How to Block a Website in Firefox, Chrome, Windows 7 and XP

Now a days Internet and World Wide Web is playing a vital role through out the globe. It is being used by huge number of people ranging from students to people of almost all spheres. Even though it has made life easy for paying bills online,booking railway tickets, shopping online, auctioning, placing orders etc.
Besides this, social networking sites distract children from study, some sites contain offensive contents and porn pictures which are a threat for young generation. Some sites even contain spams, viruses, and malwares. While opening those sites these malicious files automatically get downloaded to the local system and affects the system, even sometimes the systems are hacked to get valuable information from the concerned computer. In order to prevent these things, it is required to block these sites. Here we will see how to block websites in different browsers:
Before observing different ways to block websites, we will first understand what blocking of website means. It means denial of access of a particular URL address of a website or content of a website temporarily or permanently and meanwhile user will not be able to access those sites and contents as well.
Following are the steps to be followed to block a website in Firefox
1. Navigate to Hosts file which are located at
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for windows Vista and XP
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Windows 2k
C:\WINDOWS for Windows 98 and ME
2. Open Hosts with a notepad
By default Windows Hosts looks like below

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# this file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP addresses and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a “#” symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
#
127.0.0.1 local host

3. Now under the line 127.0.0.1 Local host, we just have to type:
127.0.0.1 The URL we want to block
For example if we want to block the www.facebook.com homepage we have to type:
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
like this we can add as many sites we want to block in Firefox
4. After this we have to close the notepad and answer YES when asked.
5. Then we have to reboot the computer and then have to try to navigate to the website we have blocked. We will see a ‘cannot find server’ message on the screen.
Following are the steps we need to follow to block websites in Google chrome
We have to open Windows Explorer and locate the folder ”C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc”Then we have to right-click on the hosts file and choose open and open the file in notepad.Now at the bottom of the document, we have to add the numbers 127.0.0.1 followed by at least one space, followed by the URL of the website we want to block.Then we have to save the file and restart the systemNow, any attempt to visit the site you blocked in Chrome  will show connection failedFollowing are the steps we need to follow to block websites in Windows 7
We have to click on the start button and search for Internet OptionsNow in a new window, Internet properties will open. Then we have to click on sites, which will be under the privacy tabWe have to add the websites over here which we want to block. Text field is provided in the next window. Then we have to click on the Block button to block the website and then have to click on OKNow, any attempt to visit the site you blocked in Windows 7  will show connection failedFollowing are the steps we need to follow to block websites in Windows XP
We have to load Internet explorer and have to click on tools->Internet options.Now we have to click on Privacy tab. Under the privacy tab we have to click on sites.In sites we just have to type the URL we want to block and then we have to click on OK.Now, any attempt to visit the site you blocked in Windows XP  will show connection failed.This was the information about how to block websites in Firefox, Chrome, Windows 7 and Windows XP. Hope you will find this information useful.
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How to Earn Money via Flipping Website and Blogs

Making money via internet has always been a craze among the techies. With the advancement of internet and e-learning the scenario has changed a lot. Now people are making money just by sitting at their home by doing various internet related jobs like blogging, content writing, reviewing products, and the interesting one – by flipping websites for free. If this term seems new to you then you will be amazed to know that flipping websites is gaining is getting quite famous in terms of  easy way of making money online. Yes, it is quite easy but with some particular strategy and knowledge of what you are doing.

Flipping websites and blogs are just like the realty business. In realty business a promoter buys a land which has some good future prospects, and then makes a beautiful house or flat or shopping complex on it. He or she also makes that piece of asset much popular within the local people. After that the promoter sells it to a potential buyer and makes huge profit. This is what flipping of websites mean in the digital world.
The first decision that you will need to take is whether you are going to create your site from scratch or you are going to buy it from someone else. My suggestion would be creating it by yourself, cause you never know that you are already buying a flipped website. If you create it by your own then you are sure that your website doesn’t contain any spoof, or hacks which will bring the site down in search engines. Just create an elegant site with simple theme so that it is pleasant to all kinds of users and buyers.
So when the site is ready you can put it online and then go on maintaining it and gaining more traffic. Listing the site on the popular search engines, like Google, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN, Microsoft Live, Bing, etc. and doing proper Search Engine Optimization is important. When the site will seem to be quite famous then make sure to talk about it in several places. Make huge list of friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Yahoo! Groups, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Blurp, Plurk, Meebo, Mashable, StackOverflow, etc. and all other popular social networks so that thousands of people come to talk about your new site.
So now, when your site will gain some online tracking and people will start talking about it, you can think of selling it. Keyword to note here is “think”. Not directly sell it. Cause you still might have to uncover the true power of your baby. Checkout the following sites and list your site there -
These sites help to sell your sites to potential buyer. Choose a right community/category because the right place will gain higher price tags and the profit can be larger. But for some days you should just checkout the prices of similar websites being sold on those sites. That will give you the idea that whether your site is still ready or not. If you think you can compete with the similar sites listed on those websites then make sure to bargain the highest bid!
Selecting the popular keyword for the site is very important otherwise the site will not become interesting to several buyers.Don’t make your site look like a spam site.You have to make the site popular enough before putting it on a sale otherwise you will loose the earning capability of the site. Don’t just buy and sell.Make sure you create a very impressive marketing material for your website which depicts the benefits of your site and how it can impact the income of the buyer.Be transparent to the client like give an appropriate information about the site like about advertisement, traffic and all.Give the fact and figures to the client that how much traffic the site is generating and its popularity, if possible Alexa Rank also.Try to connect to the social networking sites so that you get your job noticed and may find good client and also can get constructive thoughts from others.Follow these tips and you will not be running out of the race easily. You will have to fight in the beginning as there are already several big players in the website flipping domain, but you will gradually make it too. So when you are becoming a pro in flipping websites and blog and making good money out of it, please share our experience with us and put your preferred list of websites here so that we can include them in our list and other money makers can benefit form your experience.
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