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Why Was Windows 10 Free?

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whyiswindows10freeWhy was Windows 10 Free? Why did they give us a free Windows operating system?
Well if you are skeptical like any person who has been duped into a service for longer than they’d like, you’d compare it to a drug dealer at a school giving kids a free sample. because a return customer is always right around the corner.
Look at the free windows 10 as a migration towards reoccurring revenue. If you are just renting the operating system, and just renting the apps, and renting the storage space (cloud) you will have no option but to stay because you’d be kind of stuck.
Once you’ve made a few payments, you’re already invested in this thing that will never pay off. Kinda like reddit Karma. Or world of warcraft addiction. You paid to play, you play because you paid, your score went up you got cool additional stuff for being so invested. Now you have higher score may as well pay to keep your game going, oh look! … an expansion pack, but damn I have to upgrade my tiny little service because it isn’t compatible and people will think I’m cheap.

Meanwhile you will be hogging down bandwidth and your isp will force you to pay more for larger cap.

Now you’re really $%^&ing invested. but you’ll buy a windows phone because it lets you sync your nifty gif making apps with your phone now. Well, it is all apps and cloud based. So you have to up that bandwidth level too.
Now you are super $%^&ing invested.
Now Microsoft made their “scary announcement” today. “This is the last Window Ever” (here on forbes). Then tell you it isn’t over just going to be “different” meaning more like a pay-to-play operating system.

Software makers will get more out of their leases for rights to design items for Microsoft, but instead of paying up front, Microsoft will take it out of each payment from every windows user who uses the purchased APPS. that’s right, apps. Cloud based programs that you can’t use if your internet goes down.

Here’s something I posted up about 5 years ago on the topic telling people it would be like this soon. Yeah the responses I got were pretty hateful.

Microsoft Moving us to the Cloud

 

Sure some people could enjoy it, but not everyone. Let’s make it a choice please. Just have two brand new Microsoft operating systems at a time. The one made by Microsoft and sold to the public, and the open source one.

How to fight CRYPTOLOCKER

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The way to beat Cryptolocker is pretty much like all ransomware. With one exception.
Hopefully you have a great back up process and can separate all computers from the infected computer on your network.
Start with these old school free tools of the trade.
Run them all if you want to make sure you get everything.
RogueKiller.exe  This will hunt down the deepest of virus.
ATF-Cleaner.exe helps clear up what’s on your computer in folders that you got locked out of in the attack. empties trash and cache and a bunch of stuff all at the same time
Spybot – weak these days but doesn’t kill you to give it a scan and let it clean a few things up too.
[Microsoft Essentials Windows 7] | [Windows Defender Windows 8]..Not a bad free Virus Scanner. Works pretty good. Works best if installed before you get the virus. Protects better than any other virus scanner. Free or otherwise.
unhide.exe will get your icons back if you lost them and your files back if they disappeared when the virus hit you.
Malwarebytes– free and good strong software
Super Anti-Spyware – Stupid name, great product. oh and it has a free version.
Emergency Kit Scanner – I use this one anytime a friend calls me for help

So… What is Cryptolocker? Cryptolocker is like all ransom-ware of the past. In fact it looks just like antivirus 2012 except. Cryptolocker comes right out and says “hey we locked down your file, pay us and we will unlock your file, if you do not pay us, we will delete the password that we have on file for you file and you pretty well screwed forever”. This is straight up extortion.  no matter what they call it, it is what it’s function is. To brutally force you to pay the virus maker’s fee to get your files back.

Protip.. Install MSE (Microsoft security essentials) before you get any virus.. It doesn’t cost anything and uses very little resources. Plus MSE is made by the people who made your operating system, it knows when unauthorized activity has occurred.. and well, it should be their responsibility to secure and protect your computer.

Cryptowall 3.0 Is the same but more developed to protect it’s self. Here’s Trend Micro explaining how Encryptowall 3.0 functions and looks.

and please quit opening attachments without verifying their validity.

