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Here’s a topic that should be obvious, but isn’t: how should you best code links on your site from page to page? Should you use something like “page two” or “continued…” or “more” with the page filenames as the links? Should you use absolute links that always begin with a leading / (as in “/reviews.html”), should you always use relative links (as in “../reviews.html”) or should you use fully qualified links (as in “http://www.example.com/reviews.html”)?

The answer to this question might surprise you! First off, innuendo and rumor aside, Google and other search engines do not care about how your links are coded. I have read on some SEO sites that people suggest that Google “spiders” your site faster if you have absolute or even fully-qualified URLs, but as far as I can ascertain, that’s just not true. So this facet of the question boils down to what’s the easiest for you to maintain on your site? A link that allows you to move all the pages around as you might need to reorganize things, or a link that forces you to always live with a specific domain name and directory name? My druthers is unquestionably to use relative links as much as possible, and to always use absolute (though not fully-qualified) links on 404 error pages and other content that kind of floats around on your site.

The only area where full, absolute URLs are a necessity are weblog entries, because your Weblog entries should be generating an RSS feed (learn more about RSS feeds at this RSS info page ) which is then read by subscribers in their own applications, so relative links almost always fail. This means that it’s a bit more tricky to add links to, say, this entry since this Web site — ProgramimiCOM — is built around the Wordpress weblog content management system, but the trade-off of having clickable links in the RSS feed makes it worthwhile.

Let’s get back to the main question, then: How should you structure the links between pages on your site?

Well, I used to have links like “home” and similar, but upon reflection realized that they were empty links because the words that are used to link to a site are important and “home” is almost as bad as “welcome” in terms of being completely useless. Instead, all of your interpage links should, as much as possible, reinforce the key words and key phrases that you want to have identify your site (also see Understanding Keyword Density for more about keywords). Instead of a link like:

<a href=”index.html”>home</a>

therefore, you’ll find that you get more value out of simply replacing that link with a link that has the name of the site, the key concept, or similar:

<a href=”index.html’>Programing Tutorials</a>

If you really want some extra credit, think about your filenames too: “index.html” is generic and meaningless, yet your could easily configure your site to have a linked file called “web-design.html” and link to that instead:

<a href=”web-design.html”>free web design tutorials</a>

Now you’re really rocking.Whether you want to think about filenames or not, it’s certainly useful to think about the words that you use to establish the links between your pages. A few minor changes can have a significant impact on your findability and isn’t that worth the effort, after all?

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Most of the time here at ProgramimiCOM we talk about proactive things you can do to improve your search engine findability, your site’s relevance for a specific key word or key phrase. For example, keyword density and page titles have both been explored in depth in previous entries.

Instead, this time I thought it would be useful to talk about a couple of things that you really shouldn’t be doing, things that will actually lower your Google pagerank and, quite likely, your relevance score for the other top search engines too.

The first thing to realize is that too much of a good thing isn’t good. Who said “all things in moderation, including moderation itself”? Anyway, they could have been a search engine optimization (SEO) expert, quite frankly!

Don’t Use More Than One Title Tag

Here’s a trick that would be mildly amusing if it wasn’t so darn idiotic: lazy SEO people figure “if titles are important for keywords, then having a bunch of titles will let me load a ton of keywords without anyone being the wiser!”. Sadly, though, they’re wrong.How would this look? The HTML source of a page might look like this:

<title>affilate marketing,affiliate marketing programs, affiliate programs, affiliate payout, affiliate links</title>
<title>advertising,advertising banners,google,google adsense,seo,search engine optimization</title>
<title>pay per click, PPC, pay for performance, PPC advertising, ctr, click-thru rate</title>
<title>Joe’s House of Search Engine Optimization</title>

The idea here is that your Web browser only shows the last title tag so you as a visitor are oblivious to this trick, but the Web site developer thinks they’ve figured out a loophole in “the system” and have stuffed an additional 25 keywords. But Google knows this trick and will penalize you.

