You don’t make a lot of money through CashGopher, it’s not promising to be a get rich quick scheme by any means. But I have finally made the $10 payout limit and received my money very quickly and promptly from CashGopher and so I feel comfortable saying that they’re a legit online income source.

CashGopher is very easy to set up. You create an account and install a simple download onto your pc. If you have Firefox it’s even easier because it has a plugin specifically designed for Firefox. Once it’s done, you simply browse the internet as you normally would and begin earning your money for doing what is essentially nothing. It’s a slow earner, but since once it’s installed you don’t have to do anything more it’s well worth it. Just so you know how slow it is, it took me eight months to reach the $10 limit. However, I don’t have the pop up ads enabled on it, so I don’t make money as much as some people. If you surf the internet a lot, you’ll make the payout much faster than I did.

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“It is all in the detail” or so legal experts have and continue to tell us. Well these leaches can clear off because there are far more important details to consider and there are far more enjoyable interests for us to share too. People want to see details not be made to study irrelevant words for hours in the hope of gleaning some minutiae that may or may not ever be of any importance to their lives.

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MS IE 9 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 9) is all about the detail or at least the new details you can now see because of this advanced surfing technology. It is as though Explorer 9 has been made for those of us who like to look at Art online. It is so good we have had to recommend it.

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It remains to be seen how Google will react – maybe they have something up their sleeve.

The next time you borrow your friends laptop or computer for a long period of time, visit Outlook Express or Microsoft Word and mess with the dictionary so it autocorrects all their words to the wrong spelling. Watch as they argue with their computers because of your pranks.

Restart Mapping

This one only needs a few seconds free time on your friend’s computer. Go to a shortcut for a commonly used program such as Google Chrome or Internet Explorer. Right click and visit the properties for the shortcut and look for the “Target”. Edit that to the following: “%windir%system32shutdown.exe -r -t 00″. Now whenever they go to open that program, their computer will automatically restart. Cue laughter on your part, and unbridled rage on the part of your new enemy.

Remote Control Computing

DO NOT TRY THIS AT WORK. You’ll probably get fired for it. This works best on the computer of a friend or a family member, since you’ll need to install a few things and change a few security settings. Set up a Virtual Network Computing software,  like TightVNC. Once you are done with all the setting up and configuration of the software, can control their computer remotely….from your own. Click, move the mouse, open programs, even surf the internet. Don’t keep it going on for too long, since I will not be held accountable for the consequences when they find out what you’ve done.

Phantom Mouse

Depending on where the USB ports on your friends computer are, and how visible they are, you can try this one. The Phantom Keystroker, a genius device, plugs into a USB port and intermittently makes random keystrokes and random mouse movements and twitches. You can even set how frequent and severe these occurences are for you. 

Rotate the Screen

Windows has hotkeys which allow you to rotate the screen in multiple directions. Just run past your workmate or friends computer and rotate the screen sideways. Also change their mouse settings to left handed if you have the time to do so. Assuming your friend isn’t as adept at computers as you are, watch as they spend ages trying to figure out what has happened.

Safari is a web browser made by Apple. It is designed with advanced features in mind. It comes pre-installed with Macs, but is available for both Mac OS X, iOS and Windows.

Chrome

Chrome is a web browser made by Google. It is designed with speed and ease of use in mind. It is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is a web browser made by Microsoft. It is designed to offer ease of access to Microsofts services, such as Hotmail, Bing, and the MSN website. It is available only on Windows.

Firefox

Firefox is an open-source web browser made by Mozilla. It is designed to offer security and customizability. It comes preinstalled on some versions of Linux and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Opera

Opera is a web browser made by Opera Software. It is designed with convenience in mind. It is available on many operating systems, including many mobiles devices; it’s available on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS, and many phone operating systems.

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Today, I downloaded the latest stable release of Google Chrome Portable 9.0.587.84. I had previously been using a stable version 8, and was pleasantly surprised to see that the version 9 had been moved to stable status. There is still a slightly newer version 9, which is still in Beta and a version 10, which is the Developer edition. All are available from PortableApps.com along with numerous other useful portable versions of apps that can be run from your USB flash drive.

The stable version 9 of Chrome is already showing me benefits above the version 8. Google Reader would constantly hang my version of Chrome when starting it for the first time and I would receive a message that Chrome had closed. Some sites loaded slowly also. With version 9, Google Reader opens quickly and other sites appear to be loading faster as well. I am looking forward to see what improvements version 10 has over version 9, but for now, I am satisfied with this latest release.

