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  He's always hoping his kids will get sick so he can try new stuff?  Sounds like he don't need any kids, he needs Guinea Pigs....  Geeze....

  These are the giveaways available this week on Glarysoft:

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  Todays giveaway on Glarysoft:

FreeTunes 3.0
freeTunes enables you to convert your purchased CDs, DVDs, music- and video files legally into more compatible formats (which can still be played tomorrow). In addition to audio CDs and video DVDs (for ripping the sound tracks) also music files, audio books, podcasts and video clips are supported. For output you can select between MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA & WAV and even create ring tones for the iPhone! 

http://giveaway.glarysoft.com/

tinman57 -

BlackBoxSearch.com is a maker of optical fiber test equipment.  BlackBoxSearch.org and BlackBoxSearch.net go to an employment site.  Do you have a URL for the BlackBoxSearch service?

  I'll be darned, looks like they done got eaten up by GoOgle, since that's the only link provided for a search.  Either way, I'm deleting that from my bookmarks.   

At least http://search.yacy.net/, http://www.dogpile.com/ and http://www.yebol.com/ are still doing their thing.  Another good one is http://www.wolframalpha.com/ , a Computational Knowledge Engine.  Click on the "Examples" link and see the immense Knowledge Base for making specific searches.

  It looks like a pretty awesome website.  I'm sending out links to it in my "istuff" newsletter.....

(Faux Rabid Madman)
"Not good enough! Sign up yourself! Now!"
 

But yes, thank you! Yes, the retro design has come up a few times. But have at it! Post a couple of story comments!

  AAAALLLLRightyThen!   

  Not only is this piece of dirt for government spying, but he also thinks of freedom loving people as, well, read on...

CISPA sponsor Rep. Mike Rogers said something on camera that he will probably regret for a long time.
Rep. Mike Rogers admits that CISPA helps rich tech CEOs, then calls opponents of CISPA "14 year olds in their basements." And it's on video.

http://www.reddit.com/r/S...hat_cispa_helps_rich_tech

  It looks like a pretty awesome website.  I'm sending out links to it in my "istuff" newsletter.....

...Of course it helps to have a link where you can send your letter in opposition:
[url]http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/CISPA_IBM

It does indeed! (That's why I it right at the start of the post and not as an embedded link in the copied email.)    

  LOL!  The way it sets at the very top I thought that was part of something else.  That's why I always put links at the end of the article.

  Anyhow, I got that same exact email today and wasn't too surprised that it had got posted here already, which is a good thing.  Hopefully people will take it to heart and at least take the time out to make their voice heard by contacting their Representatives.

  BTW, 

[ArsTechnica]

I presume this ArsTechnica news item is true (one can't be too sure, given some of their aparently mediocre journalism): Obama threatens CISPA veto, sponsor calls opponents basement-dwelling 14-year-olds

If it is true, then:

• (a) It looks like the Obama administration are wanting to block this CISPA legislation that could threaten to erode citizens' statutory rights - whereas the same administration is at the same time apparently intent on shoving through other legislation that would ... threaten to reduce citizens' statutory rights!?
  Is this some kind of "good cop, bad cop" play?
  
  
• (b) Some people (not me you understand) might say that a senator who would malign in such a vitriolic and despising way any opponents to his proposed legislation to erode citizens' statutory rights would seem to be acting unprofessionally and against the interests of citizens, and that may indicate that he has a vested interest in the proposals getting pushed through - but I couldn't possibly comment.

  Kind of makes you wonder, don't it?  These very same politicians have to take an oath to protect the Constitution of the U.S., but their communist like agenda says they're trying everything they can to destroy the Constitution and remove the freedoms and rights of all Americans, and in some cases other nations.  I think most all politicians rate right down there with spammers, scammers and crooks.....

[https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/CISPA_IBM/]

Email from Sam Adler-Bell <info@demandprogress.org>:
Go to https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/CISPA_IBM/ to support the protest.
(Most of the email is copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)

16 April 2013 10:55

...It's on.

