Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Funny Accidents - Kung Fu Accidents

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BASIC ADOBE FLASH TUTORIALS: Start/Stop Button for Animation

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Bouncing Ball With Cast Shadow Tutorial [Video]

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Adobe Flash Tutorial -- Basic Animation.

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Putting A Computer Together Step By Step Part VIII: Cooling Fans

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Putting A Computer Together Step By Step Part VII: PSU

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Putting A Computer Together Step By Step Part VI: Optical Drive

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Putting A Computer Together Step By Step Part III: RAM

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Putting A Computer Together Step By Step Part I: Motherboard

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Overclocking Cpu Q6600 2.4 to 3.0GHZ - NEW High Quality Guide

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

The Humans Are Dead: Aka: Basic Computer Maintenance

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Adobe After Effects 7 Pro: Soften

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[HighDef] [Tutorial] - Optimize Your Computer's Settings

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Introduction To Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

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Introduction to Animation in Premiere Elements

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Speed Up Computer Using MSCONFIG

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Video Tutorial Adobe Premiere Pro

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Premiere Pro CS3 - Editing Basics Tutorial

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Test Wi-fi Wpa Wireless Networks (CLEAN & UPDATED VERSION) [13+]

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HOWTO Setup Wireless Network Security on Your Router and Connect to Your Wireless Network

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Tracing a Drawing in CorelDraw X3

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Color Space

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Photoshop Tutorial Animation - Make an Animated GIF

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Funny Animals

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Making Icons in Coreldraw X3

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Capturing video in MovieMaker 2 ... which format to choose?

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Transferring video from a digital camcorder and capturing it onto your hard-drive can be difficult. That’s because digital video creates enormous file sizes that can be difficult to save onto your computer’s hard drive. Until recently, video capture was the hardest step for the home video maker as it was fraught with hardware conflicts, system crashes, and dropped frames … and tended to progress toward splitting headaches.
Fortunately, Microsoft’s latest video editing software, Movie Maker 2, makes the capture process relatively painless. This is due in part from the Windows XP operating system and its built-in native support for capturing digital video and digital pictures. On top of that, Moviemaker’s capture wizard is simple, straightforward, and a huge boon for the amateur video maker who wants to jump into computer video and not worry about the idiosyncrosies of capturing. .
However, before you capture video in Movie Maker 2, you have to answer an important question:
What format do you want to capture into?
You see, MovieMaker lets you capture in both the traditional DV-AVI format, and also in its own WMV format. Each has its own merits, so I’d like to tell you more about each of these formats so you can make an informed decision.
The DV-AVI format
The first format you capture into is DV-AVI. This format, also known as DV or “digital video” is the video compression format that your camcorder captures onto tape. Thus, when you film a video, your camcorder saves the video information onto magnetic tape as a series of “0s and 1s” in the DV-AVI format. This digital format is great, as the video is saved at an outstanding resolution of 720x480 pixels running at 30 frames per second. In other words, you are getting video that is potentially higher quality than a commercial DVD. DV-AVI is the capture and editing format of choice for all other video software programs and any video-related software will recognize and work with this format.
However, the digital video format is not without its problems … the major inconvenience being the huge file sizes. You see, DV-AVI video takes up a lot of space. Each minute of video takes up a whooping 200 megs of space on your computer's hard-drive. That means an hour tape will occupy about 13 gigabytes of hard-drive space … that’s a lot of space!
Because the format is so big, many older home computers have problem capturing and saving the video fast enough, resulting in “dropped frames” whenever the computer’s hard-drive slows down below a critical level. Fortunately, almost all computers running Windows XP are fast enough to capture DV-AVI video, so this isn’t really an issue. Still, if you don’t have much hard drive space available you’re going to run into problems. Most intermediate and advanced video users have extra hard-drives to save and backup their video projects, though this isn't necessary for the beginner.
Windows Media Video 9
Movie Maker 2 offers you the ability to capture your video into its own “wmv9” format. The windows media format is set as the “recommended” default setting when you first attempt a capture … partly from Microsoft’s desire to dominate the video market with its own proprietary video format.
That’s not to say that WMV is bad … quite the contrary, this video format is great, and saves your video into incredibly high-quality video that takes up 1/10th the space as DV. In fact, the quality of WMV9 is so good that some movie theatre companies are switching to digital projectors, dumping their old fashioned film projectors, and projecting their movies from WMV9 files. The compression level of WMV9 is incredible and allows you to backup and create collections of videos on your computer, just like you might already do with your MP3 audio collections.
However, the WMV9 format has its own problems which may turn you away from the format for capturing video. When first capturing your camcorder movie through a firewire cable, to save the movie into WMV your computer has to “re-encode” the video into the WMV9 format “on the fly”. Even if you set the compression level to highest quality, you are going to loose some of your video image quality through the encoding process. You ALWAYS loose image quality when you re-encode a video, no matter how high your settings are set … that’s the nature of video compression.
The other problem with the format, is that it’s Microsoft’s proprietary format, and no other program uses or recognizes WMV9. That means you’re stuck using Movie Maker for editing. On the other hand, you were probable going to use MovieMaker 2 anyway.
So which one do you choose?
If you are going to capture a short section of video from your camcorder, say … less than 10 minutes (or if the video quality must be the highest quality), I recommend sticking with the original DV-AVI format. If you are hard-pressed for hard-drive space, or must capture a long amount of tape, the WMV9 format is just fine. However, if you do go with WMV9, I recommend not using the “recommended” setting for capture. Go ahead and set the capture quality level to the absolute maximum (called “high quality” at 720 x 480) as you should always start with the highest quality source video before you begin editing.
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An alternative to burning DVDs ...the VCD!

