Y!TunnelPro,one of my favorite Yahoo! Messenger tools,provides enhancements and protection for users of Yahoo! Messenger. This includes enhanced privacy settings for all aspects of Messenger, boot code filtering, visual enhancements and full integration into Yahoo! Messenger.

Since the time Y!Tunnel was first introduced it has evolved from a simple tool to filter chat room annoyances to the program chat users rely on for enhanced privacy, SPAM filtering, and integrated enhancements.

One of my favorite Y!TunnelPro features is Super Iggy Bin which extends the functionality of Yahoo! Messenger by allowing you to ignore an unlimited number of users. Additionally the Super Iggy Bin allows you to ignore users using wildcard matches in order to automatically block users with similar names.

Y!TunnelPro also features several chat room enhancements like enhanced chat room chooser,adverisements disabling and automatically retrying to join a room when full.

In addition to the new connection manager Y!TunnelPro now includes several features to enhance your chat experience such as auto-completion of user names, SPAM Challenge user verification for instant messages, additional SPAM blocking, updated activity and diagnostic log windows, an all new auto update module, and major additions that integrate with Yahoo! Messenger.

This is one of my favorite softwares that I recommend you to download and use.

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Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. Windows Live Messenger has new Vista look and added some new features such as PC-to-PC calls, sending offline messanges to other Messengers and much more.

However, current Windows Live Messenger is only opened to beta testers and required an invitation to sign in. For curious MSN Messenger users, here I show you how to download, install and sign in Windows Live Messenger beta, without Microsoft invitation step by step.

• Download a copy of Windows Live Messenger installer. Here’s the link to download Windows Live Messenger.
• Now, we need to use a “downgrader” to bypass it. Download and install MSNP13 Downgrader.
• Go to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger and double-click MSNlaunch.exe to launch MSNP13 downgrader and Windows Live Messenger at the same time.

  

• The MSNP13 downgrader will bypass the Windows Live Messenger beta tester check and sign you into the MSN instant messenger network.That’s it!

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In January 1986 the first ever computer virus was unleashed via floppy disk, and 20 years on the problem is still very much a nightmare situation for the average PC user.

Though it’s origin is still disputed it is thought the virus, known as Brain, was coded by two Pakistani programmers named Basit and Amjad who designed their virus to affect every 360kb floppy inserted into the drive. Four years later a company called Symantec launched the now hugely popular Norton Antivirus.

Within two years the number of malicious programs had increased by 420% to 1300, this was probably helped by creation kits like the Virus Creation Laboratory which was also released in 1992.

Some of the more memorable viruses since then include 1999’s Melissa virus, which executed a macro which sent copies of itself to 50 people in the users Outlook address book, the Love Bug which deleted MP3, MP2 and JPG files as well as sending usernames and passwords to the author and 2004’s MyDoom worm which affected businesses, banks and the British Coastguard.

Today there are more than 150,000 malicious programs and over 25 major companies specialising in anti-virus software for the Windows platform alone.

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What is Search Engine Optimization?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to give them a better ranking in search engines.

If you succeed in optimizing your pages in the right way, you will be awarded with top rankings, which can result in thousands of monthly visitors to your site.

Why is Search Engine Optimization important?

Search Engine Optimization is important because over 80% of Internet users reach Websites through search engines. If your Website is not ranked at the top of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, HotBot, and Lycos, you will be losing a lot of traffic.

Search Engine Optimisation is basically about following search engine rules. If your Web page fits the criterias that a search engine considers the most important factors in terms of relevance, then it will reward your site with a top ranking. This gives the Web pages a better chance of being selected by the search engines as the most relevant page for the search query.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to give them a better ranking in search engines.

Search Engine Optimization is important because most of the Internet users reach Web sites through search engines. If your Web site is not ranked at the top of the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, you will be losing a lot of traffic.

Search Engine Optimization is basically about following search engine rules. If your Web page fits the criterias that a search engine considers the most important factors in terms of relevance, then it will reward you with a top ranking.

Search Engine Optimization involves optimizing the title, keywords, description, headings and alt tags. You can get better rankings for your site if you use good keywords.

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What is Spam?

Spam is the commonly used term for unsolicited commercial e-mail send in bulk. The most common form of spam is e-mail spam. The main difference between spam and solicited mail, or newsletter, is that you never signed up to receive it anywhere. Other forms of spam are instant messaging (IM) spam, search engine spam, blog spam and mobile phone messaging spam.

What does spam do?

Spam fills your inbox with useless e-mails preventing you from receiving important mails. A large percentage of spam contains ads for pornographic Web sites or other such places that can be unacceptable viewing for many, especially children.

Opening a spam mail could immediately infect your pc with spyware or a worm without your knowledge. Another problem these days are spambots, which are a major producer of e-mail spam. Some spammers create various e-mail viruses that transforms an unprotected PC into a spambot that will inform the spammer of its existence, and the spammer will command it to send a low volume of spam. This allows spammers to send high volumes of spam without being caught by their ISPs or being tracked down by anti-spammers as the low volume makes it hard to detect.
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I just installed BAStats,a website statistics tracker plugin for Wordpress.

With BAStats you can learn what your visitors come to your site for. It also reports the page hit counts, referrer counts, search engine phrase counts, etc.

You can download the latest version from here

I just installed Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress 2.0 . It’s really awesome, you can get Googlebot to visit your site in under 60 seconds!

At first though I got an error while creating sitemap.xml, the error was because the script needed write access to my blog directory.

After a lot of searching I found how to do it. This is how I did it step by step:

• create two blank files in notepad - sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz
• upload them to your host
• CHMOD them to 666, which makes them writable
• generate the sitemap from your wordpress by going to options>sitemap

Now go to Google Sitemap and add your sitemap. Verify your site to see detailed statistics and errors for it.

If you still cannot get the sitemap generator to work then go here for a free step by step Google Sitemaps Video Tutorial.

Google Earth came out of its Beta tag for Windows version and along with that Google also launched version for Mac OS X.

Following is part of the annoucement made on Google’s official blog:

We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn’t be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded early, upgrade to the latest and discover Google Earth all over again.

And we have a brand new member of the family — Google Earth for Macintosh. We’re happy to finally have some good news for the, ahem, vocal Mac enthusiasts we’ve been hearing from. Let’s just say that we have gotten more than a few “requests” for a Mac version of Google Earth.

You can read the whole post here

Google earth for PC and Mac can be downloaded from here

Also more info on Google Earth can be found here

Britney Spears has many times been the most searched for person on major Search Engines.

But then it was because of her albums.

Now Britney seems to be on top of searches because she had a baby!

She didn’t release an album of new material in 2005, but the new mother was #1 on Yahoo!’s annual list of the most searched for. She’s topped the list for three of the past four years, having lost out to “American Idol” in 2004.