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.

A new search service from Google, is looking for pictures that are similar. The similarity can be both form and color type of image.

Google has launched a new image search, “Similar Images“. It is available in the “Google Labs” where new features and services are tested before they’re launched officially or abandoned. As the name of the new service suggests, is to search for images similar to each other. In search box, write you in what you’re looking for. For example, a bus.

The results of the search will be a wide range of bus pictures. In the next step can refine your search by image size, such as color choice or whether it should be a news image, a photo or a drawing.

If you want a picture of a yellow bus of a certain type, which is taken from right, on a picture, then  click on the “Similar Images”. Then comes a long series of similar images. Hopefully, such a you looking for.

It is in this step, the new service/tools has its strengths. It is in this step, the new service has its strengths. In other search engines, it can be quite difficult to quickly find the “yellow bus with lengthy front is photographed from the right oblique angle from the front.” A very good tool for me, when I’m looking for good and special pictures of villas and apartments in Marbella with sea view and Gibraltar in the background, for example.

Google has not yet provided any detailed information about its new service. However, according to SF Gate, a combination of automated image recognition, metadata and the tags that are linked to the hundreds of millions of images that are registered in the Google databases. A competitor to the “Similar Images” is Microsoft’s “Live Search”. It has slightly different functions for the image increase, but not things looking up just “similar images”.

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.

I found a list of 300 free programs for virtually all purposes by winAddons, which is a tremendous resource for anyone who wants to find good useful software to install on their computers. Of course, it would be too huge to install any programs, although, anything is possible, but you can certainly find some good programs you can use this.

The list is divided into different categories such as Office, Internet, Security, Networking, Pictures, plus a lot of other categories, and I must say I found at a lot of pearls which I going to try out. A lot of programs in the list do I already use or have tested earlier.

In a way, it is a bit unfortunate that we can not use all the programs, but may sometimes try to forward to find the best program for their purpose, and sometimes it may be quite difficult. But a good idea is to search for information on the Internet or on various forums to form an opinion on what other people think.

 
For those of you who want to look at the entire list can do this in winAddons and hope you find any program that you can have good use of! I selected a few programs from a few categories:

Foxit PDF Reader – PDF reader (Office)

Maxthon – Browser (Internet)

Avast Home Free – Antivirus (Security)

JAlbum – create web photo album (Pictures)

TaskSwitchXP – Alt-Tab tool (System Tools)

 This was just a small selection of the list containing 300 free programs to download. winAddons is a site we on Sundream Estate usually visit on a regular basis to keep watch if new programs turns up, just a tip for you who may also want to keep track ..

There are many free programs to your computer. But which are really good program. A site offering a lot of free programs is Filehippo.com. I lists in this article, which programs are the most popular and which are the most downloaded right now today 09.04.30.
Filehippo is a very good side to find good programs to your computer. Most of the programs that can be downloaded at Filehippo are completely free, which is the best in the whole.
Personally I and my company use CCleaner and Adobe Reader, which I can recommend. Here is the list from Filehippo most downloaded programs.
1. Number 1 on the list was Flash Player 10.0.22.87 (IE).
2. Is Adobe Reader 9.1.
3. In third place you will find Windows Live Messenger 2009 (14.0.8064).
4. Fourth most downloaded program is Internet Explorer 8.0 (XP)
5. Fifth, take the WinRAR 3.80.
The list includes a good free program for you to just download and install. Try and see if there is any program that you may have used for. Download your program of Filehippo.com