Increased cell phone signal free

Posted onAuthorTips Of Tech

Do you have bad reception with your phone like I do? Do you have issues getting a signal without holding your phone high above your head? Looking for a signal boost? Maybe this will help
We have all seen the ads for the sticker you are supposed to slap on to your battery and it looks kind of like a transformers logo, or the grid on a motherboard, and that sticker is supposed to increase your signal. The sticker usually sells for somewhere between a dollar and ten dollars.
Well. One day I got curious about alternative cell phone signal boosters.
There is the wifi antenna in my old busted up Toshiba laptop. The laptops wifi connector seems about the same size as what is in the cell phone for the external antenna.
but then. Then there is the ultimate hidden right under your nose out in the public jumping in your lap laughing at you, solution. Go buy a cd or dvd from walmart. Crack the case open and pull out the security tag. Peel it into the thin strip that has the motherboard grid looking thing on it. Take a bag tie and peel the outer strip off of it to expose the metal inside. Snip the stripped wire in 1/4.Take a small paneling nail and wrap the wire strip around that nail tightly but leave about 1/8cm sticking straight from one end. poke a pinhole in the security tag grip. Slide straight piece of the coiled sire though the security tag, from under side, then bend the newly exposed wire flat. lower your new device into the hole where the external antenna connects on your phone. Make sure the new spring of wire wraps around the antenna adapter. push all of the way down. Now either glue the new antenna down, or thin tape it, or hold it in place with the battery cover for your phone.
May not give you any reception, may increase your reception by quite a bit. For me, my signal never drops under one bar, in places where I was not getting a signal at all. and my phone usually can place calls with no signal.

Make Shift Antenna

Make Shift Antenna

I will have to try the wifi antenna and get back to you on whether it fits, or if the antenna even helps the signal or messes it up. but that will be another post. Will try and remember to link the two.

 

I love my little cricket phone, but since I am by a major radio tower, It is hard for me to get a signal, heck half the time my wifi is out for my comcast . It’s not comcast’s fault or Cricket’s fault at all. There is lots of disturbance in the area. LOTS.

 

Oh and one more thing, MAKE SURE THE SECURITY TAG IS DEACTIVATED!! You do not want to get tackled while walking out of Walmart or some other store, just after you shoved your hand in your pocket.

 

 

And now for an Android Device. In fact, a ZIO cell phone from Sanyo.

I just took a wire and untwined the metal fibers to get one metal fiber about 10 inches long and made a squiggle, then taped the metal wire to the inside of the battery backing. This actually helped stop the call drops and the internet connection is a considerable bit stronger.

When you have the backing off of the phone, note the antenna addon connectors. Bring the ends of the wire as close to those points as you can get. This should help. Well it works for me.

signal boost on ZIO

signal boost on ZIO

 

This is your Budget Tech Tip

Site Submission Links

Posted onAuthorTech Review Man

I always look for ways to gain more page rank and get help from other sites. Usually by trying to find sites that will link back to me. but in doing so, I have to make sure the message on the page I am wanting a link back from, is a valid site and they have clean content and the content with in the page you are on, is related to my content on my website. So I found a hand full of good sites that let me submit a description of my website, and a link back to my website from theirs. The link submission sites in this list are exactly that. Good, free and really easy to use so that I can make the page content exactly what I want.
so if you are looking for link submission websites, here is a nice list of sites to submit to. These are all really good links.

Link PR Alexa Notes
http://www.xhii.com/ 4.00 43500.00
http://www.txtlinks.com/ 3.00 25000.00
http://www.somuch.com/AddSite/SubmitMain.asp 5.00 14055.00
http://www.jayde.com/ 4.00 4699.00
http://viesearch.com/ 4.00 9490.00
http://www.mywebspider.com/ 3.00 520000.00
http://www.ondir.com 0.00 229000.00
http://freewebsubmission.com/ 6.00 6696.00
http://www.abacusdirectory.com 3.00 212956.00
http://www.allnicesites.com 2.00 43158.00
http://www.addyourlnksnow.com 3.00 46736.00
http://www.linkaddurl.com 4.00 19368.00
http://www.directoryocean.com 4.00 41034.00
http://www.azkulseo.com/ 2.00 38031.00
http://www.dir-submitter.info/ 1.00 46436.00
http://www.deeplinksforfree.com 0.00 82491.00 Deep Linking Allowed
http://www.websitesubmissiondirectory.info/ 0.00 84070.00 DEEP Linking Allowed
http://localcompanydirectory.com 0.00 89088.00 deep Linking Allowed
http://www.linkmana.com/ 0.00 90142.00 deep Linking Allowed
http://www.1websdirectory.com 3.00 28435.00 Deep Linking Allowed
http://www.websmartads.com 0.00 60536.00 Deep Linking Allowed

