Yahoo is new Big Brother

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Facebook: The privacy saga continues
Online privacy became the big issue of our generation especially after the technological trend of being online everywhere and every time. It's quite understandable that every government wants to have all the information it can get about its citizens for political, economical and most importantly safety reasons. Likewise companies want to access information about its customers so that they can know more about their market. And its no different for Yahoo.
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Yahoo Group Users - Attention, I received this information on a discussion list for a master mind group I'm a member of. If you, like millions of others, use Yahoo Groups to connect with clients, classes or other discussion groups, you may want to read this:

Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going (similar to cookies.) Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy

statement:

1.
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

2. About half-way down the page, in the section on Cookies, you will see a link that says Web Beacons. Click on the phrase "Web Beacons".

3. That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network". In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link which will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.

4. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.[Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is also a "Cancel Opt-out" button which, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. It appears after you have hit the opt-out button so is very confusing.

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Restart the Explorer when Windows hangs

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The Wall: Ctrl-Alt-Delete
One of the most popular source of annoyance in Windows is hanging of the explorer. We will not get into the causes of this problem because there are many possible issues.
Here is a simple solution (at least temporary) for that problem but this will only work if Windows is still responsive.

Shut down the Windows Explorer by hitting Start => Shutdown (Turn off Computer on Windows XP) and click cancel on the shutdown dialog while holding the CTRL, Shift and ALT keys.

This kills the explorer.exe process and all that we have to do now is create a new explorer.exe process to access all windows and functions again in Windows.
Then fire up task manager, click on File => New Task and enter explorer.exe in the window. This will restart the Windows Explorer and hopefully brought the desired result.

You can open the Task manager with CTRL + ALT + DEL . (or Ctrl + Shift + Esc).
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Save Internet radio tracks with Free MusicZilla

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Both price per gigabyte for storage and price per megabyte/second for bandwidth is falling consistently. Apart from this there is also a surge in online music services where you can buy your favorite tunes for just under $ 1. But on the other hand there is also the irresistible sweetness of free music; internet radios.

Listening to the same albums and songs becomes boring after a while, no matter how great songs we have in our archives. That is if you don't pirated all the new albums that you can find. There comes internet radios to our rescue; both legally and tastefully.

If you like listening online radios but also want to save your favorite tracks for offline use there is an option for you. With incredibly easy to use
Free Music Zilla you can visit a site with streaming audio like Pandora, Last.fm, IMEEM, MySpace, eSnips, or several others and Free Music Zilla will give you the option of saving each song you listen. Just install the application and it will hang out in your system tray.

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Anarchy Online Remains Free For 2011

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Anarchy Online is an online role playing video game published by Funcom Productions. Norwegian company known for its Dreamfall-The Longest Journey and Age of Conan titles.
Development of the science fiction themed game was lead by project director Gaute Godager and story developer Ragnar Tørnquist at a time when most role playing games made use of the more common fantasy setting (Released in the summer of 2001).
As a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), customers log on to a virtual world that persists indefinitely with or without player interaction. Players create unique characters that they improve by killing enemies, collecting resources, fighting each other, and various other activities. The game's ongoing storyline takes place on the fictional planet Rubi-Ka, and its extra-dimensional twin.
Funcom has announced that Anarchy Online's free-to-play program will continue throughout 2011 in reaction to the "steady growth and outstanding contribution of our free players to the community."
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Tag Cloud in Blogger

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Tag Cloud Lust (Aaron's Cloud)
Tagging became popular after the increase in Web 2.0 applications, especially in blogging among others. It allows to easily categorize and identify individual posts so that one can find related posts. When a reader clicks a tag, he is directed to an index page listing all the posts associated with that tag. That way readers spend more time on the blog looking for the posts they are more likely to be interested. One other advantage of tags is that blog software tracks and updates all connections between the posts with it.
There are all kinds of tagging visualization systems, the one we are particularly interested is "tag cloud".
If you want to have a tag cloud widget on your blog check out
this tutorial.

