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Free 1 Year Subscription to Zone Alarm Firewall Pro

It's our firewall's birthday... and you get the gifts! ZoneAlarm pioneered the personal computer firewall and our parent company, Check Point Software launched the first comprehensive enterprise firewall 15 years ago. We know how to keep the bad guys out. It makes us proud to know that our firewall protects every ...

Start Windows / Exit Windows Sounds

I just thought I'd share these for anyone who wants to change the sounds for starting and exiting Windows. These are the ones that I always use. Start Windows Exit Windows Enjoy! Related posts:Screenshots of Windows 7 Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next...About My name is Bill Fisher. I have ...

Screenshots of Windows 7

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next version of Microsoft Windows and the successor to Windows Vista.Microsoft stated in 2007 that it is "scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe", and that "the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar. While ...

Create folders from an Excel sheet

Let's say that you're working on a project and you have an Excel sheet that contains 100 names. For part of your project, you need to create a folder for each of the names. If you don't want to create a new folder and name it 100 times, I have ...

Free Codeweavers Software For All

The Codeweavers "Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge" has ended in surprise and free software all day Tuesday (October 28, 2008) at the Codeweavers site. When I actually got the site to work, they said that they removed the homepage because of the amount of traffic, but they had the download ...

Is MySpace selling my email address?

This morning, while I was playing around on MySpace, I noticed a new banner image at the top of the page. I'm not sure why it got my attention, but it did. Maybe it was flashing or something. Anyways... After a few minutes I checked my Hotmail account (same as MySpace ...

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

As you may or may not know, October is national breast cancer awareness month. I know I'm a few days late, but I just found this image today and I thought it deserved to be posted. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Related posts:Screenshots of Windows 7 Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and ...

Homepage Advertising - MySpace Vs. Facebook

This morning, when I went to check my Facebook account, I noticed that there's a really big difference between MySpace's homepage and Facebook's homepage. When comparing the two pages, the first thing I noticed on MySpace's homepage was the ginormous flash commercial that spanned the width of the layout. There's ...

How to fix LinkEX and .htaccess conflicts

Last month I discussed using 301 redirects to avoid duplicate content and now I'd like to expand on that topic with something I just learned this morning. On a few of my sites, I'm using a script named LinkEX to trade text links with other sites. It seems that there ...

How to quickly repair a bent CPU pin

I recently picked up the October 2008 issue of Computer Shopper for some plane ride reading. It included a "Special PC-Builder's Handbook" section. This section had 75 quick tips for building computers. One of the tips that I really found interesting was that of fixing a bent CPU pin with ...