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In this month's Newsletter:
Website Steve's Q&A
Introduction
PC Resolver, in partnership with The Inland Magazine, is publishing a Questions and Answers section in the published magazine. The purpose of this is to answer the most common questions that are currently affecting my clients and readers of the magazine. You are encouraged to contact me with any questions you may have.
The questions and answers themselves are in the Website Steve's Q&A section of Support. This section will grow and will include non-published questions.
A key part of Website Steve's Q&A is questions about websites. Having your own website has never been easier, cheaper or more necessary than it is today. A fully functioning professionally designed and built website costs 300 Euros to build to your requirements and less than 10 Euros a month to host (including your domain name and IVA). I will give a 50 Euro discount to anyone quoting this newsletter!
You can meet me at my Free Computer Clinic at The Inland Magazine Bootsale in Salinas on the First Sunday of each month.
Is it safe to let my browser remember my passwords? If not, what is the alternative?
No! No! No! Let’s be very clear: It is NOT SAFE to allow your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox ...) to remember your passwords. I have written in a previous newsletter about how easy it is to reveal these saved passwords - in plain text! Anyone with 10 seconds access to your computer can see them! What happens if your computer is stolen? It doesn't bear thinking about does it?
So, what can you do to protect yourself?
You should, at the very least, use the master password facility if it exists for your browser. Do it now! I'll wait (the instructions for Firefox are here). But don’t think you’re safe because a quick search on the Internet will reveal many programs that will recover or reset this, and other, passwords!
Does this mean you have to remember all your passwords and type them in every time? NO.
I’ve used a great little program for years: Roboform.
Roboform:
• Integrates with all browsers
• Stores and Encrypts your passwords.
• Automatically fills registration forms with 1-click.
• Loads web pages and fills in the login details automatically (no risk of
phishing attacks).
• Backs up and synchronizes your passwords between computers.
• Generates random passwords (more secure).
• Stores and Encrypts notes of any kind.
• You can access your passwords online (securely!) from any computer.
Please contact me for free advice and guidance and make sure your Internet browsing is safe, secure AND easy!!
How can I add Google Adverts to my site? How much will I earn and who pays?
Google Adverts are the small text or ‘banner’ ads that appear on many sites (mine included!). If anyone clicks on these they are taken to a new site that will have content relevant to the ‘host’ site (your site).
To add these to your site you need firstly to create an account with Google and then you can apply for a Google Adsense account. From this account you create the size and style of ads you want to appear on your site. Google provide you with the code and you put this on your site.
You earn based on the number of “impressions” (how many times these advert have been displayed on your site) and “clicks”. My average payment is 25 cents per click (after Google‘s cut).
So who pays? The person who supplies the ad pays Google to place these ads on their behalf and Google pay a portion of that to the host site.
It should cost less than 25 Euros (less than 100 clicks!) for a web designer to do this for you. After that, you get your "money for nothing and your clicks for free"!
As always, feel free to contact me if you need help.
Website Steve's Q&A FREE Stuff
Roboform
Roboform is the top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling. It is free for a limited number of passwords.
RoboForm is an award-winning automated password manager and web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence. This is what it does:
• AutoSave passwords in browser.
• AutoFill passwords to login form.
• Click Login button for you.
• Fill personal info into online forms.
• Save offline passwords & notes.
• Generate Secure Random Passwords.
• Encrypt passwords and personal data using AES, Blowfish, RC6, 3-DES or 1-DES algorithms.
• All personal info is stored on your computer only.
• Take RoboForm with you on USB disk for ultimate portability.
• Sync your passwords and notes to Palm or Pocket PC.
• Backup & Restore, Print your passwords.
• More features: drill down for more.
• It is well-behaved: NO ADWARE, NO SPYWARE.
• Works under Windows as an add-on to IE-based browsers.
• Works with Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox under Windows.
Final Word
As always, I encourage anyone with a comment, suggestion, question, idea or inspiration to contact me at
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Please also see The Inland Magazine Computer Problems Forum if you have a specific IT problem.
Steve
PC Resolver
966 967 439
650 354 629
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