So truth time how many of you have lived in Marbella and you still haven’t made the effort to learn Spanish and with the modern advances of the internet there really isn’t any excuse.

Fiona Gonzales of Teach Yourself Spanish

So for those of you who want to teach yourself Spanish and take the ball by the horns so to speak I came across this fantastic website click Teach Yourself Spanish to see for yourself. Now being a guy its hard not to be impressed with such a stunning lady as Fiona Gonzales and if I was going to get some advice on how to learn Spanish Id defo be getting it from her but that’s all as she is head over heal in love with her fella (lucky guy) so we will have to stick to Spanish.

For those of you who want to give Fiona a swerve but want easy Spanish lessons then get online find that Spanish course and starting mixing with the local Spanish who are wonderful people by the way.

Loathe her or love her but Angeles Muñoz is certainly doing her best to promote property Costa del Sol & Marbella and it looks like that all her hard work and obvious self promotion is now paying off  with the news that the new owner of Malaga Football Club, Abdullah ben Nasser Al-Thani, has announced that he will invest a large amount of money in a Marbella project.

Boost for Marbella

Al-Thani said after a meeting with Mayor Angeles Muñoz in Marbella that he is in advanced negotiations in a major project in Marbella, related to the tourism industry. He did not reveal exactly what kind of investment project it was.

Angeles Munoz claimed after the reunion with the Qatari sheik that this was wonderful news for the city of Marbella. She looked very excited about the plans, but could not either identify exactly what they were.

Until further information comes from the mayor or the sheik, one can only speculate what the spectacular plans consist of. All we know for know is that the Qatari will invest money into something related with tourism in Marbella. Sundream Blog is very hopeful it will create much needed employment for the citizens of Marbella.

This is great news for Marbella and this blog who has been championing the causes of our wonderful Mayor of Marbella who has been heavily criticized for self promotion and wasting public money. What we pointed out to the idiots who were criticizing her was you only needed one deal like this and you were miles ahead of the game so well done Angeles.

I have recently been looping at other blogs and two blogs stood out as really interesting with the first one being Costa del Sol Life with some very good up to date news but also some very challenging articles and I especially liked the article Sex in Spain.

The second blog is more in keeping with our main real estate business but the Spanish property news blog has some very detailed and up to date Spanish property news that we don’t really cover because as you know we are primarily a Marbella property website.

We hope you find the two new resourced blog useful.

Do you miss the manual for your router or wireless phone, or has the dog eaten up the manual for your cell phone or wireless router? If the guide to a thing is gone, then can you be absolutely sure you need it. It is Murphy’s Law … Then you should take a look at The User Manual Site. It has indexed over 300,000 manuals from the Web, in PDF format. I did some searches on different stuff I have at my home office and it gave good results.

To use the service is simple. Just enter the name and product name in the search field, and do a search. The site uses an auto-completion feature in the search field so that you get the options just by typing parts of the product name. Once you got a hit, just click the PDF file, and print it if you need.

If you not found your guide at The User Manual Site, you can take a look at another site. SafeManuals.com is the website that can come to the rescue. There are almost 900,000 (nine hundred thousand) handbooks, manuals and user guides posted in PDF format. It is just keying in the name of your electronic things, whatever it may be, and see if it is included in the database. Do you get a hit, can you free download the manual in PDF format, to read on screen or print. This article did I found in TkJ. Thanks Tommy.

According to Security Company Secunia have 98 percent of all Windows computers at least one insecure program installed. These are all possible forms of applications that have security holes and other problems. As a rule, clogging the holes again continuously by the developers, but it is not at all certain that users know that there are free updates.

This is a clearly important part to keep track of. Security hole as found in Appendix for the browser is of course a great danger, because it can open up your computer for attacks from infected websites. With PSI installed, can you search your computer for problems, and you can also allow the program to be resident in the memory, for tell you when new updates coming. (this article did I found at TkJ, thanks Tommy).

Everyone talks about SEO optimization. You must make an on-page, must have in-links, must have a blog, ect …. But one of the most important and easiest things have many people forgot. If you have not thought about before, it is high time to start doing it now. Make sure that the right keywords are in the URL of everyone of your article! Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are taking very good on the URL, and ranking your article better in Serp.

