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- Cool Websites and Tools [January 13th]
- The Freebie Hunter’s Toolkit
- Control Your Online Identity With An SEO Optimized Biography Site
- 8 MORE Steps To Regain Control Of Your Facebook Privacy
- Four Free Quick Note Taking Apps For The Mac
- TypingAid – A Simple Auto-Complete Tool To Speed Boost Your Typing
- How To Create Your Own Services Menu Options on Mac
- Update To Google Picasa 3.6 With Photo Geotagging
- The Best Websites To Find Free Virus & Malware Fixes
| Cool Websites and Tools [January 13th] Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:31 PM PST Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.
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| Posted: 13 Jan 2010 05:31 PM PST
Freebie hunting is art: you should know how to spot a new free offer as well as avoid being scammed (and spammed). This post lists some useful tools that will come in handy to those who would like to try freebie hunting and see how they can benefit from that. 1. Freebie Aggregators & CollectorsThese are actually plenty: people blog and discuss freebies everywhere. Here I am listing only the most trusted ones – those that I have checked and tried myself: ListFreeSamples is a well-organized, clutter-free online freebie collector
The Freebie Blogger and The Freebies Blog are two decent blogs posting daily updates on legitimate free offers. International Freebie Resources:
2. Freebie Scam Lists & DiscussionsScam.com is your first choice if you want to research if some freebie is a valid one. It’s a discussion forum for users to share their sad experience (to warn others) or to ask for an opinion on some cheesy offer. It has multiple sections, most active of which are:
419eater is an active discussion board that you can actually get addicted to. The sub-forums I enjoy most of all are :
PurPortal is a huge searchable database of scams which seems to be updated regularly. There are 4 sections: scams, urban legends, viruses and phishing sites. Besides, it has a whole separate category for email spam.
And Also Some Bonus Ones:
Freebie TweetsTwitter is buzzing with conversations on any topic – there you have good chances to hear people share their own experiences with some cool free offers (and possibly make friends with fellow freebie hunters). My favorite tool to track anything on Twitter is Seesmic – because it is easy to use, highly customizable and clutter-free. Here’s how you can use Seesmic for spotting new freebies: Step 1: Configure Seesmic to update you of new search results:
Step 2: Search Twitter using Seesmic for freebies (if you are interested in some particular freebies, restrict your search by using additional keywords, like “make-up freebie”, “oriflame freebie”, etc)
(The search will be automatically search and will be tracked by Seesmic until you delete it). Step 3: Sit back and watch Seesmic update you of new freebies being Twittered:
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| Control Your Online Identity With An SEO Optimized Biography Site Posted: 13 Jan 2010 03:31 PM PST
So what’s the big deal about your online identity? Why should you even care? As the Internet has evolved into a massive research warehouse of data on almost anyone in the world, employers and background researchers often turn there first to quickly learn whatever they can about a potential employee. Anything they discover could either work for you or against you. So, how can you make sure that the Internet is working in your favor? One option is certainly to use tools to hide from the search engines, going so far as to mask your IP whenever you’re on the net, or use disposable web tools to hide your identity, as Aibek described how to do. Doing this will protect you for a while, until someone else decides to publish something unflattering about you online. If you have a unique name, then you can be sure that the single page that the search engine can find about you – the unflattering page – is the one that will come up at the very top of the search engine results. Not a good thing.
Create An SEO Optimized Biography SiteWhile it might come across as disgustingly vain, or as tooting your own horn, if you’re serious about mastering your online identity as a blogger, a writer or otherwise – you need to look at what most authors do. If it isn’t already held hostage, they capture the domain for their name and then create a website to let their readers and fans know what they are working on and what work is coming down the pipeline. I’ve enjoyed visiting StephenKing and DeanKoontz for years, as these two authors always served as my inspiration for writing. It’s nice to have such a personal and direct touch with the author that you love to read. In order to do this, I needed the domain for my name. I thought the odds were pretty good I’d never get it, but then again, what kind of name is Dube, right? So I checked, and sure enough, I was able to register the domain for RyanDube.com. Sweet!
