Tips to Keep Your PC Running Smoothly

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A slow computer can be quite troublesome and may really affect your work. Given here are some simple tips that you can use to fix errors and speed up your PC.

Use a Registry Scanner Tool

A large bloated registry, filled with loads on unwanted, obsolete, and incorrect information, easily gets unstable and fragmented and as a result, considerably deteriorates the performance of your PC. Therefore, the first tip to keep your PC running smoothly is to maintain a compact, error-free, healthy Windows Vista registry. In order to do this, you must regularly scan and remove unwanted information from the registry.

You can easily perform this task using a reliable registry scanner tool. You can download a registry tool that meets your requirements from the Internet. Registry tools have a user-friendly GUI-interface and you can easily use their options to perform many registry maintenance tasks, such as scan and remove unwanted information from the registry, defrag the registry to make its files contiguous, and backup the registry.

Regular registry maintenance, not only helps you maintain your PC in a good working condition, but also enables you to repair and prevent several system errors, such as DLL errors, driver errors, and ActiveX errors.

Use a Disk Cleanup Tool

Over time, the hard disk of your PC gets filled up with several unwanted files. Therefore, your next step to improve the performance of your PC is to free up some disk space. You can do this with the help of the Disk Cleanup tool. You can open this tool from Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools.

Disk Cleanup is a one stop tool to compress old files, delete unwanted Internet Explorer files, empty the Recycle Bin and get rid of unwanted program setup files. You can also use this tool to free up disk space by uninstalling unwanted applications and Windows components, and also delete old System Restore snapshots.

Use a Disk Defragmenter Tool

After you have freed up disk space, you must defrag your PC. Defragging helps in making files and folders on your computer contiguous by collecting bits and pieces of a single file stored all over the hard disk, and then putting them together in adjacent data blocks on the disk. Defragging reduces a lot of load from your hard disk, makes data access a lot faster and consequently speeds up your computer.

Use Antivirus and Antispyware Tools

Any system speed up process is not complete unless you are sure that the system is free from virus and spyware infections. Viruses add several malicious files and entries in the registry and infect your applications with malicious codes to alter their normal function and generate errors. Spyware programs not only slow down your PC, but also steal your confidential data and trade it with external sources for malicious purposes.

Therefore, you need to regularly scan your PC with reliable antivirus and antispyware tools. Keep these tools updated with the latest definitions to ensure that your PC is protected against the latest malware. You must also turn on the real time protection feature included in these tools to prevent malware infiltration in the first place.

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My Interesting Files Issue

My other site, My Interesting Files is having problems after transferring from Blogger custom domain to Wordpress selfhosted. All the post already imported to Wordpress, and in Blogger account already set up using FTP publishing, but still the individual post of My Interesting Files was viewed using old Blogger layout.

If you go to the homepage, it will be viewed using new Wordpress theme. But if you click the individual posts that I had imported from Blogger, it will be viewed using old Blogger layout. Not only that. All the link in the Blogger layout, point to the address that does not even exist anymore.

So to prevent this, I had changed the permalink without “.html”. So when the reader clicked the individual post, they will see the post using the new Wordpress theme. I don’t know yet if this going to be permanently or only temporary. Will post again in the future for sure. See the different :

old permalink : /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html. eg : http://www.myinterestingfiles.com/2008/03/balance-mobile-concept.html

new permalink : /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%. eg : http://www.myinterestingfiles.com/2008/03/balance-mobile-concept

Does anyone know how to fix this? Even the transfer department from my hosting company who did the transfer and ended up with this problem can not help me to solve this. If any of you ever faced the same problem, please share your experience by leave a comment here or contact me. I really need help.

Update :

To avoid having same content with two different URL, I’ve decided to switch back to my old permalink structure which is using “.html” in the end of the address. If you want to see the different, just go to the homepage and click one old post. You can see the different from here.

Update :

The problem is fixed already. Click here for the detail.

New EntreCard Banner

We all know, EntreCard was the hottest issue around this blogsphere recently. So I think it's better to have a nice and unique banner for my EntreCard and expect it would give me more advertiser and more click to my site. That's why I need help for designing EntreCard for my sites, cause I don't have background for design. So far I did them myself and the result was not really satisfied me.

I decided to hire someone to design it for me. I looked around EntreCard Shop and found several offers in there. After checking out their collections, I decided to choose Tyler Mulligan from Do Know Evil to design mine. It cost 400ec, the price is quite reasonable and his designs are nice as well.


It took couple of days for him to finish it. And today I received my new EntreCard banner. Honestly it's not close with what I expected, but definitely much better than the previous one. But who knows this design will bring me to the top? Nobody know that for sure. :)

So what do you think about my new EntreCard?

