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For anyone concerned about what is left on their PC after using the Internet, Webroot Window Washer can set the mind at ease.
Window Washer wipes away all traces of past PC use. It not only removes Internet history, but also previously deleted files that may still have a presence on the hard disk. A quick cycle of Window Washer can:
• clear Internet history, address bar and cache
• delete selected cookies
• overwrite deleted files
• shred folders with one-click
• provide protection against deleting important files
• schedule washes
• clear unused disk space to ensure faster, smoother PC operation
• clean applications such as iTunes, Adobe Acrobat, Google Toolbar and Macromedia Flash Player
• securely erase whole hard disk
• work with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, and AOL
When using the Internet all sort of information gets left behind: history of sites visited, web addresses typed into the address bar, a cache of each page visited, cookies holding user information, chat logs…the list goes on. Window Washer will safely remove all of these files so no trace of online activity remains. Not only that, all of this information can slow down working, so cleaning the system makes the PC quicker and more efficient.
In trying to eliminate PC activity, it can be very easy to accidentally get rid of some important file the system needs to run properly. Window Washer provides protection against doing this whilst removing any incriminating information.
Likewise, whilst some Internet cookies might be from unsavory sources, others prove invaluable in remembering names and passwords for often visited sites. It’s easy to remove all the cookies in one go, but Window Washer allows selective cookie deletion so only the desired ones remain.
Simply deleting items from the system is not enough to remove them from the hard disk entirely. Free space can actually be full of unused files and bits of deleted files. Window Washer can overwrite this unused data with completely random information, making it worthless to anyone trying to get at it, and clean up these areas for better performance.
Window Washer is also capable of erasing the hard disk completely. Formatting and reinstalling the operating system may not destroy everything contained on the hard disk. Window Washer ensures nothing is left on a PC that might be going to a new owner.
For the most security conscious, it is not even necessary to make an effort to run Window Washer. Once installed, it can be set to wash at specified times, such as when the PC is booted up or shut down, or each time the browser is closed. Window Washer will also clean other applications. Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat, Real Player – they all store document histories of what’s been viewed and, sometimes, when it was viewed. Window Washer will empty these histories for a faster running application.
Minimum system requirements for Webroot Window Washer are not high. Even the most basic PC should be able to run it as long as it has:
• Windows 98 SE/2000/Me/XP
• 266 MHz CPU
• 5 MB hard drive space
• 64 MB RAM
Webroot Window Washer is available for download as a free trial. The full version costs $29.95 for a one year upgrade and support subscription.
Ben Sikes recommends reading the full product review of Webroot Window Washer at Identity Theft Spy. See www.identitytheftspy.com/2006/02/webroot_window_.html for more information.
Are You Prepared To Negotiate For Happiness? Believe it or not, everything truly is negotiable! Each new job offer or performance review is an opportunity to negotiate base salary, bonuses, benefits, stock options and various other incentives that add to job satisfaction and ultimately, provide more financial security. You need to take control of your job search before your new job offer and plan ahead of time for your annual performance review to reach your ultimate goal of financial security and happiness. Are you prepared to negotiate?
With each new job offer or performance review, you are being handed an opportunity to define, communicate, and achieve what you want for your financial security. In order to achieve this, you’ll have to understand the basics of negotiation.
The first step in negotiating is making the decision to reach your goal. Once you have made that decision, you need to plan your approach, gather supporting information, consider alternatives and viewpoints, communicate specifically, and understand your strengths and weaknesses. You must be able to respond effectively to the negotiating party, and knowing your competition will enable you to bargain your position more accurately.
Here are a few tips to focus on during your research and negotiation: 1. Be Persuasive It’s hard to force your boss to increase your compensation, and trying to do so can potentially damage your working relationship. Think about the process as trying to convince him that it might benefit the organization to pay you more.
2. Aim High and Be Realistic Many researchers have found a strong correlation between people’s aspirations and the results they achieve in negotiation. At the same time, you want to suggest ideas to which your boss can realistically say yes.
3. Start Off with the Right Tone You want to let your boss know you will listen and try to understand his views. At the same time, you expect your boss to do the same for you so you can work together to address this issue. Avoid ultimatums, threats and other coercive behavior.
4. Clarify Your Interests Your compensation should satisfy a range of needs, not just salary. Make sure you have thought about other points of value to you as well — like profit sharing, stock options that vest immediately, a bonus, greater work responsibilities, a quicker promotion schedule, increased vacation or flexible hours.
5. Anticipate Your Boss’s Interests Just like you, your boss has needs and concerns. To persuade him to say yes, your ideas will have to address those things that are important to him.
6. Create Several Options Joint brainstorming is the most effective way to find ideas that satisfy everyone’s interests. It works best when you separate it from commitment — first create possible solutions, and then decide among them.