With that out of the way, the next step was to choose a good free Wordpress theme. Now, I opt for Wordpress because I’m most familiar with it as a blog platform and I use it for all of my domains. You could choose any blog platform you wish, just make sure that the theme you choose has: 1. Plenty of widgets that allow you to insert a very visible bio on the main page. For my purposes, I chose the excellent “Scarlett” theme by Jinsona Designs.
I love this theme as a bio page because it’s clean and professional, it features all of the items I listed above, and best of all there’s an amazingly cool photo slideshow feature at the top of the page. The theme is one of the easiest to customize that I’ve seen, with most features accessible from the Wordpress Appearance – Options menu. Using the 3-step approach I’ve outlined earlier here at MakeUseOf, I loaded up this theme onto my newly registered domain. Next, all that was left was loading content. Now, for most blogs, this would seem like an overwhelming task when you’re faced with an empty blog. But in this case, I have countless articles across the net to choose from. All I want to do is provide a few short blog updates with reviews of those articles with links, and then embed feeds from my many article sources in the sidebars and on all of the widgets. Below, you’ll see my blog with four such “review” style articles added.
Loading up the top slideshow is as easy as typing the word “screen” into the name field for custom fields, and include the URL to the photo for that article. Your articles should highlight some of your best work. If you’re not an author, they should simply highlight the best things about your life – your favorite recipes, some of your most significant accomplishments – things that show people that you are a good person, a professional, or whatever it is you want your online identity to convey. Of course, the more powerful aspect of this particular theme are the items I listed above – incorporating all of your online activities into one central location so your fans (or anyone researching you) can see all of your best work in one place. In this Wordpress theme, you configure those widgets in the options menu (this is the case with most Wordpress themes).
Configuring the Twitter, FlickrRSS and About settings lets you populate what appears in the bottom widgets for your bio blog.
However, for adding your RSS feeds, you may need to go into the Appearance -> Widgets area of Wordpress and add the RSS feeds to your sidebar widgets, either as an RSS Widget or Text/HTML, depending on the code requirements at the originating source for your articles.
Now your readers have a central place they can return to in order to check out all of your online content and activities – in a format and a positive light that you can define and you can control.
One of the most effective ways to control a keyword phrase in the search engine rankings is to own the actual domain name that matches that phrase. If you own the domain name that’s identical (or at least as close as you can manage) to your own name, then over time you’ll quickly rise to the very top of the search engine results any time someone searches your name. When it comes to the Internet, you can’t effectively protect your identity by hiding, because eventually someone out there is going to have something bad to say – that’s life. However, if you take a proactive approach and dominate the search results for your name, you will be better placed than anyone else to decide exactly what the search engine says about you to future employers, landlords, people you date and otherwise. Better yet, if and when you do become famous, you won’t have bottom-feeding domain-squatters trying to overcharge you for the domain of your name, because you’ll already own it. Have you ever registered the domain for your own name? If not, do you have a similar one? What have you done with your name domain? Share your experiences in the comments section below. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| 8 MORE Steps To Regain Control Of Your Facebook Privacy Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:31 PM PST
Let us now proceed with the next steps concerning privacy in the context of applications, friends, news feed, wall posts, groups, ads, and quitting Facebook. #9: Control What Your Friends Can Share About YouAs explained earlier, your Facebook friends can reveal information about you to applications of their choice even if you yourself do not use those applications. A typical example is when your friends use a birthday application that reminds them of your birthday so that they can send you a card or gift. If you don't want to do that, go to Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites page. Click Edit Settings for What your friends can share about you. Choose what you want to share or uncheck all boxes for maximum privacy. #10: Reduce Visibility of Your Facebook FriendshipsYour friends list is visible to everyone on Facebook by default. Some people browse others' friends for voyeuristic or marketing purposes. Unfortunately, Facebook now considers your friends list as "publicly available information" so there is no way to hide it completely. You can make it slightly harder for strangers to see your friend list. Go to your profile page, click the pencil icon next to your Friends box, and uncheck the Show Friend List to Everyone box.
