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Creating Your Own E-Book Is Easy With MS Office Word
You’re probably aware of e-books and e-book readers. An e-book is nothing but an electronic form of a regular book. You can read e-books on your PC, notebook or handheld—you purchase them online and download them to your PC (or handheld), and read them at your leisure. There’s also a large number of free e-books you can find on the Internet.  E-books are available in a variety of file formats, and you require some kind of reading software to open the e-book.
The software you need depends upon the format of the e-book.
A popular reader is Microsoft Reader, which can be downloaded for free from www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/default.asp for the desktop, Tablet PC and Pocket PC platforms.(Pocket PCs are handhelds running the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS.) E-books compatible with Microsoft Reader have the .lit extension, and can be purchased online from vendors such as Amazon.com. Microsoft’s catalogue of e-books can be found at www.mslit.com, where you can also find links to loads of free e-books! Here, we describe how to create your own e-books in Microsoft Reader format to distribute them over the Web or read them on your own desktop or handheld.
This is also useful if you want to view a large Word document on your Pocket PC. Though most Pocket PCs can view and edit MS Word files,they’re easier to read while on the move if they’ve been converted to Reader format. You also get additional features such as bookmarks.
Note here that the conversion to Reader format can only be done on your desktop PC or laptop, not on your handheld. You can, of course, transfer the converted file to your handheld. Also, you
cannot edit the files on your handheld.
To create your own e-book in Microsoft Reader format, you need to download and install a free add-in for Microsoft Word from www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.asp. The Read in Microsoft Reader (RMR) add-in works with Microsoft Word 2002 or Microsoft Word 2003.
Follow the instructions on the above Web page to download and install the add-in on your computer. When you launch Microsoft Word, you will notice a new Microsoft Reader icon on the toolbar, and a new Read command on the File menu.
Open the Word file you want to convert to Reader format, or create one if you haven’t already done so. Save the file somewhere on your computer.
When you have the Word file ready for conversion, click on the Reader icon on the toolbar. In the
Window that comes up, you can set various options for your e-book, such as title, author name, file name, etc. You can also choose where to save the file on your computer.
The same window also lets you choose formatting options for your e-book. If you check the "Convert to Microsoft Reader Formatting” checkbox, Word will remove formatting that conflicts with Reader defaults. If your Word file has a table of contents, you can also check “Reformat Table of Contents” to convert it and make it compatible with the Reader format.
Microsoft Reader displays cover graphics for e-books. If you wish, you can customise these cover graphics. If you don’t, your e-book will be created with the default cover graphics. To have your own graphics displayed, click on ‘Customize Covers’.
You can now choose an image, depending
on the type of device you wish to read the e-book on. Click ‘Browse’ to select a different cover image, and click ‘OK’ when you’re done.Click ‘OK’ to begin the conversion process. Your e-book will be created and saved to the specified folder. You’re now ready to distribute it over the Web, share it with friends, or transfer it to your Pocket PC for reading while on the move!
How To Securing An Internet Kiosk Or A Public Net Connected PC
It is difficult to maintain a PC that is used many different users—for example, a PC at an internet cafe. People can easily mess with important system files, download too many files, install unneeded  software, and so on.You could choose to add a Limited access user account for general users, but that may not be sufficient.
If you want to tighten the screws a bit, you’ll need to depend on thirdparty software such as Public PC Desktop by Ixis Research Inc. Let’s check out how to configure a machine for limited access at an Internet cafe or cyber cafe using this software.
STEP 1 : Download And Install Public PC Desktop Software:
Download the software from www.softheap.com/pubpcd.html. This is shareware, which means you can try it for free, for a limited period. Doubleclick on the setup.exe file to install the software. The Wizard will guide you through the installation.
STEP 2 : How To Choosing The Right Options: The first screen displays the
main set of options: Access Control, Password, Users, and Time Codes. In our example here, we’ll use these to set up a public Internet access terminal. The other options can be viewed by
clicking the ‘More options’ button.Here, you can set certain shortcuts for a user to use, block certain sites, and also change certain Internet Explorer properties for security reasons. The most important option here is the proxy settings. However, the proxy settings only gives the option of portsfor HTTP and HTTPS traffic, which is somewhat restrictive, but just about enough for regular connections. Let’s use the first set of options to lock a workstation.
STEP 3 : Settings in Access Control: Under ‘Access Control’, you have three options to choose from. These are essentially the modes by which you control a ccess:
(a) Username and password
(b) Time-limited lock
(c) Let the user choose
The first choice is ideal when there is a stable flow of users, that is, when there are almost never any new users.In this case, the administrator has to maintain a database of users that can be used in all the workstations.‘Time-limited lock’ allows the administrator to generate a time key
code for a certain number of minutes.This key is given to the user so he can log on to a workstation. The user is allowed to use the workstation only for that time interval; the workstation gets locked as soon as the time limit expires. The third option allows the user to
choose to unlock the workstation using the username and password, or by giving a time code. For a cyber cafe, where it is difficult to set up a database of users with passwords, it is ideal to choose time codes.
STEP 4 : Setting A Limited-Access Workstation: In this step, you’ll be actually setting up the workstation for limited access. Click on ‘More options’ and create a list of shortcuts of all the
applications you want a user to ha ve access to. An ideal list of applications would contain Internet Explorer, MS Office, Notepad, and a few more. The next step is to set the proxy. Only you, as administrator, knows the port numbers; add them to the settings.
Now, get back to Access Control. Set a master password and a time encoding keyword. The master password is for the administrator, and the keyword is used to generate time codes, which can be done by clicking
on ‘Passwords’. Jump to ‘Time codes’ and specify the time for which you want the user to use the workstation, and then click on ‘Generate’.
This will give an encrypted code. A user can use this code to unlock the workstation and use it for the specified time limit. He or she may choose to log off before the time limit, but the workstation will get locked anyway when the limit is reached.
A locked workstation looks something like the
screenshot below. When accessing the hard disk of a computer from a restricted workstation, an error message pops up, reminding the user of the applied restrictions.
Google Stepped In To Music Search
Google is tailoring its search engine to better address music search. A search for an artist will now bring up song titles, album art, links to lyrics and reviews, and  advertisements for places where the music can be purchased. Items that can be purchased will have links to merchants for
online ordering or downloading.
The online sources include Apple, RealNetworks and eMusic, and retailers selling CDs including Amazon, WalMart and others. For the CD retailers, Google
receives data feeds of the inventory and only returns a link to a store if the item is available.
Search results will include links to supplemental Google Web pages with more information about the music, including names of tracks on a CD and other CDs a band or artist has released. Google also will provide snippets of reviews from sites on the Web, as well as links to those sites. The company has, ofcourse, constantly been improving its search service to match user needs. Marissa Mayer, the company’s vice president for search products and user experience, admitted “one of the things Google wasn't good at” and that consumers wanted was music.
There’s more to the move than just better search results: Google’s current focus on music comes at a time then more companies are selling and distributing music online. Mike McGuire, research director
for Gartner Inc., said Google would be a natural place for consumers to look when they’re trying to think of songs or shop for music. “It gets people to move from CDs to online.” Google’s improvement of its music search capabilities is part of the always-on war with its rivals. Yahoo! launched its Yahoo! Music service earlier this year, and tied it with its blogs and other communication tools. And with the proliferation of online music content, more companies are enhancing their search capabilities: Apple’s iTunes, for example, allows users to search its database by artist or title, or within various genres.
