How to Finding Old Web Pages

The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page's content or design has changed. There are several sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist.

The Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine allows users to search for web pages that are no longer online. According to the Internet Archive, "the average lifespan of a web page is 44 -75 days," making it that much more important to preserve the designs and styles of our Internet past.

The WayBack Machine actually saves working versions of millions of sites and billions of pages (85 billion as of June 2008), an amazing resource for designers looking to see the look of the internet, and specific sites, going back as far as 1996.

To use the WayBack Machine, simply type a URL in the search field, and you are given a list of approximate dates that the archive has stored pages from. Choose a date and view a saved version of the site. While you will often come across broken links and images, this does not take away from the value of the service, as this huge archive of old web pages is a great research tool.

Some Screenshots : Google.com's History

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How to Lock USB Drive and Make it Read Only

USB drivers are considered as one of the sensitive ports of a computer. After the launch of USB portable drivers, they can be easily attacked by different viruses and malware woes, but only if you behave sketchily. A research claims that in the last two years, around 70 percent of the businesses have somehow lost their confidential data to USB flash memory sticks.

But you can avoid this mess to a large extent by locking write access to your USB drive and making it protective from any kind of autorun file. In this step by step guide, we have used Windows Registry Editor and a dedicate Windows tool to do this task.

Step 1: Using Windows Registry Editor

At first, you have to open Windows Run and type the command regedit. This will open Windows Registry Editor. The command will only run if you are a computer administrator.

Step 2:  When Windows Registry Editor opens, navigate toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies. Most of the time the key StorageDevicePolicies is available by default, but if it’s not there, you will have to make a new one. To make it, you need to right-click on Control folder in the sidebar and click on the option New -> Key.

Step 3: Afterwards, open StorageDevicePolices and make a new DWord which can be found on the right-click context menu.
 

Step 4: Type WriteProtect under the Value name, and double click on it to adjust its value. Type 1 under the Value data and save the settings.

Step 5: All done. You can now edit any file on any removable device inserted in to your USB drive. You can also use a tool USB Write Protect for this purpose.

Referance : Internet

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