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When people talk about burning movies on disk, you probably think of DVDs. After all, the DVD format is very popular in the US and many over-hyped computer commercials taut how easy it is to burn your movies onto a blank DVD disk.
However, burning a DVD is not necessarily an easy or inexpensive endeavor. While the price of computer DVD writers and blank disks are coming down rapidly (and will soon be as ubiquitous as CD-writers), burning your own DVD can be pricey. DVD writers cost about $300 and good DVD media still costs over $4 (8 dollars in the store).
To further confuse the picture, DVD (as a recording format) has not yet matured. There are several different disk formats (DVD-R, DVD+R, and DVD-RAM) and each has variable compatibility with set-top DVD players. In addition, every brand of blank DVD has different compatibility … a homemade movie burned onto a Verbatim DVD-R may play on different DVD players than the same movie burned on a Pioneer DVD-R.
Enter the VCD
If you don’t want to spring for a DVD writer, there is a cheaper alternative. Using your computer’s CD-writer you can burn your movie onto a normal CD-R blank, and create a VCD, or “video cd.” This format is very popular in Asia, and has been around longer than DVD. Part of VCD’s popularity is that these movies are burned onto normal CD blanks … cheap CD-R’s that you can buy for 15 cents each! The affordability of VCDs allows you to experiment and distribute your video to friends at very low costs. These VCDs will play in most tabletop DVD players, though some older DVD players have problems recognizing them.
What’s the catch?
The video quality of a VCD is much lower than a DVD. That’s because a CD-ROM can only hold 650 Megs of data, compared to DVD’s 8 gigs (for a dual-layer DVD). To fit video into that tiny space, VCD video is highly compressed and runs at 352x240 resolution (compared to DVD’s resolution of 720 by 480). The picture quality for a VCD is roughly comparable to VHS tape. However, with VCD’s you may see some compression artifacts (edge blockyness) during dark, fast-motion scenes. VCD sound quality, however, is excellent and full stereo.
A VCD can only hold 76 minutes of video, so VCD movies are typically split over two CD’s. You can think of a VCD as the video equivalent to an audio CD … as they both hold only 76 minutes of data.
How do you make a VCD?
To make a VCD, you need to encode your video into VCD-compliant MPEG1 video file. Many video editing software packages will let you export your final movie directly into this video format, and some will even burn the VCD for you. The major burning software (Roxio and Nero) will both burn VCDs, though you may need an encoder to create the MPEG1 file first.
What is MPEG1 video?
MPEG1 video is a compression algorithm that yields very good video at low bit rates. Better yet, it’s non-proprietary (neither Microsoft, Apple, nor Real own it) so you can think of MPEG compression as the video equivalent of MP3 music compression. DVDs themselves are encoded with second generation MPEG2 compression format -- this encoding format yields fantastic quality, but generates large files sizes and takes more processing power to encode/decode.
To convert my digital video files into VCD, I either export the video out of Adobe Premiere as a VCD file, or I use the TMPGE Tsunami encoder. This encoder is a great piece of software that I use almost daily to convert my digital video DV-AVI files into MPEG1 files for VCD and MPEG2 for DVD. I can also compress my videos into smaller MPEG1 files for watching on my PocketPC.
Burning the VCDAfter encoding your video(s) into the appropriate MPEG1 format, you can then burn it onto a CD-R. To burn a VCD, you have to tell your burning program to specifically burn a VCD. You can’t just copy the files onto a CD-ROM and expect it to play ... the way that VCD’s are burned is much different than a normal CD-ROM. You have to tell your burning software to specifically burn a VCD. Fortunately, most burning software have helpful wizards to walk your through this.
Watching on your DVD player!
Once you’ve created your VCD you can pop the disk into your DVD player and watch it. Keep in mind that DVD players can be finicky when it comes to home-made VCDs (this is also true of home-made DVDs) and you may have to experiment with different brands of CD-R media until you find one that your player likes. To find out which media is compatible with your DVD player, you may want to read the user-comments left at VCDhelp.com. From my experience, the cheapest CD-Rs seem to work the best. Also, among the DVD players that I’ve tested, the Sony’s had the most problems recognizing disks, while my Pioneer player will read anything you throw at it.
What about SVCD?
SVCD, or “Super video CD,” works just like a VCD and is also written onto blank CD-Rs. However, SVCDs are created with the higher quality MPEG2 compression (similar to DVD encoding) with higher 480x480 resolution. The resulting video looks much better than VCDs, but still worse than DVD. Using this format, you can fit about 35 minutes of video onto a CD. Fewer DVD players can actually play SVCDs, but if yours can, then this is a great format for showing off your home movies to friends as the video quality is pretty great.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a

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Important information to consider before attempting the move of XP to new hardware. Please read carefully and follow through with the recommendations!

If you found this web page before attempting to move a currently installed Windows XP to new hardware. I highly recommend you either create an image of the hard drive or make sure you have all important data that can not be replaced from other media backed up to XP compatible media before proceeding. Even under the best of circumstances the chances of booting a hard drive moved from another computer is a crap shoot, and doing so without an image or backup is asking for trouble. I hope this advice does not fall on deaf ears.

Windows .QIC and CD-R/CDRW's using the packet writing format will need to have XP compatible software installed to access the information.
Advisory: Changing a Branded OEM XP system motherboard to a non-factory replacement motherboard or moving a hard drive with OEM XP pre installed to a non-OEM system is not advised. The new OEM EULA states: The sale of XP OEM software is only allowed when accompanied with a complete computer. Defined as "We grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute an individual software license only with a fully assembled computer system. A "fully assembled computer system" means a computer system consisting of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case." A non-password protected explanation can be accessed from the link below.
OEM Microsoft Windows (including XP Pro and XP Home) Licensing Changes You Need To Know About!
Two problem areas exist.
1.Non-compliance with the OEM EULA.
2.The OEM's practice of using a set of restore disks or hidden restore folders on the hard drive to satisfy Microsoft's restore requirement.

The first example can result in a denial of activation. The second means you have no media (i.e. no XP CD) to use for the repair install if it is necessary.
Generic OEM versions would seem to classify the builder of the computer as the OEM and as the OEM can determine what upgrades are allowed. See this link to confuse you even more. OEM
New OEM restrictions initially affecting the top 20 Direct multinational OEM's.
As of February 28th 2005, all COA keys affixed to the computer case will have internet activation disabled. A mandatory phone call will be prompted to receive an override key after answering a series of questions which manually verify them as legitimate. >>More See 59 and 60>>> and More
This does not affect unbranded OEM versions purchased with authorized hardware through legitimate vendors. Branded OEM versions [I.E. Dell, HP, Gateway, etc..] purchased from eBay and other similar vendors will be affected and may lose the ability to activate the questionable copies.
Also make sure you read through the entire OEM NOTES from the OEM XP system motherboard link.
Since in my opinion the repair install or upgrade run from Windows is an absolute necessity when changing a motherboard or moving a hard drive with XP installed. I would not attempt booting into the new hardware configuration when the option to do a repair install or upgrade run from Windows is not an option. If you do make the choice to boot Windows XP without doing the repair install or upgrade run from Windows, I once again highly recommend you create an image of the hard drive or make sure you have all important data that can not be replaced from other media backed up to XP compatible media.
Backups of Windows that create .QIC and CD-R/CDRW's using the packet writing format will need to have XP compatible software installed to access the information. *
This article explains:
1. Preparing for a motherboard change with XP installed.
2. Changing/Replacing/Upgrading a computer motherboard currently running XP.
3. Moving a hard drive with XP installed to a new computer.
4. Setting XP to new motherboard and hardware.
5. Activation
Preparing for the Change
As with all changes that have the potential of data loss, it is strongly recommended to make a backup of all important data that cannot be restored from other media. You should either create an image of the hard drive using third party imaging software, tape backup, backup to CDRW, floppies or the Files And Settings Transfer Wizard located on the XP CD. (F.A.S.T), etc. If you have information located in non-standard locations, do not expect the backup device or software applications default settings to backup the data. You will need to make custom adjustments to the backup settings.
Check the motherboard manufacturers web site for updated drivers and any drivers that need to be loaded from a floppy at the beginning of XP installation.
Check the motherboard manufacturers web site for BIOS updates for the new motherboard. As with all hardware, you should always check for updates. Download and Flash the BIOS to the latest version before setting up your motherboard with the hard drive setup with XP. BIOS
The Change of hardware
Changing the motherboard on a computer currently running XP
1.Start Windows and Logon as Administrator.
2.Insert the XP CD in the CD drive.
3.Let Autorun start.
4.Click on Install.
5.Select the Upgrade [recommended] from the Windows Setup window Installation Type list.
6.Click Next
7.Follow on screen prompts until computer restarts.
8.Turn off computer as it restarts.
9.Remove power cord from computer.
10.Open Case.
11.Use either an anti-static wrist band or make sure you touch bare metal before handling or touching a component.
12.After labeling all cables and other power connectors; remove cables from motherboard.
13.Remove old motherboard and replace with new motherboard.
14.Attach cables and power connectors by consulting the motherboard user manual, and the labels you made when you disconnected them from the original mother board.
15.Reboot and access BIOS
16.Depending on the BIOS and OEM manufacturer, set date and time [very important], hard drive detection, CPU settings [if necessary] and boot order.-->
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17.You will need to set the CD DRIVE before the Hard Drive in the boot order when booting from XP CD to Repair Install.
18.For this Upgrade procedure, Ignore "Press a key to boot from CD" on restart.
19.EXIT and say YES to SAVE BIOS settings.
20.Reboot
21.Allow upgrade to continue.
-Setup installs the HAL [Hardware Abstract Layer]
-The IDE controller drivers [Hard Drive]
-Other drivers that the new motherboard must have.
22.Before connecting to the internet, read the Blaster worm warning !
and then click the browser back button to continue.
Moving a hard drive with a currently running XP installed to another computer.
The following applies to currently working XP systems.
For moving a hard drive from non-booting XP system
-follow steps 25-31 then proceed to
-Option #1 Repair Install.
--> The following information works if the hard drive being moved is a single partition or multiple partitions on a single drive on the computer or if XP is installed on another hard drive [other than the primary master partition Disk 0] and all hard drives from the system XP is moved; are also moved and cabled exactly as the previous computer.
23.Follow the above steps 1 - 7 before shutting down Windows on the computer the hard drive/s are to be removed.
24.Press Pause/Break as soon as computer reboots. Remove XP CD.
25.Turn off computer
26.If multiple hard drives are being swapped, write down and label how they were configured. It is very important to preserve the cabling so all drives retain the same drive letters.
27.Remove the hard drive or drives
28.Install hard drive with XP installed to new computer, making sure to duplicate the cabling of computer hard drive/s is moved from.
29.Power on the computer and access the BIOS by pressing the key combination prompted by the BIOS, configure as described in the steps #16 & #17 above.
30.EXIT and SAVE BIOS settings.
31.Press Pause/Break, Insert XP.
32.Press Pause/Break again to continue upgrade.
33.Before connecting to the internet, read the Blaster worm warning !