Note that your friends list is still visible to all applications (and their developers) as well as to anyone who knows your Facebook username or ID. #11: Remove Unused ApplicationsAs explained in "9. Privacy From Your Applications" in the original guide, you should review the list of Applications you have authorized on Facebook and remove unused apps.
Go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and review all applications listed by choosing Authorized, Allowed to Post, and Granted Additional Permissions from the drop-down. #12: Minimize Publishing Recent Activity To News FeedThe ability to control the Recent Activity news feed on your wall as described in "5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates" in the original guide has now been removed from Facebook. Therefore, there is no way to stop notifications appearing on your wall when you add a new friend, comment on or like a friend's status, note, photo, video, or link.
However, you can still stop certain kinds of notifications from appearing as Recent Activity on your wall news feed. This includes notifications when you become a fan of a page, are RSVPed to an event, receive a gift, join a Group, or are tagged in a photo or video. To do this, go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and change the drop-down to Allowed to Post. For each of the applications listed below, click Edit Settings, Additional Permissions and uncheck the Publish to streams box.
There are two additional points to note:
#13: Control Privacy Of Wall PostsYour Facebook status messages can now be public and searchable from external search engines like Google. You can also control privacy level on a per-post basis, but it's better to set the default privacy setting for your wall posts. Go to Privacy Settings > Profile Information, and select Only Friends for Posts by Me.
Next, to control your wall privacy, go to your Profile page and click the Options link under the Share button. Then click Settings. Here, you can control whether your friends can write to your wall and who can see wall posts made by your friends.
It's better to restrict who sees wall posts made by your friends. For example, college buddies may write things on your wall that may not be suitable for a professional audience. #14: Hide Group Memberships In Your Profile InformationThe Groups that you are a member of are listed in your profile. To remove them from your profile, go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu, and click Edit Settings for the Groups application.
Click (remove) to remove Group memberships from the Info section of your profile. Set the privacy level for visibility of your group memberships to Only Me. Note that when you post a message to a Group's wall, a notification will still be posted on your profile. This step simply makes the list of groups invisible on your Profile page Info tab. #15: Avoid Appearing In AdvertisementsThere are no changes to Facebook privacy regarding advertisements, but the location to access these settings has changed. Now, go to Settings > Account Settings, and click the Facebook Ads tab.
Set both options under Ads shown by third party applications and Ads shown by Facebook to No one to avoid appearing in any advertisements on Facebook. #16: Understand Difference Between Deactivating and Deleting AccountThese privacy changes in Facebook have prompted some users to quit Facebook altogether. If you decide that Facebook is not your cup of tea, you must understand the difference between deactivating and deleting your Facebook account.
From Settings > Account Settings, you will see an option to Deactivate Account. Deactivation simply puts your Facebook account in a suspended state. All your profile information, pictures, friends, and wall posts remain intact on Facebook servers, but are not accessible to other Facebook users including your friends. You can resume using Facebook as before simply by logging into Facebook again. If you wish to permanently delete your account, you need to submit your request on this page. This will remove all your information from Facebook's servers, and there will be no way to access or recover your account and profile information again. This completes our guide to how you can regain your privacy in Facebook to the extent possible, while also explaining which privacy options are no longer available. How are these changes affecting your Facebook experience? Do you have any other tips to share? Shout out in the comments! Related posts
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| Four Free Quick Note Taking Apps For The Mac Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:31 AM PST
Sure, there’s nothing wrong with that. After all, modern day computers are designed to be whatever their users need them to be. Even it’s only to be the expensive typewriter. As for me, my word processing needs are fulfilled just fine by Mac OS X’s TextEdit. If I need more bells and whistles, I use Bean (mentioned here). But both applications – and most word processors for that matter – have one minor disadvantage: they’re only available when we open them.
