PhotoScape

We all know how image editors work, but wouldn't you like to try a fun and exciting experience for once? Such an example is PhotoScape.

As the application focuses on viewing and manipulating images, PhotoScape itself is very colorful and "happy".

When you open PhotoScape, you are encountered by a white window in full screen, with a few sliding pictures (which redirect you to Flickr galleries once you click them), and a menu system displayed in a circle.

The menu includes a viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, raw converter, rename, and paper print.

All these titles are pretty self-explanatory.

Defraggler 2.09.391

Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment.
When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows.

How to be a Computer Hacker

LulzSec hacker cluster says net rampage over

Lulz Security hacker cluster said that it's ended an online rampage that included cyberattacks on videogame firms, police and even the CIA's web site.

"For the past fifty days, we've been disrupting and exposing companies, governments, typically the overall population itself, and quite presumably everything in between, simply because we tend to may," the cluster said in an exceedingly message uploaded to The Pirate Bay file sharing web site on Saturday.

"It is time to mention bon voyage," the message concluded. "We should currently sail into the space."


The Lulz farewell contended that the cluster had a crew of six individuals and implied the arrange from the outset was for the hacking campaign to last fifty days.

While it remained to be seen whether or not members of the cluster would really stop bedeviling the web, it had been unlikely police would abandon efforts to trace them down.

Off-the-Shelf Hackingassistance is Surprisingly simple to search out

Sitting in his la home, Kuwaiti billionaire Bassam Alghanim received an alarming decision from a business associate: many his personal emails were posted on-line for anyone to examine.

Mr. Alghanim checked and located it to be true, in keeping with someone conversant in the matter. The emails included data on his personal finances, legal affairs, even his pharmacy bills, this person said.

That led to a different surprise. Mr. Alghanim discovered the one that had allegedly commissioned the hackers was own brother, with whom he's fighting over the way to divide up billions of greenbacks of joint assets. Mr. Alghanim's lawyers allege in court filings that the brother employed investigators to illegally access his email with the assistance of Chinese hackers. value to rent the hackers: concerning $400.

Although the brothers' feud involves massive cash, documents filed in 2 civil cases in September 2009 suggests simply how easy and cheap on-line espionage has become. pc forensic specialists say some hackers-for-hire overtly market themselves on-line. "It's not onerous to search out hackers," says Mikko Hyppönen of computer-security firm F-Secure Corp.

Hacker group Anonymous takes down major website

It appears the hacker collective Anonymous has struck again. This time, the hack took out CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com as well as several websites outside the country.

According to several internet blogs and a post on the hacker group's twitter feed, the entire CBS website was reduced to just a single file just before noon Sunday.

Blog

A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.)

Although not a must, most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post on their blogs but also build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; yet still others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging or vlogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.
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History

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.

How to Avoid Computer Viruses

There is a war being fought, often right underneath our very noses. It is a war fought not with guns, or with bombs, but by computer viruses, worms and Trojan horses. Computer viruses have been around for a long time. They’re often hidden in your e-mail inbox, among all those offers for quick cash, a bag of diamonds, enlarging this and reducing that, even spam telling you how to get rid of spam.

A worm is a type of computer virus that generally spreads and replicates itself without relying on any actions on the part of a computer user. A Trojan horse masquerades as a benign program, sometimes one that claims to get rid of viruses, when in truth it inserts a virus into your computer.

Virus attacks haven’t attracted much notice from mainstream news media, although that has begun to change. Over the past years, several viruses of varying types, such as the “Blaster” worm virus, made national and international headlines. Law enforcement has historically had a tough time dealing with cases like these. It’s tough to track down computer hackers.

10 Legitimate Tax Deductions for Bloggers Making Money Online

I am definitely not a tax professional and you can take my suggestions with a grain of salt, but to confirm if these are really legitimate tax deductions for bloggers in your country, make sure you ask your accountant.

I have operated many businesses over the years, in fact I have never worked for anyone, but bloggers making money online is a completely different story. The potential tax deductions are often overlooked as bloggers are busy people, no doubt. Bloggers are simply sitting in their home office making money, sticking to their daily blogging routine, not realizing the legitimate tax deductions that they could be claiming.
I live in Australia and have just had my tax done by my accountant. I just thought I would share some of the tax deductions that I have used in the past. (This might not apply to you in your country)

1. Rent for Business Premises – Tax Deductions for Bloggers

Ahh this sounds scary but it is not. Bloggers making money online have got the cheapest rent in the world. I have mentioned before that I used to pay in between $10,000 and $11,000 a month to rent a shop premises near Brisbane. Now I am earning just as much money from blogging but I do not have the stress of working seven days a week and employing 15 people. (OMG that was a nightmare!)
Now I rent my Internet premises from Hostgator for around $10 a month, allowing me to open approximately 15 businesses, just with that one small fee. I also have other hosting accounts with Hostgator with more businesses (WordPress websites) on them.
Even though the renting fees are tiny compared to the income that they produce, the fees are still tax-deductible.

How to find “dofollow” “commentluv” blogs with high Page Rank internal pages?

We all know that when you find dofollow Commentluv enabled blogs they can be a great asset to use as a SEO technique for your WordPress Website or blog. But this is not always the case. Some Commentluv enabled blogs have the plugin installed but have made the actual links “nofollow”. The new Commentluv Premium WordPress plugin allows webmaster to customize each part of the comments to either doffolow or nofollow. This new plugin even blocks out spam, includes keywordluv and more.

The other question you need to ask when finding a dofollow blog is “does this page have Google Page Rank?” Of course the perfect place to comment for SEO purposes is on a “commentluv” enabled, “dofollow”, high Page Rank blog. I am going to show you how to find these websites with all three factors. There is not many out there, well it depends greatly on what niche you are in.
Please note that I am not saying “nofollow” is worthless, I am just saying “dofollow” is better. However for natural link building, always try to have a mix of both.
Firstly, if you do not know what “dofollow commentluv” is then see these posts  What is a “Do Follow” link and a “Nofollow” link? and How to search in Google for “dofollow” related blogs to comment on?

New Computer Setup Tips

This article is a guide outlining our top new computer setup tips. Whether you just pulled the computer out of the box, or if you just ran the system recovery disk from the manufacturer, there are certain things you should consider doing at this point to make your computing experience the best it can possibly be.

Top 5 New Computer Setup Tips

The following new computer setup tips are some of the recommendations we make to users in our forums. If you have any additional advice, be sure to let us know. While we also have more tips, these are our top five must-do recommendations:

1. Uninstall the crapware.  Unless you built the computer yourself and installed a full version of the Windows Operating System, chances are you have a lot of crapware on your system. Crapware is trial software that will continuously nag you for the next year and beyond. Even worse, crapware is software that automatically launches on boot and eats both memory and CPU cycles. This type of software can be Antivirus programs like Symantec or McAffee, game trials, and online backup software. Remove it all from the Programs section of the Control Panel. If you’re removing trial antivirus programs, be sure to use antivirus removal tools.