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| Richard from FL writes: Can you recommend a good, free password manager? KeePass is a great secure password manager, available on the web at http://keepass.info/, free of charge. What makes it so great? Two things: 1.) It securely saves your passwords and other information in an encrypted file and can generate secure passwords for you. We've got a great review available at: http://www.worldstart.com/keepass-password-safe-ultimate-password-utility/ 2.) KeePass is also open source, so people have created various applications for phones which allow you take that password file with you on your smartphone. I store all my credit card, billing, account and login information for both my online and real life accounts. That way they are secure and with me wherever I go. I would recommend MiniKeePass for iOS devices at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minikeepass-secure-password/id451661808?mt=8 -Tim Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version --- Shaz writes: Is defragmentation of drives necessary ? Please explain. To understand why defragmentation (or defrag) is necessary, let's go over how a hard drive stores files. Your hard drive is made up of sectors and blocks, which are like file folders and filing cabinets in an office. When a document, picture or other file wants to save to your hard drive the drive needs to find space to put it. To make most efficient use of the space on your hard drive (and allow you to easily delete/move files), the hard drive breaks up the files into little pieces and stores them where there is available space on the drive. The result of this is a file that may exist as a single, but pieces of it may be in 3 different parts of the hard drive. When you go to open the picture the hard drive knows to look in those 3 separate areas to get the complete file. So why do you need to defragment if the hard drive knows where to look? Two reasons: Speed and wear-and-tear. Speed: Every time the hard drive needs to move the read head to a new location it takes a certain amount of time to move. If the file is in one single area of the hard drive, the head only needs to move once to read the file. If the file is contained in 3 different places, the head needs to move 3 times to get the same file, making the time it takes to load longer. Wear-and-tear: As a mechanical device, your hard drive read head moves a lot as it accesses files. Limiting the amount of times it has to move is going to increase the drives lifespan. By defragmenting the hard drive all the files that can be lined up together are moved so that the hard drive reads files faster, has less movement needed, and lasts longer. Win/Win! We recommend Defraggler to defragment your hard drive available at: http://www.piriform.com/defraggler ~Tim Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version
Your Computer Has Issues! Painfully Slow Start-Up and Load Times... Security Threats Galore - Viruses Running Rampant! Overloaded Hard Drive FULL of Digital Junk... AND USING THE INTERNET IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE! Believe it or Not: There's a ONE-PROGRAM Cure to ALL of These Issues! SYSTEM MECHANIC IS THE ANSWER! Automatically Finds & Fixes ALL Issues With a Click of Your Mouse! MAKE YOUR PC RUN UP TO 300% FASTER! Automatically Optimize Your System! Accelerate Load Times - Speed Up Your Internet - Get FULL Security! REPAIR ALL OF YOUR PC ISSUES WITH ONE PROGRAM! Unbelievably Low Price - Just $12.97 For ULTIMATE PC Repair & Protection!