In anticipation of a full House vote in the House on Wednesday, industry giant IBM has sent nearly 200 senior execs to Washington to lobby in support of CISPA.

And their intentions couldn't be more clear. CISPA would empower them to share your private data with the military without a warrant -- and they wouldn't hesitate to do so.

Chris Padilla, IBM's VP of governmental affairs told TheHill.com that IBM and other corporations "should be able to work directly and share information directly"  with the National Security Agency "because that's where the expertise is."

We have to stop this bill from becoming law and eviscerating our hard-won civil liberties and privacy rights. Click here to urge your reps to oppose CISPA on Wednesday.

Despite an outpouring of opposition from the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and over 100,000 Demand Progress members, the House Intelligence committee has voted to approve CISPA--a cyber-security bill that would give companies unprecedented power to share your private information with the government, including the intelligence agencies like the NSA, without a warrant.

Now the bill moves to the House for a full vote on Wednesday. We need to reiterate our opposition to this dangerous legislation loud and clear.

Click here to tell your representatives to protect online privacy and oppose CISPA on Wednesday.

Our collective efforts stopped CISPA from becoming law last year, and we can do it again. But we must be vigilant and keep putting our representatives on notice.

Now, as before, we cannot sacrifice our hard-won liberties and privacy rights in the pursuit of a misguided and over-broad conception of "security."

Click here to urge your representatives in Congress to oppose CISPA on Wednesday.

 Thanks,
-Demand Progress

  Of course it helps to have a link where you can send your letter in opposition:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/CISPA_IBM

I use Defraggler myself.  Really great program that's small and remarkably fast.

Agree with you it's a great program. I like that, after the main Defrag runs, it gives you a list of stubborn files that are still somewhat fragrmented. Check those files you wish (or all of them with a single click to "Select All") and Defraggler will do its best to defrag these (usually quite large) files. It'll fail on some, but succeed on most.

  I also like how it shows the fragments, by file and by block.  And the Analysis is so quick too.  The Disk Health provides a huge amount of checks on the drive, very professional looking.  I sent them a donation long ago after experimenting with it for a long time.

hi mouser and all,
well, pity that the project is sort of "suspended" for now.

my question then to all the "calendar searchers" out there is:
does anybody know of a "simple and basic" calendar program which, as mouser initially stated, offers click-and-enter-text AND (this being the function i definitely need) click-and-change-backgroundcolor [multiple color choice!] for any day of the grid? 

thanks and cheers
chrisk

  With RTPO you can change the background color and the text color.  I don't know if you can change the background color for each day though.  It's definitely "Click and enter text".

  I just got the latest update and realized that I've been getting updates since 1998 without having to pay a cent!  How great is that?  I contacted the author by email the other day about how to move the default data folder.  The very next day I got a reply telling me what to do (really simple), plus he told me he would add an option to do that from the toolbar and would be ready for download in a few days!  Now that's what I call Customer Service with a smile.....

  The trial version is good for 30 days if you want to check it out.  It really is an excellent calendar program, I prefer it over any of the other commercial calendar programs that I have like the one that comes with Word, Works, Corel and more.....

As defined by who exactly?

  That's about right, one person complains and the next thing you know everyone is in a frenzy. Sound familiar?   It's no secret that occasionally I drop the F bomb, but I try not to do this in the Living Room since it's an open forum.  With that being said, if there is no swearing allowed in this forum, then the filter should be set so.  If no such filtering is available, then it should be known that such post will be deleted.  Problem instantly solved.....

  The government won't allow hack-backs because they're afraid you'll find confidential information they stole from the U.S.. [sarcasm on] Can't have that information in the hands of the average citizen, now can we?  [sarcasm off]

  I remember when spam started becoming a problem way back when.  There were companies that hired marketing companies to place ads for them.  Little did they know that these marketing companies were spamming their ads, a few of them put apology letters on their website stating that they did not approve of their marketing company spamming.

