. The new Insights presents three new types of engagement statistics to help page owners interpret how far their content is traveling. 1. People Talking About This This is a measure of people who have liked, commented on, or shared a post from your page. It also includes people who have tagged your page in a status or photo, responded to an event, or answered a question you’ve asked...

Blogging Simplified

You might find so many stuff online talking about blogging and blogs. I would sum up a few important things (that I feel important) in my first post about blogging. So let's start with the definition of the blog. What is a Blog? A blog is actually an acronym of the term "web log". And as we know a log is a diary or directory maintained about important things, and that appear according to date and time. So a blog is simply important posts coming daily or weekly depends on you, in chronological order.  In simple words; it is a space online where you can share anything you want. People have started sharing from everything to nothing on their blogs. A blog is a platform that has invited creative people to share their creativity and talent. People having passion for writing have written so many nice articles that will be there on internet forever (till that website/blog remains online). Yes, you can also get into blogging if you find something useful to sha...