Problem with Blogger

I am having layout problem with my other site My Interesting Files. Everytime I published my new post, two of my sidebars will be moving to the bottom of the post. That means the posts and the sidebar was in one column. When I deleted the post, all will be back to normal. That's why I haven't do the posting these past days for My Interesting Files which usually it was updated daily.

If anyone know how to solve this, please help me by commenting in this post.

Agloco is Dead

I received email from Agloco stating that due to their revenue is not sufficient for the distribution neither enough to support operating costs, therefor they are unable to continue the operations. They are even offering any member who would like to continue the operation of AGLOCO.

I'm a member of AGLOCO. But from the first place, I didn't put that much efforts to recruit members. So this doesn't effect much on me. Does anyone actually been paid by Agloco, especially those who have lots of members as their downlines? I only have 7 members as my downline. So, even this is not happening, I didn't expect to be paid anytime soon.

Difference Between http & https

The main difference between http:// and https:// is all about keeping you secure.

HTTP stands for "Hyper Text Transport Protocol", which is just a fancy way of saying it is a protocol (language) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The S for HTTPS stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.
This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site. This is why you never ever ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://. If it doesn't, DO NOT enter sensitive information like a credit card number!

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Ultra Surf

Are your favorite websites blocked by national firewalls in certain countries? Try to download UltraSurf 8. UltraSurf 8 enables users to browse any website freely just the same as using the regular IE browser while it automatically searches the highest speed proxy servers in the background.

UltraSurf 8 implements almost all browser functions based on HTTP and user needs, such as browsing websites, login and posting on web forums, using Web mail, uploading and downloading data files, real time audio, video and other multimedia programs, etc.


UltraSurf 8 is a green software, which means no installation process is needed nor system setting is required to change when using the software. It is simply an executable on Windows platform. When it successfully connected to server, the Internet Explorer will open. You can close it and open the new one and start browsing.

Download UltraSurf 9.0

For Mozilla Firefox user, you have to change your proxy configuration as follow :

• * Open Tools - Option - Advance - Network - Connection Setting
• * Select Manual Proxy Configuration
• * HTTP Proxy : 127.0.0.1 Port : 9666
• * Select 'Use this proxy server for all protocols'
• * Click OK

Firefox users need to download the firefox add-on besides the above software:

Download Firefox add-on

For more information, visit the User Center.

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How To Crack Date Protection On Free Trial Shareware

Have you ever wished you could extend the time your able to use a free trial ?

Well you can, with freeware that will remove date protection from programs which expire after a specific date, enabling you to use most shareware or trial version software indefinitely.

Date Cracker is a program the software industry doesn’t want you to know about.

Using it couldn’t be easier.

* Start by opening Date Cracker
* Click Add
* Enter the description for your program
* Click the […] button at the bottom of the screen
* Search for the executable file of the trial program
* Set the Simulated Run Date past the trial expiration date
* Click Run

That’s it, your now on your way to using your favorite trials hassle free.

A Few Tips :

The key is to run the software via Date Cracker when you run a trial for the first time.

Dates should be entered in full e.g. 2090/06/30

Conclusion :

It’s possible a license agreement may exist with a particular software manufacturer, so this may not work on some programs.

Developers are aware of such programs and could devise better algorithms so that their software would be better protected, however, there will always be a newer version of Date Cracker 2000.

Date Cracker 2000 is the best solution to completing your projects without depleting your budget.

License : Freeware

OS : Win95, Win98, WinME, Windows2000, WinNT4.x, WinXP

Download DC2000.ZIP (1.5 MB)

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Share-A-Flick

Share-A-Flick is a video sharing site. You add your videos from You Tube, My Space and all other video sites that let you to embed from them, than you publish your video links on your blog, in forum or however you want to. And Share-A-Flick will pay you for the unique video views. They even allow you to add your Google Adsense code to your pages for extra income.

You can earn more by referring others to join Share-A-Flick. Each time you refer a new user you will earn 10% of all their video views forever!

They are using PayPal for the payment. And the minimum payment request is $20.00.

Click here to sign up Share-A-Flick.

Remove NoFollow on Comments

After reading Sueblimely and Randa's posts, I decided to turn off the 'nofollow' in my comments. It is an attribute that can be added to websites that tells search engines not to 'follow' links to external sites so that they do not gain any advantages in the ranking process, for example in blog comments.

This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some of the incentive for your readers contribute to your site by commenting on your posts. 'Nofollow' is good for the search engines but not for bloggers who are trying to increase their readership, develop their network and are already taking measures to stop spam.

