Author: TruXter

So Sick of the Scam Emails

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Are people so stupid still these days that they still fall for the scam emails? I mean really, just because it looks like a legit name for the email like facebook_ceo@rip_you_off.com does not mean that 100% of the internet has to be so stupid as to still fall for that. I mean give it a rest for a while will you please? I mean just long enough for the world to let it’s guard down. The scam emails are getting so constant with the exact same scam over and over it’s like hearing a 4 year old tell you a joke, and probably just as well choreographed.
Facebook.Dating.List@heire.net
Like that junk. WTF…. please quit sending your crap to my email. I guarantee you that not even 1% of the world is stupid enough to fall for that, and the number of hits you can get on your site will not be enough for the amount of effort it takes to spam that garbage out.

There is no facebook Dating program that sends you an email. I didn’t fall for this the first time I got it. I am not falling for it now. I have not fallen for this stupid scam the 100000 times I received this stupid scam of an email. How about you try ” got your nose!” with me, you have a better chance.

How to stop Annoying Windows Balloon pop up about security

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Got sick of that dang warning that comes up in my bottom right that warns me that my computer might be at risk because I don’t have a virus scanner and that I need to click that stupid thing to figure out what I need to do, as if that balloon wasn’t all I needed to tell me that my computer does not have a virus scanner on it. Does it really have to tell you every single day? Why does that stupid thing not have a widget on it that says “click here to make me freaking go away for ever because I am a sucky little annoyance that will not stop for anything”.
I have a firewall in my router. I will not put one on my computer.

If you are on windows XP and are sick of seeing that dang balloon at the bottom that tells you that you might be at risk because your security software is not installed or it might be out dated, Well you can get rid of that “at risk” warning in just a couple steps.
Click start button.
Click control panel
Double click Security Center
look on the left in the box that says “resources”
Look at bottom link it says “change the way Security Center alerts me” Click that . Uncheck what ever box you want to uncheck.
Click Ok
Issue should be resolved.
That is the most annoying pop up. Especially if you are using a free virus scanner that only runs when you tell it to.

Here is what I got off the web that got me in the right direction.

win xp after selecting ‘security center” from “control panel” you have to click on the left part on “change the way security center alerts me” and then unselect the type of alert you don’t like to get anymore

Build your own Computer – Cheap

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As the budget tech review site stays in it’s theme. I think you will soon be seeing a “build your own budget beast”. This of course will be decent to slightly fast computers built from low cost computer parts from deals on the internet.
I am not sponsored by any sites that build computers or sell computer parts, (ok Wait. I signed with Tiger direct, after I created this page, and since I am sending them traffic, I now have fixed the links for my benefit, same items same prices as before, but now with me in mind) So I have all rights to show you any computer parts site and not feel like I will make anyone upset with me. Closest I have to that would be Google ads, and I have to say, they are dead on with matching ads to content. But they won’t get upset advertising fry’s while I post Compusa.
and that brings me to the next part. I got a great a great flyer in my email from compusa . on that page they list a couple barebones computers. Of course I always scroll to the bottom of the add to find the bits and computer parts so I can build it myself and see if I can save a buck. Today the parts are not the same and the deal is great… I will post my build before I post theirs…. So here it goes.

Nvidia 460 under $115

Nvidia 460 for under $115 is a great deal for a strong running better than mid stream video card. 

Amd 3 Ghz quad

$99 Amd 3 Ghz Quad Processor Phenom 2 CPU link

Windows 7 pro under $145
Excellent mid tower computer case built for optimal cooling for the budget computer builders to over clock with (ok that was cheesy but explains why I chose this one over the plane Jane simple on for $5 less) Under $75 

This power Supply is a bit costly, out of my range but will be good for many reasons. Especially the removable cables.
Or you can go with a low cost bundle power supply and case. Slightly lower expectation from this but hey, we are on a budget and know one has to care.

19 inch monitor for under $90 with extreme Contrast Ration and really fast response. I chose this over the slightly larger monitor simply because this one is better bang for the buck.

1TB hard drive for less than $60. need I say more?

8GB od DDR3 for less than $80
Liquid Cooling system for a computer processor for $60 just as a perk . If you are into the actual science of a cool machine is a happy machine.
 