7. Focus on Objective Criteria It is far easier to persuade someone to agree with your proposal if he sees how that proposal is firmly grounded on objective criteria, such as what similar firms pay people of like experience or what others in the company make.
8. Think Through Your Alternatives In case you cannot persuade your boss to say yes, you need to have a backup plan. Part of preparation is creating a specific action plan so you know what you’ll do if you have to walk away from the table.
9. Prepare Thoughtfully to Achieve Your Goals This is the only aspect of your negotiations you can completely control. To take advantage of all of the above advice, you have to invest a significant amount of your time and energy.
10. Review to Learn The only way you can really improve your ability to negotiate is to explicitly learn from your experiences. After you finish negotiations, reflect on what you did that worked well and what you might want to do differently. You will ultimately be successful in achieving your goal of financial security and happiness!
Negotiation is not an art form – the more you practice, the better you become at it! Do your homework and feel confident! Know your worth. Doing it right requires preparation, studying comparative situations, role playing and getting another perspective.
A case in point: A client recently hired me to help her with negotiating a promotion, she knew her boss had a real tight budget so together worked on her strategy; role played what she would say, what possible objections might come up, and how to overcome them. She did some research and prepared her case. The result a 20% increase in salary, a gas allowance, flex hours, a gym membership, a new “Director” title and a lunch stipend. So the next time you are negotiating your annual review, a new position, a promotion, whatever it is remember everything is negotiable.
Dawn Quesnel, CPCC, PCC
Dawn Quesnel, Coach DQ, is a Professional Coach and a member of the ICF and continuously trains to develop her skills as a professional coach.
Before becoming a Professional Coach, Dawn was an Executive Recruiter at two of Boston’s premier agencies. She eventually opened her own recruitment firm, Executive Staffing Consultants. Her vast experiences in recruitment led to the knowledge that most people need help clarifying their career and their personal goals. Thus the launching of her successful coaching practice, Career Life Balance.
Dawn Quesnel 508-520-9933 CoachDQ@CareerLifeBalance.net http://www.CareerLifeBalance.net
My clients are professionals, small business owners, and individuals seeking more choices and more balance between their career and their life. They have found that their career affects their life, and their life affects their career: finding a balance isn’t always easy. It’s a choice. They choose coaching to help them live with more balance– as they define it.
Microsoft celebrated its Growth and Innovation Day recently and also addressed an issue that has been bothering the company for some time now dropping revenues due to the increasing popularity of the netbook market.
Neil Holloway, Vice-President, Business Strategy, stated at the event that to spruce up the revenue from the netbook segment, the company is considering offering its products in the form of a package, and to achieve this, it is in talks with some telecommunication and other service providers. He strongly indicated that the new offering could be something built around Windows 7 and Windows Live. Microsoft’s hope is that the bundled solution would increase its presence among the rapidly increasing number of netbook users.
Netbooks are becoming quite popular because of their low cost and a performance that is sufficient for most routine tasks. Moreover, they allow the convenience of portability, and come with amazing offers from the mobile broadband providers. If mobile broadband interests you, but you don’t want to get involved in a lengthy contract, or you simply wish to try it out, consider mobile internet pay as you go. There are many options available now to entice users to mobile broadband, take a look at Mobile Broadband Genie for up-to-date advice and info.
Microsoft hasn’t been able to grow in this segment since most netbooks use a very basic version of Microsoft Windows XP, due to their limited processing capability. As a result, Microsoft has been losing potential revenue, and the more popular the netbooks are getting, the more worried the company is becoming.
Microsoft now wants to tackle the problem by offering software in a packaged form that will sweeten the deal for the customers. Mr. Holloway further stated that Microsoft was looking to devise an approach like that of Carphone Warehouse, a brand that has seen its profit soar by offering bundled solutions, inclusive of PCs, laptops and phones.
Old fashioned telephone lines are now a thing of the past with the introduction of broadband systems. However a Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line, sdsl broadband, might not be the ideal service to subscribe to because it would need a separate fax line or telephone. Of course it will enable the creation of an internet network if that is all you want and SDSL is recommended for very heavy band width usage. Also sdsl broadband is perfect for server hosting and the streaming of data.
To get the most from a high speed internet transfer system it’s important to choose the right one for your needs. Possibly a VPN Solution is a better set up because it’s a virtual private network. Even technophobes can use sdsl broadband, just make sure that friendly support is included in the package that your provider offers. There are many companies vying for business in this sector so make sure you take advantage when choosing your SDSL service.
A good SDSL can ensure that you make full use of the internet and all that it offers. Whether it is using a VPN solution or sdsl broadband the world is now at your fingertips. Suitable security is easy to set up and with SDSL you don’t have to be concerned about internet safety.
