ThreatFire

Hey my loyal readers....sorry I was not able to post yesterday. Anyways today I will be telling you about a virus scanner. See if you are like most people and you have cable Internet then you should realize that means if you had a Trojan on your computer then while you are sleeping someone could be doing illegal things on your computer. So i suggest that you get some sort of virus scanner. I just recently came across this one called Threat Fire. It got one of the Softy Awards from Maximum PC, so it must be fairly good. If you want to download it you can get it from http://www.threatfire.com/ . As with anything i tell you about once again this program is free. Here is what Threat fires website says about the program.

PCs are under constant attack from viruses, spy ware and identity theft. Every day you hear about a new threat to your PC. They're coming faster than ever before, they're getting harder to stop and traditional antivirus products are not able to keep up.

Will your antivirus software catch the latest malware that just came out today? In most cases, no, because it simply does not know how to detect it yet. But ThreatFire's ActiveDefense technology does, and has proven to provide up to 243% more protection when combined with traditional AntiVirus products.

If I already have antivirus software why do I need ThreatFire?
ThreatFire is dramatically different to traditional antivirus software. Normal antivirus products usually need to have first identified and seen a threat before they can provide adequate protection against it. The protection is then provided via a signature or fingerprint update, which must first be written by an antivirus researcher. This creates a large window of time where threats are undetected and can therefore infect your PC even when you have antivirus software installed.

How can ThreatFire protect me when traditional antivirus can't?
ThreatFire continually protects your PC against attacks by detecting malicious behavior, such as capturing your keystrokes or stealing your data, instead of only looking for known threats like normal antivirus software. By implementing sophisticated real-time behavioral analysis ThreatFire is able to stop never- before-seen "zero-day" threats solely by detecting their malicious activity.
Zero-day threats are usually designed to take advantage of new vulnerabilities or exploits that are currently unprotected by traditional security products. They are usually distributed in huge quantities very quickly by mass email (SPAM), website hijacks, instant messaging or over peer-to-peer networks. Because they are undetectable they are able to wreak havoc and compromise your PC even when you have up-to-date antivirus software installed.
ThreatFire's patent-pending ActiveDefense technology offers protection against all types of internet threats - both known and unknown - spyware, adware, keyloggers, viruses, worms, Trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, and other malware. ThreatFire uses its unparalleled protection to hunt down and paralyze those threats that are either too new or too clever to be recognized by traditional "signature-based" antivirus software.

Do I need to be an expert to use ThreatFire?
ThreatFire is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts.
We believe security software should be "set and forget" so once you install ThreatFire you won't need to answer lots of technical questions, in fact the only time you should even notice ThreatFire is protecting your PC is when we detect something malicious that requires your attention.

Dreamweaver? I THINK NOT

So I'm sure many if not all you out there knows what dream weaver is. If you don't i will tell you. Dream weaver is like Microsoft front page what those are is a program that makes it so you can make a completely customized website on your computer and then upload it to a domain name that you had made. But, the site must allow front page extensions. Most paying domain and hosting setups do and will allow it. So you can make a whole site on you desktop, put in custom images, buttons, counters, forms, albums, and even a scroll text thing. The things you can do with them is virtually limitless. Now comes in our new player called KompoZer. This is almost exactly the same as the high rolling Dream weaver and Microsoft Front page. The big difference is the price, from most expensive to least, Dream weaver then front page and finally KompoZer for $0.

Here is what they say about their product that can be downloaded from http://kompozer.net/download.php

Finally, a top-notch WYSIWYG web page program for the rest of us! Now there's no need to pay a little fortune for a program to create and edit great-looking web pages, including powerful and easy to use CSS capabilities.
KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs.
KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Reliable technology

KompoZer is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.
KompoZer is a stand-alone tool; hence its small size and fast speed
Those who are familiar with the DreamWeaver interface will feel right at home with KompoZer:
WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular browsers.
Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users.