Don’t Hide Keyword Lists

Another common trick that people use to trick the system is to have keywords where the text is the same color as the background. On a page with a white background this would look like:

<font color=”white”>pay per click,affiliate program,google adsense</font>

Or, if they’re a bit more savvy, they might have this as a CSS style specification with an H1 header:

<h1 style=’color:#fff’>pay per click,affiliate program,google adsense</h1>

Again, the idea is that as someone viewing this site, you wouldn’t be aware of the keywords in this H1 tag because you wouldn’t see the H1 at all: it’d be the same color as the background and would vanish. But Google would see it and rank these keywords even more highly on the page.Right? Wrong. Google’s algorithms are pretty savvy and particularly overt tricks like this are easily picked up and penalized.

Don’t Create Link Farms

A third way that you can end up penalized is a bit more sutble: if you have pages that have lots and lots and lots of links pointing to other sites, you could have that page categorized as a so-called “link farm”, thereby deprecating any value that a link from your site / page could offer someone else (or another of your sites, for that matter).In the SEO world, the common belief is that you should never have more than 100 outbound links on a page, and 60-75 is a really good number.

The workaround for this is easy: simply take your links page and break it into more pages. If you have 10 pages with 50 links each, the people to whom you’re linking are more likely to get a benefit from your link than if you have 2 pages of 250 links. By the same token, having someone link to you from a link farm page is useless and uninteresting. It certainly won’t improve your pagerank (see How does Google Figure out What Pages are More Relevant? Pagerank . for more about pagerank).

There are lots of other ways people try to circumvent the Google pagerank system, among other search engines, and there are lots of SEO specialists (really, I should say “specialists”) who just use some shareware app to figure out sneaky and short-term fixes to help your relevance and page rank. And you should avoid all of them, because if your site is blacklisted then you’ll likely have to change your domain name and/or IP address to even get back into the Google engine at all. It’s not a pretty sight (or pretty site!) and the risk is far too high for any short-term reward on Google.

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This represents, to my opinion the “Web 2.0 Concept”. As always; “A photo is worth a million words”.

I’ve downloaded this photo some months ago, for the funny & laughs section, but I think it is more appropriate to represent the “Web 2.0 Concept”. I don’t know who’s that car is,so I can’t credit a single person for the photo. It was an anonymous posting somewhere.

Comments are welcome!

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A core question for anyone on the Web, and certainly a question you should be asking if you’re trying to monetize your Web site, is how the heck does Google figure out what sites are more relevant to a given search than others?

To get the answer, let’s go back in time a little bit and look at the research papers from a Stanford University project called “BackRub”. You should certainly recognize the authors…

The BackRub project, of course, was done by two Stanford graduate students, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, and subsequently evolved into Google, the search site and company we all love and from which we all wish we had IPO stock.

Reading the early research reports is surprisingly informative, particularly The Anatomy of a Search Engine, in which Brin and Page explain that the fundamental idea behind Google is that for any given word or phrase, matching Web sites can be ranked for relevance by using something that they called pagerank.

Here’s what they have to say about this topic:

“The citation (link) graph of the web is an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing web search engines. We have created maps .. [that] allow rapid calculation of a web page’s “PageRank”, an objective measure of its citation importance that corresponds well with people’s subjective idea of importance. Because of this correspondence, PageRank is an excellent way to prioritize the results of web keyword searches. For most popular subjects, a simple text matching search that is restricted to web page titles performs admirably when PageRank prioritizes the results.”

Much more interesting than that, however, is the remarkably simple formula that they use to calculate pagerank in this first generation of Google, which is based almost completely on how many pages point to it.Simple, but remarkably elegant: the more links that point to a given page, the more relevant that page must be. Further, take into account the words used to link to a site, and add the title tag of the page itself and you begin to have a pretty decent idea of the theoretical relevance and value of a given site.

If you like mathematical formulas, you’ll like this too:

We assume page A has pages T1…Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The PageRank of a page A is given as follows: PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))

Note that the PageRanks form a probability distribution over web pages, so the sum of all web pages’ PageRanks will be one.