Hasty Decisions Lead to Expensive Mistakes... So you're sick of your SLOW PC. Actually, that's an understatement. You're ready to set your computer on fire, throw it from a window and dance on it's ashes. It has security issues, viruses, start-up errors, it's full of old digital junk...the list goes on and on. Forget 'slow...' it's hardly working at all! How long have you been putting up with this? Probably a long time, right? Every day, you're spending more and more time waiting for it to boot up and, when it's finally 'ready,' you're stuck watching that cursed progress bar slowly load your applications and internet. Seems like anything that COULD be wrong with your PC IS wrong! So...what did you do? You Went Out and Bought a New Computer - The MOST EXPENSIVE Mistake of Your Life! You could have spent $12.97 on System Mechanic INSTEAD of $1,297 on a new PC! System Mechanic: A World-Wide Best-Selling Program For a GOOD Reason:  It'll Make Your PC Run up to 300% FASTER! Clears out entire GIGS of space by eliminating digital "junk" that you don't need! "One-Click" security updates - finds holes in your security and repairs them! Automatically finds ALL PC problems, provides a report, and fixes them in one click! Automatically scans and fixes errors on your hard drive AND protects sensitive files! It'll even repair an UNBOOTABLE PC...AND SO MUCH MORE!Whether you're running XP, Vista, Windows 7 or ANYTHING else, System Mechanic can and will help you - it doesn't matter if you're on an outdated system or a brand new one. It cares about one thing only: making your PC better. WAY better! Impressed? You've Seen NOTHING Yet - Read on to Learn More! We're in it for the long haul, here. We're going to break this program down and show you the main highlights, but keep in mind that there's even more to this program than we can fit into this space! And by the way: System Mechanic AUTOMATICALLY updates itself to the newest version right when you stick it in your PC. So you're getting the absolute latest software at an incredible price! So...without further adieu, let's get to some facts. The most important one first: Your Computer...is About to FLY! No Joke - System Mechanic can make your PC run up to 300% FASTER!  You're probably wondering how this is possible, and there's many, many answers to that question. To start with, once you install System Mechanic, the very first thing it does is run a diagnostics check on your PC. It'll find issues like: Registry Problems, System Clutter, Unnecessary Start-Up Programs, Broken Shortcuts and an entire HOST of other issues that you may not have even known existed! These common PC problems are DIRECTLY responsible for your slow start-up times and system lags. Every PC user experiences them - and now you can easily do something about it! As you can see from the screen shot below - System Mechanic finds everything that's wrong with your PC, and gives you the option to eliminate the issues with one click! Just choose the issues you want repaired, and hit "Repair Selected," and you're set! You'll notice IMMEDIATELY how much faster and smoother your PC is running! And that's just the start - check this out:  As you can see, System Mechanic isn't screwing around. It immediately jumps in, digs deep, and finds the answers to your PC issues! It's like a personal trainer that takes your out-of-shape computer and whips it into shape in a matter of minutes!  All it took was a few "one click" fixes to eliminate 26 security problems, over 2000 registry problems and five computer slowing, excess start-up programs. The final result left us with a FULLY optimized internet connection and 606MB of extra hard drive space! Automatic Repairs are Just an Option - You Can Have Total Control! Hey, maybe you're a little more 'techie' than the rest of us. Or, maybe there's certain start-up programs that you'd like to keep and a few things in your registry that you don't want eliminated. That's no problem, because System Mechanic gives you the option: Automatic Repairs OR Manual Selection! So no matter what you're skill level is, and no matter how much you want to customize your repairs - System Mechanic lets you! As you can see from the screen image below, you can manage the start-up processes on your own - and pick and choose how your system runs! Remember, this is just an option. You can also run this in fully automatic mode (like the image above).
 Ready to Learn About AUTOMATIC REPAIRS? We've all dealt with these PC slowing issues before: Strange Error Messages, PC Lock-Ups, Unbootable PC, Random Crashes & Freezes...the list goes on and on! Guess What? System Mechanic Can AUTOMATICALLY Fix These Issues! The ALL-IN-ONE REPAIR TOOLS: Registry Tuner: Check on your registry, tune it up and totally repair it by running this! In a few minutes (or less!), your registry will be totally optimized! What's this mean? It means that your PC will get even more speed and performance optimization! The Drive Medic: From just the click of your mouse, the Drive Medic will scan your hard drive, find ALL of the issues, and automatically eliminate the problems! It couldn't be any easier! There's NO Such Thing as an Unbootable PC! The System Mechanic disc was made bootable - meaning it can be used to start a PC that refuses to start the normal way! Even if it won't turn on, it will once you stick the disc in - and it'll automatically recover your important files! Just Like People - Computers CAN Suffer From Memory Loss. FIX IT!
