McAfee SiteAdvisor

I found today a great FREE software for you to download. I read about it in article by Tech expert/guru Walt Mossberg in the WSJ. Walt writes great colums on Personal Technology. If you haven't read them I suggest you start. The software is called site advisor. The software will stop spyware infections, identity theft scams, and warn you of sites which send excessive e-mail. Their is a few items about the software that jump out at me immediately. The software downloads very easy on either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Their is no registration form to fill out. The software will catch sites that have scams for charging users software that could be free. It will also notify you of potential harmful sites by placing a red, yellow or green X. The X is placed in search results received from the search engine. For example doing a search on FREE Software will bring back results that show a few sites that the advisor software suggests you use caution when click the link for the site. This is pretty cool. You know ahead of time if a web site is malicious before going to the web page. Give it a try and let me know your experience.

Read more at www.siteadvisor.com/

Mike

At the game

Take me out to the ball game... So last night I went to see the Phillies v. Yankees in Philadelphia. It was a great game. Not just because the Phils won, but it was great to be out at Citizen Bank Ball Park. If you haven't gone I highly recommend it! It is one of the most beautiful stadiums you will see. It is a smaller stadium with really no bad seat in the house. We sat in pretty good seats for the first 4 innings and then decided just to walk around the ballpark. You can even purchase standing room only tickets and stand in the back right next to the bullpen. Their is nothing like a cold beer and hot dog and watching your team play. Click the link below to see more pictures of the stadium.

Read more at www.ballparks.com/baseb...

My Favorite Internet Utilities

I take for granted some of the cool utilities that I love to use when traveling around the internet. The assumption I make is that most people are aware of what is available. The sad truth is that a good number of people are stuck using mediocre web and software applications. Most individuals are using Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5 or 6 and don’t realize there is better. So I like to take the opportunity to share with you what you could be using. And hopefully some of you may take the plunge to explorer new ways to use this thing called the World Wide Web.

As I mention above if you are still using Internet Explorer then you need to try a different Browser. The browser you use can make a world of difference. The browser of choice for me is FireFox 1.5. What I like about FireFox is many things. The speed, functionality and most of all the browser is open source. What that means that there are enhancements or extensions that are available for Fire Fox that will make your Internet experience more pleasurable. More about the extensions in a little bit.

The second item that is a MUST for young and old alike is RSS FEEDS. What is an RSS Feed? To get a full description of RSS click on the Wiki. I would encourage everyone to read it. In the mean time here is the abbreviated version. RSS = Really Simple Syndication. Let’s say you have five favorite websites that you visit on a daily basis. Instead of visiting each website one at a time an RSS Feed will take your website and put into a nice compact feed and send it directly to your PC. So instead of you going to the website the website comes to you. If technology is new to you this can be tough to understand. This is actually another great reason why to use FireFox. The browser allows you to add RSS Feeds very easily. The RSS Feeds are so simple to add and manage using Firefox I still don’t understand why anyone would use any other way to read RSS feeds. There are separate RSS applications that can be downloaded to aggregate the feeds you are reading. I am not a big fan of these applications. I have learned to subscribe to the theory that on my laptop or desktop less is more. The more software you download the more of a chance you will have a problem. Anything from performance problems to a virus.

My favorite item is Google Extensions for Fire Fox. These extensions you can find at Google Labs. The one I have been using the most is Blogger Web Comments for Firefox. Web Comments is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you're viewing in Firefox and if you want you can post to your own blog without leaving the page you're on.

These are sampling of my favorite utilities. I hope you find it useful. I will make sure I post again about some more of my favorite Internet Software. Feel free to add comments to this post and share what you like to use. I look forward to reading it.

More pictures added

I have add more pictures to my flickr account. You can see them by clicking the pictures on the right side of the blog or click the link below to go directly to Flickr.

Read more at flickr.com/photos/61628...

Which ok is it?

I just updated my I-Tunes Software. When I insert a blank CD check out the message below. I clicked on the right OK and it worked as if it was the cancel button. Anyone else come across this? The I-Tunes version is 6.0.4.2. I guess the Apple Product Testing Group was having a bad day.

Are you a Googlehead?

I had to add this post today. This song below is by Lori Berkner. It is one of my daughter's favorite songs. It really has nothing to do with Google the search engine. You can catch Lori Berkner everyday on Jack's music house on Noggin. If you catch the right episode you may see the real Googlehead video. You can find out more about the singer behind the song by going here

http://www.boopadoo.net/page-Laurie+Berkner+Band.htm