Impressive, eh?Of course, the modern Google pagerank algorithm has over 100 different variables that it takes into account, but the basic concept is still quite true: the more links you have pointing to you, the better your pagerank, and the better your pagerank, the more relevant your site will be for specific searches, and, finally, the more relevant, the higher you’ll show in the search results and the more traffic you’ll garner from Google searches!

There are a number of different ways to get more inbound links, as they’re called, to help boost your pagerank, but an even easier place for you to start if you’re eager to improve your own pagerank is to read the article entitled The hidden importance of your page TITLE .

Another good strategy: subscribe to my XML Feed with an RSS reader (learn more about RSS ), and you’ll have my articles come to your computer without any further effort!

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• If your computer says, “Printer out of Paper,” this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the “OK” button.
• It said “Insert disk 3…” but only 2 fit in the drive.
• Microsoft Windows: computing While U Wait
• 665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast
• I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.
• My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
• Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.
• “To know recursion, you must first know recursion”
• Life’s unfair - but root password helps!
• Mountain Dew and doughnuts… because breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
• Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
• “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
• Intel: We put the “um…” in Pentium.
• Helpdesk tip #2: When the support analyst says “Click…”, wait for the rest of the sentence.
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted…Cereal Port Not Responding
• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
• A computer scientist is someone who, when told to “Go to Hell,” sees the “go to,” rather than the destination, as harmful.
• 1010011010 - The binary number of the Beast
• APATHY ERROR: Don’t bother striking any key. Application has reported a “Not My Fault” in module KRNL.EXE in line 0200:103F
• “The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a software patch and a user with an idea.”
• BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
• As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
• Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue…..
• Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue…
• All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
• A good programmer makes all the right mistakes.
• Managing programmers is like herding cats.
• “There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.”
• “A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.”
• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
• A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
• The programmer’s national anthem is ‘AAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!’.
• At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
• Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn’t work.”
• Computer analyst to programmer: “You start coding. I’ll go find out what they want.”
• Computer Science: solving today’s problems tomorrow.
• Hidden DOS secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS
• Hit any user to continue.
• I wish life had an UNDO function.

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If you are a beginner to building Web sites you may not even know what a meta tag is. Even if you are an intermediate Web pager you may not understand fully what they are, what they mean, and what they can do for you.

Meta Tags help search engines to index your site better so people can find you. If you don’t have meta tags in your Web pages then a lot of search engines will not even see your Web site and no one will come. They are one of the most essential parts of your Web page, if you want people to come to it.

Let’s say your Web page is about sewing. Your Meta Tags may look something like this:

<head>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”sew, sewing, stitch, stitching”>
<meta name=”description” content=”Sewing for all your needs.”>
</head>

Of course you may want to use more keywords than just 3 but you get the idea.

Notice that I put the “head” tag around them. That’s because Meta Tags have to be inside the “head” tags or they won’t work.There are many things you should think about when coming up with your keywords. Ask yourself “if I was at a search engine and looking for a Web page on this topic what would I type into it to find this page”. You may also want to use keywords that show up somewhere on the page at least once. Some search engines will also look at some of the words on the page itself and if they see the same word in the body of the page and in the keywords then your placement in the search results will be higher. One thing you should never do is type the same word twice in your keywords. Some search engines will get confused and not look any further to see the rest of your keywords and your page could get missed.

One trick that sometimes works is by using misspelled words in your keywords. For instance, if someone was looking for your sewing site do you think that they may type into the search engine “seuing” by accident. If this is something you have done or if it seems to be a common way of misspelling the word then you may want to add it to your keywords. This way if someone does misspell the word into the search engine you could be on the top of their search results. On the other hand, some search engines will penalize you for using a word in your meta keywords that you don’t use on your page so use misspellings with caution.

