FREE Santa Claus Letter for Your Children

Santa Claus is writing to all children for FREE if they have been good boys and girls.
That's one thing I always wanted when I was a child, now I get to make sure everyone who wishes can do this for their child and for no cost.

I know that I should of had this working before now and I did want it to be, but I also wanted to make sure everything was working properly!

The site lets you add the details of your child and then personalizes a letter to them from Santa Claus and sends it by email to an email address you choose.


The smile on the face of a child as they or you read this letter from Santa to them and mentioning their name, age and where they live, what toys they expect, parents & friends name - all add to their excitement for the coming holiday.

You can create as many as you like - No Cost - at this address:
http://budurl.com/FreeLetter

Choose to mention Both parents or just Mother or just Father in the letter and it will make the necessary changes to the letter and then send it by email.

Please let your friends know that they can use this service at no cost too.
http://budurl.com/FreeLetter

New URL Shrinker with Tracking

I have found out about the newest online URL Shrinker and it's called BudURL.
If you're not sure what that means then let me explain why you need to be using one of these in your daily business efforts online.

When you are trying to get people to go to a certain website and the only link that you have to give those people looks something like: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v2bq4v3tdw , then most people will probably think I'm not goin' to type all that in or even remember that link for more than a couple seconds.
Then you can see why it make sense to use the BudURL application to shorten that link to something more memorable like http://budurl.com/MasteryofTheAir and have all the link information to hand whenever you want to see it and be able to then see if your efforts have made an impact.
You can use this service for FREE now and they are adding more features all the time!
This tool is the "Love Child" of Live Oak 360 .

Make a Cool Word Graphic from your blog

I was reading Joe Vitale's blog and saw the link to this really cool Word Cloud graphic creator.
It will take a URL of any website and turn it into a word cloud by using the actual words on your page.
This TOY is Cool because it takes the words that are used more frequently and gives them a bigger font size and then scrambles them all up and places them into a graphic that you can then use on your page or print and/or place in their Gallery for the world to see.
Of course if you think about it a bit there is a place on the gallery images for comments about your creation which you can get another link to your website!
After it creates your graphic, then you get to tweak it by making changes to the Font, Layout and Color Scheme.

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

Well, Google have definitely had their thinking caps on again with the emergence
of "Google Chrome", what's that you ask?

Google Chrome is a NEW Web Browser built from Open Source and that means to
you that when it gets out of the testing stages (in Beta now) it will be a new FREE
browser made to the specification of the people who are probably online Most of
Their Lives - the Google Team!

Look out for news on the release of the stable version of this browser because it
promises to be "The One" and it should be.

For now check out the comic book that Google has used to describe Chrome.

I will be keeping up with this one to be sure!

Torn Paper Effect using GIMP

I wanted to give you a very cool idea this time!

There is this FREE SOFTWARE called the GIMP and it is a very good rival to PhotoShop, it is really easy to get to grips with using it. It also works on Mac OS X and Unix!

Also there is this website called Stock.xchng where you can find FREE Photos to add to your projects, most of these are marked as Royalty FREE and some are just marked as "let publisher know where/when used" no fees to pay.

The website also hosts photos that will cost a nominal fee but there is no need to use those unless they are the ones that you Must-Have to use in your project.

My suggestion is to take a look at this tutorial, yes people even show you how to use the different tools available for manipulating photos with on this website, it shows how to take a photo and convert it to a picture that looks like a ripped in half photo, very cool and useful!

Play with the Gimp and see what you can do with the many Plug-ins that are developed for it, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see all the support this software has and probably won't even give PhotoShop another look!

Gimp Basics

Sick and Tired of SPYWARE? - Me Too!!

ParetoLogic - Products - XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware

I've been getting so many parasites and spy snoopers
on my PC lately that something had to change!!

This software will scan your system with a fine tooth
comb and pick-out those pesky little vermin.
Best of all it is Free!

You can upgrade later if you like and it's even more
POWERFUL, so check this one out.

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Finally - Firefox3: The Best Firefox Browser Ever is Released

The Best Firefox Yet

With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.

I've been waiting months since the announcement from Mozilla that Firefox3 will be stable and ready for everyday usage, it was officially released on 17th June 2008 and it is all it's cracked up to be!

• It is Faster to load; no more waiting ages for a page to load from a link in another app. like Outlook or other link farms and RSS readers.