 

And now for the barebone system they advertise on Compusa’s website, for under $200

 

 

 

If anyone thinks I should keep posting these kits let me know how you feel. Let’s hope I find better deals on other websites.

Thanks for reading the build your own.

Sprint the website

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That has got to be the clunkiest website I have ever tried to navigate. You have to know what catagory everything is in, and I don’t mean simple categorization. I mean to find wireless internet prices you have to know how to find the usb cards they provide and then click it to se ethe price of the card and then click into that a bit to see what plans are available for that card . meanwhile all of their images are ads from a third party advertiser. I use a script that blocks all advertisement companies so half of sprint’s website does not even show.
Sprint, if you want to sell me a phone or wireless intenet please fix your dang site. No wonder no one buys your service anymore.. They can’t.

Comcast Fail

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Funny Fail of Comcast

Comcast Can't Spell

That is one that makes me twitch. Is not understanding the difference between Then and Than.
Thanks comcast, you rock.

Oh hey and an update. I just got power turned on at my new house. After my lights had been turned on in my name, I got transferred to another line after all was set up. The new person on the end of the line was a Comcast rep (don’t worry they asked me first if they could do this, I was happy to let them since they said I would get a deal.). Now the Comcast rep gets on and asks me what I would like in features. I tell him that I would like to watch WGN and Usa. Not much high demand from me right? Oh and of course that I wanted internet. The man says that he found me a great deal. $90 a month for 12 mbps. I laughed and said that I could get a better deal online. and he assured me that I couldn’t. While I was looking at the Comcast page. On the Comcast page was a deal of $29 a month for tv, and $29 a month for internet. Sounds like $60 to me. but I assume he thought I meant by shopping other companies, So I popped open at&t’s website and found a deal similar. $29 tv and $19 a month for internet. Now I assume this guy was bluffing because he thought Since I needed internet, I wouldn’t have access to internet.
And people get mad at me when I say I don’t like salesmen. As if it’s some deal that this poor guy is just trying to make his dime. Hey cool. make your dime.. but um.. don’t get greedy dude.

Oh and there is a response below from a comcast rep asking me to link to the page that the typo is on. LOL. If it’s your site you know what page it’s on. How about you link to my site thanking me for helping out. Must be gone now. but about 6 of my friends and myself laughed about that page for hours.

Real Side of Google Adsense

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As of right now. What i am seeing this year with Google Adsense in statistics (based entirely on my websites) for page view to click through ratio, is 1/355. This is actually good. Considering that my websites are for people on a budget or people trying to increase their income, those are pretty high, no matter what place advertising affiliate you use. Face it, people on a budget aren’t looking for ways to spend money, and well, most advertisements on the internet are people selling stuff.
These past few months have been very kind to on Google Adsense. I have not seen anything close to this since 2007-2009.

I see other statistics that show 1/200 and some that say even better. That would be some heavy content with lots of talk about a specific product, to make Google match the content that dang close, so that the readers would be that dang interested in the ads..

but for about three years I barely even saw 50 clicks total. This was scary. and now I have to suspect it has to do with the economy. I event created a job site about employment site and motivation to help people stay at their job with a job search specific Google search on that site on the first page. you know what gets the most hits there? People searching for tricks to make unemployment keep paying. if they only knew how detailed that searcher was and how great the results were they would know they could find the amount of job apps in their local area they need to fill out to keep unemployment happy. But what ever. My point is, people are searching for free money. Not to spend it.  This was clearly an economic issue.

Those days are over. Google seems to be doing very well with their latest update to their servers. I am seeing way more readers than before. Almost triple the count I saw in 07 per month. 07 was my best year. FYI.

So if you are thinking of using some other affiliate, I can assure you they do not have near as good of an advertisement systems as Google Adsense. Unless you get a direct advertiser on your website that pays you a set amount for the space you give them, no advertising company out there can compare to Adsense. and yes I have had my rants in the past, but the new Google tweaks are direct and spot on on.

If you are trying to decide whether or not to use Google Adwords to advertise your products, I suggest you try it for a short time and see what kind of traffic you get. I promise they will post you on the correct websites. Their nearest affiliate competitor will just slap you on any old website talking about any old thing. If you sell computers on your website, you do not want to be coming up on websites about coffee tables. Adwords will work wonders for your products. You will get correct traffic.