Online libraries such as Rhapsody and Napster also offer searches of their databases. And services such as 411 Song sell song identification: you can hold a cell phone up to a speaker playing a tune, and you get the name of the song you played!
PC Security and Stability tips
If your office has an always-on Internet connection, use ZoneAlarm’s Internet Lock feature to protect your machine in your absence. To enable this, rightclick on the ZoneAlarm icon in the system tray and choose ‘Restore ZoneAlarm Control Centre’. Then click on the Lock tab. The Internet Lock is disabled by default. Click on Enable. Now specify a delay time of 20 minutes.
Next, check the High Security option.
This will stop all Internet activity if the machine remains idle for more than 20 minutes. E-mail protection with Norton Antivirus If you are using an e-mail client to access your POP mail account(s), then you could set up Norton AntiVirus to scan all incoming mail. To do this, start Norton AntiVirus and open the Options window.
In the left pane, browse down to the E-Mail Protection sub-menu under the Internet menu.Next, select the e-mail accounts you want scanned before the mail is downloaded on to your hard disk. Finally,from the Action tab, specify the action to be taken in case a mail is infected by a virus and press OK to complete the configuration.
If you have Norton Personal Firewall, then you can also block ActiveX controls and other cookies. A unique feature of Norton is that it can also block advertisements and HTTP referrers (wherein a site comes to know where you are coming from).
Importance of Live Updates By default, Live Update is configured to look for updates every time you connect to the Internet irrespective of whether or not updates have been released. This can
be very annoying. You can change the default setting to download updates only when a newer version is available.
To do this, browse to the LiveUpdate menu under Internet in the Norton AntiVirus Options dialog box.By default, the ‘Apply updates without interrupting me’ option is checked. Change the default option by ticking the check box against ‘Notify me when updates are available’ and press OK. Scanning all downloads in FlashGet You can set up your download manager to scan files before they are downloaded.
To configure FlashGet, start FlashGet and open the Options window from the Tools Menu.Once there, click on the File Manager tab and tick the check box against the ‘Use virus scanner to scan the downloaded files’ and browse to the folder where your antivirus program is stored.
Things Behind SMS Web Services In a Short Story
Short Message Service (SMS) is defined as the transmission of short text messages to and from a mobile phone, fax machine, or an IP address. These plain text messages have a maximum limit of 160 alphanumeric characters, and canno t have images or graphics. Let’s consider that a message has been sent from a Web site or application that offers SMS services.
The message is routed by the service to the user’s cellular network. It is received by a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), which directs the message to the recipient’s cell phone.
The SMSC sends an SMS request to the Home Location Register (HLR) to find the roaming customer.
Once the request is received by HLR, it responds to the SMSC with the subscriber’s status (active or inactive) and roaming location. If the status is inactive, SMSC stores the message for a specified period of time. When the device is active, the HLR sends an SMS notification to the SMSC, which then tries to deliver the message.
SMSC uses a Short Message Delivery Point to Point format for transmission of the message to the serving system. The system contacts the mobile and if it responds, SMSC tries to deliver the message.
When the message is received by the user, it is categorised as ‘sent’ and is not sent again. And if you have a mobile, the moment you receive an SMS message, you get two short beeps (or any other sound that you may have pre-configured), to indicate that you have received an SMS message. So, go ahead and read that message.
AMD Going for Mobiles
Early reports on AMD’s latest processor (code-named Palomino) are out. This processor, which has a 37-mil-lion transistor core, will be called the Athlon 4 and marks AMD’s first serious perform-ance product for mobile com-puting products. Athlon 4 will initially  come in four speeds: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 950 MHz and 1 GHz for mobile computers. According to AMD, Com-paq will probably become the first PC manufacturer to offer the Athlon 4, in its Presario notebook.The mobile version of the Athlon 4 will feature AMD’s PowerNow! technology, which allows the processor to dynamically change its clock speed and operating voltage depending on the applications and demands on the CPU. The 1 GHz Athlon 4 will make use of the PowerNow! technology to scale from 500 MHz to 1 GHz and run at voltages of 1.2 V to 1.4 V.This technolgy is AMD’s answer to Intel’s SpeedStep technology, which made the Pentium III processors extremely popular with laptop and notebook manufacturers. Also being launched is the mobile Duron, which is based on the Morgan core. This will constitute AMD’s value solution for mobile computers.The desktop version of the Athlon 4 is expected go up against the Pentium 4 sometime later this year.
Wonderful and Awesome Freewares for my Pretty Visitors
Yes From today onwards I post every month about the most useful freeware.. Most of us find free application tools appeali ng. It is exciting to discover new features hidden deep within that application. In this article we have selected some of the best applications and attempted to reveal their hidden features. For easy reference, we’ve placed the applications under three different categories: Windows environment, Internet, and Multimedia. In the pages that follow, we will cover many tips that demonstrate the potential and power of these applications. Windows spy for ...
Windows: xp-antispy 3.96.6 Windows has decent security though it is at a basic level. With the release of Windows Vista, security has improved signifcantly, especially in the networking area. Although the operating system offers various security features, there are some aspects that are overlooked. For instance, updates keep arriving from the Internet even when one has disabled automatic downloads for updates.
There is a utility called xp-AntiSpy that takes care of such Windows slip-ups. One need not be an expert to use this application. It’s worth mentioning that this application is merely a few kilobytes in size. It includes a list of around 50 Windows functions that one can enable or disable. The settings are categorized according to application areas such as media player, error reports, network, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Messenger.
When you select an option from the list in the main window, a brief explaination of the function appears. However, if you aren’t sure which settings to change, take a look at the ‘Suggested’ section in the ‘Profle’ drop-down menu.
Tip: xp-AntiSpy also offers to tune your computer. It helps you increase the number of parallel network connections. This can be done through the ‘Connection limit’ option which is under the ‘Special’ button on the menu bar. Windows has a limitation of 10 simultaneous connections, but with this application, there is no limit.
You will need to increase the number of parallel network connections when using fle-sharing protocols such as BitTorrent; with this application one often exceeds the limit of 10 parallel connections. You can check the current status by opening the Event Viewer. Simply open the ‘Run’ dialogue box from the Start Menu and type ‘eventvwr.msc’, and then press the [ENTER] key. Download it from Click Here
Ace archiving: 7-Zip 4.56 Beta : In the world of fle compression and archiving, the RAR format seems to be the most widely used. 7-Zip is a good option fo r uncompressing RAR fles. WinRAR is better known, but it’s not free. 7-zip is a free application that has both a command
line interface (CLI) and a graphical user interface (GUI). It supports a wide range of fle compression formats apart from the common ones such as ZIP, RAR, and ARJ. 7-Zip also features an integrity check and encoding options for archives.Tip: 7-Zip 5.56 has an integrated
benchmark that can test CPU usage while compressing and decompressing fles. Simply click on ‘Tools’ and select ‘Benchmark’. It begins the benchmark with compression, followed by decompression.
CPU usage jumps during compression and decompression (to as much as 100 percent). Hence, the processor would be unable to perform any other task effciently. This is the case with single core processors, but people using dual core processors have the option to use the second core for other applications. Select the option to use only one core (CPU thread), and the second core is free to take care of other processing tasks. This option is available in the dialogue box that appears just before fle compression. Download Here
capture and send 1.5 :This application helps in capturing screenshots and e-mailing them instantly. In the main window, you can use the shortcut key combinations [CTRL]+[F11] or [CTRL]+[F12] to capture the active window, or the entire screen respectively. Once the screen is captured, it shows in the main window, and your resident e-mail client opens up a ‘New Message’ window with the captured fle attached. From here on, you only need to punch in the recipient’s e-mail address and you’re done.