The Sun Salutation yoga pose is recommended for practitioners of all ages and especially for the ones who cannot dedicate a lot of time to their yoga routine. The reason why this pose is so highly appreciated has to do with the fact that it involves most of the muscle groups, as well as the respiratory system.
In fact, the Sun Salutation is a sequence of twelve yoga positions, linked together by a flowing motion and accompanied by five deep special breaths. Each of the twelve positions contributes to stretching a different part of the body and different muscle groups. Moreover, it helps expanding and contracting the chest in order to regulate breathing.
Specialists and yoga trainers recommend this exercise for the daily routine, as it can contribute in a very efficient way to the flexibility of your spine and joints.
* The first of the twelve positions require you to stand up with your feet together. Your palms should be in praying position, in front of your chest. Once you make sure your weight is evenly distributed, exhale profoundly.
* While inhaling, push the arms up, keep the legs straight and relax the neck.
* While exhaling fold your body forward, press your palms down and try to place your fingertips in line with your toes.
* While inhaling bring a leg back and place it on the floor. Arch your back and lift the chin.
* Bring the other leg back and try to support your weight on hands and toes. Keep your chin down and retain your breath, while performing this move.
* While exhaling, lower your knees and then your forehead, but keep your hips up and make sure your toes are curled under.
* Lower your hips, while inhaling. Point your toes and bend as back as possible. Your shoulders should be kept down and your legs together.
* Curl your toes under and, while exhaling, raise your hips. You should end up in a V position. You should push your heels and head down, while keeping your shoulders back.
* While inhaling, step forwards and place one of your legs between the hands. Keep your chin up, while resting the other knee on the floor.
* Bring the other leg forward and bend down from the waist keeping your palms on the floor. Exhale.
* While inhaling, stretch your arms forward and then up and back over your head and try to slowly bend back.
* Return to the upright standing position, while exhaling, and bring your arms to your sides.
Kirsten Hawkins is a yoga enthusiast and teacher from Nashville, TN. Visit www.onlineyoga411.com/ for more information on all styles of yoga and yoga and spirituality resources.
Gone are the days when people could have multiple partners without the use of a condom, and other safe sex practices.
Safe sex is all about keeping yourself, and your partner, protected from the complications of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease.
Although the concept of safe sex seems easy enough to understand, more and more people — young people in particular — seem to be missing the point, or missing the concept of how to accomplish safe sex. And just how safe and reliable is that condom when it comes right down to it? A condom can’t promise 100% protection from AIDS or from pregnancy.
For males in particular, another problem with practicing safe sex is remembering to take the time to …
(a) have a condom ready
(b) know how to use it properly, and
(c) take the time to put it on.
It’s important to educate young people today in the proper use of condoms so that they understand when and how to use them. There’s no point to having a condom ready if neither partner is going to take time to enforce its use. In a very practical sense, however, although a condom is typically worn by the male partner during heterosexual intercourse (and typically by both partners in a homosexual one), the responsibility for proper condom-IQ is borne by both partners.
Fortunately, there are more and more products appearing on the market to help people to plan for safe sex and to practice this method of responsible intercourse. Since both the birth control pill and the condom aren’t 100% effective, combining the use of both of them together will increase your chances of staying safe.
It’s also vital to be aware of a partner’s sexual history, and to seek “medical clearance” before engaging in a new relationship. This is especially important for those in polygamous relationships (more than one sexual partner at a time), because a “chain” of unsafe sex can start with any partner and spread rapidly through a previously healthy group.
The only way that there are going to be less unwanted pregnancies, and less transmission of STD’s is if all sexually active people – both young and old — are educated in the concepts of safe sex and what it means to them. In particular, in parts of the country where access to information is more challenging (such as some underprivileged areas), it’s vital that communities step forward and provide this education.
Young men, in particular, need to understand the implications and risks of unprotected sex and what it can mean to their lives when they have an unwanted pregnancy or find out that they have a STD. Safe sex starts with education and knowledge, neither of which any young teen can do without.
Jim Shaw is a writer for 4-Men.Org.
Jim provides detailed men’s health related articles as a member of the Advisory Board to the website. This article was originally published as “Safe Sex” in the Sexually Transmitted Disease Section of the 4-men.org website.
Do you prefer to be outside or inside? I guess that question all depends on the weather doesn’t it? Not when we’re talking about the Aerogarden. The Aerogarden can grow healthy plants all year round no matter what the weather is like outside. It’s a small indoor garden, small enough to keep in your kitchen, that grows plants using only water and simulated light. All you need to do is plant the seeds, add the nutrients and water then sit back, relax and watch your plants grow! It’s so easy to use, no mess, no garden pests to worry about and no nasty chemicals, it simply works with water. Now everyone can have fresh produce at the tip of their fingertips every day with the Aerogarden. One of the most popular seed kits from the Aerogarden shop is the Gourmet Herb seed kit, it’s so popular as it grows such a variety of different herbs, they include basil, thyme, dill, mint, chives and parsley. There’s no need to pop down the shops to get some herbs for your roast on Sunday now, you can simply reach across to your Aerogarden and take them from there. Imagine all the time and money you’ll save!
