Order your upgrade copy of Windows 7 now before Amazon’s pre-order sale ends tomorrow. In general, if your PC can run Windows Vista it can run Windows 7. To make sure, download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to do a quick check.
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Windows 7 Pre-order Discount Ends Tomorrow
Friday, July 10th, 2009Disable Quicken Registration Prompt
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Plan, save and control your finances with Quicken Deluxe. It’s easier than ever to manage a personal budget, pay bills on time, track your investments, maximize tax deductions – and find more ways to save.
To disable the registration prompt (nag screen) for Quicken 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004:
1. Press and hold the Ctrl + Shift keys on the left side of your keyboard while you select the Online menu and select One Step Update.
Note: Using the Ctrl+Shift keys on the right side does not disable the prompt permanently and the following message does not appear.
2. When the message “You will no longer be prompted for registration” appears, click OK.
Online features such as online banking, security quotes download and product updates will work normally if you do not register your copy of Quicken.
Free Commenting Software
Saturday, January 26th, 2008About 3 years ago Google posted the following excerpt to their official Google blog:
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
For most of the previous versions of WordPress, the is the default setting for external links. Most people would probably agree that legitimate non-spammy comments should not be penalized. There is a DoFollow plugin for WordPress that will disable the automatic rel=”nofollow” attributes added to external links. This makes sense to do this if you have good spam filtering for your comments, or if you moderate your blog. BinaryWolf activated the last year, so that non-spammy commenters get a backlink.
So, a great way for getting backlinks is by commenting on blogs and including the URL for your site. However, if your link is assigned a nofollow attribute by default, it won’t be considered as a backlink. If backlinks are important to you, it may be worth the extra effort to discover blogs that use DoFollow to disable the nofollow attribute and add your comments to those particular blogs. Of course, post a comment only if you have something of value to add to the discussion and not just to get links.
An easy way to to find these blogs that accept comments is to use search engine friendly blog commenting software. After your download and install the software, you type the keywords or a keyword phrase that you want to find blogs for and when the search is complete, select a blog URL. The page opens directly in the software. You submit your comment and then open the next blog and submit the next comment, etc. This is a great way to increase search engines and human traffic to your web sites, boost your natural search engine rankings and gain dozens (if not hundreds) of high quality backlinks to your websites.
FREE SnagIt Screen Capture Software
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Download the demo version of SnagIt 7.25. Then go to the TechSmith website here and request a registration key. Type in the key in and your trial copy of SnagIt 7.25 will convert into a full retail version of the popular .
SnagIt, with very powerful screen capture and image enhancement features, is a must have utility for any blogger or web designer. The latest paid version, with many new useful features, is SnagIt 8.2.
FREE ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware – Limited Offer
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Today, November 14, Check Point Software is giving away a licensed copy of ZoneAlarm for until 5:00 p.m. PST.
ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware prevents spyware infection from getting onto your PC and removes any existing spyware. Also included is ZoneAlarm’s award-winning Firewall which stops spyware from running. Simple to install and run, its intuitive interface tailors the program to meet your needs. Includes Anti-spyware, Spy Site Blocking, Operating System Firewall, Network and Program Firewall. The latest release improves the Operating System Firewall and applies more robust spyware detection and removal functions.
Download ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware here.
Free Membership Software Trial
Thursday, September 20th, 2007aMember is for . You can download a 30-day free trial version of aMember Pro.
aMember is a flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, NoChex, VeriSign PayFlow, Authorize.Net, PaySystems, Probilling, Multicards, E-Gold and Clickbank payment systems and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your site. It can also be used without any payment system – you can manage users manually.
aMember Pro also supports integration plugins to link the users database with third-party scripts, for example vBulletin, Joomla and WordPress. aMember will maintain a users database for the third-party script, so your aMember subscribers can be automatically added to your bulletin board, CMS, help desk, image galleries, email systems and auto responders.
Customer support for this product is first rate. Read the glowing testimonials in the aMember Forum to see for yourself.
How to Back Up iTunes to a USB Flash Drive
Monday, August 20th, 2007iTunes includes a Back Up to Disc option under the File menu. It guides you through the steps needed to your playlists, audio and video files to a CD or DVD for safekeeping, in case your hard drive goes bad and takes your media collection with it.
As an alternative, you can drag copies of your file to an external hard drive or USB flash drive. Once you have your backup drive connected to the computer, you need to find your iTunes files:
Windows XP or 2000 My Documents > My Music > iTunes folder.
Vista Music folder > iTunes.
Mac Home folder > Music > iTunes.
Dragging the entire iTunes folder to your external drive icon makes a copy of your media files, playlists, album artwork folder and library database. If you don’t have room for all that and just want to back up selected albums or songs, open the folder called iTunes Music, which is inside the main iTunes folder. The tracks are sorted into folders by artist name with album folders inside, so find the files you want to back up and drag them to your external drive.
