What do I want to be when I grow up

Well Kian Ann tagged me on what I want to be when I grow up, and it’s the perfect time to be asked that I’ve been trying to think of a career for months while still being in college I have many options and not sure in what direction I want to choose

Website Designer.
This has been my biggest hobby in my life and this is something I know most about I have already started a website advertising my service and hoping I can get started in the web designing community, but the main reason is so I can get some experience in the area as I would like to know whether to take a course to get some qualifications for it.

Computer Maintenance.
This is something I know a lot about and for me is very simple and boring which to me isn’t something I would like to choose a career for its nice to be able to fix friends computers or build your own fixing problems on it the whole lot without calling someone to help me out and end up spending £10 over the phone.

Adding to my Posts

Well today I’m dedicating this day to fix some of my old posts, trying to link them together and get a little more traffic to my site by adding meta tag descriptions and keywords.

But the reason I’ve decided to do this is because when I made my new theme I didn’t put in my meta tags, which was a slight change in my traffic it went down. So I need to start getting my meta tags back, their has been many previous posts so after adding the meta tags give it maybe a month or so and I’m hoping to have some more traffic coming from the search engines.

Do you thing meta tags are worth the trouble?

Program Of The Week: WinHTTrack

I’m new to downloading sites straight onto my computer but it really does look popular, now I can see this being used for many purposes, maybe your internet connection goes down and you want to access your resource websites but can’t so you use WinHTTrack to download the sites next time you will be ready. Or my favourite is save your bandwidth because you will download the site straight to your computer you wont need to access the internet to view it any more you can just view it from your computer, which is a brilliant idea and the main reason I am using it.

Its a really good program you don’t need to have any knowledge of how websites work etc, as it will allow you to set up category’s so for example I have a Web Development category and in this it has n2kdesign.co.uk and w3schools.co.uk.
It will take all the pages from n2kdesign.co.uk which (if configured) will also download zip files or things like that allowing me to have everything they have except the obvious PHP files etc.

Program Of The Week: Locknote

Today I’m starting a new part in this blog called POTW (Program Of The Week), to start it off I will tell you about my favourite textfile encryption Locknote if you like to store sensitive data in small text files this is for you, it will allow you to password protect the files with a 256bit encryption, as you can see its free which is always a plus side.

Features

Now this is my favourite part of the program it is very hard too loose you can use any file you encrypted to encrypt again because you can drag it onto the file and it will ask you for a password to encrypt the file then on that new encrypted file you can use that to drag and drop another file onto it to encrypt another one, it really is a brilliant feature.

This is the most simple encryption tool I have ever seen so give it a go, and spread the word of LockNote.

LockNote is made by Steganos.

Security on our PC’s

Who doesn’t have any security on their PC’s?

If you don’t you have to be mad or you just want as much spyware as possible, but what security do you use me on one hand now use open source/freeware software for security as its all free :D. But I don’t think I need any more stuff, I used to be overloaded with security software until I started exploring the world of viruses and spyware now I haven’t had a virus, malware or anything like that in a couple of years now, why? Because I know how it works.

All I run now is Avast! Home Edition, Zone Alarm (which I think is crap) and anything that accesses the internet is put in a sandbox I rarely let any program actually access the internet if I look in my program control settings their is a lot of red crosses.

Why do I run Avast! Home Edition?