Quick Text ToolsBefore any of you protest my previous statement, let me refine it. Every now and then I need a place to jot down some tiny bits of information like quick ideas, phone numbers, addresses, scripts, temporary passwords – you get the point – to be used later. Ordinary word processors are not suitable for these needs. The perfect tools to jot down quick texts are applications that:
Here are several alternatives to quick text tools available for the Mac: SideNoteI’ve used this application for years. It’s an old app and hasn’t been updated for quite some time (the latest version is dated back to 29 December 2007). Still this app does its job well and serves my needs perfectly. It’s also working without problems under Snow Leopard.
As the name suggests, SideNote resides on one side of the screen. It will automatically appear every time you bring your mouse cursor to the screen side. You can also assign shortcuts to speed things up. SideNote allows its users to create multiple notes, each with a different background color. Notes can be printed and also exported as text files. Jackson has mentioned SideNote as part of the productivity tools for Mac. MeNotesThis very small menubar notes application allows you to capture your thoughts quickly. Just click on the menubar menu and choose “New note” and a note window is opened, ready to receive your thoughts. After clicking “Save” the note will reside in the menubar and can be accessed anytime.
At the time of writing, the developer’s site is not accessible, but you can download the app from many Mac-specific download sites or through this direct link. MeNotes has also been mentioned as part of my “11 Tiny And Useful Free Menubar Applications for Mac” JustNotesOne look and you will agree that this is what a Mac app should look like. JustNotes is beautiful. But appearances aside, this app is also useful.
You can assign shortcuts to quickly summon the notes. Click the “plus sign” (+) to add new note and “minus sign” to delete one. All the notes are available from the list of notes. JustNotes also comes with a search feature to quickly find whatever information that you’ve entered. And as a bonus, you can sync your notes to the iPhone or iPod Touch using Simplenote. But please note that Simplenote is not free. EvernoteWhen it comes to functionality, Evernote has it all. Creating notes, clipping from web sites, synchronization between different OS’s and computers, OCR, search function, everything. It’s so useful that it has become the “must have” tool for computer users. But even though I use it, I personally think that Evernote’s a bit too bloated for me.
There are already so many articles about Evernote here in MakeUseOf. Be sure to check them all out. If you know any other free alternatives to Quick Text tools for Mac, you can share your knowledge using the comments below. Image credit: Linds Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| TypingAid – A Simple Auto-Complete Tool To Speed Boost Your Typing Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:31 AM PST
Auto-completion is the term which helps to take away the chore of frequent typing of the same blocks of text. Some programs switch it on by default. We see it in browsers when they auto-complete saved log-in details. It comes into action in Office documents, when the application suggests days, dates or words. Auto-completion works by completing a word or a phrase when we type the first few letters. Long words or phrases can be filled in with a few keystrokes. So we have to type less and the whole thing is an example in productivity.
Why Auto-Complete?The benefits of auto-completion don't just have to do with less typing and more productivity. Auto-completion wards off boredom to a small extent and RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) to a larger one. RSI is an almost invisible but real threat to people whose occupation has anything to do with typing. So this is where a tool like TypingAid fits in. It is a simple tool for a simple task. But how simply does it do it? Let's try it out. TypingAid is a small and free download at 209KB. The best thing about it is that you don't need to install it and you can run it straight from its folder. There is nothing to configure and all one has to do is put in the most frequently used words into a text file that runs from the same folder as the TypingAid executable. A sample text file (wordlist.txt) is given in the program's folder. It's as easy as typing your 'auto-text' in successive lines. It can be anything…your contact details, a salutation, the way you sign off personally, technical terms you use most often etc.