Setting XP to new hardware
Option #1 Repair Install to SET XP to New Motherboard
Option #2 IDE replacement and Safe Mode procedure to SET XP to New Motherboard.
Option #1 Repair Install
Do Not BOOT into Windows XP on first boot after Motherboard or Hard Drive change! If booting from CD is not an option, return to BIOS and make sure booting from CD is the first boot option. Booting into Windows is only an option when you do a direct replacement of the Motherboard, otherwise it is like playing Russian Roulette. If you lose, it is fatal!
If your computer does not support booting from the CD, check your OEM or Motherboard makers web site for updated BIOS.

Perform a Repair Install by following the step by step below.
1.When you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you will see the options below
2.This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft Windows XP to run on your computer: To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
This is the option you want to enable to proceed to the Repair Install.
3.To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.For the Repair Install do not choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R", (you Do Not want to load Recovery Console). I repeat, do not choose "To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R". To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.
4.Press Enter to start the Windows Setup.
5.Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows installations.
6.Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list and press R to start the repair. If Repair is not one of the options, read this Warning!!
7.Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue as if it were doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will remain intact.
Blaster worm warning: Do not immediately activate over the internet when asked, enable the XP firewall before connecting to the internet. You can activate after the firewall is enabled. Control Panel - Network Connections. Right click the connection you use, Properties and there is a check box on the Advanced page.
KB 833330 Blaster removal
What You Should Know About the Sasser Worm and Its Variants
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011
Reapply updates or service packs applied since initial Windows XP installation. Please note that a Repair Install from the Original install XP CD will remove SP1/SP2 and service packs will need to be reapplied.
Service Pack 1
Service Pack 2
An option I highly recommend is creating a Slipstreamed XP CD with SP2.
Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Another Slipstream step by step
Option #2 Setting XP to new hardware.
This option should only be used when you have a complete backup of your data that can not be restored from other sources.
The original source of the modified information below came from
TweakXP.com
Before you swap out the current motherboard go to device manager and select the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller and select your current storage controller. Right click, select update driver and select install from a list or specific location. Click don't search I will choose the driver to install and select the standard dual channel IDE controller.
This will prevent the inaccessible boot device blue screen.
With this method, booting the first time with the new motherboard should be done in Safe mode. XP will install the drivers it needs and you can install the new motherboard drivers. I would suggest accessing the motherboard web site to get the latest drivers and bios updates rather than use the CD media included with the MB. The CD is usually a couple of revisions behind the latest updates.
ACTIVATION
What happens when you change a motherboard or move a hard drive depends on the accumulated changes made within a 120 day period since initial activation. As a precaution the windows\system32\WPA.DBL and WPA.DBL should be copied to a floppy before doing a repair install. For more information see Alex Nichol's article on XP activation.
It also depends on the version of Windows XP intended for the move.
Retail versions of XP
Retail versions of XP can be moved from and reinstalled as many times as you want as long as it is in compliance with the EULA. The EULA states: You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Software on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device ("Workstation Computer")
OEM versions of XP
According to the OEM EULA, systems pre installed with OEM XP versions cannot be transferred to another computer. This is defined in the OEM EULA.
OEM versions sold with a piece of hardware are tied to the original computer it is installed on. From the link [clarification], hardware can be upgraded and only the change of mother board will qualify as a non-original computer.
For clarification:
Contact
Microsoft Corporate and Legal AffairsMicrosoft CorporationOne Microsoft WayRedmond, WA 98052-6399USA
What information are you required to give?
As long as it is only installed on one computer, nothing needs to be said other than it was uninstalled from one computer and installed on another or the hardware was upgraded on the same computer. You do not need to or have to provide more information.
Why was activation added to XP?
The purpose of Activation is to make the general public aware it is a violation of the Windows XP EULA agreement to install a single licensed copy to more than one computer at a time. It was not expected to stop the ability to disable or work around the activation.
You can effectively recover from most non-boot situations from the information included in this web site.
Email replies will be accepted and answered when time allows.
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Types Of Motherboards

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A motherboard form factor just describes the dimensions or size of the motherboard and what the layout of the motherboard components are. It is important to understand the different motherboard form factors, because you cannot take any motherboard and place it in a computer case. You must put an ATX board in an ATX case.

