Whether the website is suffering from frequent downtimes, is of prime concern to every webmaster. Website downtimes can cast a serious impact on the reputation of the site, its visitors and the revenue generated from the site. Now there are many applications out there to monitor the downtime of a site but most of them comes with a price tag. So for those webmasters who are maintaining a personal website, these softwares are a bit extravagant. Google Chrome’s extension, server monitor, comes in quite handy for individual website owners or for people who are not webmasters but want to monitor their favorite sites for some reason.

Server Monitor is a very useful monitoring tool. It lets user to put one or more URLs at a user-defined interval to check the status and content of the page.

Click here to navigate to the monitoring tool extension

Once you install it to Chrome browser,  a colored sphere icon will be added to the browser. Green means the site responded with the content that was expected. Yellow means the site responded but the content was different than expected. Red means the site failed to respond.

Suppose you want to select files in a folder that are randomly arranged, you press CTRL and then click on the files you want to select, to perform the operation. Now this is the old trick and the most common method. With windows vista and windows 7 you can do the same operation in a much easier way using the checkbox method. This feature is not enabled by default so follow these steps to enable the same.

1. Go to start menu and type "fol" and press Enter. A folder option box will open up like this.

Just when people were getting comfortable with Windows 7, Microsoft decided to stir things up with windows 8. Yes windows 8 the next Windows version is not too far. "Microsoft is on course for the next version of Windows. But it will take about two years before 'Windows 8' on the market." mentioned on the Microsoft's Dutch website. This post was translated by Winrumors and  a screenshot of the text was taken by CNET, which unsurprisingly disappeared shortly after the news stole headlines. Now Microsoft is again tight-lipped about Windows 8 and its release dates.

Many reports suggests that microsoft is building a 128 bit OS and it could be very likely be windows 8. According to the reports some of the possible additions would most likely be  a desktop app store like Apple's forthcoming Mac App Store, body-sensing features similar to the Xbox Kinect, near-instant CPU booting, and a focus on powering tablets.

Many of you must have windows 7 but can't afford the genuine windows 7 key. Naturally you tend to resort to illegal means by applying cracks and patches. Keep in mind that by doing so you are not only breaking law but also opening doors to many hacker, virus and malware attacks. You never know what is in that loader. You use it to  get over this trial period but along with that it also secretly modifies your registry and opens the door to unknown attacks. Now im not saying all the loaders are virus or Trojan, but why take chance and put the very integrity of your security at risk.

You can use this trick to extend your windows 7 trial period to almost a year, while keeping your windows secured and genuine all along. Yes that's right, your windows will be genuine, that means you can run the windows updates as well without running into any issues. Remember it is not your windows 7 software that determines whether its genuine or not, its the key that your using.

Download windows 7 from microsoft, it comes with 30 days trial. Now follow these steps to use your windows 7 for almost a year.