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You can now download ebooks from my website. I have included a few Sci-Fi ebooks by Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven etc. Feel free to download from the ebooks section.

Well if you are looking for a complete anti-virus/internet security program Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite 7 is the best. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 now includes the award-winning Kaspersky antivirus and MailFrontier antispam. It doesn’t conflict with other security applications as with Norton. It doesn’t consume as much system resources as Norton or AVG. It provides a perfect balance between ease of use and best of breed security. What I’ve liked about Zone Alarm from the moment I started using it is that you can configure internet access for each program running on your system. Which means you can grant and block internet access for each program. Now with Kaspersky anti-virus built in the protection is doubled and we can get rid of Norton or other anti-virus programs altogether. Its an anti-virus, anti-spyware and internet security all built into one!
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Majority agree that Norton is the best anti-virus program. Well, maybe. It does scan deeply and removes most malicious programs. However, it slows down your computer to a crawl and also the system takes ages to boot up. It also interferes with a lot of other programs which are normally non-malicious. Therefore, I prefer AVG anti-virus. The scan time for AVG is almost same as Norton but it doesn’t slow down your computer as much as Norton. And the free edition is as good as the paid version. But it doesn’t have all the features of Norton. And the computer boots up faster with AVG installed compared to Norton. I prefer AVG anyday……

This post is dedicated for bloggers who are new and who would like to improve traffic and Page Rank. Anyone interested in linking can leave their URLs here and I’ll link them back.I’ll post their URLs here. Also below are a few sites where you can register for traffic improvement and traffic exchange for free.
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You can ping yahoo manually by visiting the following URL via your browser:

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[THE URL OF YOUR FEED]

If your blog URL is: http://[USERNAME].blogspot.com

I started using Bidvertiser for posting ads on my blog site two weeks ago. (For some reason that I cannot guess I was banned by Adsense) Its a good alternative to Adsense. There are both advantages and disadvantages of using Bidvertiser. I have some tips as well as a few unanswered questions about how to post ads with Bidvertiser. There are a few things I read on other sites and some of the tips worked and some didn’t. Also I have added a few tips of my own. Basically these are the points I would like to discuss and please leave your comments so that it would help us…

• First of all there is no control over what kind of ads appear on your site unlike with Adsense where the ads appear according to content. Here the ads are random.
• But you have the option to choose the type of ads you like and reject the type of ads which you wouldn’t want to appear on your site. And you are paid according to the amount of bids placed on ads which means you can earn as much as $0.5 and as low as $0.05 for each click.
• I selected the Vertical Skyscraper template which shows 5 ads vertically. At first five unique ads appeared for a few hours. Then all of a sudden just one ad appeared 5 times one below the other which went by the title “Your ad here for free”. This changed after a few minutes and two to three unique ads started appearing again but the “Your ad here for free” appeared regularly which was very annoying.
• Now according to Bidvertiser rules if a user clicks on the same ad twice in succession it doesn’t count as a valid click. And with the same ad repeating 5 times with the Skyscraper template we will not be paid if a user clicks more than once on the same ad appearing at two different locations which is annoying again.
• With that in mind I started experimenting by rejecting all ads with low bids starting from ads that pay $0.05 to $0.18 and by approving only the high paying ads. But i stuck on to the same template and this is what happened. The more ads i rejected the less unique were the ads that appeared. They got more repetitive and eventually only the “Your ad here for free” appeared over and over again.
• Now I tried different templates at different pages. I found out that if we use the same type of template on two different pages the same ads would appear on both pages using similar templates. And the more you reject low paying ads the less unique the ads become.
• Its better to avoid the Skyscraper template if don’t want your pages to look ugly with 5 ads of “Your ad here for free”. I also found out some important things relating to site traffic but i may be wrong there. Anyway this is what I think happens…
• Sites having high traffic get the ads with high bids and therefore those site owners can afford to reject low paying ads. They don’t have to fear about repetitive ads. Now if you’re just starting a new website or a blog you wont have much traffic to play with like in my case. So for people like us its better to NOT reject ads at all till our traffic improves. And its better to use different templates at different pages.
• Surprisingly there could be a problem for high traffic site owners too. Since two clicks on the same ad in succession doesn’t count as a valid click even if two different users were to click on the same ad at the same time the site owner wouldn’t get paid a dime!
• With all these disadvantages one good thing is you can modify the appearance of your ads to suit the appearance of your web pages and there is no limit to the number of ads you can post with Bidvertiser. But stick to only a few ads if your site has low traffic else you’ll only see “Your ad here for free”.
• And there is something new but which hasn’t worked in my case. There is an option for your ads to appear at the foot of your feed posts. I have tried doing that with various codes and settings available. I have also pinged but no ads have ever appeared under my feeds. If it has worked for any of you please let me know….
• Thats all I have to say. Please post your comments and your experience. I’ll be glad to improve my earnings and I hope that some of my tips were useful and correct….

Posted by Satish Iyer

Well the expansion for Imperium Romanum was released recently. In my opinion its not very dissimilar to its predecessor. The gameplay and objectives are very similar. Except that now we have four campaigns to choose from where as earlier there was the Timeline campaign and the Rome campaign in addition to half a dozen meaningless scenarios. Though the missions have a sort of historical flow and progress in terms of their difficulty, you’re free to play any mission from any campaign any time you like.
These campaigns have you building up the Roman presence in Britain, Germany and Africa, using the same type of gameplay found in the original game. Starting with a basic forum, you’ll need to build houses, agriculture, industry and a large enough military force to protect it all. However here’s somethin new. While upgrading the forum you can choose a God just like in Zeus or Poseidon. Vulcan, for e.g., will help your prefects extinguish fires more quickly, and Mercury will increase the walking speed of your slaves. You can even make a series of progressive offerings to your God to obtain several more abilities, like Mars’s ability to increase the size of your regiments, or Saturn’s ability to improve the efficiency of your agricultural industries. Here the game reminds me of Emperor.
On the war front the game is very similar to the original with the same limited troops to choose from. The only challenging mission is the Caesar’s Civil war. But the absence of units like Catapults, Battering rams, Stone throwers etc make it less interesting. The expansion isn’t much of an improvement in my case but still if you are a fan of IR like me then its worth it!

For a complete Walkthrough click here.

To Download patch for this game click here.

Now i’ll give a walkthrough on how to manually perform port forwarding for Bitcomet for users who have BSNL broadband in India. These are the steps I followed and you can follow to increase download speed for Bitcomet:

• Do not use default IP address 192.168.1.1
• Set up a static IP address.
• Go to the router page by typing the url http://192.168.1.1.
• Enter username and password as admin.
• Click on “Virtual Server”under “Advanced” on the router page.
• Type the name of the application in the box. (Limewire or Bitcomet or any other name)
• Type the static IP address in the box below.
• Select protocol type as “Both”.
• Now type the port number that you would like to forward.
• Port number 6882 is recomended for Bitcomet but you can choose any port you like.
• Click “Apply” and restart the router.

Now you need to configure the port settings for Bitcomet

• Start Bitcomet.
• Goto Options->Preferences.
• Under preferences select Connection.
• Set download and upload limits to “no limit”.
• Under “Listen on port” type the same port number as the one you typed while on the router page.
• Click “Ok” and close the screen.
• Next goto “Advanced” and select “Connection”.
• Uncheck the box which says “Enable uPnP”.
• Click “ok” and you are all set.
• Restart Bitcomet and if the settings worked you should see a green button at the right hand bottom corner of Bitcomet screen. It will show you your IP Address.