Slow Computer Night!

Sometimes I just get so frustrated when my computer runs so slowly! I have had both phone dial up and DSL and I can tell you that there have been slow times on both!

Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out when my computer runs so slowly when I'm online! I wanted to check my Adsense account to see how much money I have earned today but the computer is running so slowly that I decided to just wait and look at my Adsense later.

I see that the Internet is feeling stressed and I can see why!

Of course I have had days when my computer ran so fast that I couldn't even keep up with it but today is not that kind of day!

Of course I'm taking a step back and have told myself to be grateful! I'm typing this blog post now which means my computer is running and working and all that.....its just one of those "slow" days for me and my computer.

Anzio?

I have this program called "Anzio" that I downloaded some time ago! It was a free download and it also looked like a pretty interesting (and popular) program.

What the program does (as far as I know) is that it is some sort of telnet-related program. Telnet lets your computer talk to other computers.

I'm sure that I have used this program in the past - I just don't remember what I used it for?

Is Your Social Security Number Secure?

Here is a little experiment that you may want to try. (I can't take credit for this because I saw it mentioned elsewhere online.)

Type your social security number into one of the popular search engines. If you get no matches - GOOD!

However if you do get some links then your social security number maybe being illegally used!

Computer Worm Expected To Act Up On April 1st!

The Conficker computer worm is expected to "act up" on April 1st 2009! (April Fool's Day!)

Once this worm activates it will be able to trigger to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.

You can read more about this by clicking here.

Yahoo Briefcase To Close!

Here is a copy of an email that I got:

Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,

We will be officially closing Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You will need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible.

To access your Yahoo! Briefcase account, click the link below:


http://briefcase.yahoo.com/

If you are a Yahoo! Briefcase Premium subscriber, your current subscription will be canceled on March 30, 2009. We will refund the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date. For more information, please visit https://billing.yahoo.com.


For additional information or to review a list of our frequently asked questions, click this link


We appreciate your being a Yahoo! Briefcase user.

Sincerely,

Yahoo! Customer Support



You can find out the reason(s) why Yahoo is closing their Yahoo Briefcase by clicking here but the main reason they are closing it is because the usage of it has gone down.

Thank Goodness For Computers!

I was sending a fax around 5 o'clock this afternoon and I thought that it would be a good thing to blog about this simply because being able to fax something at 5 in the afternoon on a Sunday is something that I am grateful to be able to do!

First of all I can remember a time when I had to fax something to my mortgage company a few years ago - maybe it was longer than that! I didn't have access to a fax machine at home plus those little printing shops were no where near me so I looked in the yellow pages and found this place that sends faxes for people at quite a hefty fee! But I had no choice because that was my only option at the time!

But now I am able to send a fax any time of the day or not and if I'm feeling really creative I can "mess" around with the fax to edit it and make it look different in all sorts of ways!

I have quite a few fax programs on my computer. Of course I have the fax program that came with Windows and I also have a fax program called WinFax - which is a great fax program! I also found this site online where you can get a free phone number and people from anywhere in the world can leave you either a voice message or send you a fax using that phone number! I also found another great site online where you can send a fax anywhere in the United States for free! They also have a paid version but with the free version you are only allowed to send one fax per day and the fax that you do send will have their advertisement on it - small price to pay to be able to fax long distance without having to pay a long distance fee!

I also have a fax program that came with my Lexmark-All-In-One and this is the program that I used to send my most recent fax!

I'm also able to pay my bills online but that's another blog post for another time - LOL!

Sorry I Haven't Posted In A While!

That doesn't mean that I haven't been online - just the opposite!

I go to one website and that leads me to another web site and that leads me to another website and on and on and on and on!

My harddrive is getting quite full with the number of things that I have downloaded - most of them were free downloads!

Oh if we could only harness this power into being able to make money while on the Internet! I have read that there are quite a few internet millionaires out there and I'm hoping to be one of them!