Say that your web page or blog is about Marbella. Then you’ll write a lot of articles on Marbella. Sample article titles like: “The best restaurants in Marbella, Five tips in Marbella for the summer” and ”Marbella history”

To improve your chances to be found in the search engines for the word Marbella is that they must include in your URL. We take the article entitled “Marbella history.” Your URL may look like this: http://www.sundream-estate.com/new-43-marbella-history.html As you can see is “/ Marbella-restaurants” the piece that you decide yourself when you write your article and here is the key word Marbella with which you are investing extra in order to be found by search engine, also the word restaurants get a good position. Working a lot to finding the right keywords to the URL; it is worth gold.

Tommy with TjK wrote this nice article. Search engines needs for find things on the web. For many surfers, there is only one search engine, and it is Google. The reason is so simply, that many do not know that there are other search engines. But it does, and many works for most users either as good or better than Google.

Which of the search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing do you like most? Most of us says Google safe, but the question is what you had responded in a blind test? This is where Blind Search comes into the picture. It is well emphasized that the service is mostly for fun, even if it is right interesting to see how different the three search engines hits.

Blind Search function easily. You fill in a search word in the box at the top of the site and click Search. Now, a search be made on the three search engines and displays results in three columns. You don’t know which of the column is respective which search engine. Select the results you think is best, and click on the bottom Vote for this search engine.

How was the result? Choose you the search engine that you have as favorites, or was it someone else who turned out to see better than the favorite?

YouTube allows users to leave comments on video clips, which is natural because it is a social site. The problem with letting anyone post comments is that it published a lot of junk, and among these are some dangerous things. Panda Security announces that it has measured up to nearly 5000 films on YouTube that have comments with links to sites that spread dangerous code.

“This technique of using harmful comments on YouTube is not a new phenomenon in itself. What is alarming is the huge amount of infected links that lead to one and same webpage. We believe that the cyber criminals use of an automated tool to do this,” says Panda Security in Sweden.

The Comments containing usually links to what look like pornographic website. When the user clicks through to the site, must he download a special video player to watch porno films. Of course, there is no player that can be downloaded. Instead, is there PrivacyCenter, a fake antivirus.

.

PrivateCenter will then scan through the user’s computer, it purports to be a legitimate antivirus program, and they find a lot bugs, cookies and virus. The threats are totally fabricated to fool the now infected user to pay a registration fee as required, so “viruses” can be removed. This type of fake security software called scareware.

So don’t download anything you don’t know what it is to 100%.

It is never a question of a hard drive crashes and breaks down – instead, when it going to do it. No hard drives hold forever. This is something I repeat all the time, to teach people to take backups of important files. A hard drive holds not forever. They wear out pretty hard when the discs rotate around in, usually, 5400-7200 revolutions per minute when they work.

I checked my hard drives and one is in bad shape. It has kept on for a long time, so I was not particularly surprised by the result. I have long time planned to replace it, but it has not been done. Here is part of my digital photos with all my pictures of apartments, villas, plots, luxury properties and sold properties, (which I obviously have proper backups on). Often, unfortunately, that you do not change the disk until it actually collapses and can not be used more …

With the free software CrystalDiskInfo, you can find out how your hard drive is feeling. Is it okay, or is it starting to be worn? It is rather a rule than the exception that some areas of the disk are unusable. As a user you do not notice this, because Windows and the file system are smart enough to handle it in silence. CrystalDiskInfo watching among others at these things. A health status is presented and warns if your hard drive starts to crumble. I found this hint at Tkj. Thanks Tommy.

BSA ( Business Software Alliance) has in a study find that 41% of the software to a PC is pirated (2008). This is an increase from 2007 by 4 procent and a likely reason is that both India and China are beginning to have higher standards and more computers. BSA has also tried to put a figure on the estimated losses that publishers can not take part – and here we talk about 53 billion dollars! Bear in mind that this applies only if each of the pirated software had been purchased. and guess how many individuals who kindly spend 800 dollar on for example Adobe Photoshop. Shall we guess on a near-zero?

And I want to emphasize that I not in any way calls for pirated Photoshop. I am not negative to BSA figures. I personally think we should take this report / statement with a big fist of salt, then it certainly true to some extent, but its very exaggerated. The greatest loss is in USA with 20% of software is pirated, and a loss of around 9 billion dollars. No small amount, but obviously a very vague calculation.

It was that I – and most others – thought. The figures that 41% of the software to a PC is pirated (2008) was invented by the BSA. There were some newspapers that asked them from where they got their statistics, now they have admitted that they had no figures to rely on.