Stay Healthy This Winter
It’s that time of the year again. Seems like everyone around you is sick right? Try some of these herbal remedies to lesson your cold, or prevent you from getting one in the first place. Can be taken as capsules or tea.
1.) Echinacea - When taken at first sign of colds or during has been known to help the duration of the cold. Great Immune System stimulant.
2.) Ginger - Great for upset stomach’s and has been known to fight and help with ulcers.
3.) Goldenseal - Known to fight bacterial infections
4. ) Astragalus - Astragalus has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and diuretic (helps eliminate fluid from the body) properties. Also a great AntiOxidant
5.) Mullein - Helps ease bronchial tubes and overall lung function
6.) Slippery Elm - Great for easing coughs and sore throats
7.) Thyme - Helps releieve sore throats and reduces mucous in nasal passages.
Also make sure you eat healthy, drink water and take your multivitamins once a day as well!
Live Scanner Feed
Sorry for the lack of updates on the Live Scanner feed, but it is still not up. I will be moving soon so I did not think it would make sense to enable and setup the feed only to move shortly after.
Promise it will be up soon and well worth the wait!
Great Plugins for Wordpress
Just thought I would like to share some plug-ins that I use and that would benefit anyone with Wordpress. This list is only 5 long, so I will pick only the best and my favorite ones.
1.) Google XML Sitemap Generator - If SEO and traffic is something you want to achieve, (which most of you want) than this plug-in is highly recommended. This easy to use Plugin requires barely any work, and does most everything for you.
2.) Oracle Brains Social Bookmarker - Ever has your site Dugg, Reddit or Del.li.cious? Well I havn’t, but it is a great thing for a huge traffic boost. This plug-in add’s the option after each post to allow user’s to recommend your site to a social networking site such as Digg. You can choose the sites you will want to use in the Plug-in options.
3.) Viper’s Video Quicktags - This plug-in allows you to paste in Youtube or other video URL’s so they show up like this.
Recommended for Blogs or Vlogs with video postings.
4.) Ultimate Google Analytics - If you use Google Analytics like I do to track Website traffic, than this makes it easy to input the tracking code for your blog. It actually does this for you. All you need is your Tracking Code in plug-in options which usually looks like this : UA-XXXXXXX-X. If you do not use Google Analytics, I highly recommend signing up.
5.) WP-DBMgr Plugin - Losing your posts, links and everything else is not fun. With this plug-in you can backup your Wordpress Database and also repair it. Can also be configured to automatically backup your DB at your specified times. Highly recommended and easy to use.
Enjoy!
Both sites back up
Just thought I would let everyone know that both sites are back up and functioning. Due to technical difficulties on the Web host side, my sites were down for about 2-3 days.
Again apologize for the inconvenience, but everything is back up!
5 Wordpress Plugins for maximizing your blog
With Wordpress becoming one of the most popular self hosted blogging solutions, it makes sense to capitalize on the popularity and benefit your blog. The following plugins are recommended and are worth an activation to get a good start on your Blog.
Hope you like all the pretty colors! I used Google Cache to restore some of my postings because im lazy!
Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
2. Oracle Brains Social Bookmarker
Highly recommended since this plugin gives you social book marking icons under each post in which you can submit to. You are control and can pick and choose sites to show whether Digg or Reddit. Supports the following sites :del.icio.us, reddit, slashdot it, digg, facebook, technorati, google, stumble, windows live, tailrank, bloglines, furl, netscape, yahoo, blinklist, feed me links, co.mments, bloglines, bookmark.it, ask, diggita, mister wong, backflip, spurl, netvouz, diigo, dropjack, segnalo, stumbleupon, simpy, newsvine, slashdot it,wink, linkagogo, rawsugar, fark, squidoo, blogmarks, blinkbits, connotea, smarking, wists.
3. SEO Slugs
Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap will be updated and all major search engines which support the sitemap protocol like ASk.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO are notified about the update. Recommended highly and easy to use!
If you are an associate, or want to be an Amazon associate this is recommended for your blog. In addition to Adsense, you can make even more revenue by recommending Amazon products within your blog. Amazon Associates Page.
Blast from the Past
Hopefully below you will appreciate this collection of screenshots that is sure to bring you back. Most of these images bring back memories for me and hopefully it does for you too.
**Click for bigger Images!**
Back in the day if you were not using Newsgroups or Usenet, mIRC was the place to be for all of your warez needs. Some of you may recognize the fserv window ;).. 1995-1999 Was like the Wild West days for mIRC, where everyone packed a script on their side and a posse of clone bots.
I spent many years playing this MUD on local BBS’s back in the day. Never played a game so basic yet so addictive in my life!
Below are some other games that I truley miss playing…
Back when GTA was simple,2 dimensional and a blast to play
How can anyone forget about Duke Nukem 3D!? I’m sure most of you remember this part of the game!
Subspace.. A very entertaining game that was awesome to play online, and was very addicting too!
Rise of the Triad was one of my all time favorites. An instant classic and was quite advanced for its release. Love the John Woo pistols!
Well there you have it.. Just some old school imagery to bring back some memories of computing from a different time.
New Years Freeware List for 2008
With the New Year approaching, why not start off fresh in 2008 with these downloads for Window’s based PC’s. (Windows and Vista)
Windows XP & Vista
01. Windows XP Service Pack 3 - This download would be highly recommended, and has been finally released to the public for download 12/11/07.
02. SpaceMonger- Ever wonder what is taking all of your hard drive space? Forgot about those old vacation movies that were burned to DVD’s? Never fear, Spacemonger is here. This handy utility tells you where all the space is being taken, and has a nice graphical presentation of it.
03. PageDefrag - Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes of performance degradation related to file fragmentation in a system. I have used this utility for System Performance and it works. Use alongside standard hard drive defrag programs for maximum benefit.
04. Fresh UI - Fresh UI is a tool for configuring and optimizing Windows. It comes loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows such as: customizing the User Interface (UI), optimizing system settings, optimizing hardware settings, customizing Windows application settings, control user environment with policies.
05. EasyCleaner- Once of my All-time favorite freeware permance apps. This one does it all… You can scan your registry for errors, look for duplicate files, manage programs installed on system and also manages startup items.
06. Mcafee Site Advisor - Keep that PC clean throughout the New Year by avoiding harmful websites! This nifty application integrates into your browser to keep you alerted of harmful and potentially unwanted websites. Bad websites highlighted in red and may contain unwanted code, downloads and Virus’s. Green will show that the site has been checked and is safe.Compatible with Internet Explorer.
07. Spybot Search & Destroy - A spyware free OS is a happy OS. It happens to all of us at one point or another… You get Spyware,Adware,Malware on your PC. Run this application to ensure that this is safely removed with ease. Will remove most all types of Adware from your system. Tried, Tested and True.
08. FreeRam XP - FreeRAM XP is a small, yet powerful memory manager and optimizer that allows you to free unused Ram.Recommended for computers that have less than 512mb of RAM on their XP installation. Not Vista Compatible