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Efficient cleaner: ccleaner v2.03.532 :CCleaner is a comprehensive maintenance program that removes fl e debris, offine content and unwanted data fles from the system. It also clears traces of recently opened documents and websites.In the frst menu labeled ‘Cleaner’ there are two tabs: ‘Windows’ and ‘Applications’. The former will let you delete temporary Internet fles, cookies, history and other offine browser content. These options are similar for the other sub-categories labeled ‘Windows Explorer’ and ‘System.’
They helpfully clear the lists of recent documents, erase commands typed in the ‘Run’ dialogue box, empty the Recycle Bin and delete other useless content. The ‘Applications’ tab lets you delete offine content generated by applications installed on the PC.The second option, ‘Registry’, removes unwanted registry keys planted by previously installed programs. There are also options for keeping the registry clean.
This option is labeled ‘Issues’ in previous versions of CCleaner.The ‘Tools’ option resembles the
‘Add/Remove Programs’ utility in the Windows Control Panel, which is used for uninstalling programs.
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Microsoft Offers a Brand new free software to students
Microsoft Corporation, often criticized for high-priced software and unfriendly licensing terms, has introduced a scheme whereby it will give away copies of professional-grade software and development tools to students around the world at no charge whatsoever.
Microsoft’s DreamSpark program will require students to be verified by the college or university that they are enrolled in, by supplying a valid college email address. Additionally, students must be at least 18 years old, sign in with a Windows Live ID, and agree to use the software for noncommercial reasons.
DreamSpark will initially roll out in 11 countries—the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium—and will be extended to a number of other countries around the world in the coming months.
Students will be able to download ISO images of the software they want, and one activation license per program per Windows Live ID will be generated for them.
The license will have to be renewed every 12 months, and will expire when the student graduates. The software available includes Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional edition, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, Expression Studio, and XNA Game Studio. For more details, visit https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Default.aspx
Orkut celebrates 4th anniversary with new and secure privacy features for users
Orkut, Google’s ubiquitous social networking platform, completed four years of connecting people in early 2008.To mark the occasion, the site launched a slew of privacy settings to reflect users’ growing concern with personal information security. Orkut now allows users to set individual privacy levels for photos, videos, testimonials and text scraps so that only people they have added as friends can see them. “The Web has progressively grown more  social, and the role
that social networking plays has evolved,” explains Google India Head of Products, Vinay Goel
in an exclusive interview with IC-CHIP. “The user’s needs evolved, they wanted elements of privacy, control on who to show pictures to, whom to talk to. The new Privacy settings allow people to control scraps, pictures, videos, photos and testimonials. If the user wants, no random people can access these”. The site has been criticized for making it a little too easy to locate people and see what they post on their profiles. Privacy has become a growing concern over the years. There have also been growing allegations of sexual predators using these networks to
stake out victims, and employers checking out the personal lives of prospective employees.
“If you don’t want the profile to be public to employers, parents or teachers, the onus is on the user. The web is open,” says Goel. “The web has a history now, Google is trawling through everything. Once something is part of the public domain, you can’t retract it. What you write becomes part of your history, what you open for the public to see remains. There is no easy way out,” he adds. The need of the hour now is to stay in constant touch with users, to understand their evolving needs and better suit them. “Looking into the future, I feel the web will become even more social. The Web 2.0 has been about social platforms, videos, photographs and blogging, which are distributed over 20 different networks. The next move is going to be to rationalize all of these,” says Goel. One storm of privacy-related issues might be fixed, but that’s just a small step in the direction of user protection. As social networking evolves into a safer and friendlier environment, future problems will continue to question our ideas of what is acceptable,
what information can be shared and what should remain visible online.
The father of all Trojans found it's name : ZeuS Trojan
The newly discovered ZeuS trojan is a blackmailer, robber and spy—all in one. ZeuS has become widespread only recently though. Investigations by antivirus specialists at Kaspersky Labs have revealed it to the public. It was detected as “gpcode.ai”, a trojan which encodes files on affected
computers and releases them again only after a ransom is paid.
Some details struck the experts, who discovered more to this trojan than first met the eye: gpcode.ai marks its presence with the “_SYSTEM_ 64AD0625_” string in the RAM. This string is suspected to be in many of the latest malware programs. The experts thus tracked down a universal code for pests in gpcode.ai. The code, for instance, can be found in the Bancos.aam troj an through which data of bank accounts can be stolen. It can also be found in the Zhelatin worm, which spreads through email attachments.
A quick glance at the methods used by all these pests identified the name ZeuS. The trojan gets installed in the system as ntos.exe and downloads the files zeus.exe and zupa.exe and connects to the network of infected “bots” already in existence. Zeus.exe is an aggressive snooper. Zupa.exe communicates with the botnet center and receives instructions. According to Kaspersky, one of the ZeuS networks that got shut down comprised of more than 100,000 zombie PCs before it was detected. The fact that ZeuS is established as a commercial tool in the virus scene is no wonder considering the various functions it can carry out: accessing data, and stealing certificates and passwords. It also lures users to phishing sites or adds infected input fields to websites. However, its discovery might also mean its end. The group that developed ZeuS has proclaimed in a forum: “ZeuS is not sold anymore; support for old customers however is still available. Good luck to all."
Ask.com newly offers anonymous web searching
Most casual internet users wouldn’t think twice before typing something into a web search box, but little do they realize that their searching habits are being tracked and analyzed.
In response to privacy concerns, Ask.com has introduced a feature called AskEraser that promises to put an end to search behavior tracking. AskEraser can be enabled by clicking a simple link on the upper-right corner of the Ask.com homepage.
Enabling it will wipe out your history from the Ask.com servers as well as cookies on users’ computers. A single new cookie will be set on the ir computer, instructing Ask.com not to harvest information. AskEraser will remain in force as long as the user continues to use the same browser on the same computer, and doesn’t delete that cookie.
However, users who choose to keep their searches private will also lose out on the personalization options on offer, such as saved web links and homepage skins.
It is unclear whether users’ privacy is completely guaranteed. Additional tracking cookies used by advertisers cannot be checked using AskEraser. However, it’s a great first step.
Windows key board shortcuts
General shortcuts : [Ctrl] + [Y] : Redo the last action. [Ctrl] + [Left Arrow] : Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word. [Ctrl] + [Right Arrow] : Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word. [Ctrl] + [Up Arrow] : Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph. [Ctrl] + [Down Arrow] : Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph. [Ctrl] + [[Shift]] + an arrow key : Select a block of text. [[Shift]] with any arrow key : Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text within a document. [Ctrl] with any arrow key + [Space] : Select multiple individual items in window or on the desktop. [F3] : Search for the file or folder. [Alt] + [Space] : Open the shortcut menu for the active window. [Ctrl] + [F4] : Close the active document (in programs that allow you to have multiple document open simultaneously). [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Tab] : Use the arrow keys to switch between open items (Vista only). Hit [Enter] to select the program you want to switch to. [Ctrl] + Mouse scroll wheel : Change the size of icons on the desktop (Vista only). [Ctrl] + [Windows] + [Tabs] : Use the arrow keys to cycle through programs on the task bar by using windows flip 3D (Vista only). Hit [Enter] to select the program you want to switch. [Alt] + [Esc] : Cycle through items in the order in which they were opened. [Ctrl] + [Esc] or [Windows] : Open the start menu. [F10] : Activate the menu bar in the active window. [Alt] + [Up Arrow] : View the folder one level up in windows explorer. [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Esc] : Open task manager. Also [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] in windows XP. Hold down [[Shift]] when you insert a CD/DVD : prevent the CD / DVD from automatically playing. 