Another important part of meta tags is not really a meta tag but is still very important to your search engine placement. It’s the title tag and it’s one of your basic HTML tags. It makes words show up on the top of the browser but it also tells people what your site is about. In your title tag you should use a short phrase that describes your page and uses keywords. You should not use puncuation except for a dash in your title tag.

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Introduction

What is CSS? - I hear some of you ask. Well, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and they have been around since the early 1990’s believe it or not.

The Wikipedia definition (changed so that it makes sense!) is as follows:

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language that describes the presentation
form of a structured document.

An XML or a HTML based document does not have a set style, but it consists of
structured text without style information. How the document will look when printed
on paper and viewed in a browser or maybe a cellphone is determined by a style
sheet. A good way of making a document look consistent and easy to update is by
using CSS, which Wikipedia is a good example of.

So, why should we use CSS?

There are many benefits of utilising CSS on your web pages. Before you skip to the disadvantages, I can tell you now that the advantages easily outweigh the bad points. Below is a short, descriptive list of reasons to make the change:

• Save on bandwidth

  The more HTML code you use, the large the file size of the page. It doesn’t take a genius to work that one out - so the most obvious solution is to cut down on the amount of HTML (something that Yahoo! might want to consider sometime, probably saving them £100,000’s). CSS will certainly help to cut down on the amount of code you use, for example, replacing all of your <font> tags (which are now obsolete by the way) with simple style declarations.

  In reducing your file size, you will in turn reduce the amount of bandwidth your website consumes each month, hopefully saving you money. Typically, a heavy HTML coded website can measure up to 80KB’s in size (without taking images or other media into consideration) - using CSS can cut down the file size by approximately 30-40% - a potentially massive saving if your website is popular. To find out how much bandwidth you would save, check out this bandwidth calculator, provided by CJ Website Hosting.

• Cleaner, clearer looking code

  Usually, CSS code is written in an external style sheet - you can however, use inline styles. Because of this, not only will your page load faster because a) external files are cached by most browsers and b) a stylesheet loads in unison with your web page - it also makes for much cleaner, clearer code.
  Still not convinced? Take the example below as hard evidence:

  This code is written without CSS:

  <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
  <td>
  <font face="verdana" size="7" color="#C71585">
  <b>Welcome to my website</b>
  </font>
  </td>
  <td align="center">
  <font face="verdana" size="7" color="#00FFFF">
  My website is entirely written using HTML, nothing else.
  </font>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>

  You can achieve exactly the same result using the following CSS…

  body
  {
  font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;
  font-size:100%;
  }
  h3
  {
  font: bold 140% verdana;
  color:#C71585;
  }
  #content
  {
  color: #00FFFF;
  }

  …and the following (tiny piece of) HTML code:

  <h3>Welcome to my website</h3>
  <div id="content">
  My website is written using the latest in web technology!
  </div>

  Much nicer, I’m sure you’ll agree.

• Easy to update = less time consuming = cheaper to maintain!

  If you use an external CSS file (which I advise you to do), simply changing the style declarations in this one file will allow you to change the appearance of your entire website. For instance, in the example above, you could quite easily instruct the browser to render the heading tag to the right of the page or you could make the content wrap at 100 pixels - all by changing the CSS. Don’t get me started on what you can achieve with bulleted lists!

• Accessible pages and DDA compliance

  Visitors who are blind or visually impaired will prefer a CSS designed website far more than one not using CSS.

  This is due to the fact that CSS follows web standards endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. Because of this, special web browsers (such as text only browsers which read the content out-loud to the visitor) can interpret the content on the page.

  CSS will help make your website DDA compliant. The DDA is the Disabilities Discrimination Act, the Act makes it “unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public”, specifically mentioning websites.

  Another benefit of using CSS is variable font sizes. CSS will allow you to specify a font size as a percentage, doing so will allow visitors with poor eye sight to enlarge the text size. Tip: Try increasing the font size of a page by holding down ctrl and scrolling the wheel of your mouse (if it has one). You will notice that most websites do not allow you to increase the font size (unless you are using the Firefox browser which forces it) because they use pixel measurements. And those that work but use <font> tags (such as Google) are actually breaking the accessibility guidelines.

