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Remember this, there is no cost at all to get these and every reason to make some money by selling them on as your own and not share that money with anyone.

In the Cockpit with Craig: New! - Read My Books Online and Download

I have been writing a lot on other things and one of my passions is Aircraft!
I was in the U.S. Air Force when I was a young man ( not long ago) and I chose to work on Fighter Aircraft as a career, only one problem, I had a issue with authority figures, still do!
That's another story!!
Anyway, if you are interested in all things Aircraft related then I have a book to download and some war stories to let you read from time to time.
Check it out:

In the Cockpit with Craig: New! - Read My Books Online and Download

Just picking up the pieces

You may have wondered where the heck I was for so long after Christmas, with good reason!
Many of the people in my circle are wondering the same thing; has he kicked it or is he ill or maybe he was taken away by Aliens and probed for the wealth of knowledge stored away in that vast chamber of dark secrets called a mind?

Does anyone really care, nope!

Well the truth of the matter is just a simple event like my web host all of a sudden in the middle of the busiest season of them all just up and died on me, not really death as we know it Jim! Just a vanishing act, and whilst the disappearance was happening they took all of my lovely web sites with them, those barstewards!!

So, in the ensuing weeks and months I have had to rebuild and remake and research and find a new host and start all over again. O.K., YES, I have been told numerous times about making backup copies of all the hours of pounding away at the keyboard and still Never Got A Round Toit!

Please take the lesson from me and make a backup of all your files, and also make them so that they can be added to or "Append To" so you always have an up to date copy of what you're doing.

You can see the fruit of my keyboard antics and play some Free Online Games as well or add them to your website or blog or profile on Facebook or Myspace or any other Social Networking site you wish to, just by copying the code below the game and pasting it into your page, and you can even download them to your machine and play when you're not even connected, simple eh?

I'll be adding some really cool stuff now that I am sort of back to my old tricks, so stay tuned, you may be surprised!

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!!

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I've been getting so many parasites and spy snoopers
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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!

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

Old Version Downloads - OldApps.com

Old Version Downloads - OldApps.com

When you need to find that program which was installed a while ago and it worked really, really easily, then a new version came out and you found it to be, well not as good as the previous version.
Now, there is a website which carters to your desire for the older (easier) version.

Here is their mission statement:

The Idea behind OldApps.com is ingeniously simple. Our mission is to provide our users with a wide assortment of current versions of familiar software, and their predecessors, for free. Our database is maintained up to date with older versions of software as they become readily available. Our users can be assured that this process involves our careful and meticulous screening of each individual program and version listed on OldApps.com. Our pledge is that our users will never end up with any malware, trojans, and/or any other variation of viruses.

You will find almost 200 programs here, and 2770 versions of them!

BLOGRUSH

BLOGRUSH

Who wants FREE TRAFFIC to Your Blog?
You do, of course!
So head on over to BlogRush and get signed-up (only takes a minute +/-) and put their Widget on your blog, You're Done!

It's that easy!
Get more traffic by telling more people, simple.

MediaFire - FREE FILE HOSTING made Simple

When you need a place to host your files online that you want to give friends, family and others access to, then MediaFire is the place to go.
Just look at what they say:

MediaFire is the simplest way to host files and images and share them with others.

MediaFire is a free and unlimited file and image hosting web site with no strings attached. Our goal is to help make the internet a more interesting and media rich place by provide the fastest and most simple to use tool for sharing all kinds of files in almost any way imaginable. Registration is completely optional and every feature of the service is available to you whether you choose to create an account or not. If you choose to, creating an account is easy and free, allowing you to quick and secure access to your saved files from any computer.

Share Your Files and Images

Easily share large files and images by Email, Instant Messenger, and on your web site or MySpace page.

With MediaFire's easy to use sharing tools and embedding links you can share entire folders of files and images by email, instant messenger, or on your MySpace page, blog or forum. Folders also double as image galleries so sharing all your vacation photos or graphic design work in one place just got a whole lot simpler.

You just can't beat the price - $0.00!