The text file can be edited as a normal text file – open the file, add your lines and save the file. The quicker way is to highlight the words you want to place in the text file and press Ctrl + Shift + C. The words get added to wordlist.txt and the file auto-saves automatically. The Operation Of TypingAid Is As Simple As 1-2-3…When you type the first 3 characters that match the beginning of a word or a sentence in wordlist.txt, the program offers it as a suggestion tooltip. All entries that match the first three inputs are offered for selection in the tooltip. Pressing the corresponding number beside the entry will auto-complete it in the place you need it. For instance, I am trying it out with four of my signatures, pressing the right number inserts the right signature in any document or email window. Neat!
The simple working is mentioned in the ReadMe.txt file in the program's folder. The size of the tooltip can be changed from Windows properties like for all regular tooltips. A Simple Uncomplicated ProgramThere's nothing to configure, so maybe my grandma can also use this to cut short her typing. The program needs no installation and is completely portable from one system to the next. It works in all programs both offline and online. Words or expressions can be added to the wordlist.txt file with a shortcut without the need to open it and save it. The program is tiny and takes up very little memory. A user's memory could be the only speed bump, because he has to remember the text that's in the wordlist.txt file. But I guess a few runs around the block will solve that. Phrase Express and Texter are two similar free applications we had covered a long while back. Where do you think TypingAid stacks up against these two or any one in your toolset? TypindAid ver1.2 is a free download and is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! New on Twitter ? Now you can follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Related posts
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| How To Create Your Own Services Menu Options on Mac Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:31 AM PST
While Apple has improved its Services Menu in Snow Leopard, it’s not very useful unless you have items in it that you can use. Some 3rd party applications will automatically include Services items, but the best use of Services is to custom build your own items, which can be done with Automator, a program installed with OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. MUO published an article last year, How To Use Automator To Batch Rename Images on Mac about how to use a previous version of Automator. This how-to will show you how to use the newest version, incorporating the Services template to help you get started.
Step 1Launch Automator, found in your applications folder. A drop-down window will appear with templates to help you get started. Select the Service template and click Choose.
Step 2At the top of the workflow section, select “Image files” from the drop-down menu that appears next to the words, “Service receives selected.” Make sure “any application” is selected in the drop-down menu beside the first one. These selections tell when and where this Services item can be used.
Step 31. Now go to the Actions library of the first column of Automator. 2. Select Files & Folders. In the next column, select the action Get Specified Finder Items and drag it into the workflow pane. This action will grab your selected image on your computer.
Step 41. Select Photos from the Actions library. 2. Select and add Scale Images to the workflow pane. 3. You will get a message asking if you want to make a copy of the original selected images before they are re-sized. Click Add if you want images copied. Click Don’t Add if you don’t want images copied.
4. This action includes a default size of 480px, but you can change to any default size you like. Also, you can check the “Show this action when the workflow runs,” which will allow you to also change the scale size before the the action re-sizes the selected image.
Step 51. Select Mail from the Actions library 2. Select and add New Mail Message to the workflow pane. 3. Fill in any default information you like. If there’s a particular person that you always want to email photos to, include that person’s address. Same goes for the default subject and your selected account for email. On other hand you can leave all this information blank and fill it in as the Service action runs. 4. Clicking the box next “Show this action when the workflow runs” will enable you to add or change any information in the email before it is sent off.
Step 6Save your workflow with a name that will help you remember what it is. You must save this action before it can run from the Services menu. If you need to make changes to the workflow, you can do so and just re-save it. It will be updated in the Services menu. Step 7Now right or control-click on an image that you want to resize and email. A contextual menu will appear and your new Services item should be listed in Services, at the bottom of the contextual menu. Click and let the automation run. It will re-size the selected image and attach to a new email message.
Keyboard ShortcutIf you think you’ll be using this Services item on a regular basis, you can add a keyboard shortcut that will run the action for you. Launch System preferences, select Keyboard, and then select Services. Locate the Services item you saved. Double click on the item and assign a keyboard shortcut. Be careful that you’re not assigning a shortcut that is already in use.