Full AT
The first type of motherboard that we want to talk about is the full AT motherboard. The full AT motherboard is 12 inches wide and 11 inches long. The full AT suffered from a problem with accessing some of the items on the motherboard because the drive bays hung over the motherboard. This situation made installation and troubleshooting of the components on the motherboard very difficult.
Another problem with the layout of the full AT board is that the expansion cards, once inserted into the systems, would cover the processor. This situation led to cooling problems due to the fact that ventilation was insufficient to keep the chip from overheating.
Baby AT
The baby AT system board form factor has been one of the most popular motherboard types until recent years. The baby AT board is 8.5 inches wide and 10 inches long. This motherboard can be easily recognized because it usually has a DIN keyboard connector in the top-right corner of the board.
The baby AT board was about two-thirds the size of the full AT board and incorporated a socket 7 ZIF slot for classic Pentium processors. The baby AT board usually had a mixture of ISA/EISA and PCI slots located on the system board and included a plug and play BIOS.
Take a minute to consider some of the key components on the baby AT motherboard The socket 7 ZIF slot is usually situated at the bottom of the motherboard where the processor is to be installed. Also notice the SIMM and DIMM sockets on the right side of the motherboard, which are used to house RAM memory. To the left of the SIMM and DIMM slots, are the primary and secondary EIDE controllers for connecting the hard drives to the board. To the left of the EIDE controllers, notice the types of expansion slots that are used: There are four PCI slots and three EISA slots. Above the PCI slots, there is a silver circle, which is the CMOS battery.
ATX
In 1995, Intel wanted a system board that would be used to support the Pentium II processor and the new AGP slot, so the ATX form factor was built. The ATX board is 7.5 inches wide and 12 inches long and has all the IO ports integrated directly into the board, including USB ports. The ATX board introduced a 100 MHz system bus, whereas older Pentium boards ran at 60/66 MHz and had one AGP slot for video cards. The ATX board also had soft power support, which meant that the system could be shut down by the operating system. The ATX form factor rotated the baby AT components by 90 degrees so that any cards inserted into the bus architectures would not cover the processor and prevent proper cooling.
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Motherboards Group Test

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by Darien Graham-Smith


With so many factors to consider, choosing a motherboard can be a bewildering exercise. We put 11 models through their pace to find the ultimate in performance, flexibility and value.

When we talk about a computer’s specifications, we tend to focus on its components – the CPU, graphics card, RAM and hard disks. But if you’re building a PC, there’s another fundamental component you can’t neglect: the motherboard.To an extent, your choice of mother-board is determined by the components. If you plan to use an AMD CPU, you need a board with an appropriate socket. To use one of Intel’s 45nm chips, you’ll need a chipset that supports it.Expansion potential is also key: different boards offer different combinations of PCI and PCI Express slots, and different numbers of SATA and USB connectors. Some add eSATA, FireWire and dual ethernet ports; others sacrifice features to lower the price.Graphics support is another consideration. Some boards have onboard graphics, but most need a separate card. Some chipsets will drive multiple ATi graphics cards, while others can only do that with Nvidia cards.Finally, it’s worth giving a thought to the BIOS. Some boards make it easy to tweak your system, while others are more restrictive.This month, we compare a wide range of motherboards and weigh each one’s potential, taking into account all these issues – plus the all-important question of value. We also look at the merits of different chipsets and consider power consumption, too. If you’re thinking of building a system, read on to find the right board at the right price.

How we test
This month, we put 11 motherboards to the test. It’s a complex task, as every one of these boards offers a unique combination of features. Measurements and benchmarks can therefore tell only part of the story: choosing a motherboard is often less about performance than capability.But that’s not to say there’s no room for empirical analysis. Over the following pages, you’ll find a detailed discussion of each board’s various strengths and weaknesses, coupled with scores allocated to each based on a combination of subjective judgments and objective measurements. And, as usual, at the bottom of each review you’ll find marks in four categories: Performance, Features & Design, Value for Money and a final Overall score.


Performance
Each board’s Performance score is calculated from three factors. The first is a measurement of actual system performance. You might imagine that this is wholly down to the CPU, RAM, chipset and graphics card, but it’s the motherboard chipset that handles communications between all of these components (see page 66). And the various boards in this month’s test use a total of nine chipsets from three different manufacturers, so it’s to be expected that some boards will manage to squeeze a little more performance out of a system than others.To measure the real-world performance gap, we build a standard system based on each motherboard; depending on the board’s requirements, we install either an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 or an AMD Athlon 6400+, with 2GB of either DDR2 or DDR3 RAM. We then run our standard benchmarks (see the “Real World Benchmarks” PDF in the Editorial section of our cover disc) and record the difference in scores achieved. The results are expressed in the graph above as a proportion of the average score for that CPU. As you can see, we observed a small but real variation of around 2% between boards. Since the difference is so small, it has only a minor effect on each board’s Performance score. However, it’s interesting to note that the slowest and fastest boards are both DDR3-based, indicating that, while the newer standard can achieve higher speeds than DDR2, simply using DDR3 won’t magically improve performance.

Motherboard Performance and Power Consumption
The Performance score is also affected by power consumption. To measure this, we use each board as the basis of a minimal system, using a 65W TDP processor (either a Core 2 Duo E6700 processor or an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+), two 1GB DIMMs and a passively cooled Nvidia 8500 GT graphics card. We don’t take our readings while running Windows, for the simple reason that Windows’ many background services can cause a seemingly idle computer’s power draw to fluctuate by more than 5W – enough to obscure the differences between several boards. So, instead, we take our reading from the main BIOS screen, after waiting five minutes to ensure the components are completely stable and idle.The results are shown above, but when reading the graph remember that some of this month’s boards feature integrated graphics, meaning they can run without a graphics card. Real-world power consumption could thus be around 30W lower than the figure quoted above, although, of course, you won’t be able to get the best out of modern games.Finally, the Performance score also takes into account how far the BIOS lets you tune your PC’s performance. Top marks go to boards that make it easy to monitor and tweak settings such as the RAM frequency and the CPU multiplier. Lower marks go to less user-friendly or fully featured BIOS implementations. Our scores are based on the current BIOS version as we went to press, but all manufacturers offer downloadable updates. So, if a board you like is missing a particular feature, check the website in case it’s since been added.
Features & Design
Our score for Features & Design is self-explanatory. As you’ll see from the table opposite, no two boards offer quite the same range of features and expansion options. Our rating represents how well featured each board is, taking into account issues such as the number of USB connectors, PCI slots and SATA channels, and whether the board has multi-GPU support. We also consider any thoughtful design aspects – clear labelling, internal power switches and so on. These aren’t so heavily weighted, though, as once your system is up and running you may never need them again.
Value for Money
The Value for Money score reflects each board’s price, but top marks don’t just go to the cheapest contender. We take each board’s score for Performance and Features into account, so a high score here means a board is particularly good for its price.
Overall
Finally, our overall score is an average of the other three, although it may be higher or lower than expected due to rounding.