 Ready to Recover Entire GIGS of Hard Drive Space?! Thought so! And guess what? System Mechanic makes it SIMPLE! See...we ALL have extra junk on our PC's - from file duplicates to unused and temporary files, your computer automatically stores all of it. After a while, this starts adding up...BIG TIME. Eventually, this turns into entire GIGS worth of wasted space. Not good. Lucky for you, the remedy is as simple as clicking your mouse! Using another utility that's built into System Mechanic called PC Cleanup, it goes in eliminates all of that junk that's sucking away your valuable hard drive space! Once again, you can let it go with it's automatic (default) setting, or you can pick and choose what to eliminate! In a matter of mere minutes, you'll have recovered TONS of hard drive space, making room and further upping the speed of your PC! Farewell, PC Clutter!
 Even MORE Programs to Make Your PC Lightning Fast! You didn't think that was it, did you? There's lots more! In fact, we still have to get to the rest of the features - like the MAXIMUM SECURITY and pure customizations! But first, there's a few other utilities that come built into System Mechanic that MAXIMIZE YOUR PC SPEED! Read on for a shorter description of each! Energy Booster: Shuts down unnecessary background programs! It's like putting a shot of adrenaline directly into the heart of your hard drive! NetBooster: Examines your internet connection, and optimizes it for the fastest possible speed! Hold on tight - your internet is about to be between 100-300% FASTER! Drive Medic: With the simple click of a button,this scans your hard drive and automatically fixes any problems it discovers. The SOLUTION for ultimate speed and performance! As you can see, System Mechanic goes well beyond what any person could possibly think of in order to maximize the speed and performance of your PC. Now, it's time to talk about the other thing it's good at: Protection and Security! *System Mechanic Part 2: Maximum Security & Protection - 100% Privacy!* Ready for ULTIMATE Security, Privacy AND Protection? It's Here! The internet can be a dirty and dangerous place...you need to protect yourself AND your PC! With all of the new technology these days, internet crime is on the rise. There's hackers out there just waiting to take advantage of innocent computer users like yourself. If you have an open vulnerability, no matter how small it may seem, that's all it takes to get HACKED. These days, not even your Firewall can always save you. But you know what can save you by now, right? System Mechanic can! Observe: Find and Fix Security Holes with ONE Click! Once System Mechanic is installed, it'll let you know what kind of security issues you're facing. While it's scanning and finding out all of these fatal flaws, you might start feeling your palms get sweaty. DON'T WORRY. These security threats can be eliminated with the click of your mouse - that's it! See the screen shot below - System Mechanic HANDLES EVERYTHING FOR YOU!
 Just Because You Have NOTHING to Hide Doesn't Mean You Don't Want Privacy! That's Where System Guard Comes in! Of the many security issues commonly found on a PC, one of the most common ones is when a dirty program tries adding itself to your start-up process. This is DANGEROUS! System Guard eliminates these with ease! And speaking of dangerous programs leeching onto your PC - there's always a threat of them quietly adding themselves into the background, eventually making their way to your browser and planting unauthorized software! Your PRIVATE data is also at risk! But of course, System Guard has an answer for that - it's a feature called Privacy Cleaner and it completely erases ALL of your search history that you get while browsing the web. It also eliminates cookies and chat transcripts IF you want it to (optional). Bottom line: there's hackers and threats everywhere, but... That threats are now GONE! System Guard simply doesn't let them happen!
 Of Course You Have Sensitive Files On Your PC... ELIMINATE THEM WITHOUT A TRACE WITH THE INCINERATOR! The Incinerator is just another one of the security programs built into System Mechanic that's totally worth noting. It allows you to destroy sensitive files and make them COMPLETELY un-recoverable! We're talking PERMANENT deletion that nobody - not even an entire team of Ivy League hackers - can recover! Keep your sensitive information from EVER falling into the wrong hands with this nice little program! 100% WORRY FREE! We Mentioned That Everything Can be Automatic, Right? WELL, IT CAN ALSO BE TOTALLY CUSTOMIZED IF YOU WANT TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT IT DOES! Bear with me now, because this is important. Most programs force you to run them the way they were programmed. But what if you only want this extensive program to do certain things? System Mechanic Lets You Choose! After you install the program, you can choose an option called "Customize Advanced Windows Settings" and you can completely customize your protection! There's well over 100 customization options right at your fingertips! And don't worry, whatever you choose to customize, System Mechanic will explain, in Leymans Terms, what each option will do! You can make your start menu faster or slower, put arrows on your shortcuts, hide or show items in your control panel..the choice is yours! Look below for an example of how this works, it's easy!
