Hold on! This is not another crack, warez blog promoting piracy. And yes title of this post is also correct. In celebration of Check Point’s 15th anniversary, Check Point Software (parent company of ZoneAlaram) is offering ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 for 1 year for a single PC free of cost to everyone.
ZoneAlaram! What is that?
If you really don’t know, then you must need to use it. Please grab your copy as soon as possible and be protected. ZoneAlarm Pro contains a Firewall, Antispyware and ID Protection Service (including Credit Monitoring) normally costs $40. This offer includes a full year license for one PC and is limited to only one download per user.
An excerpt from their site:
It’s our firewall’s birthday… and you get the gifts!
ZoneAlarm pioneered the personal computer firewall and our parent company, Check Point Software launched the first comprehensive enterprise firewall 15 years ago. We know how to keep the bad guys out. It makes us proud to know that our firewall protects every member of the Fortune 100, and is trusted by over 60 million people worldwide.
To celebrate, we’re offering you
ZoneAlarm Pro firewall absolutely FREE!
The promotion begins on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 6 AM PST and lasts until 6 AM PST on Wednesday, November 19, 2008.
To participate in and/or learn more about this promotion, please visit www.zonealarm.com/only24hours.
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Tags: free antispyware, free firewall, free software, zonealarm
Many people might argue that getting massive amount of traffic is important to their website, it might be true, but these traffic are useless if these visitors are not laser targeted and don’t even care about the content that you have on your website. If you ask me to choose 5000 non targeted hits from 1000 targeted hits, I will definitely go for the latter one.
So, how do you get these targeted traffics to your website?
First of all, you will need to identify who and what type of visitors that you intend to attract to your website. You will need to have some knowledge about search engine optimization and use the lingo that your targeted visitors use so that they will find the similarities between you and then.
It is an accepted fact that search engines like Google pick up the content published on blogs and article directories faster than any other type of content. That’s why you see there are many savvy internet marketers prefer to publish their search engine optimized articles on blogs and article directories to get maximum results.
Another strategy that you can use to get targeted traffic is by exchanging or purchasing blog reviews from blogs with high PageRank value.
You should aim to get as many backlinks as possible and use optimized the keywords around the article so that you can get high ranking in the search engine result placements. And when that happens, you will definitely get a lot of targeted traffic from search engines. The best part is, you will not have to pay any money at all.
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Tags: make money, monetizing traffic, targeted traffic, traffic, traffic boosting, traffic enhancement
Data loss is a serious problem that most of the computer or notebook users have to suffer from. You store all your important documents, family pictures and other files in your system and suddenly losing all such data can cause a serious problem. Most of the time hardware failure or virus attack is the major cause of data loss. You may also lose your data if suddenly your PC gets restarted or by mistake you pressed the power button of CPU.
Data recovery software is the best solution to such data loss problems. This software has a very easy interface and is easily available on internet. Data recovery software has the capability to restore all the deleted files; video files, music files, zip files, graphic files and many more. Files which are accidentally deleted can easily be recovered through data recovery software but if loss of data is cause due to hardware failure then these software can no longer be effective. Exposure of your storage device to rain, or sudden power failure can sometimes cause hardware problem, such a situation can be dealt by experts from Data Recovery Company.
Precaution is better than cure; hence make it a habit to backup all your data regularly in some external storage device like external hard disk, CD/DVD ROM or tape drive. Always use recognized, genuine and updated Antivirus and regularly scan your drives. Even if you suddenly lost your data due to hardware failure, don’t simply take out hard disk from PC as it may further lead to complete removal of data from the hard disk. Keep your PC in standby mode and call for some expert to tackle with the situation. In the case of accidental deletion of files you may use many available trusted data recovery software like EasyRecovery, RecoverMyFiles, Pandora Recovery, Recuva, Undelete Plus, PC Inspector file recovery and UndeleteMyFiles.
