Securing your computer Typer Tappers style!

Considering 90% of users use Windows 9% Mac and 1% Linux I shall focus on Windows, now we all know how buggy Windows XP is just look at the security updates you get everyday, its silly.

Normally I tell people to download Linux like Ubuntu, Kubuntu or PCLinuxOS, but we all know it’s not easy to learn another operating system.

So I shall point out some key factors in securing your windows box stopping the occasional viruses.

So lets start with basic stuff your security applications, running Microsoft’s firewall disable it and download a better one, there are a lot out their for example sygate (before taken over by Symantec), not really recommended if you are a novice user.

Instead you want to be looking at a more user friendly firewall one I like is Comodo, gives you a lot of detail on what its doing and will alert you when applications try to access the internet.

Next Anti-virus programs, one of my most preached application is Avast on access scanner this will scan all incoming and outgoing traffic from emails to P2P files and even web pages, so if a malicious active x script runs in your browser Avast will stop it in its tracks so you don’t become infected.

New Theme: Classical

Description: The idea of this theme was for a elegant classical style, I’ve been trying to keep things to a minimal such as widgets you will notice if you have the correct plugins (named below) that they are placed at the bottom of the page (footer) to keep them out of the way but allowing the spiders to crawl as many pages as possible.
The choice of using png images for the layout was to make it easier for your use, using png allows the fade effect to be slightly see through so that when placing a background it will not mess up the effect, so it allows you to place what ever background you want.
It was designed for screen resolutions over 800 by 600 as the width of the theme is 900, allowing you to display more content allowing your visitors to get the best experience from visiting your website.

Problems: PNG format, is not compatible with IE6 (internet explorer 6) but it will work with IE7 and above.
Three posts above displayed for some reason messes the footer up, I have not yet found out why this is happening please if you know leave feedback.
It does not look bad but it does look out of place slightly.

Program Of The Week: Launchy

If you like linux you may have come across an application called Katapult which you can use by hitting alt + space which will then bring up a screen where you can type a name of a application such as kcalc which will then be launched, I’ve been looking for a similar thing for windows as if you look at my start menu you will see that I’ve attempted to order everything but its just too many folders to look through, so I started my hunt and found Launchy.

Launchy is very easy to customize you can have it search any directory for any file for example all my mp3’s are on Z drive at a whopping size of 40gb’s which makes it hard to look for a song so i just added that to the index and had it just search for a file type of .mp3, it also finds your applications by looking at your start menu location such as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs in that it will look for the .lnk files and place them in the index.

How To Earn Money Over Night From Your Website.

There are many methods of earning money from your website but this is my method.

The main target in running a website is getting your visitors to keep coming back, for example lets say that every month your getting a extra 50 unique visitors but none of them are repeat visitors so if your writing amazing articles that people are subscribing to they will come back this will be a even bigger boost in traffic it can practically double your unique count every month.

First of all you need to work on actually getting people their, this can be done using the art of search engine optimization, if you can get a higher page rank then more people will be finding your keywords.

Getting this page rank can be done many ways the main important one is links to and from your website, once your getting more and more links to your website Google figure that you’ve got to have some importance and therefore make your PR (page rank) higher meaning more and more visitors finding your keywords, keywords are another very important thing there are many ways to make Google give them more importance like in this article on making keywords stand out.

New Theme Uploaded

I’ve been working on a new them for around 3-4 days, I thought that my old theme was possibly driving people away due to the gothic look of it so I made a new one and this is it.

I’ve tried to make it less cluttered, for example I moved the archives to the top left of the page in a drop down box hoping this will save me some room for some better options to hopefully bring in the visitors.

I’ve also added a search box which I didn’t have before so that people can now look through my articles easier, at the moment it doesn’t look pretty but I will be working on a better look for it at a later date.

Hope you like the theme would love some feedback.