I signed-up and had one of my ebooks uploaded in less than 5 minutes! That's Fast.

I would suggest using the sign-up process even though you are not forced to, because you can only make changes to your files and folders from your machine that you upload with if you don't sign-up and it's not a big deal anyway.

Kunaki -- CD/DVD manufacturing and publishing service

Kunaki -- CD/DVD manufacturing and publishing service


You will probably be surprised to find that when looking for a CD/DVD publishing house
that actually can deliver the goods, even when you just need one! Well, I was surprised
to find this service was available and not only available but the costs are just outstanding.

Here are the details as advertised on their website:

• Retail quality. Full-color, glossy, fully assembled, cellophane-wrapped, retail-ready products with free UPC bar codes. We manufacture to high-quality retail specifications letting you sell your CDs and DVDs at CD-Baby, Amazon, and other retail outlets.
• No minimums, commitments, or contracts. And, no setup, mastering, or hidden charges.
  
• No risk. We send you a free review copy of your product.
  
• Fast and simple. Design, configure, and manufacture in one day. Use our software to design your disc, case, inserts; and select your contents.
  
• Order what you need when you need it. Order 1 or 300 units. Order more when you need them. We can drop-ship to any address. Just-in-time production means risk-free, zero warehousing costs.
• Publish at no cost to you. Our automated factory accepts credit-card orders on your behalf. We manufacture and ship your product to your customers within minutes. We report sales with customer names/addresses to you and send you a check each month for an amount equal to the quantity sold multiplied by the price you set.

Now, if you are just getting started and the budget is tight, you may find this service to be as good as I say.

Rokario Software - Free Bandwidth Monitor

Rokario Software - Free Bandwidth Monitor
Continuing on the the theme of bandwidth issues I've been using this monitor from Rokario Software to keep a check on my bandwidth usage. It is a very cool little application that stays mostly in the system tray unless you want to watch the various amounts monitored like kb/sec incoming, kb/sec outgoing, traffic(transfer) this hour, (amount)downloaded today, uploaded today and traffic this month. You also get a daily log to see your past usage and compare data.

I've been determined to keep track of these issues since my run-in with the Broadband Rip-Offs that I mentioned in my last post!

The really cool thing, after all the different things you can monitor is the fact that you can use many different "looks" for the application and not only that, you also have the ability to create your own "look" and not just use it, but upload it to their website and let others use it too. Now, I know we all are not interested in going that far, but if you are it's very tempting and makes the whole application even more desirable.

Like I said I've been using this tool for a while now and have found it to be very informing, especially when I'm still having issues with connection speed and making sure I do not exceed any limits for any month. When you look at all the features and benefits you get from using this application and the fact that you can get it for FREE!! just make it a really valuable asset to my toolbox.

Rokario.com do offer a Pro Version of Bandwidth Monitor 2 for $15.98 which has about 9 more options available, but if you are just looking for a personal application then go for the FREE Version.

When Unlimited does not mean Unlimited

You may think this makes no sense and to most of the people that grew up learning English when I did (some time ago) this will not by any definition make sense. But when you are looking to find a ISP (Internet Service Provider) then the rules have been changed for the better, better that is for the ISP.

You see, there is this thing about ISPs that most people don't get to find out unless they are a "power user" or someone that is connected say for 18 of the 24 hours of the day and maybe they are the kinds of users which like to download loads of content from the online content providers.

You may not be aware that there could be anything worth downloading other than a few desktop wallpapers or tunes for your playlist. That's all the better for the ISPs because they are looking to become your Service Provider and you will be the "IDEAL" user for their services.

There are so many commercials, adverts, posters, etc. that are advertising to these "low bandwidth" users - Unlimited Broadband for a ridiculously low price and they are making out like bandits, charging for an unlimited service that you could not possibly use all that is offered if you tried, even if you really, really tried! Look at it from their point of view:

We provide a service that most users will never be able to push to the "limit", oh there is a limit! So we can confidently propose to those users the fallacy of "unlimited" because they don't have enough Free Time to be able to use even a small insignificant part of the bandwidth which we provide, so they will never find out that there is actually a "LIMIT" and most do not ever consider the case.

