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will open the main www.google.com site automatically.

If you are a parent worried about kids visiting adult websites on the home computer, you can configure OpenDNS to blog any adult/pornography website from loading on the computer.

In fact, quite a few business places use OpenDNS to block social sites like MySpace and Facebook on employee computers.

Power users can assign abbreviations or OpenDNS Shortcuts to access their favourite websites more quickly.

For instance, you can set ‘mail’ as a shortcut for http://mail.google.com/ or something like ‘a’ for www.reallylongname.com—just type the shortcut to access the site. A good alternative for browser-based bookmarks and it works across all computers where you have logged in to your OpenDNS account.

Now that you are prepared to switch to OpenDNS, please don’t expect huge gains in browsing speed since OpenDNS only improves the cycle between your computer and the DNS server. And do keep handy the DNS settings given by your ISP since in the extreme scenario when OpenDNS system goes down or is inaccessible, you would need the previous configuration.