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.

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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.

To Keep installed programs on your computer updated is very important. Software developers release new versions not only for function and finesse, but also in most cases, for the safety sake. The programs usually not tested thoroughly before they release, but it is by people using them as bugs and security hole is discovered. It is to fill these holes as new versions come to. Ignore you in the update, so expose you your computer for so-called “Exploits” and all sorts of atrocities that are online. You dont want that malicious people or hackers to exploit gaps and vulnerabilities in some of your software to hack in to the system?

I have a list of 6 excellent tool that manages the entire automatically. The following tips are for Windows users.

1. UpdateChecker

It is totally free and fast! It scans all programs on your computer, check the versions of them and then sends this information to FileHippo.com then see if there are any newer versions. The result is shown nicely for you on a list of links to download the update.

It is also available in the form of a Firefox extension which Software Update Checker.  The addition put a new menu in Firefox, which displays the available updates for the software is installed in your computer.

2. Appupdater

It automates updates and installations of software in your computer. As soon as a new version is available, load it down and install the software automatically.

3. Appsnap.

It is a download and installeringshanterare for the program. It manages the most part. Like UpdateChecker above keeps it the track of your software versions and download and install new versions released automatically.

4. AppGet

AppGet is a nice tool that automatically updates all the free programs on your computer to the latest version. Like AppSnap and UpdateChecker above, the program scans your system for programs that are installed and create a reference list. This list is then compared with the program that is AppGet database to see if updates are available. Programs that need to be updated are shown in red. Then you can allow the program to download / install the updates.

5. QWinArt

QWinApt can be considered as Windows answer to Linux Synaptic. It can do the same job for you in Windows that Synaptic does, for example, Ubuntu users. It is a package for Windows that makes it possible to download, install and update a large number of software applications. Like Synaptic has QWinApt a user-friendly interface. And just as Synaptic are all programs categorized for easy searching and downloading. All programs are managed via Synaptic is free or has open source.

6. Secunia PSI

Also a nice service that automates the search for bad and programs with vulnerabilities and replacing them with new updated versions. Secunia find the latest software and patches your computer needs and install them. In this way you can avoid the vulnerabilities exploited to take over your system.

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My favorite among all these is probably Update Checker, perhaps because it is the one I have used the longest. But then it is very good and easy to use. The other, I have also tested and they are also excellent. Then, it is about taste and liking. Most importantly, however, to keep your software up to date so that the security hole in the can not be used to get into the computer.

Tutorial Blog has a very good list of 10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page on WordPress blogs that you can do. Here you will find helpful tips on how you can make your comments easier to read, more well-designed and transparent, and more. Sometimes forget you to trim away commentators, which it is a bit unfortunate as it is often among the comments that it really fun with the blog posts will appear.
Titles of the guides Tutorial Blog has gathered are:

1. Display the total amount of comments on your blog.

2. A cleer row of alternating colors for your comments.

3. Giving your Wordpress comments a bit of style.

4. Seperate your comments from trackbacks.

5. Styling your author comments.

6. Numbering your Wordpress comments.

7. Disabling commenting on older posts.

8. Remove the comment section on your blog.

9. Use Twitter graphics in comments.

10. Ajax edit past comments.

There is a tips that I think is smart; Seperate your comments from trtackbacks,

something I probably soon will introduce in Sundream Estate blog. I have written a lot of tips and links for WordPress before. Since I run with WordPress for my blogs,try I to keep a little eye on what happens in the field – for example, the useful additions, and write here in my blog about it.

How cool is not it? Tommy with TjK write about this new card. Eye-Fi is a WiFi card is an SD card … a standard memory card, it has also built-in wireless network. (WiFi) You press the Eye-Fi in your digital camera memory card slot (if it has SD card slot that is to say) and after a little configuration, you have WiFi in the camera. You can take digital photos and video clips and automatically send them via your wireless network to the computer. As I said – huge cool.
There are a couple of different cameras with built-in WiFi, and it works right cool. Often, it is possible to fix so that when you take a picture seconds after it pops up on the computer screen. Easier transfer is probably not. Eye-Fi also has other functions, such as automatically sending image sites as Flickr, Picasa Albums, Photobucket and SmugMug. Ect.
Tester notes that the Eye-Fi works flawlessly and that there is nothing to complain about. Possibly the chaps a little extra battery power, but otherwise they can not say much more than that the product works just as it should. The price for an Eye-Fi card is about $ 100. Perfect for my wife who always problem with the camera and the computer network.