  The BEST thing to do when you receive spam is to report it so it will be shut down.  Of course the spammers have to constantly move around once they're identified and shut down, but if you do nothing they're free to keep spamming from their site.
  You can report it to your ISP, usually something like "abuse@your ISP.com".  Then you can also report it by sending the entire email, including headers to "nonregistered@coldrain.net".  There are others as well, but for the best spam reporting "How To" site with all kinds of information and apps, go to http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/#report .

[^^]

^^ Yes, people seem to be waking up to this, albeit belatedly.
For example: CISPA Amendment Proves Everyone's Fears Were Justified While Failing To Assuage Them

  The government has a knack for the "small print" and how they word things that leaves the door wide open for the government spooks to do their thing, all while sharing with local law enforcement and tech companies that benefit from private information.  Most likely it's also another one of those "follow the money" bills.

  No matter how you look at it, it's Orwellian.

  As far as search engines, DuckDuckGo, Blekko, BlackBoxSearch and DogPile are some good ones that don't track you.   

Nice list. I have been using Startpage but I'm not so thrilled with their results. I'll have to try a couple of those.

  I normally use DuckDuckGo.  It's fast and has absolutely NO ADS!  Blekko is really good too, and only has ONE AD, and it's at the bottom of the page.  lol

  And hence my tag-line:

((((TINMAN))))
----------------------------------------------------------
(Duck!  It's another MicroSoft Patch!)

  I've been using RTPO (Ready To Print Organizer) since 1998 and have never had an issue.  It only cost $19.95, and doesn't have any crapware, at least the last time I downloaded it.  lol  It really has a lot of bells and whistles for such a small program.  It loads up in a blink of the eye and switches screens just as fast....

http://www.nsnsoftware.com/

Friday 12 April, Giveaway of the Day:  >BlazeVideo DVD Copy 6.0.0 - Copy any DVD to DVD R(W), iPhone, iPad, iPod, PSP and mobile devices with incredible speed and original quality.<


http://www.giveawayofthed...lazevideo-dvd-copy-6-0-0/

  Looks like a nice program, but does it decrypt copy protection?

I took offence to something? News to me...When the hell do I take offence to ANYTHING 

Tinman, I know you didn't aim it specifically at me

Another bad joke:
Do you really have to aim specifically with a 12-gauge? 

  Well every now and then I use other things.  Just today I eradicated a baby-factory tree rat (female red squirrel) with a .22 Long rifle at approx 120 yards away from my house.  They like to chew up insulation from under the house and wiring from under the hoods of cars, so I keep them in check every year about this time....

I took offence to something? News to me...When the hell do I take offence to ANYTHING 

Tinman, I know you didn't aim it specifically at me

Wraith, You hit the nail on the head

April, I understood how you thought I might have taken that comment as something aimed directly at me

Mouser...Shut up.

lol!  Hell, even I was wondering what was going on.  Not to worry, I've been accused of worse.   

  So the lesson here is, don't use Bing and don't use GoOgle.  I have software and secure DNS servers that has prevented me from going to infected websites on several occasions, and I'm talking about some well known websites.  Once I was blocked from going to an infected page on PcWorld, and a few days later PcWorld announced that some of their pages were hacked with malware.  Nowwhodathunkit?   

  As far as search engines, DuckDuckGo, Blekko, BlackBoxSearch and DogPile are some good ones that don't track you.   

No... the proper response is to ban cell phones from airplanes, of course! 

  From what I understand, it can be done while safely on the ground to an aircraft flying close by, so outlawing phones on the aircraft won't make any difference.  Wait! Ohhhhhh!  I get it!  lol.

  Personally, I think by the time both sides are done hacking this bill, it won't be worth the paper it's printed on and be full of loopholes the government can conveniently abuse....

Congressional panel approves Internet freedom bill
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet "free from government control," with promises that the Republican majority would work with critics of the bill's wording.

http://www.pcworld.com/ar...nternet-freedom-bill.html

Critics question wording of Internet freedom bill
Legislation that would make it official U.S. policy to promote a global Internet “free from government control” could restrict the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from using its authority and prevent law enforcement agencies from taking action against cybercriminals, some critics have said.

http://www.pcworld.com/ar...nternet-freedom-bill.html