  Generally, websites designed in css are accessible on all sorts of devices including mobile phones and PDAs. The majority of hand held devices will simply ignore the CSS, leaving behind a readable (but bland) web site behind. A table design however is likely to render too wide for the viewable region.

• Increase your popularity in SERPS!

  Sorry, there I go again with the acronyms. SERPS stands for Search Engine Result Pages - the set of links returned by a search engine in response to a user query.

  I can imagine that some of you are thinking “pull the other one! How can using CSS make my website rank higher in Google or MSN!” - well, extensive use of tables and obsolete tags can confuse search engine spiders which crawl your website for content. Some can even confuse code with content, although the major search engines seem to be very good at stripping out every possible HTML tag or JavaScript snippet - but it takes up valuable processing power that they would rather spend elsewhere.

  It doesn’t take a genius to work out that, like humans, the search engine will start reading from the top of your web page and just like humans they want to find out how relevant this page is as soon as possible - so cutting down the amount of code will make it easier for the robot to find the relevant text. Research suggests that you will also score “brownie points” with search engines for having standards compliant code that can be rendered across all mediums.

  Tip: A combination of well written HTML code, fully utilised CSS and unique, well referenced content is the key to a higher search engine ranking.

Disadvantages of using CSS

As previously mentioned, there arn’t any real disadvantages of using CSS - the pros far outweigh the cons. To put it another way, CSS ‘div based’ design versus table based design is a bit like comparing Liverpool Football Club to Gresley Rovers. There’s only ever going to be one winner and everybody knows it.

So on to the only disadvantage I can think of…

• Old browser issues

  Old browsers, such as the early versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer. may have a hard time displaying CSS, especially as CSS-2 is now available to use and only the most recent browsers support it.

  The solution? Download the latest browser! Which reminds me of potentially one more disadvantage; giving yourself a headache whilst attempting to get your website to look identical in Internet Explorer and Firefox - doh! Oh well, practise makes perfect.

In Conclusion

If you are interested in re-designing your website to use CSS, I would start by learning the basics. Find a simple CSS tutorial on the web and work your way through some more complex CSS examples. Then, have a go at doing your own! You will more than likely hit some problems with cross-browser compatibility but you should find help on webmaster forums such as those found at www.webmasterworld.com and www.sitepoint.com.

About the Author
James Crooke is a software engineer at CJ Website Hosting. Research interests include Object Orientated Web Applications, SEO and Accessibility in web design.

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Okay, if you are reading this, you are probably a hard-charging, stay-up-til-all-hours-working-on-the site, make-another-pot-of-coffee webmaster looking for ideas on how to build return traffic.

Well, we’ve done very well with enticing visitors to come back, and our secret is very simple: Offer milk.

Still with us? Good.

Every local convenience store or bodega carries milk. They don’t do it for the profit either as milk has a very low markup. They do it because people need milk every week, sometimes twice a week.

Milk keeps customers coming back. Quite often, after the customer picks up the container of milk, they grab a few other things while in the store. When this occurs, milk has served its purpose. (Stores also situate milk in the section of the store farthest from the entrance, thus making the customer have to walk by and look at all the other products, but we’ll save this for another article)

Hence the question: Does your website offer milk?

Okay, enough with the “milk” metaphor.

Does your website offer content that would give visitors the desire to return? If not, you need to get to work.

There are many types of content that can achieve this purpose. Let’s take a look at a few.

Message Boards
This is probably the most effective technique. Message boards are outstanding for drawing return traffic, especially when hot topics are going. There has been much written on how to promote and establish a successful message board.
A rather nice side benefit of the message board is the fact that the content is provided free of charge from forum members. If your forum threads get indexed by search engines, they will help draw new traffic as well.

Teasers on Upcoming Pieces
When you begin working on a new piece or project, do you promote in on your site? How about announcing in a highly visible area, “Coming This Monday, How to Lose 30 Pounds in 30 Days!” Give visitors something in which to look forward.

