SPY SWEEPER UPDATE DRAWS COMPLAINTS

ALTHOUGH MANY ONLINE reviews rate it highly, some users of webfoot’s Spysweeper 5.0 complain that the new version slows down their PC .Web roofs Support Q&A says that such problems may be due to 5.0’s need for more RAM. To improve performance, the company recommends installing shield. Get the update and more info at find. as worst-case solution, Web root recommends rolling back to version 4.5 .

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Winnner VLC Media Player (www.vodeolan .org/vlc) of you play a lot of video and use Windows Media Player,you’ve probably come across a number of files that you cant’t play – you’re told you need to have a codec to handle them. Good luck finding that codec.instade ,try the VLC medua player.thid software plays pretty much every media type you can think of –and likely a few you haven’t imagined. Not only will it play audio and video formats, but it will also play DVDs, VCDs, and many streming protocols.

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Winner Avast ( www.avdast.com ) in a worid fiied with high-priced subscripton –based antivirious programs that bog down your PC whule perotecting it,Avast stands out . this program is one of the few free antivirus applications that do as good a job as any of the big boys.Avast includes more then seven diferent varieties of sheuilds, safe –surfing tools,and real –time virus protection for your OS,as well as for outlook .The program downloads and onstalls updates automatically ,and Avast works with both Windows Vista and XP. Goven ll this , why pay?

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Zone Alarm

Zone Alarm ( www.zonealarm.com) this free firewall still beats anything Microsoft puts into Windows,Incliding the features in Windows Vista. It offers outbund as well as inbound Protection.


AVG Antivirus –Virus free ( free .grisoft.com/doc/I ) Protecting against viruses and hackers, this app works with both Windows Vista and earlier versions.
SMAC (www.klcconsulting.net/smac) this otility lets you change he Mac address – the unique ID –of a wireless adapter. Use it to perform vulnerability testing , or to keep your identity private.
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Microsoft’s Web-Design Software Grows Up

Microsoft has finally embraced Web standards. The proof is its new Expression Web program, which puts Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XML, and other standards at the core of the application’s site design and management strategy.

From a developer’s perspective, Expression Web feels a lot more grown –up than FrontPage. While the program still shields Web designers their pages, the resulting sites should meet all Web design and accessibility standards. The trade –off all of the added functionality is the hours of training the program requires for noncoders.

Expression Web goes to considerable pains to make CSS as approachable as possible. For example, when you choose a style, a drop – down menu lists the attributes you can use for that style. The IntelliSense function enables you to type just a letter or two to select options and you can drag small pieces of code from one the program’s palettes directly onto your page to add navigation elements, form fields, or other components.

But even with all that help, making the switch to CSS requires quite a bit of training. People migrating to this program from FrontPage should be prepared to set a day or two to get up to speed.

Another feature that many designers will welcome is Expression Web’s support for XML and Extensible Style sheet Language Transformations (XSLT), which permits you to drag and drop links to dynamic XML data into your pages and format them easily for presentation on the Web.

Despite a few lingering traces of old FrontPage features (such as the spinning –globe icon you see as files transfer, Expression Web is a giant step up from that program.

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