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DOUTABLE DATA RATE MEMORY (DDR)

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by FRANCIS ADAM
DDR is a position of reminiscence incorporated band of circuits worn in computer. It achieve virtually twofold the bandwidth of the foregoing "solitary statistics charge" SDRAM by pumping without mounting the timepiece frequency. DDR is a well-known, high-bandwidth DRAM equipment with the intention of is money-making and apposite for all PC bazaar sector. AMD processors are premeditated to occupation with DDR SDRAM with figures charge of two hundred MHz, two hundred sixty six MHz, and three hundred thirty three MHz to supply the supremacy used for compute systems with the intention of distribute beyond belief feat.
In the midst of data being relocate with sixty four bits by the side of a moment in time, DDR memory give a convey tempo of (reminiscence bus timepiece charge) × two (for twofold charge) × sixty four (numeral of bit transfer) / eight (numeral of byte). As a result with a bus frequency of hundred MHz, DDR RAM gives a peak transfer rate of sixteen hundred MB/s. The package sizes in which DDR SDRAM is feigned are also standardized by JEDEC. DDR SDRAM for desktop computers Dims have 184 pins (as opposed to 168 pins on SDRAM, or 240 pins on DDR2 SDRAM), and can be differentiated from SDRAM Dims by the number of notches. DDR Memory has been outdated by DDR2 , which has some modifications to allow higher chronometer rate of recurrence, but works on the identical stance at the same time as DDR1 contending in the midst of DDR2. DDR2 have grown to be the customary. DDR3 SDRAM is a new-fangled habitual that offers smooth elevated recital and new-fangled facial appearance. DDR is fetch buffer profundity be two bits; DDR2 employ four bits.
Although the valuable clock rates of DDR2 are superior to design for DDR, the taken as a whole concert was no superior in the untimely implementations, first and foremost owed to the towering latencies of the original DDR2 module. DDR2 in progress to be useful by the closing stages of 2004, when modules among inferior latencies become existing. Reminiscence manufacturer include avowed that it be unfeasible to mass-produce DDR1 memory with effective timepiece tariff in glut of four hundred MHz. DDR2 pick out of bed wherever DDR1 foliage rancid, and is obtainable next to timepiece rates of four hundred MHz plus elevated. RDRAM be a predominantly posh unconventional en route for DDR SDRAM, and large amount manufacturers enclose drop it’s prolong commencing their chipsets. The price of DDR memory is not so high. Ezaap.com offer memory upgrade for computer and DDR memory, DDR2 memory, Hard drive for computers.

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DDR2:- High Speed To Your Computer

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The crucial perfection that DDR2 bring better than its forerunner be there the maneuver of the peripheral data bus at twofold the timepiece tempo. This is achieve via working the reminiscence cell at partially the timepiece rate (single sector of the statistics shift charge), somewhat than at timepiece tempo as in innovative DDR Memory. DDR2 provisions reminiscence in reminiscence cells which are activating by a clock signal to synchronize their maneuver with an outer information bus.
DDR2 shift figures equally on the intensifying in calculation to waning border of the timepiece.DDR2 can in actual fact maneuver at twofold the statistics tempo of DDR. DDR2's bus promptness is boost up with the help of electrical interface improvement, prefetch buffers & off-chip drivers. For utilize in PC, DDR2 is complete in DIMMs with 240 pins and a solitary locating notch. DDR2 was launched in the 2 half at 2 initial timepiece rates: 200 MHz and 266 MHz .in partnership performed not as good as than that of unique DDR condition because of higher latency, which make full right to use time longer.DDR2 in progress to turn into gung ho with the earlier DDR set by the last.
The first commercial manufactured goods to claim using the "DDR2" technology was the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 graphics card.DDR2-400 is a memory clock of 100 MHz and the cycle time is 10 nano seconds, I/O bus clock speed is 200 MHz and the data transfer speed is 400 million and the peak transfer rate is 3200 MB/s. DDR2 The 2 age group of DDR have been predictable by clients and DRAM manufacturers similarly, nevertheless, for slightly diverse reasons. The pin count up on top of the DIMM have amplified commencing 184 pins inside DDR (I) toward 240 pins inside the new-fangled DDR2 set-up. The majority of customers above all connect higher performance with DDR2. A starting speed grade of 400 MHz data rate for system memory and by now available up to 1 GHz inside graphics applications, yet previous to the new machinery has strike the streets noise similar to a number of real progresses have been ended in DRAM knowledge.
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In DDR2, this changes in that the write latency will be the Read Latency (RL) minus 1T. AMD finally took the plunge and released the AM2 platform with support for DDR2 memory. If u wants to perform your work at a high speed purchase DDR2 and see the difference Ezaap.com offer memory upgrade for computer and DDR memory, DDR2 memory, Hard drive for computers.
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‘Hard disk CMOS mismatch’ Hard Drive Error

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When a computer system starts, its BIOS carries out Power On Self Test to check and ensure if all connected components are working correctly. If BIOS finds any issues, it returns some error messages to inform users. This only happens if BIOS can boot the system to an extent that it can access video subsystem. Some hard disk specific error messages show that it has got physically failed. It requires Data Recovery service as the solution.
One of such error messages is:
“Hard disk CMOS mismatch”
Cause
Possible reasons of this error message can be:
• Changed hard disk settings in BIOS
• Hard disk failure, most likely due to disk controller issues
In some systems’ BIOS, whole amount of memory is stored as a setting. When POST is run, this value is compared with that of connected hard disk memory. Upon finding any mismatch in these amounts, an error, similar to above, is generated. It also generates if hard disk controller fails.
The same issue is also found with ard disks, which are booted first time after adding or subtracting memory.
Solution
• If BIOS settings is the issue, we need to correct it using autodetection procedure
• If hard disk is failed, users are advised to consult hard drive recovery software service programs to recover data and then replace the failed hard drive.
Data Recovery service is the specific help, provided by different companies to extract data from physically failed hard drives. It includes expert hard disk diagnosis and application of careful and advanced technical procedures to extract lost information.
Hard disk internals are quite sensitive to dust like particles and so they are opened in Clean Rooms surroundings.
• A Clean Room is a place with highly sophisticated filters that prevent the entry of dust particles. These are also used in aerospace and chemical like industries, where procedures require prohibition of dust articles.
After determining the cause of failure, hard drive recovery experts follow up a suitable plan of recovery. If this has been a disk controller crash, damaged head is repaired, if possible, or replaced with compatible one. Stellar Information Systems Limited offers industry’s best and safe Data Recovery service for all models and interfaces (SATA, PATA and SCSI) of hard drives. It is offered through Class 100 Clean Rooms. Stellar’s experts have in-depth knowledge about disk internals, their failure causes and symptoms and recovery procedures. Stellar is known as the leading company in this field.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Computer Education For Kids

