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Tired of Spyware? Get Spy Sweeper

June 7, 2007 by Tricia

537645401_ef78a55e40_o.jpg I absolutely hate spyware! If you’ve ever undergone a spyware attack I’ve no doubt that you don’t like it much either.

I think the worst spyware attack that I ever went through was one that caused pop ups to keep coming up continuously. I’d visit sites, ones I run, that definitely did not have pop up advertisements on them and I’d get pop up after pop up. They were sticky too. You’d close one and another would pop up and so on until it ate all the memory in my old computer and made it crash.

You can bet that when I got the computer back up and running I went hunting for a virus or spyware. I think it took me a couple of hours to discover and rid my computer of that nasty spyware.

Now there’s a new version of the award winning Spy Sweeper program that you can use to monitor and rid your computer of spyware. Spy Sweeper uses the most advanced detection in order to block and remove spyware from your computer.

One of the best features of Spy Sweeper is that it has new smart shields that block known and emerging spyware threats as you browse the internet. Also if you computer is already infected when you install Spy Sweeper you can use it’s built in advanced discovery methods to detroy malicious spyware on your PC.

If you purchase and install the Spy Sweeper program onto your computer you’ll be able to do virtually anything on the internet without worrying about encountering spyware.

Also, just like most popular anti virus programs Spy Sweeper helps you stay ahead of new spyware threats with free Defense updates.

Considering how much spyware is out there and the fact that new spyware is created pretty much daily it only makes sense to protect your computer with a great spyware detecting program like Spy Sweeper.




Filed Under: Computers, Great Sites, Shopping, Software, Technology News Tagged With: block spyware, browse, browser, computer, defence, detect spyware, Internet, protect computer, Spy Sweeper, spyware, spyware attack

What not to do to your Blog design

June 7, 2007 by Tricia

There are some things that I just dislike coming across when I visit a blog or website. Does your site have or do any of these things?

  1. Autoplay video
  2. Autoplay music
  3. flashy buttons
  4. too many buttons (put them in a roll up menu if you must have them)
  5. advertisements that take up the whole header area making me scroll to see the actual header and posts below.
  6. Too many advertisements – don’t do the max google adsense – you actually make less money from them if you do too many!!! Plus it turns off your visitors.
  7. Pages with so many plug ins, large file size images, buttons etc that make the page really slow to load- or worse cause it to freeze when loading.
  8. Text that is hard to read – white on black doesn’t work if you are trying to read a long post – light gray text works better … same for florescent coloured text on black or white backgrounds, or neon backgrounds with black or white text.
  9. no paragraphs -makes posts very hard to read
  10. Set your posts so that only 5 or 10 display on the main page!!!! Not everything you’ve ever written on your blog for the last two years!

Tips!

Use roll up menus in your sidebars if you have lots of buttons or blogrolls etc. It really makes the page look so much tidier.

Test your blog design in Firefox, Internet explorer, Opera and Netscape – all easy to download and have on your computer. Make sure your site loads correctly and works well in all the browsers listed above,

Also look at your site on different computers. Text and background colour might look great on your monitor but really really bad on 5 other computer monitors that you test it on.

As I said in the last point- visitors only need to see your last 5 or 10 posts when they load your page. If you have more than that showing your page will load very slowly.

Same with categories and archives. Do your visitors need to see your archives dating back to 2001? That’s a long list taking up valuable blog sidebar real estate. Use a roll up menu or modify the code in your page so that only 5 or 10 archives and or categories are viewed. You could also create a page just for your archives and link to it from the main page of your site.

Every once in a while ask your readers their opinion on your page. Ask for constructive criticism. If the majority of your readers state they don’t like something or that your page loads slowly – do something about it.

Filed Under: How To, Site maintenance, Webmaster Tips, Wordpress Tagged With: advice, archive page, autoplay, autoplay music, autoplay video, Blogroll, flashy buttons, header, image, Internet, organize, roll up menu, tidy sidebar, tips, too many buttons, too many posts, Web Design, webmaster, website

Got a health or fitness blog?

May 28, 2007 by Tricia

Last June a market research, well maybe it’s better to call them a Buzz Marketing company, got in touch with me and offered me a free Nokia smart multi-media phone.

All I had to do to get the phone was answer a survey a few months later, and just openly talk about the phone to people I encountered or on my blog. I could say whatever I wanted – whether I loved it or hated. The company was just trying to generate some buzz for Nokia and for the particular cell phone model.

I do like the phone btw, it’s a Nokia 6682. I’m still using it. Free is good. It always is!

Now, this same company has contacted me again.

They’d like to get in touch with people in the Toronto or Montreal area. If you have a health related blog where you discuss health matters, nutrition, weight loss etc and you live in Toronto or Montreal let me know and I’ll put you in touch with the company.

This is specifically what my contact is looking for:

I’m currently working on an interesting word of mouth marketing programme that involves a health food product, and I’m interested in speaking with individuals who are enthusiastic about fitness, eating well, and pursuing a healthy and active life style – and who host a blog on any of these topics.

Specifically, I’m looking for people who:

· are 25-54 years old
· live in Toronto or Montreal
· are actively pursuing a healthy lifestyle
· are very socially active and engaged within peer (personal and professional) social circles
· Prone to spreading new health information to friends and/or clients
· Host a blog that focuses on fitness and activity, healthy living, or nutrition

If you fall into this category let me know and I’ll put you in touch with the marketing coordinator.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Sales and Marketing, Site Promotion, Technology News Tagged With: blog, buzz, buzz company, campaign, clients, fitness blog, health blog, market research, marketer, marketing, Montreal, nokia, Nokia 6682, research, Toronto, word of mouth, word of mouth campaign

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