Smart Fixes for Audio and Video Hassles and Streams
Are your CD- and DVD-burning jobs giving you a headache? I have solutions for fixing various problems,including one of my pet peeves: the inscrutable ‘power calibration’ error.The Hassle: I stuck a music CD into my drive, and surprise—instead of Windows Media Player, Explorer opened. What’s up? The Fix: Someone (not me) might have accidentally clicked ‘Open folder to view files using Windows Explorer’ when the Audio CD Properties dialog box appeared. That someone also might have clicked ‘Always do the selected action.’ You can undo that choice by resetting Windows’ AutoPlay feature: From My Computer, right-click your CD drive, select Properties, click the AutoPlaytab, and click the Restore Defaults button. In the same Properties dialog box,you can reset the AutoPlay options for video files, pictures, and other media file types as well. Power Tip: Download Autoplay Repair Wizard, a freebie that fixes most AutoPlay problems that occur with removable devices.(www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C680A7B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en).
 The Hassle: My wife wanted to burn a bunch of files onto a CD. She right-clicked them in My Documents and chose Send,but the CD drive was nowhere to be found. My computer, which is identical to hers, shows the drive. How does she get it back? The Fix: Fortunately, the solution is easy. Simply open My Computer, right-click on the CD drive, select Properties, choose the Recording tab, and then check Enable CD recording on this drive. Voilà. Power Tip: If you try burning to a DVD and get a ‘power calibration’ error, it’s probably because the disc is a cheapo. Best bet is to grab a firmware upgrade for your drive; you’ll find an extensive list at The Firmware Page (http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php). Even some brandname DVD discs aren’t made by the company selling them; download the free DVD Identifier utility to see the real manufacturer (http://dvd.identifier.cdfreaks.com/). Hassle: I want to record a Web show that is not podcast. How do I do it? The Fix: Two tools will do the job. Audacity is a freebie (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and is easy to use.Just click the red button to start recording
and the orange one to stop it, and then from Files, choose Export as MP3. Plenty of editing tools are built in,so you can, say, remove silence. One drawback: It also records PC sounds, so if you’re not careful, you’ll hear error sounds and new-message “dings.” I like Total Recorder (www.highcriteria.com/) better than Audacity because of its additional, useful features. My favorite allows you to set up multiple daily and weekly recording schedules. (The Pro version automatically does everything— opens the browser to a designated URL, saves the file, and closes the browser. And yes, system sounds are turned off.) Be aware, though, that copyright laws may apply. If you’re doing more than recording a show for later listening, that may be illegal, says Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
How To Turn Outlook Express Into A Spam Filter
How To Turn Outlook Express Into A Spam Filter
Spam
Don't you just hate it?
You turn on your computer, connect to the internet, open up your Outlook Express and, hey presto! Your inbox fills up with a truckload of unsolicited emails, offering products and services that you just don't want or need!
It's bad enough being cold-called by telephone sales people, but now you're getting it from your computer too!
OK, so email clients like Hotmail and Yahoo have spam filters already built in to enable you to shift the spam, but, for some reason, your very own Outlook Express continues to lack any kind of filtering software.
There is a way!
By making a few simple adjustments to the configuration of Outlook Express, you can breathe a
sigh of relief while you wave goodbye to the majority of the these cyber salesmen. By applying these simple methods, hundreds of unwanted emails will be deleted from your inbox
without you even noticing!
HOW TO DO IT:
OK, firstly, open Outlook Express and click on Tools from the top list. Select Message Tools and then select Mail.
A window called Message Tools will appear. Click on New. A new window called New Mail Rule will then appear, looking like the picture below.
Tick the check boxes Where the Subject Line contains specific words and Where the message body contains specific words in the Conditions box like in the picture below.
You then write the name of the message rule in the Name of the rule field as shown in the above picture.
You can call it what you like. I have called it Spam Filter. You will see that, in the picture above, text and links
have appeared in the Rule Description box. Ignore these for now. We will cover these in a moment.
You then tick the check boxes Delete It and Highlight it with color, like in the picture below.
OK, now click on the color link.
A small box will appear with a drop box of colours like in the picture below.
I always select Red. I suggest you do the same. I'll tell you why in a moment. After selecting the colour, click on OK.
The box will then disappear. After that, click on the Where the Subject line contains specific words link.
A box will appear where you can enter words that will trigger your spam filter.
To gather a list of spam words, all you have to do is check your spam emails. My guess is that you have received several spam emails in the short time that you have been reading this book. Look at the text in your spam emails and find words that are only contained in spam, such as mortgage,viagra, penis and porn, etc.
Once you have a list of spam words, type them into the top field ONE AT A TIME and click on Add each time.
DON'T type them all in at once.You will then see a list of your spam words in the bottom.
Once you have finished, click on OK.
Your New Mail Rule box will now look like this.
You now click on the Where the message body contains specific words link. A box will appear where you can enter words that will trigger your spam filter.
Do the same as you did with the Subject box and load in your spam words.
Once finished, click on OK.
You can load in as many spam words as you like. Once finished, click on OK. And that's it!
Your spam filter has now been set up and will now run automatically in the background. Basically, when new emails arrive, if the spam filterfinds an email containing any of your spam words, the email will be deleted as soon as it arrives and will be sent straight to the Deleted Items folder of your Outlook Express.
Now and then, it is best to check your Deleted Items folder, just in case your spam filter has deleted emails from friends. (as sometimes they may have typed words that match your spam words in their text) You'll easily be able to see the emails that the spam filter has deleted as they will be highlighted in red, which is why I suggested this colour earlier on.If you ever want to edit your spam filter, simply click on Tools from the top list, select Message Tools and select Mail. Then select Spam Filter and click on Modify.
Getting Maximum From You iPod or iPhone-Download Free E-book
Since the iPod was first introduce over fours ago is has proven to be a versatile little tool. Even though the architecture is tightly closed, hackers have managed to find their way in so that they can make modifications. Software developers and creators of content have made it possible for you to use the iPod to keep all kinds of information at your finger tips. Besides being a unique way to carry around your music wherever you go, the iPod can be used for many other purposes.
 Most people buy an iPod for the obvious reasons. The iPod works with your computer so that you can import music and organize your songs and photos. These files are then transferred to your iPod so that you can listen to them and view them wherever you go.
But your iPod is so much more that just a player for music. Some of the incredible things that you can do with your ipod or iphone
iPod include:
- Store up to thousands of songs from your private music collection so that you can listen to them wherever you want to take them.
- Store up to thousands of digital photos. This is ideal for viewing whenever you want as well as for backing up your digital photos until you can transfer them to your computer.
- Import photos from your digital camera by using the iPod Camera Connector. This is ideal for when you are traveling and your digital camera care is full.
- Look at your photos through a slideshow. You can add music to the slideshow and view it on your television. This is done by using the iPod AV Cable.
- Listen to audiobooks. You can find audiobooks at the iTunes Music Store or at www.audible.com
- You can create On-The-Go playlists. Playlists are great for arrange music that you want to listen to at a certain place and time, such as a work-out playlist for working out at the gym.
- You can use your iPod as an external hard drive. This is great of storing files or backing up data.
- You can change the equalizer settings on your iPod to make your music sound as great as possible.