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How to Disable Vista Aero Effects While Playing Game

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One of the most appealing feature of Vista is of course Aero Effect. But like all other visual niceties Aero uses part of your performance, and if your machine is not state of art performance monster you are better off turning this effect while you are performing off the desktop jobs like playing games.

And here is how to do it:

Right-click on the shortcut of the game and choose Properties, and then the Compatibility tab ... Now on the Settings block check the box for "Disable desktop composition" in order to disable Aero the next time you use the shortcut.

Don't expect a performance boost after, you may not even recognize the difference. But still any increase is an increase :)

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Facts from Microsoft about Vista

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Windows Vista wallpaper (by Microsoft)

People like complaining, and one of the most popular complaint in tech world is about Vista. Like all other OSs and softwares Vista has its share of faults. But before complaining you should know some vital facts about Vista:

  • Majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute.
  • Majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than 6 seconds.
  • Windows ReadyBoost is a terrific new innovation in Windows Vista that lets you speed up your system in seconds, and PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent.
  • Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application "hangs" than those running Windows XP.
  • Based on their first 180 days of availability, Windows Vista has been shown to have fewer vulnerabilities than Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4.
  • Windows Vista security has improved so much that PCs running it are 60 percent less likely to be infected with viruses, worms, and rootkits than PCs running Windows XP SP2.
  • And Windows Vista-based PCs are over 90 percent less likely to be infected than systems running Windows XP without a Service Pack.
  • Windows Vista-based PCs are almost three times less likely to be infected with potentially unwanted software than Windows XP-based PCs because of Vista shipping with Windows Defender.
  • Internet Explorer 7 is now blocking nearly 1 million attempts to access these fake sites per week. New phishing attacks are more than 25 times as common as new viruses. That's right, over 20,000 of these fake websites are created every month.

source: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/facts.mspx

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Shortcut to Launch Multiple Programs

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We may have hundreds of programs installed on our system but we only use couple of them on occasional basis (that is why I prefer portable programs) and some of these installed programs come preconfigured to load on windows startup. I suggest you clean these programs from windows startup (only leaving the programs that you are sure you will need every time you log on windows) by either using MSConfig or using a specialized program like Autoruns from SysInternals.
After cleaning the start up programs you can create a batch file to start all your favorites ones with just one click. And here is how to do that:

Open Notepad (Start Menu -> Accessories -> Notepad):

Get the paths for the programs you want to start. The easiest way to do this is to right-click on each of the existing shortcuts, choose the Properties option, and then copy the Target path.

Enter the paths for each of the programs into Notepad, one per line. Be sure to write

start ""

at the beginning of each line, and put a space after it to separate it from the application path. If the path of your application has a space in it, you'll need to surround the entire path with quotes.

Save it as a .bat file by manually entering in the extension at the end of the file name.

In the end you should have something like this:

start "" "C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe"

start "" "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe"

start "" "C:\Program Files\FeedDemon\FeedDemon.exe"

With this method your Windows will load a little much faster depending on your hardware.

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Vista drive icons for Windows XP

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There are lots of improvement in Vista over XP but for a lot people the best change is Vista’s look. And luckily there are all kinds of transformation tools for your Windows XP to make it look like Vista. Here is one for just changing the drive icons: Vista Drive Icon. With this little tool you can have Vista like drive icons with storage indicator in XP. You can download the open source program from SourceForge site.

Vista Drive Icon, changes the drive icons shown in Windows "My Computer", to a nearly Vista drive icon, showing the drive's free space with a smooth colored horizontal bar.