Now, take a different scenario and look at this "Unlimited Broadband" con.

The main householder, "user 1", spends all day, roughly 10-12 hours actually connected to the internet and is not only downloading but also uploading content to the Internet on one or more websites.

There is another user in the household, "user 2", and they are at university but do all of their coursework and research for their course at home because they are disabled and find it more to their liking to do it all from home instead of traveling to and from campus everyday or living away with a full time carer. This user is also using the same connection through a wireless router and is online roughly 8-12 hours a day and downloading as well as uploading throughout the day everyday.

Then we have our next user in the household, "user 3", who just likes to listen to the online-radio stations and they easily listen to this all day long for roughly 8-10 hours a day.
So far we have three users pushing the "Limit" of the "Unlimited Broadband" but wait, we have a couple more users to add to make this even more complex.

The next two users work a job outside the home, "user 4" and "user 5", are online chatting with friends, downloading pics, downloading ebooks, downloading music to put on phones and portable devices, etc. These users are the only ones that the service was envisioned for:

the crowd - the ones that are out most of the day and when they do get home, only have a few hours to get online and use the "unlimited" broadband they got for such a good deal!

But one day the householder receives a letter from the ISP regarding their usage of the service and is told in no uncertain terms that their usage is in contradiction of the terms of the agreement and a clause has been broken in the contract and to remedy this they can pay for "unlimited broadband" and of course the householder agrees because otherwise there would be a disconnection.

The next month brings the next letter from the ISP, again the terms of the contract seem to still be in contradiction with the user's use, but this time the ISP is giving no more warnings and gives notice of termination of the service forthwith. Of course the users are all up in arms about how this could happen and a call goes to the ISP to query the termination. The ISP is not interested this time and quotes the clause of the contract that has been broken and is immovable on the decision.

The terms of the disconnection are such that it will take about 12 days to disconnect the line and there are no other ISPs able to give the user a broadband line, either unlimited or not because the first ISP has not actually disconnected the service yet, so the user has to wait until the disconnection is complete before they can carry on their daily activities and so too do the other users in the household have to wait.

Well, 18 days later and there are no signs of being disconnected so the user phones the ISP and enquirers about the length of time till disconnection and the ISP has no idea but that the order has been sent through to the appropriate department and it shouldn't take much more than a couple more days.

In the meantime the user sets up a new account with a new ISP after phoning all the other ISPs and enquiring as to their "unlimited broadband" accounts, which turn out to be the same as or close to the first ISP as far as actual usage of the account.

Finally coming to a relatively new ISP with accounts designed for “Power Users” and of course there are “limits” to the account, but the limits this time are far superior to the other ISPs and they are not afraid to tell prospective users the limitations of the service upfront and letting them decide if it fills their needs.

Happy days! They can finally get back to some sort of normality without being disrupted by threats of disconnection or actually being disconnected because they broke one of the terms of the contract, which when searching for the said clause in the original contract, was never found to be included! Make up your own mind.

As this all was taking place, a well known and trusted investigative programme on TV actually did an investigation into the very same question of "Unlimited Broadband" and found that while these ISPs touting the "unlimited" banner were actually misleading users into believing they would have free reign to use as much of the service as they could possibly use. The only thing that was keeping them out of court for false advertising was the fact that most people do not know the difference between "unlimited downloads" and "unlimited connection" and it is this unlimited connection that they are selling in their packages.

One more definition that pertains to all this is the "Fair Usage Policy" which turns out to be something along the lines that; as long as you are not using too much of the service during peak times then all is well and good, but if you are exceeding this usage then you're in trouble!

So at the end of the day, when you have a large household and you think you're getting a really good package from an ISP who quotes "Unlimited Broadband" make sure that you are not going to be exceeding their Fair Usage Policy or their limits for how many Gigabytes a month Downloading and Uploading otherwise known as “transfer amount” you are actually able to use within limits, or was that unlimits!

You decide, but make sure you don't make the wrong choice, You Have Been Warned!