Turn off 'nofollow'. Show your commenters that you appreciate them. Depending on the blog platform you’re on, you can install a plugin (for WordPress), or disable it (for Moveable Type user), or modify your template (for Blogger tips).
Allow comment moderation in your blog settings so that all comments have to be approved before you publish them and use spam filtering methods.

But.. Please only take off 'nofollow' if you are confident about implementing the hacks and being able to use counter-spam tools correctly.

The Hot Dog List

Rob from The Hot Dog Truck had included my site in his viral list called The Hot Dog List. Thank's Rob!

It started with Mack Collier of The Viral Garden, who came up with the idea of giving a link boost to smaller bloggers: the ‘Z List’. As you may know, a blog’s success in terms of visibility really depends on links: more links = higher Technorati & Google Pagerank results = more people finding you. So let's join the game by promoting the list. It works!

**Instructions**

The premise is simple: Write a post, and copy and paste my list from below into it. Make sure the links are active and correct. If your blog is on that list, remove it because your post isn’t about self-promotion. Don’t worry, because if your name is on mine, it’s on others and will spread. Add your favorite deserving blogs to the top of the list (not compulsory). Publish the post. People will notice the incoming links, and hopefully write their own Hot Dog List posts. The result will be that we all get more links pointing to our blogs, and more readers — it’s got to be good!

Key Points

1. Create a new post on your blog.
2. Copy and Paste the entire list of blog links below
3. Add any blogs that you want to include near the top of the list. (Optional)
4. Include the blog where you first got the list from, on the list in your post.
5. Make sure that all links are copied intact (use the source, Luke).
6. Publish the Post.

The List

Markeff's Boudoir
Mind Body Spirit And Fluttering Thoughts
Financial Independence
The Rocky Mountain Retreat
Writing From The Inside Out
Thinking Tunnel
Much Of A Muchness
Awannabe's Hangout
Brown Thoughts
Football Round Ups
Munny4Hunny
Coffee, Tea or Baabooo
Blog -Blond
What U Did Today
Recueilli
One Old Green Bus
Tiny Voices in My Head
Comedy Plus
You are in My World Now
Life With Heathens
what I think about...
Wonderful Thoughts
everydayweekender
Writing In Faith
The Hot Dog Stand
The Wired Kayaker
A Bunch of Stuff
The Porch Light
Winning Football Picks
Valuable Lessons We Can Learn From Children
John Chow dot Com
The Life of Ben, a Polymer Man
Lol-ette
Trik's Gulch
Peety Passion
Our Cheating Ways
$ Secret Money Blog $ By : Bob Matharoo
Notes of an Asian Gastronomist
SeevsPlace
userandloser.com
Journey of a Lifetime
A little piece of me
NoDirectOn (not: NoDirection)
Mellifluence
An American Peyote Scribble
Let's Share Feelings
Tales of Prinzcess Prinzcy
ChatnChill
The Blogger's Block
Footsteps
Laane on the World
Danny Danny Wakeup It's A Beautiful Day Today
The Political Realm
How to Earn Money Blogging
Electric Writer
About Every Little Thing
Dumb Ox Daily News
TwistedSister.....totally pissed off!
When I grow up...
POETRY BLOG GONE WILD BY PURPLE CRAYON BRAIN.. GET AFFECTED!
Weird Websites
The Hot Dog Truck
My Interesting Files
The Dwacon Blog
Just a Girl From LA
Chronicles: Alan B. Rowley II - Success Coach
IdiotBrain - Because People are Stupid
The Kerala Articles
Eternal Echoes
Splibble
The 15 Minute Dating Blog
Going The Wong Way
the hidden side of a leaf
Word Life!
Why Buy Used Cars
Cubicle Denizen
n E o A u T e U r
PhilosYphia
The Weight Loss Blog
J 4 JOKES
Sea GlassPowerWealth.com
Bimbo with a Twist
Terri Terri Quite Contrary
Syaf The Geek
Disjointed Intelligence
Aussie Bush Food
Growing Linux Events and News Spot
A PURPLE SHADE OF BLACK
meta-DAD
Joe Schroeder Uncovered
What the...?!
Advertising for Success

The 5 Old Post Meme

My other site My Interesting Files, has been tagged by one of my favorite blogmates, Markeff from Markeff's Boudoir. Thank's bro! I'm so honored being chosen to be one of your specials.