Google Chrome is a lightweight modern web browser targeted to users who wish to have a fast and simple web browsing experience. Google Chrome is arguably the best web browser for people who just want to browse the web and watch videos on YouTube.

My First Impressions

Before I had the chance to use Google Chrome, I thought of it as a web browser for average people who just wish to browse the web. Upon installing Google Chrome and using it for a while, I started to see how fast it really ran. One of the things I enjoyed the most about this web browser was the speeds at which is loads web pages.

My Web Browser

I personally use Safari as my web browser. It meets a lot of my needs. I must admit, though, that Google Chrome seems considerably faster than Safari. Google Chrome runs much better when viewing YouTube videos, where Safari will often lag for me.

Conclusion

I primarily use Safari for my browsing needs, but if I deal with websites that are heavy in Flash (such as YouTube), I open Google chrome. I feel that Google Chrome is a browser that everyone should try. Chances are that you will find it useful, if you haven’t tried it already.

There are a lot of ways a person can monetize a website. Use of pop-up ads or affiliate banner ads are among them. The problem is that they require the insertion of their specific code, usually JavaScript, into your web pages. If you have a large website, it could take a while to put that code into your pages. So what you should do is insert the code into only a few pages and test it out. There are a couple of things you will want to test. The first thing would be functionality. I have had the unfortunate experience of finding out that my pages weren’t loading in Internet explorer when the code to some affiliate programs was inserted into some of my web pages. The pages would just hang and would not fully load, which meant that nobody using Internet Explorer was able to access the pages.

Now, after discovering this, I had to remove the code from a bunch of pages. Admittedly, I had only tested the pages in Firefox and had neglected to test them in Internet Explorer. That’s a big enough mistake on its own and was a rare oversight on my part because I usually make a point of trying out my pages in different browsers to test their functionality. I had actually discovered after two days of the pages being online that they weren’t working in Internet explorer. I then had to remove the code from a bunch of pages. If I had only loaded the code into a few pages to test them out, I could have avoided a lot of work. First I could have avoided putting the code in a bunch of pages and then the additional work of removing it.

Another reason to put the code int only a few pages at first is to wait and see what your revenues will be. You could put the code for one company’s pop-up ads into some pages and the code for another company’s into a few others. Some companies will have a lot of server down time and others won’t. When the server goes down for some of the companies, the pages on your site with their code inserted into them won’t load. I found that out the hard way. Once I found that out, I removed the code from all of the pages they were on. I was luck in that case because by then I had learned to only test these things out on a few pages first. So I only had to take the code out of three pages and it literally was less than ten minutes of work.

You won’t just run into this problem with advertising code. You can also run into similar problems regarding widgets that are provided by other sites. I had a problem with a Digg.com button that I had put on some of my pages. They worked in Firefox but not in, you guessed it, Internet explorer. I tested that one before I put it into a lot of pages, so I caught that one. Had I not done so and inserted the code into a number of pages, it would have been a bigger deal.

The same approach is applicable to other things on the Internet as well. Like trying out small scale advertising campaigns first to monitor the effectiveness. Or trying out the free version of some services before going to the paid version. There are a number of paid services that you could use for your website that are great but some offer free, lower scale, versions. You could always try them first to see how well they will work out for you. If they work out well, then you can bet that the paid version is usually much better. It’s like the old saying “You get what you pay for.”

I use Google Analytics on my sites and I am able to compile a lot of information on my websites’ traffic. When I offer a new feature, I wait a while to see what kind of traffic it pulls in before I decide to take it to a larger scale. With Goggle Analytics, I can see where the traffic comes from and what search strings pull people in. If it pulls in no traffic, I don’t add more to that feature or that section of the website. If I see certain search strings pull in more traffic than others, I will sometimes try to expand on the subject matter related to that search string. So, I’ll basically add content, see how it does, then decide if I want to add more. The idea there is to add to what is drawing traffic and stop wasting time on the things that don’t. It takes time to determine that but it’s worth the wait if you avoid doing a lot of work that doesn’t pay off. That’s one of the many reasons why you should dip your toe in the water before you jump in.

The Firefox logo that we know today was based on a sketch by Stephen Desroches. Using Desroches’ sketch, Jon Hicks created a full-color digital design – the logo that is now very familiar to internet users.

