Camera Phone Crimes

Camera phones are being used by criminals to steal bank and credit card account information from unknowing shoppers/ATM users.
Be careful during this holiday shopping period.
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Apple Imac for less than $500!

Apple is planning on releasing a sub $500 imac for next year. I have always found apple products to expensive and this is good news as I am planning on getting this Imac once it comes out.
Think of not worrying about viruses and spyware that plagues the PC side of computing.
Hope the computers will be loaded with lots of great apple software!

Western Digital 200 GB Hard Drive for $70.00 after MIR

• Checkout this deal for a 200GB Western Digital $70.00 after $60.00 mail in rebate.

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3483523

Belkin 802.11g Wireless Router for $9.99

Now you can go wireless for cheap. The Belkin 802.11g Wireless Cable/DSL Gateway Router is available for $9.99 after mail in and instant rebates from CompUsa.
It has a NAT firewall and you cannot go wrong with this deal, but it ends on Saturday Jan 1st.
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Alpha-Data's USB 2.0 Enclosure

Engadget.com has the story:
Alpha-Data's USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure is nothing special unless battery operation is important to you for mobile use. You supply your own hard drive (up to 80 GB) and the Alpha-Data will power it with four AA batteries. A copy function is also supported that lets the user transfer files from mobile devices without a PC. It should be available next month in Japan but maybe we will see it outside Japan. $60.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000860024885/

How to increase your website traffic for free

Getting your website up and running is the first step towards getting web presence.
Once you site is up and running you will need to have it crawled by search engines and this can take upto about 8 weeks. There are various search engines that you can submit your url for example:

1. http://www.google.com/addurl.html
   
2. www.hotbot.com

Some search engines require that you pay, I do not want to pay for the search engines to index my site. So I really want free stuff. The idea is to have one of the search engines to crawl your website and index it.
Once you have been indexed by at least one of the major search engines, then you will 'found' by the other ones easily.
I had to manually add my site to about 6 search engines and the results were good. After one day, I had already been crawled, I also asked web masters with high traffic to add my website link to their site this help me be found easily.
So all it means is that you need to do some tedious digging on google and yahoo to promote your site if you want to do it for free.
Also ask your friends to visit your website and keep it posted on a regular basis to ensure your visitors come back.
Write me at papa.jo (At) gmail . com to share your tactics, ideas, comments etc.


Useful Links: www.pagerank.net .....has free tools and simulators to help with your website.

Who is linking to your site?

See who is linking to your site and therefore increasing your web prescence.
Do a web search for your site like this: "link: www.mysite.com".

checkout this site, it helped me a lot in finding out what I needed. They have tools and techniques to help you with your new site.

www.pagerank.net

Creating your own mp3 ring tones

To create your own Mp3 ring tones all you need is an mp3 encoder program that will allow you to create short compressed clips of your favorite songs. There are many free programs out on the internet if you dont have one on your computer. Search on google for these programs.

Once you have created the ring tones and saved them, just send them to your cell phone and you can now enjoy your ring tones.

To get free ring tones you can search on google for mp3 ringtones or polyphonic ringtones etc and right click on the files and save to your computer.

Using Bluetooth with Cell Phone

Once you have your bluetooth devices installed and working, you should be able to see all your devices when you go to the bluetooth settings. For example on your computer you should be able to see the cell phone and on your cell phone you should be able to see the computers name.

To transfer pics to computer all you need to do is go to the picture and high light it, the cell phone gives an option to send to your bluetooth devices. Select the computers name and hit send. The pics or tones for that matter will be in the bluetooth Exchange folder in your computer.


To send ring tones (or photos) to your phone, download or create your own ringtones, make sure they are compressed enough to fit your phone and then drag and drop them into your bluetooth exchange folder in your computer, you will then see the file transfer.

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Motorola V551

I have the Motorola V551 model with bluetooth and so far I have been successful using the bluetooth functionality to transfer ringtones from my computer to the cell phone, i have also transferred picture files to and from the phone successfully.
You can find lots of free ringtones online when you search on google, but be carefull some websites do charge even though they may say they are free.
I am yet to find free java games for my phone but I am still searching for them. I just haven't had the time to do so.
If you have any questions or want some sample free ringtones you can email: papa.jo (AT) Gmail.com

Top Free Software

Free Software Alternatives

1. Adobe Photoshop alternative is Gimp
2. Winzip replaced with WinRar
3. Microsoft Word or Word Perfect alternative is AbiWord (approx 4.79Mb)
4. Microsoft Office replace with Open Office (approx 66Mb)
5. Anti-Spyware Spybot Search & Destroy
6. Spyware removal by Adaware
7. Internet Explorer replace with a much safer and faster Mozilla Firefox (approx 5Mb)
   
8. Norton Antivirus no more expired subscriptions with AVG Antivirus (approx 10.6Mb)
   
9. Dvd back up software decode your dvd's with DVD decrypter
10. Dvd back up software rip and compress dvd files with DVD shrink
11. Audio encoder, recorder and more AUDACITY .......it is amazing!

Hot products

The latest of the incredibly popular U-series, the 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U71/U50 is the lightest PC on the market. Among its many features: multiple quick-launch buttons on its glowing panel, transflective touchscreen TFT and fin-shaped stylus, pointing stick, scrolling control, external foldable keyboard, corded remote control, 1.1ghz processor, 30gb HDD, Windows XP, and much more.

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Sorry Guys all the invites are gone. I will see if any of my friends have some to give away.

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I have 3 gmail invites left to give. write me at papa.jo {at} gmail.com

Bluetooth adapter installation on Windows XP SP2

For those of you who have been having problems with installation of bluetooth adapters with Windows XP SP2. I have the solution for you.

1. First thing you want to do is make sure that it is compatible with Windows XP.
2. Do NOT plug in the USB adapter before installation of the software!
3. Begin software installation and follow the prompts.
4. Plug in the Adapter when windows says it cannot find a USB adapter and wait for it to configure the adapter click Ok when it says it is installed and ready for use. Continue with installation to the end. You will see the at the top left of the screen some automatic windows installation boxes, just let it finish till the end.
5. After installation is complete click on the My Blue tooth places icon in the system tray and turn on the device(s) you want to connect and set them in Discoverable mode so that your computer will find them(it).
6. You should see the device show up and you can enjoy your bluetooth experience.