FTP site manager
With KompoZer, all the sites you have specified in your Publishing Settings become browseable in a sidebar. You can get a tree view of a site, la Explorer's folders pane, or a one-dir-only view, la Explorer's directory view. It is also possible to filter files and show all files, or only HTML documents or image files. The browsing area also allows to show for each file its size and the date of last modification.
A new color picker
KompoZer has a new extended color picker, more conformant to what most users are used to. Set a color from its red blue and green components, or its hue saturation and brightness. Or just use your mouse to pick up the color you want.
Tabs!

One of Mozilla Firefox's killer features is now available in KompoZer! Have one window only on your screen and edit several documents at once, each document having its own Undo/Redo stack! Just glance at the tabs to know if a document needs to be saved or not!

CSS editor
Create stylesheets easily and manage the styles attached to your documents. You can see your style settings applied '"live" to the document you're editing.
A dash of style(s)

With KompoZer, right-click on any element in the hierarchical toolbar at the bottom of the window and set directly its style properties.

Customizable toolbars
Just customize your toolbar and show only the buttons you want/need.

Forms
Take advantage from a XUL-based UI to edit all your forms, and edit all your form elements.

Cleaner markup
KompoZer contains some machinery to get rid of most of those annoying
. Combined with the ability to call W3C's HTML validator from within KompoZer you'll make valid, clean documents.

XFN
When you create a new link to an external resource, or when you edit an existing link, you can now add XHTML Friends Network information to say that the owner of that resource is someone you know and trust.

Visible marks
In a complex page layout, you often need to see visible carriage returns and block borders. KompoZer can now do that for you. And of course, everything is controlled by a CSS style sheet so you can customize those marks and replace them by your own.

Table/Cell resizing rulers
On the left and top side of the opened tab you will find the convenient table resizing rulers which will help you easily adjust the size of rows and columns in any table in the web page you design.

Automated Spellchecker
The integrated in-line spellchecker will underline all misspelled words as you type to ensure correct spelling throughout the entire web page.

can be downloaded from http://kompozer.net/download.php

Mylot

YAY ITS MONEY MAKING FRIDAYS!!! So in case no one figured it out by now that means i will post least one money making tip or website. So here we go it is called Mylot. At mylot you make money by talking to people....another words by typing on a forum. How simple is that, probably 99% of you already talk on forums so why not do it on a place that can make you money too. Well here is what mylot says about themselves:

We've heard reports of many myLot users who spend most of the waking hours of any given day enjoying myLot.
"Nothing can be that interesting?" you might ask.
Well, then you've probably never experienced a place like myLot.
It can be addicting enough to kill days on end, but also functional and useful enough for the millions of Internet users who only have a few precious moments in their busy days for "online time."

View the latest discussions, news, and blog postings all tailored to your interests and personal experience on myLot. Make myLot your default home page and take advantage of everything myLot has to offer. Oh yeah, we have the weather too!

Did we mention that you get paid (cash!) for your valuable contributions here?That's the best part of myLot for many users.

SO DON'T WASTE A SECOND GO AND JOIN MYLOT NOW CLICK HERE

Extensions and Add ons

Well i have decided to go over this and tell you a few extensions that i enjoy for FireFox. Also i will give you what their description of it is so that you can decide if you would enjoy it or not.

1. Piclens

2. Faster Fox

3. Me.dium

4. Morning Coffee





PicLens: PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. Our new interactive "3D Wall" and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience. Piclens is currently works on:* Flickr, Smugmug, DeviantArt, Photobucket, Picasa, FotoTime, Fotki* Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster* Image search on Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live, and AOL* A growing number of Media RSS-enabled web sites

"Coolest Web photo viewer ever . . . It's stunning." -- Review by CNET

Can be downloaded from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579



Faster Fox: Performance and network tweaks for FireFox.Faster fox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
Download from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

Me.dium: Me.dium is a social-browsing add-on for FireFox that lets you surf with your friends like never before. In the real world, doing things alone feels, well, lonely. So why do we do everything alone when were online? Start navigating the web with the people you care about. Bump into your friends and interact with the crowds, wherever they are - just like the real world. Want to hide for a bit? Privacy controls are completely in your hands. You decide who sees you and when. One click and you're invisible. Download Me.dium to revolutionize your online experience. Medium won CNet's 2007 Webware 100 Award for Best Community (http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100.html).
Download from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4365

