The time has come. The much anticipated Site Hoppin Toolbar private beta has been released. I’ve imbedded a “how to” video made by Josh over at the Unconventional Marketing Blog explaining what the toolbar is and how you can use it to significantly increase traffic to you blog or website:

Max over at Site Hoppin has made available the beta release to a few select friends including me. I have had the opportunity to download version 1.1 and have started playing around with it. It definitely makes “hoppin” from site to site a lot faster and eliminates the “browser in browser” configuration. You’re also able to access all your pages as well as easily rate and tag sites.

Starting today, for all Money Maker Times.com readers, you may download the beta release of the Site Hoppin toolbar for yourself to install and use. The download is available at: Read the rest of this entry »

As most people know who use the Internet, computer security is a huge concern. Most of us buy and install one of the well known virus protection software packages (Norton AntiVirus and McAfee are but two examples) to hopefully protect our operating systems and files from unwanted infection. Most of the software packages involve the purchase of the initial installation plus some sort of paid subscription that you must renew annually to access the frequent update downloads that are distributed, sometimes daily. These updates are vital to keep your virus protection up to date in order to combat the latest exploits from affecting your system. Along with costing way too much for what these products deliver, the more popular packages tend to greatly affect the overall performance of your computer. This results in painfully slow web surfing and other computer tasks due to the computing resources these packages require to operate in the background. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you using WordPress 2.5 as your content management system, an important security update has just been released. This update includes one important security fix along with 70 other bug fixes and other enhancements. WordPress recommends everyone install this update, particularly those publishers who employ open registration.

You can download version 2.5.1 here

As a side note, to make your upgrading expereince much simpler and quicker, a plugin is available which automates the upgrade process. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure many of you, like me, who are frequent users of the Internet have had your share of problems with viruses, spyware and other malicious and unwanted “modifications” that seem to find their way onto your computer. This, in turn, tends to significantly slow your online activities and in some cases cause major operating system and software issues. This can get so bad that you may have had to take the drastic and time consuming step of reinstalling your Windows operating system and start fresh. I know I have and it’s not fun.

Well, I recently came across an offering from Microsoft that many of you, who rely on Windows XP as your operating system, may not be aware of that is designed to automatically revert your system back to it’s original state if you run into any of these malicious software related issues. It’s a free download called Windows “SteadyState” which essentially allows you to set-up a locked-down platform by way of separate user accounts. Once you have everything set up the way you want it, you can share the computer and rest easy. Any changes a user might make to the configuration or hard disk can be undone by simply restarting the machine. Read the rest of this entry »