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By Nicole Munoz

Computers have become a common and needed part of life in today’s society, making computer education imperative for children. Young children will typically begin to show an interest in the home PC by their toddler years. While it is may be a good idea to begin introducing your toddler to the computer in very short sessions, most children can began to learn and understand a computer’s functionality by preschool age.
Preschool age children can learn to turn the computer on by themselves and will quickly learn to operate the mouse. Simple games that teach and reinforce basic school readiness skills are great for this age. Computer education for preschool age children should be limited to short sessions of about 30 minutes a few times a week.
Many childcare facilities offer computer time as part of their weekly curriculum for preschoolers. Structured games and activities give young children an opportunity to explore the way a computer works. Games that require dragging objects across the screen are excellent for building mouse skills in beginner users. Chose age-appropriate software and websites that involve alphabet and color recognition, shapes, counting, or short stories that are read aloud. Activities that feature music are also enjoyable for a preschooler’s computer time.
Kindergartners are normally still exploring the basics of computer use and will probably do best with activities that reinforce simple skills. As children become more comfortable with the computer, more complex games and activities can be introduced. Computer education for kindergartners typically consists of short sessions of no more than an hour, playing games that correlate with their classroom learning material.
By first grade, children have usually gained a good understanding of how to use a mouse and they are learning to use keyboard letters to type. Games like Typing Instructor for Kids can help young children become fast and efficient computer users. Early elementary age children are ready to move beyond simple reinforcement and skill drill activities to the many different functions of a computer.
First through third graders should use the computer as a supplement for their classroom work. A student studying about stars and planets can use the internet to search for pictures and information about constellations. An assignment about Africa can include a search for videos of African animals. Allow your child to work on his own, but stay close by to prevent access to inappropriate content and to answer any questions.
Software programs that allow children to create, like an art or publishing suite designed specifically for kids, can boost creativity along with providing exposure to technology. Grade level skills can also be practiced and enhanced with math, reading, and spelling computer games. There are a number of kid-friendly websites that provide search engines, games, and interaction opportunities.
Computer education for children should also include writing and creative writing activities. First graders are beginning to familiarize themselves with the keyboard and can write short letters or emails. By second and third grade, children can use word processor programs or writing software designed for children to write and publish their own short stories and poems, as well as use email to write to relatives.

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Hacking Windows XP passwords

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This will show you how to retrieve and crack the Windows SAM files which contains all the user passwords
What you should know:Windows XP passwords are stored in a file called the SAM. Inside the SAM are password hashes, these are the encrypted user passwords.This guide will show you how to get access to and crack the SAM file and retrieve the passwords stored in it.What you need:Knoppix-STD - Or any other linux distro. Since you can't access the SAM from inside Windows you have to go for an outside assault.SAMInside - This will extract the password hashes from the SAM fileCain & Abel - This will crack the password hash.USB Pen Drive - Just about anyone will do. The files are too big to fit on a floppy so you need a USB drive or something similar. I'm not linking to one because you can go just about anywhere to get one.Basic Knowledge of Linux - Since you will be navigating around using a Linux distro, you need to have a general idea of what you are doing. The less time you are at the target computer the better. The extent of the Linux knowledge you will need to know will cover booting the distro, mounting hard drives, and "cd"ing into directories.Target Computer - No kiddin' right? Your target computer can't have a BIOS password enabled. If it does you will not be able to boot your linux distro without either taking the harddrive or resetting the BIOS password.And onto the show:
1.Plug your USB drive into the target pc.
2.Put your distro in the cd drive and boot it up.
3.Some distro's will auto-mount the Windows partition. If it doesn't you can mount it yourself using the following commands:
mkdir /mnt/target
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/target
This is assuming a few things. One is that the distro you are using is compatible with those commands, and that your Windows partition is hda1. You do not have to mkdir either, I just made a new folder to keep things neat.
4. The SAM files are stored in the windows/system32/config/ directory so:
cd /mnt/target/windows/system32/config
5. Now copy the SAM and system files to your USB drive.
cp SAM /mnt/USB
cp system /mnt/USB
Again, this is assuming that your USB drive is mounted to /mnt/USB
6. You are all done on the target computer now, so go ahead and shutdown the PC and get out of there.
7. Now you need to extract the password hash from the SAM file. Load SAMInside.
8. Once you've loaded up the SAM and system files, you will be given the encrypted password hash.
9. If the target computer had LM hashes enabled, things should be very easy to crack. SAMInside might be able to brute force the passwords for you. Depending on the complexity of the password, it could take from a few minutes to a serveral days to crack the password. I'm not too sure how well SAMInside is at cracking the passwords since I havn't used it. If it is unable to crack the passwords you will want to open up Cain.
10.The last time I did something like this, I didn't know about Cain, and SAMInside was a version from back in the day. So it looks as if you don't have to use SAMInside to get the password hashes for Cain. For a program like LC4 you will need SAMInside to get the hashes for you. To use Cain, open it and
- Go to Crack
- Go to LM and NT Hashes
- Right Click and selcect Add to List
- Select Import Hashes from SAM database
- Open the SAM on the first box, then in the second open the system file
- Copy the BootKey it gives you into the Bootkey box in the first window
11.Click OK then right click on the account you want to crack. Select either a brute force or dictionary attack. I reccommend dictionary attack if you think the person is less likely to use a complex password such as omg1337@lol rather than something simple like football.
12.That is basically it. The time it takes to crack the password all depends on the speed of your computer and the complexity of the password. Things will go much quicker if the LM hash is enabled. The reason is the LM hash encryption is far less detailed. I will explain how to hack into a target computer using password hash insertion and how to disable LM hashes in my next article.
13. Thanks and I hope this helps
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Google Adsense Forums, Blogs and Resources

. Monday, June 15, 2009
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By Michael Gray
Here is a list of notable resources if you want to find out, and stay on top off Google’s Adsense program. I’ve included some obvious links and some low volume forums as well, in an effort to be through. Be careful about what you read and try if you venture too far off the beaten path.
Official Google Information
Google Adsense : This is the main Google site where you apply for Adsense, log in to get your adsense code, and view your reports.
Google Adsense Case Studies: If you’re looking to see examples of Google adsense in action these are a few sites google has profiled.
News or Blogs About Google Adsense
JenSense: Jenstar who publishes this blog is the moderator of the WMW and Search Engine Watch forums on Adsense. This blog covers all contextual advertising programs not just adsense, but is one of the best sources for information about the adsense program. Additionally when they make a change to the programs terms and conditions, this is the place I go for an explanation I can understand. She is also a regular speaker for contextual advertising programs at conferences and tradeshows.
Problogger: This Blog is run by Darren Rowse who is part of the Breaking News Blog Network. You will get some good subjects brought up here on a regular basis. I’ve only been subscribed for a few weeks but this one is definitely a worthwhile read.
Make Easy Money With Google Adsense Blog: This is the companion blog to the ‘Make Easy Money with Google‘ book. Not deep in coverage, but it is fairly new. See my ‘Make Easy Money With Google Adsense Review‘ for more information.
Adsense Related Forums or Newsgroups
WMW Google Adsense Forum: There’s lot of information here, not too much in the ways of ‘tricks’ or ’secrets’. A major advantage of this forum is Adsense Advisor (Google’s Adsense representative) reads, answers questions, and posts news here. Check out the Adsense Library for archives of the top threads.
Digital Point Google Adsense Forum: Much looser and less formal than webmaster world. This is an active fast growing forum, however there aren’t as many seasoned adsense professionals here as there are in other places. Members drop URL’s to their own sites looking for help, or advice. Makes it a great spot to see things in action.
Search Engine Watch Google Adsense Forum: Again not as formal as WMW, but not quite as loose as Digital Point. If you read for a little while and use the reputation rankings you’ll get a feel for who knows what they are talking about and who’s just yakkin’. That said you will still see some good topics here on a regular basis from more seasoned adsense professionals.
Google Adsense Blog: Nothing to speak of at the time of publication. http://adsense.blogspot.com requires a login, Adwords has a dedicated blog so we can only hope.
Google Groups Adsense Publishers: Not a very active forum, and not much in the way of tips.
WebProWorld Adsense Adwords Forum: Adwords and Adsense are lumped together here.
SEOChat Adsense Forum: This one has Adsense mixed in with other affiliate programs.
SEOGuy Adsense Forum:
AssociateForums Adsense:
If you know of any other forums, blogs or news sites, let me know and I’ll add them in.

