A website monitoring service checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes unavailable.Most free site monitoring services send free email alerts, but charge for SMS alerts.In this guide I will show you how to set up a website monitoring service with free unlimited SMS alerts.

Hotmail is offering free mail alerts via SMS.The best thing about this is that it works on any phone which supports SMS.You need not have a GPRS connection or a JAVA enabled phone.This is one important feature lacking in gmail.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 can be directly booted from the hard disk without any secondary media.This is done by making an partition in the hard disk to appear as a USB drive to the Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

Recently my cousin bought a new laptop – Dell Inspiron 14r with Windows 7 Home Basic x64.I went to her house to install Ubuntu on her laptop.Unfortunately installing Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 14r was a big challenge.The grub2 menu and the wired/wireless drivers caused a lot of problems.It took almost 3 hours to install and get Ubuntu running smoothly.

Diskgenius is an advanced disk recovery tool that can restore deleted partition, rebuild mbr, rebuild partition table, recover files and restore formatted partition etc. It also can backup files by partition or disk clone, and it also enables you to backup partition table for unexpected incident.