Morning Coffee: Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs.This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.). Potential future updates include:- bookmark folder integration- separating lists by time (so you can have a morning/afternoon list for a day, for example)
Download from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2677

MORE TO COME SOON CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FRIDAYS

Deleted file

I know we have all been in this boat before. We are cleaning up our computer to make it run a little bit better. You keep deleting files. Few days or hours later you go looking for the file that was the book report that you had just wrote for school. Now you are practically crying because you just deleted a file that you really needed. Now you will have to write the whole thing over again. Sounds familiar to me, this I am sure is familiar to you too. Well like many of you i was like oh i will just download one of those programs that lets you find deleted files. So, i do but i then realize that it costs money if i even want the files that it is showing me. So then you write the whole entire thing again because $50 isn't worth it to you. Well i think i just might have a solution for you. This program is free and does the same things that a paid program would do, but as i said this one is free. It is called Recuva as in recover. I strongly think that you will get great results with this program. If you would like to get yourself a copy then just drop on by at http://www.recuva.com that is where you can download the file for free if you want it. So wait not longer, stop rewriting that 10 page report and just RECUVA it.

Photoshop or Gimp

Well almost every single person out there has used photo shop. It even comes on new computers if you don't mind just using a trial version. As most of you already know Photo shop is a very nice program for anyone who takes pictures, has website, sends pics, makes icons, and the list just seems to go on. It can do virtually any thing all the way from changing the background to even putting someone elses head on someone elses body. One of the major downfalls of photo shop is the price. Take a look at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/index.html $649 is a big chunk of change if you ask me, even the lower down versions still cost like above $50. Needless to say no matter what you do if you want photo shop it will cost you a pretty penny or two. Now that we have discussed that lets move onto the alternative to Photo shop, it is called GIMP. To put it the most simple way that i can GIMP is like photo shop. It does almost every thing that photo shop at a fraction of the cost. It is very easy to use and one of the major things that i like the most about gimp is how easy it is to decrease the file size of a picture. See if you are like most people who have digital cameras and take lots of photos then the chances are you will also be putting them on your computer and be sending them off to friends and family. Well gimp can help you there. If you would like to go ahead and give gimp a try then i have more good news for you. The good news is that it only costs $0 yes that is right gimp is 100% free. So if i was you id stop waiting and rush on over to http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ and get yourself a free copy.

Microsoft Glitch that kills cd drive

OK so most people have itunes. We all love having music with us, especially when far from home. Well back a while ago we updated itunes on our laptop and mysteriously the CD drive stopped working. We tried everything possible. We even purchased a new CD drive. Before that we even un installed and reinstalled the CD drivers and guess what, it still did not work. Even after putting in a brand new refurbished CD drive straight from dell that was specifically for the XPS m1710. So in theory that should mean that it would work. So I installed the new drive and even then NOTHING. So after some research I discovered that this is a problem that windows has had for a fairly long time. So the way that one goes about fixing this problem is to go into the computers Registry. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU MESS UP AND YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT WORK SO FOLLOW CLOSELY. As i just stated proceed with caution you will be editing some files that are very crucial if you do not follow exactly you may cause more problems. Now there is also a easier fix which is just uninstall ITUNES, due to the fact they don't have a "vista compatible" version as of yet. Here it is:

For XP users open like my computer and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11­CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

For Vista Users

Step 1: Click start menu and in the search box type in regedit and click continue when a pop up box appears

Step 2: Maximize the HKLM and then go ahead and browse until you reach the key listed above

Step 3: Right Click on the folder for {4D36E965-E325-11­CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} and choose to export it to for instance your desktop. (this is incase you mess up)

Step 4: In the right panel you’ll see something along the lines of “UpperFilter” and “LowerFilter” you want to click on each “filter” key and hit delete. Click yes when it asks to confirm if you wish to delete the key.