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DriverMax to Archive and Update Your Device Drivers

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I find formatting my hard drive very inconvenient; all those back ups (device drivers, documents, games saves, licenses etc.), and then applying service packs and updates, reinstalling favorite programs, customizing the settings of windows. All these processes are very time consuming. Although it’s been 3 years since my last format and there isn’t any noticeable speed decrease of my system. But just in case if something goes wrong, it is always good to be prepared. Perhaps the most complicated component to back is system drivers (since you can just copy all the others manually to some other partition/drive). That is where DriverMax comes in, with the help of this program at least we won’t have to worry about device drivers.

With
DriverMax you can create a backup of your currently installed drivers. It is a free program which allows you to archive your currently installed drivers and does the installations all at once when you need to reinstall them. If you register DriverMax (which is free) you can also update your drivers (free version allows two updates per day).

How to update your drivers using DriverMax:
Open DriverMax then go to Updates and Identification and click the "Check for driver updates" item.


DriverMax will automatically open a web page containing the list of drivers installed on your computer. For each driver, you will see the version you have and the latest version that is available.
In order to update a certain driver from the list, just click on the diskette icon that is located on the right side of the screen. You will be taken to another page, which shows you the driver versions which are available for download. Pick a driver version, click the download link, and choose the Open option when asked whether you want to Open, Save or Cancel!

A small file with the extension .DMX-INFO will be downloaded. The .DMX-INFO file contains information about the driver you are about to download. The DriverMax Agent will start, and ask you whether you want to add the driver to the download list. Choose Yes.
The DriverMax Agent will wait in your system tray, and will download the driver when possible. This may take some time. You can double-click on the DriverMax Agent system tray icon to check the status of the download.

Once you completed downloading drivers select the driver you want to install and click install driver on the left panel.

DriverMax only works on XP/2003/Vista.

You can also try
Driver Magician Lite and SlimDrivers which are also free.

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MyMiniCity.com - A Sims-like City of Your Own

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Have you ever dreamed governing a city, solving the problems of your fellow countryman? If you have, or better yet if you like SimCity type of games then MyMiniCity is a nice online game for you. You only need to choose a name for your city and the country to which it belongs. And that’s all you need to build your very own city on MyMiniCity. It doesn’t require any downloads, registration or log-ins. Once you’ve named your digital abode, you’ll be given a link with which to visit it. The more you visit and the more you market the place, the more inhabitants you’ll get. So it’s better to tell the world about your city and have as many visitors as possible. But the game doesn’t stop there. New challenges arise: unemployment, sanitation, education etc. To improve any of these, you’ll have to do some heavy promoting. Every click does your city good. Visitors can leave messages on the bulletin board. You’ll have a view of the city’s stats., e.g. crime, population and pollution. Not too shabby, if you like to be master of a digital domain.

my cities:
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City Factors:
Population (You begin with this)
Industry (50 population) add /ind to the end of your city url
Transportation (100 population) add /tra to the end of your city url
Security (250 population) add /sec to the end of your city url
Environment (500 population) add /env to the end of your city url
Business (1000 population) add /com to the end of your city url
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Access Blocked Facebook, MySpace or YouTube with Secure https(ssl) Proxies

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Some network administrators (or parents) block certain websites like Facebook, MySpace or YouTube (for company’s good or for your own good). But sometimes this causes even the most innocent(!) websites to become inaccessible. 
In order to circumvent the block and access your websites you can use an online proxy site to visit them. These proxies even work for bypassing countrywide censorship like those that imposed in Iran, Saudi Arabia or Chine.
Some of the best ones:


https://spacepiano.com 
http://www.mousematrix.com 
https://cakebird.com 
https://cheeseglobe.com 
http://atunnel.com
(you can also put any letter in front of tunnel such as btunnel.com, ctunnel.com all the way to the ztunnel.com) 

http://calculatepie.com 
http://kproxy.com 
http://www.stupidcensorship.com 
http://www.vmathpie.com 
http://www.backfox.com 
http://www.newbackdoor.com
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Found the proxies via DevilsWorkshop

Related Ways to Access Blocked Websites 
How to watch Fox, ABC or NBC outside of USA

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