 This is Award Winning Software! We can (and have...) talk about this program until we're blue in the face! Maybe it's got you thinking "hmmm...this program simply sounds too good to be true. Are they trying to make it sound better than it really is?" That COULDN'T be Further From the Truth! But don't just take our word for it. Just have a look at the small sampling of awards it's won, along with real customer testimonials! This is, hands-down, the BEST program you can ever buy for your PC! There's a reason System Mechanic is used by 22 MILLION people:
FINALLY: The Price! Remember - as soon as you install System Mechanic on your PC, it AUTOMATICALLY updates to it's newest version! So...for today, and while our LOW supplies last, this amazing program can be yours for just $12.97 with FREE US SHIPPING included! Don't miss out - even if you don't need this right now, it's only a matter of time before you will! http://store.worldstart.com/product/5390 PS - Warning - there's a LIMITED quantity on this one and when it sells out, we-can't-get-anymore - ever. RUN to the site before this deal passes you by! It's time to rev up, crank up, and super-charge that old computer of yours!
Alex from Hungary writes: How can I transfer from vinyl records to a laptop when the laptop only has two sound inputs (mic & ear phone )? Hi, Alex. Thanks for the excellent question. Well, there are a couple of ways to do this. One, if you already have a record player, is to get what's called a "dongle" to hook your record player to your computer via USB. These will typically run you $10 or $20. Many of them, like the one pictured here, come with audio and video inputs (so that you can also transfer your old VHS tapes), as well as a 3.5 mm input jack so that you can hook your earphone output from a Walkman or other portable audio device, plus software so that your computer can communicate with it. You simply install the software, hook your record player's audio output or headphone output (as long as it has the 3.5 mm headphone output) to the dongle and you're good to go. If you need a 3.5 mm to 3.5 mm cable, or an adapter to change the larger headphone output to 3.5 mm, you can pick those up at any electronics store for a couple of bucks. If, like many of us, you don't have a record player, then you can get a record player that hooks directly to your computer via USB. These will run you anywhere from about $60 to $100 and most include a 3.5 mm jack to plug your Walkman or headphone jack into so that you can also transfer your tapes. Once you've got the music on your computer, you can then use your computer's CD burner to transfer these to disc if you want. Hope that this helps! ~Randal Schaffer Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version --- Dirk writes: Is there a way to make Firefox remember passwords like it used to? At some point, one of the updates dropped this feature. If you frequently access the same websites over and over, it can become tedious to type the same passwords repeatedly. By default, the Mozilla Firefox web browser should automatically ask if you want to save a password anytime you enter one at any given web page – but this feature can be turned off. Whether the password memory setting was removed due to upgrading to another version of the browser, or someone accidentally clicked the wrong box in the options screen, it's a very simple process to get Firefox remembering your passwords again. To open the main Firefox menu containing all the browser's various settings, click the orange "Firefox" button at the upper-left corner of the window. Click the "Options" heading inside the "Firefox" menu, and then click the second "Options" button to bring up a new window containing a series of tabs. If you have your browser set to the classic menu layout without the "Firefox" button, instead click the "Tools" button at the top of the screen and then select "Options." Navigate to the tab labeled "Security," which is positioned between the "Sync" and "Privacy" tabs at the top of the window. Locate the "Remember Passwords for Sites" box underneath the "Passwords" heading. Click the box if it isn't currently checked to turn the password memory feature back on. Leave the box as-is if it's already checked. If the box was already checked but Firefox hasn't been asking you to remember passwords, you may have an exception in place that stops the browser from asking about passwords for specific sites. Click the "Exceptions" button located to the right of the "Remember Passwords for Sites" box. Scroll through the list of sites and find the specific web page where you need to enter in your password frequently. Click the name of the site and then select "Remove" to remove the password memory exception. If you instead want to remove all the sites and have Firefox ask about saving passwords for every website you visit, click the "Remove All" button. Click "Close" and then "OK" to save the changes and restore the web browser's password memory feature. Access any web page where you normally need a password and type your username and password in the appropriate text boxes. Tap "Enter", or click the "Log In" button and wait for Firefox to bring up a new prompt asking if you want to save your password. Click the "Save Password" button to store the password for future use. ~ Ty Arthur Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a question for us? Ask it here!