http://www.addaurl.co.in/ – 4PR
http://www.addaurl.org/ – 4PR
http://www.bestdirectory.co.in/ – 4PR
http://www.fastlisting.org/ – 4PR
http://www.fastlisting.net/ – 4PR
http://www.freedirectorysubmission.in/ – 4PR
http://www.freesubmission.co.in/ – 4PR
http://www.free-listing.org/ – 4PR
http://www.icfmt.org/ – 4PR
http://www.listurl.co.in/ – 4PR
http://www.topdirectory.co.in/ – 4PR
http://www.addweb.co.in/
http://www.addmywebsites.org/
http://www.addmywebsites.net/
http://www.aogd2011.com/ 1PR
http://www.indiangiftbazar.com/
http://www.indiangiftsbazar.com/
http://www.promogiftsindia.com/
http://www.abchometuition.com/
http://www.mithilasansar.com/
http://www.trauma2011.in/ 3 PR
http://www.addmywebsites.com/

Not the best tool but here. Site submission tool.

Great Website Templates

Posted onAuthorTruXter

First thing, is you need a good webhost  that is lo cost and dependable. like powweb . Go in and see the cost of two years up front, you will be shocked. The longer you sign up for, the longer you can go without having to bother with registration. Grat place with fast service. And Tech support you can actually speak to.

 

I am always looking for ideas for my websites, or websites that I am working on. So I cruise through lots of website templates, looking for the latest webdesign ideas.

Clean Lay Out Template
Etags Website Template
Nice list of Website HTML Templates
Blue Website Template
Free Flash Templates From Flashmo Flashmo has probably the best Free flash website addons. The ones that have a fee, are surely the best templates you can buy out off the internet. The free templates are the best free available anywhere.
Free Css Templates These Css Templates are free, and they are also from the same people who give you flashmo flash templates. Except these are free CSS Website templates.

Top 5 all time best free software

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Time to do another BEST post. This time its about the top five free software programs to download and install. Of course this isn’t for “all time” or win amp would be on the list. Thuis list is about free software that is out now. Winamp has done nothing new, and well, aol killed it pretty much.

5. VLC – video Lan Client. Media player that plays about every media format.
4. A-squared – free virus and malware scanner Emergency Kit.
3. Mozilla firefox – the only web browser there is that works.
2. G.I.M.P. – image manipulation tool, for crteatimg and editing images with a huge list of capabilities and tools.
1. Linux – operating system. It actually comes bundled with some of these, except of course asquared. Virus issue is a micrtosoft issue.

Posted via Android. Dont mind the typos. I’ll fix them later.

Personal Budget Software re-Review

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A few months ago I found a free budget management software. I was quite pleased with what I found. At the time, the Software developer didn’t have any traffic That i could detect. I was skeptical about downloading the budget software.  I decided to run a few  scans form virscan.org. Clean. Not one issue with the budget software at all. So I installed the free software I got from TZIsoft.

I have written a few things on the net about how I am looking for a bank that has a better online banking interface, simply because I am not very good at keeping up with my records and budget. so I was quite desperate to locate a good safe personal budget software that wouldn’t  break me. Again, I can not keep record worth a darn. TZIsoft personal budget software, has been nothing but pure help. I really do appreciate all of the times I could just pop open this software and see exactly what my current spending range is. I have not had MS office on my laptop on years, but I have had open office on the laptop for quite a while, the personal budget software allows me to export my budget report to an MS Office file that is easily opened with open office. I then put the office file on my Droid phone and leave the house. I can then make adjustments through the day, to take the file back with me when I go home. Sometimes I email the thing to myself throughout the day with updates. Sure there are probably easier way of doing that part, but its cool to just know what could happen.

Free Personal Budget Software download page. Look at all of the acknowledgment  the coder has now received. You have to scroll to the bottom, that part is like an easter egg for you for you to find after the coder briefs you on the capabilities of the budget software.