- You can store all of your contact information and synchronize it to your calendar.
- You can record your own voice memos. This is done by purchasing an optional microphone.
The following E-book can teach some of the creative things that you can do with your iPod.
 
Follow These Tips To Boost Your System Speed
Follow These Tips To Boost Your System Speed
Disable Unnecessary Services
Because Windows XP has to be all things to all people it has many services running that take up system resources that you will never need. Below is a list of services that can be disabled on most machines:
Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Fast User Switching
Help and Support - (If you use Windows Help and Support leave this enabled)
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)
Portable Media Serial Number
Remote Desktop Help Session Manager (disabled for extra security)
Remote Procedure Call Locator
Remote Registry (disabled for extra security)
Remote Registry Service
Secondary Logon
Routing & Remote Access (disabled for extra security)
Server
SSDP Discovery Service - (Unplug n’ Pray will disable this)
Telnet
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Upload Manager
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration (Do not disable if you use a wireless network)
Workstation
To disable these services:
Go to Start and then Run and type “services.msc”
Doubleclick on the service you want to change
Change the startup type to ‘Disable”
 2. Turn Off System Restore
System Restore can be a useful if your computer is having problems, however storing all the restore points can literally take up Gigabytes of space on your hard drive. To turn off System Restore:
1. Open Control Panel
2. Click on Performance and Maintenance
3. Click on System
4. Click on the System Restore tab
5. Tick ‘Turn off System Restore on All Drives’
6. Click ‘Ok’
Defragmentation :
Keeping your pagefile defragmented can provide a major performance boost. One of the best ways of doing this is to creat a separate partition on your hard drive just for your page file, so that it doesn’t get impacted by normal disk usage. Another way of keeping your pagefile defragmented is to run PageDefrag. This cool little app can be used to defrag your pagefile, and can also be set to defrag the pagefile everytime your PC starts.
To install:
Download and Run PageDefrag
Tick “Defrag at next Reboot”,
Click “Ok”
Reboot.
Try Also These Tricks To Speed Up Your System
Speed up your Windows 2000/XP system and save resources at the same time
You can improve performance of your Windows 2000/XP and reclaim memory by simply disabling the services that is also known as "System Services" you don't need which Windows 2000 or XP automatically provide by default.
What Are System Services in the 1st place
System services are actually small helper programs that provide support for other larger programs in Windows 2000. Many of the services are set up to run automatically each time you start Windows 2000. However, if you're not using the larger programs that these services are designed to support, these services are simply wasting RAM that could be put to better use by your applications. While the word "Disable" is used here to describe the idea that you'll remove these services from memory, what you'll really be doing is changing the startup setting from Automatic to Manual. When you do, the services won't automatically start each time you launch Windows 2000 Professional. However, Windows 2000 will be able to manually start the services if they're needed. That way you won't be unnecessarily wasting RAM, but you won't be crippling your system either. Note: If you're running Windows 2000 Professional on a corporate network, you may not be able to adjust system services. Regardless of whether you can or not, you should check with your system administrator before attempting the make these changes.
Changing the startup type of a service from Automatic to Manual is a relatively simple operation. To begin, open the Control Panel, open the Administrative Tools folder, and then double click the Services tool. When you see the Services window, set the View to Detail if it isn't already. Then click the Startup Type column header to sort the services by Startup Type. When you do, all the Services that start automatically will appear at the top of the list.
As you scan through the list of services on your system whose Startup Type setting is set to Automatic, look for the services in listed in the Table below. These are some of the services are good candidates to be set to a Manual Startup Type.
Examples of services that can be safely changed to Manual :-
DHCP Client -- You're not connecting to a specific DHCP server on your local network
Distributed Link Tracking Client -- You're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain
DNS Client -- You're not connecting to a specific DNS server on your local network
FTP Publishing Service -- You don't need your system to act as an FTP server
IIS Admin Service -- You don't need your system to act as an WWW server
IPSEC Policy Agent -- You're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain
Messenger -- You're not connected to a Windows 2000 domain
Remote Registry Service -- You don't remotely access the Registry of other systems on your local network
RIP Service -- You don't need your system to act as a router
Run As Service -- You don't use any applications that run as an alias
World Wide Web Publishing Service
You don't need your system to act as an WWW server
If you find a match and think that your system doesn't need that particular service, right-click on the service and choose the Properties command from the shortcut menu. When you see the Properties dialog box for that service, click the Startup Type drop down list and select Manual. Then click OK. As you change the Startup Type for any service, take note of the service's name. That way you'll have a record of which services you changed and can change them back if you need to, as I'll explain in a moment.
Using the Windows Task Manager
Trick : To determine the amount of RAM you'll regain by disabling unnecessary system services, use the Windows Task Manager. Here's how: Before you disable any system services, reboot your system and don't launch any applications. If you have applications that automatically load when you start Windows, hold down the [Shift] key to bypass the Startup folder. Then, right click on the task bar and select Task Manager from the shortcut menu. When you see the Windows Task Manager dialog box, select the Performance tab. Now take note of the Available value in the Physical Memory panel. After you disable those system services you deem unnecessary, reboot your system in the same manner and compare the Available value in the Physical Memory panel to the one that you noted earlier.
Final thoughts
Keep in mind that you may not find all the services listed in the Table set to Automatic on your system. In fact, you might not even see some of the services listed present on your system. If that's the case, don't worry about it. Each Windows 2000/XP installation is unique depending on the system and installed software, and different sets of services may be installed and set to start automatically.
On the other hand, you may find services other than those listed in Table set to Automatic that you may think are unnecessary. If so, you can find out what each service does by hovering your mouse pointer over the service's description. When you do, a tool tip window will pop up and display the entire description of the service. You can then better determine if the service is unnecessary. Remember, by changing the Startup Type to Manual, Windows 2000 can still start the service if it's needed. If you decide to experiment with changing the Startup Types of certain services, you can monitor the services over time by launching the Services utility and checking the list of running services. If you consistently find one of the services you set to Manual running, you may decide to change the Startup Type back to Automatic.
What is a Google Sitemap?
A Google Sitemap is a very simple XML document that lists all the pages in your website, but the Google Sitemaps program is actually much more important than that. In fact, the Sitemaps program provides a little peek inside Google's mind - and it can tell you a lot about what Google thinks of your website!
Why Should You Use Google Sitemaps?
Until Google Sitemaps was released in the summer of 2005, optimizing a site for Google was a guessing game at best. A website's page might be deleted from the index, and the Webmaster had no idea why. Alternatively, a site's content could be scanned, but because of the peculiarities of the algorithm, the only pages that would rank well might be the "About Us" page, or the company's press releases.
As webmasters we were at the whim of Googlebot, the seemingly arbitrary algorithmic kingmaker that could make or break a website overnight through shifts in search engine positioning. There was no way to communicate with Google about a website - either to understand what was wrong with it, or to tell Google when something had been updated.
That all changed about a year ago when Google released Sitemaps, but the program really became useful in February of 2006 when Google updated it with a couple new tools.
 So, what exactly is the Google Sitemaps program, and how can you use it to improve the position of your website? Well, there are essentially two reasons to use Google Sitemaps:
1. Sitemaps provide you with a way to tell Google valuable information about your website.
2. You can use Sitemaps to learn what Google thinks about your website.
What You Can Tell Google About Your Site
Believe it or not, Google is concerned about making sure webmasters have a way of communicating information that is important about their sites. Although Googlebot does a pretty decent job of finding and cataloging web pages, it has very little ability to rate the relative importance of one page versus another. After all, many important pages on the Internet are not properly "optimized", and many of the people who couldn't care less about spending their time on linking campaigns create some of the best content.