Switch your iPad Search Engine On your iPad, Safari uses Google as its default search engine. That's all well and good, but what if your allegiance lies with another provider – say Bing or Yahoo? Let's make the switch. First, click on your Settings icon. Once in the Settings panel, click Safari in the left-hand column. (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) --- WS App Review: MyFitnessPal Whether you're trying to lose weight or someone just trying to keep up a healthy diet, MyFitnessPal is an app that you may consider trying out. The app, available for Android, iOS devices, and Blackberry, is a calorie counting program at its very core. You start out by setting up a profile, which includes entering current weight, goal weight, and other bits of vital stats that'll help in determining accurate results. It will let you choose how many pounds you want to lose or gain per week, then calculate a daily calorie total based on the information you give the app. There are also tutorial videos and an FAQ included to help you get started. Read the review over at Worldstart! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) MS Word: What Happened to the Normal View If you're using either Word 2007 or 2010 and preferred working in the Normal view, then you're probably wondering what happened to it. I'm sure you've investigated the View tab of the Ribbon and this is what you found: While on the surface it seems that they've done away with the Normal view, the truth is that they just renamed it. Try the Draft view. Feeling better? Yeah, I though you might. Get some answers here! Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version --- Windows 7 Taskbar Hotkeys I love hotkeys! In fact, I'm pretty sure that If I could assign one for every Windows 7 action, I definitely would! With that said, here are some quick hotkey combinations I stumbled across for the Windows 7 Taskbar. There's more right here! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) For stories, jokes, quotes and cartoons every day, sign up for our Just for Grins newsletter.
Martha Stewart's Crafts for Kids Summer is quickly approaching, and school lets out with it. That means kids are going to need fun, crafty things to do! One of my favorite things to do in the summer as a kid was make crafts at my grandparents house. We would often paint ornaments to save for Christmas, create things with the shells we'd plucked off the beach during our walks, and build stuff with Popsicle sticks after having devoured our icy treats. On this Cool Site, there are nineteen favorite projects that you can browse through with the arrows above the titles. Click the craft's title to be whisked away to the instruction page. Along the grey navigation bar, you can also check out Seasonal Projects and Printables. Then, if you scroll past the nineteen featured projects to the bottom of the page, you'll find even more categories of kids crafts. The categories are: Nature Crafts, Paper Crafts, Art Projects, Rock Crafts, Homemade Toys and Games, and Party Crafts. You can even sign up for a fun Craft of the Day newsletter just by typing your e-mail address into the field near the bottom of the page and clicking the grey subscribe button. http://www.marthastewart.com/275294/kids-accessories/@center/276975/marthas-crafts-kids ~Amanda Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version --- All About Birds: Great Blue Herons One of the reasons I love spring and early summer is that there are hatchings…and baby birds to watch on bird cams all over the web! The Great Blue Heron cam just had three eggs hatch, with an unconfirmed fourth (when I was there last), so hopefully there will be at least one more hatching to see. What I love about this cam is that they offer a view of the nest from two angles. There is the main cam (the one with the chat area next to it) and then beneath it there is a second cam so you can check on the nest from another angle. If you scroll down past the cams and the twitter feed, you'll find information all about the Great Blue Heron. On the chat section, you'll see a tab labeled Videos, if you click that you can watch the videos of the nest, egg laying, and highlights from the nighttime feed. This is another awesome bird cam, go check it out! http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2433 ~Amanda Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share?Send it to Amanda at amanda@worldstart.com Sick & Tired of Your Painfully Slow Wireless Internet? Ready to Gleefully Dance on Your Routers Grave? How Would You Like 300 Mbps Speed & Crystal Clear Reception? YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE THE CISCO WIRELESS ADPATER! Lightning Fast Speed Doubles the Industry Standard - Think About That! DUAL ANTENNAS FOR CRYSTAL CLEAR RECEPTION! 57'' USB Cable Included - Put it Anywhere You Want... AND GET READY FOR OUTSTANDING SPEED AND PERFORMANCE!