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Tags: data loss, data recovery, easy recovery, file recovery, image recovery, undelete, zip recovery
Most people find that financial troubles happen occasionally. This is precisely true if you are young and just beginning your career. One of the options you have for getting out of debt is declaring Bankruptcy. However, this is not the best option nor should it be done by the majority of people. Individuals can announce bankruptcy depending on how much debt has been obtained and how much money is made every month, according to the given law. An important part of this financial process is setting goals. By setting your financial goals you can stay out of debt and reduce the risk of bankruptcy. Also, you may rebuild your credit after have already declared bankruptcy. If you set goals and reach for them, you can live a happy and successful life easily even in this period of financial crisis.
You should start setting goals when you are responsible to start making your own financial decisions. Mostly, It takes place approximately at the time of graduation. Here are few essential goals you must set and try hard to reach them:
1st Goal: Designate a separate savings account for only depositing money. You should avoid withdraw money from this account unless you are in critical need.
2nd Goal: Determine an exact figure you would like to save in a period of time, lets say you will save $4,500 in a year. Try to exceed that number, if you can.
3rd Goal: It is a good idea to have at least one credit card, but you should pay off this credit card bill in full every month. If you do not pay full amount every month, it is time to say good bye to this habit. No more partial payments, no more minimum payments. This practice will help you to build credit without putting you deeply into debt.
If you find yourself flooded with bills every month, set more goals about how to save money by reducing spending. It is even better if you spend less comparing to your monthly income. All of this exercise will help you to handle your debt and hopefully you will not have to declare bankruptcy.
However, if you have declared bankruptcy in the past, it is very important to set new goals to once again start building a good credit history. You should do this by working extra time to pay the debts you have that were not dissolved due to the bankruptcy. You can also slowly begin saving money again, using the methods just discussed. By setting and reaching such goals, your confidence will build up. Not only you feel good and confident, others also think that you are trying to improve your financial condition and that you can be responsible with money in the future.
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Tags: bankruptcy, credit rating, debt elimination, financial crisis, financial goal, goal setting, setting goal
Page Rank is one of the many criteria webmasters use to assess popularity and worth of any website. There are many tools available on the web to measure Page Rank like Google Toolbar, one of the popular browser addon also accompanying with Page Rank tool. But here arises some problems:
- You have to install this toolbar before using Page Rank tool and it is not a great idea to install a software for using just one feature if you do not want to use all features;
- You have to install this toolbar to every browser on every computer you have. What if you want to use Google Chrome, a Google browser, there is no such addon available for this and some browsers;
- Google toolbar has some privacy issues too;
So, what will we do now to check the Page Rank? The answer is to use an online tool (or website) that does not require any installation. Just type the address in to your favorite browser and start checking the Page Rank of any website.
CheckPageRank is one of the great website that allow webmasters to check Page Rank of any given URL. Its free, fast, comprehensive and provide true results. It also lists some other details regarding given URL like validity of Page Rank, search results and number of indexed pages in different search engins, backlinks, Alexa traffic rank, major Directory listing, Domain age & history.
Click here to see the Page Rank and other details of my blog.
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Tags: Page Rank, Search Engine Optimization, SEO
Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm.
“We’re delighted,” said UCLA’s Edson Smith, the leader of the effort. “Now we’re looking for the next one, despite the odds.”
It’s the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.
Primes are numbers like three, seven and 11 that are divisible by only two whole positive numbers: themselves and one.
Mersenne primes — named for their discoverer, 17th century French mathematician Marin Mersenne — are expressed as 2P-1, or two to the power of “P” minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 43,112,609.
Thousands of people around the world have been participating in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, a cooperative system in which underused computing power is harnessed to perform the calculations needed to find and verify Mersenne primes.
The $100,000 prize is being offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for finding the first Mersenne prime with more than 10 million digits. The foundation supports individual rights on the Internet and set up the prime number prize to promote cooperative computing using the Web.
The prize could be awarded when the new prime is published, probably next year.