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Insider’s Scoop On How To Skyrocket Your Sales Plus Decrease Your Advertising Costs.
If there is one constant between anyone who does business, or ever sells anything, it’s the big question; “How do I stand out above the crowd when I’m trying to reach my customers?” It is a question that has been asked ever since the human race started advertising and selling. It is only just now coming to the forefront about the amazing benefits and results of using video to do this.
Users Report Dramatic Increase In Sales With Use
The Internet is a wonderful way to advertise items, but has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage of the Internet is that it can be impersonal. It is a well-known fact that customers will buy more when they feel appreciated, trusting of the advertiser, and receive that “personal sales touch”. If you have an item for sale, potential buyers are much more likely to pull out their card to purchase if they are able to see the item as though they were right there with it.
The advantage, of course, of the Internet is the ability to reach tremendous volume of customers, which simply cannot be duplicated on a one-to-one sales relationship.
The advantages of personal sales, and the volume of the Internet are now combined with the use of video software.. An advertiser can record a video with quality audio, either off-line, or online, edit it, and send the personal video to the prospective customer, post it on a web page, or in an ad. There are generally also options to allow for real-time, face-to-face Streaming Video, with two, or even multiple parties.
What to Look For In Video Software;
Although there are already video capabilities on the Internet, there are several key points that you should look for;
Newer versions of video software that have quality, and are user-friendly, are sure to revolutionize the ways we communicate on the internet. It is applicable for all; from family members wanting to send a personal video, all the way up to major corporate needs.
Use It Now, and Be “Heads Above The Rest” In Your Sales and Customer Response
The probability of this type of software revolutionizing the way we do business on the Internet is almost certainly without dispute. It can be used by the everyday person to show a video of a car, boat, or motorcycle for sale, yet is a valuable tool for business promotion. The advertiser can send video links for practically anything; personal emails to prospective customers, or even message videos within their E-zines. The possibilities are endless; some of the first ones coming to mind are;
It is, of course, quite apparent that this tool is likely to become the “new standard” for Internet business and advertising within a very short time, probably a matter of only months. The ones who jump at this tool first, are the ones who are going to be “ahead of the crowd”, exploding their sales, and setting this new standard for advertising.
Mary Van Scoyk has been working on business and marketing online since 2000. After getting enough of the “big city” lifestyle, she escaped to the quiet farm country of the Midwest cornfields. She has published the website, http://www.thegoodliferesources.com/ where she also publishes an online newsletter with tips about how make a business succeed online.
Everyone wants to be successful. However, many people often rely on luck and chance to achieve results. The best example in this case is someone who wants to be rich but only try the most ineffective method: playing the Lotto. Of course, there are chances of becoming rich over night, but how likely is it that this will actually happen? Creating a realistic plan in order to achieve the desired results is vital in any case, no matter how high or low your goals are.
The safest way to achieve your dream is by taking successive steps and gradually increasing your chances of reaching your goal. Try to think of a metaphor and compare your desires with a professional swimming competition.
The first thing you need to do, in order to have chances of winning the race, is to make sure you are not afraid of the water. Before you even consider entering the race you have to eliminate your fears. They are the ones holding you back, but be careful, some of your fears might save you from getting hurt or failing.
Once you are convinced that your goal is worth fighting for, you have to start the hardest stage in you plan: preparation. You cannot expect to win a professional swimming race when you don’t even know how to swim. Start with the basics and never skip any steps out of desire of reaching your goal faster. The experience and knowledge you are skipping will probably come back and hurt you later on. Prepare by taking gradually increasing steps. Swim half a lap first, and then move on to a full lap. Your skills will progress each time and you will soon beat your own lap records every time you enter the swimming pool.
It might take days, weeks or years to prepare for the “race”, depending on what your goals are. The main thing is to enter the race feeling confident in your own success and having all the skills that would allow you to win.
Taking steps one at a time and keeping your plan realistic gives you two important benefits. The order and precision of a plan brings confidence. You don’t feel like you are reengaging each new issue on a day-to-day basis. Organizing your strategy reduces the chances of making wrong moves or taking less efficient decisions.
Secondly, having a sound plan has many psychological benefits and your subconscious mind worries less, giving you more energy to concentrate on what’s important. You are creating a pattern in your awareness that accepts success and integrates it in your plan.
When both you conscious and your subconscious mind believe in your chances of reaching a goal you benefit from a power of concentration and focus that eliminate outside interference and let you follow the shortest path to success.
Even though chance may still play an important role in your quest to reach your ideal, having a realistic plan let’s you change the “unlikely” into “possible”.
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