Web Site Bugs

Afraid of web sites that contain bugs that monitor or affect your web browsing. These software add on are an excellent source to find these little critters. They tell you what these bugs are doing and monitors your computer. Take control of security while browsing.

Links
Ghostery
CS Fire Monitoring
Osmos

Installing a Flash Drive Hard Drive

Yes in the real world their are people who still don't understand this. And hopefully this video will help you understand what you should be looking for on My Computer, when you plug in a flash drive.

Direction:
If you following everything right. A drive should appear in the My Computer box and the drive letter is your portable drive. Just copy or paste, drag or drop files to this hard drive and now those files are portable.

ActiveX Fix

Here's a security fix tip, to stop the Active X problem along with the annoying pop up. Follow the video carefully and your Active X problem will disappear.

Screen Toaster

Want to record whats on your computer to show others how to do it. Screen Toaster makes it simple to record by press ALT S, when you start and stop. And once you upload the file online, you later download it to your computer to show others.

Send Future Emails

A great service to use when you want you email sent sometime in the future. Works great with most email clients. Excellent way to send Birthday Greetings always on time.

Online PDF Creator

Need to create PDF files but don't want to install anything onto your computer. This site is great for creating PDF documents when your on the move.

Buffalo USB Power Strip

Here is an excellent way to use a USB port efficiently. There is no need to always leave it on. I am just wondering if it does makes a difference.

Solar USB

Want to save energy with USB devices. Try the Solar USB, it's going to help you go green longer.

Solar Cell Phones are Here

A while back I wrote about new solar cell phones and now with the help of Samsung, the first solar cell phones are out. You'll have to dish out sixty dollars but in time it will pay for itself. I am still uncertain on how reliable these phones will be at first. But within time it should live up to it's potential.

Over Priced Cables

Always wonder why online cables prices are cheaper than store prices?
Majority of the times it's that your getting ripped off by the retail stores.
If your tired of being ripped off, the next time you need cables try purchasing them online.

Below are just a few of my favorite sites:
Meritline
Cyberguys

Smallest VGA Display

Get ready for smaller HD displays. Their is no limit how far displays can go now. These devices will soon available on almost every we can think of.

Wish Radar

Enjoy Wish list but still can't get the items you want at a decent price. Wish Radar changes your wish list to a shoppers bargain list. When you wish reaches a price that you already set up, it notifies you to buy. This new concept will change wish lists forever.

Paint.net

Tired of using Adobe and paying for premium service that you believe should be free. Try now using Paint.net and say goodbye to Adobe. Paint.net will make you think twice about paying for any premium service.

Cherple

Need to talk to someone across the globe and carry a two way conversation with any U.S. Cell Phone. The answer is here using Cherple. Their is no reason not to have a conversation.

Connect a USB Drive Online in Minutes

Want to connect a USB drive online and be done in minutes. This new product claims to connect any USB online storage drive. All you have to do is plug the USB device to Pogoplug and just activate the product and your files are online. Uploading and downloading is done directly from the Pogoplug.com website.

Find Online Videos

Looking for online videos instead of Youtube. These sites offer more that what your local Youtube now provides. It's worth to check them out.

Links
Mega Video
Ninja Video
Side Reel
Super Nova Tube
Swarm Player
Ez Tv

Google Squared

It's a new type of search engine by Google that puts things in columns. You get information about the item your searching, pictures, with publisher and language information. Searching online seems quite different with Google Squared

Vista SP2 Disk Cleanup

Recently upgraded to Vista Service Pack 2 and want to clear up disk space. Follow the instructions below and free up almost 1 gig of hard drive space.

Instructions
Run the Windows Component Clean Tool (COMPCLN.exe)

1. Click Start, type Compcln.exe and press ENTER

2. Click Continue when you see the User Account Control elevation dialog.

3. Press Y when you see the following message:
This operation will make all service packs and other packages permanent on this
computer. Upon completion you will not be able to remove any cleaned packages
from this system.
Would you like to continue? (Y/N):

Disable USB devices on a Network

Interesting to know how many users in a company can infect a network by attaching a USB device. The risk has been out for a while and even though you can apply this fix. It still doesn't guarantee that it will work all the time.

with Compliments to www.howtodothings.com


Click Start Menu > go to run command and type "regedit" without quotes. Registry Editor will open.
Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder then SYSTEM >CURRENT CONTROLL SET > SERVICES >USBstor, located at the left pane.
Find "Start" in the right pane with the blue icon.
Double click "Start". A box titled "Edit DWORD value" will open.
Write down "4" in the "Value Data" Field. Illustration 1.1
Click OK and then close the Registry Editor.

Your USB flash drive is now disabled. Whenever you insert a flash drive, Windows won't detect it and will not open it.

To enable it again, repeat steps 1 through 4 and then change the value to 3. The default value for enabling a USB flash drive is 3.

Note: Performing this trick will only Disable USB Mass Storage devices and will not affect other USB Devices such as USB Keyboard, USB Mouse, Scanner, Printer etc....always backup your registry to prevent losing your valuable data.

Pay As You Go Broadband

Virgin mobile now gives you Pay As You Go Broadband with no contract. Any user can easily download at 100mb, 200mb, 500mb or 1gig with prices as $10,$20,$40 and $60. Who can't go wrong to want portable broadband.