The 13 million-digit prime number
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Tags: 13 million-digit prime number, 46th Mersenne prime, 8th Mersenne prime, eighth Mersenne prime, GIMPS, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, Humongous Prime Number, Mersenne prime, prime number
www.Nomez.com is truly unique. Nomez.com was designed for busy research professionals who have to do multiple searches and would like to save time. Nomez.com allows users to search Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK with the same search query, then toggle between engines by using the toolbar in the wizard mode. In the classic mode, users are able to compare results from the 4 search engines side by side, based on the users search options.
You can even add Nomez.com to your list of IE search providers by clicking here, then copying and pasting the following URL where you are prompted:
http://nomez.com/get.php?q=TEST&tab=Google&type=Web
Just name it as Nomez, click install and now in your IE search box you can select Nomez as your default search engine, and have the results for Google show first, then you can swap to the results of the other search engines, by clicking their logo on the top toolbar! Now that will save you some time!
Feel free to share or post this entry in your blog.
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Tags: Search Engine, SEO, Tips
Kashif on September 9th, 2008Apple iPhone 2.0.2, in some configurations, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, and obtain sensitive information or make arbitrary use of the device, via an Emergency Call tap and a Home double-tap, followed by a tap of any contact’s blue arrow.
Details:
SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020763
SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1020763
CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3876
Updated: Sep 3 2008
Original Entry Date: Aug 27 2008
Impact: User access via local system
Exploit Included: Yes
Version(s): 2.0.2
Impact: A physically local user can bypass the password locking feature to obtain information from the device.
Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
Vendor URL: http://www.apple.com
Cause: Access control error
Description: A vulnerability was reported in Apple iPhone. A physically local user can bypass the password locking feature to obtain information from the device. Ver 2.0.2 gives almost full access to the iPhone even while under password protection…
Steps to Reproduce
- Set iPhone to use passcode lock, have contacts marked as Favorites with links, phone numbers, addresses, etc in address book entry.
- Tap “Emergency Call” keypad from passcode entry screen.
- Double-tap home button.
- Tap blue arrow next to contact’s name.
You now have full access to applications such as Safari, complete Contacts list, SMS, Maps, “full” Phone access, and Mail by accessing various entries on the Favorite’s page, i.e. tapping their home page brings up a full, unrestricted Safari.
UPDATE:
It is reported that this activity can also be performed on iPhone 2.0.1.
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Tags: Apple iPhone, Bypass the password, iPhone bug, Unlocking without password
Google Chrome Browser seems to be perfect lightweight browser and might become Firefox killer. Memory consumption of Google Chrome is very low and way web pages loads seems to be even faster then Firefox 3.
Users have already started Reverse Engineering Google Chrome and found out many hidden chrome pages or call it as Seven Google Chrome Configuration Parameters.
Here is list of Google Chrome Hidden Pages or Configuration Parameters. You have to input about:parameter in address bar to open this hidden treasure. (Replace parameter with respective word) as listed.
about:network
about:ipc
about:histograms
about:histograms/Loop
about:objects
about:crash
about:hang
about:shorthang
about:dns
about:memory
about:cache
about:version
about:internets (Easter egg)
Note: I am unable to generate config pages for the parameters marked bold, hence their snapshots are also missing. If you manage to generate these config pages, please send their snapshots link in comments, I will update the list.
Tags: Browser, Chrome, Google, Hidden Pages, Secret
Google Chrome is now available for download and many users have already started using it. Google provides Chrome as an online installer, means you have to connect to the internet until installation is finished.
If you are unable to download it due to online installer or any other reason, here is the answer. You may download Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer from Google Server, Its only 7.34 MB.
So, whats the benefit?
You don’t need to have internet connection every time you want to install Google Chrome. 
Download once, save it to your software repository and use this installer whenever you need to install Chrome. You may also give this installer to someone who want to use this browser but not allowed to download executable files.
Download Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer -Google Server (Link 1)
Download Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer -Google Server (Link 2)
Google Chrome Online Installation
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Tags: Browser, Chrome, Google, Offline Installer