Pull-Your-Hair-Out Frustration... You're so fed up with your weak, slow wireless connection that you go buy the best Router money can buy. So you get home, set it up, and get excited...only for a COLOSSAL letdown. Same slow speed. Same weak range. Same two bars. What's going on?! Your wireless sucks. Your home (or wherever you are) just isn't a hot spot. But you CAN do something about it! Ready for a MASSIVE jolt of speed? How about a USB powered adapter that gives you a whoppin 300 Mbps speed?! That's FAST and we've got it! A HUGE Jolt of Extra Speed... Up to 300Mbps! Brought to You by Cisco - A Name You Trust! It's simple: you need a faster, broader internet connection, and the Cisco Valet 300Mbps Wireless N USB 2.0 Adapter (with extension cable) is exactly what you need! Aside from the speed, here's something else that makes this the PERFECT solution to your wirelss woes: it's SIMPLE to install, and SIMPLE to use! In fact, the necessary drivers are PRE-INSTALLED on the adaptor. All you have to do is plug it into your Windows computer and let it do its thing! A quick word on security - HAVE NO WORRIES! This thing features WEP, WAP AND WPA security with a 128 bit encryption. That's like the Fort Knox of security - so cruise along with zero worries! Dual Antennas for Crystal Clear Reception! There's a few reasons why this thing is so fast. One of them is the brand. Cisco has been an industry leader in wireless networking solutions for years. Everyone knows the brand. But there's something else... It's got DUAL Antennas! Some adaptors come with one. Some come with none (avoid those at all costs!). Well this guy comes with two, and the reception is crystal clear, giving you the fastest speeds and strongest connection possible! Imagine cruising along at 300 Mbps with dual antennas...yeah, it's like a dream! USB Extension Cable Included - Put Your Adapter Anywhere! One of the biggest gripes with these USB adaptors is the fact that you have to plug them in BEHIND your computer. Often between the wall and the giant metal computer case. What do you think THAT does to your reception? That's right - say hello to the STRONGEST signal reception you've EVER experienced! Outstanding Deal! Your price? Just $26.97 and US shipping is FREE! Think about that, you can't buy a standard wireless internet adapter from the big box stores for that kind of money, let alone one with extra coverage at insanely fast speeds!!!! http://store.worldstart.com/product/7831
May Wallpaper! Check it out - our May wallpaper is ready to go! Also, we've been choosing only horizontal images for the wallpaper, but I get SO MANY requests for some of the vertical shots to be wallpaper, I just had to go ahead and do it. So, give it a try and let me know what you think by posting on the blog entry for this idea (Click Here) As always, all the desktop wallpaper below is 100% free.
It can all be found here: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ Enjoy! ~Steve
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And just for the record: most wireless adaptors give you 150 Mbps speed. Sure, that's pretty fast. But this one can give you up to a BLAZIN' FAST 300 Mbps - double the speed of the industry standard. Think about that!
Well have no fear - this one comes INCLUDED with a 57'' USB connector cable and a dock! 
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