• Less Memory Hungry; this version (3.0) runs with much better memory use and that adds to the speed of page access, definitely a much anticipated upgrade to previous versions!

• More Secure Than Any Other;

When Are You at Risk?

An independent study shows that, in 2006, IE users were vulnerable to online threats 78% of the time. Firefox users? Only 2%.

“At risk” defined as publicly available exploits with no patch. Source: “Internet Explorer users Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006”

Brian Krebs, Washington Post, 1/4/2007

• Fully Customizable; there are over 5,000 Add-Ons to help you create a "Truly Personal Web Experience" that no other browser comes close to!

This is by far just scraping the surface of what this new version release can help you do, the best part of all of it is that it is an Open Source application and that means that it is FREE!!, always has been and always will be.

Take the Tour with a cool Video to show what it's all about.

You should at least download it and have a play with it, especially if all you've ever used is IE. There will be no compatibility issues if you have both Firefox3 and IE7 installed, I've done it for years.

Comment Kahuna | Free Link Building Software

Comment Kahuna | Free Link Building Software

Jason Potash has a great FREE Software that helps you with the task of building links to your website that get you ranked higher in the search engines.
You should act quickly on this as he may not be giving it away for FREE for too much longer!
Watch the video on the page and it will show you how to use the software and tell you the finer points on getting ranked higher in the search engines.

You basically use this program to post comments on other blogs that are 'Relative' to your website; his example is getting his 'Trout Fishing' website ranked higher by listing all the blogs that have anything to do with trout fishing, fishing, etc. Anything that may be relative to the subject of your website will be listed and then, you select those which have the higher rankings to post comments on.

All this is 'White Hat' or 'Above Board' and very easy to do. You of course will want to make sure that those blogs which you choose to post on are 'very relevant' not just close to your subject or what services and products you sell.

The software is still growing and an updated version will also be sent to you when completed, so it looks like this is one of those times when having your finger on the pulse is going to pay off and in a big way if you are prepared to put in the small amount of effort involved in using this Free Software!

Jason Potash has been around the web for more than a few years and continues to surprise me with his creativity, well done again Jason.

Firefox

Seth Godin has made a post on Firefox which explains why most people who use Firefox do so.
I've been finding some good add-ons for my Firefox browser; the one that lights me up at the moment is PicLens.
This new add-on will let you see your pictures in a 3D environment right inside your browser! This is how they describe their software:

Get into your favorite sites
From Flickr to Google Images, and even Facebook and Friendster, PicLens works with a growing number of your favorite websites.


Photo Sites |
Photobucket
Picasa Web Albums
Fotki
FotoTime
deviantART
Smugmug
Social Networking |
Flickr
Facebook
MySpace
Bebo
Hi5
Friendster
Image Search |
Google Images
Yahoo Images
Ask Images
Live Images
AOL Images
Webhosts/Galleries |
Freewebs
Adobe Lightroom
Don't just take our word for it . . .
piclens_reviewed PicLens has been picking rave reviews since its release. MacWorld calls PicLens "gorgeous . . . a great idea" Lifehacker exclaims "you'll be transported to a wonderful and magical world". Techcrunch asserts "visually the results are stunning."
Free of adware, spyware, and worries
PicLens is free to download, free to use, and does not contain any adware or spyware whatsoever.
Choose your flavor: Firefox, IE, or Safari
PicLens Features

Firefox
Enjoy photos in full-screen mode
New! Quickly drag, click, and zoom in a "3D Wall" interface
New! Search for web images within PicLens
Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
Fly through 1000s of images in a split second
Search in multiple languages
Jump from PicLens to the corresponding webpage

IE
Enjoy photos in full-screen mode
New! Quickly drag, click, and zoom in a "3D Wall" interface
New! Search for web images within PicLens
Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
Fly through 1000s of images in a split second
Search in multiple languages
Jump from PicLens to the corresponding webpage

Safari
Enjoy photos in full-screen mode
Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
Search in multiple languages
Jump from PicLens to the corresponding webpage
Sit back and explore photos with your Apple® remote

* Firefox version currently available for Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OSX.
Our Firefox version also supports the Flock browser.
Frequently Asked Questions & Tutorial
See our FAQ page for answers to questions about features, compatibility, and more.
To see our tutorial, click here.

As you can see, this is a very powerful add-on for your browser even if you do use IE!