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Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets

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By Michael Gray


I’ve been reading a few forums and blogs about Google Adsense tips lately, and thought it would be helpful to consolidate as many as possible in one place without the comments. I’ve also thrown in a few tips of my own. We start out with some of the basic general stuff and move to the more specific topics later on.
Build an Empire?
When you’re deciding to become a website publisher you will fall into one of two broad categories:
Publish 100 websites that each earn $1 a day profit
Publish 1 website that earns $100 a day profit
The reality of it is, most people end up somewhere in between. Having 100 websites leaves you with maintenance, management and content issues. Having one website leaves you open to all sort of fluctuations (search engines algorithm’s, market trends, etc). You can adapt your plan on the way, but you’ll have an easier time if you start out going in the direction of where you want to end up.
General or Niche
You can build your website around general topics or niche ones. Generally speaking niche websites work better with adsense. First off the ad targeting is much better. Secondly as you have a narrow focus your writing naturally becomes more expert in nature. Hopefully this makes you more authority in your field.
If this is your first try at building an adsense website, make it about something you enjoy. It will make the process much easier and less painful to accomplish. You should however make sure that your topic has enough of an ad inventory and the payout is at a level you are comfortable with. You may love medieval folk dancing, but the pool of advertisers for that subject is very small (in fact it’s currently zero).
Once you’ve gotten the hang of how Adsense works on a website, you are going to want to dabble in some high paying keywords, you may even be tempted to buy a high paying keyword list. This does come with some dangers. First off the level of fraud is much higher on the big money terms. Secondly there is a distortion of the supply and demand relationship for these terms. Everyone wants ads on their website that make $35 or more a click, however the number of advertisers who are willing to pay that much is pretty limited. Additionally the competition for that traffic is going to be stiff. So, don’t try to run with the big dogs if you can’t keep up. If you have to ask if you’re a big dog, then chances are, you’re not. I have used a high dollar keywords report from cashkeywords.com and was pleased with my results (see cash keywords free offer recap).
New Sites, Files and Maintenance
When you’re building a new site don’t put adsense on it until it’s finished. In fact I’d go even farther and say don’t put adsense on it until you have built inbound links and started getting traffic. If you put up a website with “lorem ipsum” dummy or placeholder text, your adsense ads will almost certainly be off topic. This is often true for new files on existing websites, especially if the topic is new or different. It may take days or weeks for google’s media bot to come back to your page and get the ads properly targeted. TIP: If you start getting lots of traffic from a variety of IP’s you will speed this process up dramatically.
I like to build my sites using include files. I put the header, footer and navigation in common files. It makes it much easier to maintain and manage. I also like to put my adsense code in include files. If I want/need to change my adsense code, it’s only one file I have to work with. TIP: I also use programming to turn the adsense on or off. I can change one global variable to true or false and my adsense ads will appear or disappear.
Managing URL’s and channels
Adsense channels is one area where it’s really easy to go overboard with stats. You can set up URL channels to compare how one website is doing to another. You can also set up sub channels for each URL. If you wanted to you do something channels like this:
domain1.com – 728 banner
domain1.com – 336 block
domain1.com – text link
domain2.com – 728 banner
domain2.com – image banner
domain2.com – 336 block
domain3.com – 300 block
While this is great for testing and knowing who clicks where and why, it makes your reporting a little wonky. Your total number will always be correct but when you look at your reports with a channel break down things will get displayed multiple times and not add up to correct total. Makes things pretty confusing, so decide if you really need/want that level of reporting detail. TIP: At the very least you want to know what URL is generating the income so be sure to enter distinct URL channels.
Site Design and Integration
Once you know you are going to put adsense on your website you’re going to have to consider where to put it. If this is new site it’s easier, if it’s an existing site it’s more difficult. While there are some people who will be able to do it, in most cases I’d say if you just slap the adsense code in, you’ll end up with a frankensite monster (props to Tedster of WMW for the buzzword). While every website is different, Google has published some heat maps showing the optimal locations. No surprise that the best spots are middle of the page and left hand side. Now I’ve done really well by placing it on the right, but you should know why you’re doing it that way before hand, and be prepared to change it if it doesn’t work out.
Google has also has published a list of the highest performing ad sizes:
336×280 large rectangle
300×250 inline rectangle
160×600 wide skyscraper
From the sites that I run, I do really well with the 336 rectangle and 160 skyscraper. My next best performing ad size is the 728 leaderboard, I don’t really use the 300 inline rectangle too often. So really it depends on how well you integrate these into your site. Placement can have a dramatic effect on performance. TIP: When working on a new site or new layout you may want to give each location it’s own channel for a little while until you understand the users behavior.
Another ‘trick’ that can increase your CTR is by blending your adsense into your body copy. For example if your body copy is black, remove the adsense border and make the title, text, and URL black.TIP: Try changing all of your page hyperlinks to a high contrast color (like dark red or a bold blue) then change the adsense title to the same color.
The one area where I’ve found blended ads don’t perform as well is forums, especially ones with a high volume of repeat members. Regular visitors develop banner blindness pretty quickly. One ‘trick’ to keep the ads from being ignored is to randomize the color and even the placement. As with any of the decisions about location, placement and color it’s a trade off. How much do you emphasize the ads without annoying your visitors. Remember it’s better to have a 1% CTR with 500 regular visitors as opposed to a 5% CTR with 50 visitors. TIP: For forums try placing the adsense ads directly above or below the the first forum thread.
Using Images
One of the latest ’secrets’ to make the rounds is using images placed directly above or below an adsense leaderboard. This has been used for a while but came out in a digital point forum thread where a member talked about quadrupling their CTR. Basically you set up the adsense code in a table with four images that line up directly with the ads. Whether or not this is deceptive is fuzzy and very subjective. Obviously four blinking arrows would be ‘enticing people to click’ and be against the adsense TOS. However placing pictures of 4 laptops over laptops ads isn’t, so use your best judgment here and look at it from the advertiser or Google’s perspective. If you have a question as to your implementation being ‘over the line’ write to adsense and ask them to take a look.
As far as using the images, I’ve done it and can tell you it definitely works. You get the best results when the images ‘complete the story the ads are telling’. For example if you have ads about apple pies, use pictures of freshly baked apple pies, instead of granny smith, Macintosh, pink lady, and braeburn apples. TIP: Don’t limit yourself to using images only on that size ad unit, it works just as well with the other sizes, like the 336 rectangle.
Added:I got a little criticizm for this and rightly so, as I wasn’t specific as I could have been. Do not use very identifiable brand name or products for your images. Use generic non-specific stock images whenever possible and appropriate.
Multiple Ad Units
Another way to increase ad revenue is to use multiple ad units. According to Google’s TOS you are allowed to post up to three ad units per page. Similar to standard search results the highest paying ad units will be served first and the lowest being served last. If there is enough of an ad inventory, place all three ad units. However you should pay attention to the payouts. Current assumption is you get 60% of the revenue (on a $0.05 click you get $0.03). So if a click from the third ad unit is only paying between 3 to 5 cents you may want to omit it from your page. This is one are where giving your ad units channels does have value. If one ad unit is getting a higher percentage of click throughs you’ll want to make sure the highest paying ads are being served there. TIP:Use CSS positioning to get your highest paying ads serving in the location with the highest CTR.
Adsense in RSS
With the growth of blogs and RSS feeds you’re starting to see adsense included in the feeds now. IMHO this doesn’t work, and here’s why:
You only get to place one ad unit.
You have no control over finding the ’sweet spot’ for the ad unit.
The ads are usually poorly targeted (this is getting better).
People develop ‘banner blindness’.
I know people like being able to read full postings in their feed reader, and there are at least a dozen other reasons for full posts from pleasing your users to mobile offline computing, all of which are completely valid. However if your website depends on generating adsense revenue to survive, then bring them to the site and show them the ads there.
Affiliate Sites
Placing Adsense on affiliate sites is tricky. Are you giving up a $10, $20, or $30 sale for a $1 click? This is something you have to test on your own to figure out. If you aren’t converting now it’s definitely worth a try. I like to use adsense on my article pages. For example let’s say you had an affiliate website where you sold shoes. You’re going to need some related articles to ‘flesh out’ the site. Things like ‘getting a shoe shine’ or ‘finding a shoe repair shop’ these are excellent spots for adsense. While you won’t get rich, they will usually provide a small steady income and cover things like hosting costs.TIP: If you find you have pages getting more than 50 clicks per month add more pages about this topic, and link the pages together. Mine you logs for the search terms used.
PPC Arbitrage
This is a dicey subject so I’m going to steer clear of precise examples. Basically you bid on low volume uber niche terms at a very low cost. You set up landing page that contains high payout ads for the related general topic. You are looking for terms with a large gap between the price you are bidding on adwords and the price you are getting on Adsense. If you pay $0.10 a click and get $1.00 a click you make $0.90 each click. To get your adsense ad approved you will need to ‘add some value’ along the way. You can make a killing or get taken to the cleaners with this one, so make sure you know what you are doing before you try it.
Have any other adsense tips, tricks or secrets? Drop me an email and let me know, I’ll give you credit.
Added728 leaderboard works very well if it is just above the end of the“above the fold” area on what would be considered your viewers averageresolution/browser window size if there are few other enticing linksabove the fold. Makes for an interesting layout but if you’re buildinga site for AdSense it may be worth it. We consistently receive veryhigh CTRs from doing this.
Try to build sites that allow you to quickly try any and all ofthose locations outlined in the heatmap guide or at least allow you awide degree of freedom to easily change ad/content locations.via:nuevojefe