Website Polls
Okay, polls won’t draw that much traffic, but some visitors are very curious as to how poll numbers progress. Every little bit helps.

News Headlines Updated Daily
This is just another excellent technique for bringing back traffic. If your site is about baseball, creating a News Headlines section of baseball headlines linking to the actual articles is a very successful draw for return visitors. Yes, the visitors are exiting the site via the headline link, but they came back today for the headlines and will be back tomorrow. (Also, by designing the link so it opens to a new page reduces the amount of traffic that actually leaves)
If your budget for outsourcing to a news headlines service is limited, you can use Google alerts, and the headlines will be sent to you every day. You just paste them onto the page. Not very hard at all.

“What’s New” Section
A small table on your index page entitled “What’s New” is an excellent way of demonstrating that your site is updated frequently, thus enticing visitors to return.

Email Subscription
If you operate a niche site, you’re probably getting visitors who are very interested in your topic. Offer a monthly newsletter or bulletin service where you will notify visitors of breaking news and other large happenings in your niche. Mailings are nice because they give you big traffic spikes when you need them. (Don’t overdo it though. Only email when you have something to say, or recipients won’t open them)

Of the Week!
Create a section for a quote of the week, photo of the week, tip of the week, etc. If you do this carefully and with excellent content, it will draw visitors back each week.

Half Articles
Let’s say there is some large happening in your niche. You can write an article on what happened and make clear that you will post the outcome when it occurs. Simply, instead of waiting for the whole issue to pass by, write the piece half way through followed by a “more to come.”

While it’s great to put milk on a site, you also need to make sure that you are not driving traffic away.

Here are some things that reduce return traffic:

Excessive Page Loading Times - Often caused by too many graphics, sound, crazy effects, etc.

Poor design and site navigation
Poor grammar, spelling, etc.

Writing in all capitals or fonts too large

Lack of Updated Content

Pages cluttered with too many ads

These are just a few suggestions. If you do some brainstorming, you can come up with even more content that will work as milk on your site.

Someone once said “the best source of new customers are you existing customers.” That is as true today as it was when it was said.

Getting new visitors is fine, but take action to retain your current visitors.

About the Author
Andrew A. DeMuth is a long-time small business owner and police officer with extensive experience in marketing. He currently runs one of the nations largest law enforcement websites, http://www.NJLawman.com 

