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Well, after
months of procrastinating I have finally decided on a new look
for the site. It's not as flashy as the old site and for those
of you that visited the old site before, you will notice the difference
with out a doubt. I wanted more clean looking pages and after
many, many designs came up with this one. Hope everyone likes
it...
Until I get
everything uploaded, some pages may not be completely finished,
please be sure to check back.
Let me know
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Quality sites
are still needed for my NetRing. If you have a website and would
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From time to time I would post helpful items I have found to be
useful on the old site.
I figured
I'd continue to do this on the new one. Here are a few things
I have found and use:
The
Big Fix
In short, these people find and fix problems with windows
and other applications, then make the fixes or updates available
before Microsoft® or the other program developers. This
is a stand alone application that connects to their server
and keeps you up to date on the issues with your software
before it becomes a very big problem.
I was
very surprised when I downloaded this program and it gave
me updates for Window XP and Norton that I had not found
on their sites. It also gives you advisories about viruses
and more. OK, I'm done sounding like an infomercial, go
download it and check it out. It's free.
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Pop-Up
Stopper
I hate
pop-ups, I mean I REALLY hate them, I know, I have them
here, but not by choice. Anyway, I have tried allot of programs
that stop or "kill" pop-ups and the one I found
that works really great is Pop-Up Stopper. I am using Pop-Up
Stopper Companion.
It is
a browser plug-in and works great. Some of the ones I used
in the past either crashed my browser or my whole system
or they just didn't work. I have as of yet to have an issue
with this program. Check it out, there is a free 30 trial.
If you like it buy it, if you don't like it, your not out
anything.
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Window Washer
I know,
this one has been around forever and most of you know about
it, but I like it so much I had to post it here. This is
a great program to free up unused "junk" on your
hard drive and recover needed space. I have talked to people
who installed this on their system and ran it for the first
time and recovered 120 Megs and more of space. I use to
delete all my cookies and temp files and dump my browser
cache manually, but this program does it all for you. If
you use it you know what I'm talking about. If you don't
have it, get it...
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Ad
Ware
Spyware
is big business and I for one do not wish to contribute
my information or browsing habits to the Spyware database.
What am I talking about?
Stuff
like Bonzi Buddy, Gator and LOP. I was always very careful
when I installed anything on my system. Guess what, I got
nailed with a butt load of Spyware stuff and didn't even
know it. I use P2P programs like Imesh and Kazaa, they are
loaded with Spyware This program runs and get's deep down
it your system and finds any Spyware on your computer and
kills it. This is a must have.
What
is Spyware? Here is a great description from searchEbusiness.com
below.
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Spyware
In general, Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering
information about a person or organization without their
knowledge. On the Internet, Spyware is programming that
is put in someone's computer to secretly gather information
about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested
parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus
or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting
programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are
not, properly speaking, Spyware, if the user fully understands
what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared.
The cookie is a well-known mechanism for storing information
about an Internet user on their own computer. However, the
existence of cookies and their use is generally not concealed
from users, who can also disallow access to cookie information.
Nevertheless, to the extent that a Web site stores information
about you in a cookie that you don't know about, the cookie
mechanism could be considered a form of Spyware DoubleClick,
a leading banner ad serving company, changed its plans to
combine cookie information with database information from
other sources to target ad campaigns directly to individuals
without their permission. DoubleClick's current policy is
not to collect "personally-identifiable" information
about a user without their explicit permission or "opt-in."
Aureate
Media, which distributes free software on the Web in exchange
for the right to gather user information, is another company
that has been criticized for not plainly indicating what
data it gathers and for making it difficult to remove its
programming.
Spyware
is part of an overall public concern about privacy on the
Internet.
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searchEbusiness.com
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