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Be Productive and Earn Money - Make Best & Effective Use of Your Time by Learning & Acquiring Skills Using Free Udemy, EdX, etc. Courses

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Dear Readers, hope you are good and doing well. " An old saying that there is no age limit for learning. " and I completely agree with these words and I do believe that if you have it in you or if you have the passion to learn something new or are looking to do something adventurous then you can always learn something new and acquire new skills or enhance/polish the skills you already prowess and it is never late. It doesn't matter who you are or whatever you do, whether you are a student, part-time worker, full time worker, housewife, entrepreneur, etc. you can always improve your skills and digital means/e-learning is the most preferred way to learn something new with absolutely no cost. For this, you can browse through various educational websites such as Udemy.com , edx.org , or eduonix.com to find your dream course to acquire new skills or polish your existing skills. Although most of these educational websites offer free to enroll courses, they do have so...
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Blocking/Unblocking a Website or I.P. Address in Windows Environment

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How to Block or Unblock a Website or IP Address within your Computer


Follow the Procedure as under :
  1. Open the Hosts File, Go to Run Command (Win Key + R) and type in "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or alternatively go to My Computer->Windows Installation Directory (Usually Drive C: ) -> Windows -> System32 -> drivers -> etc -> hosts file
  2. Open the file with notepad.. (If you are using windows Vista/7 or 8, Right Click the hosts file and select properties --> under the Security Tab, Select all options under your Username and/or Administrator such as Write,Read,Read & Execute, Special Permissions --> Click Apply and then open that file with notepad - otherwise you won't be able to save changes to your hosts file)
  3. Find labels such as 127.0.0.1 localhost and move to the last line and enter the IP address of the Website you want to block along with it's name.
  4. It should look like this --> 74.125.236.148 www.google.com ( IP Address SiteName)
  5. Save the changes made by pressing CTRL+S..
  6. You have successfully blocked www.google.com from being accessed within your computer
To Know the IP Address of a Website open command prompt and type "ping sitename" (without quotes) where site name could be any site name you want to block such as Facebook.. It should look like this -->           31.13.70.49 www.facebook.com
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