Firefox Logo on Google Earth

A Firefox logo crop circle was spotted on Google Earth. The Firefox crop circle is in Portland, Oregon, USA. It would appear that even alien artists appreciate the Firefox logo. The photo below shows the enormous size of the crop circle.

Firefox Logo Cartoon

The Firefox logo has inspired many artists to create their own renditions of the Firefox. These sketches and drawings of the firefox appear in  many different artistic styles, such as comic, graphic novel, manga and cartoon styles. There are hundreds of these floating around online. Below are just a few to give you an idea of what’s out there. 

Firefox Digital Art

There are hundreds of Photoshop artworks that have been inspired by the firefox logo. Many of these make beautiful wallpapers for desktops. The circular nature of the logo, and the colors that it incorporates makes it attractive to the eye.

Photography

This photograph shows a kitten nestled in a woman’s top, in a similar pose to that of the Firefox hugging the earth.

Firefox Tattoo

The logo translates well into a tattoo design, with its vivid color and elegant lines. 

Firefox Necklace Pendant

This jeweler has chosen to make a pendant out of the firefox design. The smooth curves of the Firefox create an organic, attractive piece of jewelry. Even as a silhouette, the firefox is recognizable.

Firefox Food

The colorful firefox logo has been used to decorate cakes, cookies and cupcakes, a task made easier by the fact that both the logo and most cakes are round. 

Firefox Pumpkin Carving

Firefox made an appearance on Halloween, in the form of a pumpkin carving. 

Firefox Body Art

The Firefox logo was chosen as the subject for this piece of nail art. The artist has used nail enamel and tiny brushes to create a tiny replica of the Firefox on a fingernail.

Firefox inspires Fine Art

Matt Brown, and artist from the UK, used the Firefox logo in his fine art piece, Start at the Beginning. The painting is in a pointillist style, following a grid, so that the evenly-spaced spots of color resemble the pixels on a computer screen.

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Firefox, I love you!

Yesterday, I was reading an article about which internet browser was the best to use. I remember someone mentioning a few times in the past that Internet Explorer was just about the slowest one to choose, however, when I tried to download Firefox at that time, for some reason it didn’t work. So up until yesterday I was dealing with a slow internet connection that was often very frustrating and tested my patience, big time.

Well, after reading that article, I thought, you know I’ll try it again, maybe things have changed technology-wise; maybe something’s more compatible with my computer now. And, I could not be happier that I decided to do this! It took only about 5 minutes to download and suddenly I felt like I had a brand new computer! Opening internet windows has become a light-speed-functionality. I even stumbled the article that I read so that I could thank the author for writing such a highly valuable piece.  Furthermore, the article mentioned that Firefox is much more secure than Internet Explorer protecting your computer from viruses that can slow it’s connection down.

So, if you’re currently experiencing overly slow internet connection, check to see if you’re using Internet Explorer, if you are trust me, you need to change to Firefox right now!! You’ll be beyond happy you did!

Joie Schmidt © Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved.

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The common misconception is the only way to be infected by a virus is by downloading and opening a file. Unfortunately this is not the case. The mere act of visiting a website can install a malicious virus on your computer, even without your knowledge.

Even trusted websites which have been exploited by malicious attackers can install a virus on your computer without you downloading and opening a file. The adverts provided by third party advertising promoters can also contain malicious code, without the websites consent or even knowledge. Many people look for subjects such as how to hack facebook and end up finding malicious code even within advertising.

So you don’t have to download a file to get a virus on your computer, but what can do you to protect yourself from such threats? First of all keep your operating system updated. The likelihood is you have Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 installed. If you enable automatic updates (through the security centre in the control panel) Windows will automatically update your system to increase its security.

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Another key point is to use a secure and updated browser. The common consensus is Internet Explorer (the default browser provided with Windows) is unsecure. Even using an updated Internet Explorer can leave you vulnerable to getting a virus without downloading a file. I suggest using Mozilla Firefox, not only is it secure but it constantly alerts you to security updates automatically.

You can take extra precautions to avoid getting a virus without downloading a file, by using advert blocking add-ons such as ‘Adblock Plus’. You could also consider using the ‘Noscript’ add-on for Firefox which disables scripts from un-trusted sources.

Unfortunately it is possible to get a virus even without downloading a file, but luckily a few quick and easy precautions can help keep you safe. Remember a virus scan is only as good as the day you update it and allow programs to update themselves. Be safe out there.