That’s it. Now that you’ve created this Services item, you can create other useful ones, such as a similar workflow for sending and emailing selected text or documents. Simply see what actions are available in Automator and how they might be used for your particular needs. Macautomaton provides a few tutorials, as well as pre-developed Services items that you can download and install. I’m also developing a series of video tutorials on Vimeo that includes this and other automation tutorials. If you have any questions about this tutorial, ask it in the comment box. Let us also know how you’re using Automator in your Mac related computer work. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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| Update To Google Picasa 3.6 With Photo Geotagging Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:31 AM PST
We've talked about this in MakeUseOf before. Shankar mentioned geotagging in a post on managing photos using Picasa, and Mark talked about geotagging with Google Maps and Google Earth. Simply put, photo geotagging is the attachment of information to your photographs to accurately pinpoint the location of the images. It's no different to tagging with other information, but it's handled automatically by other applications which can then show your images on maps and so on. And with Picasa, it's really easy.
Tagging Your Images
One of the questions I often get about my photos is where is that? Photo geotagging solves this problem. So, before I post these images on the web, I want to geotag them. Start Picasa. Find the images. Ready to go. In this case I want to tag an entire album of images, but you can also select multiple images (CTRL-Click) and tag them. If your images were taken in slightly different locations, then you need to make some decisions about exactly how precise you want to be. So, select the images:
Now you need to find the location where the pictures were taken. New Zealand has the advantage of a few unique place-names, but you might need to select from a few options if you are making use of a location (like my home town of Wellington, for instance) that exists in a few places.
Click the (+) button to zoom in, and the (-) to zoom back out, or use the scroll wheel on your mouse. You can also switch between street and satellite views, or use a hybrid of both. Unfortunately small-town New Zealand isn't the best mapped area on the planet, so the satellite imagery for Whangarei isn't much use. I'll stick with the street maps. Eventually you'll have enough detail to decide where you need to be. Drag the small green marker to that location, let it go, and click the OK button.
The pointer will turn red, and the images that have been tagged will now have a small red pointer in the bottom-left of each.
If you are using Picasa Web Albums, you can go ahead and synchronise the images. I use Flickr though, so let me just tell you how that works. Upload & View
I use ACDSeePro to upload the images to Flickr, but you can use any of the available tools. The location data is stored in the file, not in Picasa, so it doesn't matter. Just upload as usual, and then take a look at one of the images in Flickr. You can see these ones here.
As you can see, there's a new item in the information section which outlines (in English, thankfully) the information stored in the EXIF. You can edit that information here, or just take a look at it on a map. Let's check the map out.
Flickr doesn't use Google Maps, but you get a similar experience with the Yahoo alternative. One of the things I like best about this is the ability to see other images that have been taken nearby. Click the button at the bottom of the window. Unfortunately for me, it appears no one uses Flickr in Whangarei, and my images are the only nearby ones. Oh, well. If you had clicked the Edit option from the information block, you would get the opportunity to reposition the image on the map, using a similar interface to the Picasa one we used. Given that you can do this online, you might be wondering why you might use the Picasa tagging tool. In my case, it's simple. Because you are running Picasa locally, it's adding the location data to the original images. Then the uploading choices are all yours. One more gotcha. I found that while Picasa gave every impression it was successfully geotagging my Canon RAW files, it didn't actually work. It needed the JPG images to work on. That's it. Do you use photo geotagging? What tools do you like? What's still confusing? Let me know in the comments below. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! New on Twitter ? Now you can follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Related posts
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| The Best Websites To Find Free Virus & Malware Fixes Posted: 13 Jan 2010 07:31 AM PST
I will show you how to use Symantec's website to find the infection and how to remove it. We will also show you how to download their tool for free virus fixes. Then we will go on to show you BleepingComputer's website where they offer up removal information for you. We will start with Symantec's list of threats and risks which is located at the following URL.