Remember, this is a free budget keeping software. This software is not the be all end all software and will not prevent you from doing things you should not do. The writer of this budget and record keeping software made it to help you document your transactions and calculate your current spending limits. Anything you do not input into the budget software is on you. So if you mis-spend outside of your limit, the software maker nor I can be held responsible. Nothing is guaranteed by me other than I liked the software, it was free, and the budget software helped me greatly. I have not been paid to link to the free software nor have I been paid to leave my review. I have never met the coder but i did send a big thank you email and a copy of my first review of personal budget.

http://www.tzisoft.com/

Look around, there are more downloads and more software to try out from there.

A-Squared Free Is Gone

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Many of us knew of Asquared free. The software that got Emsisoft noticed in Google. It was the best malware scanner out there. Well Emsi found it in their best interest to remove their malware scanner and merge it’s code with their virus scanner. I have no idea how long the virus scanner will be free. I do know the virus scanner / Anti virus was trial for as long as I can remember the company site.

There is another way to still get A-squared free, is by downloading the “emergency kit“. and just run it as a stand alone. The Emergency kit was created for usb use. That I.T. guys can float around the office without having to download and install the software on every single infested computer. Also prevent a virus (during the active infection) from directly attaching it’s self to the malware scanner and crippling it.
I was downloading asquared updates yesterday july 26th 2010 during the day at work. When I got home, it was off the site. I tried to update my home pc but was prompted with a notice of the change and would have to uninstall and that a-squared would no longer scan for me.

By now you understand I got an infection while at work and got spooked by it by the time I got home right? Well I am running the emergency kit. So far found 4 viruses that Norton didn’t find, malware bytes didn’t find and that S&D didn’t find. In fact they all showed I was clean. Even though I got the fake virus scanner prompt on this antiquated operating system (XP).

Registry Cleaners and Memory Software

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Ok I took a test drive of a few “computer Tweaker ” programs that have been well voted for on Cnet and ZDnet. They all were easy to locate, and I saw that thousands and millions have downloaded these.  I organized first by number of downloads, and by most votes. I then organized by highest vote score. all three times, these three programs came up in the top. So I decided they where the best options of this test.

The machine is Nforce 750A with AMD 5600+ two gigs of  pc 6400

dual 9500 gt 500mb Nvidia cards (sli)

Operating system is Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1

Installations were:
Registry Mechanic 9.00.0114 Of course this is a trial software.

Advanced Registry Optimizer 2010

CCleaner 2.29.1111

I really saw/felt no changes as I played a few games after each install. I am quite disappointed in the Pc gaming community. It seems there is a new wave of newbie techies advising people to use this stuff. Why do we go through this exact same wave every single time a new Operating system is released? It really seems like every time an OS is out, 8 months later there is a batch of people giving advise to use this stuff. Like memory boosters. After another 5 months, you start getting advice to overclock. You see posts like “Over clocking does not harm your computer” and masses of 20+ people backing this theory in threads of forums. Then three months later ” Help my video games have black streaks in them” Well you clearly over heated and fried your card.

End result.. Nothing fantastic. I guess what people see as being a new faster cleaner running machine, is a trick of the eye slight of hand. I swear every time I wash my car, it feels like it runs better.

Please if anyone has a new Registry software they want me to try out. and they are certain it works, Give me a thorough description of the software. Nothing larger than 15MB or I won’t touch it. This post i really wanted to go into detail, I really was ready for it. Right now i am nothing but so upset for installing this stuff I can’t write any detail other than… junk, junk, junk.

Personally I am sick of helping people after they stumble into this useless junk.
Your registry is written to for every program that is installed on your computer. These are lines of commands to tell your computer how to handle these programs. That’s it. Those lines of commands are never used if you do not use programs associated to what is has been written to your registry. Meaning: if you uninstall a program and never use that program again, then nothing on your computer will request that specific line, so that line does not have to be erased. that line will just never be necessary again. It does you no good to remove the registry entries from uninstalled programs. but you could possibly damage your computer by removing the wrong line of code. and no…. not all registry cleaners know every single program in the world and what they each use or write  in your registry.