One thing that gets to me is the way that your ad value goes down as you get more clicks on one specific spot on one specific page. You would actually think that spot would gain value because the spot is marketed well by the page’s content. Seems that is not the case. I mean if the spot talks chili all the time, and people click the ads for the chili recipe, then the cost for that spot should go up. Right? but it does not. You would suspect that multiple companies selling the same product would be climbing over the top of each other to be placed on that spot. Especially if that spot draws traffic for that content. I mean why would you want to have your chilli advertised anywhere other than a spot that gets people saying “oh look at that, they sell chilli!” but,For some reason that spot’s value goes down, the more the clicks it receives. That’s a bit gloomy to learn.

Good luck and happy websiting.

 

Match Might be Digging to much Personal Information

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A woman got violated while on a date that she set up on Match.com. So now Match is going to screen users for background checks to weed out sexual offenders. To many people this sounds great. but what if the woman met the man by old school means. like in a bar or at the grocery store or while picking up her grand mother from the old folks home? Would the owner of the facility be responsible for not screening the people that come in to their facility? This leads to lots of innocent people getting violated by an imperfect system. This is people’s private records, identification numbers, driver license numbers and social security number obtained by a piddly website that has lots of spam bots in it’s system, holding information that could lead to your personal identity being stolen.
With the fall of epsilon being hacked by grade school kids, we need to not visit a website that wants this kind of legal right to request such personal information.
Sure safety is great and you can think that if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about. Great, paint your social security number on the side of you car and think that no one reads anything or knows what to do with it any way.
The more you fall into trying to secure things and make it safer, the more vulnerable you make yourself.

I personally am not giving up the legal right to dig into my legal records.

I am offended by how open the news and media is about this. Just because a woman may have got groped or what ever the case is, you should not violate the rest of the planet. If you feel unsafe being there after reading the end user license agreement, then leave and don’t come back.
I actually tried Match many years ago. It took almost 8 years to get match.com to stop sending me emails saying that someone was wanting to talk to me.I canceled my account and still got notice that someone wanted to talk to me, so I would foolishly log back in every two or three years and re-activate my account, and then find that I had no emails, no person wanting to contact me.
To me, these are foul tactics. And chances are, Match is the trooper to get a new law out that will sweep across all websites. and in doing so Match will get more advertisement for it’s self than it has ever had in it’s 10-15 years active.
funny thing is, I bet I get an email from them telling me to update my information or my account will be deleted. I bet this repeats it’s self twice a week for the next three years.

My two cents.

Google Video Finally Shutting Down

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Dear Google Video User,

 

Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re removing the remaining hosted content. We’ve always maintained that the strength of Google Video is its ability to let people search videos from across the web, regardless of where those videos are hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide.

 

On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the video status page, so you can download any video content you want to save. If you don’t want to download your content, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

 

We encourage you to move to your content to YouTube if you haven’t done so already. YouTube offers many video hosting options including the ability to share your videos privately or in an unlisted manner. To learn more go here.

 

Here’s how to download your videos:

  1. Go to the Video Status page.
  2. To download a video to your computer, click the Download Video link located on the right side of each of your videos in the Actions column.

 

Once a video has been downloaded, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link.

If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all.

 

Please note: This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

 

Thank you for being a Google Video user.

 

Sincerely,

The Google Video Team

 

© 2011 Google | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

 

Google is a trademark of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

 

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Free Online Virus Scan

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Bit Defender. Supposed to be the fastest scanner. I have no idea how accurate this can be. and I think this one only works in internet explorer.

EmsiSoft’s Asquared online Virus scanner.


Free online Virus and Malware scan. Feel free to use this, bookmark the page share with your friends, on what ever Social site you use. This virus scanner is the strongest Virus scanner I know that is totally free. Removes all virus and trojans and worm parts from your computer for complete internet safety and security. Well, at least no current virus will be active on your computer after a scan. This virus scanner group is fast at updating and many virus scan companies contribute to their research, and back the other way.
This will remove all known trojans and malware from your computer even suspicious cookies.
I am happy to have EmsiSoft’s Asquared on my website.