Step 5: Restart windows

Step 6: Notify me if it worked for you email me at demonkilleresmi@gmail.com

Be warned if you update itunes again or what not it will happen again and again.

Open Office

Well back a while ago at work we decided to buy a new computer. So we went to Best Buy and picked us up one. It isn't the most awesome computer, but it is good enough for work. So we hooked it up and all that and every thing was good. About 5 days later it gives me a pop up telling me that the Microsoft Office Suite that we have has expired. Now maybe it is just me but when i buy a computer i would imagine it would have all the basic things pre installed. For instance Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Well it did but only a very short trial version. The box for the computer even said it came with it but little did we know it only meant a trial version. So then we had to decide, go buy office or get for free. After some time of looking i came across Open Office ( http://download.openoffice.org/index.html ). The most awesome part about Open office is not only is it free but it has all the same things as Microsoft office but it is also free. Also just like FireFox open office also has a decent extension library for all those people who want a little bit more. So if i was you i wouldn't hesitate a second id run on over to http://openoffice.org/ and download your self a free copy. I highly doubt you will be let down after all with that $100 you just saved you could upgrade your computer.

Moola

Alright so i have decided that on Thursdays that I will do at least one post. The at least one post will have to do with ways to make money for free or for very little money. So here is the first way, Moola. In case you have not heard of Moola i will explain the basic concept to you. Moola is a website where you can play games for free and make some money. Here is the cool part. They give you a penny. So, with that penny you play one of the games, if you win you will then have two pennies. Now you have a choice you can either go all out and bet your two pennies on a game and then have a total of 4 pennies or you can bet one again. But, don't be nervous if you lose it all they will give you one penny again. You will always get at least one penny to bet. There is also a Moola Booster thing where you do offers and get more money, or you can do the search and spin thing. What that is is this search box where you type what you want to search. Sometimes you will get the Wheel which you spin and can win up to $1000 or as little as a penny. Moola is free to join and free to cash out. The catch is you must be invited. If you want a invite you can go to the site and go into the forums and request a invite or you can just email me directly at demonkilleresmi@gmail.com once again remember this site is free so you have nothing to lose at all.

Windows Vs Linux

Well I have recently taken two old computers and made it into one old computer with two hard drives. So here was my problem, I had to format the HDD due to the fact of it doing this wierd thing where all it would do is restart. So since I had lost my Windows XP Pro. cd a while back i was in a bit of a lets just say....pickle. So my alternate route was to install a copy of linux. I decided to go with the Sabayon version.


So i downloaded a copy and installed it. It installed with no problems and started up and everything worked. Now if you do go with linux you must know this, you may need to get some different drivers for your graphics card if you want all the bells and whistles that can be with it. Now it this is not like XP at all and I will say if you must use Windows please do use XP it is far less glitchy as vista.

Now as long as you get your drivers you can get some cool looking things like this.

Now if you have never ever seen linux type operating systems which by the way are FREE then I will tell you this. This picture is of the 3d desktop feature. What this does is makes it so on the one computer you can virtually have 4 yes i said FOUR desktops. So one can be for work, maybe one for school things, and of course one for games. Speaking of games the Sabayon linux download does include some games. If you already have games on your computer and you need them then you can look up how to install it and you can trick the game into thinking that it is on Windows.



Now if I had to choose according to simplicity I would go with windows simply because that is what I know. I would not by choice go with VISTA only go with XP if you have the choice. Now if you want visually appealing then look no further then a Linux OS.

Who needs Internet Explorer

What I hate the most is slow Internet. Even now I have "broadband" Internet yet it is not meeting its expectations. So I decided to give it a shot and I went to the "dark side". I went and downloaded Mozilla FireFox. I must say i am very pleased with it. Check it out here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ . Not only can it be way faster then IE but it can also be changed in almost every aspect to make it even more appealing. So no more plan layouts. Not only can you get a virtual plethora of backgrounds but the list of add ons is almost limitless. The most important one being Faster Fox. It has increased my browsing speed substantially. So stop using that Internet Explorer and join the band wagon of Fire Fox lovers. Once again it is http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ it is completely free of charge.