Therefore, Google gives you the ability to tell them on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0 how important a given page is relative to all the others. Using this system, you might tell Google that your home page is a 1.0, each of your product sections is a 0.8, and each of your individual product pages is a 0.5. Pages like your company's address and contact information might only rate a 0.2.
You can also tell Google how often your pages are updated and the date that each page was last modified. For example your home page might be updated every day, while a particular product page might only be updated on an annual basis.
What Google Can Tell You About Your Site
Having the ability to tell Google all this information is important, but you don't even need to create a sitemap file in order to enjoy some of the perks of having a Google Sitemaps account.
That's because even without a Sitemap file, you can still learn about any errors that Googlebot has found on your website. As you probably know, your site doesn't have to be "broken" for a robot to have trouble crawling it's pages. Google Sitemaps will tell you about pages it was unable to crawl and links it was unable to follow. Therefore, you can see where these problems are and fix them before your pages get deleted from the index.
You can also get information on the types of searches people are using to find your website. Of course, most website analytics tools will give this information to you anyway, but if the tool you use doesn't have this feature, then it's always nice to get it for frëe from Google.
 But the best part of the Sitemaps program is the Page analysis section that was added in February of 2006. This page gives you two lists of words. The first list contains the words that Googlebot associates with your website based on content on your site. The second list contains words that Googlebot has found linking to your site!
Unfortunately, Google limits the number of words in each list to 20. As a consequence, the inbound links column is partly wasted by words such as "http", "www", and "com" - terms that apply equally to all websites (hey Google, how about suppressing those terms from the report?). That said, this list does provide you with a way to judge the effectiveness of your offsite optimization efforts.
When you compare these two lists, you can get an understanding of what Google thinks your website is about. If the words on your Site Content column are not really what you want Googlebot to think about your site, then you know you need to tweak your website's copy to make it more focused on your core competency.
If, on the other hand your inbound links don't contain any keywords that you want to rank well for, then perhaps you should focus your efforts in that direction.
Above all else, you really want these two lists to agree. You want your inbound linked words to match up to the site content words. This means that Google has a clear understanding of the focus of your website.
Additional Benefits of the Sitemaps Program
Google has even started notifying Sitemaps-participating Webmasters if they are breaking any of Google's Webmaster Guidelines. This can be very valuable information if your site suddenly becomes de-listed on Google and you don't know why.
Only Sitemaps participants can get this information, and it is only provided at Google's discretion. In fact, Google will NOT notify you if you are creating worthless websites that offer no original content, or if you are creating thousands of doorway pages that are redirecting to other web sites. Google doesn't want to give the sp@ammers any clues as to how to improve their techniques.
How Do You Get Started with Google Site Maps?
The first thing you must do is obtain a Google Account. If you already have a Gmail, Adsense, or Adwords account, then you are all set. If not, you can register an account by visiting the Google Accounts page.
Building your sitemap file is pretty easy to do if you are familiar with XML, and if you aren't you can always use a third-party tool such as the ones that are listed on Google's website. Google also has a "Sitemap Generator" that you can download and install on your server, but unless you are fairly adept at managing Python scripts, you should probably stick to the third-party tools.
At any rate, once you have your Google Account and your Sitemap file built, the rest is very easy. All you have to do is:
1. Log into your account
2. Type your website's URL into the "Add Site" box and clíck on "OK"
3. Clíck on the Manage Sites link for the website you are adding, and add your sitemap file to your account.
 Google Sitemaps - An Excellent SEO Tool
Google Sitemaps help Googlebot quickly find new content on your website. They allow you to tell Google what's important, what's new, and what changes often. The tools provided to webmasters through the program can play a vital role in helping you understand how the search engines (especially Google) view your website.
Using this information you can dramatically improve the position of your website and quickly clear up any issues Google finds. You can also use the tools provided by Google to gauge the effectiveness of your off-site optimization efforts so you can better focus your time and energy on activities that bring you the most success.
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Most Popular Keywords
The title tag is really one of the most important single things you can work on for improving your website's search engine results. Go to Google and make a search for any particular key word If you look at the top ten entries in that search you will see that all of them have this key word in the title, sometimes more than once. So when writing your title tag, it is helpful to have your keywords included in the title tag, and not only in the tag, near the beginning of the title.
 Suppose that your company is the Acme Manufacturing Company and you are selling electric widgets and you are located in California. What should your title tag be? Most people would opt for the name of their company as the first word of the title. It makes sense, in that it looks good in the blue strip at the top of the browser, but it doesn't necessarily help you to get a good ranking in search results for your keywords "electric widgets, California".
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The first few words of your title tag are very important. People may not be searching for Acme Manufacturing, unless it is a very important brand, but they are searching for electric widgets, and they may not want to purchase it from someone in New York, especially if it is not a mail-order type item.
In addition, if there are tons of widget companies, it will be difficult to get to the top of the heap in a search simply for the term "widgets". But if it is "widgets, California", then you will have a good chance of getting a high ranking if you put the keyword California prominently in the title. So, if you are in a very competitive category and your customers don't already know about you, then you might consider a title tag like this "Electric widgets from Acme Manufacturing of California" or even better "Electric Widgets in California produced by Acme Manufacturing."
 Some guidelines for the title tag suggest that this tag be limited to 70-80 characters including spaces. I confess to have used more on several occasions.
The next tag that has to be done is the Description tag. Many search engines use the description tag as a way to tell the searchers what the page is about. On MSN, for example, the description of the site shown underneath the title is the description that has been placed in the description tag.
The description tag is thus important in two respects: the search engine robot searches it for keywords to "get an idea" of what the page is about, and this tag will be seen by the surfers as they scroll down through the search results. If it is an interesting and well-written description then they may click through to visit the site. So this tag should be well written but also contain the important keywords that you wish to highlight.
Going back to our example of Acme Manufacturing. We could make a description tag that reads as follows: "Acme Manufacturing is the largest producer of electric widgets in California, providing round the clock service and warrantees on all products." This description contains the keywords again and also says something about the company.
Some guidelines for description length recommend a maximum length of 250 characters. Once again there is no precision about this, but it is good to be cautious until you are already entered into a search engine's index.
The last of the important meta tags relevant to search engine optimization is the keywords tag. In this tag you have a chance to list your important keywords, but this time they do not have to be in a coherent phrase as in the Title and Description. Put your important keywords near the beginning. Make sure that all the keywords used in the title and the description tags are again listed. On top of that, add prominent keywords, especially those that appear in the actual text of the page you are optimizing. For the Acme Manufacturing company we could have these keywords: "widgets, widget, electric widgets, California, widgets in California, Acme Manufacturing, service, warrantee, warrantees".
Many pundits advise against excessive repetition of any single keyword even if they appear in different phrases separated by commas. Once again the guidelines vary and are not precise but it would be better to be conservative at first. How big should the keywords section be? 800-1000 is the estimate provided by some search engines and commentators alike. (Lately some of the main search engines have begun to disregard the keywords tag in their computations of rank, but some search engines continue to use it, so you can still include it in your metatags.)