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Monday, June 8, 2009

Computer Virus Threats

. Monday, June 8, 2009
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Virus & Hacker Threats Should You React?

We've all had it happen, that moment of panic when you wonder if your computer has a virus. In that situation, we can make the wrong decisions by deleting or installing files. If your system is set up properly and you back up files on a regular basis, there is no reason to panic.
Most of us have received an email "from a friend" warning us of impending doom. Sometimes the warning is real and sometimes it's not. Usually the email begins "I found this on my computer and I think I may have accidentally sent it to you. Better check your computer. I'm really sorry." The email finishes up with urging you to send this message to EVERYONE in your address book.
Hoaxes can actually make you the virus by getting you to delete needed programs or files causing the system to bog down or crash. These hoaxes usually arrive in the form of an e-mail and contain false virus warnings. When in doubt, check a list of known
virus hoaxes. The best thing to do is to delete the email.
Some virus programs appear to have been sent by a friend or a company you have emailed before. Most come from unknown sources. Once opened they work by pulling names out of a computer's address book and using them to further spread the virus.
You can set your email to accept plain text only. Block or remove emails that contain file attachments. Some viruses are even programmed to instruct your pc to show you only the plain text but can still infect your computer with hidden malicious code.

Prevent Computer Virus Threats
Install Virus Protection Programs

Help prevent computer viruses by updating windows regularly and installing virus protection programs. Virus updates should be done at least once a week. Scheduled the task time to run automatically so that it won't interfere with your work. Set up your computer to automatically download updates, but install the updates manually.
If your system starts running very slowly for no reason, go online and get the system checked. A good scan of your entire operating system, memory, hard drive and boot sector is needed.
Trend Micro has a free online virus scanner.
Anti-virus programs hunt for viruses and cleans attachments if possible. When a file can't be cleaned, the anti-virus program will isolate the file. The anti-virus program uses the definition list you download from the program's website, or it matches up a general pattern of what a virus looks like.
The schedule with which the anti-virus definitions are updated can vary, and you may get caught in that window of vulnerability between the virus appearing and it getting updated to the list. Warning: The viruses will get in if you don't keep your anti-virus program updated.
Software companies use patches to correct a problem or a weakness that people can take advantage of. Patching is a necessity and will be an on going method for computer systems weakness prevention.The Internet is not always what you see. Scan all of your email attachments as you download them. This should be done with files you download directly from internet sites as well as music files, programs, e-books, games, etc. Be careful sharing files with others, such as MP3, videos, programs, pictures, etc. Downloadable data can contain malicious code that you download without knowing it, and will infect your computer.Downloading the latest patch for your system can stop some of these viruses. You need to get the most recent protection that is out there. Get them directly from the company site. Please note that sometimes you could receive false notifications of necessary update patches in your email, urging you to download a patch immediately to protect your computer. Microsoft does not send update notices by email. These are almost always viruses.
Trojan is a code that hides from you. Even banner ads can contain trojans. The banner ad displays another pop-up that would redirect you to another site and load the content on that page. This would allow the trojan to execute while you are distracted with the content of the page. Trojan programs do not seek out new computers to infect like a worm or virus.
A trojan has the ability to automatically infect a computer. The fact that no fix exists for it, makes the appearance of the trojan a problem. MooSoft developed
The Cleaner for detecting and removing trojans in your computer.
People can help protect themselves against Active X issues by changing their IE internet security zone settings to prompt them before running Active X components. If your not familiar with changing security settings, visit
PC Pitstop for a free scan to check for security vulnerabilities and automatically set your security controls.
Hackers use automated programs to break into systems and are used by virus writers who set out to damage or use a computer system. The use of a firewall will help prevent this. A firewall works by warning you when someone is trying to gain access to your computer. If someone gains access to your computer they can retrieve information that you have entered, such as passwords, bank accounts and credit card numbers.
Zone Labs offers a free basic firewall.
A computer worm hasn't been created to spread by instant messaging, however it provides a target. Experts say a computer worm transmitted by using instant messaging programs would infect as many as 1,000,000 computers in less than a minute. New threats to your computer are created on a regular basis.
Keeping informed and using good judgment is always the very best prevention.

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