This meme consists in picking 5 among your previous posts. This is not easy, as you know there are hundreds of posts in there and most of them are interesting to me. But finally I managed to sort them, and here they are :

~ Amazing Story of Forgiving
~ Recreation Vehicle
~ Tennis Court In Sky
~ Playboy Germany Ads
~ These Are Just Pencils

And here are the 5 people that I would like to tag :

~ Rob
~ Ugyen
~ Diane
~ Suntze
~ Sueblimely

8 Random Facts

Another game called 8 Random Facts, I was tagged by Pieter and MayChang.

The Rules :
~ Players start with 8 random facts about themselves
~ Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts
~ Players should tag 8 other people and notify them that they have been tagged

8 random facts about me :

(1) I'm married, and I live in Indonesia.
(2) I'm a staying home mom with 3 adorable children.
(3) One of my favorite food is noodle.
(4) I can't cook. No matter how I forced myself, I never enjoy it.
(5) I love to learn new things. And I'm a fast learner.
(6) I like ice cream, especially rum raisin and chocolate.
(7) Sydney Sheldon is my favorite author. I collected all his novels.
(8) I like to sing, dance and traveling.

Now, the next 8 random tags :

(1) Alan
(2) Mark
(3) SunTze
(4) Cathy
(5) Manu T. Laveaga
(6) Michele
(7) Steven
(8) Kim

Exchange Links

Building up the number of sites that point back to your site is one of the best ways towards increasing your traffic, increasing your Google PageRank, and expanding your reader base.

Therefore, I would like to exchange links with anyone who are interested. Please add my site to your blogroll and then leave your comment here to let me know that you had added me. I will add your link as soon as I had read it.

Looking forward to exchange links with you...

Feed Link Chain

I was wondering around, visiting my communities websites, and I was hooked in Sapphire Knight's site. His latest post is about Feed Link Chain.
Feed Link Chain is a blog Link game that is gaining in popularity and it is going to help you increase your Feed Readers.

RSS subscriber based is one of the key factors to measure the success of a blog. That is how popular the blog is and what is the “reach”. For example, ReviewMe.com used this to evaluate the value of a blog when determining how much the blog should get if it review a product or service by the advertisers.

Here's the rules :

• (1) Add your name and the feed link to the chain along with the names and feeds of three blogs that you would like to include.

• (2) Simply publish the new list to your blog and allow your readers to participate in the game by continuing the chain.

• (3) Link back to me in your post and make a comment here with the three sites you’ve added; I’ll add them to the list on my site so that others, when copying the list from my site will be propagating your three as well!

All the blogs mentioned in the chain are worth reading so do add them to your feeds and spread the word around. Visit Feedburner for a URL feed for each site if you don’t already have that.

The List :

• Subscribe to Garry Conn
• Subscribe to eJabs
• Subscribe to Leave America
• Subscribe to Make Money Online
• Subscribe to My Audio Book
• Subscribe to Kyle’s Cove
• Subscribe to George Manty
• Subscribe to Female Gamer
• Subscribe to Madhur’s Blog
• Subscribe to Eches
• Subscribe to Shaarique
• Subscribe to Rishi
• Subscribe to Lyte Byte
• Subscribe to News Blog
• Subscribe to Life Rocks ! 2.0
• Subscribe to Shankar’s Tech
• Subscribe to Brown Thoughts
• Subscribe to MeAndMyDrum
• Subscribe to Zath
• Subscribe to A Virtual Exit
• Subscribe to Underground Revolt
• Subscribe to Bill2Me
• Subscribe to Wampago
• Subscribe to Technical Itch
• Subscribe to Ailurophile
• Subscribe to Vincent Chow
• Subscribe to BobmeetsWorld
• Subscribe to LifeisRisky
• Subscribe to Thoughtsfrommylife
• Subscribe to CountRamblings
• Subscribe to TheThinkingBlog
• Subscribe to NotsoBoringLife
• Subscribe to DoshDosh
• Subscribe to KumikosCashQuest
• Subscribe to Fuery
• Subscribe to Technospot.net
• Subscribe to Flowergirl’s Rural India
• Subscribe to Under The Sun
• Subscribe to gurushabad
• Subscribe to Foreign Perspectives
• Subscribe to France This Way
• Subscribe to Europe A La Carte
• Subscribe to Nothing’s Too Sacred
• Subscribe to Sea Eagle’s Free Wallpapers
• Subscribe to Soar Like An Eagle
• Subscribe to Software, Web Development and Technology
• Subscribe to Syaf The Geek
• Subscribe to Inside My Frontal Lobe
• Subscribe to How To Earn Money Blogging
• Subscribe to Must Read Files
• Subscribe to My Interesting Files
• Subscribe to Thinking Tunnel
• Subscribe to Football Round Ups
• Subscribe to Blog Is Magic
• Subscribe to Fyais, Nothing Else Matter

Increase your Alexa Ranking with Alexa Redirects Train

Every bloggers must want their ranking in Alexa goes up. Cause it opens up new opportunities for the website to be accepted by various companies such as Text Link Ads.