 The thing to remember about meta tags is that they are just one part of search engine optimization. If your text is keyword rich and your page structure allows the search engines to get to this text easily and if, on top of this, you have crafted your meta tags well, then you have an excellent chance of getting the search engine positioning results that you are aiming for. (More free seo articles http://www.vistadivine.com/seo-articles/articles.html )
Simple Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) Truths
Choosing the Right Keywords
Often times, people make the mistake of optimizing for very general keywords like used cars or online marketing. Although these terms get lots of traffïc, it is very unlikely that you will be able to rank highly for them. Then, even if you do, this type of traffïc produces very low conversion rates because they are not targeted prospects.
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For example, if you are selling hiking backpacks, it would be much more beneficial for you to target the phrase 'hiking backpacks' rather than the extremely competitive keyword 'backpacks'. It would be even better to target the phrase 'camelbak commander'. This is a specific type of backpack and therefore will attract more buyers than searchers.
In fact, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, 28 percent of searchers will type a product name into a search engine. Nine percent type in a brand name and 5 percent type in company names.
The more targeted your keyword phrase, the more likely they are to buy. A person who types in 'backpacks' may be looking for school backpacks or snowboard backpacks. This lends to useless, un-targeted traffïc.
However, a person that searches for a specific brand of backpacks knows exactly what they want and they are much further along in the buying process. Once you have determined the best possible keyword phrases to target, you must nöw optimize your page for those specific keywords.
Optimize Your Page for Targeted Keywords
There are many factors that will determine how your web pages rank. However, one of the most important ones is that of a good title. The title tag appears at the very top of the head section. The words in the title tag will appear in the clickable link on the search engine results page (SERP).
Your title tag should contain targeted keyword phrases that reflect the copy on the page. The most important keywords should appear near the beginning of the title tag, You must also keep in mind that this should be a compelling title that would attract searchers to want to know more.
 Your title tag should focus on your primary keyword, but it should also deliver a message. Use your title to mention benefits, make an attention-grabbing statement, ask a compelling question, or anything else that would set you apart from all of the other pages competing against you. Your title should include the main keyword you are targeting on that page as well as entice visitors to clíck on your link.
Following the title tag are your Meta description and Meta keyword tags.
You have probably heard that meta tags are dead and for the most part that is true. However, you should still include them in your web site because they allow you to control the description of your listing in some of the search engines.
Your meta description can make the difference in someone clicking on your link or choosing your competitor.
The meta description tag should be used for marketing purposes, enticing people to clíck on your link as opposed to one of the other 9 search results.
Meta keywords tags are a different story. Google pays absolutely no attention to this tag: a result of spammers. As for the rest of the search engines, meta keywords may be taken into account, but they are still of very little importance.
I would advise that you use this tag for misspellings, technical acronyms and synonyms. Using this technique, you may be able to bring in some additional traffïc for people looking for related, but less popular keywords.
Creating Quality Content
 Next, you will want to focus on the visible content of your page. Many people online today are creating content that is written specifically for the search engines. However, I would advise you to optimize your content for your readers. Your readers are the most important.
To rank for your targeted keyword phrases, you must include them within your copy, but you must first ensure that your content is appealing to your visitors. After you do this, you can then weave your keywords into your copy.
You'll especially want to have your targeted keyword phrase in the very first paragraph of your text.
Some other places you will want to include your keywords are in the image alt attributes and within your heading tags. Place all of your subtitles into header tags with your targeted keyword phrases.
Internal Linking
Creating quality content for your visitors is crucial. However, proper navigation and site structure can be just as important.
The search engines cannot fully index your site if it is not properly linked together.
Every single page on your web site should be no more than 2 clicks away from the homepage.
 Before you create your site, decide on which internal pages are the most important in terms of ranking. Once you have gathered 15-20 of your most important pages, you will need to place them at the side and bottom navigation of each one of your web pages. This will ensure that the most possible pagerank is transferred to those pages.
Each of these links should contain descriptive anchor text, preferably targeted keyword phrases that you are wanting to rank highly for. You should nevër make your web site visitors guess what's on the other end with a link that says, 'clíck here'. Be as descriptive as possible and your visitors will thank-you.
One of the best ways to structure your site is through the use of hub pages. This is very similar to hubs on a spoke. At the center is your homepage. On the homepage, you have a link to each of the hub pages. The hub pages are basically small site maps that are built into the navigation. Each hub includes a set of information on a particular keyword or phrase. This is often referred to as content layering. You can layer your site through the use of sub-folders.
Inbound Links
Once you have finished optimizing all of the on-page factors, you must focus on some crucial off-page factors.
To have a truly successful search engine optimization campaign, you have to go beyond on-page factors. Your overall link popularity is a crucial ranking factor.
 Some of the best techniques for getting quality in-bound links are syndicating articles, exchanging RSS feeds, submitting your web site to directories, syndicating your podcast, sending out press releases, and simply having a link-worthy site.
When you have a site that is full of wonderful, useful information, other sites will start naturally linking to you. You have probably heard that content is king on the internet. However, this is simply not true. QUALITY content is the true king.
In review, keep in mind that the most important places to use your researched keyword phrases are in your title tags, the visible body of your text, and in onsite and offsite links.
Successful SEO takes time. If you continually put all of these strategies into action, you will begin to see the benefits in due time.
World's Best Blogging Softwares ( Sites )
Remotely Hosted Blogging Software
Blogger
Blogger is completely frëe and currently owns the majority of the remotely hosted user base, but not by a landslide. Bought out by Google in 1999, Blogger essentially fired up the blogging trend we see today. It is by far the easiest overall solution to use and, if you are a novice user looking to throw up some recipes or poetry, this is for you. Blogger is completely frëe and includes some great features like comments, photo blogging, and a basic community feel with user profiles. Because it is so dumbed down there are some features you may not find with Blogger that are only available through 3rd party add-ons. As a side note Blogger weblogs do quite well in the search engines and this was recently exploited with it being the first choice for sp@m blogs or splogs. A splog is a weblog used for the sole purpose of gaining inbound links or generating thousands of keyword stuffed pages with Adsense and the like. The recent Google Jagger update cleared a large portion of this up. Free.
Typepad
Released in 2003, Typepad is a product of Sixapart, the makers of Movable Type. It is largely based on MT but there are some major enhancements and differences. Your blog can accomodate one or more photo albums with auto thumbnail generation. You can easily add music, books, and other media to Typelists, which grab a thumbnail from Amazon and other retailers for easy displaying in your sidebar. Typepad is also a great deal more technical than Blogger so a bit of HTML know-how is recommended. On that note, editing your blog to look the way you want is also quite easy and Typepad blogs are known for being very eye-pleasing, intuitive and easy to navigate. In Sixapart's business model, Typepad is aimed at regular home and small business users while Movable Type is targeted at largër businesses or for internal intranets. Price: Basic, $4.95 a month; Premium, $8.95 to $14.95 a month.
Xanga
These guys originated back in 1999 as a site for sharing book, music and movie reviews. Although it quickly morphed into a full blown blogging tool, Xanga still maintains the ability to run a powerful review site. Xanga pulls data from several retailers like Amazon.com including thumbnails, pricing and a cover. The software also is very usable by novices with a powerful WYSIWYG editor allowing for easy HTML editing, adding smilies, links, and other symbols. By using Blog rings it is also easy to interface with Xanga's other 3 million users to share interests, ideas, and of course traffïc. Xanga comes in a free and $25 flavor.
