Now that I’m sitting down working on my Master’s thesis, the single most important thing that I keep reminding myself to do is “to backup”. I know this sounds a little crazy, but I back up my work folder every night before I go to bed. I don’t know any other ways to protect my files except to back them up into a CD. And since my work folder contains documents and pictures and scientific journals, I find that zipping them up saves lots of space too.
But then, even THAT is quite risky because I’ve heard of cases where the data stored in the CD went missing after some time. But that just confirms that nothing is permanent, no?
Now, I’ve just read that SecureZip is capable of protecting your confidential personal information — that is, secure information stored on PCs such as progress reports, half-written thesis, bank statements, medical records, passwords, and other private data. Apart from that, it also automatically protects emails and attachments sent to anybody at all.
If you’re currently managing our address book contacts, meetings and schedules with Microsoft Outlook, fret not because SecureZIP integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook to automatically encrypt, digitally sign, and zip email messages and attachments. So there’s no need to worry about incompatibilities and what-nots.
Now the good news is, SecureZIP is currently offering FREE limited-time downloads from www.securezip.com. And all you need to provide is your email address, and a link to download the software will be provided in the email sent to you. No registration process, no hassle.
Continue reading if you:
- take a lot of photos, AND
- don’t mind selling any/some of them to earn some extra cash.
If you’ve not heard of it (in fact, I just did, too), FlickrCash turns Flickr into the world’s largest stock image marketplace by helping image buyers more efficiently FIND images and image owners to SELL them, by accepting payments for them and archiving licenses for public inspection. In simpler terms, FlickrCash is the “find image tool” for buyers and “sell image tool” for sellers.
Some of the main features of FlickrCash:
- multi parameter search with negative keywords, which returns as many thumbnails as your screen can display,
- saved searches with roll-back to get back to where you left off during image research,
- shareable lightboxes so clients can “heart” or “hate” images selected for the design project,
- auto/bulk watermarking of every image for every image owner on Flickr,
- installable lightbox grids and slideshows for publicity and marketing of images,
- royalty-free licenses based on Creative Commons, archived for public inspection at any time.
And, this is the limited time offer I was talking about *points up*
In the next week or so, FlickrCash will exit “beta” and begin to charge a monthly subscription. Registered users will enjoy advanced features like unlimited saved searches, shareable and installable lightboxes, and buying and selling. However, we will grandfather existing registered users — that is, users registered BEFORE the change will remain FREE FOR LIFE.
- FlickrCash
So yea, if you take a lot of photos and don’t mind selling them for the extra cash now and then, you might want to give FlickrCash a try 
How would you like FREE Norton antivirus, the world’s most trusted antivirus software, delivered by the name you’ve come to trust in Google? Now that is an irresistible deal, isn’t it? *smiles*
Some of the Norton Antivirus features include:
- automatically removes Viruses, Worms and Trojans from your computer,
- Norton downloads FREE virus definition updates automatically to protect your computer from the latest virus threats,
- Windows XP and Vista compatible (NEW feature), and
- Norton now includes unlimited virus definition updates for free (NEW feature) compared to only the first six months previously.
But if that doesn’t convince you enough, you may want to see what others (e.g. TopTenNews.com, Download.com, PC Advisor, etc.) have said about this bundled goodies or some of the screenshots.
Now, if your computer is NOT protected in any way, which is a very, very bad idea, I suggest you download this free Antivirus protection today. It will save you LOTS of headaches and migraines and heart attacks and strokes in the future *touches wood*