There's a way to do this. I found this in Zath. It's similar with the recent Technorati Favorite Exchanges. We use redirects from the Alexa website when directing people to your site with links, for example :

http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://mustreadfiles.blogspot.com instead of just
http://mustreadfiles.blogspot.com

Here's what you need to do to take part in this one :

~ Start Copying Here ~
Alexa Redirect Train by Carl Ocab.

Rules:

1. Put anything you like above this list - chit chat, talkies, introduce what this is. Something like that ;-)
2. Start copying on the "~Start Copying Here~" and copy all the things listed without removing the links (of course, the train would be no use without those links)
3. Move all the sites labeled "Newcomers" to the list labeled "Oldies"
4. Add 5 sites that you want to include in the train and make their link like this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.example.com then invite them to join the train.
5. Visit all the listed sites! (That's not much work! Remember, if you plant good seeds they will also grow good) and look at your high Alexa ranking next week!

Newcomers:
Everyday Weekender
Thinking Tunnel
Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta
Football Round Ups
Esplanade
Webtools

Oldies:
Must Read Files
My Interesting Files
TechTreak.com
Connected Internet
Garry Conn
Brown Thoughts
Female Gamer
Bill2Me
Zath
Blog About Money Online
Manila Mom
ScottPot
How To Earn Money Online
Quasi Fictional
Make Money Blogging
Make Money Online 2.0
Nate Whitehill
Jozzua
Grow Your Writing Business
CultureShiok
Gary Lee
Smart Wealthy Rich
TechZi
Internet Entrepreneur
Tjantunen.com
Hate The Grind
Earn Money Blogging
Make Money Online With A 13-Year Old

~ End Copying Here ~

2 other things that helped Alexa rankings jump

Try installing the Alexa toolbar - Alexa records traffic by the toolbar. Install one now and visit your blog daily. If your using Mozilla try this.

Place an Alexa widget to your blog - It helps boost the rankings too! So go start boosting your Alexa rankings now and install the widget.

Technorati Favorite Traders

Continuing from my previous post about Technorati Favorite Exchanges, here's the list of bloggers who's offering the exchanges. If you're interested in trading favorite with them, just click their Technorati's buttons. If you haven't add me, please click here and here. I will definately add you back, thank's to the program.

If you wish to have your name in the list, leave your webpage address in the comment box. I'll put your web in the list.

A
Azazil.net
Article Discovery Politics
A Digital Notebook
Anitokid Chronikos
AskaX World
Art Thailand

B
Blogging for Money
Blog-Op
Brown Thoughts
Bubba Stuff
Blog Is Magic

C
Calvinwarr.com
Content Pays.info

D
Dosh Dosh
DigitalHub-Tips
Digital Information Technology
Digital Phocus
Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta

E
EmpowerWomenNow.com

F
Fyais, Nothing Else Matter
Football Round Ups
Filipino Entrepreneur
Foreign Perspectives
Frugal Momma

G
GarryConn dot Com
Gauravonomics Blog
Genius Types
Genus Loci

H
Home Based Business
How To Earn Money Blogging

I
I Love Tech & Cash
India PR Blog
I Thought, Therefore I Blog
Inklings The Copywriter's Blog
Internet Marketing
Internet Serious Business

J
Jameo Tips

K
Klamath Design
Kylescove.com

L
Life In The Fast Lane
Life Spices
Living Your Dreams

M
Must Read Files
My Interesting Files
Make Money Online The Quick And Easy Way
MLM Forum's Online Marketing Blog
Money Conciousness
Mr. Gary Lee
Msdanielle
My Credit Group
My Online Collections
Million Dollar Experiment Down Under

N
Nia Trading Signals
Nukilan Jejari Azhad

P
Pentimento
Panopticum

Q
QMusings
Quasi Fictional

R
Random Expressions
Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind
Rishiraj
Romance Tracker
Rugjeff's Blog About Blogging

S
Sexy In Red
Shadowscope
Shakeroo's Gold
Sleeping Princess
Square Cookies

T
Thinking Tunnel
T Jantunen.com
Tech Lock-Rahul
Tech Junction
Technology Bites
TechnoSpot.net
TodSpace

V
Voluntary Death
Versa Creations
Vinod Live

W
Webtools

Z
Zath