Mentions: Blogsome, Blogster, MindSay, Multiply
Self Hosted Blogging Software
WordPress
WordPress originally began as a mod of an older open source package known as B2. WP is MT's biggest competition and is often the bain of endless Wordpress vs Movabletype style threads around the internet. Although launched just over a year or so ago WP has really taken the blogosphere by storm. And with good reason - Wordpress is completely frëe under GNU licensing and is packed with many features you will not find anywhere else. It is also much easier to install and get blogging for novice users and has a very large and helpful community. WP runs on PHP/mySQL and is quite scalable judging from some of the very large and trafficked sites I see using it. It also sports utilities to import files from Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and B2. Wordpress recently upped the ante when Yahoo recently included them on their hostíng packages, in addition to MT. I have to admit I am finding myself more and more digging WP and will likely convert Profitpapers to WP as I get time (it can be a biznitch). Wordpress is free.
Movable Type
Aside from maybe Greymatter (the original open source blogging tool), Movabletype dominated the blogging market share in 2002-2004. Released in late 2001, Perl based Movable Type by Sixapart has maintained a large portion of the blogging market share, due mainly to the fact that there is a free version (supporting up to 3 weblogs) and that it is incredibly powerful, intuitive and easy to customize. Template driven Movable Type also sports one of the largest communities of developers and blogging enthusiasts around, meaning lots of support, idea sharing, and of course plugins. Movable Type can be configured to dynamically generate HTML, PHP or any other kind of pages you like, meaning it is incredibly scalable, fast, and loved by spiders. It is perhaps the most well known blogging software for SEO purposes and it is what currently powers Profitpapers and several of my other projects. Moveabletype is either Frëe with 3 authors, 1 weblog, and no support or $69.95 with unlimited weblogs, authors and full support.
Textpattern
Textpattern is the brainchild of Dean Allen and was written to ease publishing of content for those not inclined to learn HTML. Like WP and MT, Textpattern runs on PHP and mySQL for easy administration, backups, and power. What really sets textpattern apart from the others is the integration of Textile. Textile is a tool for easily formatting content for those who do not know HTML. WP & MT have modules for textile as well but it is native to the Textpattern system. Another bonus of the app is its superior handling of comment sp@m due to its smaller market share. On the blogs I maintain running WP and MT, I often find myself clearing out sp@m every day, whereas on some very busy textpattern sites I receive only manual comment sp@m (not bot driven). TP is open source.
Mentions: Blosxom, LifeType, Serendipity
Community Based Blogging Software
Slash
Waaaaay back in 1997, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda launched a website known as Chips & Dips, supplied via his student account at Hope College in Michigan. In 1999 Andover.net acquired Slashdot. Shortly after, the underlying code was released as open source software called Slash. Like Movable Type and Greymatter, Slash runs on Perl, but it also has established hooks into MySQL and a very strong track record of scaling to enormous traffïc levels. To give you an idea, the term 'slashdotted' originated from acquiring a link on this nöw infamous and very popular tech news website - and consequently watching your servers melt. If you have never messed around with Slash, you really should as it is quite a powerful platform. Slash is open source.
Scoop
Another well known Perl based community blogging software is Scoop. Scoop is the software that powers Kuro5shin, DailyKos and many other busy community weblogs. Scoop took the Slashdot idea and expanded on it, making the discussion rather than the news the focus of the application. Where Slashdot entries tend to have a link with added commentary pointing readers off the site, Scoop points to stories written by members of the community keeping the reader within your own weblog. Scoop is also well known for handling large volumes of traffïc and a large very technical community. Scoop is free .
Drupal
Drupal is a well known open source community blogging platform with a very large community of users and developers. Not only is Drupal free but it is damn powerful. Instead of Perl, which is quite hard to decode at times, even if you are a fluent coder, Drupal uses a PHP/mySQL platform. Drupal is also a very community focused application with a built-in forum, download area, and hundreds of other home brewed mods and hacks. If you are looking for a lot of functionality, give Drupal a look - the project has become quite mature. It is also much easier to use and customize than either Scoop or Slash. Drupal is also another open source project.
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Prevention is better policy in data loss
We suggest the following few tips to avoid data loss in your system
1) Back Up :
Manage and backup your data on a periodic basis and save all the crucial data on a separate CD or DVD. Update the backed up media regularly. Either dispose the old backup or tog or label it very specifically for future reference. It is recommended that you avoid multiple copies of backup, to avoid confusion.
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 2) Be Away From Disk Cleaners :
Try not to use the so-called' Hard disk cleaners', for they do more harm than good. Keep the environment around your computer free from dust and excess moisture. Always keep only the data that you need on your hard drive. The more data you keep on your hard drive mush is the trouble to manage. Continuous writing and erasing of data on the hard drive creates fragmentation which slowdowns the speed of the system and higher seek time
3) Fragmentation :
while trying to recover your deleted data never try to defragment your hard drive even if it shows empty because the fragmented data stays on the hard drive even after deletion and possible to recover the same. Defragmentation of hard drive is likely to result in over writing and a possible permanent deletion of your data.
 4) Be Secure From Variants :
We strongly recommend you to be away from the temptation of clinking on every pretty looking link on the Internet. Be sure that the sites you visit, the enclosures you open in your e-mails are secure from any Viruses, Trojans,Worms,Backdoors and so on. Some or most of these variants cause data lose and /or corruption.
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Truth About High Paying Keywords In Google Adsense
You will find many sites that will sell you lists of "High-paying AdSense Keywords" or list of keywords that will "Sky-rocket your AdSense earnings overnight"
They make you feel that if you purchase their lists and make your sites based on these keywords, your AdSense earnings would touch the sky.
According to them, Google pays you around 50% of the keyword cost. So if someone clicks on the Ad, for akeyword costing USD 50, you will earn around USD 25...Cool!
But not so cool!
If it was that easy, you would find gazillions of AdSense success stories. Things are not so simple
 How many of the people who sell such lists have actually profited themselves from those keywords? I can bet on my Adsense business....NO ONE!
Currently i have more than 1,50,000 keywords that i use to drive traffic to my sites. So maybe, i know a thing or two about AdSense and keywords. Every day when i look at my stats i know what the real truth is. And the truth is not what you think.
** The Truth **
Google never discloses what perce.n.tsage it will pay to the Adsense Publisher. And there are too many factors involved which determine how much Google will pay you.
As i mentioned above, if Google paid everyone 50% on a keyword costing USD 50, you would become filthy rich in no time. Ohh wish life was so easy!
For many so-called high-paying keywords, Big G sometimes pays me not even 10 ce.n.tss. Can you believe that ?
Yes thats true. Less than 10 ce.n.tss for a HIGH paying keyword.
Agreed, there are times when i do receive USD 25 per click, but those are very very rare cases. And those same keywords give me 10 ce.n.tss the next day. So you can NEVER BE SURE how much a click would earn you.How much Google will pay you depends on factors such as
your landing page, your content, Google's smart pricing, the Advertiser's cost of that keyword, and various other factors beyond your control.
So NEVER build your AdSense sites according to High paying
**keywords**.
This is what you SHOULD do instead... Build your sites according to high-paying **niches**.
If you get hold of any keyword lists from any site, You will notice that most of these keywords are about finance, health, lawyers, business etc.
So build your sites based the above niches, and their sub-niches.These niches are generally profitable because advertisers here have got money to spend on Adwords. And hence they are
generally profitable for the AdSense Publisher too.This doesn't mean other niches are not profitable.
Many are. But the above niches are where our focus should be
 So you want to know the secret of succeeding in AdSense ?
1. Select several such profitable niches
( more, the better )
2. Make websites for these niches
(using Google Adwords will make your life much easier)
3. Drive traffic using PPC.
( use Yahoo, because its easy and cheap )
4. And yes, dont forget to regularly track cost/earnings.
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