As you can see I have Adsense ads on this blog and it does bring in some money but I'm hoping for quite a bit more! I wanna be one of those Adsense Millionaires too!

Just in case you don't know what Adsense is it is a program that lets you earn money when visitors to your site click on the ads that appear on your site. You can find out more about this program by going to The Adsense Consultant's Blog.

Of course there seem to be other ways of being able to make money online but I want something that is legitimate!

In the meantime I am having blissful fun exploring what the Internet has to offer!

A Nine-Year-Old Has Passed Microsoft's Certified Professional Exam!

If that don't beat all!

You can read more about this story by clicking here!

Personally I don't think one has to go through the enornous cost involved with being legitimately certified - but hey that is just me!

I Can Create A PDF File!

Didn't even know this until I was messing around with Microsoft Word (I was looking for their resume template) and I saw the option to be able to turn a MicrosoftWord document into a .pdf file!

Of course I had to try it out and with the exception of a few formatting issues I was able to save the Microsoft Word document as a .pdf file! And I opened it up as a .pdf file just to make sure that I was able to do it!

This is great news for me because now I can make (and edit) my own .pdf files without having to buy the (very expensive) PDF Software!

Of course I'm dying to be able to open some of the .pdf files that I already so that I can edit and annotate them - so I may end up buying the PDF program anyway! - LOL!

The Kitchen Sink!

I have been noticing for the past few days that I have been having problems getting in to my Google Adsense account and just being able to use the Google search engine.

It was quite annoying to say the least so when it happened again to me today I decided to find out more information about why this was happening.

First of all when I try to log-in to my Adsense account, I get this certificate warning kind of thing and the name on the certificate is kitchensinks!

Here is a screenshot:



I tried doing a search on them and so far haven't come up with anything but I have found some sites with people reporting that they are having the same problem - although a solution hasn't been found yet.

Here is the one relative link that I could find links:

• Warning-New Hack!

10/26/08 Update!

I have been posting around to see what more information I can find.



11/12/08 Update!

For the past few weeks I haven't been having this problem as much. It has popped up on occasion but not nearly as much as it did before! I have been able to view my Adsense and I have also been able to use the Google search engine again! Can't say that I did anything in particular to solve this problem although I did get an interesting education about a computer's "host" file - which I edited (and also saved a backup copy of the original) and now my browser(s) are working much better now!

So There I Was, At My Computer......

when the power went off!

We were right in the middle of hurricane hanah for my area - which is right near Philadelphia!

So there I was online with the computer and then everything went black!

The power outage lasted about 20 minutes and when everything came back on my computer monitor had the blue box that said it would shut off in 5 seconds!

Of course I panicked thinking something was wrong with my computer but it all ended well in the end.

I just shut my computer down for about 5 minutes and then re-booted it and now every thing is back to normal!

Are You Still Using A Dialup Modem For Your Internet Access?

Then don't you feel bad because there are still a lot of people who are using a dialup modem for their internet access. Not everyone can afford the added expense of having a broadband internet connection.

Just think about it. If you have a dialup modem for your internet access that means that you are basically just paying for your phone bill and paying another bill for your internet service provider.

I was thinking about this when I read a blog post about AOL raising their fees!

Let's just face it - not everyone can afford to have a high speed internet connection!

OK, I Admit It - I'm Very Impatient As Far As My Computer Is Concerned!

I was online but had something to do so I got offline and left my computer running. About a half an hour later when I came back to the computer the contents on the screen were enlarged!

I didn't want to re-start my computer because it takes it some time to warm up so I tried some other methods that didn't work.

I thought if I went to the control panel and changed the size of the type that that would work. Long story short I didn't want to mess up the settings that I already had so I didn't do anything in the control panel.

So I ended up re-starting the computer! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Here Is Something That Everyone Should Try!

I got this idea from The Computer Brother.

Do a google search on your own name. Why? Because you may be surprised at what the search engine will turn up on your name! You could be finding websites that are posting about you, revealing things like your personal information.

I have done this myself and so far it seems that I am ok!