I chose a virus at random and read through what it does. Then I clicked on the removal tab shown below in the following screenshot:
You will see instructions on how to remove what the virus has done to your machine. You will need to stop and delete the infected files. They assume you are using their antivirus software but with most of the new viruses you can search their site and download a removal tool – the search box is on the right hand side of the site. It looks like this:
If a removal tool is available for your virus you will see this link on the page. Click it to download and run your tool.
The site I normally gather my information from is called Bleeping Computer . If you have a rather new virus, go to this link and search for your infection. Some of the new popular guys are on this list. You will see Antivirus 2009 and SystemCleanerPRO both very annoying viruses on the list. Click on the one you want more information on or search the site using their Google Custom search which you can see below:
When I brought up the page for SystemCleanerPro I saw this:
Scrolling down I saw the information I need to manually remove the infection and, like MakeUseOf, they love free tools so they use MalwareBytes which can be downloaded for free.
They continue on how to repair the damage the machine has taken. When one of your resources does not have the virus in question listed do a Google Search. Take into account the reputation of the site. Obviously we would not want to download a tool or follow instructions from a site like destroyyourcomputer or iwillgiveyouavirus but articles leading back to Lifehacker or Instructables should be fine. Use your noggin and do not succumb to the hackers! Do not buy their application to save your files. Do not give in! If you have problems, post them here and I will do my best to walk you through finding a solution! In the past, we have covered a lot of virus & malware subjects. Here are four of them : How To Get Rid Of A Trojan Horse Virus That Won’t Go Away – Varun Do you have another favorite site? Please share them with us in the comments! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!
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Many people are skeptical about free offers: they say they are either lame or fake. Well, those who have been hunting for freebies for years can contradict that by saying that collecting freebies is both fun and often really useful.
One of the ironies of a person’s online identity is that the harder you try to hide your identity from the search engines, the more likely you will be hit harder once something leaks to the web.
We have covered 8 steps to regain control of your Facebook Privacy in 
As technology savvy as modern people may be, today’s computer is far from being fully utilized. While there are those whose sole life purpose is squeezing out the power of their computer to the last drop; to some people, a computer is just a very expensive typewriter. Meaning: there are folks who use this state of the art machine only to type documents.
I wish that the earth would revolve around its axis a bit more slowly and we all would have longer days. But alas, we have to make do and save from what we have. For us net workers, the straightforward way would be to just type faster. Some of us though find it difficult to break the speed barrier and have to resort to some other means. One of it is avoiding repeated typing of the same text.
Hey you wanna-be Mac Power users, this article is a follow-up to 
Recently I told you something about 
I've covered how to get images into Picasa before, so refer back to the older posts if necessary. In the meantime, I'm going to give the rest of you a short geography lesson. I know it's winter in most of the world right now, but down here in New Zealand it's the middle of summer. A few weeks before Christmas I had to travel to a little town called Whangarei for business. That's in the northernmost part of New Zealand. Down here, North means warm. It's nice there.
On the bottom right of the Library view, there are three buttons. People, Places and Tags. If you've been following the face tutorial, then People will be selected. Click on Places.
In this case, type whangarei in the search box, and hit Enter or click the magnifying glass. Google Maps will search for the location, and if it finds it you will be presented with an appropriate map, and a question about whether the location is correct.
Generally, that's not quite specific enough for the job. You need to zoom in closer. In my case, I need to sort out where I was sitting with that cool drink.
Just to confirm what's been done to the images, let me take a look at one of them in 
Free things are hard to come by especially when you are dealing with computer issues. Believe it or not Symantec offers a free method to remove viruses. They have both detailed removal instructions and standalone tools to help you clean up your mess. NAI aka MacAfee also offers this but I prefer Symantec to NAI when it comes to these tools.
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