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For those of you who uses GMail or Yahoo Mail, you probably wish there is an easier way to check your mail numerous times a day without having to open a browser each time to do that. It would be nice if you can just click once and you are in the favorite web-based email program. Well, there is a solution for you. Bubbles to the rescue.

So you want to have your own company website? You are not alone in this. Without a doubt there are many good reasons for having one. Reasons like establishing a brand identity, providing product and service information, selling your product and services online, and providing a point of contact for your customers. A well planned and executed website can indeed benefit your business, regardless the size of your company.

Before you jump right into this project, it is important to connect your website to the company's business strategy. If you are going to invest money and resources into having a website, it is essential to be able to see it as a part of your existing overall business strategy.

PDF (Portable Document Format) file has pretty much become the de facto standard for printable documents. It is highly likely that at some point you would have installed a PDF reader because of the fact that more and more people and businesses are sharing documents using PDF files.

PDF standard was created by Adobe Systems. And they offer a free download for a PDF reader called the Adobe Reader. At the same time, there are other free third party PDF reader that one can use. Most websites provide a link to the Adobe Reader download whenever they make available PDF documents. The Adobe Reader works fine for most people. But for the impatients, like myself, I just don't quite like the fact how slow it takes to load up Adobe Reader whenever you want to read a PDF file. That is because Adobe Reader takes a longer time to start, being a bigger program.

I know there are other Search Engines besides Google Search. This is not an article to discuss which is better but rather to share a collection of the common as well as obscure Google Search tricks that one could use for everyday events.

Residential Phone Book

Google Search can be your online phonebook. You can search for phone number in the residential phonebook by putting rphonebook: in front of a name and city, state.
Eg. rphonebook:John Smith, Davis, CA will display all addresses and phone numbers of John Smiths in Davis, CA.

Are you looking for a program that burns disc image to a CD/DVD that doesn't cost much or anything at all? If so, you might want to check out ImgBurn , a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit.

In brief, ImgBurn is able to do the following tasks:

• Read - Read a disc to an image file
• Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
• Write - Write an image file to a disc
• Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
• Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

YouTube is a phenomena that is hard to ignore when you spent time on the Internet. If you are unfamiliar with what it is, simply put, it is a website which allows you to upload and share videos. Right now there are literally thousands (if not millions) of video clips on YouTube. Although I must say that many of them just aren't worth watching. And having said that I must now add that there are some really good ones out there, which you might even like to save it on your computer to view later.

If you are a regular user of Windows Media Player, and are satisfied with it for your needs, then stick with it. The important thing is that you are happy using what you have. But if Windows Media Player doesn't quite meet your needs, for example, couldn't play many of the unusual media formats you threw at it, then I would suggest that you check out the VLC Media Player.

There are some utility programs that are necessary to have on your computer. A file archiver is one of such programs. It is necessary to have around not so much for archiving/compressing your own files but more for unarchiving/decompressing files that other people may send to you. What is a file archiver anyway? It is a program that compresses/decompresses and stores (archives) one or more files into a single file, for one or both of the following reasons - to make it a smaller size file for faster transmission, eg over the Internet, and/or to 'archive' a number of files together in one file for better organization, especially useful for keeping a bunch of files together when transmitting a group of files to someone else.

In this tutorial we are going to focus on creating links within your text content in your pages. Basically links are text of one or more words that when clicked on will take you to another page on your website or to another website altogether. If you have come this far to reading articles on this site, you would be familiar with the concepts of links.

Let us get back into the Page Editor and open up our homepage. To create a link is simple. You just need to highlight the word(s) that will bring you to another page when clicked upon. To do this, just click in front of the words you want to put links, and hold and drag the mouse over as many words as you want. Use your own discretion how many words you want. This is how your highlighting will look like:

If you had the time to read my article on Spyware-Adware, you might recall how spyware has become a common threat nowadays to your privacy and computing security. Having a program that will detect and clean spyware is a must.

Spybot - Search & Destroy is one such program that detects and removes spyware that silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you which is then transmitted without your knowledge to the creator of that program and sold to advertising companies. For more information on Spyware, please read this article.