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Attribute Changer
Version 5.3, release date: July 10, 2007
Attribute Changer is a power user tool to change all kind of file and folder attributes, date, time and even NTFS compression.
Basic features include changing file and folder attributes within en masse. A really useful feature is the compression/decompression of files stored on the Windows NT/2000 and XP NTFS file system. Furthermore, date and time on files and folders can be partially changed. In this case, you can advise Attribute Changer not to change the whole object data, but only parts such as day, month, year, seconds, minutes or hours. The progress can be monitored in realtime on the ‘Activity and Results’ tab.
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DreamMail
Version 4.4.1.0, release date: July 16, 2007
DreamMail is one of the best email client software in the world; specialize in manage sending and receiving your emails. It was designed to handle multi-user and multi email account. The protocols supported include SMTP, eSMTP, POP 3, Hotmail and Yahoo as well. It uses the multi-thread ultra-fast speed when receiving and sending mails. With the supplementary remote mail box access function, you might use it to logon your mail account remotely and check the mail content, preview even to delete it directly from the server; The combination use of mail filter, blacklist and white list, can sort out the junk mail effectively; DreamMail can the automatic detection harmful mail, to improve system safety; Moreover, DreamMail also supports the post-direct, voice mail, anonymous deliver, bulk sending and so on. DreamMail fully supports the HTML mail body, the mail template, signature as well as the backup and the archive email. The unique decode ability can easily recover clobber mail body. Database optimize can help to save hard disk space; During mail was editing it can automatically save the draft to prevent the lost when power failure or system halt. Drag and drop the mail into view window can display it directly. It could automatic delete junk mail and trashed mail. Many special features integrated such as POP3/SMTP server auto-search when you add a new mail account and you can also customize an dynamic news bar, may delete the attachment to reduce the hard disk reserves; Can also edit the mail which was already received; The sender trace can show the location of mail sender. You might insertion expression icon and so on.
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PassMark DiskCheckup
Version 2.1, release date: July 9, 2007
PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) attributes of a particular hard disk drive.
SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as ‘Spin Up Time’, the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the temperature.
DiskCheckup displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. If any attribute value is close to or below the threshold, the drive is no longer reliable and should be replaced.
Free for personal use. (Windows 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista)
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Periodic Table
Version 3.2, release date: July 7, 2007
The application contains all the elements of the Periodic Table along with images of the elements in their natural state, as well as lots of other information and interactive displays.
The periodic table now comes in three versions. They all contain the same amount of information.
Standard Version
Designed to be used on desktops set to 1024×768 or better. Contains many small images of most of the elements.
Extra Version
This is identical to the Standard Version except it comes with 155 high resolution images of the elements in various physical states.
Mini Version
This version contains the same smaller images that comes with the standard version, except that it’s designed to be used on desktops of 800×600.
Features:
- Detailed information on each element
- Details of isotopes and allotropes
- Details of important compounds
- Details of reactions with water, air, halogens and acids
- Images for each element (126 images in total) including valence and crystal stucture diagrams
- Glossary of terms
- Graphs of important element properties
- Biographies for the important scientists and element discoverers
- View the states of the elements at any temperature (from 0 - 6000k)
- XP style support
- Search through all content
- Electron shell diagrams of each element
- Atomic width diagram
- New ‘Periodic Table’ design
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Qsel
Version 1.60, release date: July 7, 2007
Qsel is a launcher for programs, documents and web links with large or small Icons.
Easy configuration of launcher windows using drag&drop.
Create any number of Categories with individual launcher window settings.
Switch categories through index window (click on title button), quick pop-up (right click) or special launcher Icons.
SystemTray mode with pop-up menu for quick access to all windows and functions.
Automatic drive letter handling on Flash Drives, CR-ROM’s…
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Secunia PSI
Version 0.1.0 beta, release date: July 24, 2007
The Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) detects installed software and categorises your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.
Detects and advises on more than 4,200 applications!
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Spyware Terminator
Version 2.0.0.187, release date: July 30, 2007
Free Spyware Terminator provides effective real-time detection and removal of spyware and incoming threats on your computer. Reliable and user friendly, it’s for personal and commercial use. Uses minimal PC resources and performs ultra fast scans of computer hard drives, memory, process and registry. Protect your computer, privacy and personal information!
There are two versions of Spyware Terminator available on the software’s download page: a version of Spyware Terminator bundled with Web Security Guard and an adware-free version, without Web Security Guard.
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SUPER ©
Version 2007.build.23, release date: July 4, 2007
SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder and Renderer. A GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.
SUPER © plays and converts very fast full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation.
SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!
SUPER © can also play and save Internet Media Streams with different protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://)
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Tux Paint
Version 0.9.17, release date: July 1, 2007
Tux Paint is an easy-to-use drawing program for kids ages 3 and up. It includes bright colors, fun sound effects and a helpful cartoon mascot. An add-on collection of ’stamps’ provides over 200 images which can be pasted into drawings. Tux Paint is completely free, Open Source software, which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and has been translated into nearly 70 languages!
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WinSCP
Version 4.0.3, release date: July 12, 2007
WinSCP is freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure Shell). Its main purpose is safe copying files between local and remote computer. Beyond this basic function, it manages some other actions with files. It can do all basic operations with files, such as copying and moving. It also allows you to rename files and folders, create new folders, change properties of files and folders. One of two selectable program interfaces allows user to manage files even on local computer. Most operations can be done recursively for files in folders.
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PicPick is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user.

It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